Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-77.111.246.108-20190917174411

Those are good points. And I fully agree that it i exceptionally unlikely that the large conspiracy over extended periods of time would work.

As I've mentioned later, there are still too many unknowns to know definitively, so at best we can explore probabilities of certain states, which will be influenced by our own opinions on certain events.

I also agree with the paragraph that is talking about Chosen - there is certainly more than one player in the Church abusing the links.

I was examining something that I find strange about Ivala's state. She is supposed to be blind, yet she was capable in manipulating events to get Simon the shard. Either she is exceptionally good at working in the dark, or she did not lose the ability to manipulate events until relatively recently. Even more surprising, Carina had gotten a feeling of peace through her link when examining already corrupt Simon and had a feeling she had to go past the Watchtowers...and then get conviniently corrupted by the Seed making her join SImon, with all of these events occuring after the game started, which was after imprisonment.

This raises another question: How blind is Ivala? Who was guiding Carina? I suspect that she can still guide her followers through the links even after imprisonment, she simply can't give good directions due to how removed she is, which would make her vision similar to that described by Wendis as she was clawing her way up the tower - can sense shards, but rest is muddled. If that's the case, she could direct Carina due to nearby presence of Simon's shard, although precision with which Carina got guided to orcs still puzzles me.