Your Eternal Reward

Needs Tours & Tournaments. The wiki's stage: the Emir of Alexandria, 1066 - the Fatimid Sultanate starts already in a regency with the Scales of Power maxed towards the regent, and Alexandria is its richest vassal. Overthrow Regent to take the job yourself, then govern your way to a coup: marry a 20+ skill spouse matching the mandate skill, succeed at mandate events, use Swing the Scales to hold level 6, and join (or found) the dissolution faction purely so you can stop it firing. The wiki's best tip is gloriously cynical: kidnap your liege - a man in your dungeon cannot swing the scales back - then release him and coup once everything's in place. No war, no schemes, just paperwork with menace.