This year was a joyous year, the war of the Two Emperors was coming close to an end, the Helenic schism had been mended and a new Pontiff elected. The year was named a jubilee and so everybody celebrated the end of the schism and mending of the Canonist Church. However deep within the city of Reza, Zachery pawed over several documents within the confines of his office in the site of the former holy see. Zachery had been appointed to act as Archbishop of Haense by the newly elected Pontiff, and so he would try. Alas with the renatian forces closing in on the city and the chances of success diminishing every day, there seemed there would be no way in which he could keep his parishioners safe from the slaughter. He eventually left his office and left the city through the many fortified gates and entrances and towards the city of Helena.
He had presumed that with the ending of the schism, a new Pontiff and the war coming close to an end, he would be safe within the Imperial city of Helena, afterall the excommunication on the Perinaxi was lifted and he had attended imperial court no less than two days before. He entered through the city gates and briefly met with another clergymen. He then turned to make his way towards his old cathedral, which renatus had once turned into a slaughterhouse, to see what Yurii had done to the place now that unity had come to the canonist church. However renatian soldiers began to form on the square, licking their chops eyeing up the defenceless clergymen like a pack of hungry wolves. The soldiers began to demand his name, to which he would oblige.
Suddenly one soldier would pounce forward and place a firm grip on his arm before dragging him to the Imperial Palace for a kangaroo trial. Entering the imposing entrance to the palace he would already know his fate. The Empress sat upon the emperor's throne with cold and calculating eyes, watching the group approach the throne. She sat and listened to the clergymen's defence and the demands of her courtiers. He would refuse to apologise for serving High Pontiff Everard and denied several false charges. However this would not matter for they had already made up their mind before the trial had even begun.
“I had talked with His Holiness, Daniel VI. He spoke to me that the actions of the former Pontiff was vile, and undefendable.
He agreed that there was an abuse of power through utilising the Chuch as a means of war.
Everard V is nothing more than a man played puppet by Joseph Marna and his farfolk court.
That does not mean that the Crown of Renatus forgives the clergy under Everard V.”
The Empress proclaimed, slouched across her husbands throne like a harlot on her bed.
Zachery was shattered, for now it is clear to him why Guy had called for the meeting. A power play by the greedy man and a conspiracy with Yurii. Proclaiming himself unbiased, however this now proves to be a lie. All the agreements made during the meeting turning to dust in his very fingertips. How did we allow ourselves to be so manipulated by the schemers and plots of a senile man who was long past his time. Knowing what would come, he would clutch his cross and utter a prayer, not for himself but for his fellow clergymen who followed Everard, who would soon succumb to the fate.
Then all of a sudden a crossbow bolt would soar through the air and into Zacherys head, before they could even get to the guillotine, by one of her courtiers. The Empress smiled and revelled in her sacrilege, the Renatian court cackling like a rabid pack of hyenas as they defiled his corpse and placed it for all to see hanging from the city gates.