I fully intended to call Lob out to the Rites. I was itching to do it. Then the con started to dwindle, fighting 2 and 3 Sylvans at a time, on top of everyone else, but no sign of Lob. By the time he came back and was actually on, on a regular basis, my con was too low for me to even consider trying to take leadership. Why? Because I didn't want to be leader, then die and leave the village with the same void to fill that I was trying to prevent. On top of it, once Lob came back, aside from keeping the war with the Sylvans going which I didn't agree with, he was a good leader.

Ironically if he had been there for me to fight, I wouldn't have been looking to fight him because he would have been there.