Throughout history, any creature with humanity had been more or less the same. Wherever there were people, there was conflict. The more power was concentrated at the top, the more it was concentrated in the hands of a few, the fiercer the struggle became.
The bigger the cake at the top, the more likely they were to turn a small investment into a huge return. Even if they paid a great price and only got a few crumbs in the end, it was still not a loss. But if they succeeded, they would gain boundless wealth and status. Why not take the risk?
Countless dynastic changes throughout history had followed this pattern, proving that it was an inevitable law of human nature. No one could escape it. Asgardians were not human, but they were still creatures with humanity.
Some might have thought Asgard had no such struggles because its population was too small and the gaps in power were too vast. But in reality, even four or five smaller households split from an ordinary family could fight until their heads bled. No matter how simple Asgard's relationships were, it was still an interstellar empire.
The facts proved that this risk was hardly nonexistent. Leaving aside everything else, Loki's constant scheming in the original story could not be said to have had nothing to do with Asgard's later chaos and destruction, could it?
The gap in true strength between him, Odin, and Thor was wider than heaven and earth. Yet there were Dark Elves, Thanos, Infinity Stones... That showed that as long as one maximized one's initiative, there were always ways, weren't there?
This proved that Asgard's royal family was no different from royal families everywhere else, at least when it came to internal crises. Even if its population structure was