Since we're engaging in Lucien discussions
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going off memory here
I'm sorry to *some* Lucien akgaes but that man has never given love for the game (unlike characters like Eris, Feyre, Rhys etc )
If I have the timeline correct
Lucien is the last born of 7 kids, Eris is a couple years younger than Mor, Rhys, Cassian and Azriel, which in my mind puts Lucien between the late 200's to the early 300's.
Lucien falls in love with Jessminda at some point in his youth and then flees to Spring after Beron has Jessminda executed in doing so 2? of his brothers die (SJM maths for how tf this went without causing war but 🤷🏾♀️)
It's unclear whether Tamcien were friends before the banishment or after but Lucien takes on the role as emissary to Spring for the 100-200+ years
Then Feyre and y'know the rest.
Like I said before nothing about Lucien story gives to #me that he likes or enjoys Pyrthian politics. Don't mix it up for me saying he's not good at it, he obviously is.
Lucien most likely became Tamlin's emissary for survival (doesn't diminish their friendship) and he's currently the night court's for Elain (says as much in ACOWAR and reiterates it in ACOFAS)
I think people are taking Lucien's loyalty to Spring and just applying it loosely (all the High Lord of Day and open toe shoes, even though he has no actual connection to court outside being an affair baby?)
Spring was Lucien's home and his active safe place for like the majority of his life, in ACOFAS, SJM chose to write him saying that if Feyre hadn't made him look complicit in her actions he'd still be living there
Everything he's done has either been because of survival, obligation, love/the mating bond or loyalty to his home not in actual lust for power or position.
If he does end up as High Lord of Day in the actual series and not post-canon it's probably going to be one of the same
