Turn 3: Rumors and News
- Location
- Pilipinas
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it."
- Felix Jaeger in rallying his supporters
- Felix Jaeger in rallying his supporters
Rumors and News (year 2533)
(Building a Foreign Office and/or a Propaganda Network would increase the reliability of said Rumors and News)
The Kingdom of Kislev (unreliable rumor)
- Thanks to the new road that now connects Ostland to the city of Kislev, Princess Sophia of the Empire of Sigmar arrived at the so-called Winter Court just in time for the coronation of its new Tsar. What happened afterwards though, raised a lot of eyebrows for like in a childhood fairy tale, the new Tsar fell in love with the Imperial Princess. The Princess Sophia, no great beauty herself, seems to have responded in kind. What this would mean to Empire-Kislev relationship remains to be seen.
- In other news, as an effort to increase his influence among the faithful (since the Boyar proved to be resistant to his meddling), the newly crowned Tsar Vasily has appointed a monk of Dazh as his prime adviser. This monk though is said to be a master of both theology and politics, yet only time will tell if this latest gamble of the earnest young ruler proves effective. The young Tsar then proved his battle acumen by destroying several Chaos camps in the Troll Waste with only minimal losses. Afterwards, he was overheard to have said that he cannot be everywhere at once and Kislev needs officers that can think of entire campaigns and not just battles.
The Empire of Sigmar (unreliable rumor)
- The recent crackdown against 'radicals' slows down this year as beastmen raids started to grow in number. The wizard colleges and engineering schools also rallies in favor of the free-thinkers, seeing the prosecuted group as kindred spirits. For wasn't it till recently that those with the 'gift' also suffered an Imperial-wide progrom? While the engineers believe that such 'eccentricities' in behavior is part and parcel of the creative process. Adding in his voice regarding the crackdown, the famed Felix Jaeger, hero and author of the penny-dreadful Gotrek the Slayer, rallied his supporters in support for those unjustly arrested. The authorities are of course not pleased with this turn of events.
The Kingdom of Brettonia (plausible rumor)
- Strangely, the peasants of Brettonia gained a backbone, the masses believing that they have nothing left to lose, left their hovels in droves to join various bandit brotherhoods or to join in underground movements where they were taught to read and write. The usual reaction of the Brettonian nobility was of course to murder and punish their peasants. Some knights though are starting to object to this, they reasoned that they were the ultimate weapons of war and there was no sport in killing the weak and hungry. A few got the bright idea to arm the peasants with some form of weaponry before butchering them.
The Kingdoms of Estalia (plausible rumor)
- The Holy Inquisition of Myrmidia in Estalia proved to be a huge success! These holy investigators captured hundreds of Chaos cultists, dissidents, and practitioners of 'forbidden' knowledge using techniques beyond the torture chambers, strange concepts like "forensics" and "witness credibility". The Inquisition proved to be so successful that the rival kingdoms in the said land will soon ratify the Inquisition as an all-encompassing investigative agency that can freely pursue their 'targets' regardless of political boundaries (in Estalia) and without the current need for royal warrants. The Cult of Myrmidia is extremely pleased by this announcement. Though some within the Cult believe that their brothers and sisters are starting to forget the true aspect of Myrmidia which is innovative war and not innovative investigation.
The City-States of Tilea (reliable news)
- The Winter Offensive smashed through the defensive lines of the Skaven, pushing the ratmen back into the most decrepit area of the swampy portion of Miragliano. The only exception of course was the holdout known as Ratlov's Hovel. When it was eventually overrun by especially trained troops and war-hounds of the Miragliano forces, the delay it caused was enough for the Skaven Warlord opposing the forces of Order to receive additional clanrats and to introduce their own new techno-weaponry. The Warlord also deployed more assassins of the shadowy Clan Eshin to eliminate the High Command of the Tilean forces. However, they were met by Tilea's own Assassin's Guild and the humans proved to be better at the moment. Currently, the Miragliano forces has the upper hand due to their more than capable chain-of-command, training and discipline, however they seem to have lost the initiative.
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