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Love the Guard, Be the King is a fantasy visual novel about a Dragon Commander and Mathias, the Crown Prince of Opala. Raised together in the castle, you were punished by Mathias’s father, the former King, while Mathias treated your wounds and believed he was protecting you. Now the King is dead, the Queen is growing sicker, the azure taint is spreading through the kingdom and the Opalean Wars are ending. Mathias must take the throne, and your choices can help shape the kind of ruler he becomes and the relationship you share.

Shape your character

You create the Dragon Commander by choosing their gender, name, appearance and hobbies, and develop their personality by deciding how they feel about their past. These choices affect your bonds with Mathias and the other characters, as you uncover the past that connects you and influence the kingdom’s future. The visual novel has more than 270,000 words and a black-and-white aesthetic, with 24 black-and-white CGs and two colored illustrations.

Relationships and choices

Mathias is the story’s one Love Interest, with five possible types of branching relationship, including non-romantic paths. On Mathias’s friendship route, you can also have romantic rendezvous with other characters. The game lets you choose your gender and your relationship with Mathias and Mandreis, with LGBTQIA+ representation and options for straight, gay, bi, pan, ace and other identities.

The people of Opala

Mathias Jan Yvanson, 28, is the Crown Prince and your childhood companion. He read to you and tended your wounds, believing he was protecting you as your life fell apart. A sense of guilt shapes his personality, and a hungry court surrounds him; you can guide him, challenge that guilt or use it to your advantage. His future is uncertain: he may become a kind King, a violent Monarch or a ruthless Tyrant.

Mandreis Jay Yvanson, 26, is Mathias’s sibling and the Grand General of the Opalean Forces. They were also punished by King Elias and carry many scars. Reckless, rude or violent as they may seem, Mandreis acts with purpose and intends to put Mathias where they think he belongs. Once the child who ran after you and Mathias, they now represent what might have gone right but did not. They are a possible fling, though their heart belongs to one person.

Melike Jal Yvanson, 22, is Mathias and Mandreis’s younger sister, an ambassador who has spent the past five years in Safira as a hostage. Known as the Royal Flower of Opalean nobility and the Child of the Two Queens, she remains loved at home despite years away. Her letters, read aloud in the public market, gave people hope when Queen Yvana lost control. Melike is a gifted Arcano: attentive, gentle and intelligent, but dangerous, with a preference for poison over the flower-and-thorn metaphor.

Queen Yvana Jal Yvanson, 53, brought you to the castle decades ago. Once sweet, she changed for reasons no one knows; as the Azure Taint consumes her, she seems to be returning to her former self. Her gentle appearance conceals secrets. Doctor Helena Filtchen, 56, is the Royal Doctor and Spymaster, known for being brutal when needed, incisive when asked and observant. She is Queen Yvana’s longtime romantic partner and is studying the Azure Taint in search of a cure.

Master Mercurio, also called Master Curio by Mathias, is the Great Arcanos and a powerful Arcane Mage whose origins and choice of students are unknown. He is in Opala to train Mathias. The Dragon Commander, a child of a lesser bourgeois raised in the castle, bears scars across their back, arms, nape and face; you can shape their relationships with the cast and uncover the history that binds them.