Princess Lucinda stepped in awe before the majesty of the magical golden lake. To her astonishment, a beautiful lady with long black hair in a misty white gown arose from the depths of the majestic lake.

Even though she had come out of a lake, she didn't look wet and neither did her dress. You couldn't see through it, it was perfectly respectable.

Princess Lucinda instinctually bent on one knee and bowed her head to this mystical being, for she knew this was no ordinary lady. Ordinary ladies don't rise majestically out of lakes.

"Arise, Princess Lucinda!" declaimed this strange lady in thrilling accents. "For it is to you that others will bow one day."

"What do you mean, My Lady?" asked Princess Lucinda in astonishment.

The lady drew from the glistening waters of the lake a silver sword with a great jewel on the handle part, and raised it in the air.

"By this sword shall it be known that you are the true ruler of these lands," she proclaimed in a voice clear as water. "You shall unite all the kingdoms, and reign over them with unsurpassed wisdom, leading the people into a new Golden Age."

"I do not understand, My Lady," said Princess Lucinda faintly, for her head was all in a whirl at this unexpected news.

"Take this sword, Princess Lucinda," said the beautiful lady, her eyes filled with a strange fire like starlight, holding the gleaming blade towards the princess. "For if you have the courage to follow your destiny, you, and none other, shall be Queen of all The Isles."