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New HR Poll: Choose your path

  • The Five Sovereigns 385
  • The Prince of Thieves 1178
  • Simon the Archmage 394
  • 2026-09-15
  • —2026-09-22
  • 1957 votes
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Content

Heya everyone,

We're approaching a turning point in the current arc so here's the new poll ;) only three choices for now since the other options like The Painted Door need a bit more of a setup, but I hope you'll enjoy today's picks! As always, the poll will end with the current arc!

1) The Five Sovereigns: Having realized he needs more training and experience if he is to live up to his full potential, and seeking answers, Simon decides to spend a life studying Techniques and tactics while forming eidolon pacts. As he goes on a world tour stretching to Fablan, Uyo, and many other places, Simon realizes just how many corners of Brimir hold secrets yet undiscovered. 

Includes: A big world tour with Belzemine and a handful of retainers, first close look at various locations like Muse, Uyo, or Fablan, new eidolons, more Cocagne/Remedia events, Technique and battle tactics practice, location of all five sovereigns.  

Unlocks: The Shogun of Terror, The Book of the Damned.

2) The Prince of Thieves: being determined to rob a certain sinister foe in their tower, and having found a way to enslave the Cobweb to his will, Simon promptly turns the organization into his personal army as the new Prince of Spiders. With the resources of a global criminal syndicate at his command (and treacherous minions to keep his wits sharp), the Crafter better keep his Crestone locked under lock and key at night.  

Includes: Prince of Spiders Simon, exploration of the Weavers (including Chrom Cruak), Silk/Velvet romance, new techs & Libromancy work, Vouivre shenanigans, Crafter Crestone potential acquisition, intel on Gargauth’s hoard, the Genie, and other treasures. 

Unlocks: The Shogun of Terror, The Bottled Wish, The Berwick Heist, The Book of the Damned, ???

3) Simon the Archmage: Seeking more training to better rule as Overlord and greater spellcasting knowledge, Simon moves to Cocagne and approaches Remedia again with an offer: Libromancy secrets in return for her help into developing a miasmic teleport spell. As the Overlord and the Mage resume their affair and work together to gaze into the abyss of magic, Simon realizes that happiness always comes at a cost…

Includes: Simon and Remedia long-term romance (with big surprise), research into Libromancy and teleportation, Phoenix-related events, Noble Crestone potential acquisition, a good and bitter taste of the Zodiac Parade.

Unlocks: The Book of the Damned.

Comments

bob

Please do Simon the archmage please. Please don't skip over milf romance

Grant Kavanagh

As the first voter I feel enormous responsibility. The answer is the five sovereigns

Schmidt

Feels like we are heading towards the book of the damned

casd

I feel like doing the prince of thieves early would be the most beneficial for future reigns

Purple Snake Snak

Uh-oh, you fellas know what a poll means for Simons current reign...

Cindermoth

Remember, the Archmage route not only includes Remedia, it'll also include Norbelle! And it'll always be funny to have that gremlin around

Stierheld

Gosh they are all such great options. Gotta be five sovereigns though. Simon NEEDS to widen his experience and master some techniques.

gostsamo

Attack the Crafter looks as a natural continuation of the current arc and holds the most logic for me.

Yorion

I love Five Sovereigns, but The Prince of Thieves feels more natural imo, unless Simon wants to halt his momentum in this crafter arc

Myrdin

The Prince of Thieves has by far the best continuity. It fits the best for now and may give Simon the Crafter’s crestone, which he definitely needs

Halfcrzy

Whoa! I actually voted with the majority for once. Purely because it would flow better as a story. Id still like to see him and Remedia again as a personal choice.

GPond

I personally vote for five Sovereigns. Simon can do the evil paths when he is fully Class-sober.

Lorenzo Rossi

Simon the Archmage seems very fun, especially after the libromancy thing. Even the prince of thieves would be good to me tho

Daedalus

We need Prince! Let Simon not get immediately sidetracked on a goal for once!

Pradian

Potential crafter crestone acquisition, we are going full in on this arc.

Michael Flattery

Would love to see all three but right now I'm interedted to see what Simon can do with techniques, not to mention the new locales, so Fove Sovereigns has my vote.

Darksli

I would like to vote for the Archmage route but my god its so bland compared to other options. Cocagne need a bit of spice to it to be picked. A better hook ,like a Norbelle plotline perhaps ? Or Simon-Remedia having a kid. Something like that.

Leo S.S.

Prince of Thieves for three separate strategic success that effect the entire reign going forward! 1. Neutralizing the cobweb going forward.

Daedalus

Simon finally pushing through with a specific goal using two different tactics back to back would be so good.

Creed

The eidolons and the cobweb are just so interesting man. Simon has got to get stronger before he can truly become an archmage.

SoulCaptain

Prince will probably give Simon a strat or at minimum the start of one to quickly deal with the Cobweb in future reigns. Also Libromancy, Crafter stone and Hoard intel.

Stratego937

Prince of thieves just feels too similar to Overlord of Crime

Leo S.S.

Weird it cut off. 2. The crafter crest stone. 3. The crafter and muse set up more effectively going forward. That’s three major priorities we can close out. The earlier we get the crafter crest the longer it can be of use as well.

Swag cat

All the Sovereign voters hate milfs hence their future votes should be discarded as invalid

Misatek

Maybe we just need to know more about the Sovereigns to make the Phoenix more tantalising

EnemyOfTheState

No two ways about it. The Cobweb has easily proven to be the most consistent and adaptable thorn in Simon's side out of anyone in the current field of adversaries. Figuring out how to permanently declaw or flip them at the start of every reign doesn't just take care of Valravn, Silk and the rest, it even means that Louis won't be able to flee the next time he gets confronted. As much as the other option have a lot of potential, The Prince of Thieves kills the most birds with one stone and paves the way for reigns an order of magnitude smoother down the line. It's the reign that guarantees Helel or the other zodiacs don't slip their prisons early. The one that provides the most information. That leads to unlocking the most reign options once complete. Vote The Prince of Thieves. What's that? I just want to see Silk and Velvet finally get put in their place? Don't be silly. Besides, even if that's true, it doesn't mean the rest of what I said is wrong.

Nightmare Lore

Are you really going to just follow after the newest thing? We can stack all the Cobweb stuff together after the Road Trip Reigns. Vote for Sovereigns.

Daniel Pataki

Prince of Thieves has best continuity if we think of the focus of the next reign, Five Sovereigns/Archmage feels like the continuation of the ethical rehabilitation he was trying to do. I care more about the rehabilitation than the crafter plotline tbh, so I'd love it if anything other than prince won. Obligatory "single round fptp is shit".

alejandrox

It's so hard, bro... the Prince looks amazing *cries*. Vote for whatever you want; I'm voting for my sacred MILFs. Don't feel sad; if Remedia wins—a total miracle—we've got Remedia, and if she loses, we've got the Crafter Crestones XD.

Nightmare Lore

No, that's just chasing after a new thing, let's finish dealing with Simon's Dark Eidolons.

Nightmare Lore

Not until Level 80. Sovereigns would probably be good for that along with a slew of new Aspices and Summons.

SuchBadness

One word guys: teleportation. It has to be Simon the Archmage.

Nightmare Lore

Really? We're already trying to bail out on the Road Trip? Come on, at least finish up Sovereigns first before we go back to Simon backpedaling on the ethical scale.

Exarion

Simon the ADHDer. Would be nice if he would actually repeat the goals of a Reign until some measure of success instead of moving on to another idea without even seeing the current one to a satisfying conclusion. For example, he seemed super uninterested in the implications of the pictobox and the myriad combinations of miasma crystals, manaliths, miasma negatives, and mana negatives. Not to talk of using his archmage Perk to recreate some of these effects as spells. Too much work to be done right here that he's about to abandon. Another example is the very idea of the "Simon the Archmage" future arc, which can only happen because he moved on to another scatterbrained idea instead of completing what he initially went to Cocagne to do. I would much rather he repeat missions to completion, then move on to the next productive thing, but he prefers to be all over the place.

Randoudo

It's not just running after the new thing, we need to fill our DC slot and leaving the crafter in his tower without his crestone (or at least seeing it) leaves a bad taste right now.

Andrew Lechner

Teleport has a practically unlimited amount of future utility, and Remedia is always fun. That reign might actually reach the Zodiac Parade. So I did vote for Archmage. However, The Prince of Thieves is the natural continuation from this current reign, so I'm alright with it being the winner this time around.

Daedalus

It has nothing to do with ‘the newest thing,’ and entirely to do with the fact we could have two whole Reigns back to back both pursuing the same goal, which hasn’t happened in *ages*.

Bilbo

PoT has insane range of possibilities while ALSO having very relevant mummy lore while ALSO being giga easy to setup via Brand of Pride. Simon could basically puppeteer Vouivere and Louis and maybe finally kill second and even third Zodiac Fiend.

Randoudo

I hope for the same thing man but we aren't level 80 yet... but i promise you when we reach it i will vote for it without looking at the rest.

Aglovale Sempai

Archmage is a rehash of cognage affair, seems kinda eh until maybe like the last 20ish Reigns

The Bee

That big surprise gotta be a child

Guy

Sniper Must Die is conspicuously absent this time. Anyway, I know everyone will vote for a new romance option but I'm feeling 5 Sovereigns That said, it does seem like ol' Void really hammed up Spider Prince compared to last time. I'm okay with spoiling Void just this once

Neo

Both the sovereign and the prince routes unlock the SHOTGUN OF TERROR, praise be to you void, I’m going to be quite happy regardless of which of these 2 are picked

Randoudo

We did it 2 reigns ago with lux vult and unicorn tracking helel so not so long ago. At least in the story timeline.

granndfunk

Picking Five Sovereigns just because I want to see the world tour, but I do agree TPoT works better right after the current reign. And I want to stay as far away from Simon the Archmage as possible, provided that 'surprise' is a child. That would ruin him.

JJ

Damn. Spoilered. No crafter acquisition the current reign.

Federico

I guess we are damned no matther what we choose :D

Senti

Archmage please need the best girl

CalCroissant

Agreed. If this arc is setting up the Crafter as an antagonist, then continuing with Prince of Thieves makes the most sense. Simon is now strong enough to not be forced to put things on hold like he had to do with Vouivre.

Runaway_Cactuar

There are a lot of banger lines in this series, but " Make me happy, my Overlord" will forever have a place in my heart ❤️

Runaway_Cactuar

My heart says MILF, but my head says Prince of thieves because of continuity.

Daniel Pataki

Prince of Thieves is also the polar opposite of his ethical rehabilitation plans. I'm not happy about that whole theme being introduced just last reign and then being immediately abandoned...

Revenant

Prince of thieves seems like a logical choice if we take into account this arc. Choosing anything else would be akin to halt Simon’s current trajectory. It pains me that we won’t be seeing more Remedia x Simon romance for the next reign but the possibility doesn’t disappears. I am also interested in the Silk/Velvet romance.

Daniel Pataki

"Unlocks: The Painted Door, ???, The Monster Shepherd, The Sniper Must Die!" Sooooo.... Where are these?

Revenant

What do you mean by chasing after a new thing ? You do know Simon’s whole reason to come to muse was for the possibility of acquiring the crafter Crestone right ?

Andreas Finn

Mr worldwide with the five sovereigns sounds fun.

Revenant

How would that even be possible though ?

Revenant

Choose Prince of thieves so we have a chance in the next !!

Revenant

Listen to your head

ConstanTeen

Unlock may mean unlocking something for a much later reign, probably. Or he just changed his plans as he wrote and realized those were too high level for the current Simon.

ConstanTeen

I bet sniper will die in prince of thieves, not much if a point dedicating an entire arc. And I guess Void decided to buff the Crafter as a proper antagonist to the point Simon needs the entire Cobweb to compete.

Tate Browder

I just wanna see more of the world 🥀🥀 everyone tryna make Simon back in his evil shi w no good influences vote for the road trip to continue let’s see those eidolons

Daniel Pataki

Monster shepherd sounds like a Magda inspired route of mana and miasma overgoating. That's really not high level at all, we had warbeasts last reign already. We basically already got some painted door with the hellscape portal picture, so it doesn't feel far away. Also, the way the unlock is worded, it makes people think it will unlock things immediately. It doesn't say "eventually leads to", it says "unlocks". When you unlock your door, do you enter it 4 weeks later, or right away? It feels like I was conned out of my vote with unfullfilled campaign promises...

mhaj58

I’m really torn up about this. One the one hand, Overlord of Crime was one of the best reigns and an improved version with a twin romance sounds very entertaining. On the other hand, Simon has done little to improve his Dark Visionary abilities and Sovereign is the way to improve his abilities. Decisions decisions

Lady Merlin

I love this story and the idea of polls influencing reigns, and even voted for the option that ended up being most popular - but this poll compared the all the previous ones feels the most biased (in terms of unlocks/benefits presented). I feel like if the other options want to stay relevant/be voted on someday, they need some retooling.

Aakshaj Sharma

First time that I don't have a preference lol. All of them seem great.

tehlu

Romance needs to come at the end to cap off his power and hopefully set him up to actually be human again

CentaureHeart

Aw maaaaaaaaan. Why you gotta tear us apart like this. I want the 5 Sovereigns so bad but story wise, this calls for Prince of Thieves... Especially since you're going to have the Crafter kill Simon inside his crazy tower.

Logrus

Archmage path is gonna end up with a pregnant Remedia that gets undone... I want to pick it but I don't want to do that to Simon, so Prince of Thieves it is.

Chesser

I keep thinking of that line yeah, one of my favourite ends to a reign.

Jsar

The prince of thieves feels like the natural progression. But I'd like to use my imaginary VETO on the Silk/Velvet romance. No thanks!

Reetzy

Prince of thieves and maybe he can use them to scout out the dragons horde while he’s at it >:3

JoBer

My only problem with thieves is, that becoming the head of the conweb is a clear regression from his path of betterment (I like Simon to get darker but that part doesn't fit his currnt goals) Sad to see another reign go, I kind of hoped this one would last till a couple zodiacs awakened I am kind of surprised we have had barely any reigns reach their natural awakening

Leedie

Nooo, his ethical rehabilitation plans :'(

Mark Roudabush

All three of these need to happen! Archmage should wait until he hits Lv 80 and gets teir 8 spells.

Jorge

I was sold with the sentence: silk/velvet romance...

Dark Oak

Rather not have any Silk/Velvet romance if we are doing prince of thieves

Hubris

Norbelle not mentioned in The Five Sovereigns - that's why its losing

Edward 266

The Five Souvereigns feels like unavoidable choise at some point of story. Althou it can happen a little bit later and Prince of Thieves sounds more interesting and logical after ivents of this arc.

mibrainisdead

Remedia best girl arc is always welcomed, but the lure of the Sovereigns is too strong. I need Ma Boi to expand his horizons.

munkasir masud

Anyone thinks Simon’s gonna lose his first kid in the archmage route?

Nomad

I'm voting 5 sovereigns but prince comes to a close second. They will all power him up but his dark summons have been so cool

Zachary Pfannenstiel

I mean silk/velvet? Would Also him getting the crafter would make him damm near invincible

The Bee

So you see when a mommy and daddy love each other very much they start wrestling and suddenly the mommy is pregnant

Dominic Galibert

Honestly Archmage I really want but I think later levels (80-89) would be better as a story development to practice and tease spells. That or if we actually return to Mr. Lich Libromancy in the lvl 90s I’d like to see Archmage in there as well

Daedalus

Lux Vult into Unicorn Overlord is exactly the opposite of pursuing a goal throughout Reigns and is a perfect example of Simon’s usual process - settling on a course of action, then immediately running off to chase info he learned while (unsuccessfully) pursuing the prior Reign’s goal.

blabidy blab

Both Remedia and Norbelle are very welcome characters to have around, but I don't think it makes sense for him to do a Remedia reign until he needs somewhat of a break. Cocagne just doesn't that much new to offer, he had access to just about everything last time, given its greatest authority already fully trusted him. It's not like there's nothing to do, but in theory it's just not incredibly efficient.

Aleksej Gačić

The Velvet/Silk romance is what sold it for me

blabidy blab

Given "the Musan Sniper" had 3 full kills on Balzam, i'd imagine the crafter was always intended to be a pretty major threat.

Stilico

"Libromancy secrets in return for her help into developing a miasmic teleport spell" But simon is not yet lvl 80 aka he does not yet have lvl 8 spells unlocked. So this reign can not happen yet, unless they mean to unlock a lvl 7 miasma teleport spell despite teleport being a lvl 8 spell

Stilico

I find the 5 sovereigns the most enjoyable worldbuilding wise, but the Prince of Thieves is the most logical follow-up for this arc. Also as said, the Remedia arc only makes sense after he has reached lvl 80, which should not be so soon.

Bilbo

it is genuinely hilarious how, immediately after getting ability to permanently defeat Zodiac Fiends and get massive powerups out of it, Simon proceeded to never fucking make it to Zodiac Parade. Bro just keeps dying because he's going full gas on his reigns.

JoBer

Yeah, especially since we now know the world doesn't literally end after the zodiac parade, so there is technically nothing stopping a reign from lasting several years Except the stories pacing which would have to change to accommodate a long reign. I think he should do it at some point, since he hasn't even witnessed the full parade yet once

LawBear2005

I absolutely love the simon the archmage idea, but i think the prince of thieves fits better into the current story arc. I think the archmage path can only feel right when he is level 80-90 and has tier 8-9 spells unlocked

Kiwilord

It is many reigns to early for the archmage - Same for the vampire. Vampire is late nihilistic.

James Ryan

The Five Sovereigns!!!

Rodmin

I'm always so sad to see this polls and knowing that the current reign is about to end. :( The prince of thieves sounds very exciting and fitting as a continuation of the current reign so I'm satisfied with it winning. I could see Simon the Archmage also being pretty exciting, I loved when Simon started develop a bit of a friendship with the queens son, I always am happy when Simon has bromances. And I could see the big surprise maybe being getting her pregnant and it being a big problem for simon to know his child would vanish after he dies.

Rodmin

Yeah I would also love it but it seems unlikely. I could see it leading to Simon getting his first child and this leading to very strong feelings and situations good and bad.

Pradian

Guy really can't read, "since the other options like The Painted Door need a bit more of a setup"

jak0b

Yep, this arc pretty strongly suggests father Simon. Our boy is NOT ready to be a Dad lol

Thế Vinh Bùi

We have the choice to be with the best MILF... I mean Remedia and you guys want to play mafia? The amount of unculture men in this room **shaking my head**

Cabot Crumbles

You can have your milf romance once Simon earns it.

Frizzo

Prince route to access the cobwebs transportation routes unrestricted -> the world tour -> Archmage for when simon is a higher level with access to more spells and needs to build the control to summon multiple sovereign eidolons!

Surthy

We need to get distracted going for the goth twins first

Darius Rochemore

i wouldn't be so sure about that: vampire awaken the power in their blood with time, it might be better to start now

SubtleStubble

...not prince of thievess. I don't think I can read through a romance with silk/velvet.

FrozenPixel

Voted for five sovereigns the last few times but it doesnt feel like it would flow as well with how the story is going ATM. Prince of Spiders though ties nicely into the current one, he's half way there anyway.

[あにめ

This isn't the previous spider reign where he was too weak and had to abide by their values. He will be taking it over entirely. Forcing them to abide by HIS values. He can restructure the spiders from within. Use them to free slaves and manipulate global slave trade to help people in need. Can manage and shout down vouvire and her treachery. Can manipulate/predict Louis after he escapes. Use their resources and funding to secretly create proper bunkers that don't starve people to death in preparation for the zodiac parade. With his reigns knowledge, shabram, and the spiders He would have the single greatest intelligence network in the world, arguably surpassing even the oracle herself in intelligence, while also having a global logistics network so he and his forces can be basically anywhere in the world at once. All the while shutting down a government conspiracy to abduct and enslave innocent civilians replacing them with robots. Him using a evil terrorist organization for good may even be the inspiration he needs for how he can help people with the overlord class

Clarence Williamson

Yea, since he can do this both in the shadow and as the Oerlord, it could make each reign a bit longer

Bilbo

Alright since latest chapter got us to level 80 we should do Archmage Reign instead

A Zen

>Silk/Velvet romance Aw HELL no

Stilico

Now that it has happened do you think it was still a hell no?