#also i've had some epiphanies about perild and the sparrow in woak that made me kind of really excited to play with them more

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intro: shadow of a queen

“Are you not a queen?” They asked, something curious, suddenly serious in their gaze. Perild blew out a breath. “No! A bad reflection of one, if anything at all.”

ABOUT

Genre: Fantasy romance POV: Third-person limited, dual-pov Themes and tropes: Reluctant allies, masks and the shedding thereof, trusting and letting yourself be trusted, eldest daughters and the guilt they carry, the pitfalls of politics, everything is about to get worse, the world is bigger than you thought

CHARACTERS

Perild - Newly crowned queen and already feeling like she's failing; a woman torn between the path she's chosen to walk and the heart she's left behind The Sparrow - Keeper of secrets and secret kept ; the spymaster of untrusted origin and uncertain loyalties

SUMMARY

Becoming Queen might have been a decent choice had the kingdom of Breawen not been splintering apart in the wake of an attack on their ruling family. With a lean storm season just behind them, and rebellion threatening on the islands, Perild finds her dreams of a brighter future suddenly very far away. If she wants to find ways to hold this all together, she has her work cut out for her. Unfortunately, the only one she can rely on in all this is the spymaster, whose loyalties she doesn’t trust. When a letter brings dire news from home, Perild has a choice to make: Be the queen promised Aneiric she would be, or do what she feels in her heart is right. Will it break the trust they’ve built? And will she become no more than a shadow of what she hoped to be?

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STATUS: Outlining WC GOAL: 100k