The three males only saw each other on battlefields for the seven years the War raged. Rhysand was given command over a legion, Azriel was kept as his personal shadowsinger in his court, and Cassian was put in a different legion to be a common foot soldier, even when his power outranked any of the war-leaders. When they were begrudgingly appointed, it had every warrior in every camp across the mountains sizing them up.ĭuring the War, when Rhysand's father saw that his son had allied with the two most powerful Illyrian warriors in history and feared the three warriors would turn against him and rival him in power, he separated them. As their power grew, Cassian and Azriel became the first bastard-born Illyrians to ever receive a siphon. They were stronger and faster, like the Cauldron knew they'd been set apart and wanted them to find each other. ![]() The other males knew that the three were different. As they and the other males around them grew older, the three males realized everyone else hated them enough that they had better odds of survival sticking together. However, Rhysand and Cassian hated each other until Azriel arrived at camp and they decided to be allies. Rhysand's mother took Cassian in and provided him with a home and shelter from then on. He woke Cassian in the middle of the night to take him to his house. Rhysand did not take it well, understanding for the first time what it was to be warm, safe, and cared for. That night, when Rhysand was home with his mother, he saw Cassian walking through the mud to get to tents outside the camp. When Rhysand was taken to the same camp for training, Cassian beat him into a bloody mess for his new, clean training clothes, costing them three lashings each, which was considered an encouragement to keep fighting by Illyrian standards. Years later, when he was old and strong enough, he came back to the camp he had been born into and discovered that the males of the camp had worked his mother until she died. Cassian resorted to challenging other kids to fight and got their clothes as a prize. As a bastard, he received nothing and had to find his own shelter, food, and clothes. As soon as his mother weaned him and he could walk, he was left in a distant war camp, Windhaven, for training. ![]() Cassian is the bastard son of an Illyrian war-camp laundress and an unknown warrior, who raped his mother, which resulted in Cassian's birth.
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