Thread: Married For An Alliance  (me and darkest_fate

Cryanlin was a fairly modest kingdom nestled in one of the areas many forest using the trees as natural walls and defense post from it's neighboring kingdoms. For a while everything had been going smoothly as the kings first heir was born giving the royal couple a beautiful daughter. Though things went from smooth to shaky rather quickly of the life time of their daughter. They weren't in any major wars but was not exactly a time of peace as a few skirmishes popped up from two sides and two different kingdoms. The king did his best to negotiate as his people weren't the most war focused being an Elven race. No instead they focused on the arts and pursuit of knowledge which had flourished under the last stretch of peace. Not that their military was weak but lacked the training and man power to fight on two different sides of the kingdom. After a week of small fights a ceasefire had been reach with the demons to the south and allowed the army to focus on defending their eastern border from a human kingdom.The king knew the ceasefire would not last long if nothing was done to further better relations between the two of them. Though only having one heir and it being his only daughter he had to make a tough decision after meeting with an emissary from the demon kingdom. They were willing to forge an alliance between the two but it would come at the cost of marrying his daughter to the demon princess. It was rather odd seeing the other side what the two of them to marry given that not much would come out of it. But the king was in no spot to question or argue and he agreed to the alliance. Eleanor had just turned eighteen when the fights broke out on opposite sides of the kingdom, meaning she was no longer able to roam the woods and towns. She had been groomed her whole life to be a proper lady, learning how to read, write and other various arts to keep her busy. Along with learning the arts she was raised to have proper manners including saving herself for marriage and not be to flirtatious around men. For some it was a boring life but to her she didn't mind her princess duties and did her best to help when she could. She had told her father before he left that she would respect his decision knowing that she was the only thing he had to offer. Though when he returned and broke the news she was in complete shock and on the verge of tears, though she held them back not wanting to make it harder on her father. It still baffled her why the other king would purpose the daughters marry but if it meant peace she would despite hating the idea. The ceremony came up rather quickly barely a week passing before the royal family left for the demon's kingdom in two carriages, one carrying the family and the other most of Eleanor's clothes and belongings. As for tradition in her kingdom she wore a long white sleeves dress paired with long white gloves. The bottom of her dress had a layer lace decorated in gold leaves and covered most of the dress except for an upside down V cut starting at her waist ans expand out down the dress. Her face was hidden by a veil of lace similar to that on the bottom of the dress. Once the ceremony was done her parts had to leave as the kingdom was still fighting and her father needed to reorganize the army. She hugged them goodbye a tear falling from her eye as she watched them leave with her standing on the castle steps. She still didn't like what had happened but was going to have to make it work.