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quick question what about the moot? their part of the empire even if the are dirty halflings
The time of Magnus the Pious is still a century away and this is only 70 years after the last Vampire Wars. While I dont doubt that some decentralization of authority has happened since the great efforts necessary to defeat the Carsteins, there is still a century's time for things to reach the anarchy of Great Chaos War.The build-up to the rise of Magnus the Pious explicitly has each divided electoral province in of itself besieged by decentralized anarchy with free cities and knightly orders and noble fiefdoms struggling to handle the onslaught of Chaotic cults, necromancers and vampires, and dhar-using witches. Real "end of the world" stuff as the lands themaelves shook at the coming of the Everchosen. Absolutist territories these are not.
Fair enough, that's true too. But still centrifugal forces can work very quickly.The time of Magnus the Pious is still a century away and this is only 70 years after the last Vampire Wars. While I dont doubt that some decentralization of authority has happened since the great efforts necessary to defeat the Carsteins, there is still a century's time for things to reach the anarchy of Great Chaos War.
That's true, but its not much fun if the players are Elector Counts in name only at the start of the game.Fair enough, that's true too. But still centrifugal forces can work very quickly.
"Why do I hear 'Carolus Rex' playing in the background?"
okay now I am terrifiedVolunteering to assist with reports, especially those involving far-off lands.
My support is but mortal and paltry compared to the Heldenhammer when his foes are met with faith in the heart and weapons in hand.Say @Dovahsith can I expect your support in the coming campaign to cleanse Sylvania of lingering undead taint?
I thank you, may Sigmar's light shine once again upon Sylvania so that the dead might finally rest peacefully in Morr's Garden.My support is but mortal and paltry compared to the Heldenhammer when his foes are met with faith in the heart and weapons in hand.
But yes.
Kaspar Engel spoke out of turn to his drunken, bitter Prince and was struck once, too hard. And then again, harder still. And thrice and more but it didn't matter because poor Kaspar hit his head on cold stone by the fifth, his handsome face a bloody red ruin. His father's favorite, his chance at immortal youth, laying dead on the floor in his own filth.
Konstantin Rannulf Engel I, Grand Prince of the Reikland.
"Worship the mercy that outshines sick truths."
He is every inch the literal incarnation of the Reikland, more a gilded image of a young man than a man in his own right. His hair so gold it hurts, his eyes the green of Dawi-cut emeralds, with features like a Sigmarite saint in his moment of martyrdom. Wretchedly beautiful and mercilessly hatable and so dangerously likable all at once. He is a man who is languid in affect, slothful and lazy (but ah have you heard the rumors of what that handsome princeling gets up to, they speak to a certain kind of energy). A man who has learned his letters, his histories, his martial arts and his wine with the same half-amused, faux-ironic edge, as if life was a mildly entertaining melodrama upon the stage and perhaps, perhaps, he'd turn away in time but for now, at least, he'd watch and hum along. A man who never thought he'd have the throne he sits upon now and who has never wanted the greater seat that is offered to him still.
The story is a simple one really. His father dreamed of Empire. His father dreamed of his throne. His father snarled and spat in the face of old age and grey hair and weak limbs, glaring hate at a land that would not heed him and lords beyond his borders who would not bow. His father was beloved of his brother and his father shaped the elder Engel, his heir, into his spitting image while Konstantin was off at the University of Altdorf, indulging his taste for rampant criminality and idle hedonism. And one rainy evening, when the sky was the color of lead and the winds blew Kaspar Engel spoke out of turn to his drunken, bitter Prince and was struck once, too hard. And then again, harder still. And thrice and more but it didn't matter because poor Kaspar hit his head on cold stone by the fifth, his handsome face a bloody red ruin. His father's favorite, his chance at immortal youth, laying dead on the floor in his own filth.
What was that foolish, bold, melancholy boy thinking, it was said. To go riding in such wet weather?
No wonder he fell from his horse.
And so dear Konstantin came home to a quiet, shadowed estate and so soon, dear Father Engel took ill in turn and oh, what piety, what tender love and dutiful affection, it was said, for his wife the lady Margareta, to care for him in his sickness. To wipe his brow and change his sheets and bring him strong tea when he was too weak to eat.
And what a shame, what a shame, that in the end it was all for naught and the man of twenty seven was crowned by Midwinter, a golden coronet set on his head as he knelt in the snow, his mother watching on with sober pride. But, ah...
He was always her favorite.
Also, to reiterate, I'll be looking for people to help me write reports and such, generally PCs who can be trusted to write stuff for areas that their own state doesn't have an immediate interest in - @Havocfett already volunteered to write stuff with an emphasis on far-off lands, which helps, but I'll need more than just that if I want the report cycle to go at any kind of reasonable pace.