Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160124200151/@comment-27405625-20160128181820

Hmm, I've had more time to think about BetatesterFP and Argenten's speculations about Xerces. Theoson is kind of a telling name, since the Latin root for the first half is also used in theology and theocracy. I wonder if he's not harvesting some kind of crystalised faith or god stuff. Which would somehow relate to Tertia.

I really don't think Tertia's really dead. I suspect more dormant or imprisoned. Maybe that tree is either her prison or an old iconic representation of her made by her worshippers. The shard holders are powerful, but I really don't see them being powerful enough by themselves to kill a goddess. I think Xerces is either trying to use Theoson to wake her back up, or he's trying to create a rift to siphon some of her power to improve his lands. Kinda like how the demon summoners we've seen so far have been.

If Tertia were actually dead, I think we'd see more slow decay signs in the world. We only see real decay in areas ravaged by the "Arsehole of Arclent", which to me seems more like a lack of the land healing itself rather than a true sign of death.

I wonder if the theories we've seen so far about there being a harem of goddesses under the Lustlord, Ivala either defeating the Lustlord by herself or with help from other goddesses, and Tertia dying or disappearing aren't somehow a related thread. Maybe there was a rebellion against the Lustlord, and Tertia was either injured in it, or became dormant out of grief.