Bunesh
Filled with DETERMINATION
so the idea is that my character - A spoiled, selfish, easily-bored princess - finds some dark magic in a secret part of the castle and tries to summon something using the rituals. However, the ritual is interrupted by her mother who is killed when the magic drains her life from her. The royal family is devastated and this time she isn't able to escape the wrath of her father and brothers.
However, before she is sentenced to be executed, an advisor suggests that he send the princess on a quest to a temple that had begun inhabited by an ancient, foul dragon who's magic had warped the temple into a sprawling and dark dungeon that killed all who entered. It was rumored that in the temple was a fountain of life and that water from it could revive the dead.
So the princess is given a choice; either be executed for murder or face the labyrinth - she chooses the latter. But, the king not satisfied with this alone and warns that if she should return without the water or try to flee from justice, that she would be flayed alive instead of given the comparatively merciful death of the headsman's axe. Then, to drive this point home, he has her stripped to the waist and flogged fifty times, giving her just a taste of what she could expect, as well as inflicting some punishment for previous transgressions and warning any others in his court that if he would go this far with his own child, what would he do to others?
The princess is then sent off on her quest.
Ten years later, a figure in a torn cloak and cowl returns, holding a glass vial with a few drops of water in it, but she is unaware that in returning with this magical water, she has lit a spark that would ignite a multi-front war, as she is the first and only person to navigate the labyrinth and see its treasures and secrets...
However, before she is sentenced to be executed, an advisor suggests that he send the princess on a quest to a temple that had begun inhabited by an ancient, foul dragon who's magic had warped the temple into a sprawling and dark dungeon that killed all who entered. It was rumored that in the temple was a fountain of life and that water from it could revive the dead.
So the princess is given a choice; either be executed for murder or face the labyrinth - she chooses the latter. But, the king not satisfied with this alone and warns that if she should return without the water or try to flee from justice, that she would be flayed alive instead of given the comparatively merciful death of the headsman's axe. Then, to drive this point home, he has her stripped to the waist and flogged fifty times, giving her just a taste of what she could expect, as well as inflicting some punishment for previous transgressions and warning any others in his court that if he would go this far with his own child, what would he do to others?
The princess is then sent off on her quest.
Ten years later, a figure in a torn cloak and cowl returns, holding a glass vial with a few drops of water in it, but she is unaware that in returning with this magical water, she has lit a spark that would ignite a multi-front war, as she is the first and only person to navigate the labyrinth and see its treasures and secrets...
