"Ab Imperatore" - Karlian Legalism

Context
Karl Astilor, Overlord of the Astilor Fiefdoms and Regent of Justice is by education a scholar. His upbringing left him a deep seated desire to research, theorize and philosophise. Karl was brought up in the prevailing mainstream Vixoist philosophy of the Valrean ruling elite. An elite which sought the further bureaucratisation, to expand and pack their power in a concentrated unitary government. Karl, a legal thinker, one who found solace in legal codes and archives saw inherent flaws with Vixoism, or "The Solen Mandate". Upon the murder of Tyros II, and the ascension of Wilhelm the Usurper a civil war was fought in Valreach. The end of which saw Karl created Regent of Justice, and with it an opportunity to challenge the philosophical order of the realm. Thus, all of his research and work before came together in the work multi-volume series "Ab Imperatore" meaning "Flowing from the Emperor".