Talk:Soul shards/@comment-25634462-20160510075202

Considering that the Empress is "not supposed" to be able to use a shard, it is likely that normally the shards don't accept women, and that she had to do some serious trickery to force hers to accept her. This is likely why Riala couldn't use her shard, because the Empress' method of controlling a shard while being a succubus is such a tightly held secret, and Riala couldn't figure out how she managed it.