i strongly believe that sanctifications and stars for any hero are predetermined. i do not know how "deep" it reaches, like if its 5, 10 or 18 stars ahead or predetermined for the next 5 or 10 sancts or wherever, but i am sure of it. there is several indicators that proved it to me in the past about stars and sancts. to go into detail about that would reach too far into the game mechanics, but you have some heroes that will fail early and other heroes that will fail late. for example i have a blue where i failed so far so many cards on, she is still a saint 3, while all others are angel 1-5. my scipio ate almost 200 medals to get to +8 and then without any fails to +13. on my adam i failed 8 cards in a row to get to saint 4 and another 7 to get to saint 5. now he is domi1 and i failed only twice since.

what i am trying to tell you is that some heroes fail/succeed consistantly while others fail early or late. for every player different on a randomly predetermined order. i prefer heroes that fail early and then dont let me down later on.