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It's time for a #jadekingdoms thread! Let's talk about my novel Jade Kingdoms; a fantasy/horror story about a melancholic Princess taking back her power, setting yourself free from past events and undermining an ancient prophecy that has no business dictating your actions. 
Jade Kingdoms takes place in a world surviving the events of Vritra's Drought. With much of the planet devastated beyond repair, the surviving races have taken refuge with the descendants of the Dragon Vritra in their the Jade Kingdom. It covers the entire Hisui continent.
When the Genesis Trinity descended upon this dimension, Garuda made the Flesh from his feathers and Vritra infused them with pieces of its Sentient Mind. The Distance Force offered up his bones, casting aside its physical form. And thus life came into existence.
Yet a 100.000 years ago the Dragon Vritra took back the gift of the Sentient Mind from the Flesh. The Genesis Trinity couldn't stay whole and Garuda's Flesh went haywire while Isolde of Beriach murdered the lesser races by taking the power of the Distance Bones.
And then Vritra intervened with His Drought; the Dragon stole the waters from the world and absorbed them within Himself. The world heaved, and the planet began to die. Much of the lesser races became extinct and the aftermath would bleed into Vritra's very descendants.
The Drought ended when a human mortal devoured a last gift of Garuda; a Stone Apple. Indra ascended to godhood and made the choice to slay Vritra, releasing the waters He stole. But Vritra was unbreakable and its remains split itself into parts to give birth to the Vritra race.
Vritra's Drought reduced the world to three Primal Races; the Beriach under complete command of Isolde (the Bones), the Garuda race living in the cities in the sky (the Flesh) and the Vritra race, the keepers of the Sentient Mind. What remained of the lesser races scattered.
The Garuda didn't offer them shelter, and Isolde of Beriach hunted any member of the lesser races to add to her Distant Horde. Thus Vritra's people were the only refuge left and the Hisui continent, the last piece of the planet with life, became the opulent Jade Kingdom.
For many millennia, the Vritra guided the world using their gift of pathokinesis and mind manipulation to keep both themselves and the world in check. But something became amiss within their ranks and soon the world would understand the Dragon Vritra...was never gone at all.
Amidst the lower Vritra castes, a phenomenon called the Jade Construct began to surface. The Jade Construct is an unstable field of time storing memory, thought and emotion within its many false facets. It is an evolutionary answer to a Vritra's mind control; a complete negation.
As the Vritra clans began dying to the Jade Construct, across the world other races were feeling the strain on their minds as well. Garuda, Distant, human...all of them began dying along as their minds were torn apart...until the Vritra Dragon Tongue clan came to rule.
Royalty amongst the Vritra is not given through birth, it passes between the clans until no more heir per clan is produced. No more heir meant the next clan in row would supply the Royal family until their blood was spent. Overseeing this, are the four Jaded Beasts.
Under the hand of the Dayfrost King Belmont, the death cycle came to a grinding halt. An uneasy respite befell the world of the Jade Kingdom, until suddenly 6000 years ago the King's right-hand man known as the Nightburn Prophet foresaw disaster coming.
This event would come to be known as the Prophecy of Disaster, the last will of the Dragon Vritra returning to finish its work of ending all life for failing its one duty; uphold the laws given by the Genesis Trinity. The world would shift out of time, forever stranded.
Our story begins when Princess Suren and the Duke Vandrake come to realize a sudden increase in death toll by Jade Constructs. Unaware of the history amongst their people, nor fully realizing the danger of the Jade Construct, the current heirs come seeking answers.
As the sheltered Suren struggles on finding her own strength in a kingdom designed to keep her restricted and moving according to the will of others, Vandrake exhausts himself searching for answers on the name of a Vritra erased from history; Calhoun.
Not everyone within the Vritra Collective in an ally to their search, and the two Royal heirs soon shall come face-to-face with secrets too dark for their kingdom to keep and too many loose ends in a system that has long since been outdated.
To make matters worse, Suren and Vandrake's relationship spirals out of control as they each search their own way to help their kingdom out of peril. It causes one mind to bend to the connections of the past and the other to be devoured by its own hallucinations.
And somewhere within the darkness of the time flow, the sinister words of the Nightburn Prophet are burning. It is already there, coming together and unstoppable until the very end. The kingdom however stands blind to it and refuses to mention it anywhere...why would that be?
Not all is lost however. The Jade Princess Suren is a gentle, melancholic Vritra who feels her sorrow every day, but still has her light shining deep within her. She worries for her kingdom, but also for her own path in life and how to deal with those that see her.
Her cousin Vandrake is her exact opposite; angry, passionate and iron-willed in everything he does and says. He actually co-rules the Southern Kingdom along with his vicious mother, the Duchess Sariel. And while like Suren Vandrake also suffers from control, he fights back. Hard.
Despite their hardships, there are allies. Suren's best friend is a jovial Jade Knight called Maehara Northern Storm and her mentor is the Captain of the Guard Barhin Mayura. Then there is Celia, the Head Spellweaver and Opal, the Royal Scribe who are both the King's confidants.
To free themselves from Vritra's will, demolish the Prophecy's outcome before it can get to them and set the kingdom's morals straight...the current Royal heirs must untangle themselves from a tight knot of events that no longer has the right to dictate any generation.
My novel Jade Kingdoms is free-to-read on my Tapas and my AO3! Follow Suren and Vandrake's journey, and happy reading! #jadekingdoms https://tapas.io/series/Jade-Kingdoms
