Dreadful Ruler

Design a ruler with Arbitrary, Sadistic and Wrathful and take the Torturer intrigue focus - Sadistic conveniently removes the stress cost of being a monster. Then farm: imprison on any pretext, torture, revoke titles, and publicly execute your most notable prisoners (higher rank means more dread). 100 dread arrives disturbingly fast. The factions this provokes are a free setup for Know Your Place.