User blog comment:G0LD3NF1RE/E3 Elder Scrolls Online Roundup/@comment-86.180.239.40-20130629142955/@comment-24.212.73.236-20130701050430

You can kill an emperor in pvp but it wont affect his rank much.

To be emperor you need to be at the top of your faction leaderboard. Your faction also need to hold the imperial city because of the ruby throne too.

Jeeper. Being rude is not helping at all.