Obligé sur

Obligé sur (literally "obliged upon") is an Aleurian royal philosophy and title held by the monarch of Aleuria. Obligé sur holds that the King of Aleuria is 'supremely entitled', thus the Aleurian people owe him anything and everything he may ask or want. Although once a fringe scholarly concept, obligé sur became popular in royal circles following the collapse of the Great Kingdom monarchy, which led to the downfall of the house of Käse and occupation of Hansea.

## History

King Henri of Aleuria had followed the events of the Second Tall Kingdom War closely and was distraught to learn that the monarchy had been abolished in Hansea following the Treaty of Wasmeinau in 303BGE. Henri had held claims to the Tall Kingdom throne and had intended to pursue them when Pem 'inevitably' installed a puppet king of their own. He had not conceived that a monarchy could simply be abolished; Henri began to obsess about securing his own throne as a result.

Henri was acutely aware of how politically weak Alphonse IV of the Tall Kingdom had been; Alphonse had been installed by the Great Houses and was widely considered as their 'puppet king', as many Hanseatic monarchs before him had also been. The Aleurian monarchy at this point was a de jure absolute monarchy, but the king begun to explore additional avenues to further consolidate his political power, a program often referred to as *se Majesté marche du droit* (Pemblish: *His majesty's march of right*).

One such effort was the commissioning of the "faculty of Royal Philosophy" at the l'université du Soleil, in order to promote and further justify his right to rule. It was here, through the patronage of the king, that the concept of 'obligé sur' was envisaged and begun to develop.

## Philosophical tenets

Obligé sur holds that those who live within the King's realms are inherently given unity and strength through Him/Her and thus have an inherent debt to the King to sustain and fulfil Him/Her and His/Her wishes.

As outlined by Honoroit Lumie in his social commentary *Par la majesté du roi,* 383BGE:

1. The people inherently look for leadership
2. Without leadership, people are disparate and weakened
3. The King unites and strengthens the people who serve him
4. Thus, the King is *supremely entitled* by virtue of his existence

The concept of 'supremely entitled' is nebulous and ill-defined by scholars, by ultimately espouses the sentiment that the King is owed anything and everything for the stability, unity and prosperity that he inherently brings through his existence.

## Modern developments

Following the popularisation of the Cambrice Symposium model of anthropology in 48BGE, numerous philosophers and scholars have discussed its implications in conjunction with obligé sur. As the Cambrice model claims that all human existence originated in Aleuria, some scholars claim that obligé sur would rightfully apply to all human inhabitants of the world. Thus, all humans should defer to the king of Aleuria as their true and rightful ruler. Although Lumbard VII publicly promotes both the Cambrice model and obligé sur independent to one another, he has refrained from public comments on the combination of the two, likely for wariness of the diplomatic fallout of declaring domain over all humankind.

## Foreign reactions

Some Pemblish and Hanseatic scholars have posited that, prior to Henri's '*marche du droit*', the supreme right of the king to rule was already enshrined in the minds of the Aleurian people and that, by trying to define and justify his right-to-rule through ideas such as obligé sur, Henri actually weakened the inherent authority of the King of Aleuria, at least in the short term.