It’s a three part article due to length so the main changes are in the other parts. 

The initial sections were all about “how do I change the published sources” leading into “OK what follows from that …?

The aim was to make them more in the background and Shar the “front”. As indicated to rewrite the GH Wars wasn’t really plausible and too much work for this article. I just wanted to explore Jason’s suggestion seeing them more like an Illuminati type organisation. Essentially everyone thinks Shar is the bad guys, and the SB is part of their society, and they have really good spies. But really the tail is wagging the dog. The SB run the whole show, and it’s not just about Shar dominating the Azure Sea it’s about Suel ruling all as the end game. It’s like all those Bond movies where the hook doesn’t reveal the worldwide conspiracy by SPECTRE until the end. I suppose to put it in other terms, imagine if it turned out the GK was actually being run by the Hextorite church with a plan to turn the whole GK into a demonic kingdom …. Oh wait that would work too … ;) 

Part 2 is out now and Part 3 with the real extrapolation should drop soon.