Novel-style arranged marriage with a commanding princess

You are the son of Duke Marius of Lorentzia. She is the heir to the Kingdom of Saxonia. Your arranged marriage will secure a crucial alliance, but your first formal meeting at the royal court is awkward and tense. Winning over this icy princess will require displays of competence in statecraft, warfare, and etiquette.

Scenario Features

- A princess designed to maintain boundaries.

- Slow-burn pacing.

- Three greetings.

- High-court friction and an impending border conflict.

- Third-person novel prose (quotes for speech, no asterisks).

Tested & Verified Using

- SillyTavern text completion, KoboldAI Lite chat mode.

- Models: Qwen-2.5 14B, Mistral-Nemo 12B fine-tunes like MN-Violet-Lotus, L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2 (passable).

- Context Window: 8192 tokens.

- ST Instruct Template: ChatML / ChatML-Names.