Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-1435995-20180120215835/@comment-1435995-20180121204451

89.177.8.235 wrote: First let me say this: Only goddess (Sierra) knows all. Sierra knows more, not everything. While she pays close attention, she is still a human. In other words, even the best writer can make some mistakes, resulting in incosistencies, continuity errors, or plot holes. The point of this thread is to examine whether some plot points of this story are inconsistent with the internal logic of the plot.

So, the only 100% answer would be from the goddess of this world, as us mortals (players) can only speculate. I do not fully agree on the speculation part. But I will not argue about that.

Also, being a common mortal, you make the common mistake of many: you assume too much. I am guilty of that.

But, what if the shard is left in the corpse? Do we actually know what happens with it and the body? Have we seen it? We have not. So, why do you assume, that a dead's IK body would not exist with it's shard still left in place, perhaps the shard even rejuvenating the body (as the shard has still magical powers after the IK's death), thus leaving a body even after centuries/millenia. Only when said shard would be again absorbed by another being, would the corpse be left to rot. In the Dark Ruins, we find the corpse of an Incubus inside a sarcophagus or something. No shard to be found in there. Which means the shards can stay in a living body, anything else requires certain spells.

But then we also "know" from Ginasta, that such a shard can be destroyed. Yes, only temporarily, as it reappears somewhere else in the world, but such an act would again remove the shard from the body, thus again leaving it to rot. I do not get the point of this statement.

But, in the ancient times, perhaps the IKs thought no one would dare to mess with their tombs (and certainly not to mess with their bodies), in which case the shard would be left there untill someone finds it and actually does something with it, which they hoped would never happen. The problem with this statement is that Incubi can not die from old age, something they would realize within 20-30 years (seeing themselves without a wrinkle), therefore building a tomb is something that makes little sense.