Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160402002043/@comment-25634462-20160821124042

Fluid-decanter wrote: The main question in my mind after this update is what the heck Orilese's actual deal is. We never learn her philosophy or agenda, but she really pisses off that one commander in the Twisted Glen.Yeah that doesn't seem to be much of a mystery though, more like something that'll be brought to light soon rather than an overarching plot event, so I'm not too worried about it yet. Yeah, but it didn't seem like something that was intentionally being hidden. More like something we'll find out next update than a long term mystery, so I'm not too worried yet.

I mean, it's not impossible. But the discussion you refer to was a draft of her maxed affection conversation that wasn't meant to be visible, and it's since been replaced with the current version which is more in line with the bimbo we know. Really? Huh. Guess that was one of my testing saves then. I'm gonna have to do a new run through and make sure I'm keeping stuff like that clear out of my queries.

There is another thought though... Her hair is pink, naturally. Something that is strange for succubi. Could just be random, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't just some throwaway thing of Sierra's. She loves foreshadowing too much. (I mean, it could be a redherring to trick us, but I doubt it.) I'm wondering if in order to absorb the fragment, Esthera had to cast off part of herself. To change and become something else that isn't quite a succubus anymore, and if Qum is that piece of Esthera that she has given up. It could also be the key to saving her, if she reunites with her former self, merging (a la the succubi Morrigan Aensland and Lilith from DarkStalkers) and Simon getting her fragment.

Sex seemed to be more of a chose for Esthera after all, until that last scene with her and Nalili, and when she allowed herself to enjoy it, she couldn't control the fragment and nearly lashed out at Simon, despite being able to have sex with him without doing so on several occassions prior.

Qum though, seems to think of nothing but sex most of the time. And magic. She has a grasp of magic that is insane, something Esthera would no doubt need to work whatever change was required to enable a succubus to wield the power of a fragment.

This is probably way off, and Qum's hair has some other significance entirely, but hey, my mind goes strange places sometimes. And when it comes to theories, the wilder the better right?

One could just as easily say that the other races are growing up without a father. ;( True, but none of the races appear to have a father, so it is not as weird for the Succubi to be missing one. It is strange that they have no "mother" when the other races all do though. Differences matter more to me than things that are the same for all. Besides, I'm thinking the "Lustlord" might be the father of them all, with the various "Goddesses" being the mothers. Well, this is one of my thoughts anyway. God a lot of potential theories floating around in this head of mine. (Several that are incompatible with each other (like this one and the one above) but all fun. This one is slightly more serious though, with the next one being an actual thoguht that I think has a chance of being true.)

Another has the Lustlord as the personification of all of our (the players) lusts while we play. The basis of which has something to do with how the King sees reality, causes holes in reality from his presence, and other things that were hinted at that I barely remember. I have long thought that he might know that he's in a game, which is why the world doesn't matter for him. He's seen beyond the 'veil' and knows that everything just repeats itself every time someone starts up the game. Sucks to know nothing matters. He's like Deadpool. Deadpool knows it's all fake and so has decided to have fun with it all because he might as well enjoy the 'life' that he has, the King gave in to apathy instead. Because he wanted to be useful, to have purpose, and now it is denied to him.