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A creature Created - a Darkling (Shadow and Bone) Fanfiction. (some changes in Original Plot Line)
"The failure of Sankta Alina has spread across all of Ravka; destruction and distraught follows suite. The king has revelled in false success, but when The Darkling's body has disappeared , no castle can keep the whispers deserting palace safety.Gossip grips concubines and corporalki alike, cold night and callous decisions clasp onto the Little Palace walls. Faith has fallen, darkness hoods the eyes of Ravka's civilians and soldiers. But one thing is clear in its motive; The Darkling has returned in fashion, bloody sword , bloodier hands, looking for one thing; Nikolai.
In planes of the land unknown to the king, unheard of to the ear, unwritten in scriptures, a child, not of human blood nor named lineage, is born. A child, abilities unknown, birth-rite unknown, sacrificed twice over, emerges from the flames of a small village collected of Shu Han outlaws. Contumacious in behaviour, archaic in language, what the Shu could not control or constraint, brings a wave of hope to Ravka. As the king feasts on what could be a new wave of Ravkan renaissance, his son reminds him of a fatal error yet to occur; "False hope is a terrible thing, if it's the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn."
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