Princess Vae - Lore
Added 2024-01-25 06:59:54 +0000 UTCIn the Aronian Empire the line of succession is forged with bloodshed. For the past three centuries, each heir has been decided through a right known as “The Choosing”. One noble is selected from each of the thirty noble houses to undergo a series of trials. In each trial, a single participant is eliminated, and in the process undergoes a ritual. This ritual, called a hollowing, is aptly named. For those put through it are stripped of everything, from their life force to their souls, extracted out into a liquid substance for the victors to imbibe.
This process continues until only one remains, and an heir is named. Vae has known nothing other than this life. Though she hails from the lowest of all noble houses, she now finds herself the only one left among her peers. Friends who she had grown close to. Some acquaintances. Some enemies. All now reduced down into a viscous goo. All that they once were, now part of her. Vae has adapted well to the loneliness, the savagery, which were both a requirement to survive and the resulting outcome of The Choosing. But now she finds herself wondering what’s left of the shy and innocent girl she once thought herself to be.
Though the souls, lives, and magic of twenty-nine others now reside with her, she at her core now finds herself feeling hollow. Is such a person really fit to be the heir? She toils with this question in the solitude of her palace, wondering where she goes from here.
