Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-31808207-20170919070936

Arguably, natural laws are just our current best approximations anyway, though. It took a long time of playing by seemingly consistent rules to realize that classical physics was flawed, and for all we know there will be a similar crack in quantum physics at some point. After all, there still isn't really a good way to reconcile quantum physics with general relativity except maybe some iterations of string theory that can't be meaningfully tested at present.

So while you're right that she can't necessarily deduce all the consequences, I would say it's still fair to treat the word of god about a specific world rule as actually a rule up until some observation comes to light that suggests an inconsistency. Arguably, such a rule has a greater grounding in the story than any rules from our reality we would naturally want to apply. After all, even if our present iterations of the laws of physics/biology/economics are correct, who's to say they're correct in the world of TLS? Assuming they apply is a reasonable assumption, but it's still an assumption, which is less concrete than the author literally sitting down and saying "it works this way."

In some ways, that's pretty relevant to actual speculation because a lot about Alonon suggests to me that the Tower represents some underlying truth that allows you to mess with the apparent laws of reality through some deeper understanding of the world's metaphysical structure. In that case, I'd expect that knowledge to be most likely able to violate the laws we're assuming apply as opposed to the one like the laws of death and necromancy which were stated OoCly to apply.

On a related note, @Animalia555, I know you've said several times you expext Simon to climb the tower as opposed to venturing downward. Out of curiosity, beyond the belief you've expressed about characters being the same, what do you base that opinion on? Intuition?