[normalphil]

LE Ermor is about there being a pretender god of death and ruin out there that is so out of the usual that the mere fact of its existence destroyed the greatest human civilization (after they completely re-invented themselves as a nation-state sized lock keeping him from getting out in the first place), and everybody in the world is going to die simply because he's somewhere on the same planet.

This is one of those 'not all wheels have to be round, but the ones that roll are' things, I think. Ghost kings it is.