Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
First Impression: Well, this is off to a lovely start here...I really did like this prologue here, there's a lot of mystery here and this little tale here seems very fitting for the sort of thing that you expect to find in a prologue. At any rate, it was one of the more interesting prologues that I've run across here. 
Anyway let's get right to it,
YOU may have heard of the Ironwood Queen. Heard of her brilliance, her grace, her cruelty, her spite, her stone cold heart.
Hmm, well I haven't heard of that one exactly, but that does sounds like someone that would be quite an interesting character, not to mention it looks like the person that's writing this here appears to either be the Ironwood Queen herself or someone that has been told by her to actually write it cause that's certainly a very interesting way for some random person to be describing a queen.
You may know the story of the Emperor and his twenty-one wives, and how the Ironwood Queen was at once the greatest and the least of them, the first and the last of them. The one who became Empress before the Empire broke. The one who outlived them all. Outlived the Emperor. Outlived the Empire. Outlived her own accursed son.
Okayy...wow, that is a lot of things for one person to have done there...that's definitely a lot of achievements, some of with seem very questionable from the way they're mentioned, not to mention a lot of them also seem to be quite sad, and this Ironwood Queen character looks to be someone that would've suffered quite a bit throughout their life if all of those things are anything to be judging by.
In the taverns and roadside inns, in the evenings when they’ve had too much to drink, the generation who has lived the tale sometimes whisper that it is no coincidence that the Ironwood Queen still lives despite the Empire’s fall, that there is a story there, that she must have had a hand in it. I’ve heard their stories. Such cruel stories. Such strange stories. They whisper that she still sits on a throne these days. Not as grand as the Empress’ throne of pearls and silver lace, but a throne nonetheless.
Okay....well, this definitely sounds like something either the Ironwood Queen commissioned or she herself is saying cause the mention of I there and the fact that they're very cruel and strange without any sort of benefit of the doubt certainly suggests a little bit of bias on the side of the one writing this here. At any rate, this is definitely the kind of situation that would get people making rumors, cause that is a pretty rare series of events that were described there.
Such strange stories. Sometimes I think there may even be a shred of truth in them.
You may have heard of the Ironwood Queen. You may have heard of me.
Hmm, well, that ending revealed what I've been thinking all this time...xD...good to see my theories aren't always just me overthinking things, but at any rate, this is a pretty neat ending here to this prologue, certainly fits it really well, and then of course there's that little tiny detail of how there might be a shred of truth in them. Well, well, well, this is certainly quite a mysterious prologue here.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
Overall: Overall, a pretty darn solid prologue that you've got here. This definitely looks like something that I would certainly read right here. It seems to be a pretty cool character here and a pretty cool story.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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