[OOC] The Vampire princes

[Vampiretwilight]

no it's fine.
i just didn't think too far ahead with it, that's all.

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@Vampiretwilight
By the way, what level of technology does the Xewyth Empire have? Does it have firearms, electricity, automobiles of some kind or is it medieval/gothic level of tech still?

[Vampiretwilight]

Sort of borderline. Still old fashioned old word stuff but at that stage where things like firearms would have JUST started to be invented and such. I hope that makes sense.

[DELETED jdl3932]

It does.

[Vampiretwilight]

It does.

@ZAVAZggg

Ok then. :)

[DELETED jdl3932]

@Vampiretwilight
Just letting you know I changed the Blood Magic lore and removed that rule thing. It was a bit restrictive and silly to be honest.

[Vampiretwilight]

Oh, um, alright

[gorgenmast]

Sorry my first post took so long. I scrapped my first idea and went in a completely different direction.

[Vampiretwilight]

It's ok. No problem. :)

[gorgenmast]

Hoping to get post number two up late tonight.

[Dinh AaronMk]

appearance
A shallow faced man, long beard, and heavy mustache. His eyes: dim an unassuming, a heavy brow. His cheeks full and the structure of his bones pronounced and impressive. A bulbous nose, almost flat like a pig's, mouth and lips curled down in a frown.

name
Semiane Munch Strige Vrykolas

age
346

bio
A vampire of old birth, Semiane Vrykolas hails from a distant kingdom. His age having long nurtured a careful aptitude, Semiane abandoned the outward manifestation of being a vampire long ago, going underground; as vampires go. While once he was a count for some time, a claimed royal presiding over some distant and rude country he fled when the peasants were incited against him by some hunters and he fled into the world, leaving behind a doppelganger to take the brunt of the peasant's anger. Turning away from royal life, he used what wealth he had and entered into commerce. There for a time he managed a small but capable trading outfit until his clients became suspicious as they grew older but the man they came to know for so long remained inconspicuously young, compared to them.

An inquiry forced Semiane into hiding again, and he fled. But through loopholes and confidants he managed to sell his initial trading company over to them, who manage it for him in their name. Re-establishing in another privileged port he began again, only for the same narrative to be repeated. As his clients grew old, and he did not age, suspicions mounted and he was forced to migrate before the blade of a hunter could stake his heart. The second company was later acquired at auction by his first enterprise.

By this second foible he had learned. While taking a laundered salary from his old company he took to travel, and visited ancient lands. There he learned new magics and skills. In high deserts he discovered the art of altering the face and the body, means to make one appear younger, which could be reversed to appear older; or even pulled to the extreme to transform him into entirely different people. In this time, he took on many new names as he did faces as he resigned himself to practitioners of the art of reconstruction and made his first new employees since abandoning his first trading adventures: a surgeon and his apprentices, kept on a high pay for their services as he returned to more recognized lands.

Under their knife and powers, and the knife and powers of their successors, Semiane routinely transformed himself to avoid the suspicions of his peers. Becoming in effect his own sons as time went on. And through this time, in the realm of merchant capital acquired a substantial wealth and a large network.

But Semiane was still at heart a vampire. And vampires had needs. Whether through courting the wives or young daughters of the wrong people or being tied to a murder he was forced to flee or even pretending his own death.

As the years, decades, and centuries went on so too did the depths of his financial empire and the capabilities of his surgeons to transform. While he kept to himself a very small direct staff, he had in reality under his an immense network of thousands. The enormous wealth and capital he came to possess through the domination of virgin foreign trade made him and every persona and biography he invented leading influential figures in the respective realms he found himself in. And with that power and influence came the social life. Not one to by shy, he and every persona became known for the extravagant parties. He was a boon to the arts as he played patron to a many number of artists. All of which was to hide himself and is activities.

On hearing the call from the empire. A vampire elder, who had ruled for five-thousand years was to abdicate, and his sons would someday take the throne. But the succession wasn't clear, conditions were made. Conflict was rife. Financial and political gain could be made, a swift and sure break into the strongest vampire realm in the entire world. While he could not possibly live there to announce his true self to the world and perhaps endanger his entire empire, perhaps playing the cards would implant him into friendly political circles, and he may have lasting protection at the least.

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[Vampiretwilight]

Um....

Sort of borderline. Still old fashioned old word stuff but at that stage where things like firearms would have JUST started to be invented and such. I hope that makes sense.

@Vampiretwilight

This would mean No big corporations. And not everyone in the kingdom is afraid of vampires and such.

Anyway, accepted for the time being.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Um....

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This would mean No big corporations. And not everyone in the kingdom is afraid of vampires and such.

Anyway, accepted for the time being.

@Vampiretwilight

The thing is he's not running a big corporation, it's a paper trail of sock puppets that only exist because of his age. Like the merchant families of the Republic of Venice, his reach stretches far.

[Vampiretwilight]

Um..ok..

[Dinh AaronMk]

And really, to further illustrate the point: there are companies around today that have been around since the 6th century, mostly Japanese companies (who have the five oldest still-active companies in the world, founded between the year 500 to 800, ranging from hospitality to construction companies, and religious services).

The legal definition of a corporation is the partnership between multiple persons with the aim of generating profit and receiving a charter or legal recognition of their corporation that makes a single entity out of several individuals, the legal practice of such in Europe dating back as far as Rome. Among the Romans, entities such as the Roman State, its religious cults, burial groups, political parties/groups, and - drum roll please - its trade and craft guilds were all incorporated entities: corporations.

Of course the economic and material basis of when they operated was different then as it was today. But the point of the matter is that corporations existed "when guns were new" and much earlier, and some of them still exist today. There's a still operating restaurant even that served Charlemagne.

[Vampiretwilight]

Ok.
Post at any time. :)

[Vampiretwilight]

Overlord24:
It's fine. The plot mentions that royal family has non vampire relatives.
Plus the kingdom doesn't have just vampires living in it. :)

Post at any time.

[sassy1085]

@Vampiretwilight
Sorry I haven't post anything yet, i'm just lost. so what is happen in the IC right now?

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@Vampiretwilight
Sorry I haven't post anything yet, i'm just lost. so what is happen in the IC right now?

@sassy1085

I bet you could read it and find out!

[Vampiretwilight]

Not much. Just basic domino effect as a result of the challenge and such.
Luckily we haven't gotten too far into the rp yet so you may be able to catch up @sassy1085.