Orelian's Death

Officers surprised orelian in his tent and stabbed him to death. Orelian was 60 years old, had ruled the empire for five magnificent years. The officers themselves were horrified when they discovered shortly thereafter, that the whole thing had been a trick. So just when it looked like everything was going to be ok, the empire was suddenly thrown into its own succession crisis. Only this time the crisis did not unfold as a battle between men vying to put their own man on the throne, but instead as a battleBetween men who were trying to foist the question of who would rule now on to some one else next week we will watch the amusing spectacle the senate and the imperial army, who