Diplomatic action
Sylvio Overmere, Count of Novon and Prince of the Corran Imperial Family, arrives at the Grand Mausoleum on short notice, petitioning Bishop Vega Spritzer to verify that his eldest brother, Ericus Overmere, was murdered by his next-eldest, the current Emperor Kern Overmere. Rather than waiting for a senior official or rousing the Pontifex, the ambitious Bishop Spritzer conducted this ceremony herself. Her intercession was abruptly terminated as she made historic progress through to the chamber of what appeared to be Lord Arcus, god and progenitor of the Shinigami: the potentates and ruling class of Hell.