The Burdens of Heirs
A Mythic Tragedy
Legacy is not a gift; it’s a Burden.
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The Shape of the Saga
(About the Series)
"Epic Fantasy. Norse Heart. Queer Soul."
A mythic saga told through shattered oaths, Desperate love, and
the weight of inheritance.
It begins with love. It continues through war.
It challenges the oaths no child should ever be forced to keep.
What Makes This Series Unforgettable:
This isn’t just a story. It’s lives turned ink—bloody, beautiful, and burning with secrets.
Co-written by sapphic lovers Anais & Alexis: real queer love behind the scenes too!
Characters you’ll love, hate, and weep for—sometimes all at once
Medieval politics meets Norse myth—a rarely seen pairing that reshapes power, love, and legacy
A saga about inheritance: how our parents’ lives shape us, even when we defy it
Uses the Rashomon effect: multiple characters’ contradicting experiences of the same events
“Unfathomable despair…”“Earned transformations.”
"Endless Ships!"“…ruined longing.”Themes You’ll Find Inside
⸸Oral traditions & Norse mythos: harsh beauty, ancient faiths. Norse roots told accurately, not through a western lense!
⸸Romance: slow-burning, dangerous, obsessive, and deeply human
⸸Queerness as an accepted truth, not as a challenge to overcome: fluid identities, sapphic and trans love, queer rage and joy, polyamory
⸸Trauma, legacy, and grief: the unfair truth that the past never really stays buried
⸸Witchcraft and Paganism: nuanced, historical, and rooted in ritual and reverence
⸸Multiple POVs: every side of the story, even the painful ones
Influences
⸸Game of Thrones → for its brutal politics and tangled loyalties
⸸The Song of Achilles → for its lyrical longing and doomed romance
⸸If We Were Villains → for it haunting, irrevocable loss.
⸸The Lord of the Rings → for its epic scale and mythic worldbuilding
⸸The Locked Tomb → for it’s queer love and dynamic ships
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Act I: Pembrook
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Act I: Pembrook ~
Pembrook
Their ancestors never warned them that lies root deeper than truths.
Pembrook begins a saga of nine acts, each one tracing the fall of a world built on secrets. It follows the Heirs and opens us to the world of War-torn Midhelm.
What happens when a faithborn Princess, sworn to her kingdom’s success through marriage, is challenged by the undeniable pull of her Norse admirer?
Here, three kingdoms cling to ancient lies, but it is the burdens of those heirs—love, deaths, secrets—that set fate into motion.
The truth comes quickly—
Legacy is not a blessing. It is a burden.
The Burdens of Heirs: Act I
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