Once Upon A Time...

Snow White and her twin sister Rose Red were born to a magic herbalist named Lauda. Snow was born first. The mother and her daughters lived in the Magical Forest, a mystical wooded expanse surrounded by three Great Kingdoms: The Northern Iron Realm of Fryslân, the Western Golden Realm of Bourgogne, and Silver Realm of Lotharin to the East. It was from the East that the girls were told their mysterious father had once come from.



Snow and Rose had many adventures as children in the Magic Forest. Though they lacked their mother’s magical training, they possessed a kinship with animals that even their mother did not fully understand. The girls befriended a bear who spent the cold months of every year living in the herbalist and her daughters but spent his summers in a constant hunt for a wicked dwarven sorcerer.



The girls would find this dwarf while playing in the forest. Unaware he was the evil magician the bear had warned them about, the girls came to the dwarf’s rescue. In return for rescuing him, the dwarf attempted to steal the girl’s own magic from them. However, before the dwarf could do so, the sisters’ bear friend leaped out.



With the dwarf sorcerer that had cursed him struck dead, the bear changed back into his human form. He was revealed to be the lost prince of the Golden Realm who had been cursed by the dwarf many years before. The prince invited the girls and Lauda to his kingdom so that he might properly repay their kindness. However, Snow‘s mother told Snow White to travel East to Lotharin instead. She gave Snow a letter and a signet ring. Lauda told Snow to deliver the letter and ring personally to King Philipp. When Snow asked why the king would agree to see her, Lauda told her that no king would refuse the audience of a princess, especially his own heir.



However, when Snow left the Magic Forest, she found the Eastern lands to be ravaged by civil war. While being detained by soldiers bearing the royal crest, Snow presented her letter and revealed her ring with the King’s emblem. That is when the soldiers captured her. Snow demanded to know what was the meaning of this and was informed that the king was dead and they served his queen, the woman who had murdered him in a bold coup. Snow managed to escape when a giant wolf attacked the wagon and dragged one of its horses off. Fearing for her life if brought before the evil queen, Snow fled back to her forest.



In her panic, Snow became lost. After weeks of foraging to survive, she was again captured by one of the queen’s huntsmen. When the huntsman saw the signet ring, he lowered his weapon. He knelt before Snow and told her that he had served her father faithfully. The huntsman took Snow to a cottage where lived seven dwarven hunters. When the dwarves learned that Snow was the Silver King’s daughter, they agreed to protect her. Much to Snow’s dismay, she was kept from leaving as the dwarves believed she was vital to restoring order to the Silver Realm if her stepmother could be removed from power.



The queen’s mirror revealed the location of Snow White and so she had her spies slip a poisoned bushel of apples in the wagon of her dwarven allies while they were buying supplies in a border town. When Snow saw the apples (a favorite of hers), she took a bite and nearly died. Snow’s connection to the Magic Forest kept her alive but in a deep, death-like state.



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