i'm still wondering if i shouldn't use josh sasse, tbh. how twisty! i'm scrambling to find all the plotting posts now that i've held. my thought was he'd been a knight with a small command this whole time, doing good across the kingdoms, living that chivalrous life. when the king was murdered someone swooped him up and shoved him onto the throne going 'omg omg omg get in there before someone awful does go go go go go' and next thing he knows he's been crowned and handed a stack of kingly paperwork. so now he's like, okay everyone hold off on murdering me for ten minutes while i do what is apparently now my job.