Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-31763506-20191024004341

You make a good point on the Gathering, although at least the Lord of Blood and the Skullcrusher appear to have had some political authority, albeit not a whole country.

There may be something to Fulminato's idea, or it may be that he goes through the forms of being an IK so that the others don't take too deep an interest in the Tower based on his being based there primarily.

Another possibility is that he needed territory in the physical world for his "theoson harvesting" or as a place to stash Zelica, assuming the prevailing theory that she's the gal in the tree in the prelude is correct.