While admiring a rose blooming in the winter, Queen Eleanor of the kingdom of Tabor pricks her finger on one of its thorns. Drops of blood fall onto the snow, and she wishes for a daughter as white as snow, with lips as red as blood, hair as black as a raven’s wings and heart as strong as rose. She gives birth to a daughter, Snow White, but falls ill and dies several years later. After her death, Snow White’s father, King Magnus, and his army battle an invading dark army of dark glass soldiers. Upon rescuing Ravenna, the King becomes enchanted with her beauty and marries her. Ravenna is in fact a powerful sorceress and the Dark Army’s master. On their wedding night, Ravenna confesses there was a king much like Magnus that hurt her and discarded her. She declares she will not be discarded and kills Magnus before taking over the kingdom. Snow White’s childhood friend William and his father, Duke Hammond, escape the castle but are unable to rescue her, and she is captured and locked away in a tower for many years. Tabor is ruined under Queen Ravenna’s rule. She periodically drains the youth from the kingdom’s young women in order to maintain a spell cast over her as a child by her mother, which allows her to keep her youthful beauty. When her stepdaughter Snow White comes of age, she learns from her Magic Mirror that Snow White is destined to destroy her unless she
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