Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170924103337/@comment-31340684-20171010021230

While I do feel that Anak of Philon has last boss written all over him, I doubt any of Simons team will realize that before a dramatic reveal. After all pretty much everything hes done to appear foreboding has been OOC cutscenes. He seems to be seeking a more long term form of power and that his interest in the gods and the tower is not something he will be boastful about until he has a clear advantage over the others. Esthera as well doesn't seem to have any major problems with him given that they rule neighboring countries.

I suspect the next major IK threat will come from the self proclaimed Lustlord. He is the oldest and most prideful of the IK, and declared himself as being a god. And yet, Esthera has now personally cockblocked his ambitions twice without reprisal. He owned Balia long before we got her and he would have had a much more robust and specialized laboratory setup for her than what weve put together in Janines basement. Yet he doesnt feel he needs her anymore. There are two explanations for this. Keeping in mind details about orc breeding, that they tend to deteriorate over succesive generations and thus need to be kept confined to prevent them splitting (and thus weakening) if you want to have strong orcs long term. You could see this as either and attempt to reduce costs by just magically "buffing" common orcs into proper fighters. Or if the Lustlords orc are indeed undead as they appear than just selecting the strongest orcs and killing/reanimatting them to build up an undying army at max strength. The obvious flaw in this theory is that these could easily just be the futureproofing efforts of an immortal monarch though.

Still, it is my theory that the Lustlord will soon be launching an attack against the Orgasmic Empire, perhaps believing that without the Empress that the Doomking will be helpless. She may not necessarily die in the process however as we don't know the details of how she possesses a shard. If she survives (though depowered) and is rescued by the Anak, it could act as an olive branch to Doomking to ally with him against the other IKs. Until he later turns on us once he is closer to godhood.

I apologize for the wild nature of such speculation and the uncoordinated nature of my theories, but SierraLee has done a masterful job at derailling the "obvious" conclusions and now my expectations for this start to look more and more like conspiracy theories...