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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Halphemos, Ilna, Queen entitled Queen of Demons
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conversations.value: Queen of Demons: This book in the series covers approximately 35 days, starting on the second day of the second month (Heron) and ending on the seventh day of the third month (Partridge).\nFor the most part it follows the adventures of two men (Garric and Cashel) and four women (Liane, Ilna, Tenoctris, and Sharina) as they are split up into parallel worlds and slowly reunite, culminating in the defeat of two of their enemies: the Queen and the Beast.\nIn the introduction, the current King of the Isles, Valence III, and his wizard, Silyon, make a deal with the Beast to regain control of his kingdom from his wife, the Queen.\nMeanwhile, the main characters are in Erdin where they discover the dead remains of a Scaled Man on their ship, which Tenoctris sees as a bad omen.\nWith the exception of Ilna, they book passage on the ship Lady of Mercy, bound for the Isle of Valles, where Garric intends to declare himself King of the Isles.\nBefore they leave, Ilna gives Liane a sash that she has woven which will notify her if Liane is ever in trouble.\nBefore the ship reaches Valles, a lens appears in the sky and swallows the ship, causing it to wreck.\nGarric, Liane, and Tenoctris awake, following the shipwreck, in the land of the Ersa.\nThey eventually make it back to their own world.\nThere they are picked up by a hunting party, led by the noble, Lord Royhas.\nRather than dispose of Garric, as he was ordered to, Royhas takes Garric back into the city and holds a council with several other powerful nobles.\nThey express their loyalty to the King but ask Garric's help in overthrowing the Queen.\nTenoctris uses a mirror to spy on the Queen and discovers that she is a demon.\nGarric plans an attack on the mansion.\nWhen they've passed all the Queen's safeguards, Garric uses iron to destroy the Queen's gate to another world, but she has already escaped.\nFollowing this, Garric appoints himself Prince Regent under King Valence III and demands the allegiance of the Lords who backed him in the revolt.\nMeanwhile, Admiral Nitker, of the Royal Navy, has declared himself the new Lord of the Isles.\nGarric promises to destroy Admiral Nitkers and the rebellious navy if they don't return to the King's service.\nGarric goes before King Valence III and receives his blessing as Prince Regent.\nTenoctris discovers that the Queen's mansion was a nexus of portals to many different worlds, one of which led to the Beast.\nCashel uses his quarterstaff to escape the lens that swallowed the ship and saves Sharina as well.\nThey are rescued by Folquin, King of the nearest Isle, and his two wizards, Halphemos and Cerix.\nFolquin then seeks to marry Sharina.\nWhen Halphemos' talking ape, Zahag, throws a fit during a chess game with Liane, Cashel attempts to settle him down.\nHalphemos, casts a spell to immobilize the ape but the wizardess Silya secretly interferes and sends them to another world.\nFolquin immediately has Halphemos arrested.\nCashel awakes after the transportation on a parallel island of Pandah.\nHe and Zahag meet the lady Sosia who asks Cashel to save her daughter, Aria, who is imprisoned by a wizard Ilmed and the Scaled Men who serve him.\nCashel and Zahag succeed in rescuing the princess Aria, but she is less than thrilled.\nThey flee through several magical portals, eventually ending up back on the Isle of Pandah.\nAfter they defeat the wizardess Silya, Princess Aria (who has decided to marry Folquin) arranges a boat to help Cashel find Sharina.\nThey arrive in Valles where they run into Ilna, Cerix, and Halphemos and then make their way to the palace where they find Garric, Liane, and Tenoctris.\nSharina and Cerix break Halphemos out of prison and then they go in search of Ilna for help in recovering Cashel.\nBut a wizard with the appearance and voice of Nonnus, Sharina's one-time protector, shows up and tricks her into leaving with him on another ship.\nCerix and Halphemos to continue on their way to find Ilna.\nSharina eventually discovers the treachery and jumps ship.\nShe is rescued by a large man, named Hanno, who takes her to his home on the Isle of Bight.\nA phantasm and a group of Hairy Men sent by the Queen attack Hanno and Sharina, but they defeat them.\nThey later discover that the Hairy Men have destroyed Hanno's boat.\nWhile searching for a way off the island, the false Nonnus and his crew discover Sharina.\nThe spirit of the true Nonnus comes to her, possesses her body temporarily, and destroys her pursuers.\nShe and Hanno make their way to the volcano at the center of the island and climb to the top.\nFrom there they can see that the Hairy Men, led by phantasms, are building boats so they can attack Ornifal.\nOne of the phantasms captures Sharina and conveys her to the Queen.\nThe Queen shows Sharina images of her friends (and an image of the Hairy Men on their way to Valles) and implies that she controls their fates through a chess board.\nThe Queen tells Sharina that she intends to use her to find the Throne of Malkar.\nSharina watches as the fleet of Hairy Men reaches the Royal Navy and destroys it, but Admiral Nitkers escapes.\nWhen the Queen threatens to send a giant ammonite against Cashel, Sharina agrees to help her.\nIlna begins setting up shop in Erdin, but this time with the intent to good rather than evil.\nUsing her craft she begins improving the conditions of the city.\nBut Cerix and Halphemos eventually find her and seek her help in recovering her brother Cashel.\nCerix realizes that many of Ilna's patterns contain writings in the Old Script—even though she can't read or write.\nShe agrees to go with them.\nBefore they can leave Erdin, though, they are captured by a band of Scaled Men.\nThey load Ilna onto a ship and travel through a portal.\nCerix and Halphemos find her sash, which she dropped during her tussle with the Scaled Men.\nIt reveals a spell that takes them into a desert world.\nWhen Ilna's captors are attacked by Flyers, Ilna leaps through a portal opened by Cerix and Halphemos.\nJust as they seem to be succumbing to the desert, The People of Beauty arrive and rescue them.\nIlna convinces the People of Beauty transport them to the city of Divers on Third Atara.\nThey seek out the Baron Robilard.\nIn his palace, Halphemos gets into trouble and Baron Robilard has him arrested.\nIlna goes to Robilard to seek Halphemos' release.\nRobilard makes demands, which Ilna fulfills, though to unfavorable results.\nA humbled Robilard frees Halphemos and offers to personally escort them to Valles.\nWhen they get there, Ilna is relieved when she finally finds Cashel.\nThey make their way to the castle where they find Garric, Liane, and Tenoctris.\nWhen all except Sharina have been reunited, they set out to find the lair of the Beast.\nAdmiral Nitkers arrives in Valles to warn them of the oncoming invasion of Hairy Men.\nGarric immediately orders preparations for battle.\nThe Queen forces Sharina to participate in a spell which is meant to reveal the Throne of Malkar.\nInstead they learn that it is Garric, not Sharina, that the Queen needs.\nIn the castle, the wizard Silyon and Admiral Nitker kidnap Liane and turn her over to the Beast, fifty meters down a well.\nAt this point Ilna tears her sash and it reveals how to rescue Liane, by giving the key words (in the Old Script) needed to enter its lair.\nGarric enters the well and Ilna, Cerix, and Halphemos follow him down.\nThe Beast attacks them, revealing that the Yellow King had imprisoned it there long ago and that it had lured them there to release it from its prison.\nIt devours Halphemos and a grieving Cerix finishes the incantation so that the Beast can't escape.\nInstead it dissolves into fiery lava, unable to die because of its immortality, endlessly burning.\nMeanwhile, Tenoctris opens up the Queen's escape portal and Cashel and Zahag travel through it to where she is holding Sharina captive.\nHe uses his staff to destroy the Queen and rescue Sharina.\nThey meet back up with Tenoctris.\nA little later, Ilna, Cerix, Garric, and Liane arrive, escaping from the Beast's lair.\nTenoctris and Cashel confiscate the Queen's chessboard.\nTenoctris notes that the Queen herself was a pawn on the board, just like those she tried to manipulate.\nShe and Cashel also notice the appearance of a new piece on the board—representing an island-sized black ammonite that an unknown wizard has just called up from the depths of the ocean.