Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-38630134-20190916065902

Fairly certain that Hester is Ivala's captor. In the Ch. 3 opening Ivala states "her eye grows every more powerful," implying that the captor is female. Hester also conincidentally has a monocle that could be "her eye" if it is a magic artifact. That doesn't even mention Ivala's Wall in the 3rd Arclent war. Nobody other than the church fits.

The only other female who could fit is Xestris and her funky eye. While she could be using The Anak as a screen to draw attention away from her this feels unlikely, especially considering that she reported the situation about Ivala's chosen to him ages ago. If she had Ivala she wouldn't neccesarily need to report about how Ivala's power is being used and she wouldn't be reporting to him if she was in charge (wasn't anyone nearby she she'd need to keep up appearances with).

Hester won't need to hand off Ivala and the big secret to her successor. Even at the start of Ch 3. it is clear that everyone is working towards a goal within the tower, even if we don't know what. We're in the endgame now so to speak. I imagine that Hester's mindset is "it will be finished in my lifetime and it won't matter after" or "we lose and everything is lost."

Could also be an unnamed character that hasn't yet been introduced, but that seems unlikely this late in the game.