To Be A King [ch.11] [ITRoy]

First, you’ve named yourself after a person who famously conquered most of the known world at a young age… and died fairly young for a king himself. Leaving his legacy to degrade as he refused to name a proper heir which lead to all his vassals infighting to tear apart the realm he’d built. Second, harems don’t exist because they’re exclusive to the 1% mate. Seriously, those who could afford to properly maintain one and entice the females they want into exclusive loyalty will not bother doing it. Because it’s an archaic concept that is a power fantasy. Because it would be massively expensive if any of the women who considered themselves married to the Harem Leader by default, chose to leave. Under common law – which is still an accepted law, and still applies in family court to this day. The way the laws that allowed such rise of female power in family court would have to be struck back all the way to the way they were originally intended. To provide support in stipend for any children created, ON THE DEATH of her husband. In no other circumstance including divorce (which wasn’t a concept until MUCH later) would she be entitled to a share or more of his accumulated wealth and assets.

Aside from all of that, you’d actually have to have a job (or your own business that was profitable enough) that could financially support whichever amount of women you could convince – very likely from around the age of 19-25 tops, as the older a woman gets the more hesitant she’d be to bother with this kind of thing in general – to join your harem. All of that is not likely, for anyone with even a middle class job these days. Women tend to expect their man to make 6 figures at least before they’ll date him. Meanwhile most of us make barely 30-60 k a year. Which used to be good enough to start at least a three to four person family, have a house and do decently in that life. It’s not now, and that’s part of the problem.

Besides, being a king isn’t the best idea. You’re heir to EVERYONE’s problems. You have to fix them, or figure out how to. You have to defend them, and god help you if you can’t raise the finances, which also require taxing to do. Everything that the people you rule don’t like, will be your fault. There’s also the point that Alexander like many others died by poisoning. Ascendance to the throne by assassination (just like in this game in fact) was the fastest way to a throne. If also a guaranteed point one would not keep it for long. There’s the fact that the common “Cheers” we all do at holidays was originally designed to safeguard monarchs and their meeting retinue against poisoning attempts by enacting mutually assured destruction. You’d likely always fear the knife in the dark, or that even your senate or ruling council or round table or whatever you want to call your advisors, were all out to get you. To take the throne, or be the power directly behind it and you’d have to deal with that.

The grass can always be, and will always seem greener friend. No matter which side you look at it from.

* There’s also the point that at least one of the ladies you could gain is path locked if you choose her daughter. Unless the dev has finally fucked off with that concept, and added in the means to convince her otherwise. Because last I played you had to pick ONE and that’s not good for a harem.