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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7375916" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>Speaking of anachronic use of names, the "Imperator" title is severely overrated by modern audiences. It wasn't entirely unimportant, but it wasn't what made Roman Emperors Roman Emperors. "Imperator" was the title held by one of the consuls that meant power over the army, for Roman generals in campaign and as a name they could use after victory. I would say that their combined powers as tribunes, quasi-censors, and princeps were the keys to their power. As they meant control over the senate, public finances, and the legal system. Caesar Augustus got away with no having actual absolute imperium and not being a consul for several years, yet controlled the Roman Empire through those years. And of course becoming the Augustus meant they had the full package already. </p><p></p><p>It actually inspired me to have a similar empire in one of my settings. In it existed an original great empire that was actually a loose coalition of kingdoms that all paid respect to a single religious figure known as "The empress of light" a title passed from mother to daughter through the years that had no actual real power. The multiple empresses of light would instead hold political and real power on the territories they held under personal union, and thus the actual kingdoms under them would vary form generation to generation. In fact the core territory and de facto capital of the empire was a Republic, that just kept reelecting the empress in turn as ruler, first as a genuine election, later as a mere formality. It is only after a great calamity that a military leader claims the loyatlty of multiple kingdoms and legitimazes himself by marrying the would be empress of light that the empire formally unifies under a sole rule.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7375916, member: 6689464"] Speaking of anachronic use of names, the "Imperator" title is severely overrated by modern audiences. It wasn't entirely unimportant, but it wasn't what made Roman Emperors Roman Emperors. "Imperator" was the title held by one of the consuls that meant power over the army, for Roman generals in campaign and as a name they could use after victory. I would say that their combined powers as tribunes, quasi-censors, and princeps were the keys to their power. As they meant control over the senate, public finances, and the legal system. Caesar Augustus got away with no having actual absolute imperium and not being a consul for several years, yet controlled the Roman Empire through those years. And of course becoming the Augustus meant they had the full package already. It actually inspired me to have a similar empire in one of my settings. In it existed an original great empire that was actually a loose coalition of kingdoms that all paid respect to a single religious figure known as "The empress of light" a title passed from mother to daughter through the years that had no actual real power. The multiple empresses of light would instead hold political and real power on the territories they held under personal union, and thus the actual kingdoms under them would vary form generation to generation. In fact the core territory and de facto capital of the empire was a Republic, that just kept reelecting the empress in turn as ruler, first as a genuine election, later as a mere formality. It is only after a great calamity that a military leader claims the loyatlty of multiple kingdoms and legitimazes himself by marrying the would be empress of light that the empire formally unifies under a sole rule. [/QUOTE]
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