Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-31763506-20190731135700

Just tossing out again the possibility that it will turn out that the death of the Sage was justified insofar as he was secretly an antagonist. I don't actually believe this, but it is a possibility.

EDIT: Note also that Xerces mentioned that targeting other Tower walkers was a source of power.

TheEndingOfTheWords wrote: This might be obvious to some, but I think I've located the central theme of TLS (this has something to do with the Anak, give me a minute). The central theme is that connections to other people are good, they keep us sane, and they make us better people (poetically, one might say that the central theme is Love). What separates Simon from others isn't just his pragmatism, tolerance, or empathy. Simon is constantly making connections to others, refusing to use his status to dominate and instead using it to forge strong bonds, and these bonds are constantly being contrasted with people who do not connect with others (for variable reasons), and end up becoming isolated. This brings us to the most repeated motif in the story, Isolation.

All you need is love.