
The Norns’ Visions Presents…
The Burdens of Heirs
A Queer Epic Tragedy
Legacy is not a blessing; it’s a Burden.
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"Epic Tale. Norse Heart. Queer Soul."
A Literary Epic of Mythic Tragedy and Human Devotion
The Shape of the Saga
Written by pagan sapphic lovers,“The Burdens of Heirs” is a tragic, queer epic set in a pagan medieval kingdom where love is survival and silence is its own form of violence.
What Makes This Series Unforgettable:
This isn’t just a story. It’s lives turned ink—bloody, beautiful, and burning with secrets.
Co-written by Anais & Alexis: real queer love, real magic, behind the scenes!
Norse Myth told with Honor, not Brutality—a pagan story where Norse people are loving, humane, and true.
Character-driven: Souls you’ll love, hate, and weep for—sometimes all at once
A saga about inheritance: how our parents’ lives shape us, even when we defy it
Uses the Rashomon effect: multiple characters’ contradicting experiences of the same events
“Unfathomable despair…”
“Earned transformations.”
"Endless Ships!"
“…ruined longing.”
Themes You’ll Find Inside
⸸Oral traditions & Norse mythos: harsh beauty, ancient faiths. Norse roots told accurately, not brutalized, not through a western lense! Pagans are respected and humane!
⸸Romance: Sapphic and Achillean, intense, dangerous, obsessive, and deeply human
⸸Queerness as an accepted truth, not as a challenge to overcome: fluid identities, all forms of love, queer rage and joy, polyamory
⸸Trauma, legacy, and grief: the unfair truth that the past never really stays buried
⸸Witchcraft and Paganism: nuanced, historical, and rooted in ritual and reverence
⸸Multiple POVs: every side of the story, even the painful ones
⸸Psychological Depth and themes: Grief—not only of the dead, but of the lives they never got to live. Guilt. Sadness. Love. Sacrifice. Revenge. Trauma.
This Story is for:
⸸ Queer folk/romantics who loved The Last Kingdom and cried alone
⸸ Poets and Literary readers who underlined Madeline Miller and want more
⸸ Sapphic witches who’ve never seen themselves in a dynasty
⸸ Trauma survivors who hide grief in elegance
⸸ Lovers of tragedy, not happy endings
⸸ Queer kids of color who saw nothing of themselves in media
⸸ Those who were told family is blood, but then bled and got nothing back
⸸ The ones with mothers who gave them duty, not love
And fathers who gave them legacy, not safety
And lovers who never could love them in daylight.
Touch the Runes to learn their story
Touch the Runes to learn their story
Pop Culture Influences
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riot's "Arcane"
Angst, Friendships Turned enemies, Found Family, Emotional Devastation, Queer Love, Character Development, Diverse Representations, Varied Representations of Women
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CW's "The 100"
Endless Ships and Connections, Women in Power, Sacrifices and Hard Choices,
War-Torn Romances, The Weight of Leadership -
Netflix's "Haunting of Bly Manor"
Tragic Doomed Lovers, Non-Linear Storytelling, Love as Sacrifice, Slow Creeping Dread, Memory and Time Loops
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George Lucas' "Star Wars"
Political Drama, Family Betrayal, “I will burn the world for Love”, Fallen Lovers, Fate/Destiny, Generational Trauma
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Showtimes' "YellowJackets"
Feminine Rage, Trauma, Feral Group Dynamics, Queer Representation, Trauma Bonds
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Naughty Dog's "The Last of Us"
Loss, Grief, Survival Bonds, Hidden Truths/Storytelling, Multiple POVs, Broken Protectors, Moral Compromise, Tragic First Loves
Act I: Pembrook
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Act I: Pembrook ~
Pembrook
Their ancestors never warned them that lies root deeper than truths.
Pembrook begins a saga of nine acts, each one tracing the fall of a world built on secrets. It follows the Heirs and opens us to the world of War-torn Midhelm.
What happens when a faithborn Princess, sworn to her kingdom’s success through marriage, is challenged by the undeniable pull of her Norse admirer?
Here, three kingdoms cling to ancient lies, but it is the burdens of those heirs—love, deaths, secrets—that set fate into motion.
The truth comes quickly—
Legacy is not a blessing. It is a burden.
The Burdens of Heirs: Act I
“Experience Pagans and Princesses like you never had before!”
Act I Coming Fall 2025!
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