When the king is aligned with the kingdom, how would you distinguish the causal path that the king projected their power and their values onto the kingdom (that previously had different values or was a tabula rasa) and not that the kingdom had selected from a pool of potential kings?
After all, regicide was not that uncommon (both literally in the past and figuratively speaking when a mother company can dismiss a decision of a board of directors over who should be the CEO)...
(I’m not saying anything about Wizard power being more or less effective)
I think the King has real power whether or not they were elected/selected, in the same way that you have free will whether or not your actions can be predicted.
But if the King has to worry about regicide then that reduces the King’s power, because now the King has fewer options.
When the king is aligned with the kingdom, how would you distinguish the causal path that the king projected their power and their values onto the kingdom (that previously had different values or was a tabula rasa) and not that the kingdom had selected from a pool of potential kings?
After all, regicide was not that uncommon (both literally in the past and figuratively speaking when a mother company can dismiss a decision of a board of directors over who should be the CEO)...
(I’m not saying anything about Wizard power being more or less effective)
I think the King has real power whether or not they were elected/selected, in the same way that you have free will whether or not your actions can be predicted.
But if the King has to worry about regicide then that reduces the King’s power, because now the King has fewer options.