Not sure. I think he wants to be opportunist and take my cities when Parkin weakens them. He's invested enough EPs into me that he can presumably has vision on my cities. I really don't understand why he'd keep pumping EPs into a tiny doomed civ when he's going to lose them all when my inevitable demise happens.
Civics people I know are running;
Everyone I know has Slavery and the base Economy and Legal civics.
Elkad, Parkin, Moogle and Yuri are in HR, Lewynn and HAK are in the base civic.
HAK and Moogle have OR, everyone else in the base religious civic.
Yuri, Parkin and Lewynn know Currency from the tech trade screen showing their available gold (105 (-?), 11 (+100pt) and 90 (-?) respectively).
Civics people I know are running;
Everyone I know has Slavery and the base Economy and Legal civics.
Elkad, Parkin, Moogle and Yuri are in HR, Lewynn and HAK are in the base civic.
HAK and Moogle have OR, everyone else in the base religious civic.
Yuri, Parkin and Lewynn know Currency from the tech trade screen showing their available gold (105 (-?), 11 (+100pt) and 90 (-?) respectively).