Chapter 3 1. Argent and the king of Beazol travel to a nearby dukedom to treat the Duke’s sick son. Argent diagnoses him with asthma. Given the fact that the son has daily symptoms and has been that way for years, he most likely has severe persistent asthma, the most severe form of asthma. His predominant symptom seems to be cough, so he could have cough variant asthma, a rare form of asthma that presents predominantly with a chronic cough.