now we shall check whether all desired , required and allowed are present and ready to take part in the proceedings to ascertain the matter of succession after our late emperor cessorius the thirteenth , may he rule for a thousand and three years , who tragically died without leaving a lawful successor and left us like those orphans in a burning orphanage without door nor window to get out , having to rely only on their wits and wisdom to come out uncharred from the predicament cast upon them by a cruel and unrelenting fate . ''