Talk:Timeline/@comment-31299066-20190127164625/@comment-31763506-20190127184600

Remember that Fheliel said at the Gathering that most of the major IK states maintain closed borders and usually eschew diplomacy, and Simon couldn't make his way into Philon or the Orgasmic Empire during the time he spent on Renthnor. He didn't know what their leadership was either. If no one from Thenours travels in or out of the nation of Rodak, then the man on the street there doesn't know what its government is like.

The governments of Ghenalon, Stenai and Tatseni might also be deliberately censoring public discourse on the Lustlord to keep him a state secret. The people there have seen Erosia get taken over by Estaven and gobble up several of their neighbors in living memory, and the more educated know a similar thing happened in Arclent under the Incubus Emperor a generation before. The fact that there's ANOTHER Incubus King hanging out on the continent who is just as powerful as Estaven, if not moreso, and that he could attack them at any time isn't something that's going to inspire the public to believe it is safe; and thus is something a paternalistic government may therefore think they don't need to know.

The info on Simon's time abroad is a bit puzzling. In the Stineford library, he says he spent several years on Thenours in several nations, and his conversation with Fheliel suggests Ghenalon was one of them, but Stenai seems not to have been one. That implies he spent a lot of time in what is now Erosia, before the appearance of Estaven.

What strikes me as odd is that he didn't know the bunny suits seen in Stineford were not traditional Erosian costume.