Champion of Zenina opens with the yet-uncrowned Princess Plavina replacing her late mother Kerina. The treacherous Zadina has fled to her Temple where she is besieged by the people of Hemithea, demanding that she surrender herself for trial for the murder of the former Queen, her own sister Kerina. Against all expectation, Princess Marina is found to have survived the attack on herself and her mother. She swears to be Plavina's Champion. Marina staunchly...