ID: 207

Outcome: Narrow Victory

Open After Story: Yes

Manual Prompt: Yes

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The old sun sank into oblivion while the new one ascended the horizon. The creatures of earth never discerned this celestial substitution - they cared only that a sovereign eternally occupied the golden throne...



And you, successor to the Sultanate, saw your reign immortalized in chronicles as "The Descent of the New Sun." An ill-omened title, for your rule lasted but seventy-seven days. Your reforms cut too deep, too swift, severing the sinews of entrenched powers. You spurned their honeyed flatteries, refused to indulge their plundering ways or partake in their excesses as your predecessor had. The new nobles you raised, though fanatically loyal and straining to enact your vision, stood as saplings easily uprooted in this ancient empire's soil.



The chroniclers praised your "virtues of enlightened rule" through gritted teeth, while condemning your "lack of regal ruthlessness" with poisoned quills.



Your end came by dagger's kiss in the velvet darkness of your bedchambers.



Those who followed - whether styling themselves Sultan, Emperor, or King - found the throne crumbling beneath them. The empire fractured into perpetual twilight, its broken crown rolling through bloodstained hands until the last ember of order died.

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