Baton Cadmos

Baton Cadmos is the third son on the Noble Cadmos house in Mephius and a childhood friend of the crown prince, Gil Mephius. Along with a group of other young nobles, including Princess Ineli Mephius, they would have street races with rare horses, invited young women from distinguished houses to entertain at the river, gambled, imitated hunts, drank alcohol, and have meaningless wild parties. Despite calling them friends, Gil was still treated distantly by them. It was obvious that they were only getting close to him because if his position.

Though he always outwardly treated Gil politely, Baton and most of the other's in their group, actually look down on Gil quite a bit and laugh at him behind his back. Baton was annoyed by the Prince's sudden rise in fame, as he felt himself a far more capable man.

Baton was surprised, along with everyone else, when Gil had a successful first campaign. However, afterwards Gil held up inside the Palace and refused to come out for a month, claiming to be ill. When he finally did emerge Baton, Ineli, Troa, and the others went with him over to Rogue Saian's home for a barbecue.

During the meal, Hou Ran caught his eye. Even though she was only a former slave and Imperial Guard, he found her exotic as a member of the nomads. He approached her while she was with the young Romus Saian in the dragon pins and attempted to preposition her. She challenged him to show his strength by touching the Baian, and then brushed him off when the dragon suddenly turned violent and he escaped. This happened in front of "Gil" and he was is a bad mood and humiliated afterwards.

As a bored young master with nothing better to do, Baton has frequently ventured into the poorer "Town District" of Solon. He was acquainted with a group of thugs that he would give money to sometimes. He planned to make a fool out of Gil in public, to show that despite his return from battle as a hero, Baton was still the better man. However, the thugs double crossed him and really decided to take the young noble's hostage. To his surprise Gil suddenly shot at the men and told Baton and the others to run.

Shortly after Gil followed them saying he barely got away. Ineli then acted as though she was going to reveal that everything was Baton's fault, but really only used the knowledge to mess with him.