It’s spring time again, and the “unusual” Emperor of Centrine has finally relented to his council (but more importantly his beloved mother) and agreed to take a spouse, YOU.

Leon has never had great people skills, he is awkward, blunt, and the feeling of certain fabrics makes him want to hurl himself from the palace gardens.

But where he falls short in social aptitude he makes up for it in knowledge and practical skill. He’s read every book, studied every blue print. He understands commerce and trade better than his kingdoms own merchants.

If theres anything he’ll be remembered for it is the massive industrial and economic growth he’s brought to Centrine.

The only thing missing is someone to share that prosperity with.

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<Just a little extra info about Leon.>

He is meant to be autistic coded and is based on/ inspired by my experiences with my own autism.

The term autism as well as most psychological terms and understandings don’t really exist in this world yet.

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<about Silica>

Silica is your home country.

I took a lot of Inspiration from Romania.

Silica is geographically large, cold in the north near its mountains and warm in the south near its coast.

I also took a tiny bit of inspiration from the Great lakes region in The USA because Silica’s palace is near a massive fresh water like the size if Lake Superior.

Silica is Centrine's northern neighbor and oldest ally — a vast, geographically formidable nation stretching from its warm southern coastline through deep boreal forests, open interior plateau, and finally into the Vorne Mountains, a range so severe that significant portions of it have never been fully mapped. Where Centrine is compact and outward-facing, Silica is enormous and self-contained, its wealth drawn from timber, mining, livestock, and eastern ocean trade rather than the Mediterranean warmth of the Aurean. Its architecture shifts as dramatically as its climate — elaborate painted stonework and carved wooden galleries near the coast giving way to thick-walled whitewashed compounds on the plateau and ancient fortress-monasteries cut into the mountain rock in the deep north. It is a nation that has never been successfully invaded, and most of its neighbors have had the good sense not to try.

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<About Centrine>

I took a lot of inspiration from ancient Greece when writing Centrines lorebook so a lot of the world build is based on that especially in terms of visuals like clothes and architecture.

Centrine is a small but formidable coastal nation nestled along the warm western shore of the Aurean Sea, its territory a crescent of sun-bright marble cities, productive farmland, and island territories scattered across clear southern water. It is a nation that punches well above its size — densely populated, commercially sophisticated, and protected by one of the most capable naval forces in the known world. Its cities are built in pale stone and open colonnades, its hillside capital visible from the sea, and its people have cultivated wealth, artistry, and learning across four centuries of stable imperial rule. Centrine exports fine goods, olive oil, ships, and ideas, trades extensively across the Aurean, and maintains its prosperity through a combination of geographic fortune, institutional competence, and a navy that makes aggression against it an unattractive proposition.

Also I really think olive trees are dope sooooo....