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[New page! So long, annoying bug! Anyway, Septim, I'm not going to go to another continent, evidently that would be a bad career move...and I'm NOT getting executed.]

[[OOC: Good choice, without defecting, you'd never be a King...:-(. We are still trading then. :-D. And being a Ringleader is fine, you'll need to disguise yourself like an evil version of the Count of Monte Christo though. XD.]]

[[OOC: XD

"Hey! You look like the guy in the poster!"

"That is a different man, you see...I have a beard..."

"Ahhhh! You're right, you'd look the same without the beard..."

"Hmph...weird..."

"Well, good day, sorry about the confusion!"]]

Following his friend Septim example, Delran declares the independence of Kharos. Some dukes also join him as he is a brilliant tactician and fighter, as well as a good administrator. He imediately names the new born country Andoria, with Kharos as the capital city. He sends word to King Septim to form an alliance against Serillia.

The armies sent against him by Garon are destroyed or join him due to his reputation. Now, Delran is preparing to lauch an assault against Seris and informs Septim about it.


Name: King Delran
Titles/Rank: Freedom Fighter, Guildmaster of Fighters Guild, Hero of Serillia, Hero of Kerait, Great Tactician.
PP: 36
Occupation: King of Andoria
Home - Kharos Castle
Pay: 129.600 gold (9.600 guild, 120.000 king and wealth)
Height: 6.1'
Weight: 170 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Hazel
Build: Athletic
Age: 23
Gold: 191.795 coins

Skills:
Fighting - Master
Tactics - Master
Reading - Journeyman
Oration - Journeyman
Magic - Journeyman

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

Affiliations:
Andorian Nobility: King
Serillian Military: General (ret)
Fighters Guild: Guildmaster

Kingdom:
Name - Andoria
Capital: Kharos
Dukes - 3
Counts - 18
Lords - 72
Exports: food, iron ore, lumber, horses
Imports: weapons
Prosperity - Rich

Army - 28.000:
Kingdom standard force:
- Mounted Lancers - 5.000
- Mounted Archers - 5.000
Serillian defectors:
-10.000 troops to be trained in the use of a special weapon
Royal Guard - Dragons Operational Forces:
- 4.000 Mounted Lancers
- 4.000 Mounted Archers

[OOC:Hope it is not godmodding. If it is, I will edit it, just point out what needs to be changed.]

[OOC: We will see. My agents are trying to find out what happened to you.  >:-)]

[You underestimate my men. Not good for you. They are all masters in fighting and tools of the trade. They have to be in order to become agents. They also travel in small groups and are disguised. Should they be caught in a fight, one will imediately leave and send a message.]

[[OOC: We are enemies with Serillia due to their hostility after we declared independence. Also: Delran, you have 10,000 men that you don't need to pay for, if you have any more, you must pay upkeep (Check the upkeep list in the first post). I did hate you after you gave support to Harak instead of Serillius, but after defecting myself, I no longer hate you. (I'd be a hypocite otherwise). That doesn't mean that I'll give you the title of Duke, I don't exactly trust a man who robbed innocent traders on the road, though I have no interest in capturing you unless you rob my citizens. We currently have the equal to three Duchies under out control each. By the way, Delran, no having people defect to your side, train your own men!]]

[That's good to know Septim, if I ever need a second hiding place it might be in your kingdom (if my first one isn't there already, I'm not revealing anything!!).]

[[Demonsul, I need a good right hand man, want to come over here to Erenia and become mayor of my town=P?]]

Artiul was astonished at what happened in Serillia, Duke Demonsul was thrown out, and then there was a civil war in Serillia with two new kingdoms arising. He watched with interest, but soon his services where needed. After showing cunning and great streangth as a leader he became a General, but soon after that King Golovo IV saw that Artiul was not only a great General, but was also a forward thinking kind of person. So he put him as leader of the town of Alvarez.

Alvarez was a fine town on the coast, several things could be done with it, but for now Artiul decided to administer Alvarez and have it become the best town in Erenia.

Name: Artiul Adrastos
Titles/Rank: Lord of Alvarez, Ex-General of the Erenian Army, Knight of Erenia
Ocupation: Lord of Alvarez
PP: 15 (+10 for the war)
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 178 lbs.
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Brown
Build: Athletic
Age: 19
Income: 3000g
Gold: 7630g (+5000g for war, -400g for classes, +3000g Job)

Skills:
Fighting: Master
Tactics: Master

Items:
Buildings: Shack
Weapons: Erenian Iron Longsword, 2 Special made Iron Daggers, Erenian Short Sword.
Armor: Erenian Iron Chainmail Shirt, Erenian Iron Helmet, Erenian Iron pauldrons,
Clothes: Erenian Army Uniform
Defense:
100 Troops

Fingering his new beard, Demonsul considered the actions of the past two months. He and his group had grown to be close friends, and they robbed and cheated as a team. Demonsul had taken a false name, and the group had picked up a new member. They still hadn't made any profit yet, and Demonsul didn't have a real job...

Name: Karzun Demonsul (aka Harold Dolron)
Titles/Ranks: Ringleader of the 'Exiled', Ex-Duke, Ex-Lord, Ex-Overmaster of Freelancer's Guild, Criminal, Ex-Exarch of the Old Beliefs
PP: 30 (confined, only using rank of ringleader)
Height: 6.3'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black

Build: Slim
Age: 22y 3m
Skills:
Fighting - Master
Reading - Veteran
Tactics - Journeyman
Thieving - Journeyman
Oration - Master

Gold: 77470 coins (-5 bread)
Weapons: Steel Bazun Longsword
Armor: Steel Bazun Plate Armor

House: Shack
Horse: Champion Horse 'Bane'
Job: Jobless

Group:
Jake Mardevious- Vtrn Fighting, Jnymn Tactics, Jnymn Reading
A bald man carrying several throwing axes on his belt.
Kerrigan Obsidian- Vtrn Fighting, Jnymn Reading, Jnymn Oration
A woman with a longsword and a knife.
Michel Duval- Vtrn Reading, Jnymn Mathmatics, Jnymn Oration
An ex-doctor, unskilled in combat.
Richard Tonrite- Vtrn Smithing, Jnymn Fighting
A smith with huge arms. Fights clumsily with a massive hammer.

[Sorry, not sure what happened there, half my post is missing...]

Fingering his new beard, Demonsul considered the actions of the past two months. He and his group had grown to be close friends, and they robbed and cheated as a team. Demonsul had taken a false name, and the group had picked up a new member, an evil megalomaniac mage called (just) Brian. Demonsul still had no job, but he had plans. Before long, he would be back on top...

Name: Karzun Demonsul (aka Harold Dolron)
Titles/Ranks: Ringleader of the 'Exiled', Ex-Duke, Ex-Lord, Ex-Overmaster of Freelancer's Guild, Criminal, Ex-Exarch of the Old Beliefs
PP: 30 (confined, only using rank of ringleader)
Height: 6.3'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black

Build: Slim
Age: 22y 3m
Skills:
Fighting - Master
Reading - Veteran
Tactics - Journeyman
Thieving - Journeyman
Oration - Master

Gold: 77470 coins (-5 bread)
Weapons: Steel Bazun Longsword
Armor: Steel Bazun Plate Armor

House: Shack
Horse: Champion Horse 'Bane'
Job: Jobless

Group:
Jake Mardevious- Vtrn Fighting, Jnymn Tactics, Jnymn Reading
A bald man carrying several throwing axes on his belt.
Kerrigan Obsidian- Vtrn Fighting, Jnymn Reading, Jnymn Oration
A woman with a longsword and a knife.
Michel Duval- Vtrn Reading, Jnymn Mathmatics, Jnymn Oration
An ex-doctor, unskilled in combat.
Richard Tonrite- Vtrn Smithing, Jnymn Fighting
A smith with huge arms. Fights clumsily with a massive hammer.
Brian- Vtrn Magic, Jnymn Reading, Jnymn Fighting
A evil megalomaniac mage with a passion for destruction. Has an evil laugh.

[OOC: The new kingdoms, how many troops do they have? Can't be 100.000 as you only have 10k and I have 18k.

Will deal with it! ;-)]

[OOC: Ok. Now post about you!]

[OOC:

"A military alliance against the other minor Kingdoms, I may ask King Silveur for the same agreement," said Colvaine, "Our infantry is the best out of the minor kingdoms, and our archers are renowned."
"Colvaine, I would like nothing more than peace...shall we have dinner?" asked Validus.
"Great, we can draw up the peace treaty...next week?" asked Colvaine.

Well, why hasn't he asked?]


[EDIT]

Delran ordered an Arena and an University to be built. He wanted that his people have access to Education and Entertainment. Also postponed the full scale military service for several months.

Name: King Delran
Titles/Rank: Freedom Fighter, Guildmaster of Fighters Guild, Hero of Serillia, Hero of Kerait, Great Tactician.
PP: 36
Occupation: King of Andoria
Home - Kharos Castle
Pay: 129.600 gold (9.600 guild, 120.000 king and wealth)
Height: 6.1'
Weight: 170 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Hazel
Build: Athletic
Age: 23
Gold: 281.395 coins

Skills:
Fighting - Master
Tactics - Master
Reading - Journeyman
Oration - Journeyman
Magic - Journeyman

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

Affiliations:
Andorian Nobility: King
Serillian Military: General (ret)
Fighters Guild: Guildmaster

Kingdom:
Name - Andoria
Capital: Kharos
Dukes - 3
Counts - 18
Lords - 72
Exports: food, iron ore, lumber, horses
Imports: weapons
Prosperity - Rich

Army - 18.000:
Kingdom standard force:
- Mounted Lancers - 5.000
- Mounted Archers - 5.000
Royal Guard - Dragons Operational Forces:
- 4.000 Mounted Lancers
- 4.000 Mounted Archers

[OOC: Don't we have dukes? They do have 10k as well and counts and lords? Why can't we gather the forces of our kingdoms and march straight onto the field. Also, the lesser kingdoms are quite far from you, don't know how you will take them.]

[[OOC: I was giving you the option to type his coming and your discussion...if you don't want to, I'll type for Colvaine...]]

Over the next two months, Septim sees Alessia more and more. With each passing day, they love each other even more. By the end of the two months, Septim, who had fought in the thick of some of the biggest wars in the continent's history, and had looked death in the eyes numerous times, finally worked up the courage to ask her. With a magnificent wedding ring in his pocket, he visited Corvis Colvaine's home. Colvaine was on his throne, and Septim walked down the long carpet to it.
"Validus! What are you doing here?" asked Corvis.
"I have come to ask permission, permission to marry your daughter," said Validus.
"Marry my daughter? Well...of course you can!" said Corvis, "Have you seen the way she looks at you? And I've noticed the way you've looked at her...it's perfect!"
"Thank you, your majesty," said Septim before turning, he walked straight to Alessia's quarters, where she was on her bed reading a book. She looked up, startled at the intruder, but saw that it was Validus.
"Validus? What are you...what are you doing here?" asked Alessia.
Septim said nothing as he quickly walked up, knelt, and held out the ring.
"Alessia Colvaine...will you marry me?" asked Septim.
"Have you asked my father?" asked Alessia with a blush.
"Of course," said Validus.
"Then yes!" said Alessia before hugging Validus. They kissed, and Validus stood up. During that night, they began planning the wedding.

[[OOC: The wedding is tomorrow, you guys can attend if you want. :-)

Name: King Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Freedom Fighter, Hero of Seris, Hero of Kerait, Battlemage.
Age: 23
Gold: 568,895 gold coins
Pay: 129,000 gold a day (100,000 due to title, 9,000 due to Guilds, 20,000 due to wealth, -20,000 gold a day for university and Arena construction.)
PP: 36
Occupation: King
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Veteran
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Magic - Expert
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform, Venifician robes
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
Affiliations
Cidellian Nobility - King
Serillian Military - Colonel (ret.)
Venifician Order - Mage
Serillian Government - Head Diplomat (ret.)
Guild of Orators - Guildmaster
Kingdom
Name - Cidel
Capital - Cidel
Dukes - 3
Counts - 18
Lords - 72
Exports - Weapons, armor, excess food.
Imports - Horses
Army - 10,000 (standard force...)
Wealth - Wealthy]]

[[Heh, I might even drop in...you never know, we've always been on opposite sides of the board, but I might go there for business reasons...not against you of course, but against your richer guests. You can't have a poor guy like me starve, can you?]]

Demonsul looked round the clearing. Here, he was sitting on Bane, his group at his side, waiting for the big moment. The Duke's tax collectors would be riding past today, and then, well, Demonsul could just do his job. They were waiting in the middle of the muddied road, when the carriage came rushing forward before skidding to a halt as Richard brandished is hammer. Brian quickly put up a magic barrier around the clearing so that the tax collectors could not escape (with a massive 'Muahahahahaah!' to punctuate it's final touches). Meanwhile, Demonsul drew his notched blade, still bearing the forgotten insignia of Bazun, got off Bane and advanced on the carriage.
The tax collectors saw this and gave up. Throwing a heavy box out of the carriage with a clink, they drove towards the edge of the clearing at full speed. The carriage was incinerated when it made contact with the barrier, leaving only untouched metal axles and a gold tooth. One of the wheels rolled away on fire, before slowly coming to a stop in front of Kerrigan. Brian put down the barrier with an echoing laugh.
Prising open the box, Demonsul froze. It was full of chunks of misshaped metal! Once again, a fruitless venture. The real tax collectors were probably not taking this road. But why bother with a decoy? Suddenly Demonsul realized.
He managed to shout out as the soldiers poured into the clearing. Spinning with his sword, he managed to cut up many of te soldiers in a matter of seconds, but there were many more. He felt an arrow riochet off of his armor, leaving a small dent. Brian threw a fireball that burnt the archer to ash. However, Demonsul was forced to hack his way through the crowd to aid Kerrigan, who was being overrun by so many soldiers it was uncountable. Skirting round a corpse that had been pulverised by Richard's hammer. Several more had Jake's throwing axes protruding from their skulls. Many had been impaled by Demonsul himself. And although Kerrigan was in trouble, she had a sizeable sea of bodies around her already. She had lost her longsword in the battle and was working ferociously with her knife. Demonsul joined her in her ring of corpses, hacking with his notched longsword at all the soldiers.
Before long all the soldiers were either dead or running. Jake threw a few axes, and then someof the running ones became dead as well. Demonsul wiped the sweat off of his forehead, and looked at his group. Nothing more than a few scratches, Michel should be able to manage. He decided that tavern tipoffs were never a good idea, even if it was a drunken member of the king's court giving you the details.

Name: Karzun Demonsul (aka Harold Dolron)
Titles/Ranks: Ringleader of the 'Exiled', Ex-Duke, Ex-Lord, Ex-Overmaster of Freelancer's Guild, Criminal, Ex-Exarch of the Old Beliefs
PP: 30 (confined, only using rank of ringleader)
Height: 6.3'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black

Build: Slim
Age: 22y 5m
Skills:
Fighting - Master
Reading - Veteran
Tactics - Journeyman
Thieving - Journeyman
Oration - Master

Gold: 77465 coins (-5 bread)
Weapons: Steel Bazun Longsword
Armor: Steel Bazun Plate Armor

House: Shack
Horse: Champion Horse 'Bane'
Job: Jobless

Group:
Jake Mardevious- Vtrn Fighting, Jnymn Tactics, Jnymn Reading
A bald man carrying several throwing axes on his belt.
Kerrigan Obsidian- Vtrn Fighting, Jnymn Reading, Jnymn Oration
A woman with a longsword and a knife.
Michel Duval- Vtrn Reading, Jnymn Mathmatics, Jnymn Oration
An ex-doctor, unskilled in combat.
Richard Tonrite- Vtrn Smithing, Jnymn Fighting
A smith with huge arms. Fights clumsily with a massive hammer.
Brian- Vtrn Magic, Jnymn Reading, Jnymn Fighting
A evil megalomaniac mage with a passion for destruction. Has an evil laugh.

[[Can I do something like an Epic Heist soon? I don't see myself taking up ducal positions anywhere anymore, so I guess my only hope is to amass PP until I can found a kingdom.]]

Delran was enjoying the wedding when King Colvaine approached him.
"Greetings to you too, King Colvaine. I am pleased to meet you. And a nice offer it is. I can't do anything more but to accept. Shall we discuss the details now over a glass of this fine Cidelian wine?"

Demonsul started at the use of his name. "Septim! What a surprise to see you at your own wedding. I'm glad that we got to meet, it's certainly been a while...Wherever I go, I always hear about 'that double crossing diplomatic person', and I recently got into a bit of trouble. It would probably be best if the people here heard you calling me Harold. Ah, where are my manners, how are you?"

"Agreed!" said Delran to Colvaine while drinking from his glass. "And now please excuse me for a few minutes. I have to speak with someone."
Delran left Colvaine and headed for Septim and "Harold".
"Hello there "Harold"? How are you?" said Delran tapping Demonsul friendly on his shoulder. "You know......here you are very well protected and you do not have to fear anyone! Now what have you bee doing up till now?"

"Never hated you, just...disagreed with your views. A real tactician would have provoked Kerait into attacking him, then attacked them back. Then you would be the defenders," said Septim, "And we would've helped you..."

"Well, that is too bad for you. Really! That is the disadvantage of having insane leaders. Should you ever need a recomandation, search for me."

"That famine would have touched us! Not with Cidel and the old Kharos, now Andoria helping Serillia and whatever countries paid for food. So rest assured, you plan failed earlier to not fail later with disastruous consequences."

Delran returned to King Colvaine and resumed their conversation about treaties, war, peace, trade and everything related to ruling a country.

[[I have created a Generals Guild, where young men are trained (duh=P) to be masters in tactics and to be fine fighters as well. Is there a chance that I can hire out some of these people to Kings/Emporers? Also can I make another Guild (Guild of Fighters or something of that sort) that is not connected to my current one?]]

Even though Artiul wasn't officially invited to King Validus' wedding he still came. He knew that sooner or later that he would need to make friends in powerful places, and what better time then to begin now? He met both King Golovo IV and Emporer Tyranis V, even though Artiul isn't the best of speakes in the world his knowledge of tactics and fighting impressed both of these men, it even impressed them enough to hire some of the Generals Artiul was training.

During those two months Artiul worked hard on his city, the city prospered and grew. Artiul decided that his Generals needed protection, so he formed the Guild of the Immortals. The people who join this Guild will be taught how to fight, and will be able to take odds of 2:1.

Name: Lord Artiul Adrastos
Titles/Rank: Lord of Alvarez, Ex-General of the Erenian Army, Knight of Erenia, Guildmaster of Generals, Guildmaster of the Immortals
Ocupation: Lord of Alvarez
PP: 18
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 178 lbs.
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Brown
Build: Athletic
Age: 19 4m
Home: Guildmasters House
Income: 3000g
Passive Income: 6000g
Gold: 30g (+3000g for Job, +3000g Guild, +400g sold Helmet, -10000g for another Guild built) 

Skills:
Fighting: Master
Tactics: Master

Items:
Horse(s): Average Horse
Buildings: Guildmasters Home
Weapons: Erenian Iron Longsword, 2 Special made Iron Daggers, Erenian Short Sword.
Armor: Erenian Iron Chainmail Shirt, Erenian Iron pauldrons
Clothes: Erenian Army Uniform

Affiliations
Lord of a Town
Erenian Military - General (ret.)
Generals Guild - Guildmaster
Immortals Guild- Guildmaster

City
Name: Alvarez
Imports: Food, ore, people
Exports: Lumber, Mercenary Generals=P
Defense: 100 Troops

[[OOC: I will now post my actions for the next five days. I will not be here until the 23rd, sorry guys. I did this same tactic last time...saved up enough money to conquer a large nation before my ally could and took the world. Validus is a man of his word though, he won't attack Andoria, Restar, or Xalan, they are his allies. I must now wait five days before I can post again. See ya in five days.]]

Septim, now with enough money to build a good army, has 50,000 more men trained. He then launches an invasion against Serillia. With his army of 110,000 men combined with the 5,000 men from Colvaine's army, he manages to defeat the Serillian army of 100,000 men at the Fourth Battle of Seris. Most of the fifty thousand men he trained died. His forces capture Serillius, but exile him instead of killing him (they later kill him in private so that he doesn't become&nb*beep*artyr). Now, with a large Kingdom and army under his control, Septim begins planning the takeover of other nations.

***

Septim launches an invasion of Helvon (they have 100,000 troops...sorta sucks to be them). After a two month long war, they surrender and, as stated in the terms of surrender, Emperor Ker is imprisoned, but the bulk of Helvon's forces are given freedom.

***

Septim's forces soon take Erenia in an easy battle (Cidel outnumbers Erenia 2 to 1). Septim imprisons and later exiles (kills) their ruler.

***

Septim notices the war fatigue on his men and stops his conquest for two months.

***

Septim attacks and takes over Franchort. After that, he finally turns his sights on Kerait, but he must wait another two months for preparation.

[[OOC: Name: King Validus Septim
Titles/Ranks: Freedom Fighter, Hero of Seris, Hero of Kerait, Battlemage.
Age: 25
Gold: 1,096,895 gold coins
Pay: 529,000 gold a day (100,000 due to title, 400,000 due to conquests, 9,000 due to Guilds, 20,000 due to wealth, -20,000 gold a day for university and Arena construction.)
PP: 36
Occupation: King
Home: Castle Cidel
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Skills
Reading - Veteran
Fighting - Master
Oration - Master
Tactics - Master
Magic - Expert
Items
Weapons: Serillian Officer's Sword, Cidellian Steel Longsword, Cidellian mithril longsword.
Clothing: Serillian Officer's uniform, Venifician robes
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
Affiliations
Cidellian Nobility - King
Serillian Military - Colonel (ret.)
Venifician Order - Mage
Serillian Government - Head Diplomat (ret.)
Guild of Orators - Guildmaster
Family
Queen Alessia Septim - Wife
Skills:
Reading: Journeyman
Mathematics: Journeyman
Magic: Journeyman
Kingdom
Name - Cidel
Capital - Cidel
High Duke - 3
Dukes - 12
Counts - 72
Lords - 216
Exports - Weapons, armor, excess food, horses, pottery.
Imports - No more need to import due to conquest of Franchort.
Army - 450,000 (standard force...)
Wealth - Wealthy]]