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Crimson Empire ~Circumstances to serve a noble~ is an otome game from Quinrose set in the same universe as Arabians Lost, 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 Faustian Bargain. 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.


The first game provides examples of:

  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Justin has this with Sheila in his route until he cannot bear it anymore.
  • Berserk Button: 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.
  • Bishie Sparkle: Edvard carries it around also his and Justin's ready to fight CG's have them.
  • Body Horror: When Varchia was an slave, they cut her feet so she didn't run away!!
  • Multiple Endings: You can get multiple endings depending on the support and affection raised, also Michael & Justin both have bad ends apart of the good ones.
  • Nobody Touches the Hair: Sheila absolutely refuses to cut her hair, even though long hair is a liability in a fight.
  • Nonstandard Game Over: If you don't participate in the duels before turn 50 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.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: Justin makes Sheila wear lots of these in the game and in supplemental materials.
  • Random Encounters: Part of the RPG elements of the game.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: The piglets are this to the point that even the people affected by them doesn't really want to get rid of them.
  • Sexy Discretion Shot: In pretty much all routes but is particularly more obvious in Marshall's.
  • Shipper on Deck: 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.
  • Shout-Out: Several to Arabians Lost and Wizard & Master.
  • Single-Stroke Battle: Justin is so strong he solves like this most of his battles.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Caused for how the voiced character pronounce certain names, we get things like Harukia and Oranus intead of Varchia and Haurane.
  • Stepford Smiler: Edvard, well it comes with the job if Sheila is right.
  • Stock Footage: Several CG's have minimal changes, or none in different scenes.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Justin starts out as this, most of the time however is Marshall's duty.
  • Together in Death: Apart for the obvious mentioned in first guy wins, several bad endings have Sheila doing this for Edvard.
  • Training from Hell: 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.
  • The Worf Effect: To show off how strong Ronalus is we get to see how Sheila & Marshall get really badly defeated by him.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: 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.

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