Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180615004848/@comment-1435995-20180721204945

Speaking of Lustlord this update made me respect him a tiny-tiny bit.

1) He is a man capable of playing the wait game. He waited for the demise of the Incubus Emperor in order to get his shard. He chose to leave the shard to Esthera rather than going battle royale as he would die either by Esthera & her minions or by the hand of another Incubus that would finish off the winner of that battle (and hitting jackpot in the process).

2) He prevented Esthera from assisting her vassal. Since Estaven has a major shard and the Doom King has a smaller it was a sure bet (at that time) that DK would fall, weakening Esthera's power by a lot.

3) When Doom King proved his worth against Estaven, he resorted to the plain old divide and conquer tactic. He promised alliance and independence-respect to Doom King, trying to appeal to the young king's ego and thirst for power.

All in all, he seems like a person who tries to win bigtime while minimizing the risks at the same time. It makes total sense. Lustlord has reached a point where the cost of his potential mistakes is too grave to bear in constrast to the potential winnings of his gambling.

As for Balia now, I think he is making troops in a way similar to Estaven's Virgin Sluts. My assumption is that he believes that if orcs entered the Tower they might become impervious to his dominating powers. Remember that the breeding process can be messy and influenced unpredictably by outside factors. The Tower is the most influencial thing that there is, with unlimited paths of power. It allowed a succubus to fuse with a soul shard, so the senario stated above is very likely and disastrous. Sure, he could watch Balia better, but with troops charged with Tower energy, it was a meaningless loss for him.