Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160124200151/@comment-27713488-20160221031355

I have no idea what Vhala wants from Simon that an Unwoman can't do. Probably something that involves sexuality, but it could just be something where the stigma against Unpeople would be a hindrance. Thormented wrote: I personally see Tyna as a possible ruler type harem member mainly because I put her age on the same level as Nalili's and Simon didn't have much trouble with that after some coaxing. Well, regardless of her age she isn't Alonon's heir, although she might be deemed the closest thing in the event of his death, to avoid a civil war. Which would make it very advantageous for Simon to have seduced her already - a shame he's not interested.

The unpeople connection is an interesting one. Some of it makes sense, but I think we need a bit more data on the sheer number of them considering Sarai's wording (as I read it at least) implied that there could be a lot more unpeople made at a time compared to chosen which signals coincidence to me, but not strong enough to say they cannot be connected. As I understand it, Chosen just sort of started... appearing, some time after the war, uncontrolled by the Church. One of Kai's first lines suggests an actual connection to Ivala, or at least the ability to hear something he believes is Ivala. Unpeople, on the other hand, were a deliberate Church creation, and they can make more at will (and would have, if not for moderate voices like Hester). I have even more questions about how that works given Yarra's comments scorpion in human skin. Alien anyone? :P I'm... pretty sure that was just a shitty analogy to emphasize that (according to Yarra) Vhala isn't truly human anymore and shouldn't be trusted. Anyone care to speculate on the cause of the rifts? Given Robin's comments on them once you close... 7? I think there's some merit in thinking something's going on behind the scenes. Especially when you take into account the nun's words about there being one in front of the stained glass and a different nun and the opening scene where the king is staring at a spot of the stained glass muttering Robin knows a lot more about magic than I do, so I'll assume her hypothesis has merit. We know from the Academy sequence that there is an actual demonic realm, and people can even go there (though perhaps not survivably). Aside from that, we've learned little about this or other planes of existence. That may be about to change. And the king may have seen into another plane, and learned something that broke him.