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I haven't read the novel but I've read spoilers. In the novel,it was actually a god that raped the empress.I think it was an evil god who i guess wanted to rule over humans and so when the empress visited a temple, he decided to make her bear his child since she's the ruler of the humans. It was really messed up since there were other people who were at the temple with the empress but were in awe/fear of seeing a god that they just watched as the god forced himself on the her. That's the reason for ludwig's power in the novel since he's essentially a demigod and it's also the reason why the empress didn't care for ludwig in the novel. So eventhough being victims of the entity wanting to possess their bodies is really sad,atleast it's much better than what happened in the novel(atleast for the empress). Since they've changed the expresses backstory,I really hope she gets a happy ending( i don't really know what happened to her in the novel).