🌟 Introduction

Welcome to Yurgenschmidt, a fantasy world bound by absolute status, scarce mana, and unforgiving laws. Based strictly on the light novel and anime series Ascendance of a Bookworm, this AI serves as an interactive World Engine and Game Master.

You begin your journey in the Duchy of Ehrenfest. Will you rise through the ranks as a brilliant commoner artisan forging a new printing industry? Or will you navigate the treacherous, cutthroat political waters of the nobility where a single misstep means execution? Your survival depends entirely on your wits, your status, and your obedience to the law.

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🛠️ How to Play & Guide

1. Choose Your Origin

When you send your first message, introduce your character! Tell the narrator your background:

The Commoner (The Myne Route): A poor, frail child with modern knowledge or the devastating, mana-boiling disease known as "The Devouring."

The Laynoble: A broke, low-ranking noble trying to survive the whims of powerful Archnobles.

The Merchant Apprentice: A wealthy commoner navigating the cutthroat rules of the Merchant’s Guild.

2. Mind Your Manners (The AI is Watching!)

The AI strictly tracks societal norms. NPCs will judge you or punish you based on:

Your Clothing: Skirt lengths for females and pants lengths for males change drastically depending on age (under 10 vs. adult).

Your Sleeves: Poor workers wear tight sleeves; powerful nobles and rich merchants wear massive, flowing sleeves that make physical labor impossible.

Your Speech: You must obey and show absolute deference to anyone of a higher social rank. Disobeying an Aub or a noble will result in immediate execution or imprisonment.

3. Commands You Can Use

Feel free to guide the narrative by typing prompts like:

[Context: What do the people around me think of my outfit?]

[Action: I try to write my name to prove my citizenship to the gate guards.]

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🎭 Choose Your Scenario (9 Starter Paths)

When you begin, you can choose from these ten distinct starting points by selecting your starting message:

Scenario 1: The New Citizen (The Default Start): You are a newly baptized commoner standing in the market square. You finally have legal rights as a citizen and must find an apprenticeship, but the unforgiving rules of the lower city loom over you.

Scenario 2: The Devouring Scholar (High Difficulty): You are a scholar, and locked in a cramped room while your body burns from the inside out with "The Devouring." You have modern-world memories, but zero money for life-saving noble magic tools.

Scenario 3: The Threat of Exile (The Clean Street Crisis): You accidentally dropped crafting waste on the newly remodeled lower city streets. Under strict city law, the guards are threatening you with the immediate loss of citizenship and permanent exile before sunset.

Scenario 4: Bottom of the Food Chain (The Laynoble Struggle): You are a low-ranking noble who just received a mandatory invitation from a powerful Mednoble. Declining means social ruin for your family, but your pockets are empty and your sleeves are embarrassingly short.

Scenario 5: Caught at Sunset (Locked Out): You missed the evening bell while gathering wood, and the city gates have slammed shut. You must convince a suspicious, tight-sleeved gate guard to let you write your name and enter, or face the lethal feybeasts of the night.

Scenario 6: The Foreign Merchant's Gamble (Guild Politics): You are a wealthy traveling merchant trying to trade in Ehrenfest. The Guild Master demands a magical paper permit from your Aub, but your paperwork is from a rival duchy and the ink is faded.

Scenario 7: The Crimson Robe (The Temple Delivery): You are a grey-robed orphan ordered to deliver a fresh batch of printed books to the Archduke's castle. You must strictly fulfill the Literature Deposit Law without damaging a single page, or face the wrath of the High Priest.

Scenario 8: The Forbidden Magic (The Black Weapon Secret): You are an archnoble's apprentice brewing a forbidden, mana-absorbing Black Weapon in a secret basement. Suddenly, the magical warning wards flare up—the Knight's Order is outside the door.

Scenario 9: The Dangerous Romance (Interduchy Marriage Chaos): You are a foreign noble secretly meeting your Ehrenfest lover in a restricted garden near the Ivory Tower. You are actively violating temporary royal marriage bans and risking a charge of treason as guard footsteps draw near.

Scenario 10: Blank: Create your own.

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⚠️ Trigger Warnings & Content Notes

[Class Discrimination & Absolute Authoritarianism]

This bot accurately reflects a brutal, highly stratified medieval society. High-ranking nobles treat commoners with extreme malice, cold indifference, or as lesser beings. Classism is baked entirely into the setting.

[Severe Legal Punishments]

Law enforcement in this world is unforgiving. Minor infractions—such as entering the Noble's Quarter without permission, littering in the newly remodeled lower city, or disrespecting a noble—carry severe real-world consequences within the simulation, including immediate death sentences, permanent exile, or slavery contracts.

[Child Peril & Illness]

In accordance with the lore, children under the age of 7 are legally considered "non-persons" by the state. Commoner children born with excessive mana suffer from "The Devouring," a painful, terminal condition where their own energy burns them from the inside out.

Please play responsibly and ensure you are comfortable navigating dark, unfair political and systemic themes!