I was born the heir presumptive in the kingdom where I was born, at the behest of a two-thousand-year-old prophecy that said that I would have the 'power of Lorelei' needed to bring about ultimate prosperity. I grew up with that status hanging over my head.
The part that nobody ever mentioned was that to bring about that prosperity, I would have to die and take a town of ten thousand people with me.
And then when I was ten, I was kidnapped and replaced by a perfect physical replica who took over my name and position in that life, meanwhile I had to live in hiding working to further the goals of a religion I loathed with every fiber of my being because they worshiped the prophecy that is both the reason I was ever born and my death sentence.
[And... he's got to stop there and take a slug of his water.]
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I was born the heir presumptive in the kingdom where I was born, at the behest of a two-thousand-year-old prophecy that said that I would have the 'power of Lorelei' needed to bring about ultimate prosperity. I grew up with that status hanging over my head.
The part that nobody ever mentioned was that to bring about that prosperity, I would have to die and take a town of ten thousand people with me.
And then when I was ten, I was kidnapped and replaced by a perfect physical replica who took over my name and position in that life, meanwhile I had to live in hiding working to further the goals of a religion I loathed with every fiber of my being because they worshiped the prophecy that is both the reason I was ever born and my death sentence.
[And... he's got to stop there and take a slug of his water.]