Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.