It had been years up to even decades since the fall of not just the Lanton Kingdom but the fall of every major power from the Ritora Academy Era. They were all taken down and replaced by new major powers that were on the up and up only in name. Behind the scenes, they were all doing things that were the exact opposite of what they claimed they had started the rebellions for in the first place. The only reason they were taken out in a rebellion against them was because they worked things out so that the general public could never learn of their true faces and motives either. Everything that they did wrong was contacted by the previous powers as something that steamed from them thus it was not their fault in the present. They were just cleaning up the mess that they had been left with after all.