`` to appear before his eminence , joram the unconquered , first citizen of the empire of seraphim , protector of eretz , father of legions , prince of light and scourge of darkness , chosen of the godstars , lord of ashes , lord of char , lord of a country of ghosts- '' hazael grabbed the scroll to see if the last three were really written there , which they were not , and it was he who continued reading .