Talk:Caspond Bessarez/@comment-61.90.76.213-20180518175527/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180519223806

It's more likely that the intention is to have "Caspond" assassinated by an "unknown party" at a crucial junction in the engineered conflict between the North and South. The shake out will probably be that the North will be more influenced by pro-SK sentiment (both as a result of having more witnesses to the epic battles between Jaldaboath and Ainz and because food imports from the SK are going to serve a crucial role in their survival) while the South will be more influenced by nobles who made only minimal investments (and thus took minimum losses) in the war effort. The Southern nobles will be more concerned with maintaining their traditional privileges (this was also probably a factor in distrust of Calca) and will end up rallying behind a set of figures who have not appeared yet (because they didn't come North to fight).

At a crucial juncture, DoppelCaspond will disappear and Caspond's body will be left behind with incriminating evidence suggesting assassination by someone linked to the leadership of the Southern faction. The war will initially go badly for the North because of the lingering effects of the Jaldaboath occupation (lower manpower, food shortages, loss of wealth and magic items). They will call on the SK (and possibly SK vassals like the Empire or REK if that has progressed far enough) for support.

This will give a justification for purging anti-SK nobility and allowing SK troops into the country, resulting in a defacto vassalization during the course of the war which will likely be formalized with the defeat of the South and execution of many anti-SK nobles for treason.