In the following weeks, Kristoffer's political rivals, such as the royal houses of Scandinavia, and those nobles who refused to accept the new order, met with a series of misfortunes. Only those sons of Alvar who rebelled on the new King's wedding night managed to survive. For many, they believed that Kristoffer engaged in a series of complex political assassinations to cement his reign. Only a handful of people knew that these deaths were entirely Berengar's doing.
After his political opponents were wiped off the face of the earth, in what Kristoffer believed to be a bunch of freak accidents. He declared the formation of the Nordic Empire, and named himself Kejser, which was the Danish word for emperor. As for Berengar, he returned to Kufstein with his family. Where he continued to look after the developments of the fatherland and its many colonies.
