A Dying King
The Monarchy is old. Very old. They say a million years or more. Many creatures both human and not have walked across it and left their mark on it. The Folk, who are the current inhabitants of this continent sized island adrift in the great World Ocean, have had dominion over it for so long that its previous occupants have passed into the realms of myth.
Ailwick Saarquon is a man who has dedicated his life to rationalism and scientific inquiry. Luckily, for him he lives in the Monarchy; a land which is littered with the relics and ruins of past cultures and thereby provide an abundance of topics for empirical research. Unluckily for him the many problems of the Monarchy, which include but are not limited to a succession crisis, ossified social structures, famine and incipient genocide, are laid at his feet in the hope and expectation of resolution.
He combines these many unhappy duties with the happier task of being a single parent to his willful and supernaturally gifted daughter Zhala. It remains to be seen if her burgeoning power will aid or hinder his efforts to save the Monarchy from itself.
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Sorrow's Crown
Having saved the Monarchy from genocidal misrule Ailwick Zhala has decided that, because she thinks she’d be rather good at it, she should become its ruler.
Despite the best efforts of her band of curious friends and her father the task of ascending to the head of the Monarchy is challenging and unpredictable. Somewhere below the Folk of the Monarchy in shadowy caverns of the Second Sea their ancient adversaries, the titans, are stirring from a period of long dormancy to pose an existential threat.
Zhala’s political struggles are compounded by imminent invasion and occupation. In this febrile environment even Zhala’s considerable guile, supernatural powers and lack of any moral restraint are tested to their limits by treachery and ill fortunes.
Everywhere she turns she is haunted by the reflected echoes of the Monarchy’s ancient past and the only reliable prediction she can make is that nothing will proceed according to plan.
Out of Darkness
The Monarchy's most egregious problem, as anyone will tell you, is that it has too much history. Anything that could conceivably have happened probably has and the repercussions echo through the millennia.
Now a mysterious presence from its ancient past appears to help Zhala in her existential struggle with the titans. The king's cabinet of family and friends will find themselves pushed to and beyond their limits in the fight with the young king given cause to question her purpose and right to reign.
In the final conflict Zhala will have to sacrifice everything to save the Monarchy and its ungrateful population that she both despises and loves.
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