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Since the day King Zorich bowed to the Queen Onimoria, House of Zorich is always standing beside the Queen and her posterity. However, these grounds near the Queen have to be shared with House of Machuri. Nor House of Zorich, nor House of Machuri was ready to acknowledge, that they both are the part of the Chosen Nation. The war between the eternal enemies was not over with the union of three islands, it was just more hidden.
The whole history of the House of Zorich is fulfilled with the intrigues, plots and effort to put most of the family members beside the Queen in the Queen's council. Also, there are hundreds of documents about the art of seduction. The House of Zorich is very well known by their brothels, where men and women are working not just as the things for pleasure, but spies for the house of Zorich and the Queen of the Isles. There are rumors, that the Guild of Spies was created hundreds of years ago in the Isle of the Gloomy Jungles. The same rumors are talking about the huge dungeons, where these people are trained.
Though, nobody knows, what is truth. There is one fact, that the human being is a weak animal, who depends on its sensual pleasures. Exactly for this reason, the whole region of Felaguria became fulfilled with brothels of the Kingdom of Onimoria. Most of the customers hope, that these women and men, provided by the Dutchy of Paradise, can't be the evil in the sheep's form. This hope is the luck of the House of Zorich, which brings gold to the Dutchy, making it almost as rich as the Isle of the Crown.
When war between Kingdom of Golden Lion and Kingdom of the Isles was started in the year 600, four houses, who were together for so long, had to forget their inside probems. The war was horrible, it took more than half lifes from both sides. The war was hard, horrible and mindless, because it was obvious, that there will be no winners. Moreover, it was started just because of a few inches of the Sea. The time came, when "The Hundred Years Alliance" was written.
It's been 75 years of tension, when both Kingdoms wanted to break the alliance and save it at the same time, still being not sure in which Kingdom victory would stand. So, in order to save the alliance and strenghten it, the marriage was offered a few years ago. However, there was one problem. The King offered the Duke's son, who is the heir, known by his cruelity. Even natives of the Kingdom of the Golden Lion did not want to give their daughters to that man. The most horrible rumors say, that even whores do not come back from his bedroom.
However, the Queen Abegayle Onimus had no other choice. The refusal of the marriage proposal would mean the break of alliance. So, she ordered, that one of her vassals must sacrifice their daughter for the sake of the Kingdom.
Dutchess Debbie Zorich The Wise decided to write the letter herself for the King, offering unknown proposal. Nobody ever saw the letter, just the King himself. What is more interesting, Debbie managed to change his minds and the King offered another Duke's son, who was known by his slight craziness for art, but he was not so cruel as the first one. He was the heir too.
Such knowledge cheered the Queen and everyone else. So, the Dutchess Debbie Zorich had a chance to offer one of her daughters, obviously, that had to be Samuela Zorich or Annalisa Zorich. When just one week left until the decision had to reach the Queen, Dutchess Debbie Zorich died from the bite of the snake, while she was walking in her gardens. There are many snakes, whose one bite could kill the tiger in a second, but they never were found in the gardens. Servants had to clean the garden from these creatures. But that day, someone made a mistake.
The new Dutchess, being just sixteen years old sat on the throne. Nobody was happy but the Queen Abegayle, who really was charmed by the little girl Lisabette Zorich and her ideas. The young Dutchess Lisabette Zorich was the lady-in-waiting of the Queen. Maybe they like each other, because they both are different than it is expected. The Queen Abegayle Onimus is lack of this pure whiteness of the Onimoria, while the young Dutchess Lisabette Zorich is more a man than a woman. She has nothing to do with the art of seduction and the beauty of the outside, which was so valued by the House of Zorich.
The decision about the marriage fall on the shoulders of the young dutchess. It lasted one year, before the young lord-artist died in the quite mysterious circumstances. Some say it was perfectly made poisons. Some says, he was actually sick, but the Duke did not want to speak about it publicly. Whatever happened, the King started to threaten the Queen, that she does not want the marriage after all.
When the war was on the doorsill of the Kingdom of the Isles, Lisabette Zorich came with proposal. She offered her sister, the most prescious girl in the Dutchy of the Gloomy Jungles - Samuela Zorich, as a wife for that cruel Duke's son, who is 35 years old right now and is in the need of his own children, because his father is sick and the man soon will become the Duke. This sacrifise of the sister, brought Lisabette to even more brighter light in the eyes of the Queen.
As people of the Dutchy of the Gloomy Jungles say, the reign of the Dark Lady in The Gloomy Hall started, but the hands of the Queen do not let the shadows to retreat.
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Healers and Brothels: Because of all, herbs, fruits, poisonous animals found in the Gloomy Jungles, there are a very long and deep traditions of healing in this island. Usually healers are making many very important potions to heal, but also, there are some people, who are using differend kind of potions, used to make a mess of another people‘s brains or just to get rid of someone. That leads us to another very deep and long traditions – brothels. Isles of the Gloomy Jungles are known in the whole Felaguria region by their passion and art of seduction. Women and men (sometimes it is hard to say, who is man, who is woman) are perfectly taught how to serve, how to find the most sensitive points and make a huge amounts of money for that. Moreover, the same people are learned to use daggers, potions and become shadows of the streets, who sees everything, hears everything. So, basically healers and spies are the most important Isle‘s of the Gloomy Jungles contributions to the wealth and welfare of the Kingdom of the Onimoria.
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