Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-1435995-20180527175726/@comment-217.111.48.194-20180528063304

DukeLeto7 wrote: Sorry, if it wasn't clear, my impression is that Xerces is only worried about keeping Simon busy in the short and medium term, because he's planning something big and doesn't want Simon's interference.

I don't actually believe the story Xerces is giving us about his motivations. I had the same impression:

For me the whole conversation block felt somehow like the famous horse trade: Xerces was haggling for one they pretended to want, while it was Xestris job to get the one they really wanted - in my opinion the so-called "astral parasite"...

However, there seems to be a deeper second goal, as you get the impression that Xerces’s own focus is fixed on "the tower" and he is trying to stall Simon's exploration by giving him two direct tasks that cannot be easily ignored by a moral person: Estevan and "Mr. Destruction"...

It’s also quite interesting that he shared more details on the lower part of “the tower” – we even got the advice to get demonic help – but that the only thing we are told about the upper part, the one that Alonso supposedly visited, is that we meet him there...

This seems to be the last place he wants us to poke around.

In addition, if his plans really center on the upper part of “the tower” he certainly would like to have a balance in his backyard, so that nearly every word they said could be true…

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