Talk:Religion/@comment-33189182-20170927011719/@comment-2A02:C7D:4A4D:1A00:282F:B165:3090:4ACB-20171016030133

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Nope, the more recent war dispproved this with the inclusion of Kalan, the first Chosen we have met with some sanity in him (I believe you can meet him earlier in the Tavern too with a second Chosen (who is the usual prat kind), he's not named, but that Chosen seems to be unusually wary about something "feeling wrong" in Ardoheim). We now know that just like Ivala's connection to the Priestesses, it is entirely possible for a Chosen to do something (unknown what it is) that will severe their connection to the powers of the Chosen and return them to a completely normal human.

Whether it be through contamination like Carina, or if it's more of a choice is unclear, but whatever the Chosen are, they are not bound to a power in the same irreversable way that Simon is to the Shard. A Chosen can choose to surrender the power.

Ofc this only happens if Simon first influences him before the war (he fights off a major assault from the IK army after he took his training seriously from speaking to Simon, he dies acting stupidly if Simon never talks to him), then later convinces him to give up the power after he becomes more unsure about the war. Both are optional events, so this rare Chosen is very easy to miss and be killed off-screen.