Reincarnated As An Heir

In the world of Imperia, the six Great Nations have been led by their respective dynasties since the days of the Empress—over a thousand years ago. Each monarch was once an Heir, a being of unusual competence and skill that seemed to be made solely for the purpose of ascending their respective thrones. No one, of course, understood the mechanism through which an Heir gained their remarkable talents. Each Heir, born with emerald green eyes that mark them as the successor of their kingdom, simply develops a lifetime's worth of skills and experience overnight. To the citizens of Imperia and their royal parents, these Heirs are simply part of a natural order that has existed for centuries, and no one knows that the origin of the Heirs' skills lay within their souls: each Heir possesses the soul of a human from Earth, and while their talents and skills are maintained, their memories are discarded. Usually. Eliot wakes up in the body of a small, sickly, bedridden goblin with bright green eyes. Unbeknownst to him and those around him, the body that he inhabits—that of Greka, the daughter of a goblin slave—is the Heir to the Kingdom of Northmark, a nation in the middle of a succession crisis. Ana is suddenly Alya, and on the run from the knights of a Kingdom that wanted a Prince instead of a Princess. Jay has become Aether, the religious icon of the most pious nation in the world that hides a dark secret. Alexander becomes Garth, the Heir to the technologically advanced Centremark. Zebariah is now Lydas, leader of Westholm, the nation of mages. Damian wakes up as Soterius Bato, the selected Heir of the entire world's breadbasket. Each soul, in a body unfamiliar to them, must learn to acquaint themselves both with their new identities as well as their new roles as the leaders of their new homes. As they do so, a growing, ancient darkness, one with its eyes set on the total domination of all of Imperia, begins to reveal itself.