The story of: INANNA & CONRI

In the last chapter, you read where Ashe began to Kellen the story of Inanna and Conri, I did not want to make that chapter too long for readers and decided to put it separately as a free chapter. I did want to give you a little insight into the history of those two, and I hope all your memories are good, from reading the first and second books and the fairytale Tawny told them all while sitting in the gym.

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Told to Kellen by Ashe/Odeia

Many moons ago, when the realm was still young and the gods still walked amongst the humans, In a land called Heartme, which you know as the Sea dogs Island, by chance, the goddess Inanna was wandering about the mortal realm of shifters and humans, met a mortal king called Conrad (Conri)

Their love was forbidden, as Inanna’s father had already promised her to a war god. Yet Inanna could not deny her obsession with the handsome, fierce king. Likewise, the King, Conrad was enthralled with her beauty Falling in love with her at first sight. Her black hair and green eyes were the most beautiful thing he had ever laid his eyes on.

The gods were angry that she had abandoned her position, choosing to stay in the mortal realm in the arms of a mere human. Anu, Inanna’s father stripped her of her immortality when he found out she bore the child of a human and banished her from the heavens.

When Anu cursed King Conrad the same way Zeus cursed my father, His soul would return in the form of a wolf, to be reborn over and over until the end of time. For many moons Inanna and Conrad lived happily, the king’s trusted red knights protecting his goddess queen, and their son. Eventually, Inanna gave birth to another, a daughter who possessed immense power. It is said the child held the power of life and death within her blood and could shift into a wolf as silver as the moon.

When Anu found this out he killed Conrad so he and Inanna would never be reunited again, forgetting the curse he had put place and that the king's soul would be reborn into another.

At this time Anu and Zeus went to war, Anu had killed one of Zeus' most precious humans and he wanted an eye for an eye and set his sights on taking the demigod child. With Conrad dead, Inanna fled far away with her children and only King Conrad’s most trusted knight Cuchulinn Mac-Tire.

Inanna’s mother took pity on her and granted her one wish. ‘I wish for Conri’ is what she told her mother, devastated by the loss of her love. Her mother granted her wish, giving Inanna her immortality back.

The moon goddess, named Nana, at this time, took Conri under her wing and upon his rebirth granted him a soul mate. That soul mate was Inanna.

One night on a full moon, when Conrad was in his wolf form he was hunted by the humans and killed, yet again leaving Inanna alone, Inanna begged her mother the moon goddess to gift her with the spirit of a wolf so she could be reborn with Conrad for eternity.

The moon goddess granted her wish but it was up to Conrad and Innana to find each other over time. So for centuries, this is what they had done, each rebirth becoming further and further apart until eventually they both descended to the heavens and stayed in a prolonged sleep that would last until your's and Lamia’s birth.

It is said the great-granddaughter of the firstborn werewolf and the son of King Conrad repeated history and fell in love, little did the gods know, that the son Inanna and Conrad had, was also born a shifter, a gift granted by the moon goddess to her grandson. They were fated to be mated.

That is how the story of Riocht became. It was my great-grandchild that was mated to the son of the great King Conri, and that is how you and Lamia are related. That, no matter when your spirit animals are reborn; you are bound to find each other, your wolves' spirits bonded through an endless time. They will always need each other, their love runs so deep, yet this time it seems the moon goddess had a different plan for my descendant and her daughter (Inanna's) spirit wolf. She paired her with a Demi-god, and you to the daughter of Conri’s most trusted Red Knight.

Your Queen of Shifters has already risen. Now, young King, it is your turn to rise. To protect what the Queen holds within her. Your Fate.