Rhys Potentially becoming High King is some BS
I’m sorry, but the more i’m rereading ACOTAR the more this just sounds like a poorly written wattpad fic. There are so many reasons why he shouldn’t be High King, but I’m only going to delve into a few to make this post actually readable.
As far as I’m concerned, he doesn’t have the manpower to hold the entire borders of Prythian (minus the human realm) the only soldiers I remember him having are the Illyrians, and we don’t have a good estimate about how many Illyrians he has under his command.
On top of that, not only would he have to control the borders, but he would have to maintain stability and keep insurrections from happening in 6 other territories, something else that requires a lot of manpower.
The whole “the other High Lords would kneel to you” idea is bs. If I was Helion, and Rhys told me that he could rule better than me, so move aside so I can take over your court? I’d be PISSED.
If you’ve seen Avatar, the war with the Fire Nation started because Sozin wanted to share the Fire Nations prosperity with the other three nations, and look how that turned out.