As usual, I am confused.
First stop: exposition. The exposition in this chapter needs a lot of work, and in many different ways.
In the very beginning, there are several sections that are basically straight exposition. Sections where the viewpoint fades away, and we become painfully aware that the exposition is driving the viewpoint. It feels a lot like the cart driving the horse. Worse, though, was that even the infodumps were ineffective. This could just be my stupid head not wanting to focus, but I just didn't really understand a lot of what I felt you wanted me to.
Next, we get into the political section. This left me completely baffled. I didn't understand anything in this section. Like, at all. I basically just pushed through it because I had to, and unlike dense textbooks (chore reading), I didn't feel it was worth the mental effort to read over things several times in order to understand. Of course, maybe things are really actually quite clear and I'm just stupid right now.
Let me try to explain my self-doubt here.
Have you ever watched a movie with a questioner? "Who's that?" "Why'd they do that?" "What's going on?" They can't wait for the plot to unfold. They want you to explain it to them. These people bug me to no end. I invariably end up snapping, "Just watch the movie!" Usually, it takes several repetitions before they finally stop asking.
What's interesting is that these people will still ask these questions even of people who are also watching the movie for the first time. This leads me to believe that they think these things they're asking are things they might be expected to have caught or figured out at that point in the movie, rather than open questions that will be explained later.
I'm feeling a bit like a movie questioner right now, because I don't know what's going on, and I have no sense of whether I'm supposed to know at this point, or if my points of confusion are supposed to be open questions that will be explained later.
But even if it's the latter, pretty much this entire chapter consists of open questions that will be explained later. You have to give us something we can understand, otherwise we'll just end up lost. Then, once we have a basic understanding to ground us, you can start hinting and alluding.
So, you named a character Adoni. That's fine, so long as you realize that it's a Hebrew word that shows up fairly often in the Bible. It means "Lord", in the human noble sense. It's cousin, Adonai, also means "Lord", but is used to refer to God. Again, if this connotation is what you wanted then by all means, name the dude Adoni. Otherwise, you might consider changing it.
Lastly, I was confused by your return to Tav at the end of this chapter. One of these scenes is not like the others, one of these scenes just doesn't belong...this is probably just the writing group problem, but the break left me disoriented about how Tav got to where he is, and why the whole cathedral is on fire. Why wait? Why not stick this with the scene it follows?
Have you noticed it's a lot easier to be negative than positive, sometimes? It's almost 2:30, and my brain feels like mush, and I just can't summon the energy to find something I liked about this chapter. So, I apologize. Hopefully I've at least been marginally helpful with my rambling.