I Am Mallora of Kiatra

I Am Mallora of Kiatra is a sonnet written by Mallora Kaldon, princess and later queen of Kiatra. The sonnet was composed while she was in her late teens and early twenties, before she married. While Mallora continued to write throughout her life, nothing else she produced was quite like the sonnet, which she made occasional edits to up until her death. Mallora's poetry and prose were popular in her own kingdom as well as elsewhere on the Greater Continent, and continued to be read and reprinted long after her death. I Am Mallora of Kiatra, in particular, was a regular fixture, and considered so compelling that it was often studied in schools despite it's explicit contents.

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Despite the name, I Am Mallora of Kiatra is actually about a young man. In the poem, Mallora expresses deep longing and desire for this man, as well as incredible gratitude. While nominally a love poem, the sonnet is subtly sexualy explicit. One literary critic, writing a century and a half after Mallora's death, said "it's basically ninety-nine ways to say I want to sleep with this guy, some something about saving her kingdom".

Background

Mallora was roughly fifteen at the time of The Great Schism, and due to some of the lines in the sonnet, many suspect it concerns