Shuden is not happy because his best friend Eondel is dead, his betrothed Torena has disappeared (a mystery to be solved later) and her dad Ahan turned out to be a traitor (and is still at large, possibly having escaped somewhere with his daughter).
City guard soldiers approach Roial's house. Raoden decides to parley, which turns out to be the right move because the soldiers are looking for a king.
Raoden decides to claim the throne and heads straight to the coronation ceremony. It's the latest in a long line of ceremonies in which people turn into Elantrians at the key moment. Dilaf somehow interferes with Raoden's magic disguise. What power does Dilaf have over AonDor?
It's not as bad as it could be: Sarene makes a rousing speech and persuades the assembled nobility to accept Elantrian Raoden as king. It seems to work. Personally I'd be a bit more worried about the peasantry: will they accept an undead king supported by a wife who came back from the dead? It seems far from a given. And peasants can be revolting.
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