Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-1435995-20180120215835/@comment-1435995-20180120231417

Fluid-decanter wrote: The Incubus Emperor left a body when Simon slew him. I don't think the question of why one would build a tomb has been answered satisfactorily, but your explanation is possible. He did leave a body indeed. But, when Simon extracted the shard, the body was destroyed. Most of the time Incubi die in order to get their shards ripped off from them. Unless the killers of the first Incubi did not know that. So, yeah they could get killed and keep their body to be buried/stored.

Maybe he didn't have any sex and starved, like the IK responsible for the Dark Ruin. That is highly unlikely. Starved Incubi have a strong lust (remember Simon when he was babysitting Tal), so they would realise what they would need in order to survive. For an Incubus to starve to death that would require a hell of a drive. Overcoming tremendous lust and their survival instincts. Death by starvation is almost impossible. Speaking of the Dark Ruin, the IK in there had definetely a thing with torture. I do not see how torture excludes sex from his lifestyle. He could constanly kidnap girls, rape and torture them to death. By the way, I think that his body lies in a sarcophagus (this time however his shard has dissolved).

Yet again, how and why did his body end up there? He lived during a time where Incubi had discovered their powers and how to get them, so it make no sense that he died in fortress with his shard not ripped apart.

The body thing isn't valid; see above. Storing the shard was presumably magic, like what the Lustlord did to the Chosen skeleton, what Riala did to the golden shard, and what Robin temporarily did to the Emperor's shard until they were in a good situation to implant it carefully into Simon. The body thing is not valid, under the condition that none tries to extract the shard. So, the first Incubi are killed and nobody takes the shards as they do not possess the know-how. Okay so far. When they are buried however, they get their shards stored. By who? Who could know how to store a shard but not how extract it for himself or is unwilling to do so? It makes almost no sense. Also,  the Dark Ruins Incubus (who lived at a later time period) did not have his spark stored as well.