I'm still really on the fence about whether or not I should make a monarch for Gabriel to help out. There are just three (and a half) issues that are stopping me currently. The first is that i've always been better a playing characters that are either grunts or second in command types rather than head honchos. The second is that it'd eventually get confusing for me to continue to switch between the kingdoms of Raphael and Michael whenever I alternated between the king and Cain. I'd switch out the kingdoms that Cain serves, but that brings me to issue 3.5, which is the fact that Raphael would be comprised of nothing but King Valentine and a ton of NPCs, and the fact that the driving force for Cain's loyal service is that he thinks that if he helps Raphael end the war as initially planned that he can get his curse removed.