Coldness is the last thing I had remembered. As I sunk into everlasting darkness, I felt my life slipping away. Everything had gone numb and I couldn’t move. The air from my last breath was gone, as it rose to the surface covered with ice. After that, I blacked out and went into an eternal slumber.
Those were the last moments of Charlotte. A girl that was frozen in ice. The girl who lost everything.
This world was not like our own exactly. It’s a world where fictional monsters were true. In a way like a parallel universe that answered the question: what if there was a world filled with the unnatural? Where humans challenged god, where monsters slaughtered humans, and where unholy creatures were born. That is what this world was like. Monsters hid away from humans, only coming out during the night. Humans were scared that they would be killed at any second and that the unholy would come alive to destroy the world. This world would be called Eztli. Where humans were divided by class and nobility. Constant war and fear would fill this world. Humans fighting monsters and humans fighting humans, but who said that humans can’t be monsters themselves. This is the story of the Empire of Bruma. It was constantly cold there. It was an ever-lasting winter. Not many people lived there due to the harsh conditions, but the ones who did had a frozen heart. All were greedy and would kill to survive. As the nobility sat in their warm mansions the people would survive by killing each other. With a brutal empire comes a brutal leader. Empress, Victoria Ravana Mara de Echethier. She was known to be a tyrant and heartless toward most of her children. Only the worthy in her eyes got to live. She had long dark black hair and cold blue eyes that froze people in their steps. She would be the first empress and was the last remaining child of the previous emperor. She was known for having no mercy and the blood of the innocence on her hands. With her power, her previous kingdom would become an empire. An empire made with the blood of families, women, children and would be the victims of the creation of this empire.
Empress Victoria had gotten concubines from all over the world as a peace offering. Knowing how strong the empire was many people wanted their sons to be married off to the heartless tyrant. As she could only choose one to be her king. She would make history by having the most concubines by any emperor. She would have a total of over 15,000. Some were royal princes, others were rich commoners. Whoever she found handsome she would accept. It doesn’t mean that all survived. Most would die by not being able to survive the cold harsh conditions or others would dissatisfy the Empress and would be killed off immediately. In the end, only 20 of the 15,000 would survive and she gave birth to sixteen children during her time of reign. Her oldest child would be born from the prince’s kingdom of Enyo known for its military power. The second child would be born from a rich merchant. All of her children would come from diverse backgrounds. The child that was crowned the next in line for the throne would be the fourth prince, Aurelius Kaladin Aarush de Echetheir. He is the son of King Kaladin of the Aditya Kingdom. They would be known for their riches and tan caramel skin. Only people with golden eyes were true royalty and the crown prince was born with them and his mother’s black raven hair. The youngest child would be the most outcasted. Their father was the former prince of the Congnitionis kingdom. After the kingdom was taken over by the empress’s army, she made the father a slave. Having the lowest title of them all. The people of Congnitionis were known for their golden honey hair and bright blue ocean eyes. The child born between the empress and the former prince of Congnitionis would be a frail baby girl. The queen outcasted her in a cold part castle thinking the young princess would die off. The thing that surprised everyone the most was the look of this frail child. Instead of golden hair and peachy skin, she had pail pasty white skin and white ivory hair with pink-purple eyes. This knowledge of genetic malfunctions and disease was not well known as our story sets in the early 1800s. She would be born with albinism, an inherited disorder causing a lack of melanin. People would see her as a demonic monster and abandon her to take care of herself. All but one person knew she had a disorder and it was her father, Alvis, former prince of Congnitionis known for its abundance of knowledge. The empress thinking that the child would die did not name her. So instead the father would name her Charlotte Lucia Minvera de Echetheir. Princess of both the Burma empire and the forgotten Congnitionis kingdom. Also being the only princess of Empress Victoria Ravana Mara de Echetheir.
This was the life of Charlotte. A cruel cold wonderland, filled with evil.
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