Queen Catherine gave everything for her kingdom, only to be betrayed by King Edward and handmaiden Vivian. Her achievements were stolen, she was publicly humiliated, and flogged before being confined to a remote side‑palace. When her loyal handmaiden Mary was executed, she learned from a dying elderly prisoner that her father had also been poisoned to death by the king. Crawling out of the mire of the side‑palace, she faked her own death and fled to the Northern Realm, where she accidentally discovered she was the sole heir to the northern royal bloodline. Donning her silver crown, she returned at the head of a mighty cavalry. The dethronement ceremony for the deposed queen turned into a tribunal. Vivian’s true identity as Princess Turan was laid bare, and King Edward knelt begging for mercy. Upon the executioner’s block, her enemies paid with their blood. She placed the golden crown upon her head, becoming Eldreland’s first queen.
“They once wished me dead. Now, they can only look up to me.”
