As The Komnenoi World Turns S2 EP6

By spring 1195, things had come to a breaking point. Constantinople was wracked with revolt after revolt as pretenders strove to clamber over the bodies of most of their relatives to seize the imperial throne. Bulgars, Vlakhs, Kumans, and Serbs all rampaged across the borders, headbutting and pantsing anyone in their way. The German army had carved a bloody, burning path through the empire. Isaakios II, for his part, was absolutely certain that he had been ordained emperor by God Almighty, and he hung on the every word of his priest and astrologer, Dositheos, who purported to fortell the future by means of consulting "demons who inspire dreams, the shapes of future events and certain apparitions from Solomonic books". Dositheos was despised, even moreso after Isaakios II tried to make him patriarch ¹.

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