Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-28893060-20200329121829

73.254.128.65 wrote: I have a theory about who (or what) Ginasta is:  She's the only "successful" Chosen of Ivala. (Think Laura Kinney/X-23) Think about it...each Chosen has been male with catastrophic results except for Kalant who relinquished the power. As Alanon said, anything being 100% purity of 100% lust will erase itself from existence. That's why the male chosen were irrationally intent on screwing anything on two legs - the more they approached 100% purity the more they sought lust to survive. As divine shards are inherently "female" and lust shards are inherently "male", any divine "shard" or power source in a male would seek to either reject or overwhelm him, "drawing power" from his life force. Except we know that Ginasta and the Chosen don't come from the same source. Ginasta was imbued by power from the Tower itself as a mechanism of balance, while the Chosen are purposefully created by an unknown intelligence.

Ginasta is what the Chosen should be, at least on a moral level, but on a metaphysical one, they're different things. Maybe it could be said that the Chosen are a bad imitation of what Ginasta is.

Also, I'm still not completely buying the idea that the underlying system is as simple. Yes, we know that according to Alonon, lust and purity are fundamental forces in the TLS universe, or at least the names given to these two contrasting forces. But we're given multiple hints that it's not as simple as the Incubus Kings' shards being male shards of pure lust, and the Goddesses' shards being female shards of pure purity.

For one, they both make the bearer immortal - which kinda contradicts the idea that lust is associated with change and renewal, while purity with stability and continuation. In addition to that, we see Simon AND Qum being able to use such a thing as non-sexual sexual magic. It all seems to hint to me that Alonon is wrong about fundamental reality, or rather, he only has part of the story. I'll make another post to explain better.