Devaryna herself was a different matter entirely.
She was in her thirties, which placed her in a strange position relative to her brothers — Thalric had been ruling the Empire since before she could walk, and Veydrin had been navigating court politics since before she was born.
There was a gap between her and them that the word "siblings" didn't quite cover, that made her less like their sister in the conventional sense and more like something their parents had produced as a final, concentrated effort after they'd already finished building the rest of the family. She had grown up in the shadow of an Emperor and a Prince and had responded to that circumstance by becoming something neither of them had managed to be.
The Grand Magus of the Seven Circles was not a title given.
It was a title achieved through a process that the magical academies of the Empire described with the particular reverence reserved for things that rarely happened.
