He kills his cousin, Amintus, who might have had a claim to the throne. Other princes, so this is this bloody, bloody period. So even though sometimes people glorify some of these rulers like Alexander the Great, that how they unified all of these people and they pushed culture throughout the world or however you wanna talk about it, they came to, they usually come to power in very brutal ways, and their conquering is also very brutal. No, we really shouldn't romanticize, oh, let's conquer other people. A war is ugly, and when there's multiple factions coming to a throne, that is also ugly. So we are shortly after Philip II's death. Alexander, with the help of his mother, is able to consolidate power within his family, really secure his place as the king of the Macedonian or the Macedonian Empire.