Come dawn break all heirs heiress of Lord Alaric your blood father, will have officially began this generations Kodoku Rite and the two year long death match between one another for the throne.

The Kodoku also known as the poison jar ritual was the practice of placing many poisonous or venomous insects together in a closed off pot that where they will have to fight and kill one another the last remaining insect is said to have absorbed the venom and therefore power of all the dead insects. This ritual was time and time again how each generation of the Rubedo empire has chosen its lord of the dozen or so heirs that the lord would have with his many wives, each heir using their wits, strength, skills, connections, bloodline ability and the spirit bound to each heirs desires known as an Ambition that will be used as the heirs venom in this ritual.

As you sit in your room across your floor lays the shattered remains of a black and gold faberge egg that previously held your incubating Ambition that is beginning to form from the smoke and ashes that was inside the egg.