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A New Interactive Novel

A Tale of Crowns is a high fantasy romance with Middle Eastern roots, free to play on pc as well as mobile! It’s entirely text-based, with choices throughout to shape both your main character’s personality and skills as well as influence their relationships with others. There are four love interests for you to choose from, both female as well as male, each with their own stories and secrets for you to uncover!

The game itself is currently a work in progress, where each new chapter will be released as I finish it.

Total wordcount and progress: 375k / 10 chapters Average words per playthrough: 210k First published: 19 July, 2019 Last updated: 28 February, 2023 Art by @artbygaia

CONTENT WARNINGS: Depictions of violence, injuries and blood, death, trauma, psychological and physical body horror, sexually suggestive content and descriptions of animal cruelty. Safe to play for those 16 years and older.

❂ THE STORY

Their parents murdered and the previous Crown of Arsur assassinated, your character finds themselves on the run as they’ve been bestowed with the golden eyes that mark them as the new Crown.

Unseen enemies at their heels, will they succeed as the Crown, or will they lead to the downfall of the Empire?

❂ THE SETTING

The story takes place in Arsur, a fictional empire within a fantasy universe that draws inspiration from historical settings in the Middle East. Much of it is based on Kurdish culture, drawing from my own experience as a Kurdish woman.

Your character was born and raised in Arsur, where magic is considered a skill no different from reading or writing. Gender, sexual orientation and race have no bearing on social position or class; it is instead only based on wealth and level of education.

The Arsurian Empire itself is overseen by a single ruler known as the Crown. Unlike traditional monarchies, however, the title is not inherited through blood. Whenever the Crown dies, their famed golden eyes pass on to the one chosen by the spirits of this world to be the new Crown: this appears to happen at random, as Crowns in the past have ranged from the poorest farmer to the wealthiest noble.

❂ CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION

At the beginning of the story, you’ll have the opportunity to customize your Crown’s name, pronouns, sexual orientation and their skill in magic. You can also customize many parts of your Crown’s appearance: hair color, hair texture, hair style, skin color and height are all up to you and will be reflected in the story as well. Their backstory and ethnicity are the only things that are locked in. The Crown is also locked in as a person of color, as is in line with the setting - their specific race is up to the player to imagine.

As for your Crown’s personality, there are twelve different character traits in total that will be decided based on the choices you make in game. This will subsequently change your Crown’s behavior during story scenes.

The character traits are: Charming/Blunt, Kind/Calculated, Intelligent/Intuitive, Cautious/Adventurous, Flirtatious/Reserved and Assertive/Passive. Some of these will mix and interact with each other in different ways as well!

❂ THE LOVE INTERESTS

Depending on what your Crown’s sexual orientation is, the gender of the love interests will change accordingly to match that. There are four of them in total, and regardless of their gender their titles are as follows: the Sorcerer, the Hero, the Protector and the General, as depicted in the character art above. Each love interest will have their own route which you will get to choose from at the end of the common route.

Would you like to know more about the story, the setting, or the love interests? Check out the links below!

❂ Play the game! ❂ Join the Discord! ❂ FAQ ❂

Bonus content: Patreon / Ko-fi

References: Designing your MC / The story & setting / The love interests / Pinterest / Playlist

#a tale of crowns #atoc #anybody everybody play this game right now

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I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

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liking a character for what they have the potential to be even though in canon they’re a lot less faceted that what you want to envision in your head

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it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

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ao3 is not instagram, and it’s not embarrassing to comment on a story that’s old. we understand that you just happened to come across it now; writing is magical in that you often come across the right story at just the time you need to read it.

also, authors will literally cry over their keyboard if you comment on the stuff they write.

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Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

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I know Aemond flew back his ass back to the Red Keep, went up to his room, not saying a word to anybody and just waited for the news to break like

#house of the dragon finale #house of the dragon #hotd #hotd finale #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targeryan #aemond targaryen #alicent hightower #lucerys velaryon #daemyra #team black

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“drunken usurper cunt of a King” well good goddamn I’m glad somebody said it.

#house of the dragon #hotd #daemon targeryan #rhaenyra targaryen #daemyra #house of the dragon finale #aegon ii #aegon the usurper

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The mere thought that Daemon won’t be able to avenge his big brother in an ocean of fire and blood that ends only with each Hightower and Green loyalist head on a spike, especially after a stillborn child, is sending this man spiraling. Coupled with the death of Lucerys on top of that? There will be violence, there will be war crimes, there will be unspeakable atrocities, there will be blood.

#house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targeryan #daemyra #house of the dragon finale

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Lord Lyman Beesbury, a real man

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D-did Larys really trade secrets about an entire network of spies for the chance to jack off to Alicent’s bare feet? Did that really just happen? Right in front of my salad?

#house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #larys strong #house of the dragon spoilers

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Wow. Aegon tried to fucking run and they had to drag his ass back to put him on the throne. He’s a shit and even he knows it. And for Crispin of all people to crown him?! I’m losing my mind. This war could have been avoided at so many fucking points and yet completely believable that it wasn’t.

#house of the dragon #hotd #aegon ii targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #ser criston cole

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Rhaenyra didn’t even get to bury her own father because of a fucking coup d’état and the only person even remotely in her corner is still, to this day, Alicent despite going through with what she knows good and well is an absolute betrayal.

#house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #viserys targaryen #alicent hightower #rhaenyra x alicent

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Shoutout to Lord Beesbury, Lord Caswell, Ser Erryk, House Fell, and Rhaenys motherfucking Targaryen.

#house of the dragon #hotd #lord beesbury #team black #rhaenyra targaryen #princess rhaenys #ser erryk cargyll #rhaenys targaryen

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Whatever mistakes he made, whatever choices he could have made better, Viserys acted as King just by walking into the throne room let alone affirming Lucerys’ claim to Driftmark and he tried until the very end to bring his family together. He may not have been the best King but until the very end he was a man that loved his family. And at the end, he gets to see his family being a family and he gets to see his love, Aemma one last time.

#house of the dragon #hotd #viserys targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targeryan #alicent hightower #aemma targaryen

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The slow exhale before Daemon addresses his brother, him hesitating before seeing him, the stuttering as he tries to keep to business, him helping his brother sit the Iron Throne and crowning him with his own two hands - I’m going to need a week to recover.

If there were any doubt that Daemon loves his brother and his family it’s now nonexistent.

#house of the dragon #hotd #viserys targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targeryan #daemyra #I am positively bereft #I know Viserys made mistakes that fractures his family but #oh my god #just #wow

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a shame we’re not getting as much dad Daemon content as originally planned, but I know for a fact it was him that taught those girls how to throw punches and jump a motherfucker

#house of the dragon #hotd #daemon targeryan #laena velaryon #daemyra #baela targaryen #rhaena targaryen #aemond targaryen #kudos to Rhaenyra’s kids for jumping him too #that little devil got a speck of power and lost his mind