☀️ Arselia and Akonia

XII - Sellun es Diesra Arual

"In a way, Sellun can be considered the luckiest of emperors. Although monarchs are recorded in history as great figures who shaped human destinies, the responsibility to perform such deeds was bestowed upon them by right of inheritance. Some of them were surely torn between a sense of duty to their homeland and the desire to live life for themselves. Some even managed to reconcile these conflicting desires. Sellun was freed from such dilemmas and could live in luxury, without much concern. He was even fortunate that Linefront turned out to be a successful administrator. As a political figure, he is not impressive, of course. Frankly speaking, he was a pathetic ruler. He is far from his strong-willed, albeit sometimes flawed, ancestors. Especially when compared to his father, whose iron will and ambition allowed him to ascend the throne. But as a person... I don't know, Sellun doesn't evoke any particularly negative emotions. Just a person with his own flaws, shaped by his own environment. His personal shortcomings hardly caused as much destruction as the ambitions of someone like Phalanrav. But there is not much to be inspired by either."
Perhaps the best demonstration of the passivity of the puppet emperor was that about a third of the book was devoted to the initiatives of his regent, Harisen Linefront. However, despite all his described virtues, Alaria could not say that she agreed with everything the de facto ruler of the empire did at the time. Fear is certainly a convenient tool, but it is also a double-edged sword. Public executions would more likely lead not to a responsible approach, but to the spread of servility, to less initiative and ambition among the members of the Welfern apparatus. Especially in the hands of someone lacking the principles usually attributed to Linefront. And it is this fact that makes one question the description of the regent's personality.