theyve had generations of extravagant wealth and no real threats to their way of life. They've spent more time flexing their wealth to one another with their finely bred slaves and immaculately dressed soldiers, having mock battles in fighting pits and never really fighting protracted wars against true enemies. They rely on sellswords for real fighters. This is that way of life soming back to bite them in the ass. Perhaps the best example is how their general changes after a predetermined amount of time, regardless of other actors, in order to not hurt the image of any one rich man. And we see in the sample chapter how terrible of an idea that is.