Plumeria: Book I (Prologue)

On the very planet on which humans are familiar with erupted a massive nuclear war that destroyed all that was known save for a handful of progressive homo sapiens and one thick book of The Complete Works of Shakespeare… Father time eroded the past down to dust and Mother Earth shifted the land into an alien world. Only the small remnants of the past were preserved due to fortune and Shakespeare, and Earth as we know it transformed into a strange planet where the laws of our physiological reason was lost with the history books. A new past was formed in the future, on a chuck of beautiful land on the alien Earth called Theark. 1

The jungle country of Tianis had been at war for a long bloody 500 years! The people of both Northern and Southern Tianis had nearly forgotten why they began the civil war in the beginning, and though the records all say that it was due to heavy land conflicts, most philosophers agreed that it was due to a major power struggle between two influential houses. No Tian child slept sound at night, no mother knew the comfort of worriless dreams, and no boy lived without the fear of combat. The fear governed their way of life for a whole 500 years until the monarchs of both regions came together in peace and decided to resolve the conflict with a merging in bloodlines. 2

The King and Queen of the North persuaded their youngest daughter, Malaina, to wed Prince Pocorous of the South in hopes that the two would form their own dynasty over both Northern and Southern Tianis. Prince Pocorous feared nothing more than death by the sword and agreed to the plan gladly, and the sight of the comely Malaina surely did nothing to dissuade him. Plans were set into motion, the wedding came, the two regions merged together as one for the first time in 500 years, and the wounded country waited impatiently for the birth of their savior heir to the thrown who would end all of their many years of misery…3