The Heirs

Prologue

The Pevensies' reign had been known widely as the Golden Age, a prosperous and harmonious time across the land. Trade flourished, beauty grew, and nature thrived, with the Narnians being the happiest they could remember.
But happiness is fleeting, as is prosperity, and both flickered away from Narnia when the Kings and Queens were whisked back to their land, the land without magic.

Eight years after the disappearance, a new High King stepped up to the Throne- Prince James, the eldest child of the Just King, and he took charge of a people which had been despairing as to what would happen to their beloved land. At the same time, the new High King's mother, Queen Sanya, returned to her Queendom of Rihaaya, and took her youngest, Seraphina, with her. Selene, the middle child, remained in Cair Paravel, knowing her place was by her brother's side.

But, even though the land returned to the state of comfort and calm it had been used to during the Golden Age, misfortunes brew and unease soon returned. Darkness and violence settled in the hearts of people and seeped into the very soil of the magical land. This spelled trouble, especially for the young Heirs, who had to grapple with the pains of being Royal as well as the struggles of being alive.

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A special thanks to TheGoldenAgeOfNarnia for helping me refine the Prologue <3
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Hey, it's been a while, hasn't it? Not as long as I thought it would be, of course- I was sure that it would be the end of 2021 by the time I even posted the Cast and Prologue- but hey, things change.

Okay, so down to business- I have no idea when I'll start posting chapters. As of this moment, I'm done with eleven chapters, which means I've about 19-24 chapters left, and my writing schedule is sporadic, at best, so there's no saying when I'll finish them.

'Alliance' chapters had started to get published about two months after the Prologue was posted, so it's possible the wait will be just as long, if not more, this time.

At any rate- I do feel like whenever I do restart writing, I'll be getting through chapters fast because I'm so unbelievably excited to get this story out.
Anyway- just stick around, okay? It's going to be great.
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Warning for future chapters: violence, strong language, mature scenes, non-explicit sexual scenes.

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Summary for the first book, in case anyone needs a refresher:

'Narnia and Rihaaya have an alliance of marriage between the Just King of Narnia, Edmund, and the Princess of Rihaaya, Sanya. They do not like the marriage- the Princess hates her husband for a long while, as the King forgets his wife's existence- and then they go on a quest for the Faerie Queen Rhiannon, to save her son, Graeme, from the White Witch. After the quest- where it is found that Sanya (bisexual) is the descendant of Poseidon, and has divine abilities- the Faerie Queen Rhiannon asks Sanya to adopt her son; and so, Graeme becomes James 'Jem' Pevensie. After a series of events- including Edmund embarking on a dangerous mission after Sanya rejects his kind-of confession of feelings, as well as then Edmund (demiromantic pansexual) rejecting Sanya's hesitant confession upon his return; Sanya's would-be rapist, Prince Rabatrash, coming to Narnia; Edmund attacking the would-be rapist and Sanya punching and banishing him from Cair Paravel, and then a kiss between Sanya and Edmund that signifies a new dawn between them; and a snow-day with the entire family; and the birth of their first-born child, a Princess named Selene- and several years- too many years- they finally fall in love. Madly, incandescently, ardently in love.
Edmund impulsively confesses his love to Sanya while in a argument-like discussion just after she had heatedly ranted about the difficulties of life; and Sanya calmly confesses her love to Edmund after he sang 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' to their infant daughter.
Peter (bisexual) meets and falls in love with a nurse named Aura, eventually proposing to her- and Susan (lesbian) embarks upon a sexually passionate affair with Tritonia, a half-fae soldier, and begins to realise that she is a lesbian. Lucy (aromantic asexual) wins the admiration of the Narnian army as a true warrior Queen.
Sanya and Edmund renew their wedding vows on the 13th of May, and it truly shows how everything has changed. Soon after, Sanya is titled the True by Aslan.
There's a war with the Giants that Peter and Sanya go to fight (Sanya and Edmund have sex in a bath prior to her leaving, as a goodbye, though neither verbalise it), and Edmund goes to Calormen where Susan is trapped by Prince Rabatrash, to help her return back to Narnia. It all goes fine enough, Sanya and Edmund reunite, and- after some tension between them, because Sanya had gone home to Rihaaya instead of Narnia and because Edmund had not called Sanya to Calormen for help- it is back to happy times in Narnia.

But not for long.

Because then, in the fifteenth year of their reign, the Pevensies go on a hunt for the White Stag, and never come back- and Sanya, heavily pregnant with their third child- Seraphina- loses her true love.

Sanya gives birth alone, raises the three children alone, rules two countries alone, and returns to her home country of Rihaaya soon after the memorial for the Pevensies is held eight years after their disappearance. Jem, now eighteen, becomes High King of Narnia, and twelve-year-old Selene stubbornly stays with him, while Seraphina- being only eight- moves to Rihaaya with their mother.
Sanya thinks she would never see Edmund again- she calls herself a widow, for she essentially was one. This belief is held until, twenty years later, in the middle of the night, she remembers a favour that the Faerie Queen Rhiannon had given her husband upon rescue of her biological son.
Though the Faerie Queen Rhiannon cannot bring back the Pevensies- she could make it so that Sanya lives long enough, possibly a thousand years, to see their return of the Pevensies and reunite with the love of her life.
The story ends with Sanya telling Jem of this favour- and then, finally, saying that it would be only her going to the Faerie Realm in five years' time, on her fiftieth birthday.'

'The Heirs' begins two years prior to the ending chapter of 'Alliance'.