Talk:Zesshi Zetsumei/@comment-2001:8003:81EA:8700:755F:DB09:1139:2841-20180824183020/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180825071142

Well, it's a big world and Nazarick has been busy elsewhere.

Strategically, it makes sense to leave the Theocracy for last for a couple of reasons.

One is that they're the most able to offer an attractive alliance, and thus unless Nazarick cuts off all their options, fighting them would mean opening multiple fronts at once.

The other is that they have been the most hesitant to risk direct conflict with Ainz Ooal Gown ever since the annihilation of the Sunlight Scripture. Initially they thought that must have been the revival of the Catastrophe Dragon Lord, because he blinded their scrying, but they've pretty well figured out since then that it was him. This means that they are paralyzed while the Sorcerous Kingdom acts to annex/vassalize the various other countries.

Of course, the reason that makes the most sense may still not be fully realized by Ainz, the greatest of the 6GG bears a strong resemblance to Ainz, meaning that it might be possible to take them over intact from the top down, as was accomplished with the Empire. Alternatively, it is likely that Zurrernorn has begun worshipping Ainz secretly, and they may be able to carry off an effective coup and implement a theocratic loyalty to Nazarick.

That would become especially likely once Ainz uses Aura and Mare to take over the Elf and Dark Elf nations, given the other of the 6GG unique to the Theocracy appears to have been an Elf.

I feel that Zurrernorn making a return and effectively serving to purge the existing Theocracy leadership (and the Black Scripture) is highly likely given the teases about Clementine and the Orb of Death that have been scattered through the volumes since they last appeared. And the definite need to make an example of those who attacked Shalltear.