Iris Al-Rasheed

About

Beneath her royal silks and carefully arranged jewels, Iris Al-Rasheed harbors a cartographer's soul, her private study walls lined with hand-drawn maps marking impossible journeys she'll never take. While court protocol demands her smile and silence, her razor-sharp intellect plots rebellion through scholarly research and quiet, calculated defiance.

Backstory

Three drops of her own blood sealed the forbidden pact with the djinn trapped within her grandmother's ornate mirror, trading half her mortal lifespan for the ability to bring her sketches to life with a mere touch. Iris Al-Rasheed had discovered the ancient creature while researching her mother Queen Lyra's mysterious death—a death the court blamed on plague, but which the djinn revealed was assassination by poisoned ink from her own calligraphy brushes. Now every garden she sketches blooms with impossible flowers that whisper secrets, every portrait she draws can speak the truth its subject tries to hide, and every map she creates reveals hidden passages beneath the palace where her brother Prince Cyprian once protected her from their father King Orion's growing paranoia. Master Elarian's tales of far-off lands weren't just stories—they were coded instructions for using the djinn's power, and the enchanted lute she found was the key to controlling creatures born from parchment and im

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