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The royal palace is no place for a girl from a backwoods estate owned by a noble house that has fallen out of favor. What would the divinities watching over her people say to see her seated on the throne?

Nonetheless, those same divinities selected the thirty-seven noble houses more than a millennium ago, with each angelic being choosing one family to sponsor. All agreed that kingship would rotate through their bloodlines, and her family is next in line for rulership, last and least of the thirty-seven. Soon the cycle of kingship will be complete.

As will the plan of the malign forces that manipulated even the angels into selecting these noble bloodlines. Few suspect that completion of the compact of the thirty-seven kings is the key to merging this world and the world of the damned.

And she? Merely a pawn in the game of squabbling families, an unsuspecting ingenue whom her cousins agree will be an acceptably biddable figurehead-queen.

Mortal enemies await at every turn, and the dead monsters lying beneath perception rub their decaying claws in anticipation of her crowning and the compact's completion. Yet she has allies, too, in the unlikeliest of men and women, both heroes and human horrors who can guide her through the apocalypse to come.

But will she listen to the wisdom of those who would protect humanity? How much of her innocence can she afford to lose--as a queen who must unite her kingdom, as a priestess of a long-silent divinity, and as a marshal who must inevitably lead her people against the demons of the dark?

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Practicing with skin textures.

Daz3D Iray->Affinity/NikTools.

Description
The royal palace is no place for a girl from a backwoods estate owned by a noble house that has fallen out of favor. What would the divinities watching over her people say to see her seated on the throne?

Nonetheless, those same divinities selected the thirty-seven noble houses more than a millennium ago, with each angelic being choosing one family to sponsor. All agreed that kingship would rotate through their bloodlines, and her family is next in line for rulership, last and least of the thirty-seven. Soon the cycle of kingship will be complete.

As will the plan of the malign forces that manipulated even the angels into selecting these noble bloodlines. Few suspect that completion of the compact of the thirty-seven kings is the key to merging this world and the world of the damned.

And she? Merely a pawn in the game of squabbling families, an unsuspecting ingenue whom her cousins agree will be an acceptably biddable figurehead-queen.

Mortal enemies await at every turn, and the dead monsters lying beneath perception rub their decaying claws in anticipation of her crowning and the compact's completion. Yet she has allies, too, in the unlikeliest of men and women, both heroes and human horrors who can guide her through the apocalypse to come.

But will she listen to the wisdom of those who would protect humanity? How much of her innocence can she afford to lose--as a queen who must unite her kingdom, as a priestess of a long-silent divinity, and as a marshal who must inevitably lead her people against the demons of the dark?

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Practicing with skin textures.

Daz3D Iray->Affinity/NikTools.