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The Settlers: Rise of an Empire is a RTS game made by Blue Byte, focusing on, well, the rise of an Empire. Specifically, the game and its expansion pack focus on the kingdom of Westerlin and its wars against its evil neighbours. The player is the ruler of the kingdom, and is assisted in this role by a group of six knights. These knights and the surrounding game environment are beautifully animated; and the characters all have surprisingly well developed personalities.

In consequence, this game has attracted a smallnote  fandom on FanFiction.Net that focuses around the adventures of the various knights. All the stories in the archive form a reasonably tight continuity, resulting in unusually consistent fanon and shipping. As such, they can effectively be considered one multi-author work.

The archive can be found here.


The Settlers: Rise of an Empire fan fiction and fanon provides examples of:

  • Accidental Murder: In The Mathematics of Deceit, Marcus accidentally kills his jousting opponent.
  • The Alleged Steed: Marcus' Athos and Kestral's Dutch both seem determined to dump their riders at the worst possible moments.
  • Artistic License – Geology: Lampshaded. As we all know, Titanium is the strongest wood of all!!
    • Recent episodes reveal that the second-strongest wood of all is Uranium.
  • Ascended Extra: Lieutenant Refec started out as a generic archer in Loyalty and Legend, but got his Day in the Limelight in Friendly Fire as the Only Sane Man.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Kestral spends half of Loyalty and Legend hopping mad at Hakim, but it doesn't stop her freaking out when he doesn't return from a scout mission on schedule.
  • Batman Gambit: Manipulation is Hakim's specialty; New Alliances probably being his best example when he's barely in it. He's so good he only has to appear in one scene to pull off the gambit of the century.
  • Betty and Veronica: Kestral is the Betty and Sabatt is the Veronica for Hakim early in the timeline, although Kestral would probably be the Veronica if opposing almost anyone else. He picks Kestral.
  • Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Kestral pulls this off to Sabatt in Loyalty and Legend, but she was actually trying to kill them.
  • Call-Back: Lots.
    • The end of New Alliances heavily references the conversation in Hopeless Sincerity about olive branches and leopard spots.
    • The Mathematics of Deceit also refrences Hopeless Sincerity, since they're both part of the Marcus/Alandra romance arc.
    • The beginning of The Eastern Realm references ... oh, work it out for yourself. It also references the arrow wound Sabatt picked up in New Alliances.
  • Call-Forward: In Loyalty and Legend to Velvet Battlefield. Hakim really should teach Kestral some manners.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Marcus seems to have great difficulty speaking the words "I love you" when in Alandra's presence, despite the fact that Everyone Can See It.


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