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"The Trinity Throne" is a story set in a high fantasy world, where three key inhabitants of the Nordlands - the Nordlandics, the Vaykians, and the Myr - must compete in a once-in-a-generation race for the Trinity Throne. The throne, located upon the island fortress of Fjorgallahar, is only accessible during a very rare low tide known as the Trillian Tide, when the waters receed, the seas settle, and the weather calms, forming a safe passage to the island. During high tide, Fjorgallahar is cut off by bad weather and rough seas, making it completely inaccessible. Obtaining the throne is said to grant the Trinity King or Queen great powers that allow them to command all life on earth and in the heavens and seas. The throne is also riddled with a history of casting terrible curses on "unworthy" Kings or Queens, or to those who attempt to obtain the throne unfairly.

One candidate to represent the Nordlandics, Vaykians, and Myr, known as throne heirs, are permitted to take part in the race to the Trinity Throne each generation. Currently, the Nordlandics control the throne, and have for the past six generations. Currently, Helga Reinhardt - the king's 14-year-old daughter - is the Nordlandic throne heir, but when Helga is lost at sea during a violent storm, usurpers rapidly spring into action to overthrow the Reinhardts. Helga's journey is a key plot within the story.

Of the Vaykians, the "official" current throne heir is listed as Kaistrom Lune, however, he is not the true heir by blood or election (the only legitmate methods of determining a throne heir). Instead, Kaistrom is a puppet of the Prime Vaykian, Foen Halfaax, who is plotting to take control of the Nordlands through a strategic marriage between Kaistrom and Helga. When an eavesdropping soldier, Leif, learns of the trecherous plot, he is downcast (exiled) to the Lowlands. Leif's journey to hunt down the true Vaykian throne heir and take revenge against those who wronged him is a key plot in the story.

Of the Myr, the current throne heir is Bawi, who obtains the title through the annual galdiator competition of Ir Ra Few. His claim to the throne is challenged when Helga is brought into the Myrden, but ultimately, he joins Helga in the hopes that her crowning can pave a brighter future for the Myr.

Setting


The Nordlands is a collection of continents, islands, and seas, shared by Men (Nordlandics), Vaykians, and Myr. It is divided into three main kingdoms: the Nordlands (earth), Vaykia (heavens), and Myrden (sea). Collectively, the Nordlands in their entirety are ruled by a Trinity King or Queen.

The Nordlandic Kingdom: The Nordlandic kingdom is divided into a number of wards, governed by king-appointed wardens.


 * Nordham
 * Holmestaad & the Tjorstaads
 * Varkrona
 * Valharaad
 * Fjorgallahar (while also considered a part of the Nordlands, it does not have an appointed warden)

Myrden: The Myr do not have traditional city borders, governing bodies, or regional organisation, but instead live in scattered colonies throughout the various oceans and seas. A few key colonies/underwater cities are visited in the story:


 * Oon
 * The Tjorstaads
 * Sakamowai

Vaykia: All of Vaykia is confined to one mega-city, built on highest peaks of the Atlas Mountains, and is inaccessible to those without the power of flight.


 * Vaykia

Plot (detailed)
Helga & Lot

Helga Reinhardt is the 14-year-old daughter of Trinity King Reginjold Reinhardt, and, with the recent death of her older brother, Rorvin, is the current heir to the Trinity Throne on behalf of all Nordlandics. She is unprepared for the new role, assuming Rorvin - trained all his life in battle and seafaring - would compete in the next race. Unfortunately, Rorvin was killed by a Myr, who apparently ambushed him at night with her luring song. The hatred for the Myr is palpable at his funeral, as it has been for generations.

Talk of usurping the Reinhardts quickly emerges following Rorvin's death, knowing Helga is unprepared for the role and very volnerable. In particular, rival house and Warden of Holmestaad, Axim Vanderholt, is planning the overthrow the Reinhardts with a murderous plot. Vanderholt's legion have been at the front line of the Myr extermination, and operate brutal prison camps across Holmestaad. Vanderholt is unhappy with the Trinity King's recent softening towards the Myr, and complains of being given orders the day prior from the king to cease his planned raids on surrounding wetlands and Myr colonies. This order is considered bizarre, considering Rorvin's manner of death, and Vanderholt believes this is proof that old king is losing his mental faculties. In reality, Reginjold had been visited the day prior by a formally-dressed, land-walking Myr named Inyakana, a royal confidant from Oon. Inyakana offered her condolences for Rorvin's death, however, provided the king proof that his son died of a natural medical condition (giving him some small trinket she had collected from the water where his body was found). The king was moved by this brave confrontation, and Inyakana's brilliant wit and charm softened the king's heart towards her kind. Reginjold's sentiment, however, is not shared amongst the other members of the royal court, and so Vanderholt's plot gains popularity practically overnight. Vanderholt's mission to rid the Nordlands of the Myr pests must not be impeded.

Realising they are outnumbered, Lot smuggles Helga out of Madraheim aboard a merchant ship in the dead of night, and pays all his gold to sail to Fjorgallahar, despite being high tide. Lot assumes, through his understanding of the runic scriptures, that the throne can be claimed at any time, despite the difficulty to do that; Helga could solidify her place as the Trinity Queen if she made it there earlier. The merchant ship, the Vanguard, faces a heavy storm when entering the trecherous Tjor Sea. Fjorgallahar is nowhere in sight, yet the drunken captain claims they are still heading in the correct direction. Lot calms Helga in the cabin beneath deck, but suddenly, the rocking of the ship stops. The water instantly calms and the rain and thunder vanish. Lot goes above to see the sea is completely still, as if the water was glass. The sailors are all armed with harpoons, listening for something. Then, music from a beautiful singing voice rings out. The captain shouts at Lot to cover his ears and get below, less the lures of man-eating Myr capture him! Lot is thrust below deck with Helga, armed with an oversized harpoon. Above, madness and chaos: screaming, metal clashing, splashing, screeching, laughing... silence. Lot seizes a lantern and cautiously goes back up to the deck. The captain is gone; the ship is idly drifting sideways. Blood is splattered everywhere. Sails are torn and barrels are tipped. The sailors are either dead or missing. A cowering sailor hisses at Lot to extinguish his flame and hide. He does. An echoing singing voice rings out, and both men cover their ears. The silence returns, and the sailor gets up to see over the side of the ship if it is clear. He is instantly dragged in by a blue, scaled fish-like woman who lurches up from the sea with her jaws pried open. Lot cries out and stumbles further down deck, where he comes across another Myr, crouching over the body of a dead sailor, eating his intestines. She snarls at him and lunges forward, only for a harpoon to be lodged into her chest from behind. The creature falls dead and Lot sees the ship's captain. He is bitten on the hand. He begins to tremble and fall. Lot rushes to help him, but the old man goes on about how soon the Myr's venom will devour him. In his last breath, he whispers to Lot that the infestation upon his ship must be purged. Confused, Lot then notices a burnt rope with a sizzling end: a pile of black kegged powder is lit to blow! Lot cries out for Helga and races back to her, but the ship erupts in a spectacular fireball, throwing him overboard amongst the wooden debris. The large pod of scavenging Myr that were clinging to the underside of the ship's hull are eviscerated in flames. Lot emerges from the water and grabs onto debris, only to see himself alone.

Aui

In the deep dark ocean, curled up on the sand at the bottom of the Tjor Sea, a Myr named Aui mourns. She recently gave birth to a stillborn child, failing, like so many of her kind does, to bring a living Myr child into her world. She sleeps on the sand in solitude, trapped in a deep melancholy. She weeps, but is distracted by an explosion on the surface above. A brief speck of light burns, then fades. She sees the flickering tailfins of other Myr, hungry, swarming towards what appears to be another entrapped ship. She sniffs the water and picks up a scent. She swims towards the surface with a swift kick of her legs, and comes to find the body of young Helga slowly sinking into the dark waters, surrounding by ship debris. A swarm of hungry Myr are encircling her, swimming in circles like sharks. Aui, entranced by the girl, makes a lunge. She snarls and scrieks at the others, keeping them away from her. To save her from this watery grave, Aui bites Helga on the neck and infects her with venom.


 * Lot Audbjorn, Helga's guardian, goes on a wild hunt for the missing child after attempting to protect her from a vicious assassination plot. He comes across a plot by radical Dodaanic religious monks to revive the ancient corpse of Tjor of Mjol to capture the throne and enslave the world under a new theocratic empire.


 * Gunter, a villager of Terrasgardt, meets a Myr woman named Wawu, and discovers the ongoing construction of their village dam is cutting off the local Myr from a vital herb that grows in their river. When Wawu and her people are brutally massacred, Gunter goes on a journey of revenge, and ultimately comes to realize how horribly the Myr are treated by Nordlandics. He develops into a hero and a liberator amongst the Myr. He ultimately goes up against a psychotic army general, who is attempting to assist in the crowning of a more brutal Nordlandic ruler who would allow him to carry out mass genocides against the Myr.


 * Leif, a former Astral, has been downcast from Vaykia and left deprived of his wings. He lands in the arms of the pious and naive Gisel, whose father's church worship Vaykians as angels. Leif is determined to get to Fjorgallahar after discovering a plot by the Prime Vaykian to take the Trinity Throne using a fake throne heir, in order to solve Vaykia's worsening birth defects. Gisel joins him on his quest, and their partnership blossom's into love as they attempt to uncover the true lost Vaykian throne heirs.

Final Outcome
Each party converges on Fjorgallahar in a final race for the Trinity Throne:

Halfaax challenges Leif to a duel, and weilds a sleek, shiney sword. He poises in a very proper stance in preparation for a gentleman's match. Leif is ragged, bloodied, clothes torn, hair a mess, and with nothing but his fists. Halfaax asks is Leif is ready to "meet death" in an attempt to be intimidating. Leif tells a story of his years spent as an Astral. He describes to Halfaax, while slowly pacing towards him, the night that the Astrals were ordered to seek out and butcher the children of Shuragi during the Great Drowning. He tells how he was sent from town to town, forced to seek out, stomp, decapitate, burn, and slice the Myr babies. Sure, they were likely the demonic, flesh-eaten spawn of Dodaan, but, as a father who had lost a child to the Law of Imperfection, the massacre triggered something within Leif that night, and suddenly he could no longer tell the difference between the children of the Myr queen and any other child. He emerged from his trance to discover he had slaughtered two young Nordlandic children, mistaking them for Myr. The screams of their distraught mother left him in a daze, and despite his orders to carry on with the hunt and slaughter, Leif could not go on any longer. When he returned to Vaykia, he was his asked by his commander if he had succeeded in his mission, to which he replied, "I do not know", resulting in his discharge from the elite warrior army. During all this time, Leif has been strolling casually towards Halfaax, while Halfaax's sword-weilding arm has gradually lowered, and his face gradually left more shocked and twisted, until Leif found himself nose-to-nose with the seditious leader. Mid-sentence, Leif catches Halfaax unaware with a dagger directly up through his chin, into his skull. Halfaax crumbles dead to the floor and Leif casually moves on.

he looked upon these babes and, after slaughting so many, began to fail to see them as monsters in any sense; they each began to look more and more like his imperfect son, until eventually, Leif's spear-weilding hand had to be stopped by a fellow Astral. Leif had gone on a rampage of his own and had slaughtered a Nordlandic baby in his crib, failing to detect that he was not a Myr.

Kaistrom sits elegantly upon the throne. He recites the runic scripture, then awaits for some miraculous

Leif lays dying as Tjor towers over --, preparing to devour her. Helga, also wounded, sees the unoccupied Trinity Throne and begins to drag her body towards it. Tjor utters, using the demonic voice of Dodaan, about his future rule over the Nordlands. Meanwhile, Helga places a firm hand on the seat on the throne and begins to recite the runic chant, thus sealing her victory. Leif smiles. Tjor turns violently, screeching, to see that Helga has claimed the throne. He lunges for her in rage, just in time for Leif to recover and strike Tjor down. --- tells Helga that Lot would be proud, and bows to the Trinity Queen. Leif introduces himself to Helga for the first time. When she asks why he is here, he says, "To prevent

Kaistrom stumbles into the scene,

Leif and Kaistrom face off. Kaistrom poises himself with a thin, stylish blade, and prepares for a proper duel. Leif has only his fists and his covered in blood. He is tired, panting. He begins a lengthy dialogue

On the following morning, at the rising of the sun over Fjorgallahar, it is declared that it is time to leave. Helga's future heir, perhaps, will return here, but for now, she must abide to her new role as the Trinity Queen. Cured, of her Myr blood, Helga once again walks on land, and is ferried by ship back to Madraheim. The city has draped the Reinholdt banners from every castle tower and rooftop. Her people celebrate her. She steps off the ship with Leif at her side (and others?), but looks longingly back at the sea. Aui's head briefly breaches the water's surface so that she can sign out goodbye to her. Helga attempts to sing back, but her voice cracks; without her gills, she is unable to make the same sounds. Leif sighs and reminds her of the effectiveness of Lot's cure.

Years pass, and Helga has taken up the throne fittingly. There are peaceful alliances drafted now between Nordlandics and the Myr, while the Vaykians welcome --- back, honouring her as their true throne heir. She does not want their praise or worship, though, and demands that the current laws and practises of the Reformation stay enforced. However, the Law of Imperfection is stricken by her order. Throughout the Nordlands, the three races are beginning to communicate, trade, and coexist together. Inyakana is awarded the title of Warden of Myrden at a ceremony conducted by Helga. Leif now stands at her side as her royal guard, dressed in his famed golden armour. At the conclusion of Inyakana's ceremony, Leif whispers to Helga that she can "go play outside now". Helga smiles and slinks away to her chambers. She thrusts open the balcony doors and peers down, where the towering cliff edge of the castle touches the sea. She smiles longingly down, and begins to unbutton her robe. Leif, knocking, swings the door open and bursts in, claiming he had forgotten to remind the queen that supper was being served in an hour. But, the chamber room is empty. Helga's clothes are cast aside on the balcony floor, and below, the faintest of splashes hits Leif's ears. In the water below, a playful of pod of Myr are joined by another. Together, they swim off into the wide, open blue.

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