Well then... Best as we can tell, those mages have been carrying out their schemes by replacing key figures and using those positions to manipulate events back home.

[ Yuri falls silent for a moment, studying Dimitri's features. According to his men, King Dimitri had suspected Rufus. Does this Dimitri also suspect him? ]

Among those was the Tragedy. The one wearing the guise of Cornelia apparently had her hooks in the regent and pushed him to orchestrate that atrocity.