Although the role of the Great Elder Talio had declined since the death of the previous Emperor, he managed to retain a certain role or relevance, even if it was as old glory, as a teacher of knowledge or as an ornament whose advice could or was listened to when one did not know who to turn to. .
But now he had been stripped of any official title or role; in truth, he retained his head only because the intervention of a precursor of another race with his story and his testimony proved that he had not transgressed any law or rule. His fall from grace was only due to the fact that his actions opposed the selfish interests of the court and the greatness of his divinity of the emperor.
The precursors of that race were exceptional, but their future was on a knife's edge ever since they obtained the cursed crystal from the Leviathan. If they had not rushed to the imperial capital and offered it, they would undoubtedly have been razed, looted and erased. Of history.
