Quote Originally Posted by lord_khaine View Post
Have you though about, that the only things supporting these statements are bias against SD?
We lack any sort of evidence on him actually getting any sort of pleasure from ruling. And have direct evidence to the direct opposite, that he would rather try and focus on leveling up.

And why should handing over rulership require him to admit that they are better than him at anything? We see this in a lot of other places, like when one monarch decides to retire, and hands over the crown to a heir.
What really stops SD from deciding "Zach, your newer going to be as good as me, but your good enough to run this without making it crash and burn. Here is the crown, im off for the beach" ?

We directly see this reflected in the tournament. The winning condition isnt to defeat SD. All you have to do is to draw a single drop of his blood.
Thats just an extremely tall order, as he is around the 3rd or 4th strongest person in creation.


It's also worth pointing out that Solomon David's concern that, without his badassery protecting the realm, the other Demiurges would conquer them, strikes me as a perfectly valid concern. They have a history of doing that sort of thing.

He's basically a wartime army, embodied in a single individual. Even if he formally turned over formal power to a democratically elected parliament or whatever, he'd still be effectively in charge because he can move the sun.