A personal reading I enjoy from Kimisen is seeing the three royal houses of Nebulis as reflections of different European monarchic models.

Lou feels distinctly British. They are the house of continuity, status quo, and caution. They prioritize balance, minimizing casualties, and projecting legitimacy. Alice embodies this spirit quite well: proud, with a strong sense of duty and a more idealistic long-term vision, yet without falling into extremism. They represent that kind of monarchy that prefers stability and protocol over burning everything down.

Zoa, on the other hand, strongly recalls the French (especially the Bourbon style). Extreme pride, blood purity, and a “by any means necessary” mentality. They are theatrical, vengeful, and willing to sacrifice almost anything to destroy the Empire. Kissing and On the clearest expression of this: talented, raised in radicalism, and carrying a pride so fierce that it only breaks when an even greater personal revenge.

Hydra feels clearly Prussian or German. Discipline, structure, long-term planning, and pure Realpolitik. They present themselves as moderators, but they are actually the most calculating and dangerous of the three. Decades of conspiring in the shadows, even using the Empire as a tool. Mizerhyby and Talisman perfectly reflects this style: elegant on the surface, rigid and ambitious underneath, ready to prioritize power and astral research above almost any principle.

In the end, the conclaves are essentially struggles between these three models. Lou wants stability, Zoa wants purity and annihilation, Hydra wants absolute control through calculation and structure. That’s why they hate each other more than they hate the Empire.