Familiar Enemy

Moments later, Replicus and Pherdanta were seated a couple of meters away from the Mad Bishop and her guards. The old woman had insisted on positioning herself close to the Penetrator, and starting dubious conversations with him despite abruptly attacking him earlier.

It was an all in good fun, after all. At least that's how she put it.

The Mad Bishop reminded Replicus of Sila a lot, at least how he was before he retained a modicum of his sanity later on, following his takeover of Skullius' body.

No one knew exactly what caused the Mad Bishop to switch between madness and sanity so spontaneously, but shockingly, it had worked in her favour for the last hundred or so years. Despite how the other Faction leaders felt about her temperament and behaviour, they had respect for her. It wasn't as though she was stupid after all.