Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180615004848/@comment-31763506-20180701012101

In the meeting with Vera after the river is purified, she says that the Goddess had a message for Simon.

You "shouldn't" talk to Her. She said that if you continue as you have, you'll either die or you'll speak to Her yourself eventually. She also said to tell you "You're a better man for not taking the power, but not a smarter one." She said you'd understand.

At the start of Ch 4, she says:

Not at all. You've proven trustworthy in the past, and actually, She said that we could throw our lot in with you if things get bad.

Vera's exact words if she is present during the Erosian sequence are:

Still warned us against relying on the Doom King, but said this was for the best.

So the inference that she knows perfectly well who Simon is but is supporting the fiction that the Doom King is a separate being seems to be a sound one.