#WordWeavers 07: Why did your villain become a villain?

The Margraff-Elector of Ansbach was raised from birth to know that he is one of the Elect and divinely destined for greatness in general and mastery over lesser beings in particular. The list of categories of lesser beings, who are not validly possessed of agency, is extremely long.
Even so, his expectation that he should come to be King-Emperor instead of the any member of the current dynasty was not part of official doctrine...