Role

Chapter 7

The vote had finished... and yet again, the world had bet on the wrong horse.
Soviatos knew his time was limited in the Empire; what with the growing inner
circle of "Kite Flyers" he was not apart of and that it was never the place
of those with immortality to sit thrones, he had planned to step down in time
echoing the past of Istendil - as an Emperor though, it would have been much
more to his dramatic tastes. Gharzal would have jumped at the opportunity to
cast him personally from the army so Soviatos himself notified the Imperial
Prelate himself of his new place in life.

The fact that both the "Reaper" Gharzal and "Executioner" Ankhran had already
taken their life within days of his leaving only steeled his resolve that the
Empire was just a disease of weakness without him.

Of course on the homefront, this turn of events had proven problematic in his
marriage. It seemed Reksah had some grand "plan" in store for him still,
although their limited interaction gave little to any notion of exactly why
he was hiding out in the Empire under false cause. When Soviatos left, he had
tried explaining it was to the benefit of the Chasm a ghost town even weaker
than the Empire who lacked anyone of note, but Reksah seemed unmoved and
generally angry. The distant couple was on the rocks and it looked like
divorce in the future...

Nothing would stop Soviatos from reaching his vision, so perhaps distance
would make their contract "grow fonder" - in which Soviatos would actually
understand this cryptic god's wishes and would be seen as more than he was
currently "useless". Strange moods but Soviatos never really did understand
much in the way of relationships. Perhaps this time would show him a
vision... or another path.

But the end would be the same.