The most basic concept of Alamar Xarfaxis' political ideas is the idea of the Overlord, a sovereign ruling in his or her own right, representing what is best for the people as opposed to nobles, businessmen or politicians who rather represented their own or someone else's egoistical interests. Xarfaxis took inspiration from (his own interpretation of) the Indralan concept of the Mandate of Heaven, that a ruler who lacks the means to rule will be naturally replaced by someone who does. Xarfaxis believes that power firstly derives from will, secondly from strength, and that everything else (democracy, monarchism, human rights) are just charades to justify ones power.