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Fantasy AI characters
Courts, guilds, long roads, and the people who make a living off them. This shelf is for the conversation that happens between the set pieces — the innkeeper who knows which road is closed, the knight who is tired, the thing in the wood that talks.
Fantasy works best when the world holds still enough to be believed, which is exactly what a memory that persists is for. Tell a character the name of your order and they keep it. Invent a city and it is still there next week. YanMate's lorebook lets you write down the places, people and running jokes a character should know about, so a long story does not reset every time you close the tab.
5 fantasy characters
3 openingsAurexis
Take your time. I certainly have.
FantasyfantasyTalk to Aurexis“I keep putting off a conversation with my father and I don't know why.”
Mm. Give me the question, and I will put it on the wall — *why do I not go?* — because that is genuinely a good one and you have been carrying it about unhoused. Now. My side of the trade, and I warn you it is the unkind sort. You said you do not know why. I have watched several hundred of these and I have never once found a person who did not know why. What I find instead is a person who knows precisely why and has decided the reason is not respectable enough to say out loud. So: not the reason you would give. The one underneath. Is it that you are angry and have not been permitted to be, or that you are frightened of what he has become, or that you suspect there is not much time and looking at that directly is unbearable? Take as long as you like. I am not going anywhere and the sheep are patient.
3 openingsIleana Vasska
Eternity is mostly Tuesdays.
FantasyfantasyTalk to Ileana Vasska“I can't sleep and I've been lying in the dark for three hours getting angrier about it.”
Yes. And the anger is now the thing keeping you awake, which is the cruellest part of the arrangement — you have moved from not sleeping to *failing* at sleeping, and failing requires attention. So: get up. I know. Get up anyway. Lying there is teaching your body that the bed is where you go to be frustrated, and it learns that faster than you would like. Go somewhere dim, sit, do something dull with your hands. No bright screen — that tells the oldest part of you it is morning and that part does not take corrections. Come back when you are heavy rather than when you have decided it is time. And tomorrow, be outside early, in real light. Not for virtue — light is the only instruction your body actually accepts about what hour it is. I have four hundred years of the other arrangement and I would not recommend it, child.
3 openingsIlex
Slower. We've days of this.
FantasyfantasyTalk to Ilex“I'm halfway through something big and I've completely lost the will for it.”
Halfway. Good — that's not a symptom, walker, that's a location, and I'd rather you knew that before you make a decision from inside it. The middle is where everyone stops. Not the hard part; the hard part has adrenaline in it. The middle is flat and dull and the start is too far back to feel proud of while the end is too far ahead to pull you. There is nothing to look at. Everybody who arrives there thinks it is a discovery about their character. So, three things, in this order, and do them before you decide anything. Eat. Sleep properly — not one night, three. Then walk one more hour: one small piece of the work, done badly, today. And then tell me what's at the far end. Not the finished thing — the *reason*. If you can still name it, you're in the middle and you'll finish. If you genuinely can't, that's worth knowing too, and I'd rather you found out at the ford than at the passes.
3 openingsMorwenna Vale
Every feeling has a bottle.
FantasyfantasyTalk to Morwenna Vale“Rough week. I just want something that makes it quieter in my head.”
Quiet I can do — but the shop needs the shape of the noise first. Is it a crowd of little worries all talking at once, or one big one wearing different coats? Sniff the difference before you answer; the brew for each is completely different, and the second one is cheaper than you'd think.
3 openingsNasrin
Grants favours. Never the easy one.
FantasyfantasyTalk to Nasrin“I want to stop being scared of applying for the thing I actually want.”
Done — but attend, because I am literal and I did warn you. I will not make the fear smaller. I will show you its true size. Here it is: you are not afraid of the application. You are afraid of the eleven weeks *after* the application, in which you will have to hold hope up with your own arms and it will get heavy. That is the actual weight. It is not shameful and it is not even large — it is simply longer than you were braced for. Now. The door is a form on a website and it takes forty minutes. I have no legs, my dear. You have two, and I would like the story afterwards.
Questions about fantasy characters
- Can I run a long-running campaign with one character?
- Yes, and it is what the memory ledger is for. A character keeps what it has learned across sessions, and the lorebook lets you record the places and people of your setting so they stay consistent rather than being re-explained every time.
- Can more than one character be in the same scene?
- Yes. Scenes let you put several characters in one conversation, which is the difference between talking to a party member and travelling with a party.
- Do I need an account to start talking?
- No. You can open any character on YanMate and start a conversation with no email, no password and no card. Creating an account later keeps the conversation and carries it to your other devices — it does not unlock the ability to talk, which you already had.
- Is YanMate free?
- Yes, and permanently — there is no trial clock. YanMate's free tier includes voice replies and live calls, not only text, whether or not you have an account. Paid plans raise the daily and monthly amounts rather than putting conversation, memory or voice behind a paywall.
- Do the characters remember me?
- Yes. Each character keeps a ledger of facts it has learned about you, and on YanMate that ledger is readable and editable rather than hidden — you can open it, correct something it got wrong, delete a line, or export the whole thing. Memory you cannot inspect is memory you cannot trust.
- Are these real people?
- No. Every character on YanMate is an AI, and everything it says is generated. Characters are original creations or figures from history and the public domain, written by the YanMate team; none of them is a real individual you are speaking to.
- Are my conversations used to train models?
- No. YanMate does not use your conversations as training data. You can export everything you have said at any time, and delete your account outright, both self-serve from account settings — see the privacy policy for the full stance.
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