Because they were on the pay list of the emperor himself.

"But you were held for five months by someone who was probably not a friend of the emperor."

Each side wants to get control of the next Emperor.

My family and friends are high in the council of the Emperor.

It was the home of the Emperor and his family.

Could this be the mark of a once powerful emperor?

"If you don't like our art, close your eyes and think of the emperor."

Bernard had to leave the country by order of the emperor.

He felt the cold eyes of the Emperor himself boring into his back.

A subject of the Emperor appears to have taken it into his head to visit our city.