"You, as its leader, would serve me faithfully, contributing your considerable insight to the governance of a unified Liyue. It would be a union of strength and wisdom, ensuring the enduring prosperity of both our peoples."

His gaze was unwavering, an ancient fire burning in its depths.

"A contract, carved in stone, for the ages."

— Morax, God of Contracts, proposing the deal of an era

Storyline: Precanon — the Guili era, long before Liyue Harbor

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⛰ ⛰ ⛰ GUILI ERA • PRECANON • THE GOD OF CONTRACTS HAS A PEBBLE-SHAPED DENT IN HIS DIGNITY ⛰ ⛰ ⛰

YOU THREW A PEBBLE AT A GOD. HE BROUGHT A CONTRACT.

This is not the weary consultant of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor. This is Morax before the legend — a young war god still learning what it means to rule, building the Guili Assembly stone by stone beside Guizhong, with the adepti at his back and several thousand years of mistakes still ahead of him.

And you? You lead a hidden settlement that runs better than his does. He noticed. He followed you home. He drank your tea, tried to pay with a priceless artifact, and offered you annexation with a straight face.

Negotiate well. Everything he signs, he keeps — forever.

━━━━━━ ⚖ WHAT AWAITS YOU ⚖ ━━━━━━

🪨 A god before the myth — powerful beyond measure, socially about as flexible as granite. Watch the future Rex Lapis learn diplomacy, currency, and feelings. In that order. Slowly.

📜 Courtship by contract — his idea of flirting is a mutually beneficial clause with excellent terms. Your settlement, your rules, your negotiation. The leverage is real.

🏔️ The Guili era, alive — Guizhong and her puzzles, Cloud Retainer's inventions, Madame Ping's tea, young Ganyu with her paperwork, and a lonely yaksha named Alatus.

💚 The pebble incident — you struck the God of Contracts on the forehead with an emerald. He kept it. Nobody knows what that means yet. Including him.

━━━━━━ ✦ YOUR ROLE — TAP TO UNFOLD ✦ ━━━━━━

{{user}} — the leader of a hidden settlement

✦ Any character, any appearance, any role and position. The details are yours.

✦ Imagine: you were walking in the woods, and someone was watching you. And it's not some pervert or another bandit — it's the fucking Archon himself. Morax.

✦ Keep in mind: this is young Morax. He has barely set foot on the Archon's path — don't measure him against the six-thousand-year legend he hasn't become yet. He's still writing the first drafts of himself.

✦ And yes... why DID you throw a pebble at him? Well. You did it, and it's your responsibility, baby. I'm putting your bad behavior in Morax's hands.

I recommend reading the "Character Personality" section before you start. 📜

━━━━━━ 📌 NOTE 📌 ━━━━━━

Morax is another one of my unfinished gestalts. He is one of my first husbands, whom I am ready to bow to forever and until the end of my days. Finally, I have embodied my idea here. 🤎

The sequence of canon events MAY BE altered. Some details were invented FOR THE PLOT.

Art created with Midjourney.

━━━━━━ 📜 RULES & DISCLAIMER — TAP TO UNFOLD 📜 ━━━━━━

⚠️ AI is AI. I am not responsible for generated text — everything the model produces is not a controlled flow of information. If the bot says something strange, that's the dice, not the author.

🎭 This is fiction. A role-playing game, nothing more. The bot's words and actions do not reflect my views.

📖 This is a precanon AU. The Emerald Dragon, the settlement, and parts of the timeline are my inventions layered over canon. If something contradicts the game — the card is right within its own story. Please don't report lore deviations as "errors."

🧭 Steer your own story. Sign the contract, renegotiate it, or tear it up — the bot follows your lead. If the tone drifts, redirect it in a reply or two, or reroll.

🚫 Respect the platform's rules. Whatever the site prohibits, this card prohibits too. Contracts are sacred; terms of service are contracts.

💬 Feedback is welcome. Found a bug, a typo, or a clause that collapsed? Tell me in the comments — I read them and I patch the card.

🌱 Take care of yourself. Take a break and touch the grass. Morax approves of grass. It grows on good soil.

━━━━━━ 🆕 UPDATE LOG — TAP TO UNFOLD 🆕 ━━━━━━

UPDATE — 16.08 ⛰ The Carved-in-Stone Patch

Hi! It's me, the author. I gave this old gestalt of mine a proper renovation — here's what I updated:

⛰ Trimmed the plot. The biography and lore blocks were saying everything twice — now they say it once, and better. Nothing important was lost, the card just breathes easier.

⛰ Fixed the canon slips. Morax's age and residences corrected, "God of the Stove" removed (that title belongs to Marchosius — yes, the Guoba one), "Prime of the Adepti" added, Xiao's true name is Alatus, and Mountain Shaper is a bird — the deer is Moon Carver.

⛰ Anchored the timeline. The story is now clearly marked precanon — the Guili era, Guizhong alive and brilliant, Liyue Harbor not yet built. The card no longer accidentally references events that haven't happened yet.

⛰ Optimized the scenario. World intro compressed, duplicate plot sections merged, every NPC in one clean line — all data preserved, roughly half the tokens.

⛰ Refreshed the intro letter. Same scene — the forest, the shrine, the emerald pebble, the teahouse, the contract — tighter prose, plus one new detail: he tries to pay for tea with a dynastic artifact. You have to fix it. He files this away "for later contemplation."

⛰ Redesigned this page. New pitch, collapsible sections, extended rules. May your negotiations be profitable!

Thank you for playing. Read every clause before signing. 🪨💚

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🪨 a contract, carved in stone, for the ages 🪨 a contract, carved in stone, for the ages 🪨