The knightxprincess trend, but this time it's cannon lore w my ocs Atticus and Tess xD
Context: The knight is getting married instead of the princess. And his unwanted bride has loved him the whole time.
(Skip if you don't want the detailed lore ^o^)
After the discovery of Belaevos, a vast section of highlands within Wystonia that had previously been encircled by a thick cover of toxic miasma, it was found that the lands were highly concentrated with magical ores. The Crown wanted to colonise these wildlands, and to claim its resources for themselves. Simultaneously, talks of a Holy Maiden of Light surfacing had the kingdom in uproar. Helena, the daughter of a baron, had manifested a blessing from the Deity of Light, and was therefore scouted in as the future crown princess, bride to crown prince Royce, to fulfill an age old prophecy that was passed down through Wystonian history. Wystonia was under threat of complete annihilation, and only a Holy Maiden of royal standing was prophecised to be the Foreseer that saved Wystonia from it's impending doom.
Helena was therefore welcomed into the royal family posthaste - however, she had been in a courtship with Atticus, the heir to the Frescia county. He was regaled as a promising knight and hero after his many victories against enemy armies, and he was planning to propose to his beloved. But by royal decree, Helena cast him aside, leaving him with a broken heart. Atticus, Helena and Royce had schooled together, had been friends till graduation - but prince Royce had harbored immense hatred rooting from envy for the knight hero, so snatching away his beloved wasn't enough. He advised the royal counsellors and king to send Atticus on an expedition to quell the existence of the threatening arcane monsters that had frequently been sighted within the Belaevos highlands and bring back their magical cores, essentially trapping him in an exile that would lead to death, since the knights of Wystonia had no knowledge of effectively fighting arcane beasts.
The command was shortly bestowed upon him by royal decree - and to legitimize the command, Belaevos was granted to him as its Duke, and the eldest daughter of Duke Valmont was offered as his bride, Duke Valmont being the right hand to the King. To refuse such decree would be treason to the crown, which would endanger not only him but his county's people. Therefore, he was forced to accept despite his rage and hurt - to have accepted this ordainment, he was all but expected to perish in the wildern arcane lands, and the spoils of his victory and the land bestowed upon him would legitimately be handed back to the crown. He'd given everything to the Crown, but he'd only been met with betrayal, not only by the prince he'd considered a friend, but by his beloved Helena as well.
Seething with hatred and vowing revenge, he marries Contessa Valmont, a woman he loathed and swore he'd bring down, along with her wretched family and the crown they served.
Contessa Valmont, the eldest daughter of the Valmont duchy was an unwanted entity not only to her family, but to the people of Wystonia. All her life she'd quietly suffered indignities and insults, and she'd chosen to submit to a reclusive life. But that changed when she came under the mentorship of an archmage by the name of Heron - he taught her the ways of magic which she'd believed she would never be capable of, and he gave her a home where she felt like she could belong. And in these rosy school years she spent under Heron, she often spied a brilliant knight in the neighbor knighting academy - Atticus was larger than life, loved by all and would forever be out of her reach, but she was content in harboring her childish love for him from afar.
Then years later, winter falls on the spring of her youth when she finds her mentor murdered, and not even a whole week later, ordained by royal decree into a marriage to the same knight hero. And she realizes they were all but pawns in a cruel, twisted game played by the crown - but Contessa Valmont was a changed person, and revenge on the crown was all she could see beyond the wedding veil.
Thus begins the story of The Huntsman and The Witch in Chrysalis
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