Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-36170150-20200705004200

@Goi99

It is not so much that I think Simon wouldn't be capable of making a fundamental change to the order of the world, just that both in terms of both actions and intent, we haven't showed much on it either way. Simon seems to be more or less satisfied with what he can achieve through social power so far, which should be more or less harmless to the integrity of the Tower. Tertia spoke of eras where Incubus Kings and Goddesses held almost all the power and ruled over the entire world, and even those have been lost to time. Maybe we just have more technical knowledge of the Tower now than any of the kings and goddesses of the past, and that's enough to make Simon a bigger threat, but it feels a bit excessive.

@Fulminato

Good point with the Anak, he would also make an excellent suspect to be the "Cold Light" instead, I just don't know what exactly would be his endgame in that case though, he doesn't seem to seek greater control of the world, and currently the extent of his tyranny seems to be restricted to just preventing the rise of extreme unbalances, maybe he could seek to "balance" the world by enforcing certain dogmas, but I don't know if that would fit very well with his general detachment from most mundane matters.

Also if that's the case then Peaceful Gray would be yet another abomination, introduced at the eleventh hour, and I'm not sure where exactly Ivala would fit into all that, I feel there's way too much mystery around her for her to not be relevant to any of the final disputes of the story.

@Dukeleto

Yeah, with that point I find myself much more agreeable, would also be incredibly thematic as well since most of Ginasta's "power-up" moments involved she breaking free from something (the skullcrusher's magic, the holding cell in Yhilin, retaliating against the "dominate" skill).

Looking at things from that perspective, now I'm thinking there might be no fundamental of "Order", rather all the fundamental agents of the Tower are indirectly working towards maintaining a certain natural order of the Tower, even if they may or may not be aware of it. Only thing that would still feel weird to me is the antipathy Lilith had for Ginasta, one would think "Freedom" and "Chaos" would be more or less close to each other, but maybe I'm just reading too much into their limited interactions.