Talk:Zahard's Princesses/@comment-5135787-20151129135941/@comment-26854521-20151129152859

There's nothing wrong with what you said, but you should be careful not to draw the wrong conclusions. Zahard's princesses are all monsters, although some of them are in different stages of their development, they are all exceptionally powerful.

Now lets start at the beginning with something that is still very unknown to us. How are princesses chosen?

Lets take the Koon family as our prime source of information. Koon (AA) made Maria a princess.

His 'full' sister was at least one of the favourites to get that position and the entire branch was cut off if she didn't get the position (careful on the conclusions here, other branches of the family might have been cut off just as easily, but what I'm trying to say is that she was at least one of the favourites). In the flashbacks you can see people wispering and talking about AA (Koon) about how scary he is that at his young age he pretty much alone made Maria the princess.

From this you can deduct that Maria was clearly an underdog to get the spot. That probably also means that raw power or talent are probably not the only aspects in the process, since I doubt that AA mangaged to make Maria either stronger or make her look stronger, while I can imagine he made her look as good as he could given her specs. Another part of it is that as soon as Maria was confirmed AA's branch got cut off, with them being removed from the family it seems that the older sister of that branch did no longer have a chance of becoming a princess at least not as part of the Koon family. (again carefuil this could be something the Koon family decides for themselves and not the people who actually select the princesses, but I personally doubt they would rob themselves of more potential princesses)

That also means that there are probably politics involved in restricting one family to have too many princesses at least within a certain time, even if their members are a lot more talented and would on average make a lot more powerful princesses, similar to how they are not allowed to have children as to not let the power spread unevenly and uncontrollably. That also means that princess titles are awarded to control power levels, to not have certain families have too much and probably also to satisfy some smaller families or even princesses from unknown origin to give the plebs of the tower something even they can hope to have some day.

So all that stuff now to come to the point. It seems that not every possible candidate (I'm not implying that this position has to exist ,I just mean talented women who are talented enough to make it and not a preselected bunch by the officials that do the selecting in the end) to become a princess necessarily rivals another one. To come back to the Koon family it seems that they knew that they would be awarded a princess position or at the very least that their chances to get it was really really high. Now as i said before sometimes the smaller families get princesses, probably more so, for political reasons, but that also means that their princess position is probably a lot less competitive when it comes to raw talent of the candidates.

If you threw all of the Koon princess candidates against the Androssi's spot candidates you'd probably find youself at an ugly sight. Great Family Princess posistions are probably on average on a completely different level, but that 'does NOT mean that they are ALL stronger than Every single one of the other princesses. '