Life was not perfect, no matter what role you were playing, there would always be pros and cons to them. The duty that they could not live their whole life being royalty. They could have their retirement once the service was finally fulfilled.
Royalty can have the entire material possession yet not their freedom. Average people were given freedom, yet they were limited in either riches or opportunities.
Queen Eriela was well aware of what kind of life she could have depended on whom she wanted to become.
She was neither of the two, her mother was a concubine that was impulsively taken into the harem of the king. Being one of the concubine's daughters she had the title of princess. Nonetheless, it was just a status. Eriela was a very intelligent child, she was flexible and adaptable depending on the situation she could be anyone she needed to become.
She had one problem though.
