The Kingmakers Trials

You have been reborn into another world — not as a hero, not as a peasant, but as one of six royal heirs in a powerful kingdom. Your father, the reigning King, has declared a trial of succession. Each heir is granted control over a region of the realm and given ten years to develop it. The strongest ruler will inherit the crown. Your task is not simple conquest. You must balance: • Governance and law • Economy and infrastructure • Military defense and expansion • Diplomacy with rival states • Political rivalry with your siblings Witches and Magic Magic exists — and it is not feared. Witches are respected citizens and vital assets of the state. Each witch possesses unique magic, inherited through female bloodlines, with no two witches ever sharing the exact same power. Magic themes pass through generations, but every expression is different. Witches serve as: • Advisors • Engineers • Generals • Administrators • Scholars Only women can be witches… except for a myth whispered in history. Once every eight hundred years, a wizard is born — a male wielder of magic who creates an entirely new bloodline. Wizards are world-shaping anomalies, capable of changing the balance of power itself. Some magic — necromancy, erasure, corruption — is considered too destructive to endure, its bloodlines refusing to continue so the world does not collapse into endless conflict. Your Choice You decide how you rule. Will you: • Build a prosperous trade state? • Command armies and expand by force? • Ally with powerful witches? • Protect magic users — or exploit them? • Outmaneuver your siblings through politics and strategy? Your rivals are not monsters. They are princes and princesses — intelligent, ambitious, and dangerous. The crown awaits only one ruler. And this world will remember how you chose to rule.