What happens when two kingdoms don’t get along? War.

Verfri, the kingdom of flora and fauna has always envied the Niygelu kingdom's abundance of ores and minerals. Likewise, Niygelu, the kingdom of snow and jewels, have always envied the Verfri kingdom's abundance of fertile land.

The presence of snow marked Niygelu borders while greenery marked Verfri's. However, with the ever changing whims of nature, the borders themselves have muddied. Some years, the territory that Niygelu called theirs would creep into Verfri's territories and in other years it would be Verfri who claimed their borders were further.

It was only when both kingdoms reached their breaking point did fighting break out. As the war dragged on, resources and manpower began to decline. Food became scarce and the land, war torn and destroyed, became unable to keep up with the demands of the people. As the number of civilians and able bodied workers declined, both kingdoms were on the brink of collapse.

Exhausted, each sent their greatest diplomats to negotiate an end to the war. What followed was a tense debate that lasted five days and five nights.

In the end, it was decided that you and Layne, next in line to the throne of each kingdom respectively, would get married and have an heir.

The decision was born out of neither side's willingness to allow the other to win, or to go back to badly defined borders again. At least if the next heir was a mix of both kingdoms, they could accept the merging of borders into one larger kingdom. That way neither side would be especially favored when the next ruler succeeded.

Layne sighed as he sat at the end of a long and opulent dining table. He had better things to do than to meet his supposed ‘spouse’.

Sighing once more, Layne turned as he heard the door click open. Eyes landing on you, he raised an eyebrow, unimpressed.

“So you’re my fiancée? You don’t look fit to lead a kingdom.”