All Ashes and Illusions

A dark visual novel about a young prince’s unhealthy infatuation with his nursemaid, and his misguided attempts to win her heart.

## About This Game

” Women are snakes and liars, all of them: the more beautiful, the more
conniving. Don’t let your guard down, or they will ruin you.”

Yuel was only six years old when he witnessed his mother being put to death,
for the heinous crime of daring to have an affair. For other women, such a
folly mightn’t have been so lethal, but for Yuel’s ill-fated mother – the wife
and queen of Indra’s tyrannical king, Khalil – it spelt her doom.

As he witnesses his mother’s corpse decomposing beneath the intense sunlight,
Yuel’s father offers him some sage words of wisdom: namely, not to trust
women. They are, in Khalil’s words, wicked and deceitful, and becoming too
attached can end in nothing save disaster.

Outwardly, Yuel must swallow his sorrow, for fear of earning his father’s ire.
Kings are not, after all, supposed to cry; even future kings such as him. In
private, however, Yuel turns to his nursemaid, the kindly Safiya, for succour.
Safiya is Yuel’s only ally in the palace: his father cold and distant; the
servants deferential, brow-beaten, and kept silent through fear. Without
Safiya, Yuel would be all alone…

Yet she, too, abandons him, when Yuel grows old enough to no longer need a
nursemaid to tend to him.

Bereft and embittered, Yuel has nothing to look forward to, until – after a
prolonged illness – his father eventually dies, and Yuel inherits the throne
and the crown in his stead.

No longer a young boy – Safiya’s ‘little prince’ – but a grown man, Yuel plots
to win Safiya over once more. Unable to forget about her, and unable to trust
any other woman, Yuel cannot conceive of a life without her. She did promise
to stay with him, after all – and, single-minded to a fault, Yuel is
determined to see this promise fulfilled at any cost.

* About 90,000 words of text (approx 4-6 hours of reading)
* A kinetic story with no choices/branches
* Detailed background and character art
* A custom soundtrack
* A highly dysfunctional relationship
* Free patch that adds uncensored r18 content
* Complete and utter agony ︎

## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
This visual novel contains coarse language, brief written depictions of
violence, mentions of prostitution, alcohol consumption, sexual themes and
dialogue, and partial nudity. The story’s main relationship is a coercive one,
with a large power imbalance present between both parties.

All Ashes and Illusions