Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-29984007-20190811163745

we don't know if he had absorb his first shard in full.

changing topic, the next crisis, the first of chapter 5 will be aram, it's brewing from some time we are very close to the critial point in their economy, i think in that mess the [aram dheria] switch will be used alike [jhenno religion] during the synod.

we don't know the people behind the border incident, the source of the chosen and their economy is crumbling (aram had gain nearly nothing in the 3AW). during the trip in chapter 3 SL baited us with a two false long term objective (the deep shaft overrun by powerful monsters in eustrin and a unnamed preocupation from palina, SL saw at the time we will see the two thing first hand in a later future. this should be the right opportunity.

another bit throw in the wild speculation field, after aram the lustlord will try to kill DK/Simon/Esthera and will  be crushed like a maggot, this will put simon and allies in charge of 2/3 of the world, all arclent more or less minus the forest, all thenours and half of renthnor, after all the scope of the last chapter will be the world in all the planes it's build.

xerces drop down the stairs the sage of ghenalon (and the sage die landing on his collection of classic Ghenalese pointy shards of broken glass artwork)  can presage a more direct action for furter his agenda, but in the light of the interaction with xertris i think he saw a window  in the chaos of the war to kill the sage without leave any substantial evidence pointing to him. and i think will remain a sideline charaterc for at least half of chapter 5.