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Heir to the Sun takes place one thousand years before the events of Rise of the Deva'shi, and tells the story of Asherah and Caol'nir. Those familiar with Rise of the Deva'shi will recall Asherah as Queen of Parthalan, and sharp-eyed readers will recognize Caol'nir's name. Within these pages we learn how Asherah journeyed from slave to queen, and observe the extraordinary measures taken by Caol'nir to safeguard the woman he loves.
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Below is the prologue, which deals with two faerie gods, Olluhm and Cydia, the sun and the moon.
From the beginning, there was the sky god, Olluhm, who ruled the land during the daylight hours and Cydia, goddess of the moon, who held sway over the night. Olluhm heard many tales of Cydia's beauty, and while he desired to look upon her, they were forever separate, for the sun may never share the sky with the moon.
Once, during the moon's dark time, Cydia grew bored in her celestial palace and desired to walk upon the land. She took the form of a doe and frolicked across the rolling hills and meadows of what would someday be Parthalan. Toward the end of the night she became weary and curled up in the soft grass to rest; the goddess slept overmuch and did not return to her home before sunrise. As the sun rose, Olluhm beheld Cydia for the first time, and as she was bathed in his golden light she reverted to her true form. Her beauty overcame Olluhm, so much so that he left his journey across the sky incomplete as he took the form of a stag and sought to know her.
Cydia did return to her dance in the sky, and all the land watched her swell with Olluhm's child. During the next dark time, she birthed a son they called Solon, who grew to follow his father's fiery path from dawn to dusk. The birth of their son did not slake the lovers' thirst for one another. Such was their passion that each joining resulted in a child, each with the long limbed, ethereal beauty of the parents and the pointed ears and large eyes of a deer. In time, there were enough of the gods' children to form a separate people. Olluhm named them the fair folk for their beauty, and in time, they were called the fae. Cydia gifted her children with the land where she and Olluhm had roamed as doe and stag and called it Parthalan. Olluhm crafted the fae's first home, Teg'urnan, as a replica of Cydia's home in the sky. The sun god placed it upon the verdant meadow where he first lay with Cydia as a symbol of their eternal love.
