𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐒

𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐒

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  DIANNE GRIMES was the kind of woman who could settle an uprise just by one look of her angelic face. Her beauty was renowned in the north, and spoken of so highly, that when the Throne's Prince was in need of a new wife, he honored the kingdom, Mounthell, with his presence just to get a glimpse of her.

  The tales did her no justice, for she was far better than whatever image Prince Deonidas conjured.

  Yet, what was beauty to a man who was in turn to inhabiting the entire five kingdoms?

  Irreplaceable.

  And that's what Dianne was, along with every other woman who came after her. Emerlyth, Yriel. . . Khaline.

  Even as a queen, she wasn't the only one. And just like any other woman who found out her husband had mistresses, she was torn. And scorned women do the most damned of things.

  Unfortunately, each woman who spent their lives as wife's to the heir to the throne turned out to be more scorned that the last, and thus ultimately resulting in a battle of life or death, a war where no women or her child was left unscathed.

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" SHE had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. . . but now she saw that she had donned them after all."
- GRRM, a game of thrones.

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  AFTER the untimely death of his first wife, Elidora, when they were both only sixteen, Prince Deonidas embarked on a lifelong quest to find women who possess qualities reminiscent of his lovely Elidora.

  However, his pursuit of love proved to be a challenge, as each of his wives were later understood to be perfect representations of the seven deadly sins, according to the gods. The seven wives, in no particular order, were: Elidora and Dianne from the North Kingdom of Mounthell, Celina and Khaline from the southern kingdom of Sandria, Emerlyth and Yriel from rival houses of Rosegarden (Crowe of Starminster and Wales of Redgate), and Melena Alstark from the eastern kingdom of Riviera.