Sawtooth Spire the frog king, or iron heinrich

Untrained and unwise, among a litany of other age related short-comings, the boy was an easy opponent for the equally greedy Phaedra to usurp. In all his eager lunging, the only thing Thade earned himself was a harsh meeting with the ground, as he glanced off the back of his firmly rooted competitor and landed, briefly, in the dirt.

He was up again before the fall could even register, and the sootcub scrambled to be second at the trough. He shoved his nose forth without regard for his sister's protectiveness, and pressed himself flat to slither resiliently through her armored protests. He made to slop up what she could not defend at the same time as doling out his punishment.