Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-31763506-20180116030816

The Lord of Blood being the attacker of HQ actually makes a bit of sense. Assuming he can figure out that Simon/Dargai is the real Doom King, that he has the late lamented AoA's shard, and the floating fortress is capable of letting him infiltrate Arclentian airspace and attempt a decapitation strike on Simon to get both shards, then that probably represents the best chance he's ever going to get of taking over another IK's territory.

He also has the least to lose.

Note that there are reasons to believe the party will eventually fight the Lord of Blood and Estaven, but not the Lustlord and the Anak.