Queen Vispa and King Dungammei are the beloved rulers of their respective kingdoms. The twoterritories live in harmony, sharing a temple that crosses their mutual border, but they pray todifferent gods and have little in common outside of geography. The monarchs seem an unlikelypair, but when each violates the rules of the temple - one by entering the temple as a woman,and the other by praying to the other kingdom's god - both find themselves abandoned by theirpeople, deciding soon after to declare the approval and presence of both gods in their hearts, aswell as their love for each other. The King and Queen's subjects also abandon the shared temple, leaving it to the disobedientpair and building separate temples in their own territories. The monarchs' happy life together is,however, short-lived, as Queen Vispa dies upon giving birth to their child Delarai. The King isurged to repent and return to his kingdom. He complies, leaving princess Delarai with Magi, anurse from a remote village, to raise her. Delarai rows up in near isolation, far from otherpeople, spending most of her time among flowers and animals of the beautiful temple garden. Meanwhile, battles rage between the two kingdoms following the King's return. Delaware, a sonbegotten to the King and his next wife, gets badly wounded some years later in an attempt tostop the fighting. On his deathbed, the Prince insists on being taken to the forbidden temple tobe buried there. The King, though ill himself, agrees to fulfill his son's dying wish. It is therewhere Delarai, having become quite an expert at herbal remedies, comes to their aid, preparinga special potion while praying to the temple's two gods in her nurse Magi's native language. As Delarai completes the life-saving act of curing the Prince, she tries to call for Magi, but the word that leaves her lips is magic. Those who witness the event soon spread the word, andDelarai becomes recognized across both kingdoms as the creator of magic. The King, however,succumbs to old age, imparting his last kernel of wisdom unto his daughter: the two temple godsare one and the same. With this knowledge and their newfound inner strength, Delarai andDelaware unify the two kingdoms, and live happily ever after.
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