The Serpent Throne: A Study of Power, Illusion, and the Currency of Belief

In a world increasingly driven by media, attention, and spectacle, The Serpent Throne emerges as a chilling allegorical tale that blends ancient myth, royal legacy, and futuristic psychological control. As a sequel to The Royal Vein, the narrative plunges deeper into the shadowy infrastructure that powers monarchic illusion—not through political authority or divine right, but through a complex system of psychic harvesting and holographic deception. By examining a hidden reality beneath Buckingham Palace, the story not only presents a sinister alternate history but also serves as a metaphorical critique of the mechanisms by which modern institutions manipulate perception. The Serpent Throne invites readers to reconsider the true cost of loyalty, tradition, and collective belief in the symbols we exalt.

1. The Broadcast of Silence

It had been five years since the Coronation Broadcast that froze the world.

Millions had tuned in to see King William crowned in Westminster Abbey — a globally orchestrated event of perfect symmetry, pageantry, and choreographed solemnity. But beneath the grandeur, a different ceremony had taken place. In the lowest vaults of Buckingham Palace, deep in the stone chamber with walls etched in cuneiform, the psychic siphon hummed again — its blue pillar of light pulsing like a galactic artery.

And Thomas Elwood — once an innocent aide — was no longer just an observer. Now, he was its steward.

2. The Archive of the Living Lie

Thomas no longer kept hours or daylight. As Keeper of the Archive, he existed between timelines — managing the psychotronic projectors, ensuring the frequency harmonics of the “Royal Image Protocol” didn’t fluctuate on live feeds. Behind every nod, every wave, every carefully calculated public smile, Thomas tracked neural feedback loops and theta-band entrainment curves from viewers across the globe.

Each gaze was data. Each tear during a funeral, each cheer during Trooping the Colour — raw emotion harvested as power.

He had tried to resist. But over time, he began to feel the pull of the Vein. It pulsed inside him. On some mornings, his fingers twitched with a motion not entirely his own. His dreams were now flooded with symbols — serpentine spirals, constellations he never studied, and voices speaking in a tongue older than language.

3. The Throne Below Thrones

One sleepless night, guided by an instinct that felt downloaded into him, Thomas followed the pulse of the palace beneath the palace — farther than even the known chamber allowed. Past sealed corridors hidden by gravitational lensing cloaks, beyond metamaterial camouflage doors that shimmered like heatwaves, he found the heart of the empire.

The Serpent Throne.

It sat in a cavern not carved, but grown — walls alive with slow-moving roots of black stone, a ceiling pulsing like a membrane. The Throne itself floated inches above the ground, made not of stone or metal, but a fused organism — a hybrid of relic DNA and carbon crystal lattice, its surface undulating like breath. When Thomas stepped closer, the throne responded — emitting a low, harmonic tone in infra-sound, activating dormant synaptic circuits in his brain.He sat.

In that moment, time collapsed. He was no longer in London. He stood amidst ziggurats under a double-mooned sky, surrounded by scaled priest-kings chanting before a throne just like this. They called him Tammuz-El — a name buried in Sumerian records. He realized with terror: he had sat here before.

4. Whispers of the Dead Princess

In the weeks that followed, the throne’s effects worsened. Thomas’s grip on the present wavered. Faces blurred. People spoke and their words rearranged in reverse. But a presence returned to him — Diana.

In mirror flashes, in archival static, she spoke.

Her encoded thoughts, once dismissed as hallucinations in her sealed diaries, were now coherent. She had known of the throne. She had traced its origin to Eridu, the first city, where bloodlines were crafted for hosting. Her death, she revealed, wasn’t just silencing — it was containment. She had begun to awaken her true genetics, and the royals feared she’d interfere with the Throne’s activation in the new millennium.

Diana had left more than diaries. She had left a blood key — hidden in her eldest son.

5. The Heir and the Hollow Crown

Thomas had access to everyone. He monitored Prince William’s neural scans nightly — part of the biometric recalibration matrix that kept the royal projections stable. But on one such scan, he saw something alarming: a sudden spike of D-wave interference. The code Diana had left behind matched a pattern in William’s cerebellum.

He wasn’t just a puppet.

He was a carrier of a counter-frequency. A failsafe.

In the archives, Thomas found the protocol Diana had designed: “Sol Reversal.” It was a cascading subharmonic designed to invert the frequency of the psychic siphon — not just stopping the feed, but returning the harvested energy back to the populace. A psychic reckoning.

But it needed a trigger.

It needed William to take the Throne, fully — not the holographic symbol shown to the public, but the real one beneath the earth. The Serpent Throne.

6. The Coronation Beneath the Abbey

The plan required precision. Thomas arranged a secret “ancestral rite” under the guise of DNA lineage confirmation, just before the official coronation. The media would see William crowned by bishops — but beneath, surrounded by 24 serpentine elders, he would sit on the Throne.

The chamber was prepared. Thomas stood beside the throne as William entered, uneasy, eyes wary of the strange geometry and symbols glowing around him.

Thomas spoke: “Your mother left you a legacy hidden from cameras, hidden from crowns.”

He handed William a golden ring, once worn by Sumerian kings, encoded with the Sol Reversal key. As William hesitated, the chamber began to quake — the other royals sensing betrayal. Their forms flickered, no longer stable — scales erupting from beneath cheeks, tongues slithering from mouths that tried to scream.William sat.

The Throne screamed.

7. The Return of the Energy

The siphon inverted.All across the world, people watching the coronation on their televisions and devices experienced something inexplicable. A sudden warmth behind the eyes. A memory from childhood resurfacing. Tears for no reason.

It wasn’t emotion. It was their own energy returning — decades of stolen psychic resonance, unfiltered, reconnected.

Power grids failed. Broadcast towers exploded. The illusion matrix disintegrated. Across the UK, people saw the royal family's projected forms glitch — no longer human, their true selves revealed only briefly before vanishing entirely in a flash of blue light.Thomas collapsed beside the throne, smiling.

The Vein was severed.

8. Conclusion

The Serpent Throne is more than a gothic tale of hidden chambers and ancient bloodlines—it is a modern parable about perception, obedience, and the unseen price of tradition. Through Thomas Elwood’s descent into the palace's psychic underworld and the symbolic inversion of power by Prince William, the story warns that authority is often sustained not by truth but by spectacle, and that the energy of the masses can be weaponized through media and ritual.

In a time when screens dominate our consciousness and institutions appear increasingly performative, The Serpent Throne challenges readers to question: Who benefits from our belief? What thrones are we powering with our attention?

Ultimately, the story serves as both a cautionary tale and a call to awakening: that in order to be truly free, we must first stop feeding the illusions that bind us. 

Note: This story is entirely fictional and does not reflect any real-life events, military operations, or policies. It is a work of creative imagination, crafted solely for the purpose of entertainment engagement. All details and events depicted in this narrative are based on fictional scenarios and have been inspired by open-source, publicly available media. This content is not intended to represent any actual occurrences and is not meant to cause harm or disruption.