Event – Roman Funeral of an Emperor/Empress

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Basic Info

• Event triggered on the death of a roman emperor/empress, after the vanilla death screen, either from a “peaceful” death or a violent one from battle/leading troops (has the imperial expedition flag) for the next emperor of the same dynasty
• Choice of where the emperor/empress should be buried (Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople (80% of the time), Pantokrator Monastery, or Hebdomon for military emperors)

EVENT 1 – Description of the last moments - Private Setting

• Description: Emperor/empress is dead, description of his last moments in the imperial bed if peaceful death (cf Death at the Byzantine Court: the Emperor and his Family; p.274) or from the battlefield if dead in battle during an imperial expedition. If peaceful death, the patriarch comes to administer the last rites to the emperor, otherwise a field priest does it.
• Immediate: if the patriarch has been hearing the deathbed confession, % chance for the patriarch to learn previous emperor secret.
• Option A: Triggers next event - Bury him in Holy Apostles
• Option B: Triggers next event – Pantokrator
• Option C: Triggers next event - Hebdomon

EVENT 2 – Public Procession

• Description: If the emperor died in the field, the event is delayed accordingly and small line about the journey of the cremated body to the capital (no sane person would let the body rot during the travel). Description of the public ceremony from the books of ceremony and the death and burial of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (cf Death at the Byzantine Court: the Emperor and his Family; p.275)
• Option: He is with god now

References

• Book I, Chapter 60 [R275-76; V2,84-85; cod. & V: Chapter 69], p.275, The Book of Ceremonies.
• Death at the Byzantine Court: The Emperor and his Family, p274 https://www.academia.edu/5475133/Death_at_the_Byzantine_Court_the_Emperor_and_his_Family

Technical

• on_actions ; on_death
• on_death: flags for opinion of the emperor heir can be saved in the on_death effect

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Additional References from @gluff95 : Tenth-eleventh century manuscript which remains unpublished, referenced in a Dumbarton Oaks paper, which records the order of service for a funeral once the deceased was laid in the church:

Monastic Matins, the most extensive part of the celebration, comprises the following elements: Hexapsalmos (or Psalm 90, if the deceased is a monk) Litany & prayer Alleluia with troparia Psalm 118 Hymnographical canon after the 3d, 6th, and 9th odes: Litany & 3 different prayers Troparion-Exaposteilarion Lauds (Pss. 148–150) with respective hymnography

There are six specific psalms and epistles mentioned by name that were read out Psalm 22, Psalm 23 and Psalm 83. Each psalm was followed by either the Epistle to the Romans, or the Epistle to the Corinthians