Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-31763506-20180117003103

Sieges and assaults are different things. If he were to try a siege, he'd have already lost, because the fully mobilized Doom King military would take him to bits. So an assault might be contemplated if he were certain that he would get two shards if he killed Simon, and that the Doom King's realm would tear itself to bits afterwards.

As to intelligence gathering, remember that a spy network isn't necessary to get an intelligence windfall, you only need to have a mistake in the on the part of those keeping the secret. There are now a LOT of people who know Simon is the Doom King. An Unsuccubi saying something to a succubi or orc that has taken advantage of the right to immigrate to Yhilin or Tak'Kan while in actuality being an agent of the Lord of Blood who has come to infiltrate the place. Or someone else could see to it that he gets the information in order to make trouble for Simon. Someone like Xestris, for example.

As to your argument from rationality, while you may doubt he is capabie of launching such an attack, you should remember Simon's words to Megail in Ch 1: "I'd never count on people not making stupid decisions."