Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-29984007-20170901110121

Lostone2 wrote: To me is evident that she is resisting some kind of outside control by just willpower (on an unrelated note it's a great image to control). From what we know so far, only the shards and the anti-shards, coincidentally of a yellow color like Antiala, these one by inference, have the power to do that. Also, if Alonon have an anti-shard that could explain his weird powers... But where fits the famous Tower? the mother don't have any yellow 'flavor' the brief moment we 'see' her. I think the yellow is tied to antialia. alonon holding one 'anti-shard' is wierid like hestera holding a shard, and alonon don't strike me how a man knowing much of the magical theory. In the starting of the chapter three, the dialogue between MDB and Mithyn: "It's inevitable. Ever since that old man saw inside. I just didn't think it would happen so soon./Yes. I am saddened that the knowledge has broken him./I can't blame him for rejecting this disgusting world. But we have no choice except to face reality." obviously the old man is alonon, and the dialogue don't fit if he just absorb an 'anti-shard'.

robin describe the last spell simon 'cast' against the AoA in the stineford battle "It was exceedingly strange. It felt just like your power, but the magic was.../I'm not sure what it was, but it was completely non-sexual, even though it emerged like your other magic."it feel very likely a magic powered by one "anti-shard"

Nomixam wrote: Well if we assume that the Tower is a superreal construct like Robin theorizes and not a physical place, then it has similar properties to the place that Riala brings Simon. If it's a magical construct then it can be accessed anywhere in the world that you can draw sufficent power to travel into that dimension. She was able to find the anti-shard there, and Simon's shard there and if we assume this to be the Tower then when Alonon glimpsed deeper into that place he saw something related to the goddesses/soul shards/anti-shards and may have gotten the anti-shard then.

in the brief dialogue between alonon and simon he describe the shard "The shard is nothing but a symptom! It isn't responsible!", so we can assume the anti-shard are likely a symptom too. a wierid link can be made to the dialogue between ginasta and simon in the AoA castle. the shard can be destroyed, but not forever, they repop after time in the 'reality plane' ready to be taken by fool and moron. i don't know if they rest in the superreal plane after been destroyed and before repop in the reality, or the journey is more complex.

I think him becoming depressed, MDB being captured, and the Chosen appearing all happen around that time and are all related to each other. We see Ivala's Wall being used in the war, but when Simon questions Hester on how something that requires so much energy is powered she evades the question. I think the Church managed to make their way into the Tower and enslave the MDB, and have been using her to empower things like the Wall and young men like Kallant with something like minor anti-shards or power.

after the shard take a 'grip' on the soul cannot be removed (and let the ex-shardholder living), i don't think the 'anti-shard' is much different in that regard, the unnamed chosen captured defeating andra match the pattern, but kallant totaly defiled this. i think is more probable a anti-shardholder can infuse some of is power inside him, after all the covery story of 'dragai' is a commander how the doom king implanted a vast amount of power (the dialogue with mestan after neutralize him).

If anti-shards function similarly to shards then if the implantees don't have sufficent willpower and restraint then the anti-shard will overwrite their personalities, and maybe the MDB is deliberately doing this to sabotage the Church's efforts in protest of her captivity. The "Blessing of Ivala" from the prologue and Chapter 1 grants additional exp to female companions, but very little to Simon, indicating that it is empowering nearby female companions passively, like how fighting alongside Simon seems to improve the raw skills and strength of his party members more than they should from fighting. The parallels between them continue with their own selves, Simon before the shard is noted as being an above average, but not a great warrior and the soul shard seems to allow him surpass those limits, and the Chosen we've seen just accumulate power like no one's business.

don't think MDB is actualy involved in the 'chosen affaire', we know she put a great deal of hope in the simon effort, deny him of the xp bonus si realy opposed her plan.