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Re: Lesser Heir -[Pirate59392]-

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eikoopmit is not online. eikoopmit
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31 Mar 2016 09:44 AM
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You awaken in your guest room in the palace in Drudovell, where you are for the peace accords. You heard the news three days ago about your uncle's death, and that your younger brother Rædhelm has taken the throne. You knew that Rædhelm has always had a close affinity with your uncle, but the complete and utter disregard for your dynastic rights is unforgivable. The only reason you haven't done anything sooner is because you had to finish this peace treaty.

Apparently, though, you're not the only one who thinks that Rædhelm's act of claiming the throne was preposterous. Your cousin's son (your grandfather's second son's grandson) has also expressed outrage from the southeastern border, and has managed to get Dukes Alric II and Sigebhyrt IX of Cetopia and Vacitia respectively to declare war upon Rædhelm on the behalf of their chosen candidate, Baldwin (who, by the way, is only ten, proving that those two dukes care more about personal power and ease of manipulating the monarch than they do about dynastic inheritance).

Taking advantage of the new civil war, Duke Æthelgar of Wægellia, who controls the northern half of Wrennia's western coast and a large peninsula that juts off of it, has declared independence using the claim that his grandfather Æthelstan ruled Wægellia as an independent kingdom. He has the largest navy of all the Dukes of Wrennia, due in large part to the peninsula that he controls adding greatly to his coastal area, and likely suspects that he can use this to his advantage to force a treaty during the dynastic conflicts of the new civil war.

Additionally, for the past several years, foreign ships from the southwestern part of the continent (reportedly slightly further west than where the Gronians originally came from) have come to raid towns and cities all along the Cavakrian coast. Although they occasionally conquered a town for a time, generally the local lords would quickly reconquer the town and send the foreigners on their way, but you fear that the political instability in Wrennia right now would provide ample opportunity for them to invade places for long enough to fortify their defenses, perhaps permanently.

However, Rædhelm isn't completely unsupported in his conquest of the throne. Three of Wrennia's Dukes, Wigfurth II, Swithulf and Æmbald III of Nithia, Trintia and Stomoria respectively, immediately pledged their support to your younger brother. Four more Dukes have signed treaties saying that they will not join Baldwin's cause, although they have yet to swear allegiance to Rædhelm, and there are two more who have yet to do anything. And then there's you, the Duke of Vetoria.

Thinking it through in your head as you lie in bed this morning, you decide upon something definitively - you're going to be the one to restore stability to Wrennia. You're going to swear yourself as a vassal to neither Rædhelm nor Baldwin, and instead you're going to see if you can get at least some of the six remaining Dukes to swear themselves as your vassals in an attempt to help you press your claim. The only question is this - what are you going to do first?
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31 Mar 2016 12:40 PM
I'll send missive to the undecided Dukes, describing my rightful inheritance, declaring my intent to ascend the throne, and beckoning their vassalage.

In the mean time, I'll consolidate my holdings, get a census on the troops I can levy.
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31 Mar 2016 06:47 PM
(This isn't an NRP. I was expecting something along the lines of "I get up and get dressed" or something; you're still lying down in bed.)
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31 Mar 2016 07:02 PM
(Oh sorry it was framed like an NRP as far as I could tell.)

Coenhelm pulls himself up, setting aside the quilts, and reaching forward, stretching his back. He dons a linen tunic, a pair of breeches, and his boots, before stepping over to the window and looking out.

Wrennia was in turmoil, surely, and his grasp on his rightful inheritance is as volatile as it could be, but he would not lose it. He would take what is his.
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01 Apr 2016 02:58 AM
Looking out the window, you see the last city that your uncle conquered. The air is still tense from the military occupation that follows most conquests, but overall people appear to be starting to get back to their daily routines. At least, you think that those are their daily routines - just a few weeks ago, Drudovell would have been considered one of the most important cities in the Greathian kingdom of Dirrnyg, and their ways are so different to yours that you think you'll need to send north some real Wrennians to introduce the superior culture.
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01 Apr 2016 10:46 AM
Coenhelm steps back from the window, and pulls on a tan tunic, securing his belt about the waist. He dons a cloak, and packs away the rest of his possessions into a leather pack.

He steps out of the guest chamber.

His return could not come soon enough.
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01 Apr 2016 07:28 PM
In the hallway of the palace, a servant who appears to have been walking to your door quickly runs up to you and begins speaking. "Lord Bleddyn, the Baron of Drudovell, wishes you to join him for breakfast this morning. He knows that with everything going on in your capital you must need to return soon, but he wants all the remaining time that you spend in his palace to be enjoyable." Lord Bleddyn is the Greathian baron who controls Drudovell. While it was your uncle's policy to unseat from power conquered vassals, particularly Greathians, as the treaty was just signed recently and he died just as recently, he hasn't had the time to do so. It is clear that the immense measures of hospitality that are being shown to you are in an attempt by Bleddyn to remain the Baron of Drudovell, a title that's been in his family for over three hundred years.
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01 Apr 2016 09:01 PM
Hospitality always has it's motives, Coenhelm mused.

"Of course, I am not so urgent that I couldn't attend a meal."

Coenhelm could respect an extensive Legacy, and his Uncle's policies were not nesessarily his own. That said, perhaps he could pry a Levy for the coming trials from the Baron, with such an incentive. Something to think about over breakfast.

Coenhelm gestures for the servant to lead on.
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02 Apr 2016 06:04 AM
The servant leads you through the corridors of the palace, where you eventually find yourself in a large meal hall with a table that can seat twenty. Lord Bleddyn is sitting at the head of the table, while the rest of the long rectangular table has what appears to be various Knights and local officials, such as mayors of small towns surrounding, the head of Drudovell's city guard and one or two people you can't quite put titles to. Everyone's eyes seem to be on the court bard, who is currently playing a lyre to entertain everyone, and the servant motions for you to take the seat directly opposite Lord Bleddyn, at the other end of the table.

(I'd describe Lord Bleddyn's appearance in this post, but I unfortunately have time constraints. I'll do that next post, methinks.
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02 Apr 2016 09:39 AM
Coenhelm takes his seat at the end of the table, setting aside his pack.
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02 Apr 2016 05:37 PM
Displayed before you are a wide variety of meats, cheeses, breads, fruits and drinks, and everyone seems to be eating. "I'm glad you can join us, Lord Coenhelm!" exclaims Lord Bleddyn from the head of the table, "Take any food you'd like!"
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02 Apr 2016 06:36 PM
"How could I not Lord Bleddyn?"

Coenhelm fills a plate, largely out of courtesy. Too much on the mind for a hearty appetite.
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03 Apr 2016 05:46 AM
"So much has happened over the course of the past few days - the treaty, King Ceolweard's death and your brother ascending the throne, in addition to two civil wars ongoing right now. I'm curious, though - with all the warring going on in Wrennia, what's going to happen to the newly acquired territory here in the north?" He's talking as if he has some motive to wanting to know these things that stretch beyond simple politics - maybe if you humour him somewhat you'll have a better chance of figuring it out.
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03 Apr 2016 10:02 AM
"Well, under normal cicrumstances, they'd be given to Lords who faught well in it's taking, or be partioned out to upstart nobles, knights and the like. But these are hardly normal cicrumstances, hm?"
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04 Apr 2016 03:58 AM
"Indeed," Says Lord Bleddyn, beginning to smile. You suspect that you know what it is that he's getting at, but you can't be certain just yet (given the politics here it could still be a number of different things). "Tell me, Lord Coenhelm, what side are you going to be taking in this war - your brother or your cousin?"
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04 Apr 2016 09:15 AM
"My own, of course. I am the legitimate successor, and I intend to succeed."
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04 Apr 2016 09:22 AM
As soon as you say that all the knights begin talking among themselves, likely discussing your announcement to them. Lord Bleddyn, managing to maintain an almost completely stoic appearance, almost seems as if he expected it. Almost. Still, he quickly regains his composure and, after waiting a few minutes for the rest of the table to quiet down, he speaks again.

"If I were to support your claim to the throne," he begins, "Do I have your word that you'll maintain my titles?" Although this is the first offer of support that you've gotten, you are still the Duke of Vetoria (the third most powerful Duchy in Wrennia by some estimates) and as such it can be implied that you'll have plenty supporters from amongst your vassals - plus, Lord Bleddyn knows your skill at negotiations from the past several days here, and likely expects you to pick up at least one of the remaining Dukes to join you in pressing your claim. The reasoning that you suspect he's using to guess that you'll win is rather sound, and his motivations are very clearly to maintain his titles even after the conquest.
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04 Apr 2016 09:37 AM
"Aye, you have my word."
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04 Apr 2016 09:48 AM
"Then it's settled, your majesty," Lord Bleddyn says. "All my resources are at your disposal until you get back to your own palace, and I shall send emissaries, if you want, to all the other newly conquered lands in Wrennia with the same proposal." The land that was just conquered in the war is large enough that it could easily be split into two or even three Duchies (your uncle clearly went all out in his final conquest of the Greathians); the Duchies and Earldoms have yet to be established, though, as the Greathians have a slightly different structure of government. Regardless, with that many supporters, regardless of whether or not they're culturally similar to you, you'll hopefully stand a chance in the war, assuming that Rædhelm doesn't manage to get oaths of fealty from all four of the presumably-unaligned Dukes who said that they're against Baldwin.
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04 Apr 2016 10:08 AM
"I'm glad, Lord Bleddyn. Send the emmisaries, if you will. It's not the stability my Uncle would have wished to establish, but it's the expedient stability I'll need."

Coenhelm considered for a moment. To so easily discard his Uncles last conquest, returning it to those he had taken it from. Fah, his Uncles conquests were not his own, and he would not risk an easily established body of support on a dead man's pride.

He chided himself for speaking ill of the dead, but his decision would stand.
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04 Apr 2016 07:07 PM
"As you wish, your majesty," Lord Bleddyn says, and he calls over some of his servants to give them instructions; probably instructions to set the scribes to work all day writing enough letters to send to all the Barons in the newly conquered area. And even with the autonomy that you're leaving the newly conquered lands, they still accept you as their liege-lord instead of returning to some Greathian king who'll turn them immediately against you. It's not completely discarding the conquest, but it's not the level of control that your uncle would have liked.
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04 Apr 2016 08:56 PM
Coenhelm considered his options. Once word of his claim spread, as it naturally would, it would be best that he be in his home. It would hardly do for Vetoria to be overtaken while he was away. Rallying Dukes would surely prove difficult if he lost his seat of power, no matter how much formerly Greathian territory he had to fall back upon.

(So as for the Technology, you established 8th Century Anglo-Saxon, so naturally we'd see those robe-like tunics and such at the lower levels of the Army, Maybe padded jackets and chainmail as you get higher. Weapons obviously, lots of spears, I think pretty much everyone (except the slaves, for whom it was forbidden) carrid a spear at this point, alongside a sword or axe or something. Round shields, ovalish shields, teardrop kite shields (though they were more of a cavalry asset). As for helmets, The Roman-esque helmets with the nose guard,, Nasal Helmets, leather helmets. The helmets with the eye-guards and aventail. That's all that I assume anyway.

But how far, if at all, do you plan on diverging from that. Early Crusade period equipment maybe? Scale armor, both leather and metal? What suite of technologies beyond what I get in a google search of the established set, if any, are we looking at.)
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05 Apr 2016 03:13 AM
With that thought in mind, what course of action do you take?

(For armour, you're spot-on. For weapons, spears were the most common weapon in the Anglo-Saxon arsenal, as I'm sure that you know quite well, but they're not the only weapons that I'll be using. Swords were uncommon and expensive in Anglo-Saxon times, so unlike in most fantasy, I won't be throwing them around at random but instead I'll use them as much as a status symbol for the well-to-do as an actual weapon for in combat. Additionally, the Battle-Axe was a weapon feared largely by the enemies of the Anglo-Saxons, so I'm thinking that I'll use battleaxes for the professional full-time military garrison (this is still fantasy, after all) and spears for the drafted guys that normally work farms. The only shields that I could find in my research were round, but I haven't found any rules that said that they only ever used round shields and nothing else. For the helmets, I'm sure that you're aware of the Sutton Hoo ship grave that was found and the helmet that was found in that? The helmets, at least in this interpretation of Anglo-Saxon history and society, will generally be akin to that, but just somewhat less ornate.)

(As for borrowing from other time periods, as there's more than enough Anglo-Saxon information out there to cover almost anything that I can look up (for instance, information on the holidays that slaves were allowed to use to sell merchandise) I'd be willing to borrow the tiny, minor societal details that remain up to as recently as the Wars of the Roses, if need be, and as early as when Rome left Britain. Unless I instead make them up myself because they seem to thematically fit better; that's a possibility for what I might do for the remaining information as well.)
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05 Apr 2016 07:34 AM
Coenhelm stands, and collects his bag.

"I thank you for your hospitality Lord Bleddyn, but I must return home. There is much to attend to."

(With the other time periods, I was referring more to technology than societal details. Honestly, it's just cause I watched a video about crusader helmets and now they're stuck on the brain. As for the Suttun Hoo helmet, that's what I was trying to describe as the Masked Helm, as I wasn't sure what to call it, but I find pictures of other helms in the searches. The 'Roman-esque' was meant to describe the helmet worn by the Man in Red in the picture I referenced in the CS, and the helm with the eye-piece shows up in the general searches as well.)
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05 Apr 2016 07:51 AM
"As you wish, your majesty. I shall have my servants prepare you your horse immediately."

(Technology is actually the one thing that we definitively know a lot about due to archæological records. But yeah, the helmet worn by your guy in the picture and the helmet from Sutton Hoo are definitely going to be helmets, but I can't find what you mean by a helmet with an eye piece. Can you please send me a picture?)

(Also most soldiers won't have helmets by the way. Some might have leather caps or something, but helmets, like swords, are probably difficult and expensive to make, and if most soldiers are just wearing ordinary tunics into combat I doubt most of them would take the time or money to buy an expensive helmet. Some might have helmets, but most probably won't.)
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