Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170924103337/@comment-294840-20170926015240

I wonder if Xerces will attack the so called Lustlord and take his shard? My reason for speculating this is two fold.

One: It is heavily hinted at that he will be the final boss. and Two: Balance of power.

As for the second one I'll explain what I mean. If he and Simon are going to face off near the end of the series they will need to be near equal in strength. There are currently 5 MAJOR shards. Simon has just gotten his hands on his first one. Of the four remaining Xerces has one, one belongs to the Fucklord who it is implied Simon wil be going after, and another belongs to Esterha, Simon's ally. While I am not sure how that will be resolved I a PRETTY sure it won't end up with Xerces getting it. That's 3 to Simon. The last remaining shard belongs to the so called Lustlord so I believe Xerces will get it so he will have 2 to Simon's 3 ROUGHLY evening them out. As for equalizing their power you have to remember that Simon is SLOW to absorb the power of the shards, preferring to make the shards adapt to him. While I suspect this will make Simon stronger in the LONG-RUN in the SHORT-TERM this weakens him so even with one more major shard Simon will probably be about equal to Xerces.