Anticipating the Keys were going to help Cortez tear the Skin of the world and march on the Fansus, they planned to turn the Keys’ plan on its head. The Crone concocted a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and [[the Tower of Treasures]] started work on a particular masterpiece. Using her power as the Hour of Deceit, the Cuckoo takes over the supernatural correspondence between the priests of the Keys and their masters. When Cortez penetrated and invaded the Upper House to unite with his otherworldly “allies”, the Crone in the guise of their gods led them to the Golden City created by the Tower of Treasures. Convinced it would give him power and eternal life, Cortez used the city to ascend to Hourhood, but at the price of binding him to the city. Now trapped, the Golden King has become the prisoner of the House he intended to rule.