Tom Holland

You know, we'll have a party to celebrate and celebrate your elevation.

They have this wake.

It's like the sort of red wedding or something.

Ruminyawi gives Kiliskacha and his entourage, he says, have some lovely drinks.

These drinks have been drugged.

And when they pass out, Ruminyawi's men cut their throats.

So that's the end of them.

Well, not quite the end.

Because then Ruminyawi literally turns Kilius Kacha into a drum.

And I quote, I shouldn't laugh because it's hideous.

He extracted all the bones through a certain part.

We don't know what that part is.

Very coy, these chroniclers, aren't they?

Yeah.

Extracted all the bones through a certain part, leaving the skin intact, and made him into a drum.

The shoulders formed one end of the drum, and the abdomen the other.

So, with the head, feet, and hands embalmed, he was preserved intact, but transformed...

who was preserved intact, but transformed into a kettle drum.

Goodness.

Well, you know, it's like Jan Zizka, the Hussite general, but he had himself turned into a drum after he died.