Demons are not actually a creation of the sleeping god. They are humanoids that have mutated due to the corruption on Rhir from the sleeping god.

For point 2, he should have had much more stringent protection measures in place for Nesor. That was his one and only contact point with his army. A single contact point is not only extremely foolish in general, but by not having any protections in place, he got hundreds of his citizens killed. This is absolutely Laken’s fault, because it could have been prevented rather easily.

3) As si commented, Laken 100% lost the war against the goblins. At best, Laken might have agreed to peace, without Veltras or the communication mishap, and even then, that peace was enforced at sword point because Laken lost to Rags.

The goblins being able to reproduce a trebuchet quickly is not plot armor. They had the same classes that allowed Laken to build the trebuchets in the first place – Tinkerers – they had multiple working devices to use as examples, and they had hundreds of goblins helping build them, not just a dozen humans. Trebuchets are not that complicated of devices.

4) Laken becoming subordinate to Tyrion should have basically lost him his class. An Emperor typically rules over kings, bowing to a Lord would be about as un-emperor as you could get.

5) Laken bought the food, but without Ryoka, he wouldn’t have had Reynold’s help, nor possibly done the deal through the Merchant’s Guild. He also would have arrived back at the village to probably find a number of people starved and/or frozen to death without Ryoka running food there. It was nearly a week between him buying the food and returning to Riverfarm.

So no, he didn’t do nothing. But he had a tremendous amount of help for that situation, and it would have turned out far, far worse if he was doing things on his own.

I would also argue that nearly every single thing Laken has done shouldn’t have been possible in the first place. He shouldn’t have ever received the Emperor class when he did. There is no way he went from being a blind guy on Earth to actually, fully believing himself to be an Emperor in the span of time he did. Beyond that, he had neither enough territory under his control, nor enough recognition to be anything close to an Emperor.

Weird how the Antinuim seem so coherent compared to the Crelers and Demons (although the Demons seem more like retextured Humans than any nightmare)

why would the sleeping god dream up something that is basically just a normal noncorrupted species? I cast doubt on the theory. What I believe is someone or something interfered early in the Antinuim’s history, changing them from horrors like Crelers (Twisted Queen is a throwback), to an actual race who wants to destroy the sleeping god.

I think they are gods
the way they do deals fits with more mythical gods like the Greek gods or Norse gods (tangential, but I’ve heard theories that demons in the Christian/Islam/Jewish belief are based off of gods from other religions)