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storyline:
part 1
opening: Chapter 0- a very powerful king names Hendrik is ruling over an empire. He is a tyrant,
cruel and evil person who is very powerful. A witch comes into his palace and propheszes that
he will be killed by a person who is as evil and as powerful as him. The withch gets beheaded.
1. Chapter 1 – the wine maiden – the daughter of a merchant living in the island of meritia
off the coast of the miditerrenean sea her name is ophelia. She is seen working making
wine out of grapes with other wine maidens. She is 17 years old, golden hair, very pretty.
We meet her best friend andrea. We see her chasing after lambs, playfully teasing her
brother, spying on boys with golden hair with her friend andrea. Her father is lord
Horacio, and her mother passed away when she was 10. She also talks to her mother
over her grave and plants lavenders.
2. Chapter 2- the clairevoyant- Ophelia, while steeling nectarine with her friend from a
baker’s garden ( baker’s name is meridith). She slips and falls and injures her ankle. She
goes to the apothecare where she is treated with heral medicine. Meanwhile, she
notices smoke coming out of a room behind the apothecare in this house. When the
apothecare leaves the room, she sneaks into the back froom from where she sees the
smoke. She sees that the apothecaries wife was practicing clairvoyancy. The clairvoyant
woman invites Ophelia into the room. After many rituals, she deduces this: Ophelia will
undergo nefarious trials and tribulations. She will undergo immense agony and pain in
her life, but at the end, she will also be the most powerful woman in the world. Ophelia
rushed home to tell her father about this, but her father dismisses this as rumors.
Part 2
14. Chapter 14- the love of a serpent- fast forward to many years when Ophelia is queen.
She and astrid are in love, and share the weight of the empire. She goes out on a long
ensuing battle with asgard. She , instead of making alliances, ask smaller kingdom
around her to become part of her empire. She conquers many notable kingdoms all over
the world and even engulfs many empires that had once had powerful army. Her chief of
army is desmond, who had alwsys secretly had a crush on her. meanwhile, Carolina and
queen mother along with hephaesteon are planning to assassinate her and put Carolina
on the throne.her new oracle is doris who has several preminissoin about betrayals. It is
revealed that hephaesteon has the ability to transform into a songbird and can hear
everyones conversation in disguise.
15. Chapter 15- when daphne falls in love- Ophelia captures the kingdom of Florentine and
the forest of everglen. She destroys their army, but pardons the innocent. She has
earned the title of conqerer. Constantine went from being a kingdom to a empire. Doris
has many visions of the ancient past, also the future. Daphne falls in love with asten, the
son of the ministry of finance. They share secret letter and more.
16. Chapter 16- the great execution- Ophelia slaughters the ruthless and malicious emperor
of the imperian empire, freeing its people. It’s a long battle involving a lot of strategies in
the battle field and magic and magical creatures.
17. Chapter 17-aederian realms- Ophelia now conqueres aederian realms, that has many
powerful mages, mythical creatures and stuff. She triumps very hard, becomes weak and
loses a lot of men. Her governance is excellent and she is able to make sure that all those
within her empire remain loyal to her.
18. Chapter 18- rederian domion- she conqueres the rederian domion, one of asgard’s most
important allies and full of resourses. She then conquers koviria which is ruled by a very
vain and haughty queen, who she makes her maidservant after she is defeated in the
war. Ophelia learns from the oracle about an ancient history.
19. Chapter 19- the descendant of the bloodrose- here is where she learns about the
ancient history. There existed the first civilization, where there was peace and harmony.
But all of a sudden, there were many problems like the decline in morality, righteousness
and duty, moral degreadation, decline of social order, materialism, conflict and violence,
and falsehood and deception. But the extent of this was very minor, but a very powerful
king who could also see the future, prophesised that these problems would be much
bigger and worse in the future. The ever powerful king devided his soul into elements of
magic, which upon his death, would be bestowed onto seven of his most favourit and
righteous men who would one day take over the throne of seven empires. The 7 men
passed their magic down to their progenitors, forming a lineage and dynasty. These 7
sacred dynasties were: house of thornbloom, bloodrose, ghost lily, obsidian orchid,
ember iris, serpentrose, mystic moonflower. The successors of serpentrose got into a
conglict with the house of ember iris, both killing eachother and ending eachothers
dynasty. The bloodline of mystic moonflower and thornbloom died out. Obsidian orchids
dessandants chose to all commit suicide as their couldn’t bare the agony that came with
bearing their power. And the house of ghost lily had a last remaining dessandant names
Klaus, who died lonliness becous of failed love. The remaining one was bloodrose, and
Ophelia had been its heir.
20. Chapter 20- the songbird- finally, the Constantine empire battled with asgard. In an epic
battle which lasted 100 days and involved a lot of magic and a lot of small events
happened in the battle. Hendrik makes love with hephaesteon secretly, which is
revealed to Ophelia. when hepheasteon is in the form of a songbird, she traps him and
kills him. And puts him in a small chest and sends it to Hendrik who is the only other
person who knew about hepaesteon’s secret. He cried and screamed with agony while
everuone around him were confused, but Ophelia knew. Astird was sad too, but she
loved Ophelia. asgard falls and is destroyed. Ophelia retured to the castle at pythica
where she is cepebrated.
Part 3
21. Chapter 21- king andreas I- a decade goes by, and andreas sits on the throne. There is
peace and tranqulity in the empire. People are more free, there is more economic
development and people are more protected. Daphne marries desmond, she isn’t happy
but she accepts her fate and has a son. Andreas marries claire and has a son and a
daughter. Andreas isn’t happy as his mother keeps interfering in politics and undemines
his decision, so he tries to force his mother to stay away from politics. But queen Ophelia
refuses to give up her control over the empire with she worked to hard to get. Andreas’s
policies causes the army to go on a rebellion, many are killed. Many are not happy with
andreas, while many are.
22. Chapter 22- king andreas II- Constantine goes on a war with arcaderinth, a powerful
empire which is locatd at a very strategic landscape for economic advancement and
protection from enemies through its hills and mountain landscape. Their army is weak,
but their landscape protects them. in the war, there are several battle were both
andreas and Ophelia suggest strategies. Ophelias strategies work most of the time, while
adreas’s work only a few times. Meanwhile iris falls in love with pheston, who is a lord
from a very rich and powerful family. Her painter her sings and dances with her. matron
adela dies. Carolina manipulates adonis and atlas to fight all the time. haris becomes
very ill but recovers.
23. Chapter 23- king andreas III- andreas openly chastises Ophelia in front of the counsil and
threatens to exile her. the battle ends with constantine’s defeat. Everyone mocks Ophelia
and andreas. They also mock andreas for marrying a second wife: the princess siena of
arcaderinth. When siena is brought to the capital, she fights with claire constantly. Siena
is given more attention. Claire becomes extremely jelous when siena becomes pregnant
and commits suicide with her children. Everyone is extremely sad and despondent.
24. Chapter 24- fallen to treason- Ophelia embarks on a mission to conquer cloudsdale, and
on an epic battle captures aurelia, the 17 year old queen of cloudsdale. Andreas maked
policies to restrain his mother. He makes several laws and regulation and important
decisions which put the empire into abyss. The empire is under debt, and there is a food
crisis. Andreas acuses daphne’s husband of treason and sentences him to death with
shatters daphne’s heart.
25. Chapter 25- the castle of domira- Ophelia discovers secret castles full of ancient secrets,
books, many tombs, secret pathways. She discovers a cult where she meets nebula- a
powerful witch. Nebula has short hair and looks messy and walks drunk and acts crazy
and is very powerful. On her path she meets this beautiful maiden names mariana who
is forced to be a sex slave to an evil man who bought her from the slave market. Ophelia
takes mariana in and discovers and she has many promising gifts. She also meets valtour
who is a powerful mage who promises to protect her and always be by her side.
26. Chapter 26- the old widow- Ophelia meets an old widow who is a beggar. She entails a
very sad story. This chapter is about her very sad life. Ophelia decised to change her life
and she does.
27. Chapter 27- back to meritia- it is at this point where Ophelia decides to conquer the
island of meritia in an effort to meet her family. She attacks, but is humbly welcomed by
its people. They inform her that her father has died. She meets her brother paeon who
is so old that she doesn’t recognize him anymore. He is appointed in her son’s council.
28. Chapter 28- sirens-Ophelia conquered many island in an extensive sea voyage. Once she
drowned under water and met many sirens and nymphs. Astrid accompanied her
through all of this. Meanwhile, andreas continued to lose money and territory.
29. Chapter 29- nebula’s game- nebula proposes to poison andreas, as there are rumors that
andreas decides to poison opehlia. Ophelia, with the help of estafer and desmond,
poisons her son and he dies. She instantly regrets this and holds his cold body and cries.
Part 4 –
30. Chapter 30- king adonis I- the chapter starts witht the coronation of king adonis. Is a
grand procession, although not as grand as his older brother. However, people are more
hopeful as he is quite reputed, and has plenty of sucessors. His wife and chief consort
stands behind him, while his mother is watching the ceremony procession from the
castle. The new matron of the household Marianna comes to see the funeral, and also
hands her a letter. Meanwhile, asten resumes her love affair with asten, who was also
recently annulled his marriage with his wife. Iris is also set to marry christoff, a wealthy
son of a duke. It is also revealed that the empire of couronne wants to wage a war
against Constantine, their king is ozwald and they have a lot of wealth and a powerful
army.
31. Chapter 31- king adonis II- a pregnant woman is kicked out of her home with her little
son. Her husband was a drunk and very abusive. They were poor and barely got to eat
anything anyways. Lord dumphry takes in the woman, the woman gives birth and dies
leaving her daughter who is names marigold. Lord dumphry’s castle was lonely. He has
no kin, was very moody and always liked to stay out of the manor. The house was old
and shabby, with very old drapes carpets and torn tapestries. The ornaments of the
house were also worn out, while some of the walls had collapsed. It was a bleak house.
Marigold educated herself on that empty house on literature, history and the arts,
aspiring to be a queen just like Ophelia. she was desparate to be under the limelight, to
be remembered by history and be a leader of a great warfare. Lord dumphry saw this
potential. She was obsessed with Ophelia.
32. Chapter 32- king adonis III- the chapter opens at a parliament room, where all the
officials have their attention at a map. Adonis is pointing out the various parts of the
empire. Adonis had already captured and arcaderinth and had taken all its resources.
The princess of arcaderinth, his brothers widow, was tried for the muder of his brother
and killed, eventhough, everyone knew that is was the queen mother Ophelia who was
the culprit. Ophelia is now names queen mother. There is 17 dukedoms of the empire
with 28 more earldoms. There are many reals, islands and terretories. Most of them are
full of resources but governance in most of these places is nearly impossible, and some
are even running independenclty without acknowledging adonis’s rule. Adonis is
preparing for war, and makes plans and strategies that are bad, and the queen mother
knows that. Adonis, to keep his mother away from interference, gives her very minor
responsibilities.
33. Chapter 33- king adonis IV- meanwhile, adonis’s wife queen adamaya tells her husband
to exile the queen mother, cut back expenses, and kill his brother atlas and his four sons
before he kills them. it is also revealed at the market place that people are liking atlas
more than adonis as he is incharge of a very important dukedom, and is succedding
quite well. He made economic and socio-political advancemnts, destroyed rebellion, and
fougt in the army very well and has a nice heart. The two brothers are jelous of
eachother, and animosity starts when adonis’s assassination plan fails, atlas finds out,
decides to take revenge and starts gathering army secretly. There are many advisors that
are evil and are manipulating the brothers to go after eachother.
34. Chapter 34- daphne’s marriage- daphne marries asten finally, and their wedding
procession is grand. Iris also marries christoff, but also falls in love with his uncle baron
emory, with who she has a secret affair. There is a great game with a fair and a carnival,
as it is the celebration of the annual harvest season, there are many games which the
royal family watches, prizes and awards. Amidst of all this, we can see the immense
amount of love the queen mother has for astrid, who turns into a snake more often, as is
losing the power to turn herself back into human slowly. She is also turning weak and
frail. It is also at this point when adonis finds out about atlas gathering army and coming
for him, so he gathers army to fight. The queen mother is deeply distressed, and orders
her brother paeon to suppress the rebellion and create reconsilation between the
brothers. Desmond is supporting adonis.
35. Chapter 35- brother against brother- the couronne empire has started marching their
way to the border. Estafer mentioned that her sons going after eachother is a good thing
as it will keep them distracted and she can have complete domioin over the throne. She
charges with her army. Iris’s marriage is crumbling when christoff finds out about the
affair. Iris has a daughter, whos real father is emory. Daphne is happy and has many
children. Meanwhile, it is revealed that the queen mothers old best friend from meretia
(andrea) has married king Hendrik who is still alive and is gatherinf the strength and the
army to fight against Constantine, especially against the ophelia.
36. Chapter 36- Ophelia the warrior- there were five epic battles, is a span of 4 years, none
of which Ophelia wins. Finally in one epic battle, couronne empire is destroyed. She also
conquers heraclian empire and the kingdom of boewyn in epic battles which turns her
into a ruthless queen. She becomes savage and dessents into an obstructive nature,
fuled by nebula’s advice and evil council. Adonis and atlas fight, and finally adonis kills all
of atlas’s children, even a little boy. Atlas ends the battle by killing adonis with the help
of Ophelia. atlas promises Ophelia a share to the throne. Atlas sits on the throne,
however, people start to acknowledge queen Ophelia as their real queen.
37. Chapter 37- Ophelia and her tyranny- Ophelia starts going mad. She is violent, killing
many lords, ladies, dukes, kings and queens and men women and children who disobey
the laws and regulations of the Constantine empire, not pay homage or tax, do not raise
the Constantine flag or acknowledge that they are a part of the empire, or chastise or
show disloyalty to the empire and the royal family. She burns people, beheads them,
innocent people who are falsely accused,she destroys people wells, and comes up with
ingenous forms of torture and punishment. Althout, she is very nice and kind to the
vulnerable, the sick, poor, orphans, widows and old and the young. She isntalls soup
kitchen and charities. She also rules with an iron fist. There is great economic and
infrastructural development, greater protection and safety, but little right to express
personal opinion or personal freedom of individuals. Life was hard for most people. The
couronne empire rose again, and ozwald ensued in a crazy battle. Atlas declares haris as
his heir. Ophelia kills atlas due to a small fight that escalated into something big. Paeon
convinces and roots for haris to sit on the throne as he is promised to be of the highest
rank by haris.
38. Chapter 38- king haris I- haris sits on the throne, he is extremely scared of his mother
and considers putting her in exile. The endictus games starts which is a charity event.
Everyone has a lot of fun, there are a lot of games (its like the Olympics) . Marigold is
brought to the palace as a gift from lord dumry. Ophelia is very impressed and weds her
with her mad son theodore, who stays locked up for most of his life because haris is
afraid that he might try to kill him. Haris is always scared of betrayal, and beheads many
of his generals because of it, and even kills asten. Daphne is in despair, and commits
suicide by hanging. Carolina has a lot of fun. Ophelia is greatly distressed. She uses her
magical powers to give her son diseases what would kill him.
39. Chapter 39- king haris II- haris succums to his diseases and dies. There is a 5 year gap.
Within this time theodore sits on the throne. After the complete destruction of the
couronne empire, theodore goes on a conquest and captures many kingdoms and rules
better than his mother wit the help of dutches rewina, caroline and desmond. He also
has many people who do all the ruling for him and use him as a puppet. They convince
him to put his mother in exile and puts his sister incharge of many things and keeps iris
and astrid close.
Part 5-
40. Chapter 40- queen consort marigold I- marigold finally manipulates the king and his
court to exile Ophelia to the earldom of Cassiopeia. Is is very secluded, surrounded with
gardens and elaborate courtyards. Only a few servants occupy the palace. However,
Ophelia goes out on a killing rampage killing and excecuting any and every servant who
disobeys her. she also misunderstands people as well, wrongly killing them. marigold
back at the capital does many things like undoing all the legacy of Ophelia, emptying
ophelia’s private treasury and emptying the national treasury to build monuments and
plaza’s and castles. She is extravagant, over taxes people and hosts many festivities while
people in the parts of the empire are starving. Marigold has a son names caliber. She
appeases king theodore. Theodore is crazy. Marigold has a secret affair with desmond.
Anyone who bribes for a place in the empire, gets it. there is a wave of disorder, chaos,
bribery immorality. Theodore is mad and has an obsession with dead animal carcass
rotting. He covers his room with dead animal carcass which smells bad.
41. Chapter 41- final act of queen agnes- meanwhile, the old queen mother finally dies
(agnes). Ophelia assassinates Carolina. Doris has a preminision about Ophelia getting
killed, Ophelia hears this, gets angry at doris instead and kills her. Marianna and estafer
is scared of her.
42. Chapter 42- Hendrik is killed- asgard comes with one last strike, Ophelia is incharge of
the war and defeats them, marches into the ememy castle and kills Hendrik. The battle is
epic. Andrea seeks refuge under Ophelia, Ophelia complies.
43. Chapter 43- king theodore the mad I- everyone is appaled by theodore’s corrupt reighn.
They also don’t like the fact that he is crazy. Ophelia decides to come to the capital and
dethrone his son and enthrone theodore’s son Caliban. Marigold supports this as she
will now have more control over the throne. Caliban is 5 years old when he sits on the
throne and his father has been taken to prison.
44. Chapter 44- killing a serpent with venom- its been a year, marigold is scared that
theodore might try to reclaim the throne, and proposes to kill him, Ophelia complies.
She gives her mad son one last hug, and the excecutioners kill strangle him. Iris and
astrid come to protect him and stop this, but Ophelia gets angry and decides to kill them
both. Iris is excecuted and astrid dies from a snake bite arranged by Ophelia. iris gives a
monologue about how cruel Ophelia is, and what a horrible mother she is.
45. Chapter 45-king Caliban I- Ophelia starts to be authoritarian again. Killing many, and
imposing strict laws regulations and punishments. She grows very old. Caliban is 9 years
old, and under his mothers influence, writes a decree taking away all of ophilia’s power,
but Ophelia discovers it and plans to kill Caliban and put adonis’s daughter (gwenevere)
on the throne. This doesn’t work out and eventually the whole empire and army starts
revolting against opheilia. The council knows that she must be excecuted.
46. Chapter 46- the great betrayal- an army of men go after Ophelia all over the palace.
Desmond is leading this army with ophelia’s brother paeon and andrea. They storm from
room to room, but cannot find Ophelia. Ophelia has her own line of defense. They fight
in the halls of the castle at pythica, the fight becomes bloody. Ophelia’s men kill her
brother paon and desmond. Ophelia tricks andrea to come to her chambers and then
kills her and gives a small monologue to her dying friend about the betrayal of a friend.
47. Chapter 47- austerities for survival- Ophelia runs for her life, as Marianna is killed in
front of her. estafer is also lured in by marigold and is killed. Ophelia accidently goes to
the secret garden. The plants are all dead and rotting, nothing is alive. Everytihing looks
sad and dreary. She reminices.
48. Chapter 48- the final act- Ophelia hides in her closet, where she has all her trasures,
paintings and a big mirror which she looks into. She becomes schizophrenic and sees her
younger self in the mirror looking at her with disgust and confronts her about eveything,
she takes a dagger and plunges it into the mirror, shattering it and then realizes that she
was just seeing an illusion. Ophelia is caught. Caliban and marigold and their supporters
have come inside her hiding place. A knife is placed in her chest and she is struggling to
breath. She runs with the knife, but slows down. She looks through a huge window in
the palace hallway to catch her breath. The two sides of the hallway are blocked by
people and she decides to take matters into her own hands and jump and take her own
life.
49. Chapter 49- was Caliban a hero?- ophelias life less body flows through the rivers. She is
clad with the most expensife and exquisite black silk, satin and muslin. She is decked
with pearls and bejwelled with diamonds. a tiara cricled her head. Her hair is a mixture
of grey and dark brown. It looks messy yet tidy. She is wearing black gloves, one hand on
her belly another clenching the knife in her chest. She dies. Her body flows throough
rivers, streams, estuaries, the seas and finally towards the islands of meritia.
50. Chapter 50- a lady in need- in a small island names meritia, there lives a lovely warm
family. Their main souce of income, was to sell milk which was produced by a small farm
of cows which they tended to. the family had a father, gaheris, mother Claudia, and two
children: a son names ector and a girl who was adopted from claudia’s deceased sister
Maeve. The two children of 8 and 6 would play in the field while the cows would graze.
Once such day, they go out to the medow where there flowed a lovely stream. The
children were running around and playing hide and seek. It was their usual routine.
While the brother was counting, the sister went to hide, but she just couldn’t find any
place to hide. She tried hiding undr the bush, behing a cow, behind a tree, finally
decided to hind behing a windmill across the stream. She screamed bloody muder. Ector
arrived to the scene and say the lifeless body of a woman he couldn’t recognize. The
whole village arrived to see this mesterious woman. She was wearing expensive clothes,
which have their color faded to look white, and it is understandable that they were once
black but have been bleached by the current. Her hair was faded golden with gray, she
was frozen and pale, was wearing a tiara and had pearls and diamonds all over her body.
She was also tangled with many flowers like dafoddils, marigolds, roses, daisies, jasmine,
rose, azalea, iris, dahlia, and most essentially, a lavender in a hole in her chest where is is
almost obvious that a dagger had probably been in its place. The villagers deduced that
she was killed by some tragedy. No one could recognize who she was, but understood
that she was “ a lady in need” and that’s what they called her. the villagers ripped the
pearls and diamonds off of her from greed, while ripping out her emerald ring from her
lifeless body. She was lifted from the stream and gaheris dug the mesterious woman
under a lovely willow tree. There was an homage paid to her by spreading lavender
seeds over her grave, which instantly generated into flowers and died within moments,
but no one noticed this. All anybody could wonder was- Who was she?