The Regent
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Edega Entertainment
Category: Audio
Chapters: 6
Audio Duration:
4 hours and 52 minutes
Book Description
THE REGENT
LOGLINE:
A lowly village girl will face destiny when she, seeking to prove a point to her parents and her kingdom, enters the evil forest and is trapped there by the spirit-beings in the spirit-land where she soon makes friends who will come to her aid and her village’s aid in times of need.
SYNOPSIS:
Fadeke is an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in the ancient village of Ayepe. An only child born to lowly parents,... View More
THE REGENT
LOGLINE:
A lowly village girl will face destiny when she, seeking to prove a point to her parents and her kingdom, enters the evil forest and is trapped there by the spirit-beings in the spirit-land where she soon makes friends who will come to her aid and her village’s aid in times of need.
SYNOPSIS:
Fadeke is an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in the ancient village of Ayepe. An only child born to lowly parents, stubborn, opinionated, an only child without a care in the world.
Although a maiden, she is not even the pretty girl around the village but if you want to know who is causing a ruckus down the river-road, odds are she is the one.
So when the prince of the land suddenly falls grievously ill and the oracle was consulted on a cure, the gods says that a strange black rabbit that can only be gotten from the evil forest mixed with some concoction can save the prince’s life, the problem is, the black rabbits are fabled, tales told over time because no one, not even the strongest hunters of that generation had ever seen the black rabbit.
The king tasks the hunters of the land with finding one of these rabbits from the evil forest stating that he will divide his wealth in half to appreciate whoever comes back with the prized black rabbit.
Fadeke’s father, a poor farmer and hunter mentions to the wife that this would have been the perfect time for their family to shine if only they had a male child to go for the hunt.
This statement angers Fadeke so much that she decided within herself that she will go into the evil forest herself to find the rabbit too just to prove a point that she is more than just a girl child, she is a human who can do what anyone can do.
So on the day the hunters wey ushered off into the evil forest, Fadeke snuck into the forest too unbeknownst to her parents.
A few hours into the lone hunt, Fadeke is attacked by an unseen person and when she wakes up she finds herself in a strange land deep inside the forest, the land of the spirits beings.
Men with two heads, with horns, women with three breasts and people with webbed feet like ducks, this is a strange sight for Fadeke who now know that she is in a different realm.
Enters Akun, a spirit being, her captor, Fadeke is subjected to the laws of the land, she will be put to death for coming in contact with the spirit world but she is later spared to live amongst them.
Fadeke cannot imagine life among these spirit beings but they were friendly to her and when the time comes they forces her into a marriage with Akun, there’s no fighting it, she is not among friends but she can refuse to give her body to him, Akun is a patient spirit man and does not care so much for Fadekemi’s shenanigans.
Fadekemi finds herself at peace with the spirit people, she even makes a female friend amongst them, Ewa, a beautiful spirit girl but Fadekemi will find salvation on the day she helped Digba, the spirit people’s leader by bleeding him of the poison when he fell pray.
In appreciation of her acts of service to the spirit world, Digba agrees to Fadekemi’s return to the human world but she won’t be going alone, she will be going back with one of the fabled black rabbits to heal the sick prince, it was then the reason the prince was sick was told to Fadekemi.
The spirits told Fadekemi that the prince was struck from the spirit realm because he had a hand in the murder of a spirit daughter who went to the outside world in human form and was befriended and killed by the prince but his sickness will be reversed for Fadekemi’s sake.
Fadekemi returns back to the human world, presents the black rabbit to the king and the prince is made whole but there is a new problem, the king is refusing to make good his promise when he promised plenty for whoever brings the black rabbit.
In the course of the powerplay, Fadekemi is banished from the village for daring to confront the king, her goodwill and sacrifice forgotten. Fadekemi returns back to the spirit realm to live with her spirit husband Akun who she has now opened her heart to.
Soon Ayepe is invaded by land grabbers and slave traders and Fadekemi feels the need to come with the help of her spirit friends to fight for her ancestral land, she wages war against the enemies of her land but instead of the king to appreciate her for the good person that she is, he continues to scheme more ways to repay her good with evil until Fadekemi forcefully takes the throne of the land in a wary ably aided by her spirit friends.
Will Fadekemi be a just queen-regent? Will she later abdicate the throne to allow for the kingship of Ayepe to continue? What will become of her spirit husband and spirit friends who have given Fadekemi these supernatural powers?
The regent speaks to the fight for what is right in any society and bringing social justice and equality to all.
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