Family History

Mr. Zec

Lived in Era 19, got 1 heir(s) (Zec) and was a member of Starlight
era 18

started playing in the era of sparker. spawned on manthrax, joined the kingdom of dominion. grew, prospered and fought in the war against knights of iscariot after armagedon was cast. ended ranked 25th in score on manthrax.


era 19

lived in fantasia. life consisted of reacting to constant threats or fleeing from stronger foes. joined Scary Beer Wars and managed to build up a small but comfortable domain, then got attacked by a stronger alliance and defeated. scorched his own cities or handed them to his allies, then died hoping to restart in a world with less insomniac opponents.

Mr. Zec

Lived in Era 19 and got 0 heir(s) .
spawned in Zetamania and founded the kingdom of Starlight. got Chaos Geoff to join for the purpose of mutual support - helping each other out. was attacked before coming out of protection by Ziex of LTU. while Chaos Geoff took 2 of Ziex's villages, Zec unexpectedly defeated the small invading army at his main city and managed to negotiate a fragile peace in the aftermath.

thanx to the initiative of Bent Yoda, an alliance with Invent was forged. Invent was slightly above us on the rankings at the time and also consisted of two players - Bent Yoda and Chaos Knight.

for a few days we grew in peace as our agreement with Ziex held. two more players joined us still in protection - Ace Q and Drakelion.

but soon our allied kingdoms were sneak-attacked by Holy Crap and Invicta in a well-organized initial strike. we took heavy losses. but we recovered behind Starlight's blockers and fought back and won eventually.
in this 2-weeks war, Holy Crap was destroyed almost unto the last scout, their cities burned and laid to ruin, their ghosts and archmages starved far away from home, fighting a war already lost in a land that hates invaders...

Invicta was not possessed of the same greed as holy crap. they had taken 4 cities and held their ground ignoring the further course of the war. so we left them for afterward. and that day came... LTU was smashing Invicta so as soon as Holy Crap's last city was taken, we moved to attack Invicta on our side of the river. our armies marched...
Fearless (built upon the ruins of my Dragondale), Bent Relief which was once Yoda's, Chaos Imperium that was once Chaos Knight's... all fell to the armies of Starlight, joining for the attack on Chaos Rebuild, the last of our allied cities not yet liberated.

on the day i am writing this, Chaos Rebuild is sieged by almost 200k of our troops.

And yet again invaders march to take our lands - DK Mafia Corp seems determined to get a foothold in our area, not realizing what kind of a mess that would put them in.

they had built an armoury with 18k buildings in front of our blockers' gates. wasnt hard to figure out who those troops would be aimed against. burned it down i did. 18k buildings and the peasants and 8k troops and countless troops in training. all one big bonfire as a warning - if you're going to be so obvious about invading me then at least keep your armories properly garrisoned or at a larger distance from me.

yet they didnt take the cue and now they've a 100k-200k army standing at the gates of Ostfaste. will Dwarfinger even let them pass? today we prepare, making 200k stakes to be placed upon the walls of our cities, to be decorated with the Invaders' heads.

but will we even need to? the Nordic Horde was quite pleased about receiving the coordinates of DK cities from which this invasion army came. looks like DK Mafia's days of surviving in hiding from the Nordic Horde are coming to an end...

this round is also coming to an end... an interesting round it was. though i spent almost my every breath reacting to threats and invasions. yet again i thrive and prosper and lose and regain. most importantly though - i have gained allies :)

(from: Autobiography of Zec, the last days of round 19)

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Epilogue:

THE SOUTH - OLD INVENT LANDS

Invicta's last army on our side of the river marched out from Chaos Rebuild with 126k troops to escape their impending defeat as our siege preparations were approaching their end. they marched to ruin... their last march.
Chaos Rebuild was emptied so our merged army under Chaos Geoff's command took the city. Chaos Core and Chaos Relief were burnt and destroyed. the enemy suffered casualties from our defenders but didnt stop to heal their wounded.
the Ents (a veteran army with over 20k knights) finally slaughtered the remnants of the Invicta troops in a field battle near the gates of Chaos Imperium. we left none alive.

An army of Sir Cali and Chuck Norris of First LTU Division came up and took Chaos Rebuild and Bronze Castle from us just as we were finishing off the invictans. but as we geared up for the final war (and probly our destruction), a diplomatic solution was found, in no small part thanx to Sir Kerrick of First LTU Division. in the end generosity replaced war. Chaos Rebuild remained to Sir Cali, Bronze Castle he returns as a sign of goodwill between us.


The North - Battle of Unicorn Mountain

DK Mafia Corporation's troops (160k or so) were held up at Ostfaste for the night during negotiations with Dwarfinger who reluctantly let them pass on the next day. by the time that army reached our first city, Nordic Horde had a 200k-500k army at the gates of the two DK cities where the invasion army had come from.

after burning two minor cities of Starlight, the DK army got stuck at Unicorn Mountai. meanwhile DK's cities Seated and Saeted, the source points of the invasion, were taken over by the Nordic Horde. Dwarfinger closed the gates at Ostfaste again...

now you gotta picture 156k DK fodder troops camping in front of a huge city with a stream of reinforcements coming in for the defenders, burning walls going up toward 100%, the sky alighted with Bless spells.... all they can see on the horizon is more hostile cities and troops marching... closed gates ensuring they can pass nowhere without battle... and the great wall of West Starlight still unchallenged to the east.
then they look behind them to the gates of Ostfaste firmly shut, an armada of the Nordic horde waiting should they choose to return that way... and they despair, camping out their last days as more Starlight reinforcements arrive...

it took some bitter fighting and several rallys by minor armies from Unicorn Mountain until the invaders were finally finished off.
within 24 hours of their passage at Ostfaste, over 100k invader heads were stuck upon pikes on the walls of Unicorn Mountain, a clear warning to future invaders in rounds to come...

and so the last threat to our survival - weak though it was - was eliminated before the end of the round. and before it could do major damage.

Starlight and Invent survived and prospered. and lived happily ever after... well... kinda :)