she took my mortality in the divorce

cmon gamefreak I need to know more about AZ’s unnamed brother. what do you mean he “led a legion of greedy souls”? what do you mean he buried the weapon and revealed the location on his deathbed? what do you mean the portrait in Parfum Palace and later the Lumiose museum implies that his line still held royal power for almost three thousand years? but also why didn’t Lysandre refer to his ancestor as a king?

the exact events that occurred in ancient Kalos are left pretty vague, but I’m thinking about this line in XY where Lysandre introduces himself as “the descendent of a king’s younger brother”. that’s a specifically odd choice of wording. there’s nothing telling us that AZ had a wife or children, so if Kalos worked like a traditional monarchy then AZ’s brother would succeed him. therefore he would be referred to as a king as well, rather than merely “a king’s younger brother”. did the Kalosian royal line lose power after AZ fired the ultimate weapon and disappeared? and even if he was never a king, why wouldn’t Lysandre refer to his ancestor as a prince or lord? illegitimacy? disinheritance?