Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20161204112754/@comment-27861768-20170123224336

Censuur wrote: She's been dead for decades, not only does that make for an extremely awkward, out-of-touch character, her practical knowledge is all but useless. Not only that, but reanimating the dead greatly undermines ANY narrative that involves consequences, the ability to overturn one of the greatest risks of your endeavors is inherently cheap and takes away from the consequences of any action. "Sure, I'll send Aka to go fight 500 orcs, if she dies I'll just bring her back to life" etc. I'd like to point out that reanimating the dead is already an integral part of the game. There are Revival potions and Simon, Qum and Carina all have powers that can bring dead companions to life. Granted, you probably need to be "recently deceased" in order for those to work and not dead for decades like Wendis but we do have the ability...

Censuur wrote: Wendis being a major component of the soul shard also seems awkward to implement, not only was the situation described as having a huge number of humans and succubi dying (so it'd have to be justified how she's somehow so special among them) it also seems odd to have a single soul be so prevalent in a soul shard, especially given Simon's own struggles with maintaining a balance between it and himself. Not that awkward... after all, Wendis was described as being the first to die. And in rather gruesome fashion. So argument could be made that, whatever it was, drained Wendis' life force in order to revive itself fully (I'm guessing being trapped for centuries drain some of it's power) in order to take out everyone else. But in process of doing that, it also tied Wendis' soul to its own shard.

Censuur wrote: Also the godess of magic doesn't seem all that close to Simon to me, just aware of the world and the part he plays in it, she is after all the second godess (we know of) that reached out to Simon in some manner. The conversation between the two divine figures in the epilogue of chapter 2 is very relevant here, as it makes some reference to what is presumably Simon being a major factor in the machinations of the divine figure, which is speculated to be Ivala but might as well be this godess of magic (Ivala being something different, or the godess of magic just being Ivala) I agree that Godess of Magic doesn't seem likely, but Antietala (or whatever is that Zirantian Godess who doesn't look Zirantian is called) might be a possibility. After all, Simon did made a point about her not being worshiped the last time he was in Zirantia and Fuani replied that her appearance is "recent".