Oh... that, well... it's just a temporary appointment... though it's true that the title carries a level of authority close to the emperor...

My cousin is about to be crowned emperor, and he said he wanted me to have the position. Just so I could advise him of the things I've seen on my travels, because there's only so much you can see from the confines of the castle... That's something we both learned.

So it's not that I'll be ordering people around, or anything quite like that...