Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170825174215/@comment-32166397-20170901035259

Lostone2 wrote: To me is evident that she is resisting some kind of outside control by just willpower (on an unrelated note it's a great image to control). From what we know so far, only the shards and the anti-shards, coincidentally of a yellow color like Antiala, these one by inference, have the power to do that.

Also, if Alonon have an anti-shard that could explain his weird powers... But where fits the famous Tower? Well if we assume that the Tower is a superreal construct like Robin theorizes and not a physical place, then it has similar properties to the place that Riala brings Simon. If it's a magical construct then it can be accessed anywhere in the world that you can draw sufficent power to travel into that dimension. She was able to find the anti-shard there, and Simon's shard there and if we assume this to be the Tower then when Alonon glimpsed deeper into that place he saw something related to the goddesses/soul shards/anti-shards and may have gotten the anti-shard then.

I think him becoming depressed, MDB being captured, and the Chosen appearing all happen around that time and are all related to each other. We see Ivala's Wall being used in the war, but when Simon questions Hester on how something that requires so much energy is powered she evades the question. I think the Church managed to make their way into the Tower and enslave the MDB, and have been using her to empower things like the Wall and young men like Kallant with something like minor anti-shards or power.

If anti-shards function similarly to shards then if the implantees don't have sufficent willpower and restraint then the anti-shard will overwrite their personalities, and maybe the MDB is deliberately doing this to sabotage the Church's efforts in protest of her captivity. The "Blessing of Ivala" from the prologue and Chapter 1 grants additional exp to female companions, but very little to Simon, indicating that it is empowering nearby female companions passively, like how fighting alongside Simon seems to improve the raw skills and strength of his party members more than they should from fighting. The parallels between them continue with their own selves, Simon before the shard is noted as being an above average, but not a great warrior and the soul shard seems to allow him surpass those limits, and the Chosen we've seen just accumulate power like no one's business.