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Trial of the Crownless Queen

Author: Tyson Roy
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-12 18:22:16

The burned map had not simply pointed the way. It had summoned something.

The hour was midnight, and Kaer Nyx held its breath. Outside, the land slept uneasily beneath a sheet of stars, while inside, the ancient stones of the keep whispered with the weight of memory. Elara moved alone through the fortress, her cloak trailing behind her like a wraith. Portraits of dead queens watched her with glassy eyes. Curtains trembled without wind. Shadows stirred in corners where no light fell.

She stepped into the northern courtyard, moonlight gilding the dew beneath her boots. Before her stood the oldest tree in the castle grounds, a twisted sentinel whose roots curled around graves too old to name. Some said the tree drank memory. Others claimed it grew from the bones of the first sovereign to bleed for Eldoria. Its bark was scorched in patterns no scholar could decipher, and its boughs reached hungrily toward the stars.

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    Peace is not born in blood. But sometimes, it bleeds for you anyway.The sky above Kaer Nyx did not simply storm; it broke. Shards of midnight and starlight fractured overhead, splintering across the dawn in streaks of wild, ungovernable magic. The castle’s towers seemed to lean into the chaos, trembling as if afraid of what might come through those cracks. Air hissed and sang and howled, bent backward and inside out by a force that did not understand mercy.Lightning zigzagged in impossible patterns, clouds spun against their breath, and beneath it all, the bones of the world shuddered. From the castle’s eastern wing, Elara heard the unnatural music of water, streams rushing upward through the corridors, whispering the names of the long-dead in a tongue older than grief.She gripped the stone railing of her balcony, knuckles white, eyes fixed on the sky’s wound. Below her,

  • The Forgotten Heiress: Rise of The Lycan Queen   The Betrayal of Flame

    "Fire demands a price. And the final flame does not rise without blood."It began as a feeling in Elara’s chest, a hush that thickened the air, squeezing her heart with invisible hands. She had known magic her whole life. But this was not magic. This was an intrusion. Judgment. The old, cold law of the world creeping in when the fire of destiny ran out.She had been alone in her chambers, halfway through a letter she could not finish, when the candle on her desk flickered low and strange. Shadows thickened on the stone walls, then lengthened, stretching toward her feet. Smoke seeped through the ancient mortar, curling around the wooden floorboards, climbing the tapestries like spectral vines. The cold that followed was the cold of midnight earth, grave-deep, bone-true.Elara did not flinch, but her soul recoiled, remembering the stories. The Onyx Sisters. They came only when cal

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  • The Forgotten Heiress: Rise of The Lycan Queen   The Memory Rebellion

    The fire in Elara’s chest was no longer steady.It pulsed in fragments now, like the remnants of a song that had forgotten its own melody. Once, it had been her compass, her strength, a ceaseless blaze that guided her through war, loss, love, and prophecy. Now, it flickered like the dying ember of a story no longer sure of its place. Sometimes it burned hot enough to steal her breath. Other times, it vanished entirely, leaving her shivering in the vaulted silence of Kaer Nyx, unsure if she was truly alive or merely continuing.This was the cost of the Trial of the Crownless Queen.She had returned from that trial as something changed, not a queen reborn, but a woman unmoored. She carried a blade that could cut through illusions and lies, but no memory of the reasons she once wielded it. The people bowed and called her sovereign, but their names drifted through her mind like smoke. Their faces stirred something inside her, something close to recognition, but nothing ever fully took root

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    The burned map had not simply pointed the way. It had summoned something.The hour was midnight, and Kaer Nyx held its breath. Outside, the land slept uneasily beneath a sheet of stars, while inside, the ancient stones of the keep whispered with the weight of memory. Elara moved alone through the fortress, her cloak trailing behind her like a wraith. Portraits of dead queens watched her with glassy eyes. Curtains trembled without wind. Shadows stirred in corners where no light fell.She stepped into the northern courtyard, moonlight gilding the dew beneath her boots. Before her stood the oldest tree in the castle grounds, a twisted sentinel whose roots curled around graves too old to name. Some said the tree drank memory. Others claimed it grew from the bones of the first sovereign to bleed for Eldoria. Its bark was scorched in patterns no scholar could decipher, and its boughs reached hungrily toward the stars.Elara stepped into a ring carved into the ground, not by hand, but by tim

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    The scent of smoke returned to Kaer Nyx.But not the smoke of burning villages or war camps, the kind that still lingered in the stones after battle. Nor the cruel reek of scorched flesh or collapsing keeps. No, this was older. Sharper. More spectral. A scent that curled through memory, not air. It reminded Elara of prophecy, of ink ignited by forbidden flames, of truths written only to be destroyed. It smelled of things never meant to be found.She had always hated it.Because she knew what it meant.And tonight, as it slithered under her chamber door and wrapped itself around her ankles like a whisper in smoke, she could not pretend otherwise. She had tried denial before. She had tried forgetting. But smoke like this didn’t forget. It remembered, and worse, it returned.She left her chambers without a word, robes whispering against stone. The castle was quiet, caught in the hush between moonset and dawn. But Elara didn’t need light. She followed the scent.Down the long, cold corrid

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