Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-31808207-20170904200208

I'd be kind of surprised if her arc was over, if only because the detail of her disappearance was so specific. She could've easily faded into the background after we deposed her if she was just going to vanish from the narrative, so the law of conservation of detail suggests that she still has some role to play. I might be alone in this, but... I'd sort of like to see her get a redemption arc, myself. Like realizing the flaws in desecrationalist philosophy because of the fact that she was tainted through no fault of her own and therefore how cruel it is to see the world that way, and so leaving on a quest for self-discovery and coming back as a much more fair-minded person.

Of course, I do know it's more likely that she may end up as a villain. That said, I'd be kind of shocked if she was too deeply involved in the Chosen mess, because the Chosen are much more of a consecrationalist thing. Vhala notes them as such, but also the very idea is explicitly consecrationialist, that you can take a "sinful" mortal and purify them, thereby "uplifting" them to become a Chosen warrior. Though I suppose she did have a Chosen working under her in Yhilin, so it's not entirely impossible... Interesting thought, we don't really have a prominent consecrationalist leader that I can think of. Sarai is a subsecrationalist, Andra is/was desecrationalist, and Hester said she couldn't really take any of the three ideologies too seriously anymore.

Edit: Whoops, I guess I forgot Bertricia.