As for the idea of becoming "Shogun," Aaron had, of course, plagiarized it from the Japanese.
The central reason behind it was the continued existence of Cormyr's Obarskyr Royal House.
As he had told Duke Kenness, Cormyr had undoubtedly invested a great deal in cultivating him, but claiming that every achievement of Aaron Salian had been handed to him by Cormyr was nonsense.
Still, Aaron could at least be certain of one thing: neither the Kingdom of Cormyr, nor the Obarskyr Royal House, nor Alusair had ever wronged him.
People needed to know gratitude.
Aaron had always liked a saying from his previous life: treat your country as your country treats you.
So, under these circumstances, rebelling was out of the question on both moral and practical grounds. Never mind anything else-Aaron could not get past his own conscience.
Moreover, Aaron had another issue to consider-the question of legitimacy.
As someone from the Celestial Empire in his previous life, the ideas instilled in him every day, and the theories he naturally favored, were "everyone gets a turn as emperor; today it's my family's turn" and "the throne belongs to whoever has the strongest army."
In a high-magic world like Elect Your Dad, that was both right and wrong.
At least, that way of thinking did not really apply to Cormyr.
Founded after the beginning of Dalereckoning, Cormyr had endured for roughly a thousand years, and throughout that time, it had only ever had one royal house: the Obarskyr Royal House. There had been no changes of dynasty.
If it was not broken, there was no need to replace it. People were accustomed to an Obarskyr occupying the Dragon Throne, and persuading the entire nation to accept a new royal house would be extraordinarily difficult.
By Aaron's conservative estimate, they would