Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20161204112754/@comment-27460754-20170119080102

Fluid-decanter wrote: I do think Janine is having a problem being seen as the rightful ruler - people dislike the Doom King, but she's the ineffectual ruler who presided over a very problem-plagued Yhilin and then lost it to the Doom King. And appearances with priestesses or no, I think many are still envisioning her on her knees offering herself to the Doom King (not that we can blame them, amirite).

I'm very suspicious of Uyae. I don't see simple pity as a viable route into Simon's harem, and I don't buy the savant explanation.

I think we're all forgetting one crucial thing...Simon is still going to be in charge once the Doom King is 'removed'. Yes he wants to give Janine support so that she doesn't have a fractured kingdom anymore but she's still going to be ruling with him rather than alone. Simon is the one who's been the most visible force for change as far as the DK's reign is concerned and he's been the one dealing with the various nations displomatically as well so it's been Simon's 'commander face' that they will remember rather than the DK or even Janine. I think her ruling jointly with Simon will be the best route forward for them as it would keep the 2 people who fixed the kingdom under the DK together and give those who don't like Janine some else to go to as it were.

Yeah I gotta agree with Decanter here, I played through the Zirantian part again to be sure but I can definitely say...there is something about Uyae we're just not getting and I also don't buy the savant explanation for a few reasons. One, even Qum is more...aware than how Uyae seems to be portrayed so far so for Uyae to be a fighter of some skill as a level of 36 can suggest as well as figuring out the puzzle means, to me, that she's more aware and intelligent overall than a savant would be.

Point number 2...the grousy look she has after Qum calls her "Silly Floof" at the opening of the crypt, while a small moment it combines with Uyae's limited speech and recognition of other attempts to talk to her to tell me that she's lacking vocabulary, not intelligence. She might not be getting everything or be able to convey herself well but the gist is there as they say. I know I said that before but it bears (badum tish) repeating as it and the conversation both tells us there's more than we're seeing so far.

Point number 3 and arguably the first one we see...You all remember when they are trying to work through the limited speech in the TLS version of common they are speaking right? They get Fuani (how do you think that's pronounced anyway.) to try to translate and right before Uyae responds the first time there's a moment when it's her bust and "..." before she talks in the exact same broken grammar as she did when she was speakiing TLS common. This suggests 2 things, at least to me: One, she is genuinely lacking in education and is trying to speak the same way in both languages because that's all she knows how to do like the conversation about the formal speaking guard they had in the front of the palace. Or Two: Uyae made a conscious decision to pretend to be simple.

That second option begs one very specific question if that's the case...why? Why would she pretend to be simple and yet stick around with the group? Why would her first focus be on trying to speak to Simon? Decanter is right that the sympathy route won't work getting into Simon's group so it just adds to the mystery for me.

But still, we can safely say she's more intelligent than her speech would suggest and she's doing her best to appear worthy of being underestimated...I cannot wait for next month to find out :D

Yeeeah, Wynn was something I don't think any of us saw coming. I'll admit I thought she'd be another Floof too but nope, magical shape and age changer in mind breaking outfit. Dead serious, my first reaction for like 3 minutes was "What...I mean, what? What is tha- what?"