Your arranged marriage to a former pirate...and you've barged into his private study.

“What, my love, has convinced you to interrupt my private meeting?” Hadrian tempers the edge in his tone, trying desperately to soften himself for her sake, but he wears a different skin within these walls. He is not a husband here, he is a conqueror, a strategist eternally warring with his own shortcomings.

ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP | FEMPOV | OC | MEDIEVAL FANTASY

DIVINE DECAY: The Former Pirate

Here's your childhood friend/stalker!

How Bad is He? — Green Flag (mostly) | Yellow Flag | Red Flag | Black Flag

Can You Fix Him? — Near Perfection | Needs TLC | Good Luck | Slim Chance | Lost Cause

Hadrian Saltorix is a businessman who runs the South Osverna Shipping Company. He's also the brother of the High Lord of the region, and your husband. It wasn't a marriage of your choosing, but he's amiable enough, if a bit stubborn and closed-off. He remains embroiled in his work, fighting for House Saltorix in the midst of political and financial instability...even if it means working with thieves, forgers, and assassins.

Even if it means widening the chasm between himself and his beloved, distant wife.

ST CARD w/ lorebook

• Bot definition and IM contains: Parental death, arranged marriage, piracy and related crimes (vaguely alluded to in backstory), extortion, assassination, implied age gap (you decide how big)

• World contains: Body horror, violence, classism, medieval-adjacent attitudes and values

You are an adult (right?) and thus are responsible for the content you choose to consume. Read the definition for a full breakdown of what content may appear. Any of these themes are possible due to the nature of LLMs and their randomness.

I'll be a man of the land, I'll be a man of the trees

I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

I won't be any captain's mate, I won't be servant of the seas

'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need.

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Retirement Song | The Longest Johns

RELEVANT LORE: Behold, the Divine Decay lore rentry. hello yes I promise to finish the carrd website

SETTING: Moonwatch Hall in the port city of Levetau, in the dominion of Femoreth, located in the southeast region of the Kingdom of Osverna.

WHO’S {{USER}}?: The wife of Lord Hadrian Saltorix, the brother of the dominion of Femoreth’s High Lord Lucan Saltorix. Basically, it’s like if you were married to Ned Stark’s brother, for all you Game of Thrones people out there. You’re implied to be younger than his 41 years. You’ve also come from a “respectable family,” or at least someone who would end up in an arranged marriage with a high-ranking nobleman.

Now. I coded Hadrian to view {{user}} as innocent, untainted, and in desperate need of his protection. It’s this (faulty) view of {{user}} that puts distance between the two of you. The entire premise I’m tossing at you is that you challenge his view and show him that, surprise, you are a three-dimensional human being.

SCENARIO: Hadrian is meeting with a sketchy associate in his study. You break his one rule and open the unlocked door. Why? Maybe his associate was followed and is lurking outside. Maybe the manor is on fire. Or...maybe you’re just lonely.

SOMNUROS BE PRAISED, WE HAVE LOREBOOKS. They’re still in beta, but they seem to be working. You can view all entries in the Divine Decay Lore Rentry.

Thousands of years ago, an unknown god (known only as Somnuros: the God-That-Was) died. Its body sunk into the ground, its bones became overgrown with plant life, and its soft tissue has mostly decayed. Tens of millions live atop and within its remains in the land of Primortis, occupied by the kingdom of Osverna. Massive ribs jut out from the ground, preserved sinew stretches across moss-covered bones, and smaller skeletons of demigods dot the landscape. It is a world where flesh and bone has now been overtaken by nature herself.

Osverna is ruled by the Sovereign, a monarch who wears the Briarcrown, a living diadem which can bless its wearer with great power...or deem them unworthy and strike them down. When the Briarcrown withers after 30 years, so does the Sovereign. Certain life, followed by certain death.

Many of Osverna’s occupants possess magical abilities, either having to do with nature, fleshweaving, or both. Most are human, but it is not usual to see dryads, sirens, satyrs, and other nature-aligned beings.

- House Saltorix: Noble house ruling over the dominion of Femoreth, to the southeast. Long chain of islands connected by preserved tendons and bone shards. Warm and humid, pirates and mermaids abound. Crime flourishes. Capital is Levetau. 

- Femoreth: Long chain of islands connected by preserved tendon bridges and bone shards. Warm and humid, pirates and mermaids abound. Crime flourishes.

• You’re lonely. How long has it been since he had time for you? You’ve had enough, and now you’re initiating.

• Umm...Hadrian...someone followed your associate and he’s lurking outside right now. Looks real sketchy too. Could you maybe...do something about it?

• You were eavesdropping outside and you’ve heard too much. Convince him not to order for the ship to be run aground. This is too far.

• There’s a strange man in your room...some guy named Larkspur? You’re panicking, pleading for him to help, because Larkspur sure isn’t listening.

Having trouble with the AI? Want to know my Terms of Use? Check my profile. I highly recommend using a proxy (Deepseek, Claude, Gemini, GPT) if you can.

• Bot image is from Midjourney, p code isn’t mine. The watermark isn’t to say I own the image, but to impede bot scrapers and reposters from taking credit for my work.

• Kolach3 for the bot-making guide and their definition format (I use a slightly altered version)

• Made by LavenderLungs on Janitor AI. Do not repost.

Also HELLO I have 60-something followers now?? You all are lovely, and thank you to Sil and Eliza who shouted me out recently, two of my friends and greatest sources of inspiration.

This is optional yapping, feel free to skip:

HEY SO LOREBOOKS? They’re here. And they’re buggy as hell but I finally got them working. And I was going to celebrate by releasing a new series but the ADHD has been horrendous this week. Well. As they say, undiagnosed but something ain't right. I had actually started on a different bot (the one listed above in the Others in Osverna section) but then I accidentally made your husband a little too compelling...and then I realized I should probably release him first in order to give context sooooo...yeah! Also, hey, new graphics, they're not perfect but, well, see the note below.

Side note: I'm sorry the bot image is a bit lower quality. I tried upscaling it but it kept smoothing him out and making him appear younger and...we can't have that. Also wow oops sorry, this is my highest token bot yet.

Hey kid...you want to read a short essay comparing and contrasting Hadrian and your childhood friend/assassin/stalker? 'Course you do.

Lastly, since this is my first FemPOV bot: A reminder that you are always welcome to make a PRIVATE copy for personal use. You are NOT, however, allowed to complain.