Nice~ and yeah religion such as the church of light is usually based on some kind of scripture that may or may not be entirely fictional and just created for the benefit of the church itself rather than it's followers :3 All that's missing is for it to have a witch hunt and we are free to point the reallife equivelent

@Fat Boy Kyle I think that that is fine. He wouldn't need the boats, and I'd rather not play him as a guy that can magically pull stuff out of his ass in order to solve plots.
''Well we can go to the Grey Island, but we have no boat''
''oh look suddenly one of my boats appears on the horizon lol isn't that funny''

Yeah, that's not gonna work. :p So I'm just going with - he lost all his current illegal activities due to the plague disrupting them, and since he feels like the plague might reach his estate at one point and the king is a lousy idiot, he'll have to go deal with it himself.

Give money to the consano, join an expedition.. yeah, I think he'd fancy his name in history books too. ^^

Well anyway, we will just have to wait to see what the king would do in the end. As for the time till the end, He would be the useful money holder and whatever else is useful for the moment. We could throw in a strange lil relationship between a slaver and an ex-slave :3