Touched by the Heavens
Marviey95
In the opulent of Virelia, where image is everything and royal blood must be flawless, one figure disrupts the prestine order - Prince Renard Asterius, a whirlwind of mischief, defiance, and charm. With a laugh too loud for courtly halls and a spirit to wild for a crown, the prince has become the kingdom's shame.
Rumors bloom like weeds among the nobility. Some way he's cursed. Others whispers of possession. Queen Seraphim, torn between love and fear, clings to the last hope of saving her son -and her family's legacy. She summons a revered shaman to cleanse Renard's soul of it's so-called darkness.
As the ritual begins under the golden dome of the royal temple, thunder rolls, the winds howl... and from above, a man falls.
Professor Elias Verdan, a cold, logic-driven academic from a world far beyond theirs, awakens dazed and bleeding at the heart of Virelia's sacred ground. In his world, he was stabbed in the shadows-unwanted, unloved, and ready to die. But in this world, he is reborn as something else entirely: a celestial figure, a messenger from skies, a key to the prince's salvation.
The shaman declares Elias's arrival divine. His presence alone, they say, can drive out the demon within the prince. Elias-skeptical, bitter, and painfully rational-wants none of it. But trapped in a kingdom not his own, and bound by forces he doesn't understand, he agrees to stay.
Yet beyond the ritual, beneath the palace walls, someone watches. Someone who benefits from the prince's fall. Someone who will stop nothing to ensure he never rises again.
In a land of crowns and curses, truth wears many masks-and not all enemies reveal their faces.
On-going