If we run short on players, I would also be fine recruiting one or two to take over either a human NPC or the Grogar/Regulii (assuming that was kosher with their creators). That might cut down on the NPC management we all have to do. Also, as for the Grogar, I was planning for them to occupy Bet Aybar for much of the last century, stopping it from turning it's (Persian/Byzantine, an ironic mix), seeing as we are talking about influences) might against Scalethein's bulk. 

Hey SovGrave, why don't we have the Church of Ila proselytize the Feinar? I see that as a satisfactory solution to end the century.