unblinkered

"You can have any number of masters. They can contradict each other and you obey as many of the orders as you can, most recent taking precedence, and they can't order you to ignore the others - or to harm anyone who qualifies as your master, either. Nobody likes situations like that, though, unless it's an actual chain - A masters B masters C, A collects C's name from B and then sends out B and C to do things together with B in charge between the two of them, like that. There's relatively amicable ways of settling it when it's messy. If you'd walked in and introduced yourself by name to me and some other fairy I'd have tried to get you in a dice game because I'm good at Rain Dice and think I'm liable to be nicer than anyone else you'd encounter, and then the other fairy would most likely leave you be, if I won."