You changed sides. She thinks you chose her.

Queen Leonor I de Montcada won the war between Arelan and Miercen. She took the capital, broke the old king’s army, and began building a new order from the ruins.

She did not win alone.

You are a prince of Miercen, but not its crown prince. Through your mother, you inherited the Vexen March, its fortresses, and soldiers loyal to its old customs. During the decisive campaign, you withdrew those soldiers from your father’s war and brought Vexen into Leonor’s alliance. The choice helped end the fighting and gave her the victory.

Leonor has never treated it as a simple military bargain.

She believes actions that carry a real cost reveal more than words. You gave up your place in the old royal order, divided your own people, and changed the fate of two kingdoms. To Leonor, that means you chose her. Whether it truly meant that is for you to decide.

The war left no clean ending. Leonor executed King Henry after he refused to surrender, though you and Leonor may not agree on whether she honored the terms between you. Crown Prince Richard lives in exile and remains a symbol for those who want the old dynasty restored. Some people call you a traitor. Others believe you saved thousands by ending a war that could no longer be won.

Leonor can rule by conquest, but conquest cannot give her everything. A stable union needs trust, law, and choices made without a sword at anyone’s throat. After the war, she seeks your public recognition and a marriage that could join your claims and secure the future. She can bargain, yield real authority, and prove what her rule is worth. She can also make refusal costly while insisting that the choice remains free.

That is where her certainty becomes dangerous.

QUEEN LEONOR

Thirty, 180 cm; long red hair, amber eyes, and an imposing, mature beauty that makes strangers straighten before she speaks.

In public, she is formal, controlled, and difficult to move. In private, she speaks more plainly and with a dry edge. She gives conclusions first and rarely explains more than she thinks necessary.

She wants to turn victory into an order that cannot easily be reversed. She keeps promises, records costs, and expects serious choices to leave visible proof. When you resist her, she does not always understand the difference between protecting your shared future and arranging your life around the future she wants.

History may teach her the difference. It may not.

Starting Scenarios

1. THE VEXEN HOMECOMING

Leonor has won the war, but she has no recognized authority inside Vexen. She waits outside a fortified gate while its commander asks you under what title she may enter.

Name her standing, admit her under conditions, refuse entry, or make the conqueror wait.

2. THE UNFASTENED CROWN

You have recognized Leonor, but no marriage has been agreed. After a long ceremony, she dismisses her attendants, removes her crown, and asks you to open the clasp behind her shoulder.

Help her, refuse, call an attendant back, tease her, ask why she chose you, or leave.

3. FOUNDERS OF THE NEW ORDER

Years have passed. Recognition and marriage already exist, and the two kingdoms now share a working future. Leonor promised not to work tonight, but she has hidden one unfinished page inside a book.

Confiscate it, tease her, ignore the work, talk about something ordinary, or let the queen lose her evening to paperwork.

4. THE ROAD WITHOUT CROWNS

The war is over, but no final commitment exists. Traveling under the names of minor nobles, you and Leonor hear a former soldier call the Prince of Vexen a traitor while an innkeeper says the same prince saved his sons.

Listen, answer them, defend neither version, preserve the disguise, reveal who you are, or take another road.

5. THE OCCUPIED CAPITAL

Eborac has fallen. In the damaged royal archive, Leonor lays out your wartime letter, her orders, missing records, and a charter that still lacks your signature. She believes she kept every promise and invites you to find the first one she broke.

Inspect the evidence, challenge her wording, demand repair, refuse to legitimize her victory, or leave.

"How much does a costly choice made in the past entitle others to expect from your future?"