I'm surprised that nobody has started a thread on this. It may be that nobody has anything more to say about it than I do, and all I have is that one bad joke in the subject line. A strange guy with strange hair who traveled around with his own private harem. Now he's dead, but he left a hand-picked son with no announced mother. Furthermore, it was his third son. That makes me think that he was looking for one that was enough of a despot to make his father proud. Of course, the guy is still young, so he could end up taking the country in a dramatically better direction (he could hardly find any other direction).