Fight
Once a lot of things have set a precedent, trouble will follow. As the edges of the Crescent Knights' power became more and more blurred, so did the relationship with the royal power.
On the one hand, the newly enthroned prince must have the participation of the forces of the Crescent Knights, and on the other hand, the king after the enthronement must have a power war with the forces that once supported him, the most famous of which is the rebel king Bitalis.
In the history of the elven folklore, his birth is not worth celebrating.
It is likely that Bitalis was not the blood of the empress, but the product of his father's union with a court lady. Later, with the death of his siblings, Bitalis was passed to the queen's knee in order to make the inheritance as legitimate as possible.
There are many ways to say it. Bitalis rarely mentions his mother in rituals, and consciously or unconsciously exalts a concubine who died young, and there are only a few vague descriptions of this person in the records, "Bitter and jealous, he died of cold, alas." "Many historians believe that this is the real biological mother of Bitalis. And the moment the infant Bitalis was sentenced to the queen, the fate of the poor court maid was already sealed.
A king cannot have two mothers, absolutely not.
And even its titular mother naturally has countless inexplicable ties with the Crescent Moon Knights.
Before entering the palace, the Empress was the wife of a high-ranking member of the Crescent Knights.
Yes, that's right, because the matter is so big that it can't be whitewashed if you want to, and Bitalis's father's head is still green, but it is a kind of reward, and the reward for accepting this wife is the full and stable support of the Knights of the Crescent for twenty years.
In fact, whether people want to admit it or not, this seemingly most unreliable elven emperor is precisely the first warrior who has broken his wrist to damage the vitality of the Crescent Moon Knights with the courage of a strong man, so that he never recovers again.
Some say he's a hero, but more people say he's a villain.
At that time, the Crescent Moon Knights were similar to the eunuch or relatives system, they had no possibility of direct power, but their influence in the royal inheritance should not be underestimated, and every king's ascension to the throne must have the support of a certain force of the Crescent Moon Knights.
But Bitalis knew in his heart that his true mother had nothing to do with the Knights of the Crescent.
Compared with other ancestors who were born with their own relatives, Bittalis is basically not interested in this kind of relative, but there is no problem, there are various reasons for the body of the king, just such a single seedling, you can only help this one if you pinch your nose.
Since there is no congenital blood relationship with the Crescent Moon Knights, they can only retreat to the second, and Bitalis is instilled with the concepts of "the Crescent Moon Knights are a good institution that loves the country and the people" and "complements the royal family, and there is no double heart".
It's a pity that this benevolent brother's name in history is the rebellious king.
To put it bluntly, what you teach, I'll do the opposite.
It is said that on one occasion, Crescent sent a gift to Bitalis ---- wife. And with a comment: "This female wangfu, I hope Your Majesty will accept it, for the sake of the peace of the country and the people, the harmony of the monarch and the minister, and the revival of the elves, the prosperity of the elves, and the ......" sprinkled tens of thousands of words.
He didn't know if it was Wangfu or not, but since it was sent by someone, it was embarrassing to push it away.
Bitalis didn't have any reason to refuse, so he just laughed at it.
After marriage, the young couple was affectionate and affectionate, raised their eyebrows, and Bittalis was so happy that they even said to the ministers: "To be able to dedicate such a good queen to me is enough to witness the loyalty of the Knights of the Crescent!" ”
Although the girl was never able to conceive a child until she died.
It's not that there is any reason for the girl's body.
Of course, it is even more unlikely that there is any physical reason for Bitalis.
It's that Bitalis doesn't touch people at all.
Obviously, even if Bitalis was crazy in the latter part of his reign, at least his mind was not only normal at that time, but he could even be said to be much more sober than most of the elven kings of the past.
If the girl had been pregnant and had given birth to a boy, Bitalis speculated that the child might have "died of natural causes" before the child was ten years old.
Children are small, and they are naturally easy to control.
Before him, there were many tricks between the royal power and the Crescent Moon Knights, who were too big to lose, pulling braids and wearing small shoes, buttoning their eyes and pinching gold and jade, anyway, how disgusting it came.
The king is mostly the losing side, and rarely wins, in large part because they are all alone, and in the face of the large number of people and the decisive decision-making power of the Crescent Knights, the king is more like an empty puppet.
As in reality, the phoenix man is not terrible, what is terrible is the phoenix man who already has a certain strength, once the ambition and hard work have fertile soil, it will inevitably bring about the expansion of climbing up, which is why the phoenix man can pull the second ancestor off the horse most of the time.
Bitalis obviously didn't mean to weaken the Crescent Moon Order step by step, he directly aimed at the biggest weakness of those people---- the courtyard of the gods.
Phoenix man, no, the source of all power and even strength of the Crescent Knights.