I stand by my statement that Kanaev isn't all that he's cracked up to be. I used demons, because I didn't have the hp's to get around the severe limitation of devil turning. What is devil turning? When your character gets below 25% health, you die because your devil turns on you. The only way you're not going to die, is if you land a 600 mana dismissal or if you get help killing your pissed off devil.

A standard pk loss for an evil conjurer looks like this: Fighting someone. Get low on health or servitor turns on you. Word, teleport or flee away. Try to deal with angry servitors. Die. Do you ???think??? that the nofol pet bug might help here?

As a devil user, an opponent of Kanaev would only need to push him down past the 25% health mark to see him dead. Why didn't this happen during Kanaev's life? Well, he abused the nofol pet bug. When his devil's turned, he typed nofol pet twice, and *poof* devil gone. When the bug was fixxed, guess what happened? Kanaev started dying to his devils (just like any other conjurer will). He got pwned up just like us noobs. Here's an example:

Mon Mar 5 19:59:07 2007 by 'Daevryn' at level 51 (487 hrs):
You know, you can put extra mana in a dismissal. It helps when ice devil is brutally humping on you.

The second point I am going to stand by, is that Kanaev had a strong advantage in becoming Chancellor. From the story I can put together from immortal comments, Kanaev's comments and player comments, Kanaev was a poor roleplayer. Eshval said he only got the position because he was the best candidate at the time. Now I know us "noobs" can't know the super secret mechanisms at work here, but I'm willing to bet a chancellor conjurer's devil gets quite a few perks.

My advice for future evil conjurers. Hit level 51. Train hps. Stack up as much +hp gear as you can. Get into Scion, and get used to always using despoil. Evil conjurers RAPE =). Just get used to the idea of dying to your servitors.