A Blade for the Emperor

Name: A Blade for the Emperor
Author: Choice of Games LLC

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Infiltrate the undying emperor’s palace, gain his trust, and assassinate him!

A Blade for the Emperor: text-based dark fantasy novel

By Mei-Lin Chua

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About 600,000 words of text across hundreds of choices
Supernatural abilities from runes carved into your bones
Branching endings: save, conquer or destroy the empire
Win the emperor's trust before striking at his palace
Text only, with no graphics or sound effects

What this interactive fiction is

This is an interactive novel by Samuel Gohra, published by Choice of Games LLC and rated Teen. You read the story and pick from the options it gives you, and those picks decide what happens next. It has no artwork and no sound, so the scenes exist only as written text that you picture yourself.

The listing describes the text as roughly 600,000 words with hundreds of choices. It suits readers who like choice-driven fiction and are comfortable building the world in their own heads.

The mission: reaching Emperor Erid Virdeus

You play an assassin sent to get into the palace of Emperor Erid Virdeus, earn his trust, and kill him. The listing frames him as a tyrant who rules through harsh decrees and cursed magic.

The capital is already unstable. Guards attack civilians, rebels plot in secret, sorcery silences dissent, and monsters live in the caves beneath the streets. Each of these pulls the story in a different direction, and you decide which threads to follow.

Choices that change how the empire ends

Your decisions can leave the empire saved, taken over, or destroyed for good. The text has hundreds of choice points, so one playthrough covers only part of the story. Whether you pursue the emperor's trust or move against him directly changes the route the story takes.

Because the game is text alone, the choices carry the whole experience. The options you are offered and the results they lead to are the only things the story has to work with.

Your runes and the powers they give you

Runes carved into your bones give your character supernatural abilities well beyond those of ordinary people. The listing presents them as the reason you are the one assigned to this kill.

The listing does not say in detail how the abilities work or how they are used in the story, so those specifics are left to the text itself.

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About this APK

The build we hold is A Blade for the Emperor 1.0.3 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.0 and up.

Version: 1.0.3; 5
Requires Android: 7.0+
Size: 13 MB
Target Android: 16

Package ID: com.choiceofgames.bladefortheemperor
Format: APKS split bundle
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Permissions: 11 declared · 2 sensitive; Approximate location
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Certificate SHA-256: 74f81cd8896140f820392d575c9c521a7fb53b784ab58d394710acde3544be9b