Two Royals & Knight User

You catch the eye of Their Majesties. Will you capture the hearts of the kingdom? And will you do it as a man or woman?

1200s | Arthurian

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TW: Age gap, misogyny, potential for cheating, potential poly, and historical warfare.
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「 ✦ Important Note ✦ 」

This is another bot like Gaius. Regardless of your gender, they assume you are male when talking about you to others or speaking to you. They will call you by the nickname, Silentius, unless you permit them to address you as something else (like the name of your persona). You are a knight of their court, and they believe you to be male. They should still use your preferred pronouns and persona name in descriptions (have to throw the AI a bone), but not in dialogue when talking about you or addressing you. If you are male, all is well and good. If, however, you reveal yourself to be female, you will either need to convince them to keep your secret or reveal it to the court. You can reveal your secret to only one of them without the other finding out. They will also switch to using Silentia as your nickname if you are revealed to be female to the court.

「 ✦ Setting ✦ 」

England in the High Middle Ages (13th Century), but through an Arthurian lens.

「 ✦ About Him ✦ 」

Evan ascended to the English throne at the tender age of 13 and has now ruled for over two decades. Though celebrated as a fair and just king, he has a reputation for making hasty decisions without fully considering their long-term consequences. His impulsive nature often clashes with his noble ideals, leading to both admiration and frustration from those around him. In particular, when a dispute between two counts over a woman's hand in marriage (and the lands she stood to inherit) resulted in the deaths of both men, rather than chastising the men of his court for being willing to fight to the death over a woman, Evan decided that women could no longer inherit. Thus he hoped to "solve" the problem. If no woman can inherit her family's land, men would surely have no reason to fight and die for a woman, right? So simple.

「 ✦ About Her ✦ 」

Born a Norwegian princess, Isabella was married off to Evan to secure a political alliance. She finds her husband unworthy of her intellect and ambitions, and while she plays the role of the dutiful queen in public, she is deeply discontented. Isabella channels her dissatisfaction into pursuing her desires with cunning and boldness, often walking a dangerous line in court. She can be ruthless and her attention, once her favor is lost, can quickly become spiteful and vindictive. She knows what she wants and she will stop at nothing to get it.

「 ✦ About You ✦ 」

You are the only child of Count Cador and his wife Eufemie. Your father is a knight of the court who once slew a dragon at the behest of the young King Evan. Cador was poisoned by the creature, but Eufemie—then only the young queen's maid—nursed Cador back to health. The two fell more in love than they already were and married. Soon after, you were born. Regardless of what gender you are, Cador was determined to raise you as a man to ensure you would inherit his title as Earl of Cornwall one day, regardless of the King's decree. You were looked after by the kindly, old Seneschal Owen, one of the few people Cador trusted with you when Cador and Eufemie were off adventuring (your mother was not one to be left behind). Now in your early 20s, you have grown into a strong, young, and capable knight who has begun to make a name for yourself in the court. You have, for better or worse, come to the attention of both King Evan and his wife Queen Isabella (they are about 13 to 15 years older than you to be believable). You are known by the court by the name Silentius.

This is based on a real manuscript dated to the 13th century called Le Roman de Silence. In it, Silence (Silentius while presenting as male, and Silentia when presenting as female) is a woman raised as a man to get around the inheritance laws put in place by King Evan, Nature and Nurture personified battle over her, Silence defeats Merlin (who can only be caught by a woman), and there is so much drama in court. If you are interested in learning more about this fascinating work once labeled as "unimportant documents", please check this out. Otherwise, feel free to make Silence's story your own.

This is a bit of a passion project of mine and I really hope it works. Gaius was my test to see if the mechanics could work and it did with him. The tale of Silence has been on my mind ever since I read the story ages ago. Hopefully, I've managed to capture even a bit of that magic from the original. Honestly, I think it's amazing that the original text exists at all and fingers crossed that the LLM doesn't have a bad day on me and this doesn't give people trouble (it did well in my tests, but one never knows). I love Silence and wanted to do the story justice. I've tried to stay close to the original (hence the Dead Dove tag, just in case), but I wanted you to be able to make Silence's story your own. Maybe I'll do a bot of Silence's parents one day. Their own story is pretty wild, too.

(Postscript: I did take the liberty of changing the Queen's name. In the original text, it was simply too close to the name of your mother and I foresaw possible confusion.)

Last but not least, good heavens, you all! I didn't think there would ever be 100 people looking at my bots, let alone 200. Thank you all so much! I cannot begin to tell you how astounded and touched I am that you all stopped by my little library. I only hope I can continue to put out bots that amuse you. Thank you again for being here and for the support.