Fiction:Tenet/History/28

=Reign of the First King, ch. 12=

King Makann died in his bed at the age of one hundred and thirty, bringing his nominal fifty-year reign to an end. His funeral was said to have been attended by upwards of four million people, with delegations arriving from every corner of his empire. The funeral procession alone consisted of sixty thousand magi, functionaries, court officials, and soldiers, with Regent Annina at their head. Scripture even claims that, as his casket was borne to the entrance of the Royal Tombs, the Azzakul and the Nurgathul emerged to claim it, seen one final time after an absence of some forty years.

According to the Avnageta Book of Renewal, Annina entered the Tombs with her father, accompanied only by four magi and the two Messengers. The great doors were said to have swung shut behind them and remained closed for four hours, leaving the vast crowds outside behind. The Book of Renewal does not describe what happened behind those doors, only that when Annina emerged, flanked by the Adzekkul and the Nergantul as her father once was, she now bore the customary physical signs of rulership: four horns, three eyes, and a crown made of light.

So Regent Annina fully ascended to queenship, the second scion of an unbroken line of succession that continues to today.