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Ever since the coup that toppled him from power, the Imperator had been imprisoned in a dark, filthy cell in the Squirrel Cult headquarters. The king of the gods, Jupiter, seeing that the moment was right, imbued the captive Imperator with the strength of a hundred men. Filled with divine battle-fury, the Imperator fought his way out of the prison. As the loyalist soldiers saw their rightful ruler emerge from the ruins of the Squirrel Cult's headquarters, they immediately defected to his side. The Squirrel cultists panicked and fled.

With the fall of the Iroman regime, Titus Cleraticus saw that there was no more need to wage his civil war. He ordered the troops of the Judean Expedition, who were on the verge of invading the Levant, to return to Rome, from which they would soon begin the long journey home. In Rome itself, the mood was ecstatic. The Wolfcloak garrison remained in control of the city, but soon they also would demobilize and return to their home provinces.

Upon losing his power, Sebastianus fled into exile in the far eastern parts of the empire to continue preaching his strange religion. Cleraticus did not bother sending men after him, because he knew that the Maniacal Squirrel's power had been broken at last.

For his part, Cleraticus was simply relieved that the fighting was over. Soon he would return to his villa in the east, where his wife and children were waiting for him. Now we are free, he thought to himself.