The Heroic Legend of Ianthe Prologue
Pars Era, Year 317:
When their ally, Maryam, was invaded by the Lusitanian Army, Pars responded decisively. Their king, Andragoras the Third, met the invaders with a force three hundred thousand strong and crushed them. They left a mountain of Lusitanian corpses behind. Kings Andragoras returned to the capital city of Pars, Ecbatana, victorious.
There King Andragoras would be reunited with his wife, Queen Tahamenay and the thirteen year old Crown Princess Ianthe. Usually when one came back as a survivor from the repugnant devastation they would be greeted with great joy from family members who had been praying and waiting faithfully for their return.
But all is not as it seemed with the royal family of Pars.
King Andragoras and Queen Tahamenay have been estranged for many years. Even though they live together as husband and wife Queen Tahamenay has never once shown him a single moment of love or affection. She shut her heart to the world. To the frustration of King Andragoras no matter what he did he never could gain what he truly desired from her.
This is one of the reasons why people were still astonished to this day how they could've possible had two children together.
The royal couple had two a girl and a few years later a boy. Unfortunately child that had been named Arslan died in his infancy leaving their two year old, at the time, Ianthe alive.
Because of the tense relationship between the King and Queen it was highly unlikely they would have any other children together in the future. Initially Andragoras had set his sights on a son to become king after him, but, instead, was stuck with a daughter. So Andragoras grudgingly decreed to all that Princess Ianthe was to be named Crown Princess posthaste and would be the one to succeed him long after his own reign on Pars came to an end.
Barely two years old and already there was so much expected of the young princess. Many kept a close eye on Princess Ianthe wondering the sort of leader she would be, who she would eventually become.
With the long road Ianthe had ahead of her no one could have foreseen this.
Authors Note:
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