By the way, does the person that challenges and beats the Supreme automatically get the post for eight years or do they first have to also defend the freshly gained title against all challengers? Because otherwise I could imagine a scenario where some hyperspecialized Wizard beats a Supreme with that one weird trick and tuen gets to rule for eight years despite not actually being better than most.
Plus, that could go bad fast (politically)
Can you imagine the nightmare of a term where your own college is giving you shit? because if SP's own college isn't playing ball, then non of them will or they will look very weak.
that's a formula for the first sitting duck SP.
If you can beat the Supreme you can probably oust your own College head. Not taking over would happen
because the new Supreme has a good existing relationship with their former boss.
again, that would be way to dangerous of a move to not take over.
part of the agenda-setting/Policy pushing power of the SP is that you are essentially holding both the executive and 1/8 of the legislative/council? (which are in their own right an Executive and legislative council... but let's not go down that hole.)
you would be giving up a very, very solded chunk of what actually lets you push policy through the door. one disagreement with your patriarch or a difference in agenda you didn't expect and you will have problems a normal SP would not.
I mean, if you actually want to be a sitting duck SP, then it's a good idea. but not if you are trying to do stuff.
I don't think that this is in any way a good analogy. The Supreme Parenarch's power doesn't come from the College "legislature". If it did, holding 1/8th of it wouldn't actually accomplish much of anything and they'd still have to convince another 4 to have a majority, so a sitting duck example would just have one more to convince. But no, the Supreme's power comes from having the backing of the Emperor, tradition and the Articles.
The first obedience of every Magister must be to the ideals and laws of Sigmar's Holy Empire of which these Articles form a part; then to he who is rightfully elected Emperor of Sigmar's Holy Empire; then to the Supreme Patriarch of the Colleges of Magic; then to the laws and ideals of their Order; then to the Patriarch of their Order; then to the authorities that each Magister may be required to serve in the course of his duties; then to other superiors within their Orders.
Disobeying the Supreme just because your College head told you to is a breach of the Articles. Hell, the Supreme could sanction a Grey's money making scheme or allow an Amethyst to inherit.
Practically of course a Supreme that just tries to push unpopular stuff through would have a hard time of it, similar to an Emperor trying to tell EC's to do stuff they all really don't want to. But still, they don't need the loyal backing of any one College to do stuff, not even their own. And on the flip side, if one College really hates something then it won't be all that easy to enforce it even of the other seven are more or less okay with it and the Supreme's own College likes it a lot. Voting never enters the equation except if the Supreme is an eccentric that likes to formally poll his colleagues before enacting new policy.
By the same token she referred to Wilhelmina informally which is an indication of some warmth between
This isn't assured. Wilhelmina might just insist on the informal title.
