He considered her question, clearly thinking of the best way to answer. "The Fae are highly traditional and conservative creatures. They have a significant amount of power each, but most haven't had a new idea in decades at the earliest. I am less powerful than several dozen, but what I can do is improvise and innovate on the fly, giving me a much higher ranking then I otherwise would. Also, I have the ear of the three royals in a way most other Fae don't, also increasing my power.<br/><br/>So basically, I am not the fourth most powerful because of brute power, but because of secondary considerations that negate their overwhelming power advantage."