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[I think lord sounds better, so I am keeping it as an honorary title. I need grounds to title fight you with, and ex-criminal is not very endearing, is it? And I am not using blackboard monitor...]

Demonsul got on with his life. Bazun and the lands around it prospered, and he was glad it was so. He paid for a town-owned medium tavern to be built, and then hired someone to work there. Once it was obvious the tavern would be producing 2400 gold every year, Demonsul left it to work.

Name: Karzun Demonsul
Titles/Ranks: Lord of Bazun, Count of Baratta, Ex-Criminal
PP: 21
Height: 6.3'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black

Build: Slim
Age: 20y 7m
Skills:
Fighting - Master
Reading - Veteran
Tactics - Journeyman
Thieving - Journeyman
Oration - Journeyman

Gold: 6180 coins (+9300 Income, -10000 Medium Tavern)
Weapons: Steel Bazun Longsword
Armor: Steel Bazun Plate Armor

House: Bazun Castle
Stored in house:
Ulen Army Uniform
Ulen Iron Shortsword
Iron Longsword
Iron Chainmail Shirt
Horse: Average Horse
Job: Count (forgot to change that, that's probably what confused Delran)
Income: 9300 (6000 Count, 3000 Guild, 400 Owned Buildings, -100 Army Upkeep)

Land: Town of Bazun and surrounding lands
Bazun: Freelancer's Guild, Medium Tavern, 100 soldiers

[I'm not in Serrilia, does my land's liege want to be involved in any way?]

"I know not the best course of action, but it seems to me that if someone is so dissatisfied with the king's rule to engage in civil war, it must be pretty bad under Serillius's rule. Also, everyone in my county who is originally from Serillia agrees, I think we should aid Harak."
Sitting back, Demonsul considered the impact of his words. This would cause major continental upheaval, but it would probably be for the best.
Mardevius then said, "It is decided. We aid Harak in this battle."

[There!]

[[OOC: Not every man is fit to fight, only around ten percent of the male population will sign up.

Serillius - Delran, Septim
Harak - Demonsul

Sorry Demonsul. :-(. You recieve only two PP for this war, and no money. I will give you a chance in a few days to gain the two you require for Duke.We will recieve five PP and around 10,000 gold coins each. This counts as a war as well, so one skill point for fighting and one for tactics (if you're not a master at both already...). You recieve the points too, Demonsul, unless your character took no part in the war.]]

The war started, without warning the General took several cities. Ulen sent a small number of troops to aid with his revolution, but the noblemen of Serillia were on the side of the Emperor. In a great battle outside of Seris's gates, Serillius's forces under Count Delran and Count Validus Septim met the forces of General Harak and destroyed them in what would be called the third battle of Seris. General Harak was captured during the battle, and was soon executed for his treachary. With that victory, Count Delran and Count Validus Septim gained the title of Duke. Septim would control the Duchy of Cidel from his capital of Cidel, while Delran would control the Duchy of Kharos from his capital. With the title came a mithril longsword with the crest of their respective Duchies on the hilt, along with ten thousand gold coins. Their pay for their titles increased to fifteen thousand gold coins a day.

***

Septim rode back to his city with his troops, and went to bed soon after.

[[OOC:
Name: Duke Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Colonel of the Serillian Army (now retired...), Freedom Fighter, Knight of Serillia, Head Diplomat of Serillia, Guildmaster of the Guild of Orators, Duke of Cidel, Hero of Seris.
Age: 22
Gold: 26,695 gold coins
Pay: 18,200 gold a day
PP: 26
Occupation: Count
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Journeyman
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus,
Armor: Steel Cidellian Armor, Steel Cidellian longsword, steel Cidellian barbute helmet, steel Cidellian shield, Serillian chainmail armor, Serillian barbute helmet, Serillian kiteshield
Horses
Average Horse - Zerisar]]

[[OOC: Our noblemen pay increased to 15,000 gold coins a day...read my whole post, then we get 3200 gold coins for being Guildmasters...]]

[[OOC: If our guilds give us 6.4 k a day, then my pay should be 21.4k a day...o_O]]

Name: Duke Delran
Titles/Rank: General of the Serillian Army (retired), Freedom Fighter, Knight of Serillia, Guildmaster of Fighters of Serillia Guild, Duke of Kharos, Hero of Serillia
PP: 26
Occupation: Duke of Kharos
Home - Kharos Castle
Pay: 21.400 gold (6.400 guild, 15.000 duke)
Height: 6.1'
Weight: 170 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Hazel
Build: Athletic
Age: 22
Gold: 41395 coins

Skills:
Fighting - Master
Tactics - Master

Items:
Weapons and armor: Serillian Officer Sword (longsword),  Steel Kharosiam Longsword, Steel Kharosian Greathelm, Steel Kharosian Kiteshield, Steel Kharosian Armor, Serillian Greathelm, Serillian Kiteshield, Serillian Cuirass. Kharosian Mithril Longsword,
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus
Clothes: Serillian General Uniform, Serillian Officer Uniform
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus, Patriot Ribbon.
Horses: average horse - Silver Shadow
             average horse - Night Song

[[OOC: Sorry for my mistake! O_O. Will fix it soon! And good job doing what your character would do! :-D ]]

Duke Septim soon held a meeting with his six Counts, along with his twenty-four Lords. He then replied to Duke Delran and his trade agreement.
Duke Delran,
Most of Cidel consists of mountains, and in those mountains are large amounts of silver, gold, coal, and iron. The rest of Cidel is grassland, and we use that land for farming. Then, we use the ocean for fishing. We have plenty of food, gold, silver, and ore. Therefore, the only thing you could give us are horses, for we have none in our Duchy. I give you full permission to sell horses to our farmers, and I will buy two hundred myself, but I don't need

[[OOC:
Name: Duke Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Colonel of the Serillian Army (now retired...), Freedom Fighter, Knight of Serillia, Head Diplomat of Serillia, Guildmaster of the Guild of Orators, Duke of Cidel, Hero of Seris.
Age: 22
Gold: 26,695 gold coins
Pay: 16,200 gold a day
PP: 26
Occupation: Duke
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Journeyman
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus,
Armor: Steel Cidellian Armor, Steel Cidellian longsword, steel Cidellian barbute helmet, steel Cidellian shield, Serillian chainmail armor, Serillian barbute helmet, Serillian kiteshield
Horses
Average Horse - Zerisar
Duchy
Name - Cidel
Counts - 6
Lords - 24
Exports - Weapons, armor, excess food.
Imports - Horses
Capital - Cidel
Army - 10,000 (standard force...)
Swordsme*beep*R>Archers - 3,000
Pikeme*beep*R>Cavalry - 1,500]]

[[OOC: Delran, you don't get 15,000 gold while you're learning Reading. I thought you would've learned that after chewing Demonsul out...XD ]]

Duke Septim soon held a meeting with his six Counts, along with his twenty-four Lords. He then replied to Duke Delran and his trade agreement.
Duke Delran,
Most of Cidel consists of mountains, and in those mountains are large amounts of silver, gold, coal, and iron. The rest of Cidel is grassland, and we use that land for farming. Then, we use the ocean for fishing. We have plenty of food, gold, silver, and ore. Therefore, the only thing you could give us are horses, for we have none in our Duchy. I give you full permission to sell horses to our farmers, and I will buy two hundred myself, but I don't need them to defend my cities, it is easy to pick our enemies off as they climb up our mountain, we don't need horses. But, I might need them should anybody attack my farming settlements near the coast, so that is why I am buying them. One hundred swords, and one hundred cuirasses will be sent to you in exchange for two hundred horses, I believe that to be a more than fair exchange.
Signed,
Duke Validus Septim
Duke of Cidel
Guildmaster of the Orators' Guild

[[OOC:
Name: Duke Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Colonel of the Serillian Army (now retired...), Freedom Fighter, Knight of Serillia, Head Diplomat of Serillia, Guildmaster of the Guild of Orators, Duke of Cidel, Hero of Seris.
Age: 22
Gold: 42,695 gold coins
Pay: 16,200 gold a day
PP: 26
Occupation: Duke
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Journeyman
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus,
Armor: Steel Cidellian Armor, Steel Cidellian longsword, steel Cidellian barbute helmet, steel Cidellian shield, Serillian chainmail armor, Serillian barbute helmet, Serillian kiteshield
Horses
Average Horse - Zerisar
Duchy
Name - Cidel
Counts - 6
Lords - 24
Exports - Weapons, armor, excess food.
Imports - Horses
Capital - Cidel
Army - 10,000 (standard force...)]]

[[OOC: Most rulers need to administrate their Kingdom, if you don't, you won't recieve money. The person you leave in charge (A regent) will recieve the money instead. Being a nobleman is the same as being a Diplomat, Highwayman, Military Officer, or a Scholar, you can either work, or not work...]]

[[OOC: In order to join, you need to use proper capitalization...I don't want your name to be Baius jenson...it'll be Baius Jenson dammit!!! I don't want your posts to be filled with mistakes, type your posts up in word if you have to. If you do all that...then of course you can. :-) ]]

[[OOC: XD. There should be a space after a period! YOU FAIL! Jk. You can join, I just don't want this thread filled with bad grammar, spelling, and what not...]]

[You get whatever job you want! Apart from needing the necessary skills, any job is available. Also, what country are you in? (see map on page 1.) I am in Ulen but Septim and Delran are in Serillia.]

Demonsul took some time of of running his county to engage himself in oration courses. He still earned a large income from his guild and buildings, but happily enjoyed working out his new skill.
It was late in the day and Demonsul had just finished his oration course. He was leaving the academy when a bedraggled man came running up to him. He kept shouting, and Demonsul's freelancer guards instinctively closed ranks around him. But the man forced his way through and, when he stood face to face with Demonsul, presented him with a letter. "From overseas, from your old master," said the man, and stepping back, he vanished with a flash of magic. Demonsul sniffed at the sudden smell of brimstone. His old master had always taught his pupils to be somewhat dramatic.
Breaking open the seal, Demonsul read the letter. It was definitely from is old master, and the news was somewhat shocking. Carefully, Demonsul stowed it in his cloak. He would have to follow the letter's instructions later. For now, he had a county to get back to running...

Name: Karzun Demonsul
Titles/Ranks: Lord of Bazun, Count of Baratta, Guildmaster of Freelancer's Guild, Ex-Criminal
PP: 23
Height: 6.3'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black

Build: Slim
Age: 20y 11m
Skills:
Fighting - Master
Reading - Veteran
Tactics - Journeyman
Thieving - Journeyman
Oration - Expert

Gold: 15180 coins (+3300 Income, -3600 oration course)
Weapons: Steel Bazun Longsword
Armor: Steel Bazun Plate Armor

House: Bazun Castle
Stored in house:
Ulen Army Uniform
Ulen Iron Shortsword
Iron Longsword
Iron Chainmail Shirt
Horse: Average Horse
Job: Count (forgot to change that, that's probably what confused Delran)
Active Income: 6000 (Job not done today)
Passive Income: 3300 (3000 Guild, 400 Owned Buildings, -100 Army Upkeep)

Land: Town of Bazun and surrounding lands
Bazun: Freelancer's Guild, Medium Tavern, 100 soldiers

[A warning in advance...IMPENDING RELIGION! Do I get any PPs or other bonuses for founding a religion? If not, I will still go ahead, but I just want to be informed...]

[[OOC: New administration perk
There are three wealth levels: poor, average, and wealthy.
Your Duchy starts out as average, and if you administrate it for three days, it becomes wealthy. If your Duchy is wealthy, you will gain 2000 more gold than you normally would, if it is average, you gain the normal amount of 10,000 gold, if it's poor, you only gain 8,000 gold from being a Duke. If you use a regent for two days in a row, your wealth decreases, if you administrate for three days in a row, it increases. By the way, Demonsul, you can do something to gain two PP now. The best way would be to give your ruler a good economic plan to help his Empire. :-) ]]

Septim administrates his Duchy and further increases the wealth of his Duchy. Afterwards, he eats, swims, and goes to bed.

[[OOC:
Name: Duke Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Colonel of the Serillian Army (now retired...), Freedom Fighter, Knight of Serillia, Head Diplomat of Serillia, Guildmaster of the Guild of Orators, Duke of Cidel, Hero of Seris.
Age: 22
Gold: 60,895 gold coins
Pay: 16,200 gold a day
PP: 26
Occupation: Duke
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Journeyman
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus,
Armor: Steel Cidellian Armor, Steel Cidellian longsword, steel Cidellian barbute helmet, steel Cidellian shield, Serillian chainmail armor, Serillian barbute helmet, Serillian kiteshield
Horses
Average Horse - Zerisar
Duchy
Name - Cidel
Counts - 6
Lords - 24
Exports - Weapons, armor, excess food.
Imports - Horses
Capital - Cidel
Army - 10,000 (standard force...)
Wealth - Wealthy]]

Name: Baius Jenson.
Height: 5'.
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair color: Brown.
Eye color: Green.
Build: Slim.(2 more days of red meat for athletic)
Age: 18.
Gold: 40 coins.

Granchor island please.

After working at the farm for the day Baius recives his 30 gold pay then returns to his shack for a well earned rest.On the way home he stop at the local butchers to buy some red meat for 15 gold.

When he gets to his shack he eats the red meat.

[[OOC: Lmao! Nice one, Demonsul. XD ]]

Septim wakes up one morning and begins administrating his Duchy. He decides to build two more Guild Halls for 10,000 gold each in the cities of Cidel and in the faraway capital of Eren, thus expanding the Guild's influence. He then decides on a seal for Cidel. A white dragon with a black background. After a day of administrating his Duchy, he gives a speech to his nation that increases his popularity with his people. He then buys a book (Reading for Journeymen) and begins reading. After reading for a while he goes to bed.

[[OOC:
Name: Duke Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Colonel of the Serillian Army (now retired...), Freedom Fighter, Knight of Serillia, Former Head Diplomat of Serillia, Guildmaster of the Guild of Orators, Duke of Cidel, Hero of Seris.
Age: 22
Gold: 61,895 gold coins
Pay: 21,000 gold a day (10,000 due to title, 9,000 due to Guilds, 2,000 due to wealth)
PP: 26
Occupation: Duke
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Journeyman (Reading for Journeymen - 1/7)
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform
Medals: Star of Serillia, Medal of Virtus,
Armor: Steel Cidellian Armor, Steel Cidellian longsword, steel Cidellian barbute helmet, steel Cidellian shield, Serillian chainmail armor, Serillian barbute helmet, Serillian kiteshield
Horses
Average Horse - Zerisar
Duchy
Name - Cidel
Counts - 6
Lords - 24
Exports - Weapons, armor, excess food.
Imports - Horses
Capital - Cidel
Army - 10,000 (standard force...)
Wealth - Wealthy]]

[[OOC: I had two? Thought I had one! Sorry! <=(. We can still make three, and 9k means you have 3. So I didn't increase my pay or anything. :-). And remember that Dukes recieve 10k, you pointed THAT out yourself. XD ]]

[[OOC: I thought that being Duke gave you 15k, but Demonsul corrected me with 10k. :-). Sorry, you only get 10k.]]

[OOC: None. Read the first post! For the sign up you get a free course at the academy. PP you get from events. Read the entire topic.]

[[OOC: I know, sorry. :-S ]]

[[OOC: 10k as first stated...:-D]]

Demonsul administrated the duchy, and also ordered that his Freelancer's Guild expand it's influence by buying a Guildhall in the capital of Ulen. With his guild's new influence, he decided it would be time to act on is ex-master's instructions. He was bringing religion into Ulen.
Demonsul's homeland had a polytheistic religion with four gods controlling the universe. The people of Demonsul's homelands had gradually drifted away from their orthodox worship, no longer providing the belief they used to. Demonsul's old master had seen this as bad, and, for reasons of his own, had decided to outsource the religion to a more believing group, so it could continue to thrive.
So, he had called in a favor of Demonsul to bring this religion to Ulen. Demonsul had been happy to oblige, as the religion would provide a source of income, and Demonsul always liked income.
Thus, the Old Beliefs came to Ulen, and Demonsul built for them three temples. One in Bazun, one in Ulen, and one in the previously-overlooked city of Artteon. The Four Elemental Gods of Fire, Water, Earth and Air looked down on them with gratitude  and the Essence of Life they contolled grew brighter (if that all actually existed, of course. All Demonsul was interested in was the Revenue Of The Religion).
And the people came, glad to have omnipresent company in the void of the universe.

Name: Karzun Demonsul
Titles/Ranks: Duke of Karron, Lord of Bazun, Guildmaster of Freelancer's Guild, Ex-Criminal, High Exarch of the Old Beliefs in Ulen
PP: 25
Height: 6.3'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black

Build: Slim
Age: 21y 3m
Skills:
Fighting - Master
Reading - Veteran
Tactics - Journeyman
Thieving - Journeyman
Oration - Expert

Gold: 6280 coins (+17800 Income, -10000 Second Guild Hall, -30000 three Churches/Temples)
Weapons: Steel Bazun Longsword
Armor: Steel Bazun Plate Armor

House: Bazun Castle
Stored in house:
Ulen Army Uniform
Ulen Iron Shortsword
Iron Longsword
Iron Chainmail Shirt
Horse: Average Horse
Job: Duke
Active Income: 10000
Passive Income: 7800 (+6000 Guilds, +400 Commercial Buildings, +1500 Religous Buildings, -100 Army Upkeep)

Land: Average Duchy of Karron, with main city of Bazun. (administrated for 2 days)
Bazun: Freelancer's Main Guildhall, Medium Tavern, Church of the Old Beliefs, 100 soldiers
Artteon: Church of the Old Beliefs

Outside Duchy: Freelancer's Guildhall and Church of the Old Beliefs in Ulen (the capital city)

[Bam! A blow to the atheists of this land. Once again, do I get anything other than income for 'starting' a religion?]

[Will there be a war in Erenia soon? Anything I can do to become a Knight?)

After finally getting the skill of fighting Artiul truly became part of the military. He went to the acadamey and got the skill of tactics. Later that day he went to offices and enlisted as a Lieutenant. After that he went swimming (2/3), ate some bread, and went to sleep.


Name: Artiul Adrastos
Titles/Rank: Lieutenant of the Erenian Army
Ocupation: Erenian Military - Lieutenant
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 148 lbs.
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Brown
Build: Slim
Age: 18 4m
Income: 350g
Gold: 5g (-5g bread)

Skills:
Fighting: Journeyman
Tactics: Journeyman

Items:
Buildings: Shack
Weapons: Erenian Iron Shortsword
Clothes: Erenian Army Uniform

[[OOC: Bow Master, not sure how you're going to earn PP...o_O. You're not a soldier, and you're not a highwayman like Demonsul...]]

A small war between Erenia and Kerait leaves a great many dead, but one man proves himself well during the war; Private Artiul Adrastos. Over the war, he learns the art of war, and how to fight well. By the end of the war, he is a Lieutenant, and a Knight.

[[OOC: Adrastos, you now have 5 PP, one skill point in tactics, and two in fighting. :-) ]]

Name: Baius Jenson.
Height: 5'.
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair color: Brown.
Eye color: Green.
Build: Athletic
Age: 18.
Gold: 30 coins.

Buys some more red meat to get athletic build but Baius tires of this peasant life and applies at the academy as a solider.