Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160124200151/@comment-27460754-20160129022030

Lostone2 wrote:

Rafael367 wrote: [snip] Possibly.

But Megail's conversation with the Tertia worshipper in Eustarin had me reconsidering the stagnation in Arclent after the war. Simon puts this off as everyone getting complacent after, but what if there was some divine element at work? The dwarf says that Tertia has influence over the growth and land, not just dwarves. But Tertia has been gone longer than that... At least she stopped answering the dwarves' prayers long time ago. Surely other disasters had happened in Arclent since then, but as far as we know, they hadn't created the kind of destruction that the invasion has brought.

Rafael367 wrote: Ivala's followers can purify corruption a bit, but they don't seem to be able to repair the land leading to Aram. Logically, if you really want to gain power in Aram, you'd start by restoring some farmland if you were capable, since that's more valuable now. I'm suspecting that for natural balance, you'd need Ivala, the elf goddess, and Tertia all working together somehow to fix corrupted areas. I can't remember which NPC says that all races seem to eventually come up with a goddess of magic, but maybe she does exist. That would maybe make 4? Simon's saying the earlier Thenours texts mention 7 gods and 7 goddesses. Lustlord's succubi says that the Lustlord had a harem of goddesses. In any case, corruption would have to be balanced somehow, or you'd have all the current and former lands of the Incubus Kings being forever corrupted or even spreading. Other than on Arclent we haven't really heard of that.

Also yes, I am adopting your term for "The Incubus King" because after Yarra's path it makes things so much easier to explain. I even put it in my walkthrough and updated his page with a note on that. We just see so little of him before the Gathering that even those of us who have been playing this game awhile still read Incubus King and ask "which one?" That'd be like me calling myself "The Male Human". In general I'm a bit cynic regarding the Church. Maybe they decided not to help as much as they can by their own political agendas (for instance to generate a resentment among the people and use it to make war against the other branches of the church.) Also, it's probably that AoA's incompetence has played a big role in the level of decay that the the continent has suffered. I'm with you on the Church, considering that the game is showing it as a "You will find good people that follow Invala...just not likely to be in the Church." vibe considering Carina, Hester, and Sarai are shown to be very much in the minority.

Plus it makes me question whether or not Invala is even involved in the Chosen process. I mean, which makes more sense out of the 2 possibilities: A goddess that stands for purity and good constantly giving immature little Scotts power without consequence or restraint that allows them to basically act like holy versions of the I.Ks? Or a Church somehow getting ahold of a serious power or artifact that allows them to charge up easily manipulated morons that can be unleashed on the Arsehole of Arclent's forces and are considered loose canons so that their fuck ups don't truly damage the Churches image.

Which brings up a rather scary idea: That is it the church that found a sealed Tertia and is using the siphoned power they are getting from her to create their kamikaze creeps.