junk wrote:Keep in mind that Emperor supremacy only plays a role with societies where males historically held power. Even among humans there are societies where this wasn't (or in some areas still isn't) the case.Michael wrote:the Queen of England's husband is the Price Consort, i assume that Gray Wind, as the Emperor would have the Emperor's Consort, or something along those lines as a Queen can't put her husband over herself (King being higher than Queen)
as an interesting side note Emperor, supersedes King, supersedes President on the diplomatic theatre, a Loroi Emperor may have had it made policy that all loroi Empresses be called Emperor, that way the Loroi Empire will never be put at an immediate disadvantage when dealing with another Empire lead by a male
So being called emperor because some societies may be male dominant is a bit foolhardy.
good point, but im looking at very early on in their history around the 835-842 CE period, when the first Deinar World War was, and the First Deinar Emperor, Zaral Siilad came into power, she might have used the title to throw off any potential male rulers (i doubt they've always been protected)
Solemn wrote:I don't think a Loroi ruler would have to resort to lexical games like that to supersede other political leaders.
Nor do I think such wordplay-based rules lawyering seems like their style.
at such early point in Loroi history "wordplay-based rules lawyering" may have been the only way to legitimize Zaral Siilad's power and right to rule,
and again in the 1323-1402 period, during the Splinter Wars, a series of civil conflicts between the 3 sister worlds, The Axis Assembly was dissolved, which was the governing body of the three planets since 1199.
The factions are then reunited under the First Loroi Emperor, Laiedas under a centralized Imperial system (i guess this happend at some point in the 15th or late 14th century), again calling (i assume) herself Emperor, as a way of putting herself over any other power or faction leaders which might still exist in the three Loroi systems.
As we don't have any info on Insider (unless i'v missed something, in which case every thing stated here might be a bit pointless, right? ) into how the government or civil population was like, we don't know what their sociological mind set at that time was, so again legitimizing one's claim to leadership with "wordplay-based lawyering" might have been the best way to go, might have made her seem more like Emperors of old, during the golden age on Deinar.
of course all this is mostly what iv put together in the last 20-30 mins so there are probably (ha!) holes in my theories,
so i have an even better argument should the bottom of this one fall out,
is it not possible that the Emperors title is not actually emperor in Loroi? Could it just be the closest translation in trade language? (or english for that matter)
Obviously something to do with Presidential telepanties. Fact.bunnyboy wrote:Presidentina sounds nice.icekatze wrote:It'd be like calling a female president a presidentina or something.
If it's can't be used for female president, then what would be it?