Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20170707041037/@comment-32166397-20170728042808

Something about Simon's conversation with Mestan is niggling at me. These lines in particular:

Mestan: "Not anymore, I'm not. Something happened. You changed."

Simon: "The Doom King implanted significant power into me."

Mestan: "No, that's not it. Giving power to a grunt doesn't make a good warrior, it makes a grunt with too much power. Somehow when you were given power, you changed. That's curious."

In addition these are lines quoted from War of Lust, a short story about Simon's time in the war.

" Killing would make things a little easier, though he wouldn't be able to throw himself into battle the way many warriors did. He didn't know where they got such superhuman strength, but he clearly lacked something they had."

It comes up again when Linda, presumably the same one that is Palina's aunt, is described as thus.

" Whatever warrior's talent he utterly lacked, she had it in spades."

Despite showcasing Simon's amazing skills of self-deprecation, they all show that Simon is missing something. Was something about his soul broken before he received the soul shard and the soul shard fixed it?