The one night rule of Wallace Earle was borught to an abrupt end when Sergei Romanov initiated his own bid to take power. The Blood Hunts that Wallace Earle had called as Prince had galvanized his political enemies against him and Sergei, along with the Pack and the former Prince, Stephan Jefferson, slew Wallace Earle in praxis seizure. Sergei claimed the throne the same evening and recinded all of the Bloodhunts called by the former Prince Wallace Earle.