The once united kingdom of Odregary was torn into two by the acts of a civil war. A war which came about upon the death of their king. Not just any death, a murder. His two sons, grief stricken and lost for answers, turn to each other. One for comfort, the other to blame. The people of this kingdom chose their sides, tearing the peaceful kingdom down the middle. A new kingdom was built, the Traterra kingdom, which was ruled by the younger brother, Leonard. Adrian continued to rule his kingdom, constantly looking over his shoulder for fear of his life. After a few years of this, he brings in an assassin, Aldreda Boudoir, whom ends up being the love of his life. As their wedding days dawn on the pair, Adrian doesn't ask much of his bride, only one simple act. Her final mission as an assassin before laying down her weapons forever, to rule a kingdom at the side of her soulmate. He simply askes of her to kill his brother. But perhaps the stories you told, the people you know or think you know aren't who they seem, for better or for worse...
Lian snuck out of the imperial palace and exposed the village healer to be a fraud and a devil-worshipper. Cursed by the spurned fire god, Huogwai, and disgraced and cast out by the royal family, Lian set out with her manservant Emiru to the kingdom of fire to rid her of the curse of uncontrollable flames for a chance to regain her claim to the throne. But being a fire disciple meant she was a practitioner of the forbidden arts. For those that hunt her kind, the game had just started.