Having no concept of an Imperial court, I'll take your word for it.

( Wrong context for him, and not the kind of novels he read. Empires aren't uncommon in certain eras; they just had fewer notable ones in the time he was from, and not in the regions where the major and minor clans held sway. )

What an exhausting sounding popularity contest... what about the gods in charge of all the things no one's fond of? There are gods for those things too, right?