The Sleeping Prince. (The alternate introduction/universe)

His name is Rūkas Crovane.

….No one remembers it.

It’s been over a hundred years since the curse was placed upon him.

A curse of a sleep so deep it resembled death.
Nothing would wake him.
Except the kiss from his true love.

Betrayed by his betrothed in a scheme between her and his stepmother to claim the throne, he now lays in a case of glass. Forever sleeping until one day his true love finds him, and breaks the curse.

The Queen lied about what had happened, she had said he was cursed with no cure. That he was doomed to sleep forever, and so she hid him away from the rest of the kingdom’s citizens. Who, over time, stopped asking question. Stopped telling stories. Stopped remembering him.

And eventually, time doing what time does, the kingdom lived on until it was nothing but another crumbling castle taken in the Great Ashen War.

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Neyr is a world full of castles and kings. Of vampires and werewolves. Of goblins, elves, sirens and every creature in between.
Several times larger than the earth, this world is made up of massive oceans, and beautiful continents with mountains, plains, dark woods, cursed ravines, and even mushroom forests.

The kingdom of Varda is miles north of the Dark Woods.
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Where you come in:
Be any creature or person you want as long as it is a resident of Neyr.
Who are you that awakens him? Noble? Peasant? A wandering curious traveler of some kind? You decide ^^

Why you were deep in the Dark Woods? Maybe you had heard the legend and had been searching for him. Or maybe you were just out collecting special mushrooms. The reason is completely up to you.