Building the Underworld (Help Wanted)

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Needing his blessing is interesting. Would the Emperor be the kind of person to give a blessing to those who are steadfast, intelligent, and capable even if they go against him, or would he/she be the kind of person to give a blessing based on how much the people respect him/her?

Good question. I'd say probably the former, as long as their opposition is not open. That is, he's supposed to represent a fairly ordered hierarchy, so he wouldn't tolerate anything too blatant, but for the same reason, he couldn't play tyrannical autocrat without engendering dissent.