CHILDREN OF THE ALLFATHER
This is the context to THE LAST WAR story plot.
The First Prophecy of Cassandra, the last of the Great Gand Seers, heralds the arrival of the three Children of the Allfather on the Continent: the Child of Fire, the Child of Water, and the Child of Earth.
A couple millennia later...
ONDERON AND MAR'KAA
Elvira, Princess of the Second Rank, ascends to the Onderian Throne in what could only be described as a very "shifty" fashion. Elvira's cousin, the true Heir to the Throne, was supposedly killed in an "ambush" by Da'Lyan forces of Mar'Kaa. Unfortunately, Elvira arrived "too late to the scene" to save her "beloved" cousin. Days later, Elvira and her faction, composed of the Greater Houses of Enyallus, Vasilus, Diakos, and Sagona ascend onto the capital of Aurain. After a short meeting with the Queen, Maeve the Peacemaker, and Elvira's aunt, Elvira is soon crowned as the new Heir to the Throne. Half a year later, Maeve dies and Elvira is crowned Queen.
The manner in which Elvira was crowned Heir to the Throne and later the Twelfth Queen of Onderon is very suspect, to say the least. She was never well-liked by the citizens of the kingdom or by many in the Grand Chamber and State Council. It is widely believed that Elvira either killed her cousin, the true Heir, or purposefully caused the ambush that resulted in the Heir's death. The stain on her reputation remained a thorn in Elvira's side for most of her reign.
For the first couple decades of Elvira's reign as Queen, Elvira suffered from many a failed pregnancy - she was not able to carry a chid to full-term. Rumors abound that the Queen is "cursed" by the Allfather for her treacherous attempts to take the throne - she will never have a child and the Kastus line will come to an end with her death. Of her many lovers, Elvira is particularly fond of Kaelin Tylena, the young and newly ascended Duchon of the Greater House of Tylena. In her last years, she kept him as her primary consort, unofficial but recognized.
Elvira sees an opportunity to attack the Mar'Kaa Empire of Da'Lyan. Using the old excuse of the Da'Lyan empire being responsible for the previous heir's death, Elvira and the Onderian Armies ascend upon an underprepared Mar'Kaa. After two years, Elvira is able to take Das'Vengar, the capital of the Da'Lyan Empire (with the help of the House of Enyallus, her greatest supporter). She kills the Emperor and Empress as well as all other imperial consorts and their children. Elvira makes to leave Das'Vengar but soon discovers that a recently-born prince to a deceased Consort Xian was missed in the initial killing spree. She is able to track this Mar'Kaa prince who is now the only (known) surviving member of the Da'Lyan Imperial Family. As she is about to kill the baby, the Child of Air, the only child of the Allfather who can travel across the different realms of reality, appears before her and tells her that the Mar'Kaa baby is the Child of Water (and that the First Prophecy of Cassandra is about to come to pass). Given that the Onderians have always wished for a Child of Water to be born in their kingdom, Elvira is unable to straight up murder the Mar'Kaa Prince. The Child of Air tells Elvira that soon she will have what she wishes for most dearly but due to her sins, she will never be able to see it come to fruition. He disappears. Elvira takes the Mar'Kaa prince as hostage. Most of Southern Mar'Kaa is taken/conquered by the Onderians and Lady Martia Nerus, House of Enyallus, the Commander General of the newly formed Fifth Army (made up of soldiers from the Houses that support Elvira greatly) is made the Governor-General of Occupied Mar'Kaa.
This unwarranted attack and occupation of Southern Mar'Kaa is the veritable last straw for Kaelin Tylena, the Duchon of the Greater House of Tylena. His mother was once an ambassador of the Onderian kingdom to the Da'Lyan Empire - hence, he grew up in Das'Vengar. Kaelin leaves the Queen and travels to the human empire of Sazorn to accompany his close friend, Colin Rylandar, the Hereditary Prince of Nordya and Chieftain of the Northern Clans. Sazorrn is in the middle of a civil war between the Imperial Family of Sazorrn and the Principality of Nordya.
A couple months later, Elvira finds out that she is pregnant - presumably with Kaelin's child. She believes her child will be a Child of the Allfather - Fire or Earth, she doesn't know yet.
THE HUMAN CIVIL WAR
This specifics of this story will be covered in "THE PRINCE AND THE SEER: RISE OF RYLAND".
Aislyn, the Imperial Grand Princess of Sazorrn, has married her sworn enemy Colin Rylandar, Hereditary Prince of Nordya and Chieftain of the Northern Clans, who leads the civil war against her cousin, William. She is pregnant with a child - a child that Kaelin believes to be one of two Children of Allfather: Fire or Earth. What ends up happening is to help Colin and his crew win the civil war against the Imperial Family, Kaelin asks his former lover, Elvira, the Queen of Onderon (whom Colin really dislikes) for help. Elvira and the Onderian Armies arrive to help the Rylandars win the war. In the final battle of the human civil war(on the same day with only minutes apart), Princess Aislyn gives birth to a boy that she names Ganner and Elvira, Queen of Onderon, gives birth to a girl named Adeline. The Child of Air soon appears to name Ganner as the Child of Earth and Adeline as the Child of Fire. Neither Aislyn nor Elvira survive childbirth.
The Rylandars win the civil war. Colin is crowned King and his son by Aislyn, Ganner, as Crown Prince. Kaelin returns to Onderon with his daughter, Adeline, the infant Queen of Onderon and the Onderian army. Kaelin is made Regent.
THE YOUTH YEARS
Adeline grows up with the hostage Prince of Mar'Kaa, Rayden (as siblings). Adeline, Rayden, Tallus Tykrana of the House of Goral, and Cassander Roumell of the House of Diakos spend most of their younger years together. The famed warrior of the Mar'Kaa campaign and a martial arts [insert specific style] Master listed in the Langya Chronicles (alongside the Yellow Tiger of Das'Puyang), Annyla Bloodwolf, House of Bloodwolf, known commonly as the Black Wolf, serves as their arms instructor. My Lady the Queen's Grandmother, the Old Madam of House Tylena, is particularly fond of Rayden. At the age of 15, Adeline ascends to the Onderian Throne officially when her father, the Regent, dies.
FIRST MEETING
First meeting of Adeline and Ganner - their story
Ganner is deposed as Crown Prince of the Rylandar Kingdom
The birth of the half-blood twins, Ayden and Annira
THE BETRAYAL
Kidnapping of Ayden (supposedly by Rayden) and the whole Marked crisis which resulted in Rayden's exile to begin with
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