The Crown's Quest

The Crown's Quest was an old tradition of Coronias, one that had not been held for the past centuries after House Delphine monopolized the throne. The Crown's Quest was a competition, a quest of some sort, to determine who the Consort of the Crown Heir would be.

Crown Princess Leira Drache of Coronias always thought of the Quest as surreal and overly dramatic. The Quest had always seemed like a useless talent show to her for the Quest, afterall, allowed the royal family to witness and to measure the strength of the potential Consorts' mind, will, and most importantly, Blessing.

Each House had a certain Blessing Bestowed upon them by the Creator. The noble blood contained a fragment of the Blessing Bestowed and in turn, each child will have a specific Blessing that was of nature of the Blessing Bestowed to the House.

House Drache, the House of her father, for example, had the Blessing Bestowed of pyromancy. House Cervaux, the House of her mother, had the Blessing Bestowed of that connecting to the mind. As a result, her father, King Aurelius Drache, could manipulate fire while her mother. Queen Caitlynn Cervaux could whisper to the minds of others. Prince Lucasyle Drache, her younger brother, could control and create smoke. Leira, however, was an Oblivious.

In other terms, she had noble blood but no Blessing at all: a secret that the royal family had been hiding for the past sixteen years.
Perhaps it was this secret that forced the King to hold the Crown's Quest despite her daughter's requests.

Nine Houses. Six Lords. One Princess. One Crown.
Let the Crown's Game Begin...
Long Live the Future Queen.
May She survive the evil that lurked within...