Kinda like Emperor Hirohito and his generals during World War II: in theory, he was a god and everyone had to do as he said. In practice, his generals and everyone else at his royal councils hid his divine presence behind a screen and declared that his words were far too divine for any mere mortal men to understand, and therefore the only way he could communicate with them was to pound his divine seal whenever he approved of something somebody on his council said.
If he had any objections to anything the generals on his council proposed, well, they were in words far too divine for anyone to understand, you see.
Kinda like Emperor Hirohito and his generals during World War II: in theory, he was a god and everyone had to do as he said. In practice, his generals and everyone else at his royal councils hid his divine presence behind a screen and declared that his words were far too divine for any mere mortal men to understand, and therefore the only way he could communicate with them was to pound his divine seal whenever he approved of something somebody on his council said.
If he had any objections to anything the generals on his council proposed, well, they were in words far too divine for anyone to understand, you see.