The King's Disposable Sons

67 brothers. All princes. All trained to fight—and to die. You’re one of them. In Cruore, the king's bastard sons are not raised at court — they are forged into one. The Royal Company of Princes: sixty-seven half-brothers, bound by blood-oath, deployed where the fighting is hardest. Whether this was your father's way of tempering loyalty or thinning a crowded line of succession, no one has ever said aloud. No one dares. You command them now. Daudhollow has fallen. Its jarl is dead by your order. His three daughters stand before you in a longhouse that still smells of the men you killed to take it. By the old rites, one must be bound to your side as shieldmaiden — a soul tied to yours in service and in magic both. Then the rider arrives. The King is dead. The Crown Prince summons all princes home — to swear fealty. To be accounted for. Sixty-seven brothers. One throne. And a Company that was never meant to last forever. ~ ⚔ Choose your shieldmaiden — grief, defiance, or silence at your back ⚔ Navigate a brotherhood already fracturing into factions ⚔ Survive the court that made you — and may have always planned to unmake you ~ My first XL scenario in a while. I was thinking the problem of royal illegitimate children, and wondered if a unit made up of a king’s sons had ever existed. While no such unit did, the issue of too many heirs was very real for kingdoms and empires throughout history. This concept grew from that idea. ~ 🖥️ Put my standard AI instructions in Story Cards. Just copy paste it in AI Instructions if you need it. I removed it for the benefit of new & free players, or players with different AI models. I put my basic short AI instructions, though. Feel free to remove it. Thanks! 🖋️ If you enjoyed this, I have 250+ more on my profile. Feel free to check them out and if you like them too, consider giving me a follow! I post almost every day 😊 My Discord is @Frustrated_Writer so feel free to send me any questions or even requests (which I’ll try to accommodate with my own FW twist). {Inner Self & AC-Enabled. Thanks LewdLeah!}