(hidden thoughts)
Trāho is frankly a bit at sea here, about why they're discussing something this basic, and if she's trying to encode something clever in there he's frankly missing it. As is only to be expected when some young idiot thinks she can successfully communicate in parables. Communicating is hard enough as a problem when everyone talks in plain Eldric. He'll try just answering the actual question--maybe her parents really, really neglected her education somehow."Not sure I understand why you're asking that, but yeah, maybe the Dread Emperor could take every other sorcerer in Eldrida, but that's not the same as organizing them into a system that runs itself effectively. Some powerful people want to be in charge of things, throw their weight around. They become Princes and Grand Dukes and so on down to the Barons. Other, equally powerful sorcerers come to the Capital planet so they can live the high life, find a place in the system that pays well enough for a flying castle loaded down with concubines, and they think the Princes are idiots for preferring to run their own planet instead. Not sure what arrangement the Dread Emperor is supposed to prefer to that one, where there's a stable bureaucratic system he could put in place to make it actually happen."