Iondora imperial family, within itself, was run with a unique, not found anywhere else, 'balance'.
There were four big powers in the palace. Three if you ask which ones actually mattered, and two if you asked why.
The most obvious one was the lineage and full imperial influence of the Iondora Imperial Family. Who had full control over it? Correct. The Emperor.
The man whose portrait hung in every administrative building, whose signature authorized taxes and executions, whose violet eyes had watched decades of courtiers dance their desperate dances.
Zircon Iondora, author of his own mythology, believed himself the sun around which his court orbited. This belief was, like many beliefs held by emperors, simultaneously true and irrelevant.
The second, not that obvious but big enough to be impossible to ignore at this point, was Angela Iondora's influence and power. Again, she wasn't called La Vixenette Princesse for no reason.
