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At age 8, Princess Xenia completely leaves her homeland in exile when her kind father King Darnell doesn't recognize her after the new queen Queen Harmony steals her face and turns all eleven of her older brothers right into white swans with her evil magic. For two days, she travels farther away from her homeland until she comes across another kingdom, where she settles down as a harvester on a long abandoned farm. After ten years of this, Xenia, now 18, gets alerted to a visitor by a female orange cat she'd since adopted.

After Jeralt and Rhea are killed by Myson amidst a deadly tragedy, young heiress Princess Marina, 12, escapes from the church safely with her mother Sitri, but they end up getting separated during this and Sitri travels to Enbarr, where she is taken in by Emperor Ionius and his family. Twelve years later, Marina, now 24, has been calling herself Mari ever since she lost her memories after falling and hitting her head on the sharp edge of the mountain range between the alliance and the eastern kingdom of Almyra twelve years prior. Wanting to regain her memories, Mari leaves Almyra behind and makes her way to a local inn, where she books a room for two days and starts making preparations for her rather long journey to Enbarr.

Six years after the war, former kingdom monarch Lambert and his daughter in law Queen Rosemarie are transported to another continent by magic while away from the kingdom's capital. This causes Lambert's son Dimitri and the married couple's 1 year old daughter Princess Crystal Esperanza Blaiddyd to become worried about where her mother and grandfather are, as well as sparking the concern of Rosemarie's lady in waiting Solange.

Wanting Nova Eisner, 24, to marry him following the loss of her first job, the king of elves Dimitri, also 24, takes her older twin brother Brian Eisner from their house. After seeing their house completely trashed, she searches the house for her older twin brother for a while before their parents arrive at their house and she tasks them with cleaning up the house.