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''Crimson Empire'' ~''Circumstances to serve a noble''~ is an otome game from Quinrose set in the same universe as ''VideoGame/ArabiansLost'', proved to be popular enough to warrant a fan disk and a short manga not to mention several ports, drama CD's and some novelized books with side stories.

Sheila Rozann as a kid, was sold by her family as a slave. She met a demon while she was at the slaver's place who told her that she would be successful and offered her a FaustianBargain. She was later bought by an assassins guild and was trained to be an assassin. But after a little fight with the guild master, a legendary assassin, she was sold again. Now, to be a bodyguard for the nobility.

Sheila now the head maid under the service of the second prince Edvard Winfree, would do anything to assist him to the throne.
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!! The first game provides examples of:

* BackToBackBadasses: Sheila & Justin, Sheila & Marshall also Sheila & Varchia.
%%* BadassAdorable: Lilley.
%%* BadassLongcoat: Justin loves these.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Justin has this with Sheila in his route until he cannot bear it anymore.
* BerserkButton: Don't dare to joke about hurting Edvard in front of Sheila... also it would be in your best interest not to mention magic at all.
* BishieSparkle: Edvard carries it around also his and Justin's ready to fight CG's have them.
* BodyHorror: When Varchia was an slave, they cut her feet so she didn't run away!!
%%* BrattyHalfPint: Lilley
* BreakTheCutie: Edvard went trough this when he was a kid.
* CanonImmigrant: [[SelfMadeMan Curtis]] [[EccentricMentor Nile]], [[BattleButler Chezjka]], [[SeekerArchetype Meissen]] & [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Michael]] , all from Arabians Lost.
* CoolBigSis: Lilley sees Sheila as this.
* DancesAndBalls: Well it's the nobility, what were you expecting?
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sheila's past counts, also Edvard's and to some degree Justin's.
* DealWithTheDevil: When Sheila was a child, the demon Michael freed her from slavery. In exchange, she will belong to him when she dies. Sheila isn't very bothered by this, saying it was better than the alternative, and that she doesn't plan on dying for a ''long'' time.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The last part of the intro of the game does an excellent job into showing Edvard's true nature.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Sheila when she decides to let it down once and for all near the end of Crimson Royale.
* FirstGuyWins: No matter what, in the end Sheila's soul will belong to Michael.
* TheGlomp: Lilley will stop everything she is doing to jump on Sheila.
* GoryDiscretionShot: While mostly subverted [[spoiler: TheReveal that Sheila was the one to kill Edvard's mother shows a CG slightly covered in black.]]
%%* GracefulLoser: Justin.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Pretty much Edvard's ultimate objective with respect of Justin.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Justin starts as this, Edvard however is this towards Justin ALL THE TIME.
* LimitedWardrobe: Which makes no sense considering most of the cast are nobles.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Bryon, Rambures and Ronalus (who even says that is a secret how he keeps it so pretty).
%%* {{Meido}}: Sheila.
* MultipleEndings: You can get multiple endings depending on the support and affection raised, also Michael & Justin both have bad ends apart of the good ones.
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Medusa also, InUniverse Curtis Nile.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: Sheila absolutely refuses to cut her hair, even though long hair is a liability in a fight.
%%* NonActionGuy: Bryon, this sort of embarrasses him.
* NonstandardGameOver: If you don't participate in the duels before turn 50 [[spoiler:Sheila will be visited by Curtis... well it's pretty obvious she didn't live to tell the tale, also not attending the duels from turn 50 onwards get you a visit by Medusa instead with the same results.]]
%%* ParentalAbandonment
* PimpedOutDress: Justin makes Sheila wear lots of these in the game and in supplemental materials.
%%* PluckyGirl: Sheila.
%%* PowerTrio
%%* PrettyInMink
* RandomEncounters: Part of the RPG elements of the game.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The piglets are this to the point that even the people affected by them doesn't really want to get rid of them.
* SexyDiscretionShot: In pretty much all routes but is particularly more obvious in Marshall's.
* ShipperOnDeck: Lilley becomes this for Bryon and Sheila just because she wants to have Sheila as her big sister for real. Also once Sheila becomes Justin's girlfriend Marshall becomes this for them.
* ShoutOut: Several to Arabians Lost and Wizard & Master.
* SingleStrokeBattle: Justin is so strong he solves like this most of his battles.
%%* SinkOrSwimMentor: Curtis.
%%* SmugSnake: Edvard even if he is not a bad guy.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Caused for how the voiced character pronounce certain names, we get things like Harukia and Oranus intead of Varchia and Haurane.
* StepfordSmiler: Edvard, well it comes with the job if Sheila is right.
* StockFootage: Several CG's have minimal changes, or none in different scenes.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Justin starts out as this, most of the time however is Marshall's duty.
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome: Justin full stop.
%%* TheTease: Sheila.
%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Meissen and Michael.
* TogetherInDeath: Apart for the obvious mentioned in first guy wins, [[spoiler:several bad endings have Sheila doing this for Edvard.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Chezjka is willing to Kill Curtis if she gets the chance because of this.
* {{Tsundere}}: In Meissen's head Sheila is A-type towards him.
* TheWorfEffect: To show off how strong Ronalus is we get to see how Sheila & Marshall get really badly defeated by him.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Justin gets this a lot in his route, he always imagines things that are common for these games(so he is right on the genre) however Quinrose heroines are different from others, so his guesses tend to be wrong.
%%* {{Yandere}}: Edvard has this in shades, arguably so does Justin.