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Sultan Baab Ullah of Ternate (r. 1570-1583) spent forty years fighting the Portuguese, who had assassinated his father Sultan Hairun during a peace negotiation. Baab Ullah ultimately expelled the Portuguese from their fortress on Ternate in 1575 and forced them to retreat to Tidore. He then extended Ternate's sphere of influence across a vast maritime domain stretching from New Guinea to Mindanao.

A fantasy inspired by Baab Ullah — a ruler whose defining motivation is revenge for a betrayal, who maintains forty years of resistance without losing the political support needed to sustain it — has a protagonist whose historical basis is as dramatically compelling as any invented character. iWrity connects your Ternate fantasy with readers who will recognize that dramatic basis and reward it with substantive reviews.

The Ternate Sultanate combined Islamic governance with the older Kolano sacred kingship tradition, in which the Sultan's body was the cosmological center of the island's order. The Kolano was not merely a political leader; he embodied the well-being of the land and sea. Illness in the Kolano was an omen of disaster; his death required elaborate rituals to prevent the dissolution of the cosmic order he had maintained.

A fantasy in which the Kolano has been poisoned — not killed, but made chronically ill in a way that gradually unravels the island's cosmological stability — gives the sacred kingship tradition a thriller engine: the investigation into the poisoner is simultaneously a medical mystery and a cosmological crisis. iWrity delivers readers who will engage with both dimensions of that crisis.

In Ternate cosmology, the clove tree was a living entity with its own spirit, and the harvest required ritual propitiation to ensure the tree's cooperation. A clove tree that was cut without ceremony, or whose harvest was taken without the proper offerings, was believed to respond by reducing future yields or by sending disease to the harvesting community.

A fantasy in which a European factor has been harvesting cloves in violation of the ritual protocols — and in which the clove trees are responding by withdrawing their yield, threatening the entire economy of the sultanate — gives the cosmological tradition a political application that makes the spiritual and the commercial inseparable. iWrity connects this premise with readers who will appreciate the specificity of that entanglement.