Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-36170150-20190908135033

I think we are being deceived by the Anak's obssession with balance, we're assuming his obssession makes him a neutral force but that's because we have been thinking the final conflict will be between Lust and Purity, when in reality the final conflict might be between Order and Chaos, making the Anak a champion of Order and possibly be the "cold light" Ginasta spoke off, Tanurak or Wendis would be the "terrible warmth", and Ivala would be the "peaceful gray", since Ivala's compromise seems to have been that she wanted to remove herself as an actor but still keep her power "blindly" affecting the world, a compromise between chaos and order.

I wonder if Ivala's captor is not a single person, but rather a dynasty. We know that whoever they are, they are in Arclent and they have been acting as a "shadow pope" of sorts over the Ivalan church, the wall of Ivala during the 3AW is plenty of evidence that someone involved with the church is connected to Ivala's captors. The obvious suspect would be the Aramite crown, they seem rather uninvolved with most political matters (Aram's warmongering seemed to be mostly pushed forward by the nobility, not the crown) and they seem to have a good ammount of pull over the church.

It is a bit out there but the Duchy of Stineford is another possible suspect, they have close ties to the church, a good central position in the continent to influence all directions, and since the final Arclentian tower walker has been described as extremely subtle, with so many clues pointing towards Aram it would be rather sloppy if that's where the final walker really was. Curiously enough they have also been sealed off, just like Aram.