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My general approach to Haagenti is that, upon becoming a Prince, there were three logical directions to try to extend Gluttony in -- self indulgence, waste/destruction/comsumption, and food.  And that he's spent his time and effort extending in all three.

The first is the hardest.  Lust and Greed are all about self-indulgence, and Freedom, Theft, Dark Humor, Hardcore, and Drugs all have partial claims.  While Haagenti tries his best to claim full dominion (the nature of the Consume attunement and that the use of it is demanded by his dissonance condition show his efforts), he doesn't have the power to ride roughshod over so many rivals.  Shal-Mari isn't becoming a one-Prince town anytime soon.

For the second, Haagenti faces serious but lesser difficulties; Death, Fire, and Technology all have elements of this conceptual space.  Trying to claim the destruction of endangered species habitat to acquire coal to feed the ever-rising consumption of electricity, for example, can be argued to be an activity involving all four Princes.  The Devour attunement and his Calabite attunment/rite mark the interest of the Calabite Haagenti in taking over this space.

Food, of course, was the easiest; there's nobody around to seriously challenge Haagenti here.  So his current position is heavily food-oriented.  The trouble is, that means there isn't huge room for expansion this way now.  So it's mostly useful as a power base from which to contest the other two.  While the day-to-day activities of his organization are busy here, Haagenti needs look elsewhere to slake his thirst and feed his hunger for power.

Thus the Belial takedown.  Let fire-related deaths fall to Saminga and fire-related technology fall to Vapula to satisfy those Princes as Haagenti, who knew it was coming, expands to absorb Fire's claims on consumption and wastefulness according to plan.  If Furfur benefits from the aftermath, good, there's a new major Prince to distract the others.  If Furfur fails, use the opportunity to destroy him; the Easter of Four Princes can command serious respect.  And, Princes are delicious, too.