Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-29984007-20200106201946

Maldon k wrote: on the score thing I think you're missing my point, philon doesn't have a score because you can't influence them, this sets them inherently as an enemy, just like erosia is.

erosia country score exist, rodak country score exist, philon country score no. the only real counter argument is the will of the developer doesn't want spoil thing to early or to fast. like give a fheliel a rp score in the gathering. but we are in the last chapter, near all the chess pieces in the board are know to us, i don't thing SL will crate a country score for philon a in few update from now.

any other evaluation it's irrilevant in this context. can be relevant in other, but the absence of a variable is a solid proof, evaluating the aim for the most subtle and slippery character another thing.

I can't comment on theoson and all of that, but you have to remember that the anak is very true neutral, for him both simon and tanurak are equal threats to his idea of balance, but also tools, having both simon and tanurak fight and take each other out might be his plan, or maybe he is hunting down tanurak, but also wants to use simon as much as possible before taking him out and killing the sage of ghenalon is part of it. We have to remember that he wanted to take out both the IE and the FL not because they were bad, but because they were a threat to balance. I do think his endgame is balance, but he's playing a long game. this is false. we don't know the real place of the anak or is agenda and end game goals. true neutral? he killed the sage, for no apparent reasons (he had some valid reasons for sure, but they are unknow to us) and let tanurak live, a real imbalancing entity. we see about nearly nothing of is power and that little was scary at best (and i trust what ulrissa say about the dragons extinction, so for now is the wrost danger out of there in the potential of upend reality). no the anak isn't a true neutral, not a madman or a egomaniac, but more dangerous for that. (semi cit.)

I'm not saying that the contorting stones have any major significance in DoW (they are basically fuel to talk to your tower husbando), but you're ignoring a consistent pattern SL has shown on her games where she rewards players for finding an out of the way collectible, contorting stones in DoW, character interactions in Ouroboros, and shining swords in TLS. Your idea also doesn't make much sense and I at least don't see how it is internally consistent. i think the contorted stone are past souls of some old civilization were turned soulstone or an offshot of that process. but it's doesn't realy matter. we have 3 whole-ish game collettible, in the other games only one.

one for playing reasonabily well (shining swords)

one for absolute challange for each chapter (ancient IK's key items)

one in late game for unknow reason (abyssal gems, the real reason, not the obvious use)

for the use of the swords, wynn was commenting them "This is not my field. But I think this is a useful little piece of refined power. It'll have a use eventually." if someone can has refined some power for create them, one can use for create some other thing. keep in mind, the lustlord's special tower orc leader was using one of them. so the LL should know how craft them, or perhaps only recover one(s).

I also don't see why we wouldn't use the materials they are made of directly instead of reciclyng the blades, simon and co. are a major world power, it should be something we could do. simon group dabble in the tower for a couple of years at best, yes riala was exploring early, but her knowledge was stretch to the end with the discovery of a divine shard, so she doesn't know much of tower-garade magic and crafting. other players had decades or centuries to refining their knowledge, simon's grup still don't know the person beyond the chosen and they are still puzzle by shining swords crafting (even wendis was unsure of them)