Five Crowns, Five Gemstones

October 5, 2026

The realm is split into five provinces. Each has a crown, and each is tied to a gemstone.

Caelondor wears garnet, the red of blood and the martial province. Tharavos wears citrine, harvest gold, and it grows every crop the other four eat. That is the only kind of power it needs. Eiloria wears amethyst, violet, the province of song and scholarship. Veythar wears emerald, the green of marsh and spirit. Morvane wears sapphire, the blue of the coast and the sea.

Which province would you want to be born in? I'd take Eiloria for the music and Morvane for the cliffs, and I'd lose either argument to a farmer from Tharavos.

Whispers of the Wyrm, Book One of The Bard and the Blade Saga.