soon ornenkai began to realize the futility of his own humanitarian efforts across the new empire ; for marankeil cared only to control everything and everyone and overturned on a mere whim societies and laws ornenkai had established ; after a millennium of imperial rule , marankeil espoused a belief that people couldnt rule themselves properly , that before the empire , they had made bad choices for their lives , choices now magnanimously made for them ; and the empire citizens themselves believed that there would be disorder , chaos , and internal war without the emperor who had given them unity and order .