Project and Protagonists

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Day two of #LGBTQWriMo is to introduce your project and day two of the #fictionwirterchallenge is to introduce your protagonist. Let’s see if I can kill two birds with one stone….

The Dark Crucible is a m/m romance dark fantasy set on the continent of Laridel. The West stands as a bastion of the Light. The East is dominated by the Shadow. In the middle sit the embattled Kingdoms of Tiregal, Dreavell, and Laucona.

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It’s been 16 years since Prince Giliam Valdis’s entire family was killed in a single night of blood and fire. In the Principality of Gelonde, the Northernmost country in the Kingdom of Tiregal, Giliam spends his days battling the Shadow as it seeks to devour his land and his people. When an offer of alliance is made known to the Tiregali King, Giliam is summoned away from the battlefield to the Empire of Galaestria where he’s introduced to the cutthroat politics of court and the entitled son of her most powerful Duke. 

Lord Kylandir Rosenfeld is young, handsome, charming, and bored. The closest he’s ever come to a battle is the tourney lists. Instantly captivated by the haunted eyes in the young Gelondi prince’s portrait, he convinces his father to invite Giliam to present the case of a marital alliance in person. Expecting a chivalrous courtship, and with hopes of a distracting dalliance, Kylandir is unprepared for the venomous intensity with which Giliam tears apart everything he thought he knew about the world.

Giliam has no patience for politesse or flirtations. His people are starving, and dying at the hands of the Shadow, and he is on a mission to save them. The Duke of Troluria commands a standing army the size of Tiregal’s entire military and the two largest port cities in the Empire. The Empire could feed Giliam’s people for the winter and the Duke could deliver an army in Spring to press the Shadow back to the border and possibly beyond. All he needs to do is convince the Emperor to look outside his own borders and the Duke to commit to a war.

Just how far will Giliam go to secure such an alliance?

Well, it’s not the best summary I’ve every written… but it’s also 4am so I’m going to cut myself some slack. At least it’s a starting point and hopefully intrigues a few of you.