I do hope you're no so deluded as to think you'll just magically win forever - right? You do realise that the others will eventually beat you, and presumably everything will descend into chaos, and everything you've built will be crushed under a wave of random violence and bloodshed.

What you're doing here is maintain the status quo. You're not improving anything at all, you're simply polishing off your own ego - until the day you lose one of these 'elections', get yourself killed in the process, and people trample all over your 'achievements' like grox crap.

Realizing it's likely Macharius would have preferred a .. more diplomatic tone .. Felidae glances sideways at the Captain, shrugs halfway apologetically, and goes on:

You desperately need things to change, unless what you've always dreamt of is to be forgotten warlord number whatever.