They fear Warp, corrupt magic used by necromancers to debase and destroy. Alain intends to further debase Blanche as revenge against Edmond. However, it could now also debase the coinage and so increase the money supply. According to him, security should never debase citizens of their civil liberties. While this increased Antoninus's popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency. Certain Roman serrated denarii were especially designed to be harder to counterfeit or debase. Doyle turned down the deal, considering that this would debase the character.