As we’ve spoken about, Victor was a pretty busy guy, as you would expect from a 21st century Genghis Khan. How exactly does he do it, with just him and Gloriana? They don’t do it on their own, of course. They have a team. Every great leader needs their lieutenants, their cabinet, their advisors. Victor is no different. Except in one way: Victor has a harem. All his closest confidants are women, his wives and concubines. Not legal wives, of course, as polygamy is illegal. He only has one true wife, and you already know her. Gloriana.

  Speaking of her, for as great as she is in her own right, what made her agree to allow Victor to have a harem? Why not monogamy? Doesn’t this make her look bad, particularly if Gloriana doesn’t have her own harem of guys? Isn’t it a bit unrealistic? Doesn’t it get in the way of the suspension of disbelief? Isn’t this just mindless male fantasy?

  Getting permission to have a harem is no easy task, by any means. It was one of the most daunting challenges Victor has ever faced, but he accomplished it, much like he accomplishes everything he sets out to do.

  Victor wanted to have a harem ever since he was a young child. Maybe he watched Tenchi Muyo! when he was young or any other number of harem anime. He knew any great leader needed capable people around them to help and carry out their vision, so why not have those people be girls? He loved girls, after all. Yes, a harem seemed to be the way to go for young Victor, the only problem, of course, was convincing his future wife Gloriana of that.

  The argumentation goes as you can imagine it: a conqueror is always going to be popular with the ladies, it’ll make him the envy of other men, he needed advisors so why not women, he loves girls. And a million more arguments. All of these were had with Gloriana when they were young. Some of them worked, some of them didn’t, some of them she relented on eventually, some of them she had already agreed with.

  I think Gloriana had a female best friend when they were young and growing up, maybe a local, someone in the neighborhood they grew up in. Maybe that was Victor’s first concubine. So they were actually a trio when they were plotting as kids to become 21st century conquerors. Having the first concubine be the first wife’s best friend is a helpful position to be in, I think. Some versions of the Gravesverse has Victor having a sister, sometimes a twin, sometimes not. I was inspired to add that fact back when Game of Thrones was in its hay day, so maybe we won’t have her exist for right now.

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  Also, let’s make Gloriana bisexual, just for the Hell of it. Remember, I’m the God of this world, everything happens as I make it happen. And it is a fantasy, a male fantasy, at the end of the day. That’s what the Gravesverse was in its original state: a power fantasy. It is just a bit of mental masturbation, so why not a harem?

  Even, then, though, I think we need something more. Another argument. I think the best argument Victor came up with was the argument for family. He wanted to have children, a lot of children. As we’ve spoken about before, he ends up having thousands of children, but providing sperm isn’t quite the same thing as personally having and raising children. What of his most immediate of families, the family he spends his own time with, the family he starts early on in his life? It takes a village to raise a child, after all.

  Why not have a large personal family full of plenty of half brothers and sisters? They can be homeschooled together, and socialize with one another (as I’ve heard socialization is an important part of homeschooling). They’ll be able to grow up together and have strong bonds. That, and they can be of the same generation. Have Victor get each of them pregnant at once so the babies pop out at roughly the same time.

  “And I’ll let you choose them!” Victor argued.

  Gloriana gets to choose the women that are brought into the fold. She gets to make her own little village of mothers and midwives and teachers and lovers.

  Gloriana finally agrees, and their best friend is added to the group as the first concubine. They keep this fact away from Gloriana and the best friend’s parents for now. They keep this fact away from everybody for now. The best friend, of course, helps them create Minecraft, as do a few others they interview and find along the way. But nobody knows Victor’s a near-polygamist at this point, and people just assume monogamy between the pair of them.

  Luckily, the best friend was capable in her own right. And growing up with V and G brought out her best qualities, too. So that’s what his cabinet is, wives and concubines. They become concubines first, and wives later, some of them did anyway. But none of the wives were equal to Gloriana. They were expected to be great, as Alexander the Great was great: intellectual, beautiful, talented, capable, et cetera, et cetera. Most importantly, though, loyal. Loyal to a fault. Let Victor and Gloriana not have to worry about their home life at all, it should be a harmonious thing. Let them focus 100% on conquest. Loyalty was the best attribute to have, according to Victor and Gloriana Graves.

  It's easy to see how this can be used in a dystopian way, of course. And it can certainly be viewed that way, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. What would make you be loyal to someone? What would make you assume a person’s best intentions? What would make you give someone another chance? Loyalty is not a bad word, not a bad trait, if done with wisdom.