Royal Advisors in Plagatèa

The Royal Advisors have been an important part of the Plagatèan central government since the formation of the United Kingdom of Plagatèa in summer 50 TE. This article aims to detail their different forms throughout the various regimes.

The United Kingdom and First Empire of Plagatéa
The position of Royal Advisor in the United Kingdom and later the Empire was a highly sought after position, ranking very highly within the power structures of central government and held by very few. It was behind only the Royal Regents in rank to the Tagavors, though commonly Royal Regents held the role in tandem (as well as in all likelihood the position of Lord of a province), as in both regimes the position of Royal Regent, whilst the second-most senior position, did not denote any functional authority itself.

Royal Advisors were those who had the ear of the Tagavor/s and had been awarded the rank to show it, granting them privileges to sit at the Round Table alongside all the senior politicians the Tagavors saw fit to include in decision-making, which was in practice slim in number, usually limited to the Royal Regents, Royal Advisors, the Shogun, those Lords currently in favour and later, during the Empire, if needed the Eldham Magistrate. The Round Table itself was relatively informal, essentially a grouping of senior ministers, compared to the more formal Lord's Assembly, which was established with more constitutional precedence due to the power of the Lords established under the Plagatéan Great Charter to remove a Tagavor if all unanimously agreed.

The Realm of Asarakaen
The position continued on from the Empire, as much of the regime did, with the constitution taking heavy inspiration from the previous Plagatéan Great Charter that underpinned the United Kingdom and the Empire. The power of the Advisor was reduced somewhat however due to the new formal grouping of junior representatives from each provinces forming the Senate of the Realm.

The Second Empire of Plagatéa
The Royal Advisors again gained greater power as the Tagavors too became more powerful, with the new constitution crafted by Tagavor Alexander properly entrenching their absolute power. Though the positions of Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister had been abolished and replaced by the Provincial Manager (Quianam Remen) and Deputy Provincial Manager (Shigetada Suron) by Tagavor Leon, their relevancy and power was always in question and the positions were abolished again after the Plagatèan Provincial Revolt.

This gave new relevancy to advisors once more, and Quianam Remen, while shortly Tagavor Revo's Royal Regent prior to the revolt, was appointed as Tagavor Leon's Royal Advisor after the newly coronated Tagavor Alexander ignored Leon's advice and fulfilled his pledge to Lord Dezhou Tchangsui in making him his Royal Regent. Tagavor Alexander would also appoint his mother, Lady Aisuru Numachi, as his Royal Advisor, much to Leon's chagrin, leading Leon to privately admit to Sterling of Arcop he would attempt to turn Alexander into a puppet were his sympathies toward the revolters and ignorance of his advice to continue. The Royal Advisors continued to have relative power until the near-end of the Second Empire, where several were involved in ousting Leon from power in Eldham and ruling through a regency until the collapse of the Second Empire.