Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-31763506-20190623025634

For clarity, I was not suggesting that the Anak is responsible for Estaven's Tower delving, just that he might have nudged him towards making the attack on Arclent.

With respect to whether or not Estaven knew about the Tower before the interstitial, I'd note the big chat with Xerces in the Holy Plane, where he makes a distinction between Estaven's tampering in the demon realm, and his year of Tower research. Simon acquired immunity to the Anak-snuffing move fairly quickly after he started messing around in the Tower. As I read Xerces's description of Estaven's history, the latter started tampering in the demon realm, then some time passed before the year in which he began gathering his Tower immunity. The dialogue is open to other interpretations though.