Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24806443-20140412084208/@comment-25219005-20140724064347

I'm going to have to say that as much as I want it to be arba, I think it's actually both Arba AND Sheba...The reason being is... that Sheba's ability is an unnamed magic that allows her to mind control other species, and perhaps other people. It's possible she can use it to take control of other magi's bodies as well, including Arba, and Gyokuen....Also Gyokuen  states that her and the other al thamen aren't actually from this world, rather they converted themselves into beings formed only by thoughts in order to this world's dimension after alma torran was destroyed... If Sheba had enough devine staves available for her to amplify her power, like she did in the tower she was found in. There is no telling how potent her mind control abilities could become or what she could convert into thought energy. I wouldn't base this information on the similarity in staves that are shared between Sheba and Gyokuen. That is honesetly of little consequence in this story seeing as how staves have changed hands many times from the time each member of Solomon's household fought the orthodoxy and acquired more of them. Solomon himself ends up with David's staff,  which then gives him not only his natural spacial manipulation ability but also the ability that david had to find the dimension in which he hid ill illah. Which brings me full circle I suppose.

The OTHER possibility is that Arba killed Sheba. When alladin first shows ali baba what Ugo looked like in the other world, only two magi are left. Arba and Ugo, Sheba is no longer around. It's possible that Sheba died, either by being killed or even during childbirth(remember she unnaturally slowed her pregnancy indefinitely in order to be ready for the final battle, who knows what consequences that had) and that Arba then inherited her Staff, and her mind control ability. That possibility would somewhat explain why alladin only remember's her in a rukh light kind of form(the same way he see's other dead people) and why her termperment seems so different from the person we know as Gyokuen If this is the case, and Arba inherited Sheba's staff and abilities, it also explains why Gyokuen is so rebellious against Solomon's will, because out of all his vassels she was the one who could not adjust to change in her heart the most, to the point where she could not stop calling him master no matter how many times he asked, and to the point where he even had to give her his blessing to keep "admonishing me as you always have". Meaning that she has always went against him even while serving him which is why he felt he could trust her, or if not her, what he knew her nature to be. alright that's it for now. Maybe I'll get more insight later :)