Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-68.102.93.192-20180227232407

Fluid-decanter wrote: I think the most interesting part of your theory is the idea of races influencing the nature of their racial goddess. One question is the extent to which the Goddess of Magic is capable of redefining her role to escape that influence, if she was/is a racial goddess. Another less happy question is the extent to which Sarai, Altina, Bertricia, and other non-human Ivalans are deluded about being cared for by Ivala.

Some concerns: On the topic of Zelica; True, but they aren't necessarily all sisters, or whatever. It COULD be the Mother or Tertia, but that would be odd and awkward to present that, then later say "Oh by the way there's another goddess that hasn't been hinted at and totally isn't a tease at this fact."
 * It doesn't invalidate any of your points, but the dialogue doesn't specifically identify Zelica as the older sister of Mithyn and the Blond Divinity. It could be the Mother, who also speaks of having sisters. Or someone else, like maybe a Tertia who's merely become terminally apathetic like Alonon rather than dead.
 * Ginasta claims she knows a place where shards can be destroyed. Simon's counterargument is that "most new Incubus Kings seem to find their shards, not receive them from killing another." He also asks if the number of shards dwindles over history, which is what Ginasta has no proof of.
 * "Incophate" - I think you mean "Inchoate", which is just a word meaning formless or undeveloped, used in some enemies' designations. You'll recall that the Tower where they entered was formless until they worked to give it definition around them. "Incophate" is not a word that appears anywhere in dialogue, and most of the theory you've built around "Incophates" probably describes demons if anything.
 * In the chapter 3-4 interlude, Sabitha is pretty strongly implied to be a powerful demon, and the "down" part of the Tower is implied to be the demon realm arcane mages sometimes draw power from. I suppose there's technically room for interpretation on this point.

On the topic of Ginasta; That's part of it, certainly, but she also couldn't provide any evidence for it even being possible. I don't remember the exactness of it, but I know that was mentioned.

On the topic of Incophates; Yep, that's the word I meant. Inchoate. And certainly they're related to demons, but there was never a mention of "Oh look, Demons!" by Robin or Riala or anybody. To me, it implies they're different, even if it's a subtle one.

On the topic of Sabitha; I never actually say otherwise on the demon realm topic, just that that would be the bottom of the tower, just as the... "Goddess Realm", I guess, would be the top. Just that the middle pieces aren't those realms, though they probably share some traits.