Talk:Overlord Volume 9/@comment-49.149.164.83-20151022065109/@comment-27099834-20151023070909

A central theme to Ainz's character is his paranoia and his fear of the unknown. Without good knowledge of the New World, it would be out of character for him to suddenly go out there and start picking fights with the dragon lords and other powerful beings. I agree that he should start extracting knowledge from Fluder, maybe Demiurge will see to it.

The political story makes sense from the Bloody Emperor's perspective since he is acting to preserve the human race, and is part of the world building. Without such world building, the lizardmen/Climb/Gazef/Brain/Renner/Blue Rose arcs would all be meaningless and the entire novel would be Nazarick curbstomping people. That would be rather boring. A united front against Nazarick would be interesting though, with so many unknown magic items on the New World's side like the treasures of the 8 Greed Kings or the sacred treasures of the Theocracy. Or it would be a massacre because Demiurge already see through their plan.

The underlying threat of the novel right now imo is Albedo + Rubedo. Nigredo already warned that Rubedo would bring great harm to the guild. With the talks of "starting up" Rubedo, maybe she is a golem/living item without strong loyalty to Nazarick like the NPCs, and may revolt in the future.