longforgottenpromise: (thoughtful)
longforgottenpromise ([personal profile] longforgottenpromise) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere 2022-08-11 03:32 am (UTC)

"Yes, they pick the person best suited, the person to be what that kingdom needs at that moment in time."

Though it was up to that person to make sure they continued being that person and acted for the good of the kingdom. "People respect them, how could they not? It is the way it has always been but also a peasant who was so poor they wore only rags would have existed under the rule of a bad king, or a king who had lost the way and so the kingdom had began to fall. Surely that person on the throne would think first most of others who couldn't afford even sturdy clothes and make policies to uplift them."

He sighed. "There might be those who oppose them, remnants of the old regime. That is always difficult."

He knew that very well.

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