Board Thread:Spoilers and Speculation/@comment-3456138-20160908124444/@comment-26979728-20171107062627

108.215.222.69 wrote: Why did tiga sleep with tita? I thought he was in love with elen? Dosen't  that defeat the purpose of the them confessing to each other and them making love. Elen hopes he will also be faithful to her. He also turned down  Regin love confession because he loved elen. So, why would he sleep with tita in the same volume? Does anybody know why? I am totally confused on why he would cheat on her. It just doesn't sound like him.

I think Tigre did it because he thought that it would protect Titta from being possessed by Tir na Fal again. I don't know if this is a held belief in the Madan world that gods could only descend into the pure bodies of shrine maidens or servants of gods in this novel, but perhaps Tigre believed that and thought that if he took Titta's purity then it makes her disqualified as a shrine maiden and less likely to be possessed by Tir na Fal -even though his attempt did fail because she got possessed again. I think this theory is more in line with his character though - if he did it to protect Titta.