About this archive
Power and how it is held is the subject here: courts, factions, offices, elections, campaigns and the manoeuvring that decides who ends up in charge. A romance inside that world is never only private.
That is what makes the setting useful. A relationship between people on opposing sides, or between one who holds power and one who depends on it, is a political fact before it is a personal one, and the question of who could survive it being known is built into the premise rather than imposed from outside. Secrecy here has consequences beyond the couple.
Expect alliances, betrayals, succession and negotiation. Historical, royalty and crime settings overlap this tag frequently.