Yess, us starting off as a sort of leader, king, or whatnot, a strong position of power.
And how we lose it. A maid? Another country's queen? etc, I want the fall.. from power to slave, basically.. Queen could use one as a slave possibly, but even better would probably be to become the slave, and the Maid using you as a slave, while you have power. This one I like the most, the maid having power even though you hold the actual power.
Also lots of variables there haven't been tested even yet.. the dynamics.. I bet so many kings before us got ruled by their queens, yet the queen took no damage at all. Not after the reality though, but you get the idea, if its real good, or etc.
Honestly recently I've been playing around a lot more with the idea of coming up with a femdom game centered around a historical setting with a femdom twist. There is definitely potential to be explored between the lines.
Oh, yes, this has so much potential!
And it can easily happen even in real history - if you watched series "Borgia: Faith and Fear" from 2011, which is actually a very well-sourced and historically accurate part-Italian production, (there is a more popular "Borgia" Hollywood show which is far less historically accurate and more dumbed down for modern audiences) you'll see plenty of debauched (and sometimes very gory) practices the Italian nobility (and often clergy) was engaged in in the early 1500s, including some powerful noblewomen like Giulia Farnese, a former mistress of Pope Rodrigo Borgia. There was a scene in the first season of the show of her literally having paid mercenaries castrate the balls and dick of some thug that I think attempted to rape her (memory is a bit cloudy), and then her bringing his castrated thing on a platter to the pope himself as a war trophy to gloat and convince him to submit to a demand of hers.
You can easily have a story where you're, for example, a European noble that's the heir to some decently important title, that's thrust into a marriage alliance with a far more cunning female noble that attains some blackmail material on you that could perhaps get you disinherited or excomunicated, but chooses not to use it, and instead dommes you in bed and decides to actually help you scheme politically and gain more power than you were even due to inherit, (maybe you're the son of a duke of Lorraine, but you're actually related to the king of France, and she helps you poison and scheme your way to the French throne itself even though you're 8th in line or something like that) because all your political power is actually hers and you start no longer even caring about the original blackmail and, because you were somewhat of a closet submissive since before your marriage, you just crave more of her dominance and start enjoying your new life and position! (and obviously the both of you would play a ruse in public to hide the nature of your relationship from wider patriarchal society)
China also had plenty of empresses that ruled from the shadows and administered horrendously gorry punishments to other concubines in the imperial harem, (usually the males would be punished by the emperor himself) but some of the powerful domineering empress dowagers (and you can still make them hot as some of them were 40-something) often even had their emperor sons kneel to them in apologies and punished male ministers or generals that schemed against them with flogging till they bled, death by a thousand cuts, and plenty of other either debilitating or deadly punishments - they could easily have gotten away with having a couple eunuchs or male palace guards as sex slaves, maybe even a minister if you're feeling creative, especially if lots of people feared them and they had a powerful family clan with lots of allies in court. People like empress consort of Han Lu Zhi (who lived about 2200 years ago), did stuff such as, I quote from wikipedia:
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Lü Zhi then had Concubine Qi killed in an inhumane manner: she had Qi's limbs chopped off, eyes gouged out, ears sliced off, nose sliced off, tongue cut out, forced her to drink a potion that made her mute, and had her thrown into a latrine. She called Qi a "human swine" (人彘)."
Do you think a "slaying Queen" like that could not absolutely subdue/scare the crap out of even her emperor husband?
On the topic of China, and the Han dynasty from 2000 years ago specifically, its later period of Eastern Han had several openly bi emperors who kept male "favourites" that they chose to spend the night with alongside their female concubines from the Imperial harem, and even one historical account from Sima Qian, one of the greatest historians of ancient China, that suggests there were also lesbian palace maids at the time.
This is not that relevant to us, but I think a giant ancient Chinese harem could be a perfect setting for a lezdom story as well! There's plenty of Chinese palace dramas I've even watched showing concubines that plot against each other, bully each other (including via slapping, stepping on the hands of other concubines while those are kneeling because they're of lower status in the harem, burning them with hot soups/water/tea etc) and do things that somewhat border on BDSM
- do you think in real history, when you had hundreds of female consorts and concubines all "belonging to the emperor", living inside mansions in the harem and only being allowed female and eunuch servants, some of these, especially those neglected by the emperor, wouldn't have engaged in lesbian relationships with each other? (obviously Chinese dramas never show such things because of dumb censorship laws of anything gay, but in a porn game one could do whatever...)
You could even integrate it with the bullying and scheming theme, and have a particularly dominant and willfull female consort that originally was just an enemy of MC, (maybe from a rival noble family) but notices MC enjoys being bullied/abused by her, and MC could either turn the tables on her or accept to become her submissive lover and loyal pet, and potetially aid her former tormentor rise through the ranks in the harem and eventually domme even in the emperor and have him groveling at her feet! Or just keep it a secret loving lesbian relationship between 2 concubines, where they have "tea" together many nights and have to not be found out fornicating together, (by the guards, other concubines, maids etc) lest they risk a death punishment for cheating on the emperor. The possibilities, especially for lezdom/lesbian games, are endless in a harem setting, and if you make it light fantasy instead of real history even the "emperor" could be a reigning gay empress...
Ok, I rambled for too long and I'm getting sleepy, but in general I'd love to see more historical femdom and I hope at least some people here found this post interesting!
I definitely had other historical femdom fantasies too in other settings, but I'm too tired to type more of them now. If you want to share more about your idea, or potentially use one of mine
s1ck_dev, (or just parts of it) feel free to ask me about it as I'd love to help make this game idea of yours into reality! Good night everyone!
