Acordia Kingdom. Set in the plains and seacoasts to the north-west of Clarines, very few can say that they have traveled enough to catch a glimpse of its wealth, beauty, and peace.
Fewer still have even set foot into its lands, for they have kept themselves isolated, the reason lost to time.
However, the times are changing with the wind. 19 years ago, the King of Acordia, Josiah, lost his wife in her sleep. They had been unable to bear a child throughout their days.
But as he walked along the Royal Palace gardens the night after her funeral, he saw something hidden near the gate. Wrapped in a blanket and clutching a diamond pendant was an infant girl, barely a few months old. Her curled brown hair was the exact shade of the king's own.
King Josiah, without a single moment of hesitation, took the girl as his own and named her Ria Avalon, after his realm's first Queen and his grandmother. The Kingdom and its people, once in sorrow, now rejoiced, for their King had an heir and child at last.
As the years passed, Ria would eventually come of age at twenty-one. Though suitors from across her kingdom would attempt to court her, one by one…they were sent away in disappointment. Two years would pass since the last suitor came and went, and now…things are different.
After a formal ceremony signalling Acordia's opening to the world, one of the first nations to establish relations with King Josiah was the Kingdom of Clarines. Thus, after some negotiation between the King of Acordia, and the First Prince of Clarines, an agreement was settled upon.
Ria Avalon would come to Clarines as an ambassador of her realm, under the protection and courtship of Izana Wisteria, in three months' time.
Now, that time has come. As an Acordian flagship bearing Princess Ria approaches the Clarinesian capital of Wistal, both the Prince and the Princess think of what is to come…