A work that sadly exists only in the overactive imagination of {{Solandra}}, waiting patiently for when she isn't completely consumed by college work to be put into actual words.

Rachel Gracelyn is a nice but socially awkward girl who just can't seem to fit in with her peers, no matter how hard she tries. Her one friend since elementary school, Aurora Davidson, is even more painfully [[ShrinkingViolet shy and quiet]] than her. By her senior year, Rachel's all but resigned herself to her loner existence.

Then she takes a wrong turn on the school's football field and finds herself in a MagicalLand of [[OurElvesAreDifferent beautiful, kindly elves]] and [[FairyCompanion charming fairies]]. Amazingly, she finds that she can communicate with them on a level that she was never able to achieve with her classmates. Soon, she discovers that she is the [[ChangelingFantasy long-lost]] princess of the magic races and is prophesied to be the one to bring eternal peace to the land by defeating the [[BeautyEqualsGoodness hideously ugly]] and [[UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness slimy]] [[AlwaysChaoticEvil orcish races]] that have been oppressing her subjects for centuries.

Rachel must learn how to lead her people in an epic battle that will determine the fate of the magical realm, whether [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good or evil]] will triumph, and if she has finally found the place where she truly belongs. Things get even more urgent when Aurora unwittingly stumbles into the magical land too and is [[DamselInDistress kidnapped]] by the orcs.

...Or is it? Did you ''really'' think that a troper was going to play a WishFulfillment ChangelingFantasy completely straight? [[SubvertedTrope Subversions]] and {{Deconstruction}}s abound halfway into the plot, especially the part where [[spoiler:Rachel learns that her "fantasy come to life" has actually been an elaborate lie set up by a Chessmaster to trick her into fulfilling the terms of the prophecy to finally bring about total domination of the magical land. The elves and fairies are actually the bad guys (with the ones unwilling to follow the Chessmaster having been Brainwashed instead), and the orcs are the actual oppressed races. In fact, the "orcs" are a human-like race deliberately uglified by a glamour spell cast by the vain elves, and their alleged crimes were either wildly exaggerated or fashioned out of whole cloth to convince Rachel that they're Evil with a capital E. Oh, and Rachel is actually a member of the "orcs" kidnapped by the fairies to be bred into their eventual puppet on Earth, and the Chessmaster was sadistically planning to drop the bombshell on her after her eradiction of them just to relish the sight of her Heroic BSOD. Just to top things off, the Chessmaster turns out to be none other than Rachel's long-time friend Aurora, aka Aurora Estelle Davidson, aka the Morningstar.]]

Fortunately, Rachel is intelligent enough to [[spoiler:pick up on subtle signs that ''something'' isn't right about her situation, and it's her attempt to make peace talks (against her races' wishes, for obvious reasons) that enables her to fit the pieces together just in time to confront Aurora.]] Everything ends relatively HappilyEverAfter, though {{Solandra}} still has to work her way up to that point realistically.
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This work contains examples of the following tropes:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Used to describe the orcs. [[spoiler:It isn't true.]]
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Deconstructed.
* ChangelingFantasy: Rachel discovers that she belongs to a non-human race. [[spoiler:Just not the one she believes at first.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Aurora, who became Rachel's friend only as part of her plan, so she can also be considered a ManipulativeBastard.]]
* ChessMotifs: The title is a reference to Rachel being "promoted" to powerful royalty (though technically a princess rather than TheHighQueen). [[spoiler:What Rachel doesn't know until later on is that it also alludes to the fact that she's the main player being pushed around in the game set up by the Chessmaster, to be sacrificed at the right time.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:There are some elves and fairies who didn't like the Big Bad's plan for their races (even if it offered them power) and tried to avoid becoming part of it. The Big Bad brainwashed them, but they join Rachel when she manages to free them of their brainwashing.]] Intended to show that no race here is AlwaysChaoticEvil.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: Aurora wants to dominate the magical world eradicate humans in it.]]
* FantasticRacism: The elves consider killing animals and plants to be inhuman, but show no qualms about killing orcs in cold blood. Likewise, the fairies want to be treated equally to other races, but treat the orcs with barely-disguised contempt. Rachel actually notices this [[spoiler:and it's one of the indicators that causes her to suspect that she may not be on the right side.]]
* MagicalLand
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Aurora's middle name is Estelle. It isn't until the climax that Rachel realizes that "Aurora Estelle" can be translated to "Morning Star".]]
* MedievalStasis
* NaiveEverygirl: Rachel
* OurElvesAreDifferent: The elves are gorgeous, highly intelligent, and possess powerful magic in healing and combat. [[spoiler:They're also bloodthirsty, power-hungry, and obsessed with keeping themselves perpetually frozen in a state of unchanging beauty.]]
* OurOrcsAreDifferent
* ProphecyTwist: Turns out that there's more than one way to read the prophecy that allegedly predicts that Rachel will be the main factor in defeating the evil in the land.
* ShrinkingViolet: Rachel to a degree; Aurora even more so. [[spoiler:It turns out to be an act for the latter, however.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Sort of inverted, as [[spoiler:Rachel foils Aurora's plans by being ''smarter'' than Aurora thought she would be.]]
* VillainousBreakdown
* WasItAllALie: Rachel asks this question when [[spoiler:Aurora shows her true colors.]]
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