Talk:Re-Estize Kingdom/@comment-130.226.87.143-20180621182602/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180628013534

The Re-Estize nobility is hereditary and has been closed to new admissions for several generations now. We should expect that the average powerful house has held their title for longer than 100 years, so more than four generations, with any actual combat/magic experience long out of living memory.

Their core competencies are more focused on extracting maximum labor from their peasants and jockying for political position, not making realistic assessments of the military potential of magic casters, which are conventionally forbidden from direct participation in international wars by the Adventurer's Guilds, Magic Guilds, and Temples.

So yes, they are complete idiots when it comes to assessing the threat posed by Ainz Ooal Gown, even compared to the average New World peasant level of understanding. They also have more interest in undermining the credibility of the Warrior Captain and defending their own priviledges than in admitting that they don't know what they should damn well realize they don't know. But it's realistic idiocy.

It's also an intentional factor in explaining why Ainz agrees (with Renner, Albedo, and Demiurge...not to mention the Empire and Slane Theocracy) that pushing the Re-Estize Kingdom to the brink, starting a civil war, and then throughly purging their nobility is the most reasonable course of action.

TLDR, yeah, they're all idiots and deserve to be killed. Pretty much everyone in the story other than themselves understands that perfectly well.