Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160402002043/@comment-27886747-20160923114346

Hello and welcome to the wiki, The Fulminato.

The Fulminato wrote:

In my opinion ivala, as the church teaching, doesn't exist. But 'ivala' herself exists, both carina and sarai said they felt a 'presence'. (1) (2) (3) (...) For Ivala my bet is on “mystery divine being” on 'the terrain tower' (manly beacuse of this dialogue (6) )

Yes, most people will agree with that.

In the rest of the dialogue (zelica and the monster (7) ) are probably referencing to the 'point ear' slave of the fucklord (but that doesn't fit exactly, because the master of zelica 'shield hiself', estaven doesn't seem the type to use a shield),

I think that they mean Xerces. He might have captured one of the goddesses in order to suck the divinity out of her ("harvesting theons"), as a part of a long term plan to ascend to godhood and/or turn into the actual Lustlord. And there is non-public information suggesting that the Fucklord's slave is not Zelica.

and in the last bit, the 'older sister' is ginasta in my opinion (8). ( but ginasta has spoken many times about her mortalilty, opposed to the immortality of the shardbear, so I'm not 100% sure (9) (10) ),

Ginasta is very unlikely to be a goddess. I agree with Fluid-decanter - it's probably Tertia or someone else.

the location of 'ivala' can exist in the reality, a succubus in the gathering has an interesting dialogue (11).

That bit may also refer to the Lord of Blood's moving fortress. In all cases, RPGMaker's default map assets include a floating island. :)

The ultimate truth of the tower gave to alanon is not just knowlege. But also power (12), and this don't seem like magic in 'mundane' terms (arcane, sexual o even divine), i think alanon himself generate the distortion in the ardford's magical field.

Yes, it's possible, as a lot of the locations were associated with places where Alonon likes to stay. The other possibility is that the distortions were created by whoever gave him the power.

Chosen, shining sword and other church shit

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I think that you are reading too much into the Shining Swords. In addition to what Fluid-decanter said (they are a "heroic" weapon, so they are used by the Chosen, but not all "heroes" are Chosen), I think that the swords are an example of "ludonarrative dissonance" - they are a collectible item and a lot of them are given as prizes for being a good/thorough player.

(...) If my speculations are correct the chosen's 'mass production' feeling can be easily explained.

The Chosen are a satire of the whole "Chosen One" cliche in science & fantasy fiction and JRPGs in particular. The fact that they re-use the same portrait image is partly because of that (continuing the "they think they are special, but they are all the same" joke), partly because of the fact that Sierra Lee doesn't have unlimited resources and she can't get an individual portrait for each one. :)

Qum is a real puzzle. I don't think she's an immortal being, i see some similarity with the [oddboys] of warhammer 40k (but probably i'm overreaching, i am a huge 40K fan), but i'm sure she isn't a standard succubus (21).

As far as I know, Sierra Lee has stated that Qum is not a special succubus, just a "special" one (i.e. mentally... limited).

Xestris is said to be zirantian, but do we have any solid evidence? Beacuse the ears are just pointy and not furry.

I don't know who wrote that she is Zirantian, but it might be because of the horn. She may also be a demon, a modified elf or something else (unicorn in human form?).

Esthera states clearly that she doesn't want to lose her shard (22), but she spoke about the 'on last time'(23) (24).

She is tired of living, but she doesn't want to leave her shard in the hands of assholes. She hopes that when she dies her shard is taken by a person that she likes (potentially Simon), who will have good sex with her before taking her shard (and presumably, killing her).

so what's the fate of the other one she supposedly trained?

I agree with Fluid-decanter that this does not necessarily mean that she had trained a shard-holder, but if it does, it might have been the Fucklord.

Another funny trail (in my opinion) is tied to sarai and the celibacy spell, in the search for a solution for aka trin asks if anyone can 'cheat' the church spell (27)

It's much more likely that Sarai loses her position, voluntarily or not. Or the Church drops the celibacy requirements after the Incubus King on Arclent is defeated - after all, the war against him was the reasons the restrictions exist in the first place.

In the end, can the last riala's cutscene be a hint of her recovery? (28) I really hope we can rescue her and her mind is still intact.

Probably. Though it's likely that her mind is in worse shape that Altina's mind was when she was rescued.

But the comment sierra lee reported on the 'guides' page fills me whit saddness and dread.

It's given as a negative example - an example of something that the author will not do. So far no major character has died, except the Chosen.