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Princess Tarella And The Throne Of Avilah

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In the beautiful and prosperous Kingdom of Avilah ruled by King Duncan, the King and Queen were childless after five years of marriage. The King desperately needs an heir to his throne as he feared that after he dies, his younger brother, Prince Devy would be crowned the king of Avilah and he would lose the throne forever from his lineage.

In a bid to find a solution to their problem, the Queen sought a child from Zedena, a powerful Sea Goddess who is said to give children to barren women who seek her help.

Eventually, the Queen gave birth to a daughter named Tarella. However, females are forbidden to rule the kingdom but any man that marries the princess would become the king.

Princess Tarella grew up to be the most beautiful maiden in the kingdom and she has so many noble suitors but she only loves Tezan who is a handsome and brave poor peasant.

One of the suitors of Princess Tarella is the ruthless Prince Alfred who desperately wants the throne of Avilah, so also is the king's younger brother Prince Devy. Prince Devy and Prince Alfred will do anything to get it including eliminating anyone that stands in their way.

The battle for the throne is a fight to the death as Princess Tarella and Tezan are caught in the middle of the bloody battle.

Will the poor but brave Tezan be able to surmount so many obstacles on his path as he battles to win the princess? Or will he be consumed by them? However, amidst the battle for the throne is Zedena, the powerful Sea Goddess who has power over the throne of Avilah, and only she will determine who sits on the throne.

Find out who eventually sits on the throne in this intriguing story of love, hatred, power, ruthlessness, and the awesome supernatural power of a Sea Goddess.

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Chapter 1
PROLOGUE A long time ago, in the beautiful and prosperous kingdom of Avilah, King Duncan and Queen Anne were childless after five years of marriage. Because of their situation, they were greatly distressed. Although the king and queen were both worried about their inability to have a child, King Duncan was more worried because he desperately needs an heir to his throne, and not just any child but a male child. It is of utmost importance that he has a male child because in the kingdom of Avilah, the law forbids females to be rulers and if the law is broken and a princess is crowned queen and sits on the throne, it is said that it would result to disastrous consequences which may lead to famine, epidemic, and series of death of the young and old in the land. If the king has only a female child, any man the princess marries would become the king and the princess would be crowned queen. However, the king cannot make major decisions in the kingdom concerning the people without the consent of the queen. Aside from that, any child born by both of them must bear the surname of the father of the queen. In other words, if the king happens to have only a female child, any child that is born by his daughter must bear the king's surname Duncan and not the surname of her husband the king. This law was made so that the name of the king that was on the throne before would continue in his lineage since he has no son. If the king has no child before he dies, his only sibling Prince Devy who is his younger brother would be crowned King of Avilah. Prince Devy has three sons that are successors to the throne but only if King Duncan dies without a child and their father also dies, then any of them that is deemed worthy of the throne would be crowned King of Avilah. That means the throne would be lost to King Duncan's lineage forever which greatly troubled the king. It troubled him so much so that he consulted sorcerers, wizards, and witches in the land in a bid to seek for solution to his childlessness. Most of them told him to perform several rituals which he did religiously but still, there was no child, and all they told him is that he should be patient that he would eventually have a child. He wondered how long he would have to be patient as neither he nor his wife was getting younger. He was presently 40 years old and his wife Queen Anne was 30. Five years is a long time to wait for a child and he was running out of patience. It got to a point that he started having sleepless nights. On the fifth year of their childlessness, he hardly could sleep. Most nights he wakes up and sits on his bed troubled because of his situation. Queen Anne noticed that her husband the king was very worried because of their predicament as she as woken up from sleep the nights she sleeps in the king's room and she always sees him sitting on the bed with his hand on his cheek looking worried, and sometimes when he was in that state, he mutters absent-mindedly and incoherently. Several times, when she sees the king in such a melancholic mood, she would reach out to him and tried to comfort him but he would refuse to be comforted and he would keep muttering to the queen, "I need an heir." The situation of the king started to bother the queen as the day passes. At a point, the condition of the king began to trouble her more than her inability to have a child because she feared the king might have a mental breakdown which would not only be detrimental to her but also the kingdom at large. One day, she sat in her chamber all alone after dismissing all her servants. She pondered on how she could find a solution to her predicament. As she thought deeply, she remembered that when she was a little girl before she married the king, her mother told her that she also had the problem of childlessness for three years and tried everything she could to have a child. In her desperation, she visited sorcerers, witches, and wizards but she still did not conceive. Then she remembered that it is said that Zedena, goddess of the sea of Avilah gives children to barren women that seek her help. She visited the sea priest who is the intercessor between the sea goddess and humans. The sea priest performed some rituals on her behalf and instructed her on what to do which requires her to go at dawn to the sea of Avilah for seven consecutive days and beseech the goddess for a child. She recalled that her mother told her that she kept going to the sea every morning at dawn for six days weeping continuously as she beseeched the goddess. On the seventh day, she went to the sea at dawn as she has been doing for six days, and started weeping and imploring the goddess for a child. After a while, the goddess came out of the water. Only her upper body was above the water while her lower body from her waist downwards was inside the water. The goddess told her that she has heard her cries and supplications and had decided to show her mercy. She told her that the reason she has been childless was that her family stopped giving her the annual sacrifice of a spotless white male lamb that must not be older than three months. She said the annual ritual has always been performed by her ancestors from generation to generation. But her generation stopped offering her the sacrifice and she got angry and that was why she withheld her from having a child. The goddess told her mother that she should resume the annual sacrifice which must be done in the sixth month of every year and it must continue from generation to generation. She said as long as they obey her commandments it will be well with her lineage but if they disobey her, she would visit her lineage with bareness, infirmities, and deaths of both young and old. She said she has decided to have mercy on her and promised her that she would have a baby girl in nine months and told her to name the child Annette. A month after the goddess appeared to her mother, she discovered that she was pregnant and was overjoyed. In the sixth month, she offered the sacrifice of a spotless white male lamb to Zedena the goddess of the sea of Avilah as she required, and in the ninth month, she gave birth to Queen Anne. She recalled how she sometimes accompanied her mother to the sea to offer the annual sacrifice when she was a little girl. When Anne was about to marry the king, her mother called her one night and told her to continue with the yearly ritual of offering a spotless white male lamb not older than three months to the goddess of the sea. Queen Anne was supposed to carry on with the annual sacrifice when she turned twenty-three but her mother has been doing the ritual on her behalf before she married the king at the age of twenty-five. She remembered the night before she finally left her parents home for the palace and was eventually crowned Queen of Avilah, her mother called her that night and told her that as she was going to the palace and would be crowned Queen of Avilah, she should endeavor to carry on with the annual ritual to the goddess of the sea as she won't be doing it on her behalf anymore as she was getting old. She recalled she promised her mother to carry on with the ritual since it is done just once in a year on the sixth month and all it requires is the sacrifice of a spotless white male lamb not older than three months. Her mother taught her that night the prayers and praises she was to offer to the sea goddess after which she is to tie a red ribbon around the neck of the lamb and throw it into the sea. It is not compulsory that she must do the ritual herself as a woman from her lineage could do it on her behalf and it must be done from generation to generation to avoid the wrath of the sea goddess who could afflict anyone in her lineage with barrenness, infirmities and untimely deaths if they fail to carry on with the annual sacrifice. Unfortunately, since she got married to the king, and was crowned the Queen of Avilah, she has not done the ritual at all. It was not that she has forgotten about the promise she made to her mother to carry on with the ritual but she just thought it was not necessary. Now that she has found herself in her mother's predicament, it got her wondering if her childlessness was not caused by Zedena, goddess of the sea of Avilah. She decided to go and seek advice from her mother. Probably, the goddess of the sea is responsible for her inability to have a child, and if it is because she failed to carry on with the annual ritual, she wouldn't hesitate to do it as she has become desperate not only because she needs a child but also because of the King. The King needs an heir to the throne and she must do all she can to give him one. Whatever she has to do to have a child she must do, and she has to act fast because the condition of the king was getting worse. If she doesn't act fast, the mental state of the king could get worse and he might be declared unfit to rule the kingdom, or even worse, if the king dies, then what would become of her? At the death of the king without an heir to the throne, the king's younger brother Prince Devy would be crowned king of Avilah and his envious wife Jezreel would become the queen. She knows how Prince Devy and his wife hate the King and her, although the King doesn't seem to be aware that his brother hates him just because he is the ruler of the kingdom of Avilah. She knows that Prince Devy longs for the throne of Avilah but can't have it as long as the king is still alive. Jezreel his wife also hates her because she also longs to become the Queen of Avilah. If she doesn't act fast and the king dies or is dethroned because of his mental state, then Prince Devy would become the King of Avilah and she would become irrelevant in the kingdom. She does not doubt in her mind that Prince Devy and his wife Jezreel would not hesitate to throw her out of the palace and what would become of her? Thinking about her fate if any evil befalls the king made her shudder in trepidation. She must give the king an heir to the throne of Avilah no matter what it takes to avoid untold pains. She resolved to go and see her mother as soon as possible but first, she has to seek permission from the king to allow her to visit her mother.

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