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Planned Games
🕑 Added 2025-04-04 20:16:58 +0000 UTC
I just want to share what other games I want to make in the future and the rough timeline to when I want to be working on them. Just to ease those worries that I'm going to be abandoning the Rotwood universe after the Witchwood books are done!
After Book 1:
Our Last Liaisons
Taking place nearly a century before the current events of the Witchwood, is a tale that takes place just a few days before the entire country of Varan goes dark.
Slipping into either the role of one of the lesser royal children or of a servant of no importance, witness the start of over a century of war and total silence from the entire east of the continent. The Basilica had never been able to touch Varan, the constant three rulers having always been united on the subject to never let them to spread their doctrine into their snowy, icy lands. For centuries each Tsar, Tsarina and Czar have not only fought back against the persecution of Witches, but due to their own familial history, have elevated each and every one into a noble house.
While remarkable, many things plague the imperial houses. Such as petty squabbles, consistently splitting courts, the business of marriage, vying for affections, and at long last... The perfection of the art of Tagging. An easy way for one of the Royal Witches to show a favorite among the courtiers.
Face these, as either one of the few people born above it all, the seventh child of the Tsarina Tatsiana of House Aureus or a lowly servant, barely even worth changing the sheets on the royal beds. See the two very different versions of living this life before the Century of Silence befalls your country.
There are 4 RO:
The Servant: Arkady/Arkadina
Freckled, dusky skin, ash blond hair, soft, pale brown eyes, would be pretty if anyone ever actually looked at them. As a servant, they've already been a long companion, utterly dependent on your friendship to get through the day, one sided as it may be. As a royal, they show more of their sickly obsession, needing to be a favorite of yours, no matter what.
The Lesser Noble: Daniil/Daria Igorovich/Ihorivna Aleksenko
Dark, deep brown hair, easily tangled and giving them quite a roguish look when it is down. Dark, nearly black, brown eyes, rich tawny skin, however a paleness is present that promises that it does not see a lot of sun. A lesser noble, now elevated into a new house since they have emerged as a Dark Witch, with a Bear familiar at their side. As a servant, if you take their fancy, they love to "play" with you, even might promise to keep you as a kept lover when they get married. As a royal, they are intent on gaining your favor, maybe even marrying FAR above their new station.
The Royal: Aleksandr/Aleksandra (Sasha) Tatsiavna/Tasiavich Volchek
Black-blue dark hair, shiny, pale, grey eyes that promise cruelty, and a pale face that is the only reminder of Tsarina Tatsiana's first marriage that ended with her ex-husband pushed over a balcony when she found him in bed with her sister. Who also later joined him at the bottom. Regardless, a Witchling Royal who is coming into their own as the third in line to the throne. As a servant, they cruelly take notice of you on the day before their wedding day and, if you encourage it, their affections. As a royal, they've always had a soft spot for you, as their younger half sibling. And... Tis not uncustomary for split noble houses to unite through marriage. Even as your shared mother beats them for asking for such a thing.
The Priest: Janos/Janka Telmányi
The oldest of the RO, they have salt and pepper dark hair, startling blue eyes and tanned skin that promised a long time traveling in the sun. They are the last to arrive to the court, and brings the winds of change along with them. The first Priest of the Basilica to enter the region since one got somewhat lost trying to get to the northern seas and was promptly quartered by horses. As a servant, they take immediate pity on you for having survived this long in what they see as the very den of hedonistic sin. As a royal, they wish to free you from a life that they see (or wish to believe to see) has been forced upon you. Purification as downright a kink for them.
After Book 2:
The Mad Heir
The worsening health of the King has caused not only a little bit of disarray in South Hollow, but also complete chaos in the government and the house of Royals. After the birth of the king's first grandchild, he had changed the law of succession. Crown goes to the first born... Or, a blood relative of the current Crown's choosing. And while they lay in their cradle, the King had announced that they were the one to inherit the crown.
Sadly, they've been missing ever since they came of age. So, while the entire stretch of the Isles have been turned upside down to find them, it turns out you've been minding your own business in a run down manor, kept secret by your father, the regent, for... Your very apparent imperfections.
Royals either waste away from sickness... Or become enraptured with a madness not seen in any others.
You sleepwalk through your days, unable to sleep at night, knowing there is something whispering from beyond your curtains, your blood singing back to whatever it is. Things plague you beyond the whispers, something lurks under your skin, angry and dark. It's what takes up most of your day, to the point you hardly realize your father has moved back into the manor, with his new spouse and stepchild he's aiming to install as the heir without anyone noticing. Oh well.
The RO's:
The Step Sibling: Anouk/Anatole von Mejer
The very person your father plans to install instead of you. After all, you haven't exactly been seen since you were not presented to society, citing "illness". Even your closest cousins would struggle to place if you did indeed... Look like that. Luscious light brown hair, curling into their face, with a an attractive bloom in their pale sandy-brown skin. A smug little monster but if they start having strange dreams about the specter staring at them at night, whose to say they won't be taken by it?
The Step Parent: Clement/Clémentine von Mejer
Now, they were never called the smartest spoon in the drawer, but they see a good deal when they see one. Marry into royalty, let their new husband work out the political stuff, and then let their darling child become heir! What a good time! They are quite a beauty, dark blond hair, rosy cheeks that bloom. They passed on quite a lot of beauty to their child, even if something of their long dead first spouse had passed down as well. And they are a bleeding heart and prone to fantasy... If they hear whispers in the night, they will start believing there is a lonely ghost that needs befriending.
The three in progress planned RO:
The Butler/ Housekeeper: Julius/Julia Braithwaite
The only one to look after you all these years. Greying hair, sharp eyes, the one constant in your life even before your confinement. They have slowly watched you descend into yourself, solitary and wandering. Strict, stoic, with a soft spot for their ward of many years, each creak of the floorboards having their eyes flick upwards, their fingers twitching for just a moment.
The Gardener: Bryn Heron
A strange, distant figure, always in the garden and never in the house. Always staring into the windows at night, despite the warnings from the Butler. Long, dark hair, hungry, cracked eyes. Broad build. Always on the hunt for something, even if you don't know what.
The Fiance: Hristijan/Hristina Angelov
A stranger your father brings to the house. A part of his plan to send you on your way, send you all the way out to Macedonia so you will be out there, taken care of and forgotten. Black hair, distant grey eyes, tawny skin, the air of someone who knows exactly how rich they are, and will not care about sticking a mad spouse in the attic to enjoy their furthered riches.
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quiet mage
Woo!!!! So excited for all your games!!!! 🥰☺️🍾
