Editing Silver Spears (section)

==Tutelage and Return to Divgharan==
Spirited away to Terra alongside a host of Custodes, Kashaln was quickly left to his studies by the Emperor, which were overseen by his brother and senior Legion Commander Alexios. For the most part, beyond the inevitable culture shock of entering a starfaring civilization, Kashaln took well to the Imperial Truth and his place in it. Recognizing his father as surely the greatest of warlords, a conqueror of celestial scale, Kashaln was comfortable with being a prince in his interstellar kingdom - it was what he had always known, and he desired little more, as of yet. It was not until much later that the true meaning of Imperial rule would occur to Kashaln and he would come to resent the idea that he and his legionnaires, a sublime warrior caste, were technically servants to the peaceful, lesser folk of the Imperium.

His tutelage finished with, and considered a success by Alexios, who found his pupil eager to serve the glory of the Emperor, Kashaln returned to Divgharan alongside his legion, set on expanding the number of Astartes under his command by drawing from the warlike population of his homeworld. What he found when he arrived horrified him - Anders and his Paladins of Kor had transformed almost half of Divgharan beyond recognition, sweeping aside ancient grudges and uniting a vast coalition from many of the city-states that ruled the planet's surface. Slowly but surely, Divgharan was becoming a world not ruled by warlords and warriors, as was the ancient way, but by senators and statesmen, whose will was subordinate to that of the uneducated and unblooded masses. To add insult to injury, many of those that formed this coalition were from among Aurangzeb's sons, those who Kashaln had sworn to hunt down and slay upon the battlefield, as was the correct way for one brother to strike down another. Now they were sickly men of peace, unsuited for such a death, and Kashaln could only feel robbed in the most profound sense imaginable.

Furious, Kashaln demanded that Kor and his Marines departed, leaving Divgharan to its rightful ruler, but the Lion of Cydonia was set in his ways and refused. Their bickering soon devolved into a proxy war, the remaining city states of Divgharan marshaled under the might of the Silver Spears and coaxed into a bloody war against the growing coalition of Anders' devising. As greater and greater weapons of destruction filtered down into the hands of Divgharan's relatively primitive people, the conflict grew bloodier and bloodier, until it was decreed by The Heir himself that Divgharan was to remain divided. Anders' republic was efficient and prosperous, contributing far more in terms of material wealth to the Imperium than the divided states of old Divgharan ever could, but it did not provide the men of mettle that Kashaln required. So, Divgharan was split in half, Kashaln and Anders both grudgingly relenting in the face of a greater authority, and remained locked in a perpetual state of cold war until the time of the Heresy. 

Though the matter was considered resolved by the Imperium and the Emperor, Kashaln would never forget Anders' slight against him, and time would only deepen his hate for the White Lion.