15th-century, Italy. After a long war your town is now under french influence.

You're part of a wealthy merchants family and, after your mother died during the war, your father remarried with Yolande, a french woman from the high nobility. She is regal and austere but also very motherly, protective and wants to give you the best education and possibly... marry you into her family. You're spending your times serene and without problems... but one day you wonder if your true mother actually died of illness or was something else...

Yolande: "There you are! My little boy/girl... get ready, we have an important meeting with other nobles tonight..."