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The Shadow King's Unwanted Queen
  1. 1. The Veiled Carriage
  2. 2. The Gates of Obsidian
  3. 3. The King with Cold Eyes
  4. 4. The Vow of Night and Ash
  5. 5. The Chambers of Black Silk
  6. 6. The Hidden Blade 🔒
  7. 7. The Banquet of Whispers 🔒
  8. 8. The Shadow's Edge 🔒
  9. 9. A Poison in the Wine 🔒
  10. 10. The Sovereign's Interrogation 🔒
  11. 11. The Collar of Thorns 🔒
  12. 12. A Crack in the Armor 🔒
  13. 13. The First Truce 🔒
  14. 14. The Whispers of the Gloomwood 🔒
  15. 15. The Library of Fallen Stars 🔒
  16. 16. The Secret in the Margins 🔒
  17. 17. The Council's Shadow Patrol 🔒
  18. 18. A Dance of Deception 🔒
  19. 19. The Poisoned Treaty 🔒
  20. 20. The Sovereign's Trial 🔒
  21. 21. The Chamber of Echoes 🔒
  22. 22. The Nightwatch Ambush 🔒
  23. 23. Fire in the Chasm 🔒
  24. 24. The Shattered Mask 🔒
  25. 25. The Vow in the Dark 🔒
  26. 26. The Secret Stair of Ash 🔒
  27. 27. The Labyrinth of Iron 🔒
  28. 28. The Foundries of the Conclave 🔒
  29. 29. Lord Gideon's Ledgers 🔒
  30. 30. The Stolen Waterway 🔒
  31. 31. Shadows in the Smelter 🔒
  32. 32. The Silent Workers 🔒
  33. 33. The Whispering Caverns 🔒
  34. 34. The Siphon's First Valve 🔒
  35. 35. The Key of Black Iron 🔒
  36. 36. A Trap in the Depths 🔒
  37. 37. The Necrotic Surge 🔒
  38. 38. The Healer's Light 🔒
  39. 39. The Conclave's Suspicion 🔒
  40. 40. The Sovereign's Counter-Stroke 🔒
  41. 41. The Confrontation in the High Hall 🔒
  42. 42. The Arrest of Lord Gideon 🔒
  43. 43. Lady Vespera's Web 🔒
  44. 44. The Silver Key of Shadows 🔒
  45. 45. Whispers in the Nightwatch 🔒
  46. 46. The Second Valve of the Siphon 🔒
  47. 47. The Water of Life 🔒
  48. 48. The Southern Messenger 🔒
  49. 49. The Senate's Secret Treason 🔒
  50. 50. The Pact of the Two Crowns 🔒
  51. 51. The Conclave's Secret Meeting 🔒
  52. 52. Blood on the Obsidian Stele 🔒
  53. 53. The Breaking of the Second Ward 🔒
  54. 54. The Dawn over Mount Sorrow 🔒
  55. 55. The Threshold of the Alliance 🔒
  56. 56. The March Through Whisper Pass 🔒
  57. 57. Refugees of the Gloomwood 🔒
  58. 58. Embers of the Campfire 🔒
  59. 59. The Intercepted Patrol 🔒
  60. 60. The Blight of Oakhaven 🔒
  61. 61. Parley with the Defector 🔒
  62. 62. The War Table at Midnight 🔒
  63. 63. The Cipher of Sunspire 🔒
  64. 64. Starlight and Shadow 🔒
  65. 65. The Crest of Mistwood Ridge 🔒
  66. 66. The Herald of Iron 🔒
  67. 67. The Standard of Two Skies 🔒
  68. 68. The Stone Arch of Red Ford 🔒
  69. 69. The Unveiled Dawn 🔒
  70. 70. The Volley of Traitors 🔒
  71. 71. The Riverbank Rebellion 🔒
  72. 72. The Flight to Blackwood 🔒
  73. 73. The Gates of the Redoubt 🔒
  74. 74. The Infiltration of the Flues 🔒
  75. 75. The Breach of Blackwood 🔒
  76. 76. The Map of the Sunken Keep 🔒
  77. 77. Descent into the Sunken Keep 🔒
  78. 78. The Trial of Solar Resonance 🔒
  79. 79. The Trial of Shadow Balance 🔒
  80. 80. The Obsidian Key Retrieved 🔒
  81. 81. The Turning of the Third Valve 🔒
  82. 82. The Blooming of the Western Plains 🔒
  83. 83. The Confession of Cedric 🔒
  84. 84. The Night in the High Solar 🔒
  85. 85. The Council of the Two Crowns 🔒
  86. 86. The Proclamation to the Realm 🔒
  87. 87. The Shadow of the Moon 🔒
  88. 88. The March on Sunspire 🔒
  89. 89. The March of Fifty Thousand 🔒
  90. 90. The Traitor's Trap at Riverford 🔒
  91. 91. The Voice from the Crypts 🔒
  92. 92. The Outskirts of the Capital 🔒
  93. 93. The Wall of Crimson Fire 🔒
  94. 94. The Strike Team Assembled 🔒
  95. 95. The Sunken Storm Drains 🔒
  96. 96. The Mausoleum of Queens 🔒
  97. 97. The Secret Stair of Seraphina 🔒
  98. 98. The Antechamber of Shadows 🔒
  99. 99. The Reunion in the Tower 🔒
  100. 100. The Father's Eyes Opened 🔒
  101. 101. The Neutralization of the Nightshade 🔒
  102. 102. The Imperial Signet Restored 🔒
  103. 103. The Signal from the Tower 🔒
  104. 104. The Eve of Totality 🔒
  105. 105. The Descent into the Vault 🔒
  106. 106. The Chamber of the Primordial Altar 🔒
  107. 107. The Mask of Malakar Torn 🔒
  108. 108. The Battle of the High Altar 🔒
  109. 109. The Shards of the Collar 🔒
  110. 110. The Onset of Totality 🔒
  111. 111. The Duel of Sovereign and Archon 🔒
  112. 112. The Light of the Dawn Queen 🔒
  113. 113. The Strike of the Three Blades 🔒
  114. 114. The Shattering of the Altar 🔒
  115. 115. The Fall of the High Chancellor 🔒
  116. 116. The Sealing of the Primordial Rift 🔒
  117. 117. The Emergence into the Corona 🔒
  118. 118. The Liberation of Sunspire 🔒
  119. 119. The Arrest of the Conclave Remnants 🔒
  120. 120. The Eve of the New Era 🔒
  121. 121. The Grand Tribunal of Sunspire 🔒
  122. 122. The Reconstruction of the Senate 🔒
  123. 123. The Return to Mount Sorrow 🔒
  124. 124. The Dissolution of the Conclave 🔒
  125. 125. The Charter of the Two Crowns 🔒
  126. 126. The Rebirth of Oakhaven 🔒
  127. 127. The Founding of the Twin Academies 🔒
  128. 128. The Merchant Fleet of the Commonwealth 🔒
  129. 129. The Whispers of the Old Guard 🔒
  130. 130. The Garden of Seraphina 🔒
  131. 131. The Harvest of the Western Plains 🔒
  132. 132. The Solstice Summit 🔒
  133. 133. The Royal Progress 🔒
  134. 134. The Heartbeat of the Mountain 🔒
  135. 135. The Gift of the Dawn 🔒
  136. 136. The Child of Two Skies 🔒
  137. 137. The Great Road of the Accord 🔒
  138. 138. The Treaty of the Free Cities 🔒
  139. 139. The Hall of Concord 🔒
  140. 140. The Abdication of Alden 🔒
  141. 141. The Wisdom of the Hearth 🔒
  142. 142. The Preparation for Coronation 🔒
  143. 143. The Arrival of the Nations 🔒
  144. 144. The Night Before the Crown 🔒
  145. 145. The Ceremony of the Two Crowns 🔒
  146. 146. The Oath to the People 🔒
  147. 147. The First Act of the Commonwealth 🔒
  148. 148. The Birth of Princess Lyra 🔒
  149. 149. The Blessing of the Waters 🔒
  150. 150. The Eternal Dawn 🔒

Chapter 142

The Preparation for Coronation

The Shadow King's Unwanted Queen · Antigravity · 6 min read

In the Great Guildhall of the Textile Artisans in Sunspire, an extraordinary artistic undertaking had been underway for four months: the crafting of the Imperial Coronation Vestments for the joint sovereigns of the Commonwealth. For centuries, coronation robes in Solis had been ostentatious displays of rigid hierarchy—hundreds of yards of heavy scarlet velvet stiffened with wire, encrusted with crushed rubies, and trimmed with ermine pelts representing the subjugation of northern…

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