Name of Lord Baron Conrad Sforza
Physical Description:

Once described as tall, blonde, and handsome with light green eyes, the Red Pox has left Baron Sforza pockmarked and disfigured. While he survived the effects of the disease, it was not without cost. The Baron has shaved his head, except for a warriors top knot. His body is marked from scars, both from the diseases, battle wounds, and self inflicted lashes when Sforza is in a particularly zealous mood.

Claimed Fief: Lussex
Basic History:

Conrad Sforza was never expected to rule or inherit, the third son of Francesco Sforza, it was expected that Conrad would have to seek his fortune on the battlefield or don the robes of a priest. But then the Red Pox ravaged Lussex, three generations of Sforza's were consigned to the earth. Conrad, a teenager survived the pox, but the plague left him physically ravaged in both body and mind.

Conrad believed that he was spared for a reason, the boy who once scoffed at the notion of God and sought the pleasures of flesh now spends hours in silent prayer. While some have called Conrad's sanity into question, no one can doubt his bravery in battle. The Baron personally leads the Lussex Flagbearers against the wretched creatures of the Floodplain's, trusting in God and his sword arm to bring him victory against the wretched abominations.

The Sforza's call their ancestral keep of Cambria home. The castle town is once a shadow of its former self, a relic of the age when the Sforza's answered to no King or liege lord. Time like everything else however has brought a great deal of change. Now the Sforza's pay lip service to the Summit. While Conrad has sworn an oath of loyalty to liege and god, the actions of his Duke and his mysterious past have never sat well with the man who now occupies Cambria. With the throne vacant, uncertain times lay ahead for Osteria and its people.

Background: Champion

Name of Lord/Lady
Duke Alaric Gyre

Physical Description:
A man evidently of high and regal birth. Alaric does not evoke the learned scholar nor the hardened warrior in his physique but that of the Jauneaun noble lord. Boasting a respectable height and musculature expected of one who has trained for war, Alaric maintains a well-tended-to appearance of shoulder-length dark brown hair and a well kept beard framing a stern face with keen green eyes. Despite what his appearance may suggest, the Duke bears himself as a warrior would and is not unknowing when it comes to war, having seen his own, if limited share of combat and of command, for it would be a poor duke indeed who ruled the realm which housed the great Military Academy without a martial ability of his own.

The Duke can be found most often in rather humble attire of fine cloths lacking in the heraldry and decor most usually expected of a man in his position, with finer attire being kept for appearances at court or beyond the borders of the Duchy. A rather frugal man infected with the humbleness of his people, he is indeed.

Claimed Fief:
Duchy of Jauneau

Basic History:
House Gyre has ruled Jauneau for decades and Alaric is the natural continuation of that order. Having been raised from birth as firstborn of his House, Alaric has received an education as befitting his rank, understanding both the running of a realm and the social graces expected of his position. An education further augmented by his early years of adulthood being spent at the Osterian Military Academy whilst his father ruled the Duchy and campaigned abroad alongside the late King.

It would be on one of these campaigns in which Alaric's father would meet his death fighting to the last in protection of the late King Timault, in a confrontation with orcs of the Blackmouth Clan which would result not only in the death of his father, but of the King. An event which has forced Alaric to step up to the title of Duke and rule his father's realm at the relatively young age of 21. It has only been a short-while since Alaric was named Duke, but he has thus far proved to be a capable ruler, just and fair of morals albeit lacking in experience.

Background: Champion (Bonus to Combat Rolls)

The Barony of Kadua [+]

Name of Lord/Lady: Baroness Adelaide Estense
Physical Description:

Claimed Fief: Kadua
Barony of Kadua (Unclaimed): In long standing servitude of the Duke of Marethia, the Barony of Kadua is the most fertile bastion in the entire kingdom. "Fed by Kaduan grain" is a quote heard across the land, as any loaf of bread has a one in five chance of being scythed from a Kaduan field. The Barony of Kadua is a regal title, responsible for maintenance of a plot of land that delicately props Osterians up.
STATS: 50,000 Citizens | 500 Men-at-Arms, 200 Cavalry, 0 Knights | Produces 12 Grain/0 Gold/0 Iron | Basic Roads | 0 Grand Fortress | Requires 0 Grain/Season. | 0 Unrest

Basic History:

The Estense family have ruled Kadua as vassals of House Gerantius for as long as either has held power, intermarriages connected the two families beyond the simple bonds of fealty. A storied house, with many almost folk-lore figures of the Barony bearing the name Estense, it has been a series of tragedies which prompted the rule of the relatively young, and female, Baroness that now rules the fief. Originally the third child, with two older brothers, Adelaide grew up expecting to be little more than married off to secure the family position, and with two younger sisters eventually joining her, she would have certainly had internal family competition over such matches. Growing up in the picturesque fields and meadows of Kadua, she wanted for little, other than something to keep her interested. Eventually this would come in a somewhat darker form.

A jousting accident would claim the life of her eldest brother, and a violent brawl in a tavern a future Baron had no place in being, the next. Her father shattered, he lasted another half-decade before falling to one of many potential illnesses, without the drive to carry on, he passed quickly. Two years prior, Adelaide was 16 at the time, and with five short years of preparation, she was thrust into the rule of the Barony, with her Aunt and Mother as guides. Her mother wasn't long for the world, dying in childbirth of a stillborn son, conceived just before the death of her father. This has resulted in the young woman growing increasingly close to her aunt, the Lady Aeolynn, both of the women having developed something of a friendship over the course of previous years. Unusually for the Estense Household, Aeolynn is raven haired, unlike the three remaining 'Estense Sisters' which, in the suspicious fey-touched Meadows of Kadua, is something of an ill-omen, when it comes to the noble household that rules the fief.

The Estense way is all charisma, charm and negotiation, and Adelaide is no different, depending upon her courtly manners and sweet smile more than any natural gift for administration. This, combined with the potential marriage of all three Estense siblings, puts the Household in a surprisingly well connected position, for a House that is, theoretically, in crisis.

Background:Diplomat

Supporting Cast [+]

Lady Aeolynn Estense;

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