Corolini also orchestrates the assassination attempt on King Touchstone and Abhorsen Sabriel. After this, he launches a coup, with a large part of the Army behind him, but fails to gain control over Decision Palace in Corvere and the Hereditary Arbiter (the Ancelstierran head of state, the monarchical figurehead similar to the Queen of England). After Orannis is bound again, Corolini is presumably thwarted, as his short-lived government has ceased to exist by the time the events of Creature in the Case occur.