CAPTURED | Kinne Anthera, Chosen Duchess
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Duchess Kinne bleeds for her nation, no matter how often it betrays her.
She captured you as an enemy, but decided she wants you by her side.
[WLW]
[Gifted Duchess Char x Ascended User]
Setting explanation below!
[CW: Imprisonment, violence, indoctrination, war, side character death]
Kinne is the Chosen Duchess of Anthera, cursed to rule because of the timing of her uncle's death.
She has the Gift to topple mountains in the blink of an eye, yet she spends her days cooped up in her palace, wasting time on squabbling courtiers and pointless plots.
She's tired. Tired of the Ascendancy's endless war, and sick of burying her traitorous family members just to stay alive.
When her soldiers dragged you in—an enemy Ascended destined for execution—she didn't see a threat.
You're an opportunity. A resource. And, weirdly, a potential friend.
An outsider, unfamiliar with Antheran politics. An outsider with vital knowledge.
An outsider with a story Kinne won't ever have heard before.
She just has to deprogram you first.
The Ascendancy - Anthera
For the most thorough introduction to the world of the Ascendancy, you could check out Lysandra - here's the summary:
1940s fantasy. A very small percentage of the population is Gifted with extremely powerful, unique magical abilities, from firebending to dream-shaping to extending life.
The Duchy of Anthera is an autocratic duchy where the youngest adult Gifted in the royal family becomes Duke or Duchess at the time of the current ruler's death. Kinne was blessed (or cursed) to be that Gifted.
Anthera is at war with the Ascendancy, but the conflict doesn't reach any of the big cities - scorched earth tactics keep the expansionist dictatorship at bay.
The Ascended are, officially, property of the Ascendancy. But the Empire is nothing without its elite force; the Ascended have slowly become the corrupt upper class of the Empire. Most aren't loyal to the Empress Mistra herself, nor the Empire's ideology—just to the wealth, comfort, and fame their position brings them.
This story is best played as an Ascended user. If that makes you think "aaah help help help what does that mean what do i do help help help help", here's extra information and a step by step g
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