The celebration is built from excess. Blood falls as decoration, enthralled musicians perform until guests feed on them and every room displays Olivia's image. Sorin endures the performance because violence before he finds Edgar would only tighten the trap. His restraint is not forgiveness; it is the patience of someone who knows that surviving a court can require more discipline than winning a duel.
Olivia unveils Edgar from his coffin and presents him as her willing betrothed. The tenderness he shows her is manufactured, but its effect on Sorin is real. Edgar once forced vampirism on his grandson in the name of family survival. Now the founder of that family dismisses Sorin's warning and treats the wedding as another sacrifice required by a larger plan.
The Moonsilver Key remains close to Olivia, proof that the eternal night and the marriage are the same strategy. She is not merely collecting a husband. She is using the plane's crisis to create a hierarchy in which the Voldarens command the night, the Markov name confirms their authority and every other vampire house must accept a place beneath them.