The Kingdom of the Golden Veins
A medieval kingdom discovered immortality — then burned for it.
In an obscure medieval chronicle titled De Flamma Vitae, monks describe a northern realm where sunlight flowed like water — Corona.
Its queens possessed hair that never aged, said to be spun from the rays of dawn. They used it to heal and bless crops. But their magic was not divine — it was alchemical.
Centuries earlier, a fallen star had crashed near the kingdom. The monks found a golden flower at its center, blooming even in moonlight. It was fed not by soil, but by blood.
The first queen drank its nectar and bore a daughter with hair that glowed. But the flower’s magic was parasitic — it needed new vessels each generation. When a queen died, her power migrated to her heir.
In time, the flower’s light dimmed, and Corona fell to plague and famine. Only the legend remained: a lost princess with sunlight in her veins.
In 2010, scientists discovered a strain of luminescent pollen fossilized in quartz near the Rhine — genetically impossible, yet identical to the “Sun Drop” described in the monastery texts.
It pulsed faintly when exposed to blood.
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