Libros I - The Forgotten Archierarch

Four hundred years after the reign of Isaiah Francesco Asimoff IV and two hundred years after the final battle with the Galactic Catholic Church at Vatican III; the High Mufti of the Higher Wisdom Seekists and Lama-Vicar of the Linear Branch of the First Amalgamated Church was chosen by the Red Elders to ascend the Rabbi-Papal Throne. This High Mufti was one of the few Enlightened Archierarchs to gain the throne, but little to nothing is known of his life beforehand. It is said he first took the name Tsaurus X, but later changed it to Judeus XXIV, and three years later he selected another name: Barnabas II.

The Rabbi-Pape's indecisiveness was due to the closely held belief of the Higher Wisdom Seekists in Astrology and the influence of one's Zodiac Sign; The Archierarch was a Libra, and therefore was so extremely conflicted in every decision a Shadow Committee was formed to make decisions for him. While their intentions at first were geniune, this group came to realize that the Rabbi-Pape's indecisiveness could be used to their advantage. No one was quite sure who came up with the idea, but fear of losing their power, the Shadow Committee hooked him up to an elaborate throne that was in fact a time-dilated life support system.

Bound to the throne for 17,ooo years, the Rabbi-Pape became little more than a dessicated corpse with a consciousness, utterly conflicted for all his reign. The Committee would torment him with questions and force him to make decisions he was unable to, torturing him with even the most mundane of question. They even gave him the choice of coming off the throne, but he couldn't even choose whether or not to.

Eventually, the Rabbi-Pape passed from the knowledge of all the people with the exception of the Red Elders and the Committee, who used the living Rabbi-Pape to keep the Red Elders from electing a new one. The final response of the Red Elders was to liquidate the Committee and put the indecisive leader in storage on the Moon while falsely proclaiming his death. Because his name had passed from all memory and records, the Red Elders gave him the name Libros I - the Forgotten Archierarch. The people of the FAC accepted the name without problem, happy to have a change of pace in finally electing a new Rabbi-Pape after so long a time of vacancy (or, at least, what they assumed was a vacancy).

To this day he remains in lock down on the Moon, bound to the chair for all time while still contemplating a regal name for himself. The last words recorded of his was a question:

"What do you think of Paul?"