She severs his head, and also gets onto the ship belonging to the Vodina Isles, and kills some more folks, before sending the ship on its way. When she starts to talk to him he asks her if she made her own decision and wanted to come with him instead, to which she says that she didn’t, and then fights and kills him. Sera finds her way through town to the docks, and waits for the Lord until he comes spilling out of the bar. Sir Holland, Sera’s trainer and guard to the Royal family, does not like this, but Sera goes on her own–emotionless. As the Lord leaves, the Queen looks to Sera and tells her to go show the Lord the piece of meat that she is. He claims that he would consider taking the Queen’s request to his king if she gives the “piece of meat,” pointing at Sera. In court that day, Sera witnesses the Lord of the Vodina Islands come back to the Queen’s request of aid of food, with the head of the emissary they had sent. Her mother, the Queen of Lasania, asks Sera what she did when the Primal left but did not choose to take her with him.įor three years, they tried to get the Primal to come back, but he did not and so Sera became introduced to the world as a Handmaiden to the Queen, though her mother did not look kindly upon her. The Shadow Priests call in the Primal of Death, while she waits, and when he finally shows up–temple shaking, and cracking–he takes one look at Seraphena–Sera for short–and tells her that he does not want a Consort, before disappearing for good. Dressed in a white wedding gown and a veil, she is taken to the throne room in the Shadow Temple, so that she can become the Consort to the Primal of Death, as per an agreement made by her ancestor–King Roderick Meriel, in exchange for the Rot to not overtake his beloved land. What It’s About: Seraphena Meriel, the last of the Meriel bloodline, was kept hidden for years after her birth.

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