Beyond the Roselands
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The Roselands is at peace. With Caldwell defeated, all the creatures live in peace with one another and danger is unheard of. The hybrid valley is now a running adoption center and hybrid marriages are now allowed. Could anything be better or more happy?
But Zeek wishes to find more. After spotting a city from far away, he wishes to seek out the lands beyond the Roselands. But the ties of future engagement and the arrival of new life are holding him down from his dreams. Despite his urge to have a family, he is forced to travel for Sprites safety and to find a way to defeat the Faerys. Not only will he venture to lands on his world, but to other worlds as well.
A red rose burns in the center of the Roselands and it is bursting with black magic ready to unleash on the world. This time, the Faerys won't lose.
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