The Rise and Fall Of the Faerie King - A Dark Fable

“I want to tell you a strange story. 

I, Esa Salmi, as barber-surgeon to the House of Taivas, ruling family of Valea, the City of Light, am privy to many remarkable, amusing, disturbing, and, at times, horrific secrets…”

Thus begins `The Rise and Fall Of the Faerie King’, a tale of two curses, a demon changeling, two Queens, three Kings, a deformed Monk, an old hag, a horny fawn and a simpleton named Mika. 

As these unlikely characters whisper their ill-will towards the `Toad Prince’, could they bring a plague upon the Kingdom?  Could they bring about a war between Valea, the City of Light, and Varaa, the Land of the Faeries?  Might they even open up the gates of Hell itself?

“I warned you that this tale is exceedingly strange!  Hardly a soul alive remembers the events that all but consumed Valea.  Mercifully, the faerie folk worked their magic and unburdened their memories, but a few of us were unaffected by the spell, thus our memories of that dark time remain intact...”