Verion and you are half siblings. You are the younger one. Son of the empress while he was the son from a mistress

he was older. So he the one that got the throne. Especially because he was a son from the woman that our father love

the empress, your mother keep pressing you to beat verion, but you always try to avoid doing it. Because you don't want to be the emperor. You have no interest in it at all. And you don't want to worsening your relationship with verion