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Constantine IV grew sick of Graal, and announced he wished to abdicate. When the ailing Emperor Constantine IV met with the Imperial Senate however, he found a governing body incapable of long term thought. Bound by the laws against him and badgered on by his friends in court, he relented and allowed them to debate the Imperial succession. In the Senate, the predecessor to the current Privy Council, sat two Princes and four Senators. Constantine IV dictated to his Senate that either Prince Kory Otto or Prince John must be elected to become the next Emperor of the New Sarovian Empire. The debate raged on for half an hour as the Emperor, distraught with illness, sat outside with the Imperial Guard. Due to trickery, instead of a clearcut victory for Prince John, the vote came back it was a slim majority and Prince Kory Otto had won the election 3 against 2.
Constantine IV accepted this, but within weeks both of his sons would plunge New Sarovia into civil war. When Kory Otto and John proclaimed themselves as Emperor Oliver and John respectively, Constantine's wife left Sarovia and then Graal due to the immaturity of their children and most of the Sarovian nobility fled or were banned in battle. Both Oliver and John would leave Graal for good, and as such, Constantine IV was distraught and terrified due to the fact his nation was in ruins. With the remainder of the Imperial Guard, he fled into exile into Northern Wilderness and, with no remaining heirs, begrudglingly accepted the title of Emperor again. Here, he finally married Sophie of Vasa and combined their surnames in an attempt to seize more territory from Sophie's homeland. Here, he had two sons: [[Constantine V
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