Beautiful Illusions
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Last published Mon, Mar 22, 2021
In the lands of Quadara, tensions arise after the beloved Ludian queen, Queen Celestia, succumbs to a mysterious illness. Riots break in the streets, military forces are being used against their own people. Just as the mayhem is dying down, two princesses of rival queendoms make an unlikely alliance; joining hands to support a revolution, to rebuild the world for one filled with light, not darkness.
In order for a new era to rise, there must first be destruction. Cruel, gruesome, and unexpected. Both princesses, one full of light, the other full of darkness, are willing to do whatever it takes.
And like the renowned legend of the phoenix, Quadara will be reborn through fire.
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