Xilaw

House of the Rising Sun?

Okay, this one is a little sloppy and small because if I enlarged it would be very pixelated and the geography would be unrecognizable.

My Hider

House of the Rising Sun?

@TwistedSun, sorry, I seem to have f**ked up. The geography of your county is literally in the mountains. All of it. I am about to put up the geographic map so you can take a look.

House of the Rising Sun?

Can I get the situation of Rastenburg, ie landscape and people??? SO I know what the county is good for and what it might not support. Also the von Hoffendolts will have Rastenburg (County), Rastenburg (Castle), Alleburg and Bunenburg. That leaves all the villages and the town of Manningen for others in Rastenburg. Is that okay??? I want to leave some of the small holdings to others.

@gowia

People are by a vast majority of Germanic origin. Landscape is hilly around Rastenburg, a bit more mountainous to the south and has a strip of plain in the very north around Manningen while the villages between them are on a transition. As for holdings, you only want to own castles?

House of the Rising Sun?

One other thing that I noticed some of you may be confused with. Just because you have the title of count doesn't mean that every estate in the county is yours, or that your family owns land only in that particular county. For example, one noble house could be awarded land in two or three different administrative divisions, meaning that those outside the county that belongs to you will have to pay taxes to the local administration (i.e. if von Hoffendolts have a count of Lictenau, they don't own all of the county. They may also have holdings in the lands that are directly under Manburg or in county of Dobersberg, meaning that the lords of those holdings will pay taxes to the Duke and the count of Dobersberg, respectively) PS) The example was hypothetical.

@Xilaw

Aye I know. But all the lords,knights etc. that run the towns answer to the count.

@LordZell

They answer to the count of the county that their estates are in, not the count that is their family member. This opens the possibility of one member of the house fighting against the other members in case of war between two counts. Of course, that member has a choice to either be loyal to his count or his family.

House of the Rising Sun?

One other thing that I noticed some of you may be confused with. Just because you have the title of count doesn't mean that every estate in the county is yours, or that your family owns land only in that particular county. For example, one noble house could be awarded land in two or three different administrative divisions, meaning that those outside the county that belongs to you will have to pay taxes to the local administration (i.e. if von Hoffendolts have a count of Lictenau, they don't own all of the county. They may also have holdings in the lands that are directly under Manburg or in county of Dobersberg, meaning that the lords of those holdings will pay taxes to the Duke and the count of Dobersberg, respectively) PS) The example was hypothetical.

House of the Rising Sun?

Thank you. Basically, the county of Greinbourg is the granary of the duchy :P We have big plains for cereals, some hills for wine... and also a whole river! Great, really great; it fits with the plan I had in mind. However, I'd like to add a mountain in a specific place. To be precise, It would be fantastic to have the castle of Greinbourg on a small and steep mountain. May I or is it forbidden?

Hider

This is an example of what I have in mind for Greinbourg

@TwistedSun

Of course. Hills are everywhere in Austria, apparently :D

House of the Rising Sun?

So are you assigning people their holdings or do we get to determine exactly what we have?

@Darkspleen

I will assign the holdings, yes. As for titles, the four counts have been determined. The other royal houses that do not have counts can have Burgraves, Lords, Knights or Edlers. All of these I've explained in one of the last two or three pages. Once the Roleplay starts and all the players are determined I will give you some fiefs and you can assign your family members freely as to who owns what estate. I may not have explained this too well as I'm about to go to bed. If there are still things that are a bit confusing I will be happy to explain them best way I can tomorrow. Just a reminder for everyone that the number of live family members at one point of the game should not exceed 15 in total, both male and female.

House of the Rising Sun?

Okay, here's the progress on the map of the duchy. I suppose I should've updated before you guys started writing the family history so here goes.

My Hider

You will notice it is getting a bit crowded :D anyway, I have few more abbeys to put in and the mines so I'd say it's about 90% done.

House of the Rising Sun?

Alright but eh still probably have some but whatever.

@LordZell

Take your time, I won't start the RP yet.

House of the Rising Sun?

Eh the I'm not good with time lines especially for specific family.

It's not a huge issue, simply copy/paste Adolf II after Leon and switch their years. Perhaps change some other inconsistencies if there are any. Btw the map of the duchy:

My Hider