When Emotion Reshapes Power

Worlds are often built on systems: laws, succession rules, councils, guilds, magical contracts, trade agreements.

But systems are run by people. And people fall in love. They hold grudges. They make reckless promises. They hesitate at the wrong moment.

Emotion isn’t separate from power, it leaks into it. Sometimes, it breaks it entirely. So let’s look at what happens when emotion destabilises structure.