"Good news Harold! Your older brother has decided to join the priesthood. Yes, it was of his own accord... well, maybe he needed a little convincing..."

Nowadays, the rules specifically select the sociopaths to put them in power.

Dudes obviously magic tho, summoning a strong enough concentrated beam of light inside with a futuristic lens design of unknown origin for the time period!

It's nothing fixed by a hunt in the woods

The lower nobility be like

This may suck but at least you're not a turk and have to do a battle Royale with your 15 other brothers for the throne once the dad dies.

BIRTH ORDER is DECIDED by GOD

Just kill the shitheads until a decent candidate is next in line. It's not complicated.

Doesn't the king make the rules though?

was it really like that? does anybody have more knowledge in this field? or is this just a flawed prejudice?