Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170924103337/@comment-31763506-20171010031638

The problem with the Lustlord striking at the Orgasmic Empire is one of logistics. We don't know much about the configuration of the continent of Thenours except that Rodak has to be near one of the poles and the only viable airship route between Ghenalon and the Orgasmic Empire has to make a pit stop in Arclent. Either Rodak is towards the South Pole and thus nearly on the opposite side of the planet, it's near the North Pole and the only available route by airship is OVER the pole AND Philon. A sea route is probably simply not an option unless the plan is to go from Rodak to the west coast of the Renthnor Wilds and then over the mountains to the Orgasmic Empire.

Teleportation has been established as limited as a means of power projection at a distance. You can warp in an Incubus King or a crack team and do a load of damage before the local military can respond, but you can't bring in an army without more conventional trasportation. So either the Lustlord needs a very large fleet of airships that are suitable for polar conditions AND permission from the Anak to tly them over or near Philon unmolested... OR he needs to have an equally large fleet of airships with a much longer range than anything possessed by Ghenalon or the Orgasmic Empire, and he probably would still need to have some sort of staging area closer to Renthnor... OR he has an equally large navy of conventional sea ships with the same logistical problems owing to a lack of bases in Arclent and Renthnor.

The AoA seems to have made a relatively formidable surface navy for the comparatively shorter crossing of the Entir Ocean and the Homir sea (the last of which was presumably lost in the Zirantian debacle), plus he had the advantage of total surprise on an unmobilized enemy, weapons that his enemies were inexperienced with, and he had abandoned his "home base" completely, so he brought everything he had to his point of debarkation. It also helped that he didn't really care about the casualties he took or the collateral damage he inflicted, and the Domain he was left with at the end of the 2nd Arclent War showed it.

The Lustlord going after Esthera has none of these perks. He'll need the alliance or neutrality of the Anak, depending on the route he needs to use and the length of the campaign, and he'll have a much longer distance to go over possibly polar conditions. He'll need to build and supply a large force of sea ships or airships, hide the fact that he's doing so from Esthera's and Fheliel's spy networks, PLUS he needs to maintain sea and/or air supremacy on the long supply lines his invading army will need to maintain an invasion. And he'll be attacking someone who is every bit his equal in terms of magical technology.

Oh, plus he needs to keep enough an army in Rodak to prevent the Fucklord from invading for shits and giggles and an easy conquest, AND it's a fair bet that an attempted invasion of the Orgasmic Empire would trigger a declaration of war from Ghenalon, both to support their trading partner, prevent the Lustlord from gaining territory and disrupting the balance of power on Thenours and make sure that Erosia doesn't gobble up Rodak when the invasion goes pear shaped.

All that is likely to happen before the Doom King brings his now considerable resources into the fight.

So if the Lustlord, the Fucklord or the Anak decide to attack someone, it's overwhelmingly likely to be either Simon or one of the countries of Arclent. The Lustlord attacking Esthera directly is extraordinarily unlikely unless he's doing so in concert with the Anak and has some reliable guarantee of neutrality or alliance on the part of the Fucklord. The only way I see that happening is if they can work out an agreement to jointly invade and partition Ghenalon first.