"You will have no firstborn to rule after you
She
will never conceive your firstborn - or at least not
first."
The last words of the Evil Wizard, Lord Prydeen, have hung over King Damien and Queen Genevieve for five years.
Five years,
wherein Damien has sought to rebuild the Realm, inspiring and requiring a return to honor and
noblesse oblige
among his corrupt and canny noble class.
whence Genevieve has restored three of the Five Lost Provinces to Ilseador's banner, negotiating by dint of the army at her back - and her own formidable reputation as a warrior.
Five years...
and
ten
heartbreaking miscarriages.And then Prydeen had added those
other
words that either allow for a kernel of hope... or are the grindstone with which to destroy King Damien's hopeful new reign. "You have a
Champion
of a problem, young king."