2013.10.06 - Destined To Rule

The traveller had been a man of wealth, seperated from his companions during a blizzard. Sasha's father had vanished into a seperate storm that winter and never returned. He was presumed dead. It was Sasha who has cared for the aristocrat, nursed him back to health, and eventually was asked to marry him. She had agreed simply because it seemed to be the desired response. Her quietness was taken for shyness, rather than complete and utter apathy. The aristocrat found it endearing. Sasha had no opinion of him at all. But when the winter was over and they had moved to Moscow, and she saw more of what the world had to offer, her icy exterior had chipped a little bit. Her new husband showed her things that she had previously not imagined. They still paled next to the vast and complex world she had created in her head, but they were new and thus she showed interest in everything he had to teach her.

4 years later, in 1403 ADE, Sasha finally had her first child when her husband was starting to worry there was something wrong with her ability to conceive. The entire experience was highly unpleasant, but she still studied it all anyway. She studied a lot of things. She read everything she could find. Everything she studied added a new dimension to what had gone from a world to a universe in her head. She was not an unattentive mother, but she felt no connection to her daughter. Nor the son that followed two years later. More and more, however, the ice chipped away. The shell she had built crumbled. She found it harder to remain in just one realm with occasional forays into the dreary 'real' world.

She had ruled for so long in her head, as the loved and admired 'empress', that this inability to effortlessly transition between the two and being stuck more and more as a wife, mother, and mere human being, made her increasingly unhappy. She knew she had a destiny. She'd always known. And this wasn't it.

Eventually, she began to seek power in this 'real' world akin to that she possessed in her mind.

And that power took the form of magic.