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 Reign of Queen Lisette I 7. The Lisettian Recovery Fraeliene Geleeric posted:
In the first year of her rule the Queen of Camlorn, Lisette the First, sent diplomats all across Tamriel to take stock of the continent following the devastation of the Great Plague. These court officials sent back reports, which were collated into a general report by her scribe Namaroy Sibilius. Because no additional copies were produced at the time one has been included with this account for the sake of preserving it for future generations. Said generations will no doubt find it valuable to study the political situation of the world as it was decades before they were born. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
  High Rock, the homeland of the Breton people, is divided between two powerful realms following the end of the Plague. Noble Camlorn is ruled by Queen Lisette the First and controls nearly all of eastern and central High Rock, who displays all the fine qualities of a proper Breton lady. Western High Rock, however, is ruled by the tyrant and usurper Namasur formerly of the Yokuda Isles. The foreign cur was disinherited by his own father and responded by gathering a force of mercenaries, adventurers and vagabonds to invade the Kingdom of Daggerfall in the midst of the Plague. He then proceeded to declare himself King of High Rock, despite ruling less than a fourth of the region. The mighty warrior-king has yet to prove his might against a foe that isn’t suffering from the worst plague in history.      A number of small baronies and minor kingdoms remain independent in High Rock for the time being. Most notably is the Kingdom of Bhoriane, which sits between the two large Kingdoms, and the ancient Altmer stronghold on the Island of Balfiera. The false king over in Daggerfall will likely try to bully or conquer these weak realms before long.   Hammerfell, home of the Redguards, is more neatly divided into two kingdoms. King Avik the Second of House Hilythik rules over all of the deserts and semi-deserts of Hammerfell, which is an impressive feat since wastelands are in such high demand. Despite calling himself the King of Hammerfell Avik does not rule all of the region. The Kingdom of Rihad covers the grasslands and dry forests of the south. King Winsom Curetar’s people spend half the year fleeing flash floods and the other half fleeing forest fires. If their foreign gods time the floods right they cancel out the fires. With the extra leisure time the Crowns and Forebears can have a war to finally settle their problems, just like they have every year since the First Era.  The Arana dynasty, which has ruled the Summerset Isles so long that they can trace their rule to the first settlers, has died out. Since then a number of short-lived rulers have come and gone, causing instability throughout the realm. The “colony” in Valenwood has seen a great deal of trouble, as the native Wood Elves are trying to force the High Elves to leave. Having been to a few parties with High Elf guests I am sympathetic to their plight.    Speaking of Valenwood, the endless expanse of forest is ruled over by three different kingdoms. I personally have no idea how you draw a border under all those trees, but then again I don’t know how Wood Elves survive on an all-meat diet either. The ancient Camoran Dynasty rules over Falinesti in the north and west of the region. The center of Valenwood is ruled by the Chiefdom of Snapvine, scant information of which I was able to gather. The Wood Elves who live that deep in the forest are not known for their diplomatic niceties. The southeastern coastline is dominated by the “Archen pact”, a union between the royal houses of the city states of Haven and Southpoint.   The Kingdom of Elsweyr is ruled over by the Mane, a special type of Khajiit that is born under a special alignment of the moons. Apparently the Mane is reincarnated after death into the new Mane, who gets to be king for life even if he’s mentally deficient. The Merchant Republic of Senchal is one of the richest realms in all of Tamriel. If you have ever been in possession of an illegal substance or a stolen good chances are it passed through there. The report I received on the city from diplomat Jorcheim the Younger smelled strongly of Skooma and had many misspellings in it. I have put in a request to have him fired and replaced by myself.  The Colovian Estates remain confined to their historical borders, for the most part. The stodgy lords of Western Cyrodiil maintain their confederation begrudgingly, with only occasional civil wars over whose market square is more austere. The lords of Kvatch, Skingrad and Chorrol don’t trust each other to lead, so the currently elected King Lutatis is the lord of….Glademist. I am from Cyrodiil myself and I’ve never heard of the place, but apparently it exists.   Lord Vipstan of the Imperial Hearlands claims that his government is the rightful government of the Second Empire of Man because he was elected by the Elder Council. This remnant of the old imperial court is mostly made up of the richest merchants of the Imperial City and the most powerful landlords of the fertile lowlands surrounding Lake Rumare. Their claim to mastery of Cyrodiil has taken a blow after they lost Cyrodiil Island to rioting cityfolk and had to flee to nearby Fort Grief. Before the Plague the Imperial City was the most populated place in Tamriel and there was a lot of money to be made off those folks. Once the Flu hit though, things got real bad real fast. The people blamed the Council and ran them out of town, propped up some guy named Spartacus. After two years and the plague not going away they threw Spartacus off one of the walls and put a guy named Lamponius in charge. He lasted a full five years before they slit his throat. Guy named Darien is running it now, he might have a chance now that the Flu is gone.  The houses of Nibenay (of which my illustrious family are a notable member) are ruled Queen Selena The Second, who is famed for her friendliness and charm. Said charm is no doubt lost on the Khajiit, whose key city of Rimmen she has turned into her capital.  I have had the pleasure of knowing a few Argonians in my time (or Saxhleel if you want to be polite) and I know that they are immune to most poisonous and not a few diseases. Because of this I don’t think that their immunity to the Flu is proof of their guilt. Still, it must be said that the Kingdom of Helstrom has taken full advantage of this immunity. Spreading out from the center of the province, Helstrom has seized key cities like Gideon, Blackrose and Archon from the Dark Elves, Nibenese and Khajiit. Counter-raids against the slavers of Morrowind have become common and Dunmer heads decorate the gates of many towns.  The constant scheming and fighting among the great houses of Morrowind has only started up again recently. The Tribunal Temple banned such acts during the Flu, seeing as there was plenty of death going around anyways. The current Archcanon is a Dark Elf of little intelligence named Athis. The lords of the various houses I don’t particularly care about.   Skyrim is divided between two Nordic Kingdoms. King Torygg Stuhn rules over the Kingdom of Bruma, which covers the northern coast of Lake Rumare up through Pale Pass and southeastern Skyrim. He controls the key cities of Bruma and Riften, but chooses to hold court at Treva’s Watch. His opponent for the crown of Skyrim is Queen Grelka Yngvlar of Winterhold. If I were a betting man I’d put my Remans on her to take the hat. She controls all of the ports, the mage college at Winterhold and the silver mines at Markarth. She’s also got the pedigree: Grelka can trace her lineage back to one of the 500 Companions who came to Skyrim from their old homeland and beat the elves to poo poo. Nords love that sort of thing. This concludes the General Diplomatic Report on the Condition of Tamriel. For further information on the political situation of the entire continent, please send a letter of inquiry to the office of the Chancellor. No seriously, I don’t want to hear from anybody but the Queen, if you’re not the one paying me don’t come to my office asking for information about the current ruler of Volkihar island or whatever.   In her 29th year the Lady Lisette became Queen of Camlorn. Of the seven remaining members of the Renault dynasty that had survived the Knahaten Flu, Lady Lisette was the youngest and most capable and so was elected by the lords of the realm to take the place of her departed great-grandmother Faida. A masterful diplomat who had spent much of her childhood in Cyrodil, Queen Lisette was a shrewd and beautiful woman whose charm and tact were a welcome change after fifty years of rule by Queen Faida the First. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
    At the time of her Summer coronation the Queen was already the mother of two healthy sons: Hrol the eldest and Vicmond the younger. The Queen’s husband and father to these two children was Visellius Acilius, an Imperial whose family had served as Prefects of Fort Legion on Cyrodiil Island for two generations.   One of the Queen’s first acts was to move the court to Phrygias, to be closer to the center of her realm. In Phrygias Queen Lisette spent most of her early reign at home with her husband and children. While such matronly behavior is no doubt laudable and blessed by Mara, it makes writing an interesting chronicle difficult. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
  In the year 2E 547 the Queen Lisette the First joined the Elder Council as an observing member. While she did not recognize the authority of the Imperial Hearlands over her realm, she did recognize the existence of “An eternal and rightful concept of Empire” in her oath of office. What this perfectly vague phrase exactly means is lost on the author, but the diplomatic and economic connections this creates between Camlorn and Cyrodiil are not.    In the last month of Winter in 2E 248 a monument to those lost to the Knahaten Flu was raised in the town square of Phrygias. At the center of the grand runestone was the name of Agnete, Queen Lisette’s mother. All around the stone were carved the names of other victims, noble and commoner alike. A great many Camlornians came from across the realm to pay tribute and donate to the shrine of Stendarr and its healers. All who came praised the generosity and piety of the Queen. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
     In the years 2E 549 and 550 the Queen Lisette gave birth to two children: a third son, named Leo and a daughter, named Evelyn. Both were healthy and came without complication. That’s it, that’s really all that has happened in the past two years of any real note. The realm continues to recover from the Knahaten Flu slowly and here in Phrygias the Queen continues to have more children.  In 2E 551 the Yokudan warlord Namasur invaded the Island of Balfiera, claiming it as his right as the “Rightful King of High Rock”. This created something of a political panic among the lords of High Rock. Balfiera sits at the center of the Iliac Bay trade and, as home to the Adamantine Tower, is viewed as the symbolic heart of the region.    Queen Lisette sent letters to all the lords of High Rock, both her own vassals and those who remained independent, inviting them to an alliance to reclaim the island and throw the Yokudans out of High Rock. Most importantly, a betrothal between the Queen’s daughter Evelyn and the heir to the throne of Bhoriane was organized. This cemented an alliance between Camlorn and the largest independent realm in the region. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:Well drat, looks like war is going to start before the year’s over. I don’t think Lisette is much of a general, but she knows how to get folks on her side and she’s got a fat warchest. If she can get the Reachman tribes to fight for her and can win before she runs out of money for mercenaries this war might be won. But those Yokudans don’t want to go and I’ve heard that there’s something like 10,000 warriors among them.     On the tenth day of Frost Fall a letter of demand was sent to King Namasur of High Rock at his court in Balfiera. Queen Lisette of Camlorn gave the Yokudan the remained of the month to indicate his plans to vacate the island or face open war with Camlorn. He refused to do so and when Sun’s Dusk came the Queen made a public declaration of war upon the tyrant. Bhoriane and the Reachman tribes of eastern Camlorn made their own declarations in support of the Queen and the Fighters Guild chapters of Cyrodiil and Skyrim signed contracts with Camlorn for a handsome fee. Come Spring the forces of Camlorn shall sally forth to take the Adamantine Tower back from the usurper. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
   Near the end of First Seed the Army of All Bretons marched from Phrygias to retake Wayrest numbering eighty-two hundred. This included 250 mounted knights, 260 battlemages, three arch-battlemages which are apparently better in some way, 2,500 heavy infantry and 3,000 light infantry, along with attached skirmishers and auxiliaries. Upon venturing south the Bretons found no sight of the main Yokudan army, only a small force which had been left to besiege Fort Firebrand. This was quickly dispatched with only 7 losses for the Bretons. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
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 On the First day of Evening Star the Army of All Bretons met the Yokudans of King Namasur on the outskirts of Shinji’s Scarp, which they had been sieging for the past couple of months. With the Winter cold settling in the Yokudan mages had trouble using the fire spells they were familiar with, while the Breton mages wisely hurled spears of ice down on the light infantry of Namasur’s frontline during the skirmish. Once the melee began the difference in the number of infantry began to show, forcing Namasur to try and turn the tide with his cavalry. The Yokudan Charger is a sleek, fast horse well suited to outflanking an opponent, but the Breton Knight Charger is bred specifically to carry heavy armored knights. While the Breton light cavalry blocked the Yokudan’s left flankers, the knights slammed into the right flankers and killed around 200 of them before the rest scattered. With them gone the knights continued onward, getting behind the Yokudan frontline and slaughtering skirmishers and mages with swords and maces. Once the wizards were fleeing the infantry took flight as well and the signal was given for retreat. The light cavalry pursued for a time, before returning to camp. By which point I was drunk on victory and Cyrodiilic brandy so I cannot recall much more after that. Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
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   The remainder of the year was spent sieging Balfiera Island, a long boring process that only got worse when I ran out of coin to buy drugs and alcohol with. This was interrupted by a little excitement when the remnants of the Yokudan army showed up near Firebrand to be beaten again. On the first anniversary of the victory at Shinji’s Scarp the fortress surrounding the Adamantine Tower fell to Breton forces.   [i] With his forces broken and his capital taken, King Namasur made the only choice he had and offered terms of peace. Balfiera was granted to the Queen of Camlorn and the Yokudans grip on southern High Rock was damaged, if not wholly broken yet. I shall look forward to returning to Phrygias soon.  Diary of Namaroy S. DO NOT READ!!! THIS BOOK HAS A DAEDRA’S CURSE ON IT posted:
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After the Vampire Queen of Malog Bal there was a need for Lisette. How nice!
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Gonna miss the good queen and her furry chronicler. Lovely update!
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Aw man, too bad your game crashed suddenly. Weird, you never even found out what disease she had. Guess it's time to load up that last save, right? ...  EDIT: Wow, fuckin rude, death screen. Not cool.
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 Reign of King Hrol I 8. The One and True King of High Rock Professor Saaginia Glishca posted:Fraeliene,   At the age of ten the young Prince Hrol of Camlorn was entrusted to the care of Baron Devin Ysciele of Koegria and Wrothgaria. The Baron held a great many titles in Camlorn, including marshal and Master of the Sword, titles which were well-earned for his services as a commander to the late Queen Faida in his late 20s and early 30s. The son of a Breton-Redguard marriage, Baron Devin spent his youth restlessly. For a time he was a member of the Fighter’s Guild of High Rock, before moving in with an Orc clan somewhere in the valleys of the Wrothgar Mountains. What he did out there is lost to us, but when his father died he returned to his father’s court in brazen fashion. One account writes that he “arrived seated upon a massive sabre-cat, uncountable skulls dangling from his saddle and a number more scars decorating his broad chest which he left naked save for a cape in the manner of a Nord or Orc.” It is perhaps little wonder that the child left under this man’s tutelage would go on to become the greatest knight in High Rock’s history.    When Queen Lisette the First died suddenly in 2E 557 King Hrol was two years from his majority. The realm was therefore managed by his father Visellius, whose talent for administration saw to it that Hrol would be crowned without issue or concern for instability.   In 2E 558 King Hrol was crowned as King of Camlorn and his betrothed, Queen Ciceri Mede, arrived by boat in Phrygias shortly thereafter. The daughter of the powerful Count Paratus of Chorrol in the Colovian Estates, her marriage to the King continued the trend of Camlornian rulers marrying Cyrodiilics.     Two major issues faced King Hrol early on in his reign. The first was the Adamantine Revolt which occurred in 2E 558 near the end of Summer. The Altmer of Balfiera Island had lived on the island for thousands of years, stretching back to the first elven settlers of mainland Tamriel. At the height of their power the Aldmer Direnni clan had ruled a kingdom which covered nearly a quarter of Tamriel’s landmass, with Balfiera as their capital. Over time this empire shrank, until the fortress island of Balfiera stood alone against the influx of humans. After the island was taken by King Namasur of Yokudan Daggerfall, many Altmer had petitioned the powerful Queen of Camlorn for aid in liberating their home. In 2E 554 this help came, but the Bretons didn’t leave after chasing the Yokudans out. Assurances given by representatives of the late Queen that the island would be granted independence vanished once the island fortresses had been stormed. Volunteer Altmer soldiers who had fought to retake their homes were given a small sum of Remans and then disarmed. All of this, combined with the behavior of knights who had been stationed on the island, created a heated environment that boiled over into a series of riots in the heat of Last Seed. Thousands of peasants, artisans and fishermen rose up, led by a radical priest of Auri-El named Galalrimon. The Camlornian army, reinforced by members of the High Rock Fighter’s Guild, put the rebellion down early in 2E 559. The Altmer of Balfiera would remain an issue of concern for some time, however.    The second issue of note was King Namasur of Yokudan Daggerfall. While Queen Faida’s capture of Balfiera had done much to weaken the aura of invincibility the invader had enjoyed after conquering Daggerfall, he still claimed to be the rightful king of all High Rock. A war between Camlorn and Yokudan Daggerfall was inevitable, so King Hrol prepared in two ways. First he prevented Namasur from allying with Hammerfell by negotiating an agreement of non-aggression with High King Kharbeff. Queen Ciceri did much to achieve this through her diplomatic visits to Hammerfell. Secondly, Hrol sent court officials and spies throughout Daggerfall to sow discontent among the minor Breton nobility. It was not hard to convince many that the rightful high king of the Bretons was Hrol, not Namasur.   As preparations for war were underway, King Hrol busied himself training with the Fighter’s Guild. With sword and lance Hrol dispatched all manner of beasts and brigands, earning him a reputation as quite a gallant knight.    Namasur, meanwhile, faced a series of religious revolts from Bretons faithful to the Eight Divines. His veteran Yokudan forces put these down with ease, but the shakiness of his rule was beginning to show. Still, Hrol watched and waited for his chance and it came in 2E 566. Perhaps trying to recover his invincible reputation, King Namasur declared war on the Jarl of Winterhold over portions of the county of Northpoint. Hrol immediately sent riders to watch the coast of Northern High Rock.   When the main army of Namasur was sighted heading east at Farrun Hrol knew it was time to strike. On the 9th of Hearthfire he declared war upon Namasur, claiming much of the Iliac Bay was rightfully his.    Hrol gathered a force of 6500 and spent Winter and Spring capturing much of Southern Daggerfall without any sight of Namasur. In Midyear the Yokudan army, more than half its number dead from fighting in Skyrim, returned to a realm in flames. Multiple rebellions had broken out following the arrival of King Hrol, which Namasur struggled to put down before facing the Breton King.    In late Fall Namasur’s capital fell, prompting the Yokudan to at last deal with Hrol. His army marched to Bhoriane and invested the city, hoping to capture it and interrupt Hrol’s supply lines. It was outside of the city that the Camlornian army attacked Namasur, it’s battlemages and heavy cavalry tearing massive holes in the Yokudan line and sending them into retreat to the south.    The Bretons pursued Namasur south to Dourstone, where another victory convinced Namasur to offer terms of surrender. On the 5th of Hearthfire the war ended and Hrol moved his court to Balfiera Island to be closer to the center of High Rock in preparation for eventually declaring himself High King of the Bretons.   Namasur, meanwhile, could only watch as his rump state fell to rebellions and chaos.      As Hrol’s forces trained and prepared for the next war, the King himself traveled all across his realm with sword and lance. Stories of his bravery, chivalry and strength spread far and wide.   Wanderers and heroes from all over Tamriel traveled to join his court at Balfiera Island. Many of these would later form the Knights of the Adamantine Tower which served as the king’s personal guard in his eastern campaigns. (Why yes that is indeed a stubborn, suspicious, trusting, devious, bisexual master healer Khajiit who trained to be a spy that just became Hrol’s court physician.)   Plans for war with Namasur had to be sped up in 2E 570, when the news came that High King Kharbeff of Hammerfell had declared war on the Yokudan King. The non-aggression pact signed between Kharbeff and Hrol had been Hrol’s way of ensuring that Kharbeff would not interfere with his campaign to claim the throne of High Rock. Now Kharbeff, at the urging of his marshal, intended to do the same.   King Hrol quickly gathered a force at Balfiera and surrounding areas, not waiting for all of his forces to arrive before going on the offensive against Namasur. Allowing Kharbeff to gain even a single foothold in Western High Rock would make claiming the crown difficult. At Glenumbra Moors Breton heavy knights once more proved their worth, flanking the Yokudans and slaughtering their mages almost to a man. With them on the run Hrol proceeded quickly to the Isle of Betony, where Namasur had moved his court after the loss of Daggerfall. Reinforcements trickled in as the siege continued.   The walls of Skyspire Keep, carved from the very cliffs by Reman the Second, held out against Hrol for 4 months before food ran short and the inhabitants were forced to open the gates. Hrol took both of Namasur’s wives and many of his children captive and invited the would-be king to parlay on the beach of Betony, under the shadow of Skyspire Keep. Namasur came, with a small honorguard of veteran Yokudan warriors and little else. Though proud and unbroken, the foreign king knew he was without the men, coin, land or magicka to retain his throne in the face of mighty Hrol. When Hrol offered to allow Namasur to remain the baron of Betony in exchange for recognizing him as ”The One and True King of High Rock” he accepted and the war came to a close.   Those Breton realms which had broken free from Namasur’s rule quickly swore their allegiance as well. On the last day of Frostfall Hrol the First, known throughout Tamriel as “Hrol the Eagle”, born of House Renault, was crowned High King of High Rock in a ceremony on Balfiera Island. Under the glistening Adamantine Tower a crown of gold and adamantium, depicting an eagle ascendant over the ancient structure, was placed upon the head of High King Hrol. 
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The usurper is gone, long live the king! Are we still Nord by the way? Or have we become Breton since?
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Luhood posted:The usurper is gone, long live the king! Culturally Hrol is Breton, his physical appearance and racial trait is Imperial and his name is Nordic. Children of mixed-race marriages have a 50/50 chance of which one they get, that red circle with a sort of Italian-looking face in it means Hrol is Imperial (if he were racially Nord it'd be a man with long blond hair and face paint). Clayren fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jul 30, 2019 |
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quote:Sleeping Tree Sap Ummm  I think you'll find that this is ahistorical! The Sleeping Tree won't exist until 4E 40 when a strain of mutant Hist falls from the Infernal City Umbriel and plants itself near Whiterun. Some scholar you are and furthermore HLGAHGHAGHLGUGAGHAGH!!!1So anyway let's talk about Orcs. Orcs were included with the beast races during an earlier update, but this is just period appropriate racism. Orcs are yet another type of elf. Specifically they were Aldmer followers of Trinimac, who was one of their god/heroes. He was assaulted by one of (or possibly two of) the Daedric princes and transformed into Malacath, Daerdric Prince of the Scorned. His followers were similarly transformed and became the Orsimer, The Pariah Folk. Now owing your patronage to a dude who's sphere is The Outcast means the deck is kind of stacked against you narratively. As we saw a bit of, the Orcs are constantly trying to form a nation in the Wrothgarian mountains (between Highrock, Skyrim and Hammerfell) and just as constantly being beat the gently caress down. The attempt with the most long lasting repercussion was by Gortwog gro-Nagorm in 3E 399. He managed to get full Imperial citizenship for the Orcs so at least they won't be killed on sight trying to enter a city. (This was one of the mutually exclusive endings of Daggerfall which all happened simultaneously due to Time/Dragon/Dragon of Time related shenanigans. Also why you can play as an Orc starting with Morrowind.) As for the version of Orisnium he created, it was sacked after the end of the the 3rd Era, again. I liek Orcs.
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7c Nickel posted:Ummm Orcs are hard to play in Elder Kings because their Code of Malacath government type and their religion both penalize them for not being at war or raiding 24/7. Also, be prepared to be challenged to duels for your crown by all of your male relatives. The description of their unique government type is Malacath posted:
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Ok for those of who don't actually play the game and know what the little symbols or how to read a character card, just how badass is King Hrol? Like what's a personal combat level mean and how high is his?
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Ok for those of who don't actually play the game and know what the little symbols or how to read a character card, just how badass is King Hrol? Like what's a personal combat level mean and how high is his? The Elder Kings really inflates the personal combat numbers. But, around 60 means that you are a pretty darn good fighter who can reliably cut down professional tough guys, and 90+ is the badass zone where you will (almost) always cut down lesser fighters in a duel. The martial score of 29 means that Hrol is also a brilliant battlefield commander. It's a once-in-a-generation kind of score in the base game, although in both CK2 and especially in The Elder Kings, you can get truly legendary characters that reach the 40s if the stars align. Hrol is awesome, and utterly unaccustomed to dealing with problems that can't be solved on the open battlefield, and will probably meet his end through assassination instead of in war.
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I thought orcs were supposed to be the most sexually egalitarian of the races since they recognised strength and merit above all else. I'm sure I remember reading that in a book... Could have been a book that was in a mod though. I thought that was the reason why the Imperials liked them and recognised them as non-beasts. I kind of liked that about them, it kind of twisted the whole 'brutish orc' thing. Did that change between Morrowind and the later games, or did I just download too may hammy book mods? Despite being an Imperial, this guy seems like the epitome of being a Breton.
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You're probably thinking ofquote:Most Imperial citizens regard Orc society as rough and cruel, but there is much to admire in their fierce tribal loyalties and generous equality of rank and respect among the sexes. Which is pretty vague. If only Men can be Warchiefs but he needs the support of the Wisewoman and Forgewife to rule does that count? This also only applies to Orcs living the traditional Stronghold life. Like right now the LP's empire includes a lot of orc citizens (even though it might be a bit ahistoric).
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That's definitely what I was thinking of, wow. Can't believe you gathered that from my hazy memories. I guess I just read inbetween the lines and treated my interpretation as lore.
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Clayren posted:
I suppose it's only ironic that the giant, talking cat is suggesting we eat a dead bird to help cure what ails us...
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evilmiera posted:That isn't even a joke, given what actually went down. 
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Chatrapati posted:I thought orcs were supposed to be the most sexually egalitarian of the races since they recognised strength and merit above all else. I'm sure I remember reading that in a book... Could have been a book that was in a mod though. I thought that was the reason why the Imperials liked them and recognised them as non-beasts. I kind of liked that about them, it kind of twisted the whole 'brutish orc' thing. Did that change between Morrowind and the later games, or did I just download too may hammy book mods? Keep in mind that one of the constant experiences of Orc culture is the repeated destruction of Orsinium. Every time a group of Orcs has gotten together to build a city and a nation (the stuff humans and elves claim make a race "civilized") of their own, it was eventually destroyed by humans. Almost immediately after Savirien-Chorak died the second Orsinium was destroyed, likely causing the survivors to revert to a more guarded, defensive sort of society (as seen in the Orc strongholds of Skyrim). During the Third Era, starting in 399, the Orcs enjoyed a period of peaceful coexistence with their neighbors and came close to having their region of the Wrothgar mountains recognized as an imperial province. The sort of society the Orcs lived in during the period covered by Morrowind and Oblivion was very possibly more ordered and egalitarian, reflecting the status of Orcs as imperial citizens with all the rights and protections that grants. Unfortunately, after the Oblivion crisis and the end of the Septim Dynasty Orsinium was again destroyed, hence all the Orc strongholds that dot Skyrim, walled citadels that do not invite outsiders and are organized in a very clannish way. There's a sort of cycle we can see in all this. When Tamriel is ruled by some centralized power the Orcs, whose population is never very large, prosper and contribute. When that empire or power falls, the Orcs human neighbors undertake a genocidal campaign and the Orcs fall back to isolated armed camps, far from human settlements. This might reflect the two gods of the Orsimer: Trinimac the mighty champion of the elven pantheon and Malacath, the spurned outcast.
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It's another one of those threads that you really wish Bethesda would tug at instead of Demon invasions or Dragons.
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 Reign of King Hrol I 9. The Southern Campaigns    Following the unification of High Rock in 2E 581 King Hrol the First undertook a broad program of reorganization for the realm. The Kingdom of Camlorn had been a mess of baronies, priories and city states. These were replaced with a system of duchies and republics. These included the Dukedom of Wrothgaria, which was granted to Hrol’s old friend and teacher Devin Ysciele, and the Magnificent Republic of Daggerfall. Also of note was the changing of the Renault family heraldry, which had long been an image of the keep of Camlorn burning in celebration of King Leo I’s rebellion. As the first ruler of a unified High Rock in nearly 3,000 years King Hrol’s fame had quickly overshadowed that of his dynasty’s founder. Known far and wide as Hrol the Eagle, the High King officially changed the Renault crest into that of a gold eagle sejant regardant, atop a checker of white and sea green.   Hrol oversaw many projects to reform the army, borrowing much from Colovian legionary tactics to make the heavy infantry of High Rock a force to be reckoned with. The reigns of Sebastien I, Leo II and Faida I were eastward focused, with expansion into the Western Reach and royal marriages with major houses in Skyrim. Lisette I and Hrol I both married into powerful Cyrodiilic families, as also nearly did Hrol’s firstborn son and heir Prince Leo. Cyrodiilic influences on the military and culture of High Rock under King Hrol were strong, although there is no doubt Hrol was a true Breton through and through. His founding of a knightly order on Balfiera Island surely shows this.   The death of High King Kharbeff in 2E 584 meant an end to the non-aggression pact between Hammerfell and High Rock. The duchies of Evermore and Dunkarn were historically considered part of High Rock, but had been controlled by Hammerfell for a couple of generations. Racial animosity among Bretons was at an all time high following the Adamantine Revolt and the Yokudan wars and Hrol had little trouble convincing the nobility to back a war for Evermore.   A Yokudan peasant revolt in Northmoor which erupted in response to this declaration of war was quickly put down and only fuelled revanchism among the Breton population.   King Hrol’s army, with its disciplined heavy infantry, deadly battlemages and Breton knights, scored an easy victory outside the town of Wind Keep in 2E 585. Hrol was prevented from pursuing the defeated Redguards by the need to put down a second Yokudan revolt in Northmoor.   Hrol returned the next year and scored two victories at Bangkorai Pass in Rain’s Hand and Midyear. In the second of the pair Hrol the Eagle charged his Knights of the Adamantine Tower directly into a barrage of spells and slaughtered the Redguard mages to a man, suffering only a single casualty among his loyal riders.  With the fortress at Bangkorai Pass captured Hrol moved on to Azra’s Crossing, which fell soon enough. By 2E 587 the Hammerfell capital of Heldorn Mount was captured and the family of High King Verro only narrowly escaped to Skaven. Without an army to oppose him the roads to both Skaven and Dragonstar laid open to High King Hrol. Rather than see those key cities sacked Verro offered terms of surrender and returned Evermore to High Rock.    The ”Liberation of Evermore” did much to cement Hrol’s status as a beloved knight in the eyes of the Breton people, but also revealed weaknesses in the new High Kingdom. Yokudan rebellions during the war reminded many of the Adamantine Revolt and raised fears that the majority Altmer population of the capital were a potential threat to the court. Preparations for what the Altmer now refer to as the ”Sorrow of the Dirennis” began shortly after the completion of the war for Evermore.  On the 2nd day of Sun’s Height, 2E 591 a proclamation was read out by 60 criers stationed throughout the neighborhoods of Balfiera. All Altmer were to leave the island by the 1st of Sun’s Dusk or face removal by the force of 5,000 armed soldiers which had been arriving at Balfiera for over a year. With only 4 months to act only a sliver of the population was able to arrange passage to Valenwood or the Summerset Isles. The rest were gathered in door-to-door searches on the first of Sun’s Dusk as promised, but the court had underestimated the sheer size of the Altmer population and more boats had to be requisitioned from the merchants and fishermen of Daggerfall. For 15 days the Altmer of Balfiera were kept in hastily built camps before being loaded aboard ships bound for Sentinel. At Sentinel the Altmer were dumped outside the walls of the city, the government of which was none too pleased. After the first few hundred elves wandered through the gate the city ordered the gates shut and demanded the refugees leave. While a few poor souls complied and trekked along the coast, skirting the Alik’r desert as best they could, most stayed and pleaded for mercy. Eventually the governor allowed the Altmer to come into the city in small groups to sell the few possessions they had managed to bring with them for boat fare to somewhere else. The merchants of the city took full advantage and snatched up a fortune in heirlooms and magical items. Some were taken to the Summerset Isles, where the government was sympathetic, but suspicious of “impure” Altmer from the mainland coming to live permanently. Most had better luck in Valenwood, especially in the cities of Haven and Southpoint where whole neighborhoods of Direnni Altmer can still be found. Still others accepted passage aboard Dunmer trade ships, only to find themselves as slaves in Morrowind.  Hrol, meanwhile, sought to repopulate the island through offers of free houses and well paying jobs. Many Imperials from Cyrodiil Island immigrated, fleeing the continuing unrest in the great city following its independence from the Kingdom of the Heartlands. A great many Orcs migrated to the island as well, attracted by calls for blacksmiths and armorers. Most were young orcs looking to earn some coin and hone their skills before returning to their clans to marry or challenge their father for control of the clan, but some moved in permanently.     Hrol split his time after the war for Evermore between micromanaging the training of his knights, questing throughout the realm and holding tournaments and feasts for the nobility. To the Bretons his status as a hero was unquestionable.  Tragedy struck in 2E 594, when Prince Leo died abruptly at age 26 to Cancer. Raised from birth to be King Hrol’s heir, his death left the succession of High Rock in question.   It perhaps says something about the kind of man Hrol the Eagle was that he did not dwell long on the death of his only son. Instead he was preparing for what was to be the last what historians have called his “Southern Campaigns”. Dunkarn dukedom in the Western Reach remained to be retaken for High Rock and the chance to do so came in 2E 595. With High King Mivan, son of the late Kharbeff, busy invading Skyrim via Sunderstone Gorge Hrol would havy plenty of time to gather his own forces and begin taking holdings in Dunkarn.  At Wayrest High King Hrol gathered a force of 11000 soldiers, of which a full 3500 were Colovian legion-style heavy infantry. Traditional Breton armies of light spear infantry and longbowmen backing heavy knights were, by this point, mostly phased out in favor of a hybrid Colovian-Breton composition which Hrol had pioneered.  The forces of Hammerfell had not been blind to the successes of Hrol, and fielded a far larger number of heavy infantry of their own. The two forces met near the small settlement of Northglen, where the inferior Redguard force took position atop a low hill with cliffs on three sides.  The terrain afforded the Redguards an advantage in the skirmish and Bretons lost a good number of archers and battlemages before the sheer number of spells being flung at the cliffside caused a number of rockslides. Breton heavy sword infantry, their shields up and in close formation, stormed up these rocky pathways and engaged the Redguard skirmishers before all of them could fully pull back, forcing the Redguard frontline to engage them in order to save their skirmishers. As the frontlines engaged atop the cliffs, the Breton knights and light cavalry were blocked from flanking the Redguard army by a force of 1250 light cavalry and even a number of mercenary heavy cavalry. In the running melee that occurred the heavy cavalry advantage of the Bretons proved decisive and Hrol led a charge into the flank of the Redguard line just as it was beginning to collapse at the hands of his heavy infantry. With cliffs on both sides, infantry before them and cavalry behind them many of the Redguards chose to jump from cliffs in hopes of surviving the fall. Many did, albeit with broken legs or arms that prevented them from retreating quickly enough to escape the High Rock light cavalry. Of the 9500 men who had fortified the Northglen settlement, only 2500 escaped with their lives.   2E 596 the Hammerfell capital of Heldorn Mount was captured, along with two of High King Mivan’s children.   Mivan, whose forces had fled west into Hammerfell, regrouped his forces and set siege to Bjoulsae. His hope was to capture the city and force Hrol to head west, which would allow Mivan to circle around the mountains and retake Mivan. Hrol’s force was too fast, however and the battle outside Bjoulsae nearly wiped out the Redguard skirmishers and mages.   High King Mivan was convinced after this second battle that he no longer had a path to victory and surrendered Dunkarn to High Rock. With this all of High Rock, with the small exception of the Barony of Orlais, was united under High King Hrol the Eagle. With his southern border secured, Hrol began to turn his attention elsewhere.
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Long live King Hrol, the Eagle of High Rock!
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The Altmer around the Adamantium Tower basically getting replaced with Orcs is pretty funny.
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It wouldn't be a proper Elder Scrolls story without some mild ethnic cleansing going on somewhere. But now all these formally opposed Orcs have their very own island to call home. But I don't know if Malacath would approve of them just being handed something.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:It wouldn't be a proper Elder Scrolls story without some mild ethnic cleansing going on somewhere. Well not quite, there are a few hundred living in the county, but it's majority Breton. There's likely a sort of "Orc Town" neighborhood with statues of Malacath and restaurants that serve mammoth steaks to tourists. If you look at the picture: you'll notice that there are three options. There are three "levels" of culture changing available in the mod: straight up violent genocide (quickest, but likely to spawn a huge uprising), forced removal (medium option, slower but less likely to cause an uprising) and slow integration through forced abandonment of their culture (slowest, but less likely to spawn rebellions). You'll see that only two of the above options are available because the laws of High Rock at that time did not allow straight up genocide by way of extermination. Like all realm laws this can be changed, either to allow all types of genocide or to only allow the forced integration.
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 Reign of King Hrol I 10. The Eastern Campaigns  After the death of King Hrol’s only son and heir Prince Leo in 2E 294, Princess Marelle was his only remaining child and heir. The young princess did not have anywhere near the popularity of Prince Leo among the nobility of the realm and many instead supported the claim of Leo’s sister Claudette. By 598 the Kingdom of Anvil, of which she was the queen mother, was a rump state surrounded by the Colovian Estates. However, Claudette was a crafty diplomat and made deals with the Yokudan and Reachman nobility, the Orsimer tribes and Altmer exiles who had reason to dislike King Hrol. Even with this support Claudette’s coalition was shaky and would likely have fallen apart once Princess Marelle reached her majority. In order to make sure this did not happen Queen Mother Claudette plotted to assassinate the young princess, but her plot was discovered by Hrol’s intelligence network and one of the key plotters was uncovered: Namasur the Second, son of the former “king” of High Rock.   Namasur II had been promised control of Daggerfall and a proclamation of toleration for his people and their faith by Claudette. Following the Sorrow of the Dirennis and the reconquest of Dunkarn and Evermore King Hrol has gained a reputation as a great crusader and many of the Yokudans who had come with Namasur I feared a similar purge was inevitable. So when officials of the court arrived on the island of Betony in 2E 600 to bring Namasur II to trial he had them executed and declared a revolt against his liege.   The rebellion lasted less than a year and Namasur II was banished from High Rock. He returned to his father’s homeland in the islands of Yokuda and Betony was granted to the Republic of Daggerfall.    With their main leader gone the Yokudans in High Rock backed out of their deals with Claudette and her fragile coalition unraveled. She died only a year later after eating a spoiled apple and contracting a very rapid strain of food poisoning.    Following the marriage of his sister Princess Naissa to Prince Willet of Hammerfell, Hrol the Eagle turned his attention away from the southern kingdom and east, towards Skyrim. The early 600’s saw a number of civil wars and border conflicts hit Winterhold, leaving the realm vulnerable to an invasion by King Hrol, who sought to take control of two key passages. The southern county of Volskygge held the main mountain pass between the Western Reach and the silver-rich Eastern Reach, while the old imperial fort of Northwatch Keep controlled the pass between High Rock and Haafingar, home to the wealthy port of Solitude. Both passages would be key for future campaigns in Skyrim.   At Farrun Hrol gathered 13,000 soldiers, including 4,300 heavy infantry drilled in the Colovian manner. Northwatch fell before the end of the Summer, providing Hrol with a place to wait out the brutal Skyrim Winter.  A Winterhold army numbering some 5,000 arrived in the Reach before the end of Fall. This was dispatched by Hrol before his forces returned to Northwatch for the WInter.    Further Nordic forces arrived with the coming of Spring in 2E 604. These forces were small and failed to coordinate their movements, allowing King Hrol to defeat each individually at Ustenhall, Jallenheim and Hraggstad.   In 2E 605 the Jarl of Winterhold negotiated peace with King Hrol, granting him control of Fort Northwatch and Volskygge. These were granted to a local Nordic priest, who was tasked with converting the local Reachmen.    With this done Hrol had clear paths to the wealth of Western Skyrim and busied himself preparing for this future conflict. In Balfiera new barracks were built and monuments were erected in great numbers.   In 2E 606 Queen Ciceri of High Rock and Baroness of Irmgard passed on from old age. King Hrol remarried later that year to a relative of the Duke of Leyawiin, Leonara Alfena, who would bear him many children.  The year ended on something of a strange note, with news of the death of the oldest known elf in Nirn. Orgnum the deathless king died, succumbing to wounds received while putting down a peasant revolt.    607 saw a short conflict erupt when one of the daughters of the late Namasur I arrived outside of Wayrest with an army of Yokudan adventurers to press her claim.   It ended quickly with her defeat and subsequent death in the dungeons of Balfiera.   In 611 Mara blessed King Hrol and Queen Leonara with a healthy son, who was named Hrol for his father.     The years that followed had few events of note. The Mages Guild officially banned necromancy in 612, renovations of the old Direnni forts lining the shores of Balfiera were completed in 613 and a second son, named Leo, was born to King Hrol. Meanwhile, the king continued to reform the legal code of High Rock to increase his access to fighting aged men to fill his ranks.   After years of preparation King Hrol the Eagle made clear his plans to seize the province of Haafingar in 2E 616, citing the inability of the Jarl of Winterhold to keep the trade routes through the Sea of Ghosts clear of pirate activity. At Farrun the forces of High Rock gathered for a second campaign in the east.    Throughout the Winter of 616 Hrol besieged the province, facing only minor resistance. Most of the Winterhold army stayed away, not daring to test its logistical capabilities against the frigid Skyrim Winter. With the arrival of Spring came the capture of Solitude, the jewel of western Skyrim.    Spring also brought disease, with an outbreak of the Crimson Plague appearing in Dragon Bridge and quickly spreading to Solitude. Rather than remain in the region and continue sieging holdings King Hrol gathered most of his force and departed via ship for the city of Winterhold, while a token force remained behind in Northwatch to maintain the occupation of Haafingar.   In late Winter of 2E 618 the High Rock navy arrived off the coast of Winterhold, which held out against Hrol for only two months.   Among the courtiers captured from the palace at Winterhold were the husband and heir of Queen Clarisse of Winterhold. With the Queen far away leading her troops in an attempt to recapture Solitude it took several months for news of this to reach her, but when it did she offered terms of peace recognizing his rule over Haafingar.   The king granted some of these lands to his loyal commanders, a practice he was known for and to which a great number of noble houses today can trace their lineage. But the city of Solitude and much of the coastline were placed under the control of the merchants of the city, who were organized in much the same manner as the Republic of Daggerfall.   The third of Hrol’s eastern campaigns was nominally declared in order to purge the Eastern Reach of the influence of the horrific Hagravens, which some Reachmen worshipped. In truth the war was almost certainly declared in 2E 621 to provide a route for later invasion of the city of Markarth and the mineral wealth of the Eastern Reach.    The Reachman tribes rallied behind the ancient crone Pecua, creating a combined force of 6,600 tribesmen. A great number of Hagravens, undead briarhearted shamans and other beasts were counted among these forces. At Ravenscar Hollow King Hrol faced these forces and scored a major victory, killing most of their Hagraven allies and forcing the rest to flee into nearby caves. The cave of the Great Crone herself was captured shortly thereafter and she and her cultists were forced to hide somewhere in the rocky landscape of the Reach. The Northern Karth River was now firmly under Hrol’s control, leaving the path to Markarth open.   The war for the Eastern Reach began in 2E 628 with the marshalling of a force of 17,000 soldiers at Balfiera.  The harsh terrain and climate of the Reach did much to diminish these numbers, but Hrol nonetheless scored a victory of the armies of Winterhold in the high hills of Haafingar. While the lords of Skyrim brought a great number of heavy and light infantry to the battle, their Nordic distrust of magic meant that they brought only a token force of battlemages. These were beaten back in the skirmish and the Bretons hurled ice and fire down upon their frontlines, softening them up for the charge of the well-drilled High Rock heavy infantry.    Markarth fell in 2E 629 and the Queen of Winterhold for the third time in her life surrendered a portion of Skyrim to the control of King Hrol the Eagle. He in turn granted the land to his eldest son Hrol, who took up residence in the ancient Dwemer city of Markarth. Old King Hrol had not even finished this fourth eastern campaign when he began to plot his fifth, drawing up plans to invade Falkreath Hold and open up a corridor for the invasion of the Colovian Estates.  But alas the plans of men are nothing to the cycles of Arkay. On the 9th day of Frostfall in the year 631 of the Second Era the mighty conqueror of High Rock and western Skyrim went to his bed after a long evening of military planning and did not rise from it again. He had taken the throne at the age of 14 and ruled for 75 years, during that time he was at war more often that at peace and from the chaos of the Second Era he carved out a kingdom of tremendous power and size.
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I absolutely love characters like this. They take the throne as just absolutely unassuming, boring looking people, and just flip everything about that impression and the whole region on its head.
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Aug 4, 2019 10:28
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Why'd Leo get the throne? I thought the princess was the heir?
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Aug 5, 2019 02:37
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Hah, I just found out that sometimes a character in Elder Kings can be discovered to be Dragonborn. There is a massive boost to this chance if the character is in prison.
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PetraCore posted:Why'd Leo get the throne? I thought the princess was the heir? She inherited her mother's title and became a baron and wasn't as popular as a random uncle, so it was either hand the crown to him or pick a child who was more well-liked by the nobles. Leo's got lots of good traits that made him a popular guy. 7c Nickel posted:Hah, I just found out that sometimes a character in Elder Kings can be discovered to be Dragonborn. There is a massive boost to this chance if the character is in prison. There is almost always a dragonborn somewhere in the world, but only just the one. There are a whole bunch of mechanics that involve being a dragonborn and I'll make sure to show them off when it's appropriate. ShootaBoy posted:I absolutely love characters like this. They take the throne as just absolutely unassuming, boring looking people, and just flip everything about that impression and the whole region on its head. Ubermensch rulers are cool, but a little boring to read about in my opinion. Leo the Third had some interesting things pop up that gives him a nice little character arc, but that'll be after the next lore and mechanics update because we're going to need to know a little about the Nords now that we've started invading Skyrim.
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Mechanics and Lore Interlude 3: Realm Laws and the Nords of Skyrim For this interlude we’re first going to be looking at the laws available to rulers in Elder Kings and how they differ from those found in the base game.  There are four types of laws in Crusader Kings 2: inheritance, realm, obligations and council. To help us understand these we’ll be using this fellow, Grandmaster Omin of the Great House Dres of Morrowind.  Inheritance laws decide how and who will inherit a ruler’s titles after they die. There are two types: gender and succession. Gender in CK2 has 5 types: agnatic, agnatic-cognatic, absolute cognatic, enatic-cognatic and enatic. Agnatic means only males can inherit titles, agnatic-cognatic allows for female inheritance but only if there are no males, absolute cognatic means men and women inherit equally, enatic-cognatic means males can only inherit if no females are available and enatic means only women can inherit titles. Certain religions will place limits upon which of these laws can be implemented, for example Muslim rulers cannot change the law to anatic-cognatic or absolute cognatic. Most religions default to agnatic or agnatic-cognatic. The cultures of Tamriel tend to be a bit more progressive, most cultures default to absolute-cognatic, with the exception of the paternalistic Orsimer and the matriarchal Tsaesci who live in Akavir. Succession laws decide how an heir is chosen. There are a lot of these, but they generally include election among the vassals of the realm, firstborn inheriting all titles, division of titles upon death among all children and the like. There are many unique government and inheritance types in Elder Kings, the Dunmer have a system called “Great House”. In a Great House the heir is chosen by a vote among all landed members of the sovereign’s dynasty, dukes, close blood relatives of the sovereign and council members vote upon the sovereign’s death.   In Crusader Kings 2 the laws of the realm are effectively 4 sliders which determine if vassals can declare wars, how centralized the realm is, how much power women can wield in the realm and whether or not the sovereign can revoke titles from vassals. In Elder Kings there are quite a few more realm laws available. Realm inheritance decides if titles of vassals can pass outside of the realm or not, which is useful to avoid big holes appearing in your realm.    Slavery is a big dividing line in the cultures of Tamriel. No Breton, Nord, Cyrodiil or Khajiit ruler would (or could) legalize slavery in their realm. Likewise, the Ayleid and Dunmer cultures would never think to outlaw slavery if the choice was up to them. House Dres is famous (or perhaps infamous) for the great many slaves its warriors take, either to sell or be made to work on the saltrice plantations of the Deshaan Plains.  Resettlement laws refer to the legal means by which the culture of a province can be changed. Most realms default to allowing for expulsion and the building of settlements, while banning outright violent purges.  Mutilation laws govern the ability of the sovereign to inflict blinding, castration and other such punishments on prisoners. It is possible to make such acts illegal for just the sovereign or for all rulers in the realm.  Military organization laws affect the size of your retinue and levies. A levy based army will allow you to raise more troops from your vassals, but you won't be able to have a very large standing force. The standing army option, meanwhile, will allow you to keep a very large force on hand at all times but will halve the number of levies you can raise.   All other laws in this tab remain the same as normal CK2.  Obligation laws decide how much your vassals are obliged to provide you in taxes and levies. A “balanced” level will give you a normal amount of troops and gold, moving left will give you more gold but fewer levies and rightward gets you more troops but less money. Burghers can contribute a lot of money, but generally prefer to contribute troops and nobles can contribute a lot of troops, but would rather just pay taxes. The church prefers to be in the middle and really isn’t especially good at providing troops or gold.  Council laws decide how powerful your council is and what actions they get to vote on before you can do them. It is possible to ignore the council’s vote, but doing so upsets all of your vassals. The Nords of Skyrim  According to legend the continent of Atmora was once a green and prosperous land. For centuries the continent had sent its unwanted south to Tamriel: criminals, rebels, landless younger sons of minor nobles, all made their way to the southern continent. These humans lived as minorities among the elves of Tamriel some as citizens, others as slaves. But Skyrim, being closest to Atmora, received far more immigrants than the other regions. When a civil war broke out in Atmora the chieftain Ysgramor gathered a number of humans and sailed with them south to Skyrim. In Skyrim the humans settled in great numbers, building their capital of Saarthal on the Broken Cape, near modern Winterhold. For a time peace was maintained between the Atmorans and the native Falmer (Snow Elves) and trade between the two cultures flourished. This peace broke down however, although the exact reason has long been debated. Possibly the Falmer, like all elves, were a slow breeding race and feared that the quick breeding, short-lived humans would overwhelm and replace them in time. On the Night of Tears the Falmer raised Saarthal to the ground and killed all but Ysgramor and his two sons, who escaped back to Atmora. In Atmora Ysgramor gathered a host of 500 companions who sailed with him on a punitive expedition to Skyrim. Everywhere they went these nordic heroes killed every elf they found and paved the way for Atmoran settlers. The Atmorans who settled in Skyrim at this time followed a religion much like that of the natives of Solstheim; worshipping animal totems in a shamanistic fashion. Of the animals these Atmorans worshipped the most venerated of all was the dragon and in time radical dragon priests, allied with the dragons which had lived in Skyrim for a long time as wild animals, took control of Skyrim. Eventually the dragon priests became tyrannical and the Atmorans (who were by now more Nord than Atmoran) rebelled, helped by a number of sympathetic dragons who taught them to use dragon magic. Eventually the priests and their dragons were driven into hiding in the more remote corners of Skyrim and dragon hunting would continue for some time. Skyrim would be united by King Harald, a descendant of Ysgramor. Harald’s son Vrage the Gifted expanded to the east and west, conquering High Rock and Morrowind and founding a Nordic Empire that lasted around a hundred years before civil war ripped it apart. Late in the First Era the disunited province of Skyrim was invaded by a force of Akavir, who ravaged the region and defeated army after army of Nords. It took the combined forces of Cyrodiil, led by the mighty Dragonborn Reman Cyrodiil to defeat the Akavir army. The Nords swore their allegiance to Reman after this display of power and remained loyal to the empire he built until its collapse. Skyrim is a harsh and mountainous land, with only a few isolated cities. These cities are located mostly in areas of great resource or trade wealth, such as Markarth and its silver or Riften and its trade with Morrowind through the Velothi Pass. Farming, herding, fishing, mining and forestry settlements are scattered throughout the region, especially along the riverways. The southern areas enjoy a more moderate (comparatively) climate and thus have more agriculture than the north. In the Second Era the Nords of Skyrim follow the pantheon established by Saint Alessia. While there is some lingering resentment over the loss of Shor, most find it generally acceptable that he remains in some form as "the spirit behind all human undertaking" in the imperial faith. In many ways the Nordic belief system represent the real divisions between humans and elves. Elves hate death and despise Lorkhan/Shor for cursing them with it, while Nords embrace Lorkhan/Shor and believe that dying a good death in battle will allow their souls to journey to Sovngarde, a warrior’s paradise built by Shor. Elves are fond of their magic, while Nords generally distrust it and the mages who practice it. Elven cultures have historically practiced slavery, while Nords view such activities with disgust and horror.
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Just gotta say, it's a real pleasure to follow this one, your love of the setting makes every update seem lived-in and on point for TES.
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There's gonna be a plot to kill Audania, isn't there...
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Aug 11, 2019 20:34
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She's got plans, she sure does!
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Aug 11, 2019 21:37
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So, Duke Hrol is barking up the wrong tree it seems.
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Ambitious and deceitful really is one of the better trait combinations.
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Are Hrol and Audania going to be looking for another plotter while Leo stumbles into fame and glory?
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I'm more interested in the child. Is he blessed, or cursed?
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I am pretty sure Torvic is our first bisexual child, neat.   Audania Rader posted:
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