With every new reveal it seems like everyone is being used by him or was used by him and now hates him or hates him from the start. He can't see everyone as a chess piece.
Does he have anyone who he sees as an equal that he can have a drink with? :p
He has a bird.
Leblanc, Vlad and Elise.
inb4 Sawin is being used as well... by BEATRICE!!!
Probably 
its like swain has white chess pieces and black chess pieces. where the black ones are the black rose members and the white ones are the high authorities that serve him in noxus(like darius).
It's lonely at the top.
I like the idea that him and LB have a deep if complicated respect for eachother. They're both strategists who are pursuing power and are great assets to one another in the pursuit of this goal, but in the long run they're aware that one of them will have to lose to the other eventually. One of those weird rivaling friendships that runs a lot deeper than your typical "i love you" "me 2 smooch" scenario :P
Hell, I wrote a bloody fanfic about it a while back.
