The game's setting is pretty well thought-out for how one civilization builds its architecture on the ruins of another, and how old symbols get re-appropriated by conquerors. It has the visual distinctions of a world with a long lost history.
There's a zero percent chance that's what Elmo meant. He meant "when you win, you get to sit on a throne and be King of the place"
"They're saying I did what?!?!"