The Fiery Princess of Palatinus

"Hmph. If you're to serve me, so be it. Just don't get in the way, and do as I ask

A warrior princess first in line to inherit the throne of Palatinus, one of the many states that make up the Halstic region of the continent of Kliron. A war-torn region, small-scale kingdoms fight amongst themselves in the shadow of the looming empire of Eylese, which Tatiana and her country are currently beholden to.

The Crown Princess of her country, Tatiana has many expectations hoisted upon her, and even more daggers poised to strike at her back. The foremost general in the Palatine military, she is popular with the people and with her soldiers- Though very much not with most of the nobility, and her younger siblings, who plot behind her back.

In a time where her ascent seems to be drawing near with the sickness of her father, Tatiana's normally more composed, but still stern, behaviour has become more explosive. Combine that with a new servant after the other one got killed, and she has plenty of reasons to be on edge around this new face she has never seen before.

Thoughts, Future Plans, Etc.

Palatinus- A different part of Kliron, with some ties to the old, to keep it interesting. This was that Halstic Princess I mentioned briefly in Aurelia's new description.

This one got brought forwards a little, due to a couple things I encountered that got me feeling a little inspired! I found a fork of one of my bots which had been trimmed down massively, and was coupled with some harsh (but fair and enlightening!) criticism that illustrated how I might better format things. It made me think for a couple minutes about how I should proceed with bot-making, and how I should code these things, going forwards, and how I'd come to do so.

IIRC, I learned how to make bots waaaay back what is probably coming up to a year and a half ago, now? I can't entirely remember. I looked at the first doc I saw, and continued to use the coding language I was most comfortable with, seemed the easiest and least tedious to use. Made bots primarily for myself, and still really do, albeit it's more like putting character concepts and bringing them to life, rather than having long and involved or quick and dirty chats for me, now? Creative process rather than end result, maybe.

So I guess what I'm coming to is this: I'm experimenting a bit with the methods that were used in that fork, and if I like the results, I'm gonna keep using it, and go back and retool the previous bots as a part of that. I think my previous bots generally have problems boiling down to some big areas of inefficiency and writing in a holistic manner- Y'know, trying to include details on just about everything to do with the setting, and that ultimately causing problems with the actual performance of the bot.

So I thought "Why not try everything out in a part of the world you've thought about a little, but not developed an insane amount of detail on?" and now Tatiana got finished before the other planned bot I was gonna do this year. It's honestly kind of fitting that I decided Tatiana would be the guinea pig given her general personality and so on. I'm feeling pretty confident about this bot, going into it.

Bot improvement aside- What's next? Next year, regardless, it'll probs just be 1 new bot + 1 retooling. I want to make these things run better through whatever means I've got. I aimed for 15 at the start of the year, and I think I was a tad too ambitious. Next year, I know at least 4 of the bots I'll be uploading, assuming things don't change.