The most senior member of the Eulogus Askelline is the impossibly ancient Lord of the Wake, Jeronius Pyre. As Lord of the Wake, Pyre is also the Imperial Commander of Thaur, though he cares little for this role and leaves most of the associated tasks to his numerous underlings. His main duties revolve around the performance of the most important services of remembrance, whether for newly-interred nobles or for those who died many centuries ago. Each day sees Lord Pyre performing a service, some attended by crowds of mourning offworlders, others by no more than a cluster of weeping Vestals. The Lord of the Wake does not discriminate between the age of the deceased, investing a eulogy to a general dead for five thousand years with the same weight and dignity as a merchant prince only just placed in the ground.