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"I'm overcome with a terrible heartache whenever you're near..."
anypovmedieval romantasy man who whimperslore heavy

...there was a realm called Mynne; a land where nothing is promised. humans, elves, beastkin and magical creatures alike all co-existed in tenuous harmony. Composed of dozens of different kingdoms, the setting of this particular story is Arcady.

THE PALE HORSE

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...noble prince named Patrick Martane; the youngest scion of Arcady's ruling house and notorious for being laughably weak and frail in contrast to the virility of his elder, twin brothers. A man grown, he still proverbially clings to his mother's skirts and oft spends more time in his sickbed than socialising with the wider court.

THE APOTHECARY

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...a young apothecary named {{user}}, hired by the beleaguered Queen Mathilde to treat her sickly prince who has, once again, fallen ill. amongst all the healers and physicians summoned, it's {{user}}'s healing hands that seem to be most effective. it is a wonder as to why the prince is so receptive to their treatments... 

THE HEARTLAND

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...Arcady. The rural heartland of the Mynnean continent whereby the chivalric creed of the Ysenite faith is strongest and Arthurian valour thrives. Landlocked, they aren't surrounded by winding oceans or straits, but vast seas of wheat which serve as the land's beating heart.

CW potential for gaslighting, manipulation, coercion and by virtue of possible power imbalance. this is a pseudo-medieval setting and thus period-typical attitudes apply. ur an adult, engage with this bot at ur own risk.

THE STORYBOOK

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CHAPTER I  ...
his frail health having taken a steep turn for the worst, queen mathilde of charmaine called upon all the court's healers, physicians and even foreign quacks, but none could heal her son─aside from {{user}}, a humble apothecary that brought prince pate back to good health... unfortunately, the third prince of arcady is a grade three clinger and will NOT stop ringing his damn bell.
recommendation ... be the maomao to his jinshi as god (me) intended <33

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the unwritten
recommendation ... do what u want mamas

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✦ THE MYNNAEAN CONTINENT

◇ The continent of Mynne, one realm broken by the Great Division, washed west by the Melusine Sea and cut south by the Davinian Straits. Chivalric Arcady. Ironbound Ermengarde. Magekind Hesse. The fen-clans of Maddoch-Féan. The steppe of Indra. Sunlit Halcyon. The fey Realm-Eternal. The corsair Sinking City. And beneath the water, the mer-folk Deep Beneath.

◇ Magic is real. The gods are real — and none has proven supremacy. An old peace, the Accords, holds between men and fey.

◇ Years are counted from the Great Division — 982 GD.

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✦ THE PRESENT — 982 GD
◇ Prince Henry Martane of Arcady weds the younger princess of Halcyon—a grand tourney, a grander feast, half the continent packed into one chivalric court. It is only that moons, now, have passed and the princess is yet to arrive...

◇ The Inquisition is thorough and relentless; anyone in Ermengarde, or whosoever lives under the Ysenite faith, is being snatched up on the charges of devilry, real or imagined.

◇ Indra smoulders with the kindling of rebellion. A new iron toll-shrine in the Narrow Hills. The clans stir; the Ember is not yet cold.

◇ The Leandrosi Septumvir has fallen ill; she's not yet succumbed to illness yet, but the her successors engage in open, bloody rivalry.

◇ The High Sheriff of Ermengarde has offered a handsome reward for whosoever can bring him the head of the leader of the Sons-Of-Haldred; the outlaw band.

◇ The Accordance falls due: every five hundred cycles, by the Accords, a marriage must be made between the blood of men and the blood of the fey. The due year is 982.

◇ A rumoured prophesy from the south decrees that the Realm of Mynne will endure a great Unmaking.

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✦ THE LAST FIFTY CYCLES

• c. 932 — Ermengarde's expansion begins.

• c. 950 — Edam Hearthside takes the Marrow Throne.

• 953 — The Indran War. The Ember Coalition rises under Haldred the Ash-Chanter.

• 958 — Queen Wynerine dies. The Coalition breaks; Indra falls.

• 959 — Haldred vanishes. Indra becomes the Indran Protectorate. The Sons of Haldred take his banner.

• 970 — Halcyon and the Seven Daughters sign their tenuous peace.

• 974 — Hyall Bythesee becomes Lord-Governor of Indra.

• 975 — Prince Richard of Ermengarde, raised secretly in Arcady, is publicly acknowledged.

• 981 — A Blest is proclaimed. A small dragon is first reported over the passes.

• 982 — the present.

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NOTES !

all my bots are tested with gemini, zai glm 4.7-5.2 or deepseek v4 flash/pro. i'm unsure how jllm will handle all the lore so i'd suggest using a proxy. you have been warned. i typically use lorebary plugins to enhance my playing experience. forgive any mistakes. i'll accept corrections/suggestions but i'm a liberal blocker so pls don't be weird ty.

YAP
got into apothecary diaries again and just wanted to make a bot that reached even half of jinshi's patheticism for maomao. also made an a sandbox medieval world in the process bc why not. the lore is a lot but basically: u can be anything. the lore is A Lot so a proxy is highlyyy reccomended; i used deepseek and gemini when using my priv vers of this bot (warning to gemini users pate is so evil lmao) and zai, all working pretty well and the lore being pretty consistent.

i may try and make an events injector and a 'canon timeline' of sorts for those who might want a plot to follow along i'll try to organise the lore in a nicer way, maybe on a carrd or website or something im not sure yet, but all needed info is in the lorebook (available to copy for private usage; beware of spoilers!!). the lore is still a WIP!! it fires pretty consistently but i'm updating it as i invent things in my own private RPs. but yeah, i tried to make the world as expansive and sandbox-y as possible so you can just be anything; you could even be an isekai'd salaryman or something if you wanted (i may try that actually...) but yeah, pate is basically just schroedinger’s simpleton; how much does he or doesn't he know? i usually have character def open but for the purpose of this bot, it's hidden this time !!

should be anypov but was fempov in private so lmk if i fudged up w/ pronouns >~<