Decoy

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Princess Akasha

History has always been my favorite thing to learn during our weekly classes. Not just any history, but royal histories, histories of how empires rose and fail. History of how greed, and gold, breeds betrayal and how the higher you are in society, the more your chances of betrayed rises. 

Learning about the Decoy system and how it came to be was fascinating, before the system came to be what it was now, kings use to have doubles. People who dresses a bit similar like them, walking around the castle, just incase someone tried to assassinate the King. 

The difference between those doubles and decoys, were that the doubles had family to go back to, they did not need to learn about the kingdom and how it runs, they were trained in combat, and no honorable executions. 

As time went on, and traitors started to target the heirs and queens instead of the direct heir, rules started to change. The Kings started to have harems, and no one would know who is the true queen, and the heirs would stay hidden until they were one old enough or until the king had so many heirs, it would be difficult to kill a lot. 

That changed when, King Frederick of  Neopia came around, the lover king as he was called. He hated the harem system, and vow to marry only one woman. He came up with the Decoy system, orphan children who were of similar birth and sex would be with the heir. Soon enough, all Kingdoms followed that system, Decoys were respected, loved, and protected. Honor killing weren't a thing for a while, the Decoys lived with heir until death. 

It wasn't until the downfall of Neopia, 5 generations later, when the decoy got power hungry. He believed that he was the true heir, and worked as a mole to bring down the great empire of Neopia. 

When that happened, kingdoms became weary of the Decoy, the system itself almost erased until a Decoy from a small dynasty in the east did the unthinkable. To prove her loyalty to her kingdom, the moment the queen gave birth, she hosted a ceremony, and killed herself in honor of the kingdom. 

She was the first decoy to have her true name in history books, and the system became the same ever since. I admire her, her actions took courage and loyalty, not love but loyalty to her kingdom. 

I was named after her, and I vow to always put loyalty over everything, for the betterment of my Kingdom and those I hold dear to my heart.