Story Outline

The time was the 11th century. The place was the South East. The region which encompassed Suvarna Bhumi, the Golden Continent, and Suvarna Dvipa, the Golden Islands. An area riven by great turmoil, resulting from old tribal enmities mixed with new religious rivalries, contest for territory, prestige and power, and competition for influence and advantage amid increasingly lucrative land and sea trade routes. In this conflict torn region lay the land named Amdan Negara. One of several kingdoms of an ancient federation named Langkasuka Adhi Negara, sometimes also called Langkasuka Maha Mandala, that had collapsed, their once sovereign Raja now demoted to vassal Narapati, in the wake of the combined Srivijayan-Sailendran invasion and conquest of the northern parts of the Golden Peninsula, circa 775 AD.

In the midst of all this confusion, chaos and anarchy, three people between them will, somehow, end up partly shaping the destiny of the Langkasukan federation.

Shakranta, the last scion of the now near extinct Dharmakusuma Dynasty, fighting to regain his family’s lost throne and to restore a fallen kingdom.

Isabelle, a young Saxon girl from Enghel Land, a country at war in the Isles of Britannia, lost and stranded in a foreign land, struggling  for her very sanity and survival.

Ozalan, child of an Oghuz Turkmen mercenary and a Bolgar woman, orphaned at five years old, staring at the bleakest of futures ahead of him.

Their paths meet in the many splendoured city of Constantinople, in the glorious land of Byzantium. Together, the trio sail eastward to Shakranta’s homeland in the Golden Peninsula. Retracing the routes once travelled by Shakranta’s distant ancestors centuries earlier.

Shakranta’s grandfather, Adhi Vira, had lit the first flames of rebellion to overthrow a band of foreigners who had seized the governorship of Amdan Negara, their collapsed ancestral kingdom. While his mother, Kembang Seri Wangi, had ably continued the family heritage as the next Narapati. But their lost dynastic throne was still beyond their grasp, their kingdom still vassal to a powerful foreign empire. It is now left to Shakranta to help her fight for its complete restoration.

Is there hope for Shakranta, the Dharmakusuma Dynasty and the broken kingdom of Amdan Negara?