ID: 222

Outcome: Great Victory

Open After Story: Yes

Manual Prompt: Yes

Text:

You and Sirshana ascended the steps of the Lapis Lazuli Court together.



The blood beneath your boots had not yet dried. The banners in the hall still bore the colors of the last Sultan's reign. Yet the courtiers crowding around you had already scrambled into the long robes of the old kingdom, though beneath the hems, the telltale edges of the previous regime's garments still peeked out, hastily concealed. They whispered among themselves, rehearsing new phrases: No Sultan rules here now, the King has returned!



You rebuilt your realm in the image of the past, from the architecture of the palaces, to the cut of women's skirts, to the meter of court poetry. Everything was made to evoke nostalgia. You redistributed power among the most favored nobles as it had once been, reuniting the territories fragmented by the Sultans, weaving the old web of checks and balances between the great houses. You restored the title of "Queen." Now your harem had a single mistress, not a flock of equal concubines for the Sultan's pleasure.



Overnight, noblewomen changed their hairstyles. Children's rhymes in the streets shifted melody. The altars of the Purist quietly gave way to the shrines of the Star-Souled. The reigns of the two Sultans seemed to have left no mark...



But the marks remained in people's hearts—just as the Sultan's games had carved grooves into your very soul.



At least that game was over now.

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