"Lucius the vicious, is this what they call this new Prince?" There was no age written, but considering that his title was Prince, he should be under the age of fifty, like Amir and his cousin Ludwig.
The report told much about his opponents in detail which went a bit personal when it came to the details of the aforementioned Prince Lucius, who seemed to be a problem child that even General Vera didn't want to deal with, It's why his posting was far away from the barracks, which made it so that he won't be a nuisance to the people who were doing some actual work.
As for the two talented mages that were mentioned before? None of them actually held in the Royal Politics, they never cared if anyone beside each other due to one reason.