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The Archpriest and the Truth About the King Sariphi, Lante, and Bennu find a bizarre looking, wounded creature chained up in the palace. He is Archpriest Capel, who has become undead and imprisoned by Set. He telepathically tells Sariphi that when the previous king's wife died of illness without birthing an heir, he told Capel to seek his exiled twin. Capel found the twin had died, but slept with a human and had a son. He took the newborn and passed him off as the king's son, Leonhart. Capel reveals another secret before turning to dust. Set easily restrains Leonhart and Jormungand with magic and crucifies Leonhart before the people. Anubis captures Sariphi, Lante, and Bennu before interrogating Sariphi on whether she knew Leonhart was part human and if she would still love him if he wasn't, and she says she would. Anubis drags Sariphi over and Set orders him to kill her, but he stabs Set instead, affirming his loyalty to Leonhart and breaking his restraints. Set wounds him in retaliation, but Galois, Joz, and their forces arrive to defend Leonhart and the others. Set is infuriated when messengers say Sarbul and Maasya have rejected his rule and forces from Yoana lead by Ocelot and Ilya are defending the non-mammalians from his enforcers. Amit joins Lante and they destroy the ward keeping the miasma cleared. When Sariphi calls Set unworthy to be king, he angrily blasts her into the sky. Leonhart leaps to catch her with Gwiber just as he returns to beast form.