When forsaken Empress Sylviana betrayed the Courts and the Highers, her Court of Mire fell into disarray and chaos. When she pled with her people of the injustice of Lunis and the cruelty of the system, her longtime advisor and friend Arsia Collis seized the chance. Though she escaped, he lodged a knife in her ribs - and secured himself the position of Emperor in the process. None could deny him his rank when Lunis himself blessed it, but many frown and fret over his seeming arrogance and ambition - two traits that liken him to the self-centered gods of old.