Michael VII sent episcopal envoys to Romanos IV with a message of friendship, offering him amnesty and promising him that nothing unpleasant would happen to him. They were the bishop of Chalcedon, Theophilos, bishop of Koloneia and Theophilos, metropolitan of Herakleia. Michael was terribly worried that Romanos would be captured by the army, and either fall fighting or be taken prisoner and have some part of his body mutilated. He pushed even Romanos' adamantine spirit towards agreement