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parchment. He scratched through the third name on his list. Hernando would have been proud.

Whatever that light was, he

[Suzerain of Sheol]

had more important things to worry about. There was a council coming, a cephalomoot of the great octopi swordmasters to

[Lawtan]

bring forth the great orb. It was a concentrated form of extraterrestrial water. It would be enough to drown the

[Quiet Man Cometh]

barren regions of the planet until the world's end.

Fantasy, Eduardo thought. Aged induced delirium. Still, he had news to share.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

The death of Hernando would leave a void in the rankings, and without judiciary oversight, scholastic war could erupt in

[Quiet Man Cometh]

council, and among their followers. Perhaps the orb legend would keep them occupied, for now. As it was, he would

[Suzerain of Sheol]

make all haste back to the Scriptarium. Hernando's name must be written in the book of death, his legend recorded

[Quiet Man Cometh]

, his murderer's name spat on. All else would be forgotten.

The light that floated above Leo's corpse hovered there for

[Lawtan]

but a moment. Then it flew away, towards the halls of the dead. He had to hurry, for if it

[Suzerain of Sheol]

came to pass that Hernando's rank as Spatha Prima was not filled via tribunal appointment, opportunists and villains of all

[Salone]

kinds would claim the title as their own, the Knights of Pigfarts chief among them. Their villainy was legendary among

[Quiet Man Cometh]

the denizens of Icosa. Eduardo would fight them all if he had to. They were likely forming plans to usurp

[Suzerain of Sheol]

the Seven Schools from their dominance of martial magisteria across the archipelago, and bring the reign of the Icosahedron over

[Quiet Man Cometh]

the archipelago, and from there...

Hernando would never have let that happen. If Eduardo had anything to say about it

[Suzerain of Sheol]

he would see their vaunted Decamachy thrown down, their brazen clerics hanged with the lepers -- yes, leprous octopi. And with

[Salone]

that, it was decided. Why should we wait for them?

Why not bring the dawning of doom to the Knights?