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Aizar Arniyx

Aizar Arniyx

03 July 2025

I just don't understand. In other mangas were male lead is a Duke, he cannot oppose the Emperor and other dukes also fear male lead. But when the male lead is the Emperor, every duke talks to him like he is a Duke and no fears him that much until male lead uses his power. Just why that happens?

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Isekar

21 August 2025

@Aizar Arniyx - There's a good explanation for this. In many fantasy story settings, there is a rock-paper-scissors dynamic between the monarchy, the nobles, the commoners, and the church. The nobility tend to gain power when the monarchy weakens and lose power when the monarchy strengthens. The monarchy relies on nobility to manage land and collect taxes while the nobility relies on the monarchy to give them the legitimacy to manage land and collect taxes. Their power games often fuel opportunities and also tragedies for commoners and commoners with purchasing power will do business based on the flow of that power. All that's why an emperor's "trope" problem tends to be stupid and unruly nobles posturing in an attempt to remind him and his power is limited by the nobility. Meanwhile, from a different angle, a duke with enough power to be feared by other nobles is equatable to an emperor because the expectation is that monarchy should be obeyed by the nobility. If the nobles manipulate the monarchy but fear the ML duke, that means the duke as as good as, if not better, than the emperor de facto even if not de jure.