Talk:Hanny King/@comment-28139182-20161026193147/@comment-27031093-20161109020346

Here's how I see the evolution of the Planner System:

Khulf-Khulf was the first draft of the Demon King, and was made to be even stronger than the Demon Kings that followed him as a result since the Demon King is meant to be close to unbeatable. He proved to be too overpowered, however, and Ludo got bored with the incredibly one-sided slaughterfest that he caused versus the round ones. This caused Planner to create the dragons as a protagonist race overpowered enough to be able to have a chance at defeating him.

After Khulf-Khulf was defeated, I assume the power increase done to the Demon King was reduced in order to avoid having them be too overpowered again. However, since the super strong and super smart dragons were a holdover from when Khulf-Khulf was Demon King, and Avel was weak and incompetent, the reduced power boost wasn't enough to make him stand a chance and he was beaten extremely easily. As a result, the dragons were purged and replaced with the humans in order to avoid more onesided victories from either side.

By Ssullal's time both the Demon King and the protagonist race had been nerfed so the playing field was more even. The power difference was still small enough that getting defeated was a very real possibility for Ssullal, however, which caused her to request the Invincibility Field at the cost of most of her life.

With the Invincibility Field in place and both the Demon King and the protagonist race sufficiently nerfed, Planner achieved the perfect power balance that he desired. Humanity had a fighting chance, but the Invincibility Field allowed for the Demons to have a severe advantage that would allow the Demon King to rule unopposed for a very long time. However, Nighcisa was hyper-aggressive and caused random acts of violence whenever he wanted to with next to nothing in his way to stop him. While it was entertaining for a while, Ludo started to get bored like he did with Khulf-Khulf since it was so one-sided.

Then came Gele, who managed to combine the perfect power balance achieved by Nighcisa's generation with a cunning, creative mind that allowed her to oppress humanity in was far more interesting than simply killing everybody. Things stayed interesting, and Ludo was at his happiest.

So Khulf-Khulf was stronger than all of the Demon Kings that followed him, and while everyone after him was equal in terms of general power, Avel and Ssullal didn't have the Invincibility Field. Nighcisa (and Little Princess and Kayblis, presumably) was an "average" Demon King who satiated Ludo's love of violence, but was unable to keep things sufficiently interesting for hundreds of years. Gele (and Rance, should he become it) was the ideal Demon King who managed to keep things interesting while causing destruction throughout her reign. Gi was an anomally who managed to vastly improve humanity's circumstances and chances of winning throughout his reign, while also having random bursts of hyperviolence caused by his split personality. I assume Ludo was at least entertained during his reign.