Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-1435995-20190718204040

TheEndingOfTheWords wrote: If Ginasta isn't the last combat harem member, I'm going to be sad. I want my lategame op TG Cid analog dammit.

Ginasta is op as fuck right now. Besides, unless she pulls a Kalant of her ass I don't think that Simon would her in his team. She would be in a constant inner turmoil (her "destiny" vs her desires).

If Also, I have revised my previous theory after replaying through this section (thanks Leto for putting the guide together): the tower does reflect the unconcious, but it also reflects everything else as well. Estaven says it himself - anything that affects the world has power there. Ulrissa, who is totally isolated from the world, finds herself unable to affect the tower when she needs to: her dialogue is something like "I've cut myself off from the currents of the world, and therefore cannot interfere".

So, belief has power (and in that same vein, belief or other emotions would as well), but that isn't the only path, or the only way to make changes. (However, seeing as Estaven chose a great wave of fear to attempt some kind of great change, belief seems to hold great power). That explains the "orcy feel" the Kaneese Tower has.

As for Estaven, he didn't exactly chose fear. He chose pain and suffering. In order to rule with fear you have to either provide a small sense of hope that will be snatched away if someone disobeys you or not take everything away from your subjects. The best in universe example would be the Incubus Emperor. Iris and Riala kept his domain together for a while. Riala betrayed him because she found something that gave her more hope than the fear he caused to her. Iris on the other hand left because he took the very last thing that his subjects had left. Their sexuality. And thus he fell.

Estaven didn't care about his subjects' opinion on him. He just wanted to dominate them. That's why he let his harem to badmouth him while he could take that away from them and had the entire nation on absistince. He created superpowered soldiers that would lose their power if the enemy tried to turn them on him, didn't create unsuccubi and wore a suicide jacket in case someone wanted to take his shard. If he can not control something, he might as well put a self destruct button on it. It is best summed up in these lines: "You... you're the one responsible for all this nonsense with capturing and healing the Erosians, aren't you? Yeah, I can tell the Doom King doesn't give a fuck. You're the one responsible for all this weakness. This is war, you old fool! Do you think you can stop everything bad from happening in the world?"