Daniel Ray, we discussed the possible plot-line on another thread. How would the attempt for democracy fit into growing threat of the void and the king of blades? There is no doubting that that is where the story is heading.
Also, another quick question; did the spire end a morally currupt world or did it destroy "The Curruption"? I just re-completed Fable 2 and the cutscene of the spire granting the first wish looks like "the darkness" from Fable3.. The city looked tainted. Call me stupid but it's just a thought.
I thought about the democracy thing long before I came out with that theory on the King. So, I'm taking back what I said about Traitor's Keep.
In the lore, the Spire ended a morally corrupted world, but then, this lore was possibly written by the few survivors who might not have understood exactly what happened. It happens in our history and can very well happen in a game's history. Possibly, these survivors perceived the Corruption as just the normal corruption in humans.
Hmmm... I just got another thought. They said that The Sword was the cause of the corruption that spread through Archon William and the land. Maybe, the Corruption appeared for the first time about the same time as the Sword, and people thought that the Sword cause this "darkness".
Yet another thought (I'm suddenly getting a lot of these). We were talking about the King of Blades possibly being still in the Void. And as far as I know, the general lore said The Hero of Oakvale threw the Sword into the Void. Does that mean the King has the Sword now? It might explain why the Corruption appears again in Albion, but doesn't explain why it took them such a long time to go from Aurora to Albion.
Maybe, the people fighting for democracy as mentioned by me in my earlier post may still happen, but is completely interrupted by the return of the Court. A small sub-plot that can act as a "Act 1" of the game, like Fable 3's Act 1 where you gain allies to take the throne.