Talk:Princess Cadance/@comment-5070538-20140212134237/@comment-10390252-20140303135653

@Pinklady1,

The Romans of the Imperial era almost never passed their royal titles to blood children. With very few exceptions almost all the Caesers passed their throne to an adoptive child or had it taken by a usurper.

Cadence's royalty comes from the fact she is an alicorn, no more and no less. The fact is that the ponies of Equestria (at least of the post-Discord era) seem to automatically expect alicorns to rule over them so they automatically get a royal title upon ascension.

There is a reason why, in my fan-fictions, I call the alicorns "the divine race". They really do seem to have a mystique that goes far beyond the regard in which Celestia is near-universally held.