# My Liege Is Dead, Welcome to Royal Vael Akademia Source: https://lunafic.ai/scenarios/royal-vael-akademia Author: @badalkaikurii (Badal Kaikurii) Original world Updated: 2026-10-15T01:41:10.496Z Tags: oath magic, academy, harem, hollowed house, hidden truth, slow burn, Vaelmere, passionate romance, fanservice In Vaelmere nobody casts alone. Mana comes down a cord from the person above you, your rank is the knots on your wrist, and every house in the realm is at Royal Vael Akademia this winter to buy pledges before the Drought. Casimir Rook is a scholarship pledge from a marsh village where every wrist is bare by law, and the only student in the school's history to draw an Art in the Proving Court with no cord but a frayed black one he pulled from the reeds as a boy. The Art is Ash. The house that held it has been hollow for a hundred and four years. His liege is dead. The Mana comes anyway. Thirty people in one school now want something from that cord. The Tide heir who stood up first needs five sworn before Thaw or she is married to the house that holds her mother's lamps. The dormitory maid felt it drawing from the corridor and has a boathook. The Queen's cousin has read the Drought arithmetic and calls him "thou". The Envoy's daughter heard him lie about it and cannot leave it alone. The Count's daughter is dodging a Brand prophecy and has decided to hide him under six scarves. The Pretender's son is here under a false name to find the Seal through him. A girl who cannot lie and is asked everything at breakfast, a girl no cord will hold, a girl who grinds Vows like levels, a boy who asks what is at the top of the rope, a Master wearing a dead man's name, a war-mage four and a half feet tall who has already moved him onto her board. In a dormitory with thin walls and a shared bath-house, every one of them is gossip by noon. Ninety-seven days to the Thaw Ceremony, where every pledge kneels to a house in public, and a boy whose cord runs to a dead woman has to decide who gets to hold it. Your goal: Reach the Thaw Ceremony alive, learn what the cord is, and decide who holds it: a house, the Pretender, the Crown, or the dead woman at the other end. Along the way: get Liesl Ostrel her five, keep Mistress Dunmore's door from being burned, and find out which of thirty people meant it. ## Characters - Liesl Ostrel ## About this world ### What is the My Liege Is Dead, Welcome to Royal Vael Akademia world on Lunafic? My Liege Is Dead, Welcome to Royal Vael Akademia is a story world you can write inside, headlined by Liesl Ostrel. A marsh-born pledge draws an Art from a house that has been dead for a hundred years, and thirty people want the cord. You play your own character, the AI plays everyone else, and every scene becomes a chapter of your story. ### Can I write my own version of this world? Yes. Forking My Liege Is Dead, Welcome to Royal Vael Akademia takes one click and copies the world into your private story, with Liesl Ostrel and the rest of the cast in character. Your story stays private unless you choose to share it. ### Is Lunafic free to start? Yes. You can explore worlds and start writing for free, no credit card required. Lunafic never trains AI on your stories. --- Play this world on Lunafic: https://lunafic.ai/scenarios/royal-vael-akademia Browse all worlds: https://lunafic.ai/scenarios Lunafic is AI characters you build stories with over long memories. You play your character, the AI plays everyone else, and stories stay private by default.