Additional Info: Dervain Sitai was a miracle child just as hope was fading that his mother could ever have children. He was sickly for the first few years of his life and still suffers from the haemophilia which has haunted him since birth. As such, the boy was spoilt even more than most Dynasts are spoilt and was given anything he wanted except for his freedom. Any toy he wished for was immediately granted and his parents were at his beck and call but, unlike other children, he would never be allowed to climb a tree or run. Even the pages in the books were especially cut to limit the possibility of his receiving a paper cut. Naturally, his haemophilia was overemphasised and soon Dervain grew tired of his heavily sheltered existence and started rebelling. For his tutors, he became impossible to teach while his parents closed their eyes to his misdeeds.

At the age of fourteen, he had his first child with a slave girl, the first in a long line, and from that age onwards, he just kept getting further and further into trouble - wisely picking his fights with the freeborn rather than with the Dynasts. He was a womaniser but was just as likely to pick up handsome young men or, as Ivan put it, "Jump on anything that moved." while still battling his affliction. At the age of nineteen, Caspar first started seeking out Annastarria and worshipping her, even committing the she was a goddess to memory and sacrificing childhood pets in her name. Hoping that the goddess would be able to cure him of his terrible disease.