Talk:Salem Chapter Release/@comment-30121804-20171202090615/@comment-175.141.239.174-20171202104036

I’m not really sure either but this is my theory:

1. The Judge, Matthew Hopkins, the Witch Hunter General, represents the law of the land, legitimate or not. They own the respect of the locals and represent the government. I assume that’s why the MC and his team can’t prevent the executions by force, at least not without branding themselves enemies of the state. I personally find this a weak excuse given how in almost all other singularities, MC team are enemies of the states by default and need to get by anyway but anyhoos... Sanson has experience as a state executioner so he has a certain legitimacy as part of law enforcement so to speak, so he volunteers to assist Hopkins to act as an intermediary inside the system. Hopkins accepts but doesn’t fully trust him either, which is why, in general, Sanson doesn’t manage to stop any of the executions. Btw, the MC team are there to hunt a witch too, the demon pillar, who is probably the big bad behind all this, so they can’t say for sure if Hopkins is in the wrong. Methods wrong for sure but he’s probably not working for the pillar. Old Man Whateley could have been a magus working for the pillar but he got executed before we can talk to him. He does seem to be a rival to Carter though. The MC team is kind to Lavinia but she has a lore history with associating with great evil so... Even Abigail, her true identity is a complete mystery so they mighy be pulling a Heaven’s Feel-like scenario on us. I think Sanson is in there to see what he can find from the inside.

2. Sheba later explains that the Tituba we met earlier had no memory of her true identity as Queen of Sheba due to an incomplete/flawed summoning. When she was executed and then killed again as a ghoul, she was free to return to her true form. She explains that she is a different entity from Tituba but has all the memories of that Tituba. She’s still hiding something, like how she got resummoned after getting killed or who summoned her. She knows something about Abigail too.