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Agares is actually like the stepfather of Desharow, as they share the same bloodline (as far as I can remember). Desharow was quite ill as a baby and Agares blood(I'm not quite sure about this part) saved him(his uncle asked Agares for the blood). At first, Agares didn't want anything from Desharow either, as he saw him more or less as a "successor". But he had also said in the novel that it drove him crazy how little attention he got from Desharow, because Desharow had idolized this mentor (forgot his name) so much. Over time, Agares realized that Desharov was so much more to him than a "successor".