Reality;  he personally oversaw her education with hours long courses on Politics and their importance to his stately alliances, from all the treaties he had forged with Magical Beings and Creatures, from Trolls to Werewolf Packs (each of them a sentient race that faced undue persecution from a faction of the Light that saw them as nothing more than intolerable, unthinking beasts), to the varied and nuanced role that Vampire Land Management played to borders (and the current Ministry’s lack thereof).