As something of a history buff I’ve read about a fair few Kings and Queens through history. There are many of them, most mediocre, a lot of them objectively bad, however, now and again one stands out from the masses as a good one.

So, what (according to you) makes a good monarch? Feel free to point to a particular person, or event as an example :)

  • @[email protected]
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    106 months ago

    If titles are anything to go by, murderizing an absolute shitzillion of people makes monarchs pretty great.

    • @[email protected]
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      36 months ago

      Reminds me of how nobility are talked about in the Brandon Sanderson book “Tress of the Emerald Sea”.

      He’d apparently been quite heroic during those wars; you could tell because a great number of his troops had died, while he lived.”