I’m Vallari, lead sorceress and second medical officer of The Phoebe Sophia, a sentient spaceship. You may be wondering how an ancient sorceress such as myself wound up on such a spacefaring, galaxy hopping vessel. When I was a little girl, I lost my parents to the ravages of war. I wound up a foreign curiosity in the Kingdom of Uruk as a lone refugee. One day my deep black eyes, long hair and dark skin caught the king's eye on the street. He brought me into his court not out of lust, rather he saw before I did what made me special. I thrived in the new environment. I soon discovered my gifts for magic and prophecy. I quickly became an indispensable, independent advisor to the king. But living was not all wine and rose petals. Life in the Court could be dangerous, very dangerous. It was both gorgeous and deadly. We lived in a beautiful mountain Kingdom palace overlooking the sea free from chaos and invasions. King Chronus was an old man with no clear successor. He was also my protector. He had given me the freedom to speak my mind and create powerful enemies. I needed a way out before he left the world. One of our ships had rescued three survivors from a lost trading vessel. It was the custom to bring foreigners to the Court of the king to gain news of the outside world. A young lady named Brien, a young man named Adon and a warrior named Ankius came that afternoon with their rescuer, Marcus, a sea-captain. When my eyes saw the warrior, I knew two things right away; he would be mine and we would have adventures far beyond anything we could imagine.
I shared my bed and soul with him that night and agreed to help him on his quest to confront the gods directly about all the suffering in this world. Brien and Adon were bound to Ankius. I knew of a possible path to the gods. It took us not to the gods but a place and time far beyond our world. Brien used her charm to bring Marcus into our quest as well making our number Five. Five has always been a good number for me. The path led us through frozen mountains, warring kingdoms and a mysterious temple complex that exiled us into a mysterious, far distant future. There, we spent time with peaceful, matriarchal people. Moving on, we met a Demigoddess who called herself Storyhearts and a beautiful woman with red hair who captained the intergalactic, sentient spaceship called The Phoebe Sofia. They needed help.
Phoebe and her crew found themselves caught in the middle of a stalemated civil war that could quickly turn deadly on an ageless, colossal colony ship, The Utopia. This ship had spread humanity across time and galaxies with the help of sentient machines, the same machines now fighting her human component. The machines were led by a powerful leader in the form of a golden man-machine who called himself Zycoi. Could we find a way to end the fighting and let The Utopia continue? Other powerful threats loomed.
Through a deadly misunderstanding humanity had started a war with a far more advanced civilization known as the Trigmani. Their abilities were god-like and far beyond anything we had to fight back with. On a genocidal rampage that had already wiped out numerous civilizations. only one thing could stop them. It would take one of their own who was tired of the madness and a sentient spaceship along with a crew from different times and places. These are the stories of which I am only a part. I humbly invite you to come along and see what happens. Join me?
-Vallari
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