Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-31763506-20170827092418

Sotter wrote:

DukeLeto7 wrote: So...

Ginasta has a secret location where the soul shards, artifacts of great power, can be destroyed. And Simon has found one in the fiery volcano lair of an evil overlord in the middle of his orc-infested wasteland empire.

What are the betting odds that the place to destroy shards is a small and idyllic rural halfling community? Wait, what? In Tolkien, Frodo Baggins traveled from the Shire (a small and idyllic rural hobbit community) to Mt. Doom (a fiery volcano lair of an evil overlord), in the middle of Mordor (an orc-infested wasteland empire), in order to destroy the One Ring (an artifact of great power).

Since a lot of TLS's charm is that it takes the tropes of heroic fantasy and turns them inside out, it amused me to suggest that the way to destroy the shard would also be the opposite of the Lord of the Rings.