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Chapter 5

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"Leave my home, and never return, you speak of treason against our Emperor, and
that is treason against the gods, I will not have that."

"Father, the fact that the Emperor sits on his throne, doing nothing for our race is
treason to our kind. You have hereditary rights as chieftain of our clan, take your
place and show Thera the greatness of our race!"

"Get out! You will bring ruin to our kind, you would plunge us into civil war.
The clans throughout the mountains already fight amongst themselves, and each of
them have hereditary claims to the throne. Not to mention the bureaucrats in the
city who would be in an uproar."

"They only need a strong leader to bring them together, you can be that leader
father."

"Out! Out! Out! Go and never return, your heart is black, and you curse this
household!"

Arzosah turned and left, adding, "You will see father, our race will rise and all of
Thera will tremble when the clan name of Bloodwing is so much as whispered."

Arzosah is the fourth to carry both the clan namesake and the mark associated with
it. Legend has it that the first chief of the Bloodwing clan stained his perfectly
white feathers with the blood of a rival chieftain after impaling him on his spear
and holding him up for all to see. The Bloodwing clan holds Vassagon in the
highest honor amongst the arial pantheon. They claim he was from their clan
before he ascended into Asgaard, but many clans claim the same thing. The other
arial gods are all revered, but hold nowhere the reverence awarded to Vassagon.

Arzosah believes he can take both the title of his clan's chieftain, and then the title
of Emperor of the Arial Nation. He has decided to bring the arials under his
command by inciting war amongst the other races, forcing the arials to come
together to defend themselves. When that happens, he will kill his father and unite
his clan and the other two clans living on his family's lands, the Swiftwind and
Blackfeather clans. He will invoke his hereditary claim to the throne and
overthrow the Emperor. He hopes by bringing total war to Thera that he can gain
the endorsement from the priests of Vassagon, proclaiming him selected by the
divine and enforcing his claims to the throne.