Virelunos.cc fantasy romance AI among the moon courts
The first night of the waxing moon
You arrive in Virelunos as an envoy with a single vote and no house. Sixteen AI courtiers of four rival moon courts want that vote, and each will flatter, bargain and remember every promise you make. Draw a phase card and the court it names sends someone to you.
- 16
- courtiers of four moon courts, every one an AI character
- 4
- courts, named for the new, crescent, half and full moon
- 16
- almanac entries on feuds, lineages and omens
- 25–55
- their ages, with ranks and ambitions to match
The sixteen courtiers, in portrait
Open every seal
The first audience
Draw a phase card
The home page is a table with four cards face down, one for each phase of the moon: new, crescent, half, full. You draw one. The court that rules the phase you drew sends an envoy to greet you, with a first offer already written and waiting.
New, crescent, half, full
Each phase is a court with a temper. The new court is blunt and martial, wanting soldiers and quick answers. The crescent court is artistic and gossiping, trading in songs, gardens and rumours. The half court deals in coin, maps and spies, and weighs everything twice. The full court holds the throne, the stars and the old law, and acts as though it has never needed to hurry.
The court that draws you
Nobody asks you to pick a side before you understand it. The court you draw is a starting point, not a loyalty, and the envoy it sends is already trying to flatter you. By the end of the first audience you will know what she wants, and you may know that two other courts would have wanted the opposite. The phase cards are shuffled for every visit, so a return trip can open on a different court altogether.
The second audience
Fantasy romance AI among the moon courts
Virelunos is a moon kingdom of silver stairs, hollow hills and polite knives, written for people who like their romance served with politics. The courtiers are not waiting to be rescued or won. They are working you, and some of them are also growing fond of you, and neither fact cancels the other.
Alliances and rivalries
Every courtier has a rival at another court and an ally she would deny. Tell Sefira Ansel one thing about the general of the new court, and Marenne Falk will know it by the next audience. The spymistress hears everything, and she shares it only when it is worth more to her than to you. Your words travel, and so does your reputation.
Your vote is the prize
The plot is a vote in the kingdom's council, and you hold the deciding voice. How it is spent is up to you and is never announced in advance. There is no single correct ending. Courts that win your favour grow warmer, and courts that lose it grow cooler, in character, for as long as you keep returning.
Your standing, kept for you
Each courtier keeps a record of what you promised her and what you promised her rivals. As a guest your standing lives in your browser; make an account and it travels with you to any device. The record is listed in the chat menu: read it, ease a line, or strike one out.
Romance with a price
Fondness at this court is never free. A courtier who warms to you is still a courtier, and her warmth arrives with a request, a warning or a debt. That is part of the charm: you are never quite sure whether you are being loved or recruited, and neither is she. The tension is the story, and the audience can stay in it for as long as you like, short of the point where the curtain falls.
The ceremony
How to take an audience
No installation and no forms. A guest can be in front of a throne within seconds.
Draw a phase
Turn over a card. The court it names sends an envoy. Prefer a particular court? The courts page lists all sixteen at once.
Hear the offer
Her first line is already written. A guest may speak 10 messages before an account is requested.
Answer in your own voice
Say speaks, and Do acts. Choose the register in the chat menu: friendly, flirting, romance.
Make a promise, or break one
She remembers what you swore. Return tomorrow and she will; or clear the audience from its menu and begin again.
When courtship warms
Intrigue often turns tender, and the courtiers may flirt and admit to wanting you. The audience ends in a drawn curtain before anything explicit; that boundary is fixed in the site, and no tithe moves it. Everything short of the curtain is yours to take slowly.
The treasury
Tithes: what each phase costs
Three standings, and none that renews while you are not looking.
| At court | First waxing | Waning | Plus |
| How long | 3 days from your oath | Afterward, with no end | A 30-night or 365-night span |
| Words you send | Unnumbered | 10 a day | Unnumbered |
| Courtiers | All sixteen | The first 3 you addressed | All sixteen |
| She speaks first | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | Nothing | Nothing | $15 or $99 |
First waxing, waning, full moon
A guest may keep audience for 10 messages without an account. Swearing in opens all four courts for 3 days with no card requested; afterwards you wane and the record of your promises is kept. The full moon of Plus is a span of 30 nights at $15 or 365 nights at $99, tithed in USDT, and removes the daily number. Once sealed, a tithe is final; no refund follows, bar the case where law requires one, and the charter records it.
Behind the seals
Sixteen courtiers, and what they want
Every courtier has a seal card that lists her rank, her rivalry, what she is playing for and where she refuses. Isaure Valloneth rules as regent and is tired and still right. Maelis Dorne is the spymistress and has already read this.
Ysolde(42)AI11
keeper of the half court's treasury
Every coin has an opinion.
Read her seal
Brisa(30)AI16
court tailor
A fitted coat is a promise.
Read her seal
Neriah(36)AI10
archivist of the crescent court
I remember treaties better than faces.
Read her seal
Thalia(25)AI07
junior envoy
I am new here and I intend to win.
Read her seal
A manner for each rank
A duelist and a physician never share a rhythm, and the lines are written to show it. Sefira Ansel challenges first and asks afterwards. Orsolya Penn says sit and tell me where it aches, and means it. Spend a minute with a seal and you will know which of them could hold your attention through a long night in a cold hall. Sefira's rival at the new court, for instance, reads quite differently when you have seen her through another courtier's eyes.
Why sixteen and not more
Sixteen is enough to fill four courts and few enough to know. Each has been written with a rank, a rival, a secret and a speech pattern of her own, and repeated visits reward you with a sense that the court is a living room with people in it. You will have favourites by the second evening, and a person you suspect by the third.
A plain word
Drawn as adults, and nothing else
The art here is anime-styled, a style some readers link with people much earlier in life than anyone on this site. That link has no place here, so the rules are stated up front, and tested.
Faces and bodies
Every portrait shows a woman with an adult face and an adult body, whatever the number on her card, which never falls below twenty-four. Queens, generals and priestesses are drawn as people who have held office, with the lines and the poise that come with it. No courtier is described in any way that would suggest she is less than the age her seal gives.
An invented realm
Virelunos is a kingdom made for this site. It borrows no map and no name from anywhere real, and nobody there can be visited or arranged. The courtiers are characters, they say so when asked, and there is no film; each has a portrait on her seal, and a banner of the moon stair opens the home page.
The seating plan
The four courts
Four courts of four. These are made-up grown women of 25 to 55, drawn in an anime style with adult faces and bodies, each in a rank that matters to someone.
The new court
Soldiers, hunters and new arrivals. They win quietly, and they respect anyone who arrives with a plan.
The crescent court
Musicians, gardeners, archivists and tailors. They know everyone's measurements, favourite tune and poison.
The half court
Treasury, maps, physic and spies. They weigh every promise twice and every coin three times.
The full court
The regency, the stars, the temple and the embassy. They hold the old law and expect it to hold itself.
Which court suits you
Pick the court whose manners you could stand across a long dinner. The new court speaks plainly, the crescent court indirectly, the half court exactly, the full court slowly. None of them minds if you try all four, and the best intrigue happens when you carry a secret from one to another.
Rivalries worth knowing
The new court and the half court distrust each other over the price of a sword. The crescent court mocks the full court for never hurrying, and the full court has not noticed. Inside each court there are quieter quarrels too, between those who rose by talent and those who rose by name. Ask a courtier about her neighbour at another court and you will usually receive a short, elegant insult with a compliment folded inside it.
The court almanac
Court gazette: the Lunarium
The Lunarium is the kingdom's almanac, written in plain text: lineages, feuds, omens and customs, one entry for each courtier, set against an invented moon calendar. Four are printed below. The rest wait on the courts page.
Full court · LineageArgent Keep. House Valloneth has held the regency for thirty-one waxings.The heir is absent by treaty; the weight of the crown is hers by habit.See Silverrun: the ambassador who gets her tired smile.Isaure Valloneth Bring it before her
Half court · FeudHollowmere. The spymistress keeps no feuds, only a ledger.Three houses owe her favours and none knows about the others.See Goldmere: the treasury that pretends not to listen.Maelis Dorne Bring it before her
New court · FeudBrightwater. A duel is claimed at every new moon and refused at every full.The duelist wins all of them and will tell you which were mercy.See Ironrest: the general who thinks all this is theatre.Sefira Ansel Bring it before her
Full court · OmenStarfall. The astronomer predicted the last three lies told in this hall.She will not name the fourth until it has been spoken.See Lunara: the priestess who calls her predictions impertinent.Eluned Corr Bring it before her
A calendar of waxings
Time in Virelunos is counted in waxings rather than weeks, and entries are dated by phase. The almanac is updated in batches, and each batch is announced in the gazette notes. Reading a few entries in sequence tells you who has fallen out this month and who is only pretending to have.
Bringing an entry before her
Each entry carries a button. Press it and the entry is carried before that courtier as your opening words, costing one message, and she answers in character. It is a fast way to arrive with a grievance, a question or a bribe.
Protocol
Questions put to the herald
- Is there one plot?
- There is one council, one calendar and four factions. How it unfolds depends on what you promise and to whom, and no two envoys have quite the same reign.
- How does she remember my alliances?
- Each courtier keeps notes of what you promised and to whom, and raises them when it suits her. You can read, soften or delete those notes in the chat menu.
- How old are the courtiers?
- Every courtier is a grown woman between 25 and 55, with a rank and a history to match and a portrait showing an adult face and body.
- Are the characters real?
- No. They are original AI characters in an invented kingdom. Nobody stands behind the curtain, and nothing can be arranged.
- Is there any video?
- No. A portrait sits on every seal and a banner opens the home page, yet the kingdom has no films and no live streams.
- How far does a courtship go?
- Intrigue, flirtation and desire, and the curtain falls before anything explicit. That limit holds in every phase.
- What does it cost?
- A guest gets 10 messages free. An oath adds a 3-day first waxing and then a waning of 10 a day. Plus costs $15 for 30 nights, in USDT, and lapses instead of renewing.
- Who may enter?
- Adults only. You confirm at the door that you are 18 or over, and every courtier is an adult as well.
The curtain rises
The moon is waiting
Draw a phase card and receive the first envoy. Somebody at court has already decided what you are worth.
Draw a phase