Clasnithra fights Vatine
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Clasnithra was born into the ruling Khandea family as the runt child of a loathsome mother. She dreamed of a totalitarian Aempis on par with the Valuser'ran Supremacy of old, and the Vadakendanic Procession before that, and was forever embittered by what she considered to be a passive rule on the part of her husband's. In Clasnithra, she saw too much of her father, and felt him too weak to love.
Clasnithra, rather than attempt to outdo his siblings in the realms of the physical, sought to become their better through Metaphysics, though his mother was quick to remind him that mastering the meta before the mind and the body makes one a weak caster. Pride wounded, he sought and earned private tutoring from Hierus Nomen, a member of the Aempian Triptych and thus beholden to the Aempian Crown.
When Clasnithra's eldest brother, Vatine, learned that Clasnithra was learning swordplay, he began to surprise Clasnithra with swordfight that left him with worsening injuries, a broken pride, and a deep hatred.
Vatine met his gruesome end at Clasnithra's hand when he started a fight with Clasnithra which he could not win. His mother found her love for him in the fury he demonstrated. She covered the murder, gave him his brother's sword, and promoted him to crown prince.
When Clasnithra fights, he fights with the ferocity of fratricide.
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