Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180615004848/@comment-32166397-20180701013950

79.67.34.83 wrote: I'm honestly curious about the Lustlord. Pretty much everyone with real power or influence in the Tower dismiss him as almost a non-entity. To be fair, the man hasn't shown himself to be anything special despite his status as the oldest living Incubus King. He keeps to himself, doesn't really make waves outside of his own country, and reacted rather petulantly when Ginasta insulted him. As Esthera called him, a 'stuffed-shirt'.

But what if that was the intention?

I'm not sure how old the Lustlord is, but it probably has to be in the centuries now. Someone that old can learn to be rather patient. He only ever comes out when he has a chance of gaining easy power, like when he tried to poach the Incubus Emperor's Shard. Something like that definitely makes him look like a bottom-feeder, or a scavenger, but if he had been spending time working on something else then perhaps the only times he saw the point in revealing himself was when the pickings looked quick and easy, rather than expend time and effort that he could use doing whatever he's doing in Rodak.

No one knows how the Lustlord can afford the palaces he builds for every single Gathering. It's like a single county hosting the Olympics every damn time, those games are expensive, and any facilities built for those games get repurposed by that country in order to justify the cost. The Lustlord just... abandons them and starts again. When other leaders think about it, they can't see how Rodak's economy could so easily cover it.

Sx has been found in small quantities in the Tower by Simon and the party. What if the Lustlord has discovered a way to pull massive quantities of Sx from the Tower, and if he's found a way to do that, maybe he's learned a few other tricks too. Are the palaces he builds for each gathering just a way to pass the time, or are they distractions while he operates beneath prying eyes.

Perhaps I'm just wildly overspeculating, but I think while every other 'power' in the Tower are busy working their own goals while dismissing the Lustlord as a non-entity, he has been plotting his own big scheme. Something that will catch everyone by surprise. The Anak says The Lustlord only uses the Tower to supplement the economy of his nation. I think I'd believe the Anak on this point.