This story is finally ready to start posting. I hope you enjoy the read, but please let me know what you think. The prologue's very short, but I'm posting Chapter I today too. It will probably be out in less than an hour.
Prologue
In between Creta and the Great Desert lay a seemingly peaceful kingdom called Amestris. Being back in the days when doing magic was commonly thought of as asking a higher power for a favor, the inhabitants honored their sorcerer-king to gain even more of his good intention than he naturally had toward his subjects.
But currently, the golden-eyed sorcerer was sitting in his dungeons instead of on his throne. In the cold, damp place, rodents pitter-pattered across the floor, and the king, Van Hohenheim, could hear more of what was going on around him than he could see. Nevertheless, he looked upward as though that could help him see what was going on up in the rest of Central Castle.
Somewhere above him was a nursery that had held until recently both of his young sons. If his knight, Roy Mustang, had been able to keep his promise, then Edward was still up there in the knight's care.