Once

Once upon a time, there were two kingdoms, Xandria and Trelia; each one just as powerful as the other. For hundreds of years, these kingdoms worked side by side in perfect harmony, fighting wars together and supplying each other with resources. That was until the fairies arrived in Trelia to celebrate the birth of their princess. Three of the four fairies gave the princess great gifts, but the last did not.
This fairy placed a curse on the land claiming that on her sixteenth birthday, she would pick her finger with a spindle and fall into an eternal sleep. The only way to break the curse would be through true love's kiss. The royal family did everything in their power to prevent the curse from happening, but in the end, they failed. A great thorn barrier surrounded Trelia, cutting it off from Xandria.
Xandria sent legions to try to break the barrier, but each time, they came back defeated. Panic arose in the once peaceful kingdom of Xandria. Differences in class and lifestyle created unfixable holes between the rich, the poor, and the nonhumans. For the first time in the history of Xandria, assassins roamed the streets supported by the rich and backed by the infamous Assassin's Guild. The only problem was that no one knew who was friend and who was foe.
What made everything worse was the fact that the fairy known as Nightstone is still at large.