Richard Horthy

Blades of Iron Roses: Recruitment Drive!

So I was looking over some of the character sheets, and I was curious about the lore about making someone the progeny of a vampire and a human - AKA, a dhampir. I don't really care much about any of the power scaling stuff behind it - I ask because having it would give some more leeway toward their backstory as a conscript who's been captured and pressed into service a ton of times throughout their years, and any time they attempted an escape, fate would just so have it that some other conflict comes to be and they're pressed back into some random army. So given all the shit they've been through, they've taken up pretty heavy drinking to try and cope, which in turn has led to some very hazy memories that only come back to them when they start going through similar situations in what would be some fairly amusing hijinks. The tone I was thinking of was like The Hangover mixed with O Brother Where Art Thou where it's just this mishmashed odyssey of weird adventures strung together by drunken escapades so many times that they all just start fusing together.

But mostly it gives them an excuses to wear sunglasses everywhere.

Blades of Iron Roses: Recruitment Drive!

@VitaVitaAR Cheers for that! I have a couple of ideas for characters with what i've read over so far. I'll start putting pen to paper and get back to you with what I come up with later on today.

Blades of Iron Roses: Recruitment Drive!

Tentative interest, but hot damn that's a lot of RP to read through. I like the concept a lot, but can I get a TLDR so I can get up to scratch on what's gone down so far?

From Sick Man to Savior - An 1847 Nation Roleplay

Well since stuff has gotten talked over a lot and some amnesties made, I suppose it's only right for me to issue a few apologies in turn. Sorry for coming off so harshly, I guess i'm just sorta tired of things falling apart before they even begin with RPs.

From Sick Man to Savior - An 1847 Nation Roleplay

<Snipped quote by Lady Lascivious>

Literally every single one.

Edit: And I'm in a bad mood right now, btw, so let's not debate this further.

@Letter Bee

So are you gonna even give advice on how to fix it or are you just gonna throw a bitchfit for someone trying to have fun

Bc if that's what I signed on for the i'm just gonna dip

From Sick Man to Savior - An 1847 Nation Roleplay

<Snipped quote by Wernher>

To be honest, yes. So France and Britain are needed at an absolute minimum.

@Letter Bee

Why not just make them into NPCs until someone comes along who wants to play them

From Sick Man to Savior - An 1847 Nation Roleplay

"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."

- Otto von Bismark

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Application

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Government

Name: Russian Empire
Head of State: Tsar Nicholas I
Head of Government: Same as Head of State

Ideology:
Pan-Slavism is a political ideology concerned with the advancement of integrity and unity for the Slavic peoples. Russia has firmly declared itself as the protector of all Slavs, and has belligerently fought for the unity of all Slavic peoples - which has historically led them into conflict with most all of its neighbors, notably Austria and the Ottoman Empire.

In spite of its world-famous avant-garde intelligentsia, Russia remains a very conservative society, reluctant to implement reforms unless necessary.

Military

Army Numbers: The Russian Imperial Army has approximately 900,000 regular troops, in addition to 250,000 irregular troops, including the famous Cossacks.
Navy Numbers: The Russian Imperial Navy is large, but also divided into several constituent fleets in the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Arctic Sea, and the Pacific Ocean.

There's like next to zero actual info on how many ships were in each fleet, just a number that it's total navy was: "in 1853, Russia had the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets, Arkhangelsk Flotilla, Caspian Flotilla and Okhotsk Flotilla (altogether, 40 battleships, 15 frigates, 24 corvettes and brigs, 16 steam frigates etc.)."

History, Expansion, and Economics

History: As OTL, no significant changes to history.

Territory: Russia proper, plus the Governates of the Baltic Territories, Poland, Finland, the Caucasus, Turkestan Krai, and Russian America.

Economic Description: Though possessive of the largest land empire by far on Earth, Russia's economy remains in a rather under-developed state. Literacy still remains poor, and in spite of increasingly staunch liberal protest, the hesitance to abolish serfdom has resulted in immense dead-weight loss of what would otherwise be a plentiful source of industry workers. Throughout the ages the institution had undergone several reforms and changes, the first steps toward a complete abolishment were taken only in the 1810s, when the institution was abolished in Kurland, Estonia and Livonia. Industry is largely relegated to the centers of Moscow and Petrograd, while Russia's massive size means that its most bountiful deposits of ore and coal remain under-exploited. Large industrial changes are slow to implement, and Russia's immense territory and vast holdings create challenges to industrialize that few would even need to contemplate. Even so, the Breadbasket of Ukraine, the mines of the Caucasus, and the shipyards of the Baltics have brought much prosperity to the Empire.

Historical Claims: As the Protector of All Slavs and the Beacon of the Orthodox world, Russia has long had its eyes on the long-lost city of Istanbul to re-conquer it from the usurping Turks and manifest Russia as its rightful place as the Third Rome. Sensing weakness from Egypt's independence from the Ottomans, many believe that Russia will soon make its march.

Enter: Into an Isekai World