[@Diexsmiling] Awesome ideas! Perhaps by the time your intro comes up, one of those options might jump out at us as the best one for the group. From a personal standpoint, I'm most interested in how his kindness and goodwill could be taken advantage of. xD

Perhaps he would agree to help them expand their crew -- and with that expanded crew, come back and conquer that emperor. But then, we'll have to see how things develop!

A thought just occurred to me. Might this emperor also have ties in other islands? Perhaps he's expanding his empire to other locations, and we might see traces of him elsewhere.