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A conquering Amestrian army from the west takes the country of Xerxes in a single night, leaving its princes alive, with a caveat: the eldest is to marry Amestris's sovereign, to broker a deal for a merger of the two countries, both ruling equally, in an attempt to restore peace after the corruption of Xerxes's last ruler.
Ed knows precisely how much horse shit that is, and he'll be damned if he surrenders with his country.
A false truth, spread to sway a people. A bastard-general heir of Amestris, its most dangerous force to be reckoned with. A horde of powerful nobility, each with their own plots to help or hinder the fledgeling nation. A conspiracy spanning countries, fated to be either doomed to fail or the last hope of a sovereign people.
The first battle, one of weapons and armies and first blood, has already been lost. But the second, one of deception and alliances and false faces, is only beginning. And Ed intends for the last blood to be his.
(Or, a pretentiously long AU of intrigue and royalty.)