The Prophecy

> The day will come when your kingdom will fall. Your throne will be taken by one not raised by the Miscrost name. Family lines will crumble like ash. Chaos will run hand in hand with the crown you bear. Your heirs will be lost, and nothing will be left for you but burning banners and flowers.
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> Truth-Speaker, Banner of Red, Orange and Marigold

The Prophecy refers to the vision that Lady Freia Malauren (see also: Truth-Speaker) received while performing for the Miscrost royal family in the year 522. After The Prophecy was delivered, King Trevyren Miscrost II and his wife, Queen Rasvia Miscrost, took desperate action in order to protect their children and prevent The Prophecy from coming true.

## The Prophecy

### Performers

* Truth-Speaker (Banner of Red, Orange and Marigold)
* Fionner O'Korol (Banner of Green, Blue and Indigo)
* Thea Miscrost (Banner of Green, Blue and Indigo)
* Court Mage Miscrost (Banner of Black, White and Lily)

## The Prophecy

### The Performance

On the Sixth Day of the Week of All, in the year 522, Lady Freia Malauren, also known by her stage name Truth-Speaker, was summoned to perform for Queen Rasvia Miscrost and her two young daughters, Tryvia Miscrost and Thea Miscrost, in Miscrost Keep. The event was widely talked about amongst the citizens of Miscrost Kingdom, since the king was known for his strict regime against Mana-Users in Miscrost Keep. However, Rasvia insisted that the event go through, as she was feeling "homesick" and wanted to see a woman use her Mana again. Trevyren relented and allowed Freia Malauren special access into Miscrost Keep.

Freia Malauren, called by the title "Lady" and her alias "Truth-Speaker," was the leader of a famous wandering troupe of gypsy performers from the village of Paligrogh in the Republic of Lochland. In her youth, she was renown for her beauty and her skills in fortune-telling and mind-reading. In her older age, however, her Mana only grew, and she became a borderline prophet amongst her people. She offered up her services to Rasvia, who was seeking answers to find out if she made the right decision in marrying Trevyren. The two kept the true purpose behind their meet-up a secret, and Freia came to perform.

The performance itself was peaceful, and gave Rasvia the answers she was looking for, but when Trevyren snuck into the performance, Freia's disposition went dark. She uttered the words of The Prophecy and changed the course of Miscrost history forever.

### The Aftermath

After delivering The Prophecy, Freia was held captive in Miscrost Keep for several days as Trevyren interrogated and tortured her, demanding that she change her prophecy or tell him how it could be avoided. When Freia wouldn't relent, Trevyren eventually gave up and sent her away, banishing her and her tribe from Miscrost Kingdom permanently. This banishment would eventually prevent Freia's granddaughter, Fionner O'Korol, from marrying Bastien Helrene. Trevyren also sent a proposal for neutrality to Emperor Mao Seqian of Seqian Empire, which Miscrost Kingdom had been at war with for eight years, so that he could focus on protecting his family. Mao accepted the treaty, and the Miscrost-Seqian War came to an end.

Trevyren was still determined to undermine The Prophecy, and began plotting with his wife Rasvia and Cekaris Helrene, their most trusted advisor, to find a way to protect his sons. Their first course of action was to send their eldest son, Trevyren Miscrost III, to live with his aunt Terrissa Lovelan until arrangements could be made to send him abroad. Unfortunately, Huiying Seqian snuck into Miscrost Kingdom in order to kill Trevyren's heirs in an act of revenge for the war that had killed her sister, Xin Seqian. Huiying burned the Lovelan Estate to the ground, killing everyone inside except for Trevyren III. Still, Trevyren III was presumed dead along with the rest of the family, and the king began to realize that The Prophecy was coming true.

Trevyren, ashamed that he let his eldest son die, enforced a new policy among his court members and citizens. Trevyren insisted that he never had an elder son, and that Trevyren III never even existed. He erased all public records of Trevyren III, killed anyone that spoke of him, and scared all of his citizens into never muttering his name again. After the fire and Trevyren III's disappearance, it was as if he never existed at all. The erasure of Trevyren Miscrost III's memory is what eventually inspired Trevyren to do the same for his youngest son, Taeden Miscrost. By his logic, if the kingdom forgot that he had an heir, then The Prophecy couldn't come true, since no harm could come to a son that never existed.

Trevyren and Rasvia began to plan for how to protect their remaining two sons: Tachiel Miscrost and Taeden Miscrost. While Rasvia insisted that the boys should remain in Miscrost Keep where they could be personally guarded by their parents (Rasvia was told by Truth-Speaker that 'families fall apart when mothers lose sight of their priorities), Trevyren believed that sending them abroad was their best course of action. Trevyren, being partial to his youngest son Taeden, made arrangements to send him to the semi-established nation of Marisella, to be raised by his Mana tutor and warden Amir Onasisi. Rasvia was furious at his decision, not only because of what happened last time one of her sons was sent away, but because she was having a secret affair with Amir Onasisi and didn't want to see him go. The two came to a compromise and agreed that they would visit Taeden twice a year to check on his progress and on his safety. Taeden was sent away and remained safe for the three years he spent abroad. On their sixth visit to see Taeden, Trevyren and Rasvia's ship sunk (for more information, see: affair), and they took the mysteries of The Prophecy with them.

After their deaths, the only people who knew of Taeden's location in Marisella were Amir Onasisi, who still lived with him, along with Sultana Vera Veshtra, Cekaris Helrene, Chaemus Helrene, Captain Rubald Yesten, and Tryvia Miscrost.