At Atyersus, Achamian is called before the Mandate Quorum, where he’s informed that the new Shriah of the Thousand Temples, Maithanet, has called for a Holy War. The target of the Holy War is not yet known but they speculate that it is either the Schools or the Fanim. Simas, an old teacher of Achamian councils that a Holy War against the Fanim and their sorcerous priests, the Cishaurim, could not succeed. Therefore the target has to be the Schools.