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As [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=0000000000000000000002oy&page=95#2362 pointed out] by Dr East on the forums, everybodyEverybody assumes that the locket killed Omar, but when he steals it Agatha, in full madness mode (which makes the command voice much stronger, or at least makes her voice closer to Lucrezia's), [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021122 orders him to die slowly and painfully]. By the end of the day, he caught an unexplainable illness which killed him. All that locket was was a mental suppressor--I could imagine it giving the wrong person a headache or making it hard to think, but we don't ''know'' that it should be strong enough to kill a non-spark. Wheras we know that the command voice can be used to command someone to die (not to kill themselves but to ''die''), since Lucrezia orders Vrin to die in book six and she seemingly chokes to death the instant the order is given. So while the amulet could have been what did him in, he might have simply died because he was a revenant and he was ordered to. This also has the bonus effect of explaining why the protagonists are so interested in retracing Moloch's steps once they get the time window--if he was a revenant, he had to have been infected somewhere, and figuring out where might help them find the hive.