Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20200129035540/@comment-39120971-20200130074851

I also think that teamwork is the most likely result. Simon travelled the continent and then the whole world forging alliances with willing people, whether they be rulers or just leaders in some regard (in Zirantia's case you even get to choose which side to support). If an upstart IK appeared in Aram and challenged its rulers, then Simon would first judge what kind of threat they pose, if any - if they were willing to cooperate then dismantling Aram's political structure and installing him as an allied ruler in a neighbouring country so Yhilin itself doesn't expand and grow too powerful to unnerve others is possible.

Although in the case of orcs and succubi untouched by Simon's influence, I just don't see that playing out for a few reasons. Simon's reforms didn't force succubi to abandon their ways, they opened new options for coexistence the succubi were willing to try, and once Yhilin prospered to prove how successful cooperation between races could be, that example spread to other countries, including Tak'kan and the Chalice States that were greatly influenced by the succubi culture Simon helped reform.

Even if some succubi and orcs (like the Impaler, in some ways) will never fully embrace these changes, they don't have to, enough of both races accept them that the change became the new status quo. And while those resistant to change could rally together under a new IK I suspect that... there wouldn't be enough volunteers, because the cultural changes are by and large beneficial, so there isn't enough motivation to cling to the old ways. They might form a club of old grumpy folk drinking at one of the many pubs we've seen, but not a social movement rallying support for change. How many successful movements advocating turning back on positive changes and reverting to the old ways can you recall? To my memory they all failed, once technological and cultural reforms improve people's lives turning back the cloak is futile, because you can't make folks forget what they've already seen, and all the drawbacks of the old ways are more glaring when a better alternative is readily available.

Now, maybe this rival group doesn't have to overthrow the majority that loves Simon for all the changes he brought, but like I said with the 'club of old grumpy folk' above, I just doubt there'd be enough of them for anything significant, even a small town riot if they all gathered in one place.