You've most likely heard the story, a pair of tailors come up with a plan to defraud a gullible and vain Emperor by offering him clothes made of cloth so fine that the stupid and gullible cannot see or feel it. The emperor: being both stupid and gullible, feels he cannot admit that he cannot see or feel this amazing cloth because then everyone would KNOW he was stupid and gullible. He, therefore, commissions the tailors to make him four suits of royal regalia from their finest bolts and arranges a parade to show them off to his citizens: during which one young lad asks his mother "Why does the Emperor have no clothes on?". Meanwhile, with the parade in full swing and the garrison thus occupied, the 'tailors' take their money and flee the capital as fast as they can, laughing about the Emperor's foolishness all the way to the border...

That's how the original story goes, but in THIS story, something is different.

Perhaps the Emperor is NOT gullible, and has the pair thrown in the dungeon for such an obvious scam? (Where the charlatans discover that the Emperor is an imposter! Or that there is a secret method of making actually invisible cloth, with which they could dupe the court into letting them go free! Or they learn that you will be granted a stay of execution if you volunteer to undertake a dangerous quest for the kingdom?)

Perhaps the "invisible cloth" really EXISTS: and the Emperor, vain, but also clever, demands to know why they would sell him cloth that no peasant could see, thus leaving him naked in front of his subjects?

Perhaps the Emperor is not vain OR gullible but knows many of his political enemies at court ARE, and so plays along, subtly maneuvering these individuals to embarrass themselves and thus destroy their chances of becoming a real threat?

These and many other stories might be found in the chapters below...