The Chastisement of Our Peace

"Then again if she knew then what she knew now, Persephone could hardly blame them for the way they had managed her. Looking back on it, she would have done the same. After all, how else should one treat a monster?"
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For Persephone, Madam Theia was one of the few people to regard her as anything more than less than. In her time with the woman, she had learned a lot: from the myths that ruled Elusia to the swelling darkness that had begun to creep over the southern lands to the sordid tales of Madam Theia's lost sister, the wicked Mistress Achlys. Though initially met with disregard by the many Lords and Ladies of the continent, as the darkness surged in even the purest of lands and the rumored revival of the sinister Mistress, Persephone is drawn into an ancient war more sinister than anyone ever anticipated.