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Prologue: The King's Fourth Daughter led Part 1

Radek Castille was a being of many talents, many qualities that those mortal and supernatural alike have envied since he came from his mother's womb.

A being such as him was meant to birth men into this world; men that could take over entire continents with the raise of a single finger.

Such is life, he was only ever able to birth daughters. This broke him, he wanted sons; men to carry his name through the mud and blood of history. Yet, he had daughters that clawed and ate away at everything he ever was. Four daughters. Four dents in his legacy.

Ferdinand. Isabella. Los Reyes Católicos. Radek admired the de facto of Spain, the unification of the land that he cherished. Because of this, he took the last name Castille, he wore it on his chest like armor and no one could find a way to pierce through it. Inspired by the marriage, he too took a wife to bear his children.

Astronomy struck a chord in Radek's rumored soul when he was a young boy. It surprised no one that he named his first daughter after his first love; Star Castille. Born in 1491, he presented his daughter to the world, proud that she was not born out of hate or blood. For the first time in his 200 years, Radek placed hope in another.

Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla. The Revolt of the Comuneros. Charles, grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella, inherited the throne after the deaths of the king, the queen, and the established mental instability of their daughter Joanna. Being raised in the Netherlands, Charles was not seen as a king to the people of Spain.

Tensions rose, blood painted every cobblestone street like a canvas. Radek, a king of sorts, fought with the people in the name of Charles' predecessors. After two years of pure death and destruction, Charles left for Germany, leaving another to rule in his place. More riots broke out, eventually snapping the hierarchy in the will of the people. Joanna took the throne and the people worked as a unit to control her mental state.

Radek, now a hero to his people, despised that he was not the one to take the throne. Many agreed that Joanna was not fit to lead Spain, but her royal blood gave her tremendous power over him and any others that disputed her place. In this anger, Radek met Vera Elizabeth Isles; a woman who would grant him the royal throne for a single sacrifice.

Ivaylia Star Castille was born on a morning in which Radek's castle lay still in the harsh winter's breath. The second daughter to the king was born ill, pale in comparison to her sister, now the tender age of thirty-one. Kept within the walls for years, the world outside the castle knew not of Ivaylia's existence until fate intervened on the young girl's behalf.

Isabella Fernanda Castille was born in the bowels of the Catalan and Portuguese Rebellion. Discouraged by his lack of a proper male heir and practically thrown aside by those who once believed he was fit to sit on the throne, Radek closed his castle doors as the rebellion tore his beloved Spain limb from limb. Vera's promise of a throne seemed a fool's dream floating in a hundred year haze that emotionally and mentally weakened this once powerful being.

The City of Ashes. Spain's Black Rain. Many names fell upon the bloody hands of Radek's second daughter as she acted under the wing of Vera, spreading destruction in every direction she so much as breathed in. By this time, Radek's fruitful wife had died and he was desperate to conceive a son to carry on his name.

Aynix; a daughter in which Radek was not to just give his name to. In a fit of rage, he killed Aynix's mother for it was her fault he was to not have a son. That very night, he had himself castrated, swearing to not bring another seed into this world.

Cast in the shadow of her infamous sisters, Aynix diligently mastered any and every skill she could to impress her father and gain the family name. Her mind was much sharper than her sisters', her charm unmatched by even Radek himself, but she was blinded by gaining her father's approval and instead became a sinister being bent on carving her name in a portion of the world a Castille never had before. She wanted the crown, the throne of thrones.

Radek admired the girl's tenacity, granting her his name after years of watching her from the sidelines. Though he never said the words, he admired the girl more than his first born. He was excited to watch her tear the world apart, to elevate their name to heights never seen by mortal or supernatural. The king's fourth daughter was to build his path to the throne he had so desperately craved for most of his life and he could care less whose blood would be shed for him to have it.