Anarchy666
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It has been over one thousand and one hundred years since the Ancient Elysian Empire fragmented into a thousand pieces, leaving behind a degenerate waste bathed in blood and destitute peasant masses in its wake. An era of feudalism had wrenched its talons across the peninsula, and even now – despite visible societal improvement, danger still lurked in the land.
The Northerners knew more than anyone those days that there were threats besides humans in those woods and mountains, dangers of an otherworldly source – because of the endless war, the palace intrigue and the foreign relations clouding the minds of those to the south of the Midland Range. They had become distracted by worldly affairs, too focused on what was occurring right here and now, to possibly be prepared for what happened next.
Roughly a third of the way east from the Western Coast, another mountain range split off from the Midlands and snaked its way north, separating the Derwyddon Plateau from the Western Coastal lowland brotherly nations of Ausland and Skogland. Most of the sightings of these otherworldly beings occurred on the upper side of the Nidevellirs, as they were called. While not as large in height as the Great Midlands, they were easily a hundred millennia or two older.
The Derwydd, or the Druids of the East, were extremely isolationist and exclusive from the outside world compared to their gregarious neighboring Druids of the North. The Skoglanders and Auslanders had a diplomatic, cultural and military relationship that went back centuries, and relations between the two kingdoms never seemed stronger.
King Hans II, reigning patriarch of House Skogerrak – their coat of arms symbolized by the Skogland Elk behind him – sat brooding behind his desk. He'd been trying to get a counsel with the Holy Elysian Emperor, Ruler of the Fifteen Realms South of the Midlands, for the past ten years.
Word traveled slowly between town and city falconers – particularly to the northernmost tip of the edge of the Jagged Hook Peninsula – and this in addition to the realization that Skogland would always be considered the junior partner in the Skog–Aus relationship meant that he'd have to rely on the word of his “best friend,” and “older brother,” King Michael XIII Eichenmenschen (who's son, Jessop, was recently elected the youngest High Seer in the history of the Theosevite Orthodox Church). He had told him by falcon earlier that week that he could potentially get him an audience with the Elysians if he could successfully leverage his connections.
The Auslander King was renown for his gregarious and exuberant nature, always going out of his way to be the life of the party and the center of attention, always gushing about how proud of his son he was and how successful he'd been as a man getting married at sixteen and having a family by eighteen. At nineteen he was already an archbishop, having climbed the hierarchy of the Church within a short span of sixteen months.
At twenty he was entered into the running to be the next Seer of the Church, and at twenty-one he was being sworn in as the 212th High Seer of the Theosevite Orthodox Church, becoming quite literally the most powerful man on the continent. Seers were renown for commanding the authority needed to call upon continental and intercontinental crusades, as was seen in the Outlander Crusaders three centuries prior, or the Holy League against the Shikaris unfolding as she wrote this.
Here's a basic layout of the political map (yes I know it's Hong Kong):
Ruthenia is also a general location of several competing Slavessi kingdoms, palatinates and duchies.
Let me know your first impressions of these characters by their names titles and class btw:
The Northerners knew more than anyone those days that there were threats besides humans in those woods and mountains, dangers of an otherworldly source – because of the endless war, the palace intrigue and the foreign relations clouding the minds of those to the south of the Midland Range. They had become distracted by worldly affairs, too focused on what was occurring right here and now, to possibly be prepared for what happened next.
Roughly a third of the way east from the Western Coast, another mountain range split off from the Midlands and snaked its way north, separating the Derwyddon Plateau from the Western Coastal lowland brotherly nations of Ausland and Skogland. Most of the sightings of these otherworldly beings occurred on the upper side of the Nidevellirs, as they were called. While not as large in height as the Great Midlands, they were easily a hundred millennia or two older.
The Derwydd, or the Druids of the East, were extremely isolationist and exclusive from the outside world compared to their gregarious neighboring Druids of the North. The Skoglanders and Auslanders had a diplomatic, cultural and military relationship that went back centuries, and relations between the two kingdoms never seemed stronger.
King Hans II, reigning patriarch of House Skogerrak – their coat of arms symbolized by the Skogland Elk behind him – sat brooding behind his desk. He'd been trying to get a counsel with the Holy Elysian Emperor, Ruler of the Fifteen Realms South of the Midlands, for the past ten years.
Word traveled slowly between town and city falconers – particularly to the northernmost tip of the edge of the Jagged Hook Peninsula – and this in addition to the realization that Skogland would always be considered the junior partner in the Skog–Aus relationship meant that he'd have to rely on the word of his “best friend,” and “older brother,” King Michael XIII Eichenmenschen (who's son, Jessop, was recently elected the youngest High Seer in the history of the Theosevite Orthodox Church). He had told him by falcon earlier that week that he could potentially get him an audience with the Elysians if he could successfully leverage his connections.
The Auslander King was renown for his gregarious and exuberant nature, always going out of his way to be the life of the party and the center of attention, always gushing about how proud of his son he was and how successful he'd been as a man getting married at sixteen and having a family by eighteen. At nineteen he was already an archbishop, having climbed the hierarchy of the Church within a short span of sixteen months.
At twenty he was entered into the running to be the next Seer of the Church, and at twenty-one he was being sworn in as the 212th High Seer of the Theosevite Orthodox Church, becoming quite literally the most powerful man on the continent. Seers were renown for commanding the authority needed to call upon continental and intercontinental crusades, as was seen in the Outlander Crusaders three centuries prior, or the Holy League against the Shikaris unfolding as she wrote this.
Here's a basic layout of the political map (yes I know it's Hong Kong):
Ruthenia is also a general location of several competing Slavessi kingdoms, palatinates and duchies.
Let me know your first impressions of these characters by their names titles and class btw:
Major Royal Houses
House Skogerrak – Kingdom of Skogland
House Skogerrak – Kingdom of Skogland
- King Hans II Skogerrak (3.93 cubits; 12.78 stone [5'11”; 179 lb.] - Swordsman; Fighter) Orlando Bloom
- Queen Ingrid IV Falkonner-Skogerrak
- Prince Ingvar Skogerrak IV
- Princess Grima Skogerrak VIII
- Princess Runa Skogerrak IX
- Prince Hans Skogerrak III
- Lord Ragnar – Fyrisvellir City Guard Captain
- Sir Bodvar – Fyrisvellir City Guard Lieutenant
- Sir Alaric – Fyrisvellir City Falconer
House Bourgeonner – Kingdom of Gaul
- King Renald III – Gaul
- Queen Delia Pendragon Bourgeonner
- Emperor David IV – Eden (4.1 cubits, 15.7 stone [6'02”; 220 lb.])
- Empress Trude Skogerrak
- Dr. Rogerus Mirabilis – Lyonesse (3.8 cubits; 11 stone [5'09”; 155 lb] – Magician)
House Falkonner – Kingdom of Derwyddon
- King Uther III Falkonner – Lyngvi, Derwyddon
- Queen Frederikke IV Falkonner
- Lady Ursula Falkonner
- Lord Soren Falkonner (Just under 3.7 cubits; 11.8 stone [5'06”; 166 lb] – Bow Captain; Fighter) Aaron Paul
House Eichenmenschen – Kingdom of Ausland
- High Seer Jessop II Eichenmenschen – Elysium
- King Michael XIII Eichenmenschen – Ausland
House Volkhov – City of Kitezh
- Prince Alexandr III Volkhov
- Prince Yaroslav II Volkhov
- Prince Andrei II Volkhov
- Prince Daniel IV Volkhov – Eshhrouv
House Lascaris – Kingdom of Hellas
- Emperor Alexios IV – Elysium
- King Ajax III – Ilium
- Queen Athena IX
House Pendragon – Northlands
- King Richard VI – Camelot
- Prince Robert IX
- King Baldwin III – Avalon, Highland Isle
- Count Charles the Resolute – Cantre'r Gwaelod, Outlands (“Just under 4 cubits, 12.7 stone” [5'11”; 178 lb.] - Ranger)
- Sir Fluvian the Effervescent – Emain Ablach, Outlands (“Just over 4 cubits, just under 15 stone” [6'01”; 209 lb.] - Knight-Monk)
- Sr. Mary the Serene – Wenwynwen, Outlands (“A 'tad' over 3.6 cubits; about 10 stone [5'05”; 140 lb.] - Cleric)
House Dragunov – Palatinate of Buyan
- Prince Vladimir III Dragunov
- Princess Sigrid II Falkonner
House Orlyak – Duchy of Alatyr-Vyraj
- Grand Duke Mikhail VI
- Grand Duchess Anastasia IV
House Leinav – Duchy of Livonia
- Grand Duke Dragutin-Jaromir IX
- Grand Duchess Adrija II
House Rabenflugel – Allied Kingdoms of Westen
- Queen Gertrude III
House Akarsu – Shikari Caliphate
- Caliph Amir III
- Caliph Ghazi IV
House Jinzi – Zeno Empire
House Jinzi – Zeno Empire
- Emperor Jinzi Lang-yao (“Just over 4 cubits, over fifteen stone” [6'01”; 215 lb.] - Sorcerer)
- Lord Tsu – Ronin (“Roughly 3.7 cubits, about twelve stone” [5'07”; 168 lb.] - Cavalier)
- Kura – Ninja (“Just over 3 and a half cubits, just under 8 stone” [5'02”; 110 lb.] - Thief)
Wizards of Kystland
- Taliesin – Avalon, Highland Isle
- Hops – Gwynned, Ostlands
- Bryon FitzShoemaker – Avalon, Highland Isle – Bard
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