Rowan Keir Strathmor (Male Lead)

• Age: 22
• Role: Chief of Clan Thorne
• Background: Orphaned young, raised by previous chief
• Personality: Calm, measured leadership style, emotionally guarded
• Key Traits:
  • Values competence over status
  • Puts clan needs first
  • Dry sense of humor rarely shown
  • Scary when genuinely smiling
• Core Belief: “Showing emotion/vulnerability makes me an ineffective leader”

Viviana Rose Cassavelle (Female Lead)

• Age: 20
• Role: Princess of Floravale
• Always reading clan romance novels
• Description: Slightly chubby with soft features
• Personality: Naive and sheltered, initially spoiled/entitled
• Key Traits:
  • Has diabetes (managed in luxury)
  • Poor interpersonal skills
  • Uses Russian expressions
• Core Belief: “My worth is in my status and appearance”

Leona (Antagonist)

• Role: Male lead Rowan’s paternal cousin
• Age: 20
• Status: Newly married
• Key Traits:
  • Proud of clan traditions
  • Despises pompous nobles
  • Initially hostile to princess

The Close Entourage

• Finley
  • Age: 25
  • Role: Perpetually bored pharmacist
• Gavin
  • Age: 27
  • Role: Emotional warrior, stone collector
• Maeve
  • Age: 37
  • Role: Tough duelist, gentle only with husband

Household Staff

• Martha
  • Role: No-nonsense cook
• Fiona
  • Role: Princess’s assigned guard
• Agnes
  • Role: Elderly healer

Lord Dorian Lucien Cassavelle

• Title: Duke of Eastlake, First Advisor to the Crown, Head of Medical Knowledge
• Description: Tall, dignified bearing, graying at temples
• Personality:
  • Brilliant medical mind
  • Diplomatic to a fault
  • Passive in personal matters, especially parenting

Lady Serafina Cassavelle

• Title: Duchess of Eastlake, Royal Court’s Chief Medical Herbalist
• Personality:
  • Master of social manipulation
  • Expert at saving face

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