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The '''head of the Presidency''' was a [[Lord President|leader]] of [[the Homeworld]] before the [[War in Heaven]]. As a result of the [[Faraway Declaration]], his [[decapitation|severed]] [[head]] became known as the '''Poenari Relic''' and was used to deliver the '''First Message from [[the Enemy]]'''.

=== As President ===

Eighty years before the start of the War in Heaven, the [[the War King|future War King]] returned to the Homeworld and killed three Presidential guards so he could deliver a fifteen-minute warning about the upcoming conflict to the head of the Presidency. This terrified the President, who refused to heed the warning, even after the future King convinced the rest of the [[ruling House]]s.

When the future War King returned to the Homeworld a third time, forty-five years later, the head of the Presidency had him immediately arrested and restrained at a public trial. At the trial, the President gave the [[Faraway Declaration]], announcing a plan to personally start a new Homeworld [[colony]] on the supposed enemy base of [[Faraway]]; in their absence, [[Umbaste]] was appointed to rule as President. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

The Poenari Relic was the severed head of a [[Caucasian]] male wearing a frozen, horrified face and a large black mustache, preserved in a substance similar to [[honey]]. It was kept at [[Poenari]] by the [[Order of the Dragon]]. According to their legends, it belonged to one of the "first warriors" who stood at the gates of the city of [[Ubar]] at the start of time and was killed by the [[s'tanim]]. The Order believed that, if they guarded the Relic until the end of time, it would be returned to [[Heaven (afterlife)|Heaven]].

 

In [[1476]], after the [[Sultan]] requested [[Vlad III]]'s severed head on a stake as evidence of his conquest in battle, [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] soldiers brought the Poenari Relic. It was then put on display in Constantinople for a [[century]]. In reality, Vlad survived the battle and died in [[1973]].

 

 

Five days later after the delegation left for Faraway, the President's [[decapitation|severed]] [[head]] returned to the Homeworld. It had apparently travelled the entire lifespan of the [[universe]]. Between its teeth was the First Message from the Enemy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')