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Oh lucas is also in the palace just watching him actually in the novel claude is already treated , got his memories back and all. Claude and lucas knew that anastacius is a fake ¯_(ツ)_/¯ but just let anastacius continue his facade . I don't wanna give more spoilers because as all of you can see the manhwa is not following the novel's plot and what I know is from the novel (ᗒᗩᗕ)
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correction: that man really is anastasius. unless you've read the novel, you won't be able to differentiate the manhwa from it.
in the manhwa, anastasius is conscious in his body while aeternitas is simply at the back of his head, manipulating him. that's why we notice him somewhat being concerned with jeanette and getting pissed when jeanette talks about claude being her dad. because his soul remains in the body. like what father wouldn't get angry about their daughter not knowing who their real father is? but in the novel, it was all aeternitas's doing; anastasius was dead and had nothing to do with it. aeternitas is actually insecure af since lucas called him weak years before. he adores lucas as a magician, so in order to "redeem" himself, he possesses anastasius/reborn into his body or something (in the garden during that flashback) and causes trouble for claude and athy just to get lucas's attention.
and yes, in the novel, aeternitas (in anastasius's body) poses as lucas (the magic tower's magician) in order to cast a spell on claude so he forgets athy. in claude's dreams, he loves his daughter but when he wakes up he doesn't know who she is so he gets frustrated and exiles athy.
I will apologize first because im gonna give away some major spoilers
Yes jenette is the product of claude's ex fiance and his brother but the black haired dude is definitely not his brother and everyone is assuming that he is claude's brother and jenette's father which is not ( black haired dude is actually aerthernitas who was the successor of emperor cailum) AERTHERNITAS use a forbidden magic to make himself immortal powerful and beautiful since at the beginning he is ugly and got unstable mana however he was reborn in claude brother's body since he is the crown prince but got everything out of hand because claude became the emperor killing his own brother.