The Writer Varsil presented to him a Food Age which he named Dania, that would solve the famine problem and Clevis told him to choose his reward; Varsil asked the hand of Dania, which enraged Clevis, saying that marrying a commoner would be no different than marrying a base animal. He would take his head for this affrontery, if not for the service he did for their people. Varsil was mad with bitterness and planned to raise an army of Outsiders to kill Clevis and succeed him. His apprentice Atak stopped him, in order to save their people.