He doesn't make his primary (or even secondary, now that his main base is in Oriphos) headquarters there, but it's among his possessions. It's not the palace seen in Sympathy for the Devil - that's his "townhouse" in Muspelheim (the city) itself. Coldharbour is out in the hinterlands of Muspelheim (the plane), in the actual district of Sheol itself, which we've never actually seen on screen in UF.

The Hand of Wrath came from his predecessor's collections of ineffable nasty stuff, which was presumably stored at Coldharbour during the interregnum.

>Assuming a reasonable level of equivalence to the actual game, during
>her time on Nirn Jack killed a shit-ton of dragons, an even
>shit-tonner of vampires, a giant evil dragon god that was out
>to destroy Nirn, wandered through... three? I think?... alternate
>dimensions, read at least one Elder Scroll, did a whole bunch of
>errands for various and sundry gods and demons, trained with the
>Greybeards, fought an insane dragon cult, took part in a civil war,
>and judging by her disdain for the Mede Empire, probably pissed off
>both the first and second most powerful polities on Nirn, and
>amassed a collection of magically endowed weapons and armor that would
>make even Dannen Ironbridge go "Damn, girl."

And bagged a genuine vampire princess! She doesn't usually go for chicks, but there's somethin' about Serana.

>So that means that it is entirely possible that all Shepard knows is
>that this one time, Jack told her a story about this demon lord she
>murdered. Details are hazy, because Jack also has a story about this
>vampire lord she murdered, and that dragon lord she murdered, and all
>those lesser demons she murdered, and, listen, if she wrote up a
>complete report on everyone Jack ever bragged about murdering she'd
>get nothing else done ever.

Yeah, that's pretty well the size of that, I should think.

As to your original speculation, I couldn't possibly comment, except to say that it's true that Akio played no part in the opening of the vacancy in Sheol; it's merely the first open duchy that came to hand when Surtur decided to promote him.

(Note that it's not unknown in Muspelheim how long the post had been vacant before Trigon's installation; just to the BPRD.)

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