Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-45216432-20200714111705

First of all, I apologise in advance for my poor English, it is not my native language.

While replaying the game i have noticed an interesting pattern in the game, all the "grand enemies" you beat and are going to beat, are in some ways represent what Simon fears he will be, or who he could be.

- Arshole of Arclent represents Simons initial fears of shard corruption, he was afraid that it would change him, and force him to make awful things to those he loved and the world at large.

- The Duchess (i think that's her name), is basically Simon with tits and no grand magic power, for me it is quite easy to assume that at some point he would decide that it would be better to stop trying to guide and teach The Chosen, and instead decide to manipulate or force them and/or the church in some way to follow his plans and ideas of how they should run things, and how the AoA should be beaten.

- Estaven is The Supermegaboss, but more cunning and smart. But if we to actually try to make every enemy represent something unique or specific, I would say that he is the fear of depersonalization of Simons loved ones. Estaven is this, at times, sex indifferent women collecting machine, he just takes them as his own, uses them for his goals and then just throws them into the "will perhaps fuck later" pile, for no other reason that he can and he thinks he should, and in my mind, that seems awfully similar to some actions that Simon takes. In the Wendis memories he is shown to be VERY indifferent to the women around him, and incapable to create new sexual relationships at all, of course, that could change, and his increased appetite could be a sign of moving on, but seriously, he just goes ahead and picks up a couple of elf sluts on his trip to their land, he just decides to fuck with Fheliel and some of the others because they offered and no other reason (yea he liked them like people but that never made him interested in them sexually before), and he fucks his daughter. That is a bit of a drastic shift there I think. And to add some more to the comparison, no matter what you think ethically of those situations, i do not belive that letting Varia be gang raped and then brainwashing her, dominating Altina to a state of a mindless cuck slut, and to a lesser extent, letting Qum get whored out for cash, is something the original Simon would do, it does fit Estavens mindset though (exept for the Qum part).

- For now i think that Ivalas captor is Hester, and that would make her The Duchess 2.0, that's it for now.

- And lastly Tanurak, now, i think that it is TECHNICALLY possible for Simon to wrecks this ones shit 1v1 right now, why? Because, as far as we know, he is not a fighter, he is a theoretical mage with godlike powers, great cunning and a large amount of time to practice. I assume that since Tanurak is described this way, and when we see him doing his thing, this is how he acts, he does not pull the largest and most rigid lever with his great power, turning a whole continent into a desert, but rather, pulls 10,000,000 levers at the course of 500 years while being totally unnoticed, so that the climate would change and the continent gets turned into a desert. Why am i bringing him up? Because I think that Simon is perhaps, just as Tanurak, has huge potential to change the world around him subtly with his shards power, i propose that Simon never learned to subdue his shards power, but instead, most likely, subconsciously made his true influence on the people around him nigh untraceable. Now, we KNOW that he DID affect the people around him with his power before, Aka told us as much, and we do KNOW, that it changed him in some way, so assuming that Simon is not in fact a Mery Sue that is just "different to all the Incubus Kings before him, all billiards of them", because of the way he shows compassion and love to his subjects that (except for Megail) never even thought of defying him, mocked by Tertia, because of how intelligent and knowledgeable he is, great knowledge and intelligence does not translate into great maturity, or else all other Incubus Kings (exept for one) would be mature, because of how little he cares about them being with other people, only other women and even then, there was never any threat of them leaving him, because of how benevolent and loving he is to his fellow men, so is the Lustlord form Rodak, and even then, Simon is not afraid of killing hundreds and potentially thousands to do things his way.

What i am trying to say, is that even thought perhaps not in gameplay terms, and perhaps not in fabula (the story), but narratively.

- The Lustlord from Rodak, is what Simon will end up being.

Now, I am a sucker for a good nihilistic and bleak story, and so perhaps i just ignore all the evidence (the only evidence i see is that Simons wife does not notice, all other powers who ever checked him were not strong enough to see that, if Simon is subtle and/or is lying to himself, or didn't check or care to chek) that point to the contrary. Since this theory would also explain some of the major problems I have with the story (Mary Sue character mainly) I wish it to be true.