Yes! He says he’s creating a “fair” competition for the throne by staying out of it, but in reality everything is primarily in Hamir’s favor. Tarkan is widely looked down on for his commoner blood and has to endure the animosity of most of the nobility and royalty. Because his mother was common born he has no support or resources from his maternal side, not even emotionally since she’s dead. Hamir has enormous political and financial support on his maternal side. By staying neutral, the king is only protecting the status quo which greatly favors Hamir, rather than a legitimate competition between his heirs.
Having more than one baby mama always complicates things, but the reality is that Trajan has more at risk. Even if Tarkan takes the throne, the queen, Hamir, and pretty much every other royal could lean on their maternal families for support, have regular marriages into new families, or move back home. If Hamir takes the throne, it’s likely that Tarkan will be killed off to reduce any potential competition.
Giving them both equal support only upholds their inequal footing
I really despise the justification ppl have more having multiple wives. Just say you want a harem to fk around and that's it. And no, it doesn't benefit anyone or anything, other than satisfying your libido. It ALWAYS creates problems. I just know the very first person who thought of this idea would thrive on watching/read harem anime/mangas.
They try to use the “we need multiple successors in case something happens excuse”, but in reality the political fights, assassination attempts/successes, and resulting stability cause way more problems.
The queen disrupted the entire iron market across the country just to smack her son’s rival through his wife and nearly had her convicted of a grave crime that never occurred. An act which would have likely resparked war. If it had actually been a poisoning it would have been unavoidable, but she was so hyped to dispose of her political enemies that she didn’t even check the facts.
The fact is, the king failed or chose not to protect his young child, allowing him to get thrown onto the battlefield to die. It was the queen’s unchecked malice that ensured that Hamir and Tarkan would be unable to have a peaceful relationship. Ironically, it was her attempts to kill Tarkan that gave him so many opportunities to distinguish himself
MHM. Don't get me wrong, I love.. well, maybe not love but like this manhwa a lot, the only thing that bothers me so much is how the author tries soooo hard to make the king the "good" one, whilst making the queen the bad one. Like bro, your the root of the problem. Have you ever thought that maybe you should happily raised your child(ren) with ONE wife??? Idk, maybe if u heightened security, and ensured ur kid(s) r to be protected, then none of these nonsense could've happened?? With having multiple women to impregnate, your only solving one issue, which is (just as u said) "Incase something happens". But r u forgetting that by doing this u just doubling other issues?? Issues like endangering ur life, and the others(innocent kids, nobles, and etc). If u only have one wife and have kid(s) with her, ur lessening those issues probability of happening. At the end, it'd all cuz of their disgusting libido, and the desire to monopolize a lot of women ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
The queen may be the shittiest person around, but the king somehow allowed/wasn’t aware of his motherless ten years old getting thrown onto the battlefield to die. Either option is unacceptable. It’s explained that polygamy is only legal (and generally expected of the king. He mentions that the queen defeated her competitors to earn her place beside him, so their relationship was political rather than romantic in its origin. I get why she’s irritated, but it’s pretty well established that that the kings of Ilugo will take multiple wives to centralize power, gain diplomatic security, and secure resources.
And the fact that he sleeps with other women isn’t even her issue. She gets along with pretty much every concubine and their children without trying to kill them out of spite. Every other concubine was taken for political benefit, but Tarkan’s mother is the only one who was chosen solely because the king liked her (though even that is debatable). It’s clear that he didn’t favor her to an excessive degree, shown in how little support he showed her child. He originally had no intention of making her a concubine, but chose to do so to ensure that the child she was carrying wouldn’t be illegitimate.
I honestly think her hatred had more to do with classism and disgust for having to share space with a lowly dancer than legitimate jealousy over a husband who she is historically ambivalent about sleeping around. She goes on about how humiliating it was to confer a title to Tarkan’s mother, but that ceremony is no different than for any other concubine, other than the fact that the recipient wasn't a noble.
By trying to stamp out a half commoner prince she hated on principle, she inadvertently created a powerful competitor for her son. She’s been tormenting Tarkan for as long as he’s been alive, long before he could have been considered a legitimate threat to Hamir’s place. After all, there are other princes with far more backing that live peacefully with her and Hamir. They have an “amicable” relationship and deliberately stepped out of the running to avoid competing with Hamir.
With Tarkan, the queen made taking the throne a life or death matter, thus creating her son’s strongest rival. Her attempts to get him killed without having him outright murdered gave him opportunities to distinguish himself honorably. If she had treated him like the other princes, or even just ignored him, it’s unlikely he would have attempted to enter such an uphill battle.
Nobody is saying the queen should have adopted him after his mom died, but even if she’d just ignored/shunned him, 90% of the current power struggle wouldn’t exist. She knew what she was getting into when she married the king, but when she started feeling some type of way about it, she took it out on the weakest person in the palace, then got mad when he didn’t die like she wanted. She just couldn’t stand sharing her husband with a filthy commoner, then used her authority as second most powerful in the country to abuse the resulting half commoner child
It’s tough. I like the father, but I do think he sucks not only as a father, but as a husband. I know it was the norm for a King to have multiple wives, but it only creates problems for the women. On the flip side I feel really bad for the Queen who is just doing her best in a world where women are treated as inferior, and she is forced to see the child her husband had with another woman. However, her antics up till now were still light. What I saw in chapter 101 was horrific and really made me disappointed in her.