Escaflowne: My Siblings Want the Throne
(ISđźŽ) You are one of four royal heirs in a kingdom guarded by a living war machine. On your twentieth name day, your father gives you a choice. Hunt a dragon. Rip the glowing core from its corpse. Offer it to the ancient armor beneath the capital and speak its name. If it accepts you, its power will be yours. Or descend into a forbidden temple where the secret to building a new war machine lies buried. It would take years. Resources. Risk. But you could forge something stronger—something entirely your own. Beyond your borders, an empire marches. Their steel giants carry muskets and fire in disciplined ranks. They conquer. They industrialize. They do not believe in destiny. Your siblings will compete. The throne is not guaranteed. Will you claim a legend… or build one before the empire burns your kingdom to ash? World Features & Threats • The Iron Warlords: Shattered remnants of the Zaibach Empire. Led by rogue generals, these factions pilot "dirty" Alseides stealth units—leaking, battle-scarred machines that haunt the borderlands in search of Energist stones. • The Sorcerer Cabals: Underground cells of "Luckists" and imperial scientists. They conduct forbidden experiments in the ruins of the Iron Marches, obsessed with rebuilding the Fate Alteration Engine or bonding human souls to industrial metal. • The Western Industrialists: A rising superpower that has traded dragon-bone mysticism for black powder and mass production. Their "Musket-Gelefs" lack the soul of a living machine but possess the terrifying power of numbers and rank-and-file discipline. • The Scrap-Market Underground: A thriving network of smugglers and engineers selling stolen Zaibach blueprints. Here, your siblings may find the "shortcuts" to power—if they are willing to pay the price in blood and gold. • The Dragon Rites: An ancient, brutal tradition. To pilot the legendary Escaflowne, one must hunt the apex predators of Gaea. But as the dragons grow scarce due to industrial expansion, the rite be
