Anons, I need some advice on a cyoa I'm writing.
It's an Arabic inspired cyoa (though it has Persian and Babylonian inspirations as well) that has the PC be born as the new Emperor.
There are two things that I'd like some advice for.
The first is how the power balance shall be, the idea I had was that the Emperors are scions of the sun (supreme god) and are unchallenged by none, yet while none of your subjects shall oppose you, they'll all manipulate you, trying to buy your favor.
Since the emperors are immortal (in terms of aging) and hold great power, they can crush any single enemy that dares raise their sword against them, so his emirs and viziers would gain power through careful politicking and lavish gifts.
Your power would come from two sides, your main powers are given by your epithets (think of a whole branch of powers opening once you take an epithet) eg. Sayyid al-Rimāl al-Mutaḥarrikah (Lord of the Shifting Sands) would open a whole power structure based on sand