Nael deus Darnus

[Nalien]

The line where he mentions the despair he felt as a 'frail child' may be expanded upon. Would be strange to throw that in otherwise.

That... Perhaps makes me think it was simply his mother...

Nael van Darnus>> The weak can do naught but weep under the pall of their own misery. As did the frail child I once was...

Tales are oft told in hushed whispers of van Darnus’s swift rise to power upon the abrupt death by illness of his sire, whose body had no sooner grown cold than his closest aides were put to death.

What exactly did he have against his fathers aides and/or father? Did he perhaps lose his mother because of them somehow? That would certainly explain his misery as a "frail child" and his apparent bloody rise to power. Perhaps Bradamante simply reminded him of his mother in some way, although the fact that he supposedly slew her makes that even more dark, though could explain the namesake.

Oh, and it's perhaps worth considering that the entire van Darnus plot line was heavily influenced by Final Fantasy VII, with Nael making a fair few allusions to everyones favorite mommies boy. Rather than his mother being the source of his madness (since that was Bahamut), perhaps this time his mother represented his last shred of sanity. Hence the mix up upon his defeat.