[@The Fated Fallen], Well, basically, my thoughts were that he managed to gain a lot of prestige in Waldenshore, then (this requires [@ArenaSnow]'s permission) met an Angel, or rather, made it look as though he met an Angel. He then used his newfound knowledge of the Divine to persuade Giray's five major religious [i][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet_(Ottoman_Empire)]Millets[/url][/i] to endorse him in his attempts to replace the Girayid Mamlukes and Slave-Bureaucrats with an establishment drawn from the Religious and Racial Millets themselves.