Kingdom of Arcitur Factbook

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Kingdom of Arcitur Factbook

-A collection of writings from the scholars of Acteveos-

Table of Contents:

I. Authors’ Foreword

II. History of Arcitur
A- Broderick Faulkner and The Discovery

III. Government of Arcitur

IV. People of Arcitur

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Authors’ Foreword

The following is a collection of facts researched by the College of Acteveos Scholars. This Fact Book was funded fully by the Kingdom of Arcitur Treasury by order of the Arcitur Education Bureau. When we, the Scholars of Acteveos, were set with this task we were honored to begin the task. We strongly identify that this was not written by one, single person. It was the hard work of writers, researchers, fact checkers, editors, and everyone else who contributed. This book could not have been completed without any of them.

University of Acteveos

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History of Arcitur

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-A. Broderick Faulkner and The Discovery
-B. The Founding of Arcitur

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Section A

Broderick Faulkner and The Discovery

The founding of Arcitur was the result of a mass extinction from plague. A time that no hope was able to be seen. Men, Women, and Children were dropping dead in the streets. There was no cure to this disease, leaving the thought in many minds that this one curse would be the end of the world.

A certain young man saw hope though. He was the son of a peon, a field worker. He lived in the Flat Valley in the Kingdom of England for all of his life, and yearned to leave home and explore the uncharted world. His name was Broderick Faulkner.

When Faulkner aged to his sixteenth year, he left to England to learn the trade of sailing. He stayed in England as a sailor for five years. He became a Master of the Sails and thought that he was ready to pursue his child-hood dreams of becoming a explorer.

In 1322 Faulkner sought the King’s approval to gather a crew and explore the West. The King accepted his request and Faulkner began gathering his crew. He searched out sailors in taverns and on the docks of London, bought a Schooner and enough supplies to last them for 3 months. He set the voyage date for March the 3rd, 1322.

The first month of the voyage was full of good winds, resulting in a fast path to France where the crew resupplied. The crew became used to French life keeping them held in Bordeaux for many weeks.

When the crew had finally sobered up, they set out again, heading West, in search of virgin lands. However, they were greeted with a monster of a storm. One sailor in Faulkner’s crew called it “the biggest beast he had ever laid eyes upon, in waters so close to France”. When Faulkner’s ship, Lady England, met the head of the storm, the boat held up perfectly. In fact, it held up perfectly for the next five hours. Faulkner sent two of his crew down to inspect the storage area when a bolt of lightning hit the mast of the ship and killed the two crew underneath.
The mast snapped, sending all the sails into the churning ocean. Faulkner and the crew were stuck stranded, drifting in the sea with little to no rations.

It did not take long for the crew to realize the food shortage that they were having to face. Many of the crew blamed the mishap on Faulkner and his boat. They lived on dried bread and one keg of water for a week until their stores were empty. Seeing that there were no ships passing them, meaning no help in the coming future, the crew turned to mutiny. Faulkner tried to calm them, saying that God would save them. Faulkner was not entirely correct; twenty of the thirty five men perished. Though Faulkner was quite stressed on the situation and had given some hope up, he spotted a land mass in the distance. No fires burned on this place, Faulkner had finally achieved his goal, in the year 1322.

Faulkner before the storm