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[FortunesFaded]

@Flooby - my sheet will look a bit different at some point tomorrow - basically just adding a fifth farmland fief (say that five times fast) to reduce my shortage. I'll still be negative, but I'll find a way to purchase it.

[So Boerd]

Should be good now. Uncles use brother points, right?

[Flooby Badoop]

So Boerd said
Should be good now. Uncles use brother points, right?

Aye, they do, and aye, your points be good.

@ Fortunes: You can try and negotiate buying crops from someone. I'm sure there'd be some takers.

[So Boerd]

Jorvik has the most surplus crops per capita. Want to buy some?

[Heyitsjiwon]

Flooby Badoop said
@ Fortunes: You can try and negotiate buying crops from someone. I'm sure there'd be some takers.

Psst, psst. *lifts overcoat. You wanna buy a watch?

Edit: Also, in regards to the new changes in trade. Do you mind if I remove 1 city (of my three) and turn that into 5 scrubland fiefs?

[Flooby Badoop]

Heyitsjiwon said
Psst, psst. *lifts overcoat. You wanna buy a watch?Edit: Also, in regards to the new changes in trade. Do you mind if I remove 1 city (of my three) and turn that into 5 scrubland fiefs?

No probs, figured someone would want to do that after I nerfed it.

So Boerd said
Jorvik has the most surplus crops per capita. Want to buy some?

You and Nex are the only people without towns.

I'm very tempted to go into the pros and cons of towns, but I'm trying to resist giving anyone any ideas. I will, however, say that it should be obvious to those without towns that you chaps should hit the ground running, and avoid peace for too long, or risk lagging behind.

EDIT: Ash, I am terribly sorry, but my brain's running out of steam. I don't want to give you an iota of drivel, so I'm going to finish your vassals in the morning, when I'm bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and sipping on a fresh kona coffee. You deserve no less, my good sir.

[So Boerd]

I'm very tempted to go into the pros and cons of towns, but I'm trying to resist giving anyone any ideas. I will, however, say that it should be obvious to those without towns that you chaps should hit the ground running, and avoid peace for too long, or risk lagging behind.

Believe me, I am acutely aware of the consequences.

[The Nexerus]

I may be making edits to my sheet tomorrow.

[FortunesFaded]

So Boerd said
Jorvik has the most surplus crops per capita. Want to buy some?

Heyitsjiwon said
Psst, psst. *lifts overcoat. You wanna buy a watch?

I'll more than likely be buying from one of you guys - but first I need to figure out how much i'm short with the addition of my new fief. But expect an offer sometime in the near future!

EDIT:

Pelataria requires 20,000 Crops, and will accept the best offer. Any bids?

[So Boerd]

House strongheart can also not feed itself. Ulster, I recommend turning all your towns into a single town and using the extra points to buy fiefs.

[So Boerd]

Also, Fortune, 1:1? 20K for 20k?

[FortunesFaded]

So Boerd said
Also, Fortune, 1:1? 20K for 20k?

This sounds most agreeable to me.

I was just taking a look at your sheet (I enjoyed your small summaries for the main house-members, by the way - I might steal that idea for my own sheet, if you don't mind) and was wondering if you calculated in feeding your own citizens to your crop total? Because with feeding all the peasants, I got a total of 108,000 surplus for Jorvik. Still a huge number, however!

EDIT: Actually, Cale, you seem to be in the deficit too, regarding crops. According to my numbers, you're behind 29,800 crops annually, and that's not including soldiers. Although I was using the numbers on the nation sheet which flooby linked in the first post - if there's an updated one out there, this problem may have been solved already

[So Boerd]

Jorvik can feed all. Come, Cale!

[Flooby Badoop]

I assume too much with these sheets. I always think you guys know what you're doing, then you say things like 'Our peasants have to eat?'

I mean, that's the right attitude to have toward them [ don't let them get any ideas of enfranchisement! ], but how can they work for you if they're dead? That would be so not-flooby.

[Bikriki]

Back in my day, them peasants had to do photosynthesis to get their energy.

AND THEY LIKED IT

[Flooby Badoop]

Bikriki said
Back in my day, them peasants had to do photosynthesis to get their energy.AND THEY LIKED IT

Right? Today's peasants won't lift a finger until they've had their bread and turnips. They've gotten soft!

Here be House Griffith's vassals, by the way. Just got informed I have this Sunday and Monday off, so there'll be a role call PM sent out tomorrow morning as to who is in on this. Not responding by Monday means you don't get put on the map, which will hopefully be done by Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be finishing the last two vassal sets tomorrow as well.

Vassals of House Griffiths

[ The crest of House Lilla: a purple sword facing downward, over a white field. It is meant to symbolize their connection to House Trisch, which it mimics, but also recall the story of the House’s birth, as its founder was married to a dyemaker. Their motto is ‘We Are Of Royal Blood.’ ]

Lord Findlay Lilla is the lord of Lilland, and Purpra. He is age 25, tall of height, strong of weight in muscle, light of skin, sandy of hair, and dark of eyes. He is married to Lady Elspeth Lilla, age 27, born to a country baron's House of little import. He has three son [ Douglas, age 10, Aengus, age 7, and Thomas, age 1. ], and two daughters [ Abigail, age 5, and Stella, age 3]. He has one sister [ Cunegund, age 30 ], who is married to the second son of House Dunsch-Taxi.

About forty years ago, Prince Ranald, the fourth-born son of the then-Overlord Henry IV desired to marry a girl of lowborn birth: a local dyeworker’s daughter. Overlord Henry was to have none of it. He disowned his son, and stripped him of all land and claim to inheritance. He only let him live on the condition that he march to settle the land of Almare alongside House Griffith. As he was forbidden to take his family's own crest, he made his own in accordance with his marriage, and a new house was formed from the family name of his wife's.

House Lilla fought for you valiantly over the years, but Ranald and his children are long dead, and now his grandson, Finday, rules the fiefs they fought so hard to colonize.

Lord Findlay himself is a man of narrow thinking and short-sightedness, preferring to glory in tourneys and battle rather than rule. He leaves the lion's share of that to his steward, Duncan Bannister. He is fiercely proud of his family, if only to give himself an excuse to answer insults with violence.

His eldest son is turning out much the same: an arrogant brat who treats everyone below him as a plaything, and all above as someone to challenge. At a tourney hosted last year, the lad was rooting for one of the knights to win in the final round. When his favourite knight had fallen, he drew up an arrow, and shot the victor through the throat as the poor man was accepting his victory wreath. His father encourages this bad behaviour, claiming it is how one confident in their power should act.

Lord Findlay himself has yet to do you any great service, for though he is fearsome in battle, he refuses to cooperate with any soldier not from his own house. And aside from answering the call to arms, he offers no help in keeping your realm.

Fiefs

Lilland

Fair [18,000 people (15,000 from fief, 3,000 from infrastructure), 4.6 crops per person, +.7% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Advanced Infrastructure [ +3,000 starting pop., +1,500 bullis, +600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Purpra

Fair [18,000 people (15,000 from fief, 3,000 from infrastructure), 4.6 crops per person, +.7% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Advanced Infrastructure [ +3,000 starting pop., +1,500 bullis, +600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Fortified Manor

Wooden Walls

Military

200 Knights [ Plate Armour, Lance, Longsword, Horse, Horse Armour ]

500 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

400 Foot Guards [ Mail Armour, Spear, Shortsword ]

200 Longbowmen [ Leather Armour, Longbow, Shortsword ]

10 Ladders

5 Battering Rams

5 Catapults

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 36,000 [ 18,000 from Lilland, 18,000 from Purpra ]

Population in Towns: 0

Crops per Annum: 166,800 [ 36,000 * 4.6 = 165,600, + 1,200 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 1.8%

Income per Annum: 53,000 bullis [ 36,000 from taxation, 14,000 from resources, 3,000 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 53,000 bullis

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[ The crest of House Orring; a golden dragon, salient over a pean field. It is meant to symbolize the House’s great mineral wealth, as well as reference the many tales told of dragons living in their deep mines. Their motto is ‘We Bleed Gold.’ ]

Lord August Orring is the lord of Cafferty, Vaughton, Pitt’s Mine, Death’s Hill, Slave’s Hill, Prisoner’s Hill, Dead Fields, and Drowned Woods. He is age 44, average of height and weight, pale of complexion, black of hair, and amber of eye. He was married to the daughter of an Ordained banker, Clemence, but she passed away at the age of twenty-eight fifteen years ago. He remarried to Lady Eleanor, age 44, who is the sister of Lady Joan Rhiwallon, fourteen years ago. He bore one son with Clemence [ Wulfric, age 25 ], and one daughter to Eleanor [ Synove, age 13 ]. He had two younger brothers, but they are long dead.

House Orring was founded by a village’s local Reed, who was granted land by the local lord in return for a service that remains unknown. Though legend says it was for slaying a dragon, it was much more likely a reward for ratting out the corrupt, petty vassal lord of the region.

Much of the land was hard and useless, but the Reed was determined to find something of value, that the same fate of his likely predecessor might not befall himself. After much searching, it was discovered that each province held vast tunnels filled with ores, especially gold. House Orring became extremely wealthy, and used their coin to buy mercenaries, to conquer yet more territory, from which they extracted yet more wealth.

When Lord Griffiths called for men to aid him in his colonization, House Orring was the largest contributor of men, for they believed there was a great deal to be gained in the potential resource findings of such a mythical and untapped land. And they were correct; upon settling, they found many places filled with coal, and the vast woods provided an excellent place to start charcoal refining operations. To this day, they have not regretted the venture.

Lord August himself is keenly aware of his family history, and prides himself on his mighty house. That said, like his forefathers, he is a pragmatic man at heart, and doesn’t place honor or pride before a profit of any kind. He is cold, calculating, aloof, and distant, not seeming to be entirely in the present, always thinking.

As can be guessed, his marriage to Clemence was purely financial, and the two shared a blatantly loveless relationship. His marriage to Eleanor was political, having wanted to seal an alliance between another of the vassals under Lord Griffiths, to ensure his protection.

His son, Wulfric, lacks the business acumen of his father, to put it lightly. He lies about the castle grounds all day, doing nothing in particular but lying around, eating, chatting with friends in the shade, or fawning over girls. He’s certainly spoiled. In fact, he rarely spends money, but his sloth is something to be marvelled at.

Synove isn’t lazy, but she’s not a very bright girl. She spends most of her days playing and talking with her friends, or in the sewing circle of the castle servants. Being a plain girl, her only suitors of yet are those who wish to forge an alliance with House Orring, for whatever reason.

Fiefs

Cafferty

Infertile [ 8,000 pop. ( 7,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Great Manor

Stone Walls

Vaughton

Infertile [ 8,000 pop. ( 7,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Pitt’s Mine

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Death’s Hill

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Slave’s Hill

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Prisoner’s Hill

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Dead Field

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Drowned Wood

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Military

500 Knights [ Plate Armour, Lance, Longsword, Horse, Horse Armour ]

800 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

1,500 Spearmen [ Leather Armour, Spear ]

1,000 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow ]

10 Ladders

5 Battering Rams

60 Catapults

30 Trebuchets

24 Ballista

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 40,000 [ 8,000 from Cafferty, 8,000 from Vaughton, 4,000 from Pitt’s Mine, 4,000 from Death’s Hill, 4,000 from Slave’s Hill, 4,000 from Prisoner’s Hill, 4,000 from Dead Field, 4,000 from Drowned Wood ]

Population Living in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 126,400 [ 16,000 * 4.4 = 70,400, 24,000 * 100,800, + 1,600 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 3.6%

Income per Annum: 100,000 bullis [ 40,000 from taxation, 56,000 from resources, 4,000 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 100,000 bullis

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[ The crest of House Rhiwallon; a white cheval separating a semy of red cross potents over a field of black. It is meant to symbolize the joining of their House with that of the Holy Order of St. Edwin’s Pilgrimage. Their motto is ‘The Faith’s Shield and Sword.’ ]

Lady Joan Rhiwallon is the lady of Rhonia, Edwincastle, Finkhills, and Frommland. She is age 27, average of height and thin of weight, pale and sickly of complexion, brown of hair and brown of eye. She is married to a clansmen, Odon, age 29, which has caused much scandal at court. She had two sons [ Victor, age 7, Arthur, age 2 ], and one daughter [ Donna, age 5 ]. She a sister, Eleanor, age 44, who is married to Lord August, and has a child of her own. She had three older brothers, but they are dead.

House Rhiwallon used to be a House of some import and renown, but ever since the unification of Lundland, in which the fought the Overlord to the end, their House has been on a steady decline. So pathetic had they become, that not decades earlier did they agree to merge their House to that of a dying order, the Holy Order of St. Edwin’s Pilgrimage.

Lady Joan’s father, Markus, was desperate to preserve his House, and so when Lord Griffiths called for men to join him in his settlement of Almare, he saw it as an opportunity to preserve himself. Unfortunately, fortune did not favour him; the houses Orring and Lilla took the best land, and any others who attempted to stake a claim were quickly cut down by either. Not wanting to suffer the same fate, House Rhiwallon stayed in its own lands.

Even more pitiful, his last son, the eldest and heir, died of dysentery. As his eldest daughter had been married to Lord Orring, to protect himself from them, this presented a problem, and so he disinherited his eldest daughter, passing the inheritance over to his younger daughter, Joan. He died several months later, after falling down the stairs and cracking his skull.

Lady Joan, known to be sickly and eccentric, has done nothing to improve her House’s prestige. She has married a clansmen of the woods, out of love, and born three children with him. The court is scandalized with her, and House Orring is still perturbed at Lady Eleanor being axed from the inheritance. It was thought that due to her frailty, Joan would not survive even one pregnancy, but she surprised everyone by surviving three, with two of them being boys.

The clansman, Odon, is a strong and tanned-skin man, who is quickly adapting to life in a castle. He still speaks with the accent of his native tongue, but is seeming more and more Lundish each day.

The three children are young, and it is uncertain how they will turn out, but Victor seems to take after his father; strong, daring, and handsome, with a light complexion mixed between pale and tanned.

Fiefs

Rhonia

Fair [ 16,000 pop. ( 15,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.6 crops per person, +.7% growth ]

Resourceless

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop, +500 bullis, +200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Walls

Edwincastle

Fair [ 15,000 pop., 4.6 crops per person, +.7% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Stone Manor

Stone Walls

Finkhills

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Frommland

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Scrubland

Military

100 Knights [ Plate Armour, Lance, Longsword, Horse, Horse Armour ]

300 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

300 Foot Guard [ Mail Armour, Spear, Shortsword ]

540 Spearmen [ Leather Armour, Spear ]

400 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow, Dagger ]

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 37,000 [ 16,000 from Rhonia, 15,000 from Edwincastle, 3,000 from Finkhills, 3,000 from Frommland ]

Population Living in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 168,000 [ 31,000 * 4.6 = 142,600, 6,000 * 4.2 + 200 crops ]

Total Growth Bonus: 2.1%

Income per Annum: 37,500 bullis [ 37,000 from taxation, + 500 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 37,500 bullis

[ulsterwarrior]

Hey, I just wanted to announce that I'm still here. I've hadn't had much of a chance to reply or anything. And unfortunately, I am going on a camping trip with a friend of mine from Monday to Friday. I probably won't have a chance to post anything. But I'm still around and very excited to start this rp.

[Flooby Badoop]

ulsterwarrior said
Hey, I just wanted to announce that I'm still here. I've hadn't had much of a chance to reply or anything. And unfortunately, I am going on a camping trip with a friend of mine from Monday to Friday. I probably won't have a chance to post anything. But I'm still around and very excited to start this rp.

*flips table*

Curse this reality! It steals our friends from us!

[Flooby Badoop]

And here be Nex's vassals. Last is Bikriki's. Role calls are going out tonight, y'all.

Vassals of House Osgar

[ The crest of House Gallad; a knight in plate armour, with a red-plumed helmet, bestride a white horse wearing gold barding, over a field of gray. It is meant to symbolize the family's beginning as mercenaries. Their motto is 'We Fight For Ours.' ]

Lord Damien Gallad is the lord of Newmarch, Fort Frolic, Faircastle, and Woodmarch. He is age 25, tall of height and average of weight, tanned of complexion, sandy-brown of hair, and light brown of eye. He was married to the daughter of a knight, who bore him a daughter [ Mary, age 5 ], but she passed away from an illness, and he is now seeking a new wife. He was born a low orphan, and thus doesn't know his siblings, if he had any.

House Gallad is a very new House, having been granted its land in the east not 5 years ago by Overlord Balthazar, to a mercenary company who had been defending the area against Giants. This was not a suprising move, since the mercenaries had all but held the area for themselves, and had developed it from an unpopulated march, to a civilized land. Balthazar had merely ensured their continued loyalty for no additonal payment.

However, not 3 years ago did its head, Lord Giric, die during a hunting accident. The man had no children, but he did have an adoptive son, a man named Damien, who two decades earlier, Giric had rescued from a burning building. Damien thus inherited the land at Lord Giric's death, making House Gallad as old as its only legitimate heir.

Upon Giric's death, Lord Balthazar bestowed House Osgar the vassalage of House Gallad. This was not based on the House's close proximity to Aaldoreanfeald, but moreso to Balthazar knowing that Damien would not likely take kindly to his new liege, thus creating tension between both Houses.

But Balthazar was wrong; Lord Damien has turned out to be an incredibly loyal vassal, to the point of open mockery by the Bernaccians and Wyots. Though he is indeed a reckless, selfish, and thuggish man, his admiration to Grindan Osgar and his House seems to be genuine, though it's not certain where such feelings come from.

Fiefs

Newmarch

Infertile [ 8,000 pop. ( 7,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Fort Frolic

Infertile [ 8,000 pop. ( 7,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Faircastle

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Woodmarch

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Stone Manor

Stone Wall

Military

100 Knights [ Plate Armour, Lance, Longsword, Horse, Horse Armour ]

200 Horsemen [ Leather Armour, Spear, Shortsword, Horse ]

570 Spearmen [ Leather Armour, Spear ]

500 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow, Dagger ]

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 24,000 [ 8,000 from Newmarch, 8,000 from Fort Frolic, 4,000 from Faricastle, 4,000 from Woodmarch ]

Population Living in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 104,800 [ 16,000 * 4.4 = 70,400, 8,000 * 4.2 = 33,600, + 800 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 2%

Income per Annum: 26,000 bullis [ 24,000 from taxation, 2,000 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 26,000 bullis

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[ The crest of House Wyot, two black hounds in fess, with golden eyes and tongues, over a crimson background. It is meant to symbolize its founders two adored pet hounds. Their motto is 'Merciless.' ]

Lord Ryan Wyot is the lord of The Bastion, Northpost, Southpost, Bloodrocks, Craghills, Dropcliffs, and The Taiga. He is age 43, average of height, heavy weight, light of complexion, balding of blond hair, and blue of eye. He is married to Lady Lona, age 36, born a servant at Bolgaz. He has one son [ Tunor, age 20 ], and one daughter [ Eva, age 16 ]. He has one brother [ Gordon, age 41 ], who lost his wife a decade ago, and who left him only one son.

Like the Gallads, the Wyots were granted their land by Overlord Balthazar, to protect the east against Giants. This was ten years ago, but since then, the situation has calmed. He used to drill himself and his men constantly, but numerous victories have made him overconfident, and sloppy, as he grows fat and happy in his keep, content to live out the later years of life in comfort, alongside his loving wife and old hounds, who he trusts more than any of his servants.

As Ryan was always more of martial man, he leaves the administration of his lands to his brother, Gordon, as he did when they were but mercenaries. Gordon doesn't bare any ill will to his older brother: he believes they work best together, balancing each other's sanguine and phlegmatic personalities. Gordon occasionally comes off as a browbeaten bookeeper, but is by no means a coward, or uncharming, and indeed is quite an accomplished diplomat.

Ryan's son, Tunor, is much like the lord in his youth: bold and brash, but lazy and feckless, interested in little but beer, brawling, and breasts. Ryan is quite proud of the boy, despite him being unskilled in tourneys and rulership. Gordon doesn't see this as a problem either, and hopes to groom his own son to take the place of House administrator.

The Wyots are quite the happy family. Or they would be, were not for Eva.

Since Eva was very young, she had a violent temper. She screamed constantly, destroyed furnishing and decoration, and ran about with limitless energy. When she was just six years old, she took a fascination with weaponry and combat. At first, it seemed like she would be an excellent tourney-runner, but whenever she trained, she wailed and laughed at the rules and codes of honour of such formal combat, always doing whatever it took to gain the upperhand.

She trained her fitness and combat prowess five days of the week, using her weekends to challenege anyone with the stones to fight her. Many grown veterans had to be forced to fight her, some dying in the process.

Age did not temper her rage, and even into adolescence, the slightest irritations caused her to rampage. Two seasons ago, Eva ran away from The Bastion, taking fifty men-at-arms with her. Tales and reports of a girl who killed and robbed without mercy spread across the eastern countryside of Lundland.

There is currently a bounty on her head, posted by the late Marshal Uthred, for 3,000 bullis, but her father is willing to pay double that for her safe return. She starting to earn the nickname 'Eva the Bitch,' both for her temper, and her house's crest. Those within earshot of her prefer 'Eva the Blade.'

Lord Ryan has often been called 'Osgar's lapdog,' but in reality, he is more concerned with his own comfort first, and protecting against the Giant's second.

Fiefs

The Bastion

Infertile [ 10,000 pop. ( 7,000 from fief, 3,000 from infrastructure ), 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Advanced Infrastructure [ + 3,000 starting pop., + 1500 bullis, + 600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Stone Manor

Great Walls

Northpost

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Fortified Manor

Wooden Walls

Southpost

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Fortified Manor

Wooden Walls

Bloodrocks

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Craghills

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

Dropcliff

Scrubland [ 3,000 pop., 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Wooden Manor

Wooden Palisade

The Taiga

Scrubland [ 4,000 pop. ( 3,000 from fief, 1,000 from infrastructure ), 4.2 crops per person, +.3% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Improved Infrastructure [ + 1,000 starting pop., + 500 bullis, + 200 crops, +.1% growth ]

Fortified Manor

Wooden Palisade

Military

400 Horse Archers [ Leather Armour, Bow, Sabre, Horse ]

500 Sheildwallman [ Leather Armour, Spear, Javelin ]

180 Swordsmen [ Mail Armour, Longsword ]

140 Bowmen [ No Armour, Bow, Dagger ]

1 Catapult

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 29,000 [ 10,000 from The Bastion, 3,000 from Northpost, 3,000 from Southpost, 3,000 from Bloodrocks, 3,000 from Craghills, 3,000 from Dropcliffs, 4,000 from The Taiga ]

Population Living in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 124,600 [ 10,000 * 4.4 = 44,000, 19,000 * 4.2 = 79,800, + 800 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 2.6%

Income per Annum: 31,000 bullis [ 29,000 from taxation, 2,000 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 31,000 bullis

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[ The crest of House Bernaccia; a per quarter division of yellow and blue, with a rampant blue gryphon with yellow claws. It is meant to symbolize the house's authority and unerring sense of justice. Their motto is 'To Ours What is Due.' ]

Lord Aethelfirth Bernaccia is the lord of Bernaccia, Vanalaigh, Daldenard, Stamburst, and Twilland. He is 63 years of age, tall of height and average of weight, light of skin, silver of hair and green of eye. He is married to Lady Cymberch, age 50, born to House Eadwyne, a house whose lands were conquered during the War of Unifcation by House Bernaccia. He has three daughters [ Aelfgyfu, age 34, Cyndrica, age 32, and Aelfwip, age 15 ]. His two younger brothers, and one younger sister, are all dead.

House Bernaccia was the one House that sided with House Osgar during the War of Unification in Aaldoreanfeald. Though their decision seemed senseless at the time, it proved to be a wise move: House Bernaccia now stands as the sole-surviving independent lord in Aaldoreanfeald, save for their masters, House Osgar.

Lord Aethelfirth has always been a man focused on owning more land, and creating an ever stronger legacy for his proud house. His past has been long, full of conquests and cruelties, but no matter how much he does now, his time left on earth is short. And so, he is in the kind of frantic rush that comes upon old men concerned with what they shall leave behind.

He long since married his eldest daughter, who he proclaimed his heir, to a son of the wealthy Sennev banking family. As they have already born a son, who is now in his sixteenth year, Aethelfirth is content that at least his House will eventually come under the rule of a proper-born man. Cyndrica he has married to the son of a wealthy merchant from the Ordained Kingdom, but for his daughter Aelfwip he can ill find a suitor, for though she is comely, she has been cursed all her life by mad spells, where she would spend days at a time muttering to herself in her room, and collapsing in choking fits in times of stress, or even when simply meeting new people.

As a vassal, Aethelfirth has paid his due diligence, but places his duties far below that of his own concerns. He proven an able commander of men, and cunning intriguer, but his cruelty and risk-taking has left his peasents and land abused, and having his House owe a great deal of money to the very family he gave his eldest daughter to.

Fiefs

Bernaccia

Fair [ 18,000 pop. ( 15,000 from fief, 3,000 from infrastructure ), 4.6 crops per person, +.7% growth ]

Some Resources [ + 7,000 bullis ]

Advanced Infrastructure [ + 3,000 starting pop., + 1,500 bullis, + 600 crops, +.2% growth ]

Great Manor

Great Walls

Vanalaigh

Infertile [ 7,000 pop., 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Stone Manor

Stone Walls

Daldenard

Infertile [ 7,000 pop., 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Stone Manor

Stone Walls

Stamburst

Infertile [ 7,000 pop., 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Fortified Manor

Wooden Walls

Twilland

Infertile [ 7,000 pop., 4.4 crops per person, +.5% growth ]

Resourceless

Basic Infrastructure

Fortified Manor

Wooden Walls

Military

250 Knights [ Plate Armour, Lance, Longsword, Horse, Horse Armour ]

400 Horse Archers [ Leather Armour, Bow, Sabre, Horse ]

400 Spearmen [ Leather Armour, Spear ]

250 Axemen [ Leather Armour, Axe ]

120 Longbowmen [ Leather Armour, Longbow, Shortsword ]

10 Ladders

5 Battering Rams

10 Catapults

75 Longboats

Lordship Receipts

Total Population: 46,000 [ 18,000 from Bernaccia, 7,000 from Vanalaigh, 7,000 from Daldenard, 7,000 from Stamburst, 7,000 from Twilland ]

Population Living in Towns: 0

Crops Produced per Annum: 206,600 [ 18,000 * 4.6 = 82,800, 28,000 * 4.4 = 123,200, + 600 from infrastructure ]

Total Growth Bonus: 2.9%

Income per Annum: 54,500 bullis [ 46,000 from taxation, 7,000 from resources, 1,500 from infrastructure ]

Current Treasury: 54,500 bullis

[King Solterra]

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