Holigin's entry into the palace led to a rollercoaster of deplorable activities over time. As it turned out, she had her agenda.
Onorra, however, was not easily fooled, he has always been a keen observer ever since he was a kid, and that stood him out as he always quickly noted things that were not so obvious.
He could tell something was not right, the whole arrangement and wedding seemed rushed and his father never even mentioned it to them till it was very near.
He also could not pinpoint much about the said nee bride and on the day of the wedding, he noticed she and Katoroth kept on exchanging glances with Holigin giving off a discreet core aura while she was beside the king.
He began to try to put the dots together and knowing who Katoroth was and how he lived, he understood the fact that anything can be possible with his younger brother.
King spaj began to fall I'll gradually a few months after the wedding, he had begun to see the symptoms earlier but had kept it to himself as he did not want to be seen as weak or feeble.
However, some months later he began to display symptoms of illness with constant coughing and a little spittle of blood as he coughed. Kathoroth and Holigin had continued their affairs with them sneaking to their favorite place where they always met.
It turned out Kathoroth has never stopped in his affairs with Holigin and he was instrumental and the one behind the marriage between her and his father. He wanted to be using her to get to his father and also to control the palace but then he failed to still realize Spaj was not one to be easily controlled and manipulated.
He was still not completely over his wife and Onorra was still the one holding down the legacy of the palace, Onorra decided to know more about Holigin and realized there are a lot of information hidden from the king, he also figured out she was a linstar witch disguising as a normal human among the people of the Tondos kingdom.
He wondered how she had been able to hide her identity this whole time. Linstar witches date back to far back to thousand of years, they are high-rank witches who possessed great powers which they use for most pure intentions.
It was indicated that they were destroyed and massacred by the ancestors of Spaj, a man called King Edigbuh who destroyed them all and set fire to the whole Linstar village consuming all of man, women, and children.
Or so he thought, there was but one family that escaped, the family of the Hilith, they decided to settle as normal humans who deceived people with their charismatic personalities. The head of the Hilith house Donrma Riy sacrificed his life so his wife and daughters could escape to safety.
His wife whose name is Ortigra decided to train and groom the girls in different ways to blend in, they spent years in the suburbs of the land of Deint and disguised themselves as humans when they saw how dangerous the outside was for them.
From then on the family grew and married, and through hereditary, the gift of sorcery was passed from one generation to another. As they disguised themselves as humans, it was easy for them to perpetrate evil.
The witches carried out their human sacrifices and used the blood of the people of the land to renew their power, they are also constantly reminded of their history.
How the land of Tondos was responsible for their almost near extinction and how they will make them pay in due time. Soon enough the witches grew their whole community back whilst still staying undercover.
They gradually built their finance and their population, and with the many discreet human drops of blood, they had become invincible and more powerful. Initially, they were witches who did some good for mankind.
Due to their love for mankind, they did not sacrifice human blood, they will rather use animal blood cause the use of blood strengthens their power. But after the near extinction, they became evil and without hesitation began to sacrifice humans which made them extremely powerful over time.
Even though the witches were not immortal, they could maintain their youthfulness evergreen with the dark powers of sorcery and magic and they can even transform themselves into someone else to fit in.
Once they have gathered all the resources and we're back fully on our feet, having even waited for several years with generations after generations long after that. They moved to the land of Tondos with revenge on their hearts, and they had only one goal, to take the land down from within.
After their arrival into the land of Tondos, people began to get missing one by one and The Tondos thinking this was the work of the enemy, decided to invest in their warriors and land security and thus became a force to reckon with.
Also, so many kings over the years have passed on under very rare circumstances, the land of Tondos does not believe in magic or witchcraft, or the supernatural, and belief in sorcery in the land of Tondos are punishable by death.
Any offender caught practicing dark arts and summoning magic, will be beheaded. This is part of the law punishable with instant death and no trial, so even those who believe in sorcery or the supernatural within the land cannot openly admit to it and they must not be caught indulging in it.
However, the death of all the kings ever since the linstar arrived in the land of Tondos discreetly is something no one pays attention to. They all have been made to believe it is the law of nature.
The Father of Spaj who was king before getting sick after he arrived from fishing one night, was a man who loved to fish and he got back that night and started to shiver. Months later his stomach began to protrude his whole body turned pink and he became immobile.
Most of his duties were carried by his hand, his trusted friend called Felitinchy, who tried his best to find a cure for his illness. Spaj was only twenty-three when his father died, even though he was already a man.