Betrayal! This was betrayal in the truest sense! Not something deliberately manufactured out of necessity, nor something deliberately twisted through excessive interpretation, but an actual betrayal. Things were getting interesting!
For some reason, the moment Evenson heard that a real betrayal had taken place, he could not help growing excited. At the same time, though, he felt insulted.
Do not misunderstand. It was not that he could not understand subjects betraying their sovereign. After all, rulers should act like rulers, and subjects should act like subjects. It was a reciprocal relationship. If a ruler was not benevolent, then his subjects did not need to be loyal.
When a ruler was cruel and heartless, and his subjects overthrew him, whether it was called an uprising or a coup, it was called changing the Mandate of Heaven, something worthy of praise. Of course, there had also been plenty of powerful ministers who pulled emperors from their thrones and took the seats themselves. That was called usurpation, and naturally others would have unpleasant things to say about it. But the usurped ruler would not be left with much of a good reputation either. Besides, there was also the principle that the virtuous should rule the realm.
And Frigga being betrayed seemed only natural. She was now Asgard's uncrowned ruler, and what she was doing embodied the original sin of every monarch: the thirst for power.
No ruler failed to love power or centralize authority. Those who did not do so, or could not do so, were either foolish rulers or incompetent ones, worse even than tyrants. As for those ornamental figureheads who possessed a ruler's wisdom but none of a ruler's authority, they were not even worth mentioning. They did not even count as rulers. Thus, the wiser and more capable the sovereign,