This ain't that kind of fantasy (OOC, open)

[Corpus Magnus]

Type of Organisation: Corporation/Crime organization
Organisation Name: Finé, Inc.
How old is organisation?: 134 years
Logo / symbol (image and / or description): a stylized black-and-gold F
Basis of operation / headquarters: Surface headquarters: Callisto Towers, Urbis Forum; Illegal base: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Ideology of Organisation: Profit and good taste
Brief background: Finé was founded 234 years ago by Callisto Finé, an art collector and smuggler with ties to the movement that would eventually become the Pale Legion. Finé, Inc. was originally formed as an art-selling corporation, cutting deals with promising artists to improve their net worth and reputation and selling the works of world-famous artists. Callisto Finé’s good art sense, underworld connections, and talent at bribing just the right politicians led to instant success and a revival in Agenoran interest in art. Her human supremacist views, however, led to an untimely death by assassination twelve years later.

The ownership of Finé was then passed on to Callisto’s son, Yaren Finé I, who expanded the industry to include other fineries such as precious stones, stylish clothing, and antiques. Under his son, Yaren II, the Finé family’s black market interests were combined with their surface corporation, resulting in two layers of Finé: the surface company and the underworld corporation, dealing in theft and forgery. Under Yaren II, Finé garnered more power both legally and illegally until it was one of the most successful corporations in Agenor. The Finé family name ended with Makena Finé, who married the rich politician Dalton Holderman. The Holderman family’s wealth was nearly as great as the Finés’, and the intertwining of the two lines led to a boom in Finé’s success. Dalton Holderman, a member of the Senate, was a well-known Pale Legion sympathizer, and their nephew, Barron, who inherited the corporation, immediately strengthened Finé’s ties to the human supremacist group by paying small sums of money to Pale Legion politicians in return for sponsorship and advertising. The most influential corporation in Agenor, Finé is revered in a way that simply owning an empty Finé box with the iconic F inscribed on it is a great status symbol.

In recent years, Finé has been cited for civil rights abuses of employees, but as of now no legal action has been taken.

Character Name: Barron Holderman
Age: 53
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Human
Appearance (image and / or description): Stout and slightly overweight. Has dark brown hair and calculating black eyes. Wears excessively fancy apparel with several thick golden rings on his fingers.
Place of birth: Holderman Mansion, Victorum
Current location: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Money and happiness
Profession: CEO of Finé, runs both the surface and underground factions
Skills: Bribery, threats, and corporate management
Flaws: Unlikable, has difficulty getting other to trust and like him; stuck-up, and racist
Brief background: Both Barron Holdermans's father and uncle were Senators and Pale Legion sympathizers, and his aunt, Makena Finé, was the richest woman in Agenor. Growing up, he was surrounded by society's richest and elite and the most influential human supremacists of Agenor. Upon Makena's death when he was thirty-two, leaving Finé to him, Holderman used his ties to the Pale Legion and his enormous inheritance to increase his personal power and wealth to an extreme. Taught by his role models in life to put power and money above all else, Holderman knows only the world of politics and corporations and money. As a child, he had no loving parental figures, only the imposing Holderman and Finé families. As a result, Holderman grew up knowing nothing of love or kindness, and feels like something is missing in his life. Since all he knows is money, he is trying to remedy this in the only way he knows: acquiring more money. Unfortunately, loneliness is a problem that cannot be fixed with wealth.

Character Name: Reum
Age: 23
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Ratfolk
Appearance (image and / or description): Rather short and skinny, with a crippled left foot. Mottled brown and grey fur with charcoal stains that never seem to come off. Wears tattered rags. The symbol of Finé is branded on her right forearm.
Place of birth: a sewer beneath the suburbs of Incaendium, the capital of Ignea
Current location: an old, seemingly abandoned warehouse in Urbis Forum that is currently occupied by Finé
Cause (what they are driven by): Reum is driven on a daily basis by her desire to improve her situation by any means possible, but her goal in life is to create what she calls her One Great Masterpiece - a single great work of art, the culmination of all her artistic skills, that would be hers alone and not passed off as the work of some other artist.
Profession: Creating art masterpieces to be sold off as works of famous artists, often forgeries of existing artworks
Skills: Art (preferred medium: charcoal), persuasion
Flaws: Unable to run or walk properly, has difficulty trusting others, lacking in empathy, no real friends
Brief background: Reum was born in a sewer under the suburbs of Incaendium in a large colony of over two hundred ratfolk. Sewer life was rough and packed; Reum never knew her parents or relatives and was forced to fend for herself, trapping and eating small creatures that happened to wander into the sewer. She relied on no one, preferring to keep her distance from the others. When she was eight, the human man who lived above the sewer discovered the colony and contacted Finé, who paid him a small sum of money to purchase the entire colony of ratfolk as slaves. Reum tried to flee when the slave dealers arrived, but was caught before she exited the sewers. Her left leg was broken and permanently crippled in the action, and the stylized F was branded onto her forearm.

Reum's colony was forced to work extracting diamonds from a mine in Andvariheim, but Reum, a cripple, was unable to work properly and worked as an unpaid janitor instead. In between janitor work, she drew on the walls with stubs of charcoal, her only pastime. As janitor, Reum overheard everyone's conversations and started a discreet information business, selling information for a scrap of food or a blanket. Sometimes she used her crippled leg to get sympathy and food from others; a schemer, she would stop at nothing to achieve her aims. Eventually Žvende Grinz, a goblin overseer, noticed the beautiful charcoal sketches dotting the walls and reported Reum's amazing artistic ability to his superiors. Reum was sent to Forn and immediately put to work drawing and painting full-time. Surrounded by humans in much higher standards of living than her, Reum realized just how much better humans' lives were than those of ratfolk. Reum is determined to someday rise above the stigma placed on ratfolk and become her true self.

Character Name: Žvende Grinz
Age: 32
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Goblin
Appearance (image and / or description): Thin and wiry runt, with beady black eyes and splotchy olive green skin; brutish and dirty
Place of birth: Suburbs of Forn
Current location: a nondescript apartment in Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Power and tormenting Reum
Profession: Art Forgery Overseer, Finé Inc.
Skills: Sneaking around and being threatening
Flaws: Easily tricked, nasty and unlikable personality
Brief background: Žvende Grinz was born into a family of twelve and was summarily thrown out of the house because of his diminutive size and detestable personality. Wandering the streets of Forn, homeless, he one day chanced across two thieves in the attempt of stealing a priceless topaz for Finé. Instead of alerting law enforcement, he made a deal with them: he would keep quiet in return for the thieves getting him a job. They agreed, and soon Grinz was a junior overseer of a diamond mine worked by ratfolk. Grinz loved his work, enjoying threatening and beating the helpless ratfolk whenever possible. Grinz enjoyed harassing one ratwoman in particular, a janitor with a crippled leg. Over time, however, he noticed the beautiful drawings that followed her wherever she went, and began to suspect she was the artist. He soon contacted his boss and was sent along with Reum back to his home city of Forn, where he was put to work overseeing Reum's work. Grinz, addicted to the feeling of power, rose in station until he was the overseer of the entire Art Forgery department. He often mentally sneered at his parents for disowning him: he was one of the most prominent goblin criminals in Finé's underworld.

Grinz's one problem in life was that he hated Reum. He held his position only because he had convinced his superiors that Reum could not continue her work without him, and so if he got rid of her he would lose his job. He is forced to torment Reum at every possible opportunity, but is afraid of Reum's power: if she reports him, he is done for. Because of this, Reum is able to manipulate him to do whatever she wants, and he resents the power she holds over him. One day, he vows, he will get rid of Reum once and for all...

[Dalria]

Type of Organisation: Corporation/Crime organization
Organisation Name: Finé, Inc.
How old is organisation?: 234 years
Logo / symbol (image and / or description): a stylized black-and-gold F
Basis of operation / headquarters: Surface headquarters: Callisto Towers, Urbis Forum; Illegal base: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Ideology of Organisation: Profit and good taste
Brief background: Finé was founded 234 years ago by Callisto Finé, an art collector and smuggler with ties to the Pale Legion. Finé, Inc. was originally formed as an art-selling corporation, cutting deals with promising artists to improve their net worth and reputation and selling the works of world-famous artists. Callisto Finé’s good art sense, underworld connections, and talent at bribing just the right politicians led to instant success and a revival in Agenoran interest in art. Her human supremacist views, however, led to an untimely death by assassination twelve years later.

The ownership of Finé was then passed on to Callisto’s son, Yaren Finé I, who expanded the industry to include other fineries such as precious stones, stylish clothing, and antiques. Under his son, Yaren II, the Finé family’s black market interests were combined with their surface corporation, resulting in two layers of Finé: the surface company and the underworld corporation, dealing in theft and forgery. Over the next several generations, Finé garnered more power both legally and illegally until it was one of the most successful corporations in Agenor.
The Finé family name ended with Makena Finé, who married the rich politician Dalton Holderman. The Holderman family’s wealth was nearly as great as the Finés’, and the intertwining of the two lines led to a boom in Finé’s success. Dalton Holderman, a member of the Senate, was a well-known Pale Legion sympathizer, and their nephew, Barron, who inherited the corporation, immediately strengthened Finé’s ties to the human supremacist group by paying small sums of money to Pale Legion politicians in return for sponsorship and advertising. The most influential corporation in Agenor, Finé is revered in a way that simply owning an empty Finé box with the iconic F inscribed on it is a great status symbol.

In recent years, Finé has been cited for civil rights abuses of employees, but as of now no legal action has been taken.

Character Name: Barron Holderman
Age: 53
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Human
Appearance (image and / or description): Stout and slightly overweight. Has dark brown hair and calculating black eyes. Wears excessively fancy apparel with several thick golden rings on his fingers.
Place of birth: Holderman Mansion, Victorum
Current location: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Money and happiness
Profession: CEO of Finé, runs both the surface and underground factions
Skills: Bribery, threats, and corporate management
Flaws: Unlikable, has difficulty getting other to trust and like him; stuck-up, and racist
Brief background: Both Barron Holdermans's father and uncle were Senators and Pale Legion sympathizers, and his aunt, Makena Finé, was the richest woman in Agenor. Growing up, he was surrounded by society's richest and elite and the most influential human supremacists of Agenor. Upon Makena's death when he was thirty-two, leaving Finé to him, Holderman used his ties to the Pale Legion and his enormous inheritance to increase his personal power and wealth to an extreme. Taught by his role models in life to put power and money above all else, Holderman knows only the world of politics and corporations and money. As a child, he had no loving parental figures, only the imposing Holderman and Finé families. As a result, Holderman grew up knowing nothing of love or kindness, and feels like something is missing in his life. Since all he knows is money, he is trying to remedy this in the only way he knows: acquiring more money. Unfortunately, loneliness is a problem that cannot be fixed with wealth.

Character Name: Reum
Age: 23
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Ratfolk
Appearance (image and / or description): Rather short and skinny, with a crippled left foot. Mottled brown and grey fur with charcoal stains that never seem to come off. Wears tattered rags. The symbol of Finé is branded on her right forearm.
Place of birth: a sewer beneath the suburbs of Incaendium, the capital of Ignea
Current location: an old, seemingly abandoned warehouse in Urbis Forum that is currently occupied by Finé
Cause (what they are driven by): Reum is driven on a daily basis by her desire to improve her situation by any means possible, but her goal in life is to create what she calls her One Great Masterpiece - a single great work of art, the culmination of all her artistic skills, that would be hers alone and not passed off as the work of some other artist.
Profession: Creating art masterpieces to be sold off as works of famous artists, often forgeries of existing artworks
Skills: Art (preferred medium: charcoal), persuasion
Flaws: Unable to run or walk properly, has difficulty trusting others, lacking in empathy, no real friends
Brief background: Reum was born in a sewer under the suburbs of Incaendium in a large colony of over two hundred ratfolk. Sewer life was rough and packed; Reum never knew her parents or relatives and was forced to fend for herself, trapping and eating small creatures that happened to wander into the sewer. She relied on no one, preferring to keep her distance from the others. When she was eight, the human man who lived above the sewer discovered the colony and contacted Finé, who paid him a small sum of money to purchase the entire colony of ratfolk as slaves. Reum tried to flee when the slave dealers arrived, but was caught before she exited the sewers. Her left leg was broken and permanently crippled in the action, and the stylized F was branded onto her forearm.

Reum's colony was forced to work extracting diamonds from a mine in Andvariheim, but Reum, a cripple, was unable to work properly and worked as an unpaid janitor instead. In between janitor work, she drew on the walls with stubs of charcoal, her only pastime. As janitor, Reum overheard everyone's conversations and started a discreet information business, selling information for a scrap of food or a blanket. Sometimes she used her crippled leg to get sympathy and food from others; a schemer, she would stop at nothing to achieve her aims. Eventually Žvende Grinz, a goblin overseer, noticed the beautiful charcoal sketches dotting the walls and reported Reum's amazing artistic ability to his superiors. Reum was sent to Forn and immediately put to work drawing and painting full-time. Surrounded by humans in much higher standards of living than her, Reum realized just how much better humans' lives were than those of ratfolk. Reum is determined to someday rise above the stigma placed on ratfolk and become her true self.

Character Name: Žvende Grinz
Age: 32
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Goblin
Appearance (image and / or description): Thin and wiry runt, with beady black eyes and splotchy olive green skin; brutish and dirty
Place of birth: Suburbs of Forn
Current location: a nondescript apartment in Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Power and tormenting Reum
Profession: Art Forgery Overseer, Finé Inc.
Skills: Sneaking around and being threatening
Flaws: Easily tricked, nasty and unlikable personality
Brief background: Žvende Grinz was born into a family of twelve and was summarily thrown out of the house because of his diminutive size and detestable personality. Wandering the streets of Forn, homeless, he one day chanced across two thieves in the attempt of stealing a priceless topaz for Finé. Instead of alerting law enforcement, he made a deal with them: he would keep quiet in return for the thieves getting him a job. They agreed, and soon Grinz was a junior overseer of a diamond mine worked by ratfolk. Grinz loved his work, enjoying threatening and beating the helpless ratfolk whenever possible. Grinz enjoyed harassing one ratwoman in particular, a janitor with a crippled leg. Over time, however, he noticed the beautiful drawings that followed her wherever she went, and began to suspect she was the artist. He soon contacted his boss and was sent along with Reum back to his home city of Forn, where he was put to work overseeing Reum's work. Grinz, addicted to the feeling of power, rose in station until he was the overseer of the entire Art Forgery department. He often mentally sneered at his parents for disowning him: he was one of the most prominent goblin criminals in Finé's underworld.

Grinz's one problem in life was that he hated Reum. He held his position only because he had convinced his superiors that Reum could not continue her work without him, and so if he got rid of her he would lose his job. He is forced to torment Reum at every possible opportunity, but is afraid of Reum's power: if she reports him, he is done for. Because of this, Reum is able to manipulate him to do whatever she wants, and he resents the power she holds over him. One day, he vows, he will get rid of Reum once and for all...

Although our corporations will probably meet conflict with one another, the Pale Legion will protect our capitalistic system!

[Corpus Magnus]

Type of Organisation: Corporation/Crime organization
Organisation Name: Finé, Inc.
How old is organisation?: 234 years
Logo / symbol (image and / or description): a stylized black-and-gold F
Basis of operation / headquarters: Surface headquarters: Callisto Towers, Urbis Forum; Illegal base: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Ideology of Organisation: Profit and good taste
Brief background: Finé was founded 234 years ago by Callisto Finé, an art collector and smuggler with ties to the Pale Legion. Finé, Inc. was originally formed as an art-selling corporation, cutting deals with promising artists to improve their net worth and reputation and selling the works of world-famous artists. Callisto Finé’s good art sense, underworld connections, and talent at bribing just the right politicians led to instant success and a revival in Agenoran interest in art. Her human supremacist views, however, led to an untimely death by assassination twelve years later.

The ownership of Finé was then passed on to Callisto’s son, Yaren Finé I, who expanded the industry to include other fineries such as precious stones, stylish clothing, and antiques. Under his son, Yaren II, the Finé family’s black market interests were combined with their surface corporation, resulting in two layers of Finé: the surface company and the underworld corporation, dealing in theft and forgery. Over the next several generations, Finé garnered more power both legally and illegally until it was one of the most successful corporations in Agenor.
The Finé family name ended with Makena Finé, who married the rich politician Dalton Holderman. The Holderman family’s wealth was nearly as great as the Finés’, and the intertwining of the two lines led to a boom in Finé’s success. Dalton Holderman, a member of the Senate, was a well-known Pale Legion sympathizer, and their nephew, Barron, who inherited the corporation, immediately strengthened Finé’s ties to the human supremacist group by paying small sums of money to Pale Legion politicians in return for sponsorship and advertising. The most influential corporation in Agenor, Finé is revered in a way that simply owning an empty Finé box with the iconic F inscribed on it is a great status symbol.

In recent years, Finé has been cited for civil rights abuses of employees, but as of now no legal action has been taken.

Character Name: Barron Holderman
Age: 53
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Human
Appearance (image and / or description): Stout and slightly overweight. Has dark brown hair and calculating black eyes. Wears excessively fancy apparel with several thick golden rings on his fingers.
Place of birth: Holderman Mansion, Victorum
Current location: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Money and happiness
Profession: CEO of Finé, runs both the surface and underground factions
Skills: Bribery, threats, and corporate management
Flaws: Unlikable, has difficulty getting other to trust and like him; stuck-up, and racist
Brief background: Both Barron Holdermans's father and uncle were Senators and Pale Legion sympathizers, and his aunt, Makena Finé, was the richest woman in Agenor. Growing up, he was surrounded by society's richest and elite and the most influential human supremacists of Agenor. Upon Makena's death when he was thirty-two, leaving Finé to him, Holderman used his ties to the Pale Legion and his enormous inheritance to increase his personal power and wealth to an extreme. Taught by his role models in life to put power and money above all else, Holderman knows only the world of politics and corporations and money. As a child, he had no loving parental figures, only the imposing Holderman and Finé families. As a result, Holderman grew up knowing nothing of love or kindness, and feels like something is missing in his life. Since all he knows is money, he is trying to remedy this in the only way he knows: acquiring more money. Unfortunately, loneliness is a problem that cannot be fixed with wealth.

Character Name: Reum
Age: 23
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Ratfolk
Appearance (image and / or description): Rather short and skinny, with a crippled left foot. Mottled brown and grey fur with charcoal stains that never seem to come off. Wears tattered rags. The symbol of Finé is branded on her right forearm.
Place of birth: a sewer beneath the suburbs of Incaendium, the capital of Ignea
Current location: an old, seemingly abandoned warehouse in Urbis Forum that is currently occupied by Finé
Cause (what they are driven by): Reum is driven on a daily basis by her desire to improve her situation by any means possible, but her goal in life is to create what she calls her One Great Masterpiece - a single great work of art, the culmination of all her artistic skills, that would be hers alone and not passed off as the work of some other artist.
Profession: Creating art masterpieces to be sold off as works of famous artists, often forgeries of existing artworks
Skills: Art (preferred medium: charcoal), persuasion
Flaws: Unable to run or walk properly, has difficulty trusting others, lacking in empathy, no real friends
Brief background: Reum was born in a sewer under the suburbs of Incaendium in a large colony of over two hundred ratfolk. Sewer life was rough and packed; Reum never knew her parents or relatives and was forced to fend for herself, trapping and eating small creatures that happened to wander into the sewer. She relied on no one, preferring to keep her distance from the others. When she was eight, the human man who lived above the sewer discovered the colony and contacted Finé, who paid him a small sum of money to purchase the entire colony of ratfolk as slaves. Reum tried to flee when the slave dealers arrived, but was caught before she exited the sewers. Her left leg was broken and permanently crippled in the action, and the stylized F was branded onto her forearm.

Reum's colony was forced to work extracting diamonds from a mine in Andvariheim, but Reum, a cripple, was unable to work properly and worked as an unpaid janitor instead. In between janitor work, she drew on the walls with stubs of charcoal, her only pastime. As janitor, Reum overheard everyone's conversations and started a discreet information business, selling information for a scrap of food or a blanket. Sometimes she used her crippled leg to get sympathy and food from others; a schemer, she would stop at nothing to achieve her aims. Eventually Žvende Grinz, a goblin overseer, noticed the beautiful charcoal sketches dotting the walls and reported Reum's amazing artistic ability to his superiors. Reum was sent to Forn and immediately put to work drawing and painting full-time. Surrounded by humans in much higher standards of living than her, Reum realized just how much better humans' lives were than those of ratfolk. Reum is determined to someday rise above the stigma placed on ratfolk and become her true self.

Character Name: Žvende Grinz
Age: 32
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Goblin
Appearance (image and / or description): Thin and wiry runt, with beady black eyes and splotchy olive green skin; brutish and dirty
Place of birth: Suburbs of Forn
Current location: a nondescript apartment in Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Power and tormenting Reum
Profession: Art Forgery Overseer, Finé Inc.
Skills: Sneaking around and being threatening
Flaws: Easily tricked, nasty and unlikable personality
Brief background: Žvende Grinz was born into a family of twelve and was summarily thrown out of the house because of his diminutive size and detestable personality. Wandering the streets of Forn, homeless, he one day chanced across two thieves in the attempt of stealing a priceless topaz for Finé. Instead of alerting law enforcement, he made a deal with them: he would keep quiet in return for the thieves getting him a job. They agreed, and soon Grinz was a junior overseer of a diamond mine worked by ratfolk. Grinz loved his work, enjoying threatening and beating the helpless ratfolk whenever possible. Grinz enjoyed harassing one ratwoman in particular, a janitor with a crippled leg. Over time, however, he noticed the beautiful drawings that followed her wherever she went, and began to suspect she was the artist. He soon contacted his boss and was sent along with Reum back to his home city of Forn, where he was put to work overseeing Reum's work. Grinz, addicted to the feeling of power, rose in station until he was the overseer of the entire Art Forgery department. He often mentally sneered at his parents for disowning him: he was one of the most prominent goblin criminals in Finé's underworld.

Grinz's one problem in life was that he hated Reum. He held his position only because he had convinced his superiors that Reum could not continue her work without him, and so if he got rid of her he would lose his job. He is forced to torment Reum at every possible opportunity, but is afraid of Reum's power: if she reports him, he is done for. Because of this, Reum is able to manipulate him to do whatever she wants, and he resents the power she holds over him. One day, he vows, he will get rid of Reum once and for all...

Although our corporations will probably meet conflict with one another, the Pale Legion will protect our capitalistic system!

Just noticed Finé is a few hundred years older than the Pale Legion. Hrrm. I'll have to fix that.

[WhatsamattaU]

New Socialist South Africa,
Can Exhallos become really famous, quickly?

[Dalria]

Yeah, I made it young because it’s a revival of human supremacy. Before the legion was founded, racial tensions were at an all time low. Psychologically fearing the growing the equality and fear of losing their human identity, The legion was formed!

[Corpus Magnus]

All right, I made Finé a hundred years younger and specified that Callisto was involved with the predecessors of the Pale Legion, not the Legion as it exists in its present-day form.

[Dalria]

All right, I made Finé a hundred years younger and specified that Callisto was involved with the predecessors of the Pale Legion, not the Legion as it exists in its present-day form.

Yeah there were still plenty of human supremecist groups before hand, the legion just banded them together and gave them a voice.

[WhatsamattaU]

Exhallos to play at
"The Silver Bullet" bar!

[Dalria]

I know isaac is going to run for emperor but I’m still thinking of Carver is going to stick with the senate race or also run for emperor.

[BettaMin]

Exhallos to play at
"The Silver Bullet" bar!

Instant reason for everyone to be at "The Silver Vullet", awesome!

[Hashkin]

Character Name: Sir Kirstopher "Kris" Devonshire
Age: 734 (about 65 for comparison)
Being type: Vampire
Appearance:

Place of birth: Kingdom of Rivinia (in modern day Regnalond)
Current location:Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by):
Profession: Professor of History, UFU
Skills: very expericenced, is a vampire, lots of connections
Flaws: Traditionalist, is a vampire,
Brief background: Born in West Horton, Rivinia in the year 1283, Kristopher Alexander Phillip Devonshire was born to a poor household. His father worked as a lumberjack, and his mother stayed home to watch Kris's other three brothers and four sisters. Kris was a pretty average boy at the time, God fearing, working with his father often, and a lot of friends. The Kingdom of Rivinia always has had sour relations with the Duchy of Sanguis. The Rivinians,having a nickname of 'The Kingdom of Man', was God fearing. The Rivinians thought that the Vampires were demons from hell...yeah. The Sanguis, a Vampire state, called the Humans weak, and easy to crush. For decades there was a tense peace, but on April 12, 1304, a Vampire group of drunk aristocrats stumbled onto a town, and raped and infect 20 women, 6 of which were under 18. King Eriksson I was furious. He demanded 20 women, virgins in fact, and a white stallion as trbune. The Sanguis Duke, Olano III, refused, and started to mass his armies on the Rivinian-Sanguis border. Ericsson did the same. After three days of tense standoff, a Rivinian soldier shot down a raven, thinking it was a vampiric bat. The raven was actually a messenger, and Olano considered this an act of war. From April 15-17th, fierce fighting al along the border. Kris was more than eager to join his countrymen, and, after some persuasion, Kris's father agreed.

For the next ten months, Kris received grueling trading from his commander, Sir Harley of Kilrootom. When Kris finally recevied his uniform and his orders, help guard a fortress in Garrett. This shocked Kris, because Garrett is nowhere near the border, but he didn't know that Rivinia was rapidly losing ground. Vampires were thought to be invincible, none of the Rivinians weapons could damage them. After two months, only one Vampire died. Before Kris knew it, Garrett was a fiery hell of fierce combat. The Fortress supply lines were curbed, and Garrett began to starve. Kris lost 30 pounds in two months. The last thung edible was garlic, and no one wanted to eat that. On June 16th, a large Sanguis army was reported to arrive at Garrett. A starved Sir Harley was preparing to surrender when the Vampires came but Kris, not giving up, threw a garlic at the Vampiric Commander. He was repulsed, as if he was sprayed with pepper spray. A soldier three a torch at the Vampire, and he went up in flames, and dropped dead a minute later. Sir Harley immeadiatley ordered that garlics and flames would tip the arrows, and to fire. It was a massacre on both sides, but Garrett held on until reinforcements arrived. While Kris was burying dead bodies, he noticed that a vampire died after it was struck from a very big splinter, almost like a stake, in the heart. How interesting. The victory at Garrett boosted morale across Rivinia, and it turned the heads of many other empires, who began to think about aiding Rivinia. Kris was promoted two months later, and assumed command of a smaller fortress 60 miles east, named Clover. Kris almost immediately began tipping arrows with garlic and garlic dust, and experimented with wooden javelins. On August 9th, a small army attacked Clover, none of the Vampires survived and only 6 humans died. Attacks like these continued for a month, and Olano III was pissed. He decided to send his mist elite legion to obliterate this speck in the dirt. On October 1st, at midnight, the most elite army in Sanguis, mabye all of Eris, attacked the lowly fortress known as Clover. It was a bloodbath, but mostly on the Human side. About two hours into the fight, Kris was struck by an arrow in his thigh. Thinking he wouldn't make it, he ordered one of his officers to take command. Hoping to die peacefully, Kris slept.

Kris awoke to the smell of smoke, and a vampire closing in on him. Clover was being to a crisp, and most if the Humans were retreating. The smoke blocked out the sun, it could have been half a hour or five hours after Kris slept. This was when a rush of pain hit Kris, it looked like somebody pulled out the arrow in his thigh. He was sitting in a pool of blood, it didn't look to bright. It looks like the Vampire noticed that Kris was awake, and was coming to deal the final blow. Cool, he thought. As Kris was uttering his final prayer, the Vampire knelt over him and bit in the the neck. It felt like he was injected with something. Kris scrambled and found some garlic dust on the ground, he threw at his attacker's eyes. The Vampire screamed, and a few other vampires came over, picked up Kris, and threw him into a carriage. Kris was getting drowsy, and he felt his finger, so cold. Kris slept.

When Kristopher woke up, he found himself in some kind of camp, like a mix of a POW camp and a training facility. His teeth felt weird, and when he putted his cold finger in his mouth, it was cut by a very sharp tooth, like a fang. Kris was thrown out of the carriage and was forced to do 25 push-ups before going to meet his commander. When he arrived, his commander explained that he was part of the next generation of Sanguis soldiers, an army of infected humans. For the next three weeks, Kristopher trained, and his wound was treated.

After a three weeks of training, Kris's transformation into a vampire was almost complete. He and his classmates began to formulate a plan to escape, and they needed a bird. Nurse Elena, the Vampire who treated Kris's thigh, agreed to help. She didn't like recruiting soldiers by infecting humans, and she lent her carrier pigeon. The group wrote a message and sent it to the nearest human fortress, Fairview. Fairview relayed the message to King Ericsson, and Ericsson sent his most elite men, the Knights of the Round Table, to break them out. On September 6th, the Round Table arrived at top speed, breaking out many vampiric-humans.

This was the tipping point, The Empire of Lupus, mainly werewolves, began to send troops in Rivinia's aid. Kris was honorably discharged and began treatment to help reverse the Vampire' s effects. This was 1306, so this meant leeches and herbs, but Kris pretended to be better. By the time Kris returned to West Horton, on February 2nd, 1307, the First Great Vampiric war was finished with the first ever successful amphibious invasion. In the night, Kristopher was knighted by King Ericsson as Sir Kristopher of West Horton. Ericsson asked Kris to be apart of His Majesty's Strategic Staff, or HMSS. Kris agreed, in exchange to being pardoned whenver he had to drink blood, and he served valiantly, making strategies and new weapons, like a crossbow that shoots a wood stake covered in garlic juice, and a pepper spray like contraption that is filled with garlic juice. Since Kris was now a legally a vampire, some of these was reluctantly tested on him. He served there through the Second Great Vampiric war (1656-1670) and some Elvish-Dwarf conflicts (1755, 1802-1804, 1825, 1838). In 1840, Rivinia was annexed by Renglond, Kris didn't care. He was recruited by King Francis to be a general, and he accepted. Kris was, and still is, considered one of the best strategists in human history. His last war was the The Great World War (1913-1922). States all over Eris erupted into conflict. In our timeline, WWI was thought to to be the War to end all wars, while the Great World War was known as the War to end the World. Kris realized that his tactics are long gone, his idea to use trenches didn't work out so well. So he decided to return to civil life. Kristopher still wanted to serve his country, so he decided to help advise the Emperor. In 1937, Emperor Alred Rolar was a Half-Elf. Okay, thought Kris, he had worst. But Rolar also claimed he was a pure elf, and was a supremacist. Rolar was a very contreverisal Emperor, and riots soon broke out. This escalated to civil war, and Rolar recruited Kris as his top general. By 1940, the Ratfolk were nearly finished, and Rokar began to focus on the Goblins. Kris discovered files about exterminating non-Human or Elf races. Being a Vampire, Kris was very pissed. He gave these files to the Ratfolk, Goblins, and the rest of the world. Kris then defected, joining the resistance. He was given a Vampiric army at first, but that didn't last very long. Born vampires despised Kris, he was a human folklore hero, a warrior who was depicted to kill thousands of wampires. But in vampiric legend, he was like a boogeyman.Even though he tried to explain he only killed a couple hundred, they didn't follow his orders anyway. Kris was then given a Ratfolk army, who was much more loyal. When Kris first entered their camp, it was abysmal. Their uniforms were not clean, and they smelled like they didnt bathe in months. Kris trained the living shit out of the ratfolk, and they became more and more confident in Kris. At the time, Ratfolk was depicted as vile creatures, but with Kris's leadership, the Ratfolk gained countless victories against Rolar's armies. There is a legend that he didn't lose a single man, that's wrong, he lost five out of 300. Kris often butted heads with Ratfolk general, Rusty Milkivy. When Kris heard he would work with Milkivy, he was ecstatic. Kris knew Milkivy as a bubbly, full of energy private from the Great World War, but he changed. The general now wore a light brown, slightly lighter than his fur, shirt and pants. Black boots that went up to his knees and a black beret. Milkivy was now the polar opposite if Kris. When Kris often charged up with his men, Milkivy was In an encampment miles away. When Kris still wore the uniform that he wore since 1840, Milkivy wore bullet proof materials and helmets. While Kris often used his old saber, milk ivy often brandished his M1 Garand. They wrre still friends, but when Kris planned, for the entire week, to capture a town, Milkivy already captured it. This went vice versa for the next few years. In 1951, after almost 12 million people were dead, Kris marched through the last line of Elvish defense and marched through the Forn. Rolar ate a cyanide capsule, and the war, Kris's last war, was finished. Kristopher then advised 14 Emperors after that, through thick and thin, for the next 66 years. He grew tired of the hack politicians, nothing like King Ericsson, and left with the last Emperor (she was a handful). He is now retired, and is teaching of Urbis Forum University to fulfill his life. Kristopher Devonshire reached History (he lived through 3/4 of the textbook), and is the Director of the War Reenactment club.

[Union Princes]

Name: Treekin
Average Lifespan: 200-2,000, only three kin confirmed to be 6,000 years old
Average Height: At least 8 - 90 meters, 90 meters being the only maximum height ever recorded in the last 937 years
Commonly found: Dense Forests and Woods.
Stereotypical skills: Near-immortality, perfect memory, strong immunity to toxic gases, extremely wise and very politically neutral, extreme strength
Stereotypical flaws: Doesn't understand basic science, slow, extremely vindictive, process time extremely slowly, poor communication since Treekin speak a dead language, Sleep for very long periods of time, Isolationists in nature.
Other notes:
-Inspired by the Ents from Lord of The Rings
-Population is so low that Treekin could be considered a endangered race, mainly because Treekin are still dormant in their sleep and die when they are cut down by lumber industries.
-Nobody looks like what a Treekin's face looks like since it is different for every species
-Treekin speak very slowly sometimes it could take hours to speak one sentence.
-The only reason why Treekin leave their forest was because their forest was cut down and the Treekin is on warpath for retribution.
-"They march until they die" or they have exacted their revenge and went back to find a new forest or wood.
-ancient cousins of the dryads.
-Relationship between dryads and Treekins are like wise men among children.
-Sequoia Treekin are the tallest Treekin to ever exist, and are only found in the most densest of forests.

[WhatsamattaU]

No In-Character posts up yet. Going to re-arrange Exhallos (the Rock band) and have the Minotaur on the drums and put the center on the electric bass guitar.

[New Socialist South Africa]

Type of Organisation: Corporation/Crime organization
Organisation Name: Finé, Inc.
How old is organisation?: 134 years
Logo / symbol (image and / or description): a stylized black-and-gold F
Basis of operation / headquarters: Surface headquarters: Callisto Towers, Urbis Forum; Illegal base: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Ideology of Organisation: Profit and good taste
Brief background: Finé was founded 234 years ago by Callisto Finé, an art collector and smuggler with ties to the movement that would eventually become the Pale Legion. Finé, Inc. was originally formed as an art-selling corporation, cutting deals with promising artists to improve their net worth and reputation and selling the works of world-famous artists. Callisto Finé’s good art sense, underworld connections, and talent at bribing just the right politicians led to instant success and a revival in Agenoran interest in art. Her human supremacist views, however, led to an untimely death by assassination twelve years later.

The ownership of Finé was then passed on to Callisto’s son, Yaren Finé I, who expanded the industry to include other fineries such as precious stones, stylish clothing, and antiques. Under his son, Yaren II, the Finé family’s black market interests were combined with their surface corporation, resulting in two layers of Finé: the surface company and the underworld corporation, dealing in theft and forgery. Under Yaren II, Finé garnered more power both legally and illegally until it was one of the most successful corporations in Agenor. The Finé family name ended with Makena Finé, who married the rich politician Dalton Holderman. The Holderman family’s wealth was nearly as great as the Finés’, and the intertwining of the two lines led to a boom in Finé’s success. Dalton Holderman, a member of the Senate, was a well-known Pale Legion sympathizer, and their nephew, Barron, who inherited the corporation, immediately strengthened Finé’s ties to the human supremacist group by paying small sums of money to Pale Legion politicians in return for sponsorship and advertising. The most influential corporation in Agenor, Finé is revered in a way that simply owning an empty Finé box with the iconic F inscribed on it is a great status symbol.

In recent years, Finé has been cited for civil rights abuses of employees, but as of now no legal action has been taken.

Character Name: Barron Holderman
Age: 53
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Human
Appearance (image and / or description): Stout and slightly overweight. Has dark brown hair and calculating black eyes. Wears excessively fancy apparel with several thick golden rings on his fingers.
Place of birth: Holderman Mansion, Victorum
Current location: Finé Mansion, Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Money and happiness
Profession: CEO of Finé, runs both the surface and underground factions
Skills: Bribery, threats, and corporate management
Flaws: Unlikable, has difficulty getting other to trust and like him; stuck-up, and racist
Brief background: Both Barron Holdermans's father and uncle were Senators and Pale Legion sympathizers, and his aunt, Makena Finé, was the richest woman in Agenor. Growing up, he was surrounded by society's richest and elite and the most influential human supremacists of Agenor. Upon Makena's death when he was thirty-two, leaving Finé to him, Holderman used his ties to the Pale Legion and his enormous inheritance to increase his personal power and wealth to an extreme. Taught by his role models in life to put power and money above all else, Holderman knows only the world of politics and corporations and money. As a child, he had no loving parental figures, only the imposing Holderman and Finé families. As a result, Holderman grew up knowing nothing of love or kindness, and feels like something is missing in his life. Since all he knows is money, he is trying to remedy this in the only way he knows: acquiring more money. Unfortunately, loneliness is a problem that cannot be fixed with wealth.

Character Name: Reum
Age: 23
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Ratfolk
Appearance (image and / or description): Rather short and skinny, with a crippled left foot. Mottled brown and grey fur with charcoal stains that never seem to come off. Wears tattered rags. The symbol of Finé is branded on her right forearm.
Place of birth: a sewer beneath the suburbs of Incaendium, the capital of Ignea
Current location: an old, seemingly abandoned warehouse in Urbis Forum that is currently occupied by Finé
Cause (what they are driven by): Reum is driven on a daily basis by her desire to improve her situation by any means possible, but her goal in life is to create what she calls her One Great Masterpiece - a single great work of art, the culmination of all her artistic skills, that would be hers alone and not passed off as the work of some other artist.
Profession: Creating art masterpieces to be sold off as works of famous artists, often forgeries of existing artworks
Skills: Art (preferred medium: charcoal), persuasion
Flaws: Unable to run or walk properly, has difficulty trusting others, lacking in empathy, no real friends
Brief background: Reum was born in a sewer under the suburbs of Incaendium in a large colony of over two hundred ratfolk. Sewer life was rough and packed; Reum never knew her parents or relatives and was forced to fend for herself, trapping and eating small creatures that happened to wander into the sewer. She relied on no one, preferring to keep her distance from the others. When she was eight, the human man who lived above the sewer discovered the colony and contacted Finé, who paid him a small sum of money to purchase the entire colony of ratfolk as slaves. Reum tried to flee when the slave dealers arrived, but was caught before she exited the sewers. Her left leg was broken and permanently crippled in the action, and the stylized F was branded onto her forearm.

Reum's colony was forced to work extracting diamonds from a mine in Andvariheim, but Reum, a cripple, was unable to work properly and worked as an unpaid janitor instead. In between janitor work, she drew on the walls with stubs of charcoal, her only pastime. As janitor, Reum overheard everyone's conversations and started a discreet information business, selling information for a scrap of food or a blanket. Sometimes she used her crippled leg to get sympathy and food from others; a schemer, she would stop at nothing to achieve her aims. Eventually Žvende Grinz, a goblin overseer, noticed the beautiful charcoal sketches dotting the walls and reported Reum's amazing artistic ability to his superiors. Reum was sent to Forn and immediately put to work drawing and painting full-time. Surrounded by humans in much higher standards of living than her, Reum realized just how much better humans' lives were than those of ratfolk. Reum is determined to someday rise above the stigma placed on ratfolk and become her true self.

Character Name: Žvende Grinz
Age: 32
Being type (e.g. Human, Goblin): Goblin
Appearance (image and / or description): Thin and wiry runt, with beady black eyes and splotchy olive green skin; brutish and dirty
Place of birth: Suburbs of Forn
Current location: a nondescript apartment in Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by): Power and tormenting Reum
Profession: Art Forgery Overseer, Finé Inc.
Skills: Sneaking around and being threatening
Flaws: Easily tricked, nasty and unlikable personality
Brief background: Žvende Grinz was born into a family of twelve and was summarily thrown out of the house because of his diminutive size and detestable personality. Wandering the streets of Forn, homeless, he one day chanced across two thieves in the attempt of stealing a priceless topaz for Finé. Instead of alerting law enforcement, he made a deal with them: he would keep quiet in return for the thieves getting him a job. They agreed, and soon Grinz was a junior overseer of a diamond mine worked by ratfolk. Grinz loved his work, enjoying threatening and beating the helpless ratfolk whenever possible. Grinz enjoyed harassing one ratwoman in particular, a janitor with a crippled leg. Over time, however, he noticed the beautiful drawings that followed her wherever she went, and began to suspect she was the artist. He soon contacted his boss and was sent along with Reum back to his home city of Forn, where he was put to work overseeing Reum's work. Grinz, addicted to the feeling of power, rose in station until he was the overseer of the entire Art Forgery department. He often mentally sneered at his parents for disowning him: he was one of the most prominent goblin criminals in Finé's underworld.

Grinz's one problem in life was that he hated Reum. He held his position only because he had convinced his superiors that Reum could not continue her work without him, and so if he got rid of her he would lose his job. He is forced to torment Reum at every possible opportunity, but is afraid of Reum's power: if she reports him, he is done for. Because of this, Reum is able to manipulate him to do whatever she wants, and he resents the power she holds over him. One day, he vows, he will get rid of Reum once and for all...

While slavery has been illegal for over 150 years, some illegal black market slavery continues, so that is good. Just clarify whether the corporation is 134 or 234 years old.

[New Socialist South Africa]

Exhallos to play at
"The Silver Bullet" bar!

Looks good

[New Socialist South Africa]

Character Name: Sir Kirstopher "Kris" Devonshire
Age: 734 (about 65 for comparison)
Being type: Vampire
Appearance:

(Image)

Place of birth: Kingdom of Rivinia (modern day Victorium)
Current location:Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by):
Profession: Professor of History, UFU
Skills: very expericenced, is a vampire, lots of connections
Flaws: Traditionalist, is a vampire,
Brief background: Born in West Horton, Rivinia in the year 1283, Kristopher Alexander Phillip Devonshire was born to a poor household. His father worked as a lumberjack, and his mother stayed home to watch Kris's other three brothers and four sisters. Kris was a pretty average boy at the time, God fearing, working with his father often, and a lot of friends. The Kingdom of Rivinia always has had sour relations with the Duchy of Sanguis. The Rivinians,having a nickname of 'The Kingdom of Man', was God fearing. The Rivinians thought that the Vampires were demons from hell...yeah. The Sanguis, a Vampire state, called the Humans weak, and easy to crush. For decades there was a tense peace, but on April 12, 1304, a Vampire group of drunk aristocrats stumbled onto a town, and raped and infect 20 women, 6 of which were under 18. King Eriksson I was furious. He demanded 20 women, virgins in fact, and a white stallion as trbune. The Sanguis Duke, Olano III, refused, and started to mass his armies on the Rivinian-Sanguis border. Ericsson did the same. After three days of tense standoff, a Rivinian soldier shot down a raven, thinking it was a vampiric bat. The raven was actually a messenger, and Olano considered this an act of war. From April 15-17th, fierce fighting al along the border. Kris was more than eager to join his countrymen, and, after some persuasion, Kris's father agreed.

For the next ten months, Kris received grueling trading from his commander, Sir Harley of Kilrootom. When Kris finally recevied his uniform and his orders, help guard a fortress in Garrett. This shocked Kris, because Garrett is nowhere near the border, but he didn't know that Rivinia was rapidly losing ground. Vampires were thought to be invincible, none of the Rivinians weapons could damage them. After two months, only one Vampire died. Before Kris knew it, Garrett was a fiery hell of fierce combat. The Fortress supply lines were curbed, and Garrett began to starve. Kris lost 30 pounds in two months. The last thung edible was garlic, and no one wanted to eat that. On June 16th, a large Sanguis army was reported to arrive at Garrett. A starved Sir Harley was preparing to surrender when the Vampires came but Kris, not giving up, threw a garlic at the Vampiric Commander. He burned and dropped dead a minute later. Sir Harley immeadiatley ordered that garlics would tip the arrows, and to fire. It was a massacre on both sides, but Garrett held on until reinforcements arrived. While Kris was burying dead bodies, he noticed that a vampire died after it was struck from a very big splinter, almost like a stake, in the heart. How interesting. The victory at Garrett boosted morale across Rivinia, and it turned the heads of many other empires, who began to think about aiding Rivinia. Kris was promoted two months later, and assumed command of a smaller fortress 60 miles east, named Clover. Kris almost immediately began tipping arrows with garlic and garlic dust, and experimented with wooden javelins. On August 9th, a small army attacked Clover, none of the Vampires survived and only 6 humans died. Attacks like these continued for a month, and Olano III was pissed. He decided to send his mist elite legion to obliterate this speck in the dirt. On October 1st, at midnight, the most elite army in Sanguis, mabye all of Eris, attacked the lowly fortress known as Clover. It was a bloodbath, but mostly on the Human side. About two hours into the fight, Kris was struck by an arrow in his thigh. Thinking he wouldn't make it, he ordered one of his officers to take command. Hoping to die peacefully, Kris slept.

Kris awoke to the smell of smoke, and a vampire closing in on him. Clover was being to a crisp, and most if the Humans were retreating. The smoke blocked out the sun, it could have been half a hour or five hours after Kris slept. This was when a rush of pain hit Kris, it looked like somebody pulled out the arrow in his thigh. He was sitting in a pool of blood, it didn't look to bright. It looks like the Vampire noticed that Kris was awake, and was coming to deal the final blow. Cool, he thought. As Kris was uttering his final prayer, the Vampire knelt over him and bit in the the neck. It felt like he was injected with something. Kris scrambled and found some garlic dust on the ground, he threw at his attacker's eyes. The Vampire screamed, and a few other vampires came over, picked up Kris, and threw him into a carriage. Kris was getting drowsy, and he felt his finger so cold. Kris slept.

When Kristopher woke up, he found himself in some kind of camp, like a mix of a POW camp and a training facility. His teeth felt weird, and when he putted his cold finger in his mouth, it was cut by a very sharp tooth, like a fang. Kris was thrown out of the carriage and was forced to do 25 push-ups before going to meet his commander. When he arrived, his commander explained that he was part of the next generation of Sanguis soldiers, an army of infected humans. For the next three weeks, Kristopher trained, and his wound was treated.

After a three weeks of trading, Kris's transformation into a vampire was almost complete. He and his classmates began to formulate a plan to escape, and they needed a bird. Nurse Elena, the Vampire who treated Kris's thigh, agreed to help. She didn't like recruiting soldiers by infecting humans, and she lent her carrier pigeon. The group wrote a message and sent it to the nearest human fortress, Fairview. Fairview relayed the message to King Ericsson, and Ericsson sent his most elite men, the Knights of the Round Table, to break them out. On September 6th, the Round Table arrived at top speed, breaking out many vampiric-humans.

This was the tipping point, The Empire of Lupus, mainly werewolves, began to send troops in Rivinia's aid. Kris was honorably discharged and began treatment to help reverse the Vampire' s effects. This was 1306, so this meant leeches and herbs, but Kris pretended to be better. By the time Kris returned to West Horton, on February 2nd, 1307, the First Great Vampiric war was finished with the first ever successful amphibious invasion. In the night, Kristopher was knighted by King Ericsson as Sir Kristopher of West Horton. Ericsson asked Kris to be apart of His Majesty's Strategic Staff, or HMSS. Kris agreed, in exchange to being pardoned whenver he had to drink blood, and he served valiantly, making strategies and new weapons, like a crossbow that shoots a wood stake covered in garlic juice, and a pepper spray like contraption that is filled with garlic juice. Since Kris was now a legally a vampire, some of these was reluctantly tested on him. He served there through the Second Great Vampiric war (1656-1670) and some Elvish-Dwarf conflicts (1755, 1802-1804, 1825, 1838). Kris was, and still is, considered one of the best strategists in human history. His last war was the The Great World War (1913-1922). States all over Eris erupted into conflict. In our timeline, WWI was thought to to be the War to end all wars, while the Great World War was known as the War to end the World. Kris realized that his tactics are long gone, his idea to use trenches didn't work out so well. So he decided to return to civil life. Kristopher still wanted to serve his country, so he decided to help advise the Emperor. He advised 14 Emperors, through thick and thin, for the next 95 years. He grew tired of the hack politicians, nothing like King Ericsson, and left with the last Emperor (she was a handful). He is now retired, and is teaching of Urbis Forum University to fulfill his life. Kristopher Devonshire reached History (he lived through 3/4 of the textbook), and is the Director of the War Reenactment club.

Can we change it from old Victorum to an old part of The Kingdom of Regnalond, or the Tsardom of Nashazemlya. Victorum is more based on Italy and used to be the Victori Empire (Roman Empire). As Regnalond and Nashazemlya are both closer to the Vampires, it would make more sense for a war to erupt there. This would also make more sense in terms of werewolf allies coming into play. The names (place names and character names alike) are more what would fit in Regnalond, while the battle with the vampires fits more with the Tsardom of Nashazemlya. Maybe we could have the Kingdom of Rivinia be something like the Kingdom of Scotland, ending up part of the larger Kingdom of Regnalond (with is essentially England and France mixed, with elements of Scotland).

The Duchy of Sanguis can then be part of the modern County of Pădurea Morților (which would make sense as the vampire dominated member nation), the Tsardom of Nashazemlya (as the member nation that has long bordered the County, and which has fought long wars with them) or as a small separate Vampire Duchy that existed within the Kingdom of Regnalond, perhaps in the forests or mountains, and which has since been incorporated into the larger Kingdom of Regnalond.

While the garlic subplot is interesting, I think it is a slightly convenient and confusing weakness. Lets maybe have it that Vampires are vulnerable to fire, and rather are simply repulsed by the smell of garlic. Vampires can form the elite nobility of their armies, but lets have much of their armies also consist of skeletons and zombies (with zombies also vulnerable to fire).

The wars look interesting, but I’d also like to add the Great Agenorian War to that (1937-1951), which erupted after a Half-Elf supremacist won power as Emperor in a contentious election, claimed to be a pure elf and pushed the supremacy of humans, half-elves, dwarves and half-dwarves, targeting ratfolk and goblins in particular.

[New Socialist South Africa]

No In-Character posts up yet. Going to re-arrange Exhallos (the Rock band) and have the Minotaur on the drums and put the center on the electric bass guitar.

All good. I may delay the IC for one day longer. Something has come up that puts me out of WiFi access for one more day. Rest assured, it will be up tomorrow when I come back (probably by around 1 or 2pm South Africa time).

EDIT: I may actually be able to do it far earlier, the situation has changed a bit.

[New Socialist South Africa]

Name: Treekin
Average Lifespan: 200-2,000, only three kin confirmed to be 6,000 years old
Average Height: 8 - 90 meters
Commonly found: Dense Forests and Woods.
Stereotypical skills: Near-immortality, perfect memory, strong immunity to toxic gases, extremely wise and very politically neutral, extreme strength
Stereotypical flaws: Doesn't understand basic science, slow, extremely vindictive, process time extremely slowly, poor communication since Treekin speak a dead language, Sleep for very long periods of time, Isolationists in nature.
Other notes:
-Inspired by the Ents from Lord of The Rings
-Population is so low that Treekin could be considered a endangered race, mainly because Treekin are still dormant in their sleep and die when they are cut down by lumber industries.
-Nobody looks like what a Treekin's face looks like since it is different for every species
-Treekin speak very slowly sometimes it could take hours to speak one sentence.
-The only reason why Treekin leave their forest was because their forest was cut down and the Treekin is on warpath for retribution.
-"They march until they die" or they have exacted their revenge and went back to find a new forest or wood.
-ancient cousins of the dryads.
-Relationship between dryads and Treekins are like wise men among children.

While these look similar to Dryads, I'm inclined to include them as they look like an even rarer and bigger version. 90 metres tall is ridiculously tall however, and I'd rather those be the highest they have ever been recorded as being in the deepest of woods, but if you make that one change I'm happy and will accept it

[Union Princes]

Yeah, 90 meters is approximately the same height of a average Sequoia tree.

Aldo did the edit on the height.

[New Socialist South Africa]

Yeah, 90 meters is approximately the same height of a average Sequoia tree.

Aldo did the edit on the height.

True, but this is more Europe based than US based. I’ll accept it though, and we will just have the 90 meter tall ones as very very rare. Anyway, I’ll accept . Will add them soon. Looking forward to seeing an interesting treekin character from you.

[Hashkin]

Character Name: Sir Kirstopher "Kris" Devonshire
Age: 734 (about 65 for comparison)
Being type: Vampire
Appearance:

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Place of birth: Kingdom of Rivinia (modern day Victorium)
Current location:Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by):
Profession: Professor of History, UFU
Skills: very expericenced, is a vampire, lots of connections
Flaws: Traditionalist, is a vampire,
Brief background: Born in West Horton, Rivinia in the year 1283, Kristopher Alexander Phillip Devonshire was born to a poor household. His father worked as a lumberjack, and his mother stayed home to watch Kris's other three brothers and four sisters. Kris was a pretty average boy at the time, God fearing, working with his father often, and a lot of friends. The Kingdom of Rivinia always has had sour relations with the Duchy of Sanguis. The Rivinians,having a nickname of 'The Kingdom of Man', was God fearing. The Rivinians thought that the Vampires were demons from hell...yeah. The Sanguis, a Vampire state, called the Humans weak, and easy to crush. For decades there was a tense peace, but on April 12, 1304, a Vampire group of drunk aristocrats stumbled onto a town, and raped and infect 20 women, 6 of which were under 18. King Eriksson I was furious. He demanded 20 women, virgins in fact, and a white stallion as trbune. The Sanguis Duke, Olano III, refused, and started to mass his armies on the Rivinian-Sanguis border. Ericsson did the same. After three days of tense standoff, a Rivinian soldier shot down a raven, thinking it was a vampiric bat. The raven was actually a messenger, and Olano considered this an act of war. From April 15-17th, fierce fighting al along the border. Kris was more than eager to join his countrymen, and, after some persuasion, Kris's father agreed.

For the next ten months, Kris received grueling trading from his commander, Sir Harley of Kilrootom. When Kris finally recevied his uniform and his orders, help guard a fortress in Garrett. This shocked Kris, because Garrett is nowhere near the border, but he didn't know that Rivinia was rapidly losing ground. Vampires were thought to be invincible, none of the Rivinians weapons could damage them. After two months, only one Vampire died. Before Kris knew it, Garrett was a fiery hell of fierce combat. The Fortress supply lines were curbed, and Garrett began to starve. Kris lost 30 pounds in two months. The last thung edible was garlic, and no one wanted to eat that. On June 16th, a large Sanguis army was reported to arrive at Garrett. A starved Sir Harley was preparing to surrender when the Vampires came but Kris, not giving up, threw a garlic at the Vampiric Commander. He burned and dropped dead a minute later. Sir Harley immeadiatley ordered that garlics would tip the arrows, and to fire. It was a massacre on both sides, but Garrett held on until reinforcements arrived. While Kris was burying dead bodies, he noticed that a vampire died after it was struck from a very big splinter, almost like a stake, in the heart. How interesting. The victory at Garrett boosted morale across Rivinia, and it turned the heads of many other empires, who began to think about aiding Rivinia. Kris was promoted two months later, and assumed command of a smaller fortress 60 miles east, named Clover. Kris almost immediately began tipping arrows with garlic and garlic dust, and experimented with wooden javelins. On August 9th, a small army attacked Clover, none of the Vampires survived and only 6 humans died. Attacks like these continued for a month, and Olano III was pissed. He decided to send his mist elite legion to obliterate this speck in the dirt. On October 1st, at midnight, the most elite army in Sanguis, mabye all of Eris, attacked the lowly fortress known as Clover. It was a bloodbath, but mostly on the Human side. About two hours into the fight, Kris was struck by an arrow in his thigh. Thinking he wouldn't make it, he ordered one of his officers to take command. Hoping to die peacefully, Kris slept.

Kris awoke to the smell of smoke, and a vampire closing in on him. Clover was being to a crisp, and most if the Humans were retreating. The smoke blocked out the sun, it could have been half a hour or five hours after Kris slept. This was when a rush of pain hit Kris, it looked like somebody pulled out the arrow in his thigh. He was sitting in a pool of blood, it didn't look to bright. It looks like the Vampire noticed that Kris was awake, and was coming to deal the final blow. Cool, he thought. As Kris was uttering his final prayer, the Vampire knelt over him and bit in the the neck. It felt like he was injected with something. Kris scrambled and found some garlic dust on the ground, he threw at his attacker's eyes. The Vampire screamed, and a few other vampires came over, picked up Kris, and threw him into a carriage. Kris was getting drowsy, and he felt his finger so cold. Kris slept.

When Kristopher woke up, he found himself in some kind of camp, like a mix of a POW camp and a training facility. His teeth felt weird, and when he putted his cold finger in his mouth, it was cut by a very sharp tooth, like a fang. Kris was thrown out of the carriage and was forced to do 25 push-ups before going to meet his commander. When he arrived, his commander explained that he was part of the next generation of Sanguis soldiers, an army of infected humans. For the next three weeks, Kristopher trained, and his wound was treated.

After a three weeks of trading, Kris's transformation into a vampire was almost complete. He and his classmates began to formulate a plan to escape, and they needed a bird. Nurse Elena, the Vampire who treated Kris's thigh, agreed to help. She didn't like recruiting soldiers by infecting humans, and she lent her carrier pigeon. The group wrote a message and sent it to the nearest human fortress, Fairview. Fairview relayed the message to King Ericsson, and Ericsson sent his most elite men, the Knights of the Round Table, to break them out. On September 6th, the Round Table arrived at top speed, breaking out many vampiric-humans.

This was the tipping point, The Empire of Lupus, mainly werewolves, began to send troops in Rivinia's aid. Kris was honorably discharged and began treatment to help reverse the Vampire' s effects. This was 1306, so this meant leeches and herbs, but Kris pretended to be better. By the time Kris returned to West Horton, on February 2nd, 1307, the First Great Vampiric war was finished with the first ever successful amphibious invasion. In the night, Kristopher was knighted by King Ericsson as Sir Kristopher of West Horton. Ericsson asked Kris to be apart of His Majesty's Strategic Staff, or HMSS. Kris agreed, in exchange to being pardoned whenver he had to drink blood, and he served valiantly, making strategies and new weapons, like a crossbow that shoots a wood stake covered in garlic juice, and a pepper spray like contraption that is filled with garlic juice. Since Kris was now a legally a vampire, some of these was reluctantly tested on him. He served there through the Second Great Vampiric war (1656-1670) and some Elvish-Dwarf conflicts (1755, 1802-1804, 1825, 1838). Kris was, and still is, considered one of the best strategists in human history. His last war was the The Great World War (1913-1922). States all over Eris erupted into conflict. In our timeline, WWI was thought to to be the War to end all wars, while the Great World War was known as the War to end the World. Kris realized that his tactics are long gone, his idea to use trenches didn't work out so well. So he decided to return to civil life. Kristopher still wanted to serve his country, so he decided to help advise the Emperor. He advised 14 Emperors, through thick and thin, for the next 95 years. He grew tired of the hack politicians, nothing like King Ericsson, and left with the last Emperor (she was a handful). He is now retired, and is teaching of Urbis Forum University to fulfill his life. Kristopher Devonshire reached History (he lived through 3/4 of the textbook), and is the Director of the War Reenactment club.

Can we change it from old Victorum to an old part of The Kingdom of Regnalond, or the Tsardom of Nashazemlya. Victorum is more based on Italy and used to be the Victori Empire (Roman Empire). As Regnalond and Nashazemlya are both closer to the Vampires, it would make more sense for a war to erupt there. This would also make more sense in terms of werewolf allies coming into play. The names (place names and character names alike) are more what would fit in Regnalond, while the battle with the vampires fits more with the Tsardom of Nashazemlya. Maybe we could have the Kingdom of Rivinia be something like the Kingdom of Scotland, ending up part of the larger Kingdom of Regnalond (with is essentially England and France mixed, with elements of Scotland).

The Duchy of Sanguis can then be part of the modern County of Pădurea Morților (which would make sense as the vampire dominated member nation), the Tsardom of Nashazemlya (as the member nation that has long bordered the County, and which has fought long wars with them) or as a small separate Vampire Duchy that existed within the Kingdom of Regnalond, perhaps in the forests or mountains, and which has since been incorporated into the larger Kingdom of Regnalond.

While the garlic subplot is interesting, I think it is a slightly convenient and confusing weakness. Lets maybe have it that Vampires are vulnerable to fire, and rather are simply repulsed by the smell of garlic. Vampires can form the elite nobility of their armies, but lets have much of their armies also consist of skeletons and zombies (with zombies also vulnerable to fire).

The wars look interesting, but I’d also like to add the Great Agenorian War to that (1937-1951), which erupted after a Half-Elf supremacist won power as Emperor in a contentious election, claimed to be a pure elf and pushed the supremacy of humans, half-elves, dwarves and half-dwarves, targeting ratfolk and goblins in particular.

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I'll provide a brief timeline here that can be developed over time:

0 ME (Modern Era) - Birth of Yeshua according to Yeshuism
1240 ME - Ghulian Horde of 10 000 (with about 3 000 orc pirate mercenaries) cross sea from western Sibur and land in Regnalond
1240 - 1241 ME - First Ghulian Invasion. Ghulians use some rudimentary gunpowder weapons, but mostly rely on luring enemy heavy cavalry and soldiers into ambushes with light cavalry archers. Knights of Regnalond suffer terrible defeat at battle of Silesia in 1241 ME. Death of Ghulian Khan Börgedei from natural causes back in Ghulia leads to Ghulian retreat due to competition over new Khan.
1259 - 1260 ME - Second Ghulian invasion. Many cities in Regnalond and Victorum sacked. Ghulians retreat with loot after naval forces threaten to destroy their pirate mercenary navy
1283 ME - Birth of Kirstopher "Kris" Devonshire
1287 - 1288 ME - Ghulian Horde of 30 000 lands in Tsardom of Nashazemlya, defeated decisively by Nashazemlyan force of 15 000 (light cavalry, pikemen and crossbows), who defend well fortified castles and towns and use light cavalry to harass Ghulians and draw them onto pikes. Last Ghulian invasion of Agenor.
1304 - 1307 ME - First Great Vampiric war
1322 ME - Earliest record of the use of an early gun in Agenor
1453 ME - Maghreb conquest of Urbis Forum, collapse of Empire of Bovaria
1503 ME - Yeshuite retaking of Urbis Forum, formation of Republic of Bovaria, General Lucius Melissus (aged 54) elected first Emperor of Republic
1504 ME - Republic of Bovaria and Kingdom of Tor confederate to form "the Southern Empire"
1509 ME - Imperial Forces retake Kingdom of Ignea, confederate
1511 ME - Dwarven Kingdom of Nidavellir confederates into empire
1513 - 1518 ME - Mamwlad Conquest, Southern Empire and Kingdom of Victorum join forces to conquer hillmen and partition Mamwlad
1522 ME - Emperor Lucius the Unifier passes away aged 73, war hero Marcus Xiphos of Bovaria (aged 27) elected as second emperor
1523 - 1536 ME - 13 Year War between Southern Empire and Kingdom of Victorum following territorial disputes, war ends with fall of Victori King, Republic of Victorum and all of Mamwlad Confederacy incorporated into Southern Empire
1537 ME - Tensions between Southern Empire and Sultanate of Qurṭuba boil over, Conquest of Qurṭuba begins
1539 ME - Emperor Marcus the Victorious (aged 44) killed in battle with Maghreb army after attempted conquest of Sultanate of Qurṭuba, King Alexander Equisrum of Ignea (aged 41) elected as third emperor (1st from outside of Bovaria), alliance made with Half Elves of Federation of Elysia
1540 ME - Early pistol invented in Nashzemlya
1563 ME - Southern Empire and Half Elf forces of Elysia conquer Sultanate of Qurṭuba, confederated into empire (Conquest of Qurṭuba ends). Elysia confederates in return for trade benefits
1567 ME - Attempted conquest of Goblins of Gudrybės Miškas ends with ambush and murder of Emperor Alexander the Crusader (aged aged 69), Llywelyn Bontgarreg of Mamwlad (aged 46) elected fourth emperor, in part as way to calm hillmen rebellion
1568 ME - Maghreb given right to follow own religion as way to ease rebellion in south, policy of consolidation and defence adopted, trade alliances with Kingdom of Regnalond, Kingdom of Norðri and Tsardom of Nashazemlya
1593 ME - Emperor Llewelyn the Consolidator forced out and resigns age 72 following northmen invasion of trade allies of Tsardom of Nashazemlya, Felix Aquila of Victorum is elected fifth emperor (aged 31)
1593 - 1620 ME - Great Northern War, Kingdom of Regnalond, Kingdom of Norðri and Tsardom of Nashazemlya consolidated into Southern Empire during war as strategic military alliance, Southern Empire renamed Empire of Agenor, long war of attrition fought with northmen, ends with stalemate following death of Emperor Felix the Expansionist in battle in Svobodnaya Zemlya (aged 58), Hermes Olyse of Elysia becomes sixth emperor and 1st half-elf emperor (aged 69)
1637 ME - Confederacy of Pholóē joined with Empire of Agenor through trade and conquest
1656 ME - Emperor Hermes the trader resigns aged 105 following Vampiric invasion of Tsardom of Nashazemlya, Tsar Ivan Medved of Nashazemlya (aged 37) elected seventh Emperor, brings use of gunpowder, musketeers and mounted pistoleers to the fore
1656 - 1670 ME - Second Great Vampiric war, vampires pushed back but undefeated, ends with stalemate and peace treaty, Dwarven Kingdom of Andvariheim joins Empire in 1661 ME as part of strategic military alliance against vampires.
1672 ME - Emperor Ivan the Vampire-slayer dies from heart attack while playing game of chess (aged 53), Antonius Auriga of Victorum (aged 39) elected eighth Emperor. Continues development of strong Imperial army with use of musketeers, cannons and mounted pistoleers.
1673 ME - 1701 ME - Goblin Conquests. Goblins conquered through use of gunpowder and war of attrition after 28 bloody years of fighting. Gudrybės Miškas incorporated into Empire. Enslavement of goblins causes massive revolts in Gudrybės Miškas, brutal conflict erupts in effort to suppress violence.
1702 - 1705 ME - Conquest of Oileán Anársa, Imperial navy blockades small island nation and Imperial forces employ similar strategy used against goblins to conquer island. Oileán Anársa incorporated into Empire.
1707 ME - Emperor Antonius the Conqueror / the Cruel passes away peacefully aged 74. Tyr Onehand of Andvariheim elected as ninth Emperor and first Dwarf emperor (aged 72) on promise of reform.
1707 - 1767 ME - 60 years of relative stability. Reforms grants goblins and ratfolk basic rights, attempts to ban their enslavement but is cut short by own political allies. Ratfolk and Goblin rebellions continue. Centaurs Chieftains given a say in vote for Emperor and enslavement of minotaurs and satyrs is banned. Vampires and Werewolves take advantage of Goblin rebellions to back rival goblin factions and increase their influence in Gudrybės Miškas.
1759 ME - Vampire backed goblin forces threaten both Tor and Andvariheim. Forces sent to defend these areas.
1767 ME - Emperor Tyr Onehand dies peacefully (despite several assassination attempts by human supremacist groups) aged 134. Baron Hessalius Vordenburg, from Tor, is elected tenth emperor (aged 49). Industrial developments begin to lead to mass deportations of farmers from rural areas. Join military or go to cities to try find work. Industrial Revolution seen to begin.
1767 - 1787 ME - Conquest of the Vampires. Imperial forces ally with werewolves and northmen to wage war on vampires, their undead armies and goblin allies. War ends with temporary defeat of vampires. Pădurea Morților partitioned between northmen, werewolves and empire.
1788 ME - Emperor Hessalius the Grim is assassinated by a Vampire assassin Morgred the Silent aged 71. King Auguste Pégase of Regnalond elected eleventh Emperor (aged 33). Allegedly elected as weak leader more controllable by powerful backers and due to his wealth.
1789 ME - Regnalond Revolution breaks out. Famine, war and high taxes on poor sparks fury against life of luxury of the elites. Emperor Auguste flees to Urbis Forum. Revolution spreads to Victorum, and Bovaria (particularly Urbis Forum). Threatens to tear Empire apart.
1790 ME - Goblins rise up in Gudrybės Miškas, Goblin Revolution begins. Peasants revolt in Mamwlad. Imperial forces despatched to put down rebellions. Vampires Revolution begins.
1791 ME - Riots in Urbis Forum, Urbis Forum Army despatched to put down riots, but many join with protesters demanding change. People's Assembly of Urbis Forum established and take effective control over the city. Emperor effectively becomes ceremonial. King Friedrich Brannenborg of Tor and King Antonius of Ignea become the effective rulers of the Empire, while not carrying any official titles.
1792 ME - Republic of Regnalond declares independence from Empire of Agenor. Imperial forces despatched to put down rebellion. Imperial forces march on Urbis Forum itself, 1st Agenorian Revolutionary War breaks out.
1793 ME - Emperor Auguste attempts to flee Urbis Forum out of fear for his life after he is exposed to be backing Imperial forces over Revolutionary ones. Emperor Auguste the Weak is executed for treason aged 38. King Antonius Equisrum of Ignea elected twelfth Emperor (aged 38). Urbis Forum declares itself "The Republic of Urbis Forum" and declares its independence both from the Empire and the rest of the Republic of Bovaria. Duke William Coburg of Gotha in northern Regnalond crowned King of monarchist controlled areas of Regnalond.
1794 ME - Vampires drive Imperial forces out of Pădurea Morților.
1798 ME - Revolutionary Forces under General Leo di Buon take control of large parts of the the Sultanate of Qurṭuba. They are defeated late in the year by combined Imperial Forces. General Leo di Buon returns to Urbis Forum.
1799 ME - General Leo di Buon of the Revolutionary Army seizes power over the joint Revolutionary forces and territories in a coup and declares himself Consul.
1802 ME - 1st Agenorian Revolutionary War ends with victory for Revolutionary Forces. Urbis Forum, large parts of Victorum and large parts of Mamwlad and Regnalond are united as "The Republic of Agenor". Goblin Revolution continues. Tensions between the monarchist parts of the Kingdom of Regnalond (part of the Empire) and the Republic of Agenor remain very high, with an uneasy truce maintained.
1804 ME - Leo di Buon declares himself "Emperor of the Republic of Agenor" and continues building up powerful military.
1805 ME - War of the Emperors begins, when tensions in Regnalond boil over into open war. Emperor Antonius the Royalist heads the Empire of Agenor, with Emperor Leo di Buon leads the Republic of Agenor
1809 ME - Republic forces seize control of Tor and Bovaria and all of Mamwlad and Victorum, as well as pushing back royalist forces Regnalond and taking parts of Ignea, but struggle in naval battles and fail to take Elysia, all of Regnalond and any of the Dvergheim. Goblin Revolution ends with Goblin victory and Gudrybės Miškas declaring its independence from the Empire. Refusal to join the Republic of Agenor and tensions leads to goblins fighting war on border on Tor against Republican forces. Imperial Forces do well in Ignea and at sea, while struggling in Tor.
1809 - 1811 ME - 2 years mostly of skirmishes and sea battles as both sides try to replace losses in their armies.
1812 ME - Emperor Leo di Buon invades Nashzemlya with army of 700 000 in Summer. Win series of military victories and take the capital of Vsadnikagorod, only to find it abandoned and some parts had been burnt down. With winter closing in he is forced to retreat. The retreat sees thousands killed from hypothermia, starvation and ambushes. Only 120 000 soldiers return from the war, with 100 000 captured, 400 000 killed and 80 000 deserting. Nashzemlya returns firmly to Imperial hands.
1813 ME - While Republic forces continue to win victories, they begin to become outnumbered, and Imperial forces win a series of victories against Republican forces, retaking all of Regnalond and Mamwlad, much of Victorum and most of Tor.
1814 ME - Despite a number of Republican victories, larger Imperial forces retake all of Ignea, all of Tor, all of Victorum and all of Bovaria. Imperial forces regroup and surround Urbis Forum with intent to besiege city. Peace talks opened in attempt to avoid massive battle.
1815 ME - With Peace talks looking like they will fall apart, Emperor Leo di Buon uses element of surprise to attack isolated Torish forces and wins decisive battle against them. Final clash between Republican and Imperial forces comes at Battle of Châluan, with bloody but decisive Imperial victory. Emperor Leo di Buon is captured and imprisoned on a tiny island controlled by Elysia. Republican hardliners refuse to relinquish Urbis Forum, but they are outnumbered and defeated.
1816 ME - Imperial forces march on Gudrybės Miškas, 2nd Goblin Conquest begins.
1819 ME - Emperor Antonius the Royalist dies peacefully aged 70. King Friedrich Brannen of Tor elected as thirteenth Emperor (aged 49)
1827 ME - 2nd Goblin Conquest ends with decisive Imperial victory, Goblins returned under Imperial rule. Goblin and Ratfolk slaves still used in Regnalond and Victorum, but slavery banned everywhere else in Empire, most recently in Tor. Slave trade remains.
1830 ME - Three Day Revolution in Urbis Forum, commoners revolt against unpopular impose Mayor, Károlos Gorizia. Revolt ends with greater rights for the commoners and new mayor appointed.
1833 ME - Regnalond bans slavery. Slave trade is finally banned across the Empire. Children of slaves in Victorum remain slaves.
1840 ME - Emperor Friedrich the Abolitionist dies peacefully aged 69. Duke Óthon Wittelsbach of Bovaria was elected the fourteenth Emperor (aged 25), seen by many to be a compromise monarchist candidate who could be controlled, and wouldn't isolate any member nation too much.
1848 ME - Year of Revolutions. Republic revolts break out in Ignea. 1848 Revolution breaks out in Urbis Forum demanding more rights from commoners and the ability to elect their mayor. Revolts later break out in Tor, Victorum and Bovaria. "The Communitarian Manifesto" is written by Karl Barx, a bitten werewolf from Tor, and Friedrich Thickbeard, a dwarf from Andvariheim. Revolts are suppressed. Lewis di Buon, nephew of Leo di Buon, is elected Mayor of Urbis Forum. Only male humans, half-elves, half-dwarves and dwarves over the age of 30, and owning a house or land, are allowed to vote.
1852 ME - Facing massive external and internal pressure, Victorum abolishes slavery, but enforces 20 years compulsory apprenticeship for all current slaves.
1853 - 1860 ME - Conquest of the North. Imperial armies march north and conquer the northmen of Svobodnaya Zemlya. They then send the Imperial Navy and army to work as a combined force to conquer Tallimat Qassimasoq and the "Seal Hunters". Both nations are incorporated into the Empire.
1862 ME - Revolt starts in Urbis Forum and spreads across Bovaria and much of the empire against new taxes on commoners to pay for expenses of Conquest of the North. Emperor Óthon the Unwanted is forced to resign aged 47. Pallas Alepoú is elected as the fifteenth Emperor and second half elf emperor (aged 80).
1864 ME - Emperor Pallas passes massive federal reforms, local governments and authorities gain greater local control. Reforms the entire political system, establishing a system whereby each nation elects two Senators (for 4 years, alternating 1 every 2 years). Controversially this includes giving goblins self-governance, and including goblin senators in the new Imperial Senate. Emperor to still be chosen amongst elites however, and goblin elites given little to no say on the matter. Voting for senators still reserved for landowning males over the age of 25. Power shifts sharply from landed nobility to land-owning bourgeoise. Reforms improve working conditions somewhat, but working class still denied the vote.
1870 ME - Lewis di Buon, Mayor of Urbis Forum, is overthrown by an Anarcho-Communist revolution in the capital, demanding the vote for working people and the establishment of a people's republic. Establishment of Forn Commune.
1871 ME - Imperial army crushes Forn Commune with ruthless force. Further reforms made however to try appease working class.
1876 ME - Tensions between Vampires and Werewolves explode into warfare. Tensions threaten Imperial territory.
1877 ME - Empire sides with Vampires against Werewolves in Conquest of Awooooooo!
1880 ME - Despite being technically defeated, Werewolves refuse to give up war and engage in bloody guerrilla war.
1884 ME - Treaty of Urbis Forum eventually ends war, with Awooooooo! and Pădurea Morților joining the Empire in return for significant special local control rules. Both elect Senators to join the now 40 member Imperial Senate. People's Party founded as merger of the Monarchist Party, the Sons of Adon, Dwarven Pride and Elven Alliance. Represents conservative interests among humans, elves and dwarves.
1886 ME - Emperor Pallas the Federalist steps down aged 104. General Otto von Leomarck of Tor, a hardened veteran and war hero, is elected as the sixteenth Emperor (aged 71). He puts together a colaition of Federalist and People's Party support. He starts a project of modernising and developing the Imperial Army, and brings tough law and order to the land. His harshness, particularly against ratfolk and goblin criminals, makes him unpopular with these groups. He uses careful diplomacy to prevent open war however.
1892 ME - Interventionists force Emperor Otto "the Iron Emperor" out. King Wilheim Brannen of Tor is elected seventeenth Emperor (aged 33), becoming the first People's Party Emperor.


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1913- 1922 ME - Great World War

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2018 ME - Current day

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Character Name: Sir Kirstopher "Kris" Devonshire
Age: 734 (about 65 for comparison)
Being type: Vampire
Appearance:

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Place of birth: Kingdom of Rivinia (in modern day Regnalond)
Current location:Urbis Forum
Cause (what they are driven by):
Profession: Professor of History, UFU
Skills: very expericenced, is a vampire, lots of connections
Flaws: Traditionalist, is a vampire,
Brief background: Born in West Horton, Rivinia in the year 1283, Kristopher Alexander Phillip Devonshire was born to a poor household. His father worked as a lumberjack, and his mother stayed home to watch Kris's other three brothers and four sisters. Kris was a pretty average boy at the time, God fearing, working with his father often, and a lot of friends. The Kingdom of Rivinia always has had sour relations with the Duchy of Sanguis. The Rivinians,having a nickname of 'The Kingdom of Man', was God fearing. The Rivinians thought that the Vampires were demons from hell...yeah. The Sanguis, a Vampire state, called the Humans weak, and easy to crush. For decades there was a tense peace, but on April 12, 1304, a Vampire group of drunk aristocrats stumbled onto a town, and raped and infect 20 women, 6 of which were under 18. King Eriksson I was furious. He demanded 20 women, virgins in fact, and a white stallion as trbune. The Sanguis Duke, Olano III, refused, and started to mass his armies on the Rivinian-Sanguis border. Ericsson did the same. After three days of tense standoff, a Rivinian soldier shot down a raven, thinking it was a vampiric bat. The raven was actually a messenger, and Olano considered this an act of war. From April 15-17th, fierce fighting al along the border. Kris was more than eager to join his countrymen, and, after some persuasion, Kris's father agreed.

For the next ten months, Kris received grueling trading from his commander, Sir Harley of Kilrootom. When Kris finally recevied his uniform and his orders, help guard a fortress in Garrett. This shocked Kris, because Garrett is nowhere near the border, but he didn't know that Rivinia was rapidly losing ground. Vampires were thought to be invincible, none of the Rivinians weapons could damage them. After two months, only one Vampire died. Before Kris knew it, Garrett was a fiery hell of fierce combat. The Fortress supply lines were curbed, and Garrett began to starve. Kris lost 30 pounds in two months. The last thung edible was garlic, and no one wanted to eat that. On June 16th, a large Sanguis army was reported to arrive at Garrett. A starved Sir Harley was preparing to surrender when the Vampires came but Kris, not giving up, threw a garlic at the Vampiric Commander. He was repulsed, as if he was sprayed with pepper spray. A soldier three a torch at the Vampire, and he went up in flames, and dropped dead a minute later. Sir Harley immeadiatley ordered that garlics and flames would tip the arrows, and to fire. It was a massacre on both sides, but Garrett held on until reinforcements arrived. While Kris was burying dead bodies, he noticed that a vampire died after it was struck from a very big splinter, almost like a stake, in the heart. How interesting. The victory at Garrett boosted morale across Rivinia, and it turned the heads of many other empires, who began to think about aiding Rivinia. Kris was promoted two months later, and assumed command of a smaller fortress 60 miles east, named Clover. Kris almost immediately began tipping arrows with garlic and garlic dust, and experimented with wooden javelins. On August 9th, a small army attacked Clover, none of the Vampires survived and only 6 humans died. Attacks like these continued for a month, and Olano III was pissed. He decided to send his mist elite legion to obliterate this speck in the dirt. On October 1st, at midnight, the most elite army in Sanguis, mabye all of Eris, attacked the lowly fortress known as Clover. It was a bloodbath, but mostly on the Human side. About two hours into the fight, Kris was struck by an arrow in his thigh. Thinking he wouldn't make it, he ordered one of his officers to take command. Hoping to die peacefully, Kris slept.

Kris awoke to the smell of smoke, and a vampire closing in on him. Clover was being to a crisp, and most if the Humans were retreating. The smoke blocked out the sun, it could have been half a hour or five hours after Kris slept. This was when a rush of pain hit Kris, it looked like somebody pulled out the arrow in his thigh. He was sitting in a pool of blood, it didn't look to bright. It looks like the Vampire noticed that Kris was awake, and was coming to deal the final blow. Cool, he thought. As Kris was uttering his final prayer, the Vampire knelt over him and bit in the the neck. It felt like he was injected with something. Kris scrambled and found some garlic dust on the ground, he threw at his attacker's eyes. The Vampire screamed, and a few other vampires came over, picked up Kris, and threw him into a carriage. Kris was getting drowsy, and he felt his finger, so cold. Kris slept.

When Kristopher woke up, he found himself in some kind of camp, like a mix of a POW camp and a training facility. His teeth felt weird, and when he putted his cold finger in his mouth, it was cut by a very sharp tooth, like a fang. Kris was thrown out of the carriage and was forced to do 25 push-ups before going to meet his commander. When he arrived, his commander explained that he was part of the next generation of Sanguis soldiers, an army of infected humans. For the next three weeks, Kristopher trained, and his wound was treated.

After a three weeks of training, Kris's transformation into a vampire was almost complete. He and his classmates began to formulate a plan to escape, and they needed a bird. Nurse Elena, the Vampire who treated Kris's thigh, agreed to help. She didn't like recruiting soldiers by infecting humans, and she lent her carrier pigeon. The group wrote a message and sent it to the nearest human fortress, Fairview. Fairview relayed the message to King Ericsson, and Ericsson sent his most elite men, the Knights of the Round Table, to break them out. On September 6th, the Round Table arrived at top speed, breaking out many vampiric-humans.

This was the tipping point, The Empire of Lupus, mainly werewolves, began to send troops in Rivinia's aid. Kris was honorably discharged and began treatment to help reverse the Vampire' s effects. This was 1306, so this meant leeches and herbs, but Kris pretended to be better. By the time Kris returned to West Horton, on February 2nd, 1307, the First Great Vampiric war was finished with the first ever successful amphibious invasion. In the night, Kristopher was knighted by King Ericsson as Sir Kristopher of West Horton. Ericsson asked Kris to be apart of His Majesty's Strategic Staff, or HMSS. Kris agreed, in exchange to being pardoned whenver he had to drink blood, and he served valiantly, making strategies and new weapons, like a crossbow that shoots a wood stake covered in garlic juice, and a pepper spray like contraption that is filled with garlic juice. Since Kris was now a legally a vampire, some of these was reluctantly tested on him. He served there through the Second Great Vampiric war (1656-1670) and some Elvish-Dwarf conflicts (1755, 1802-1804, 1825, 1838). In 1840, Rivinia was annexed by Renglond, Kris didn't care. He was recruited by King Francis to be a general, and he accepted. Kris was, and still is, considered one of the best strategists in human history. His last war was the The Great World War (1913-1922). States all over Eris erupted into conflict. In our timeline, WWI was thought to to be the War to end all wars, while the Great World War was known as the War to end the World. Kris realized that his tactics are long gone, his idea to use trenches didn't work out so well. So he decided to return to civil life. Kristopher still wanted to serve his country, so he decided to help advise the Emperor. In 1937, Emperor Alred Rolar was a Half-Elf. Okay, thought Kris, he had worst. But Rolar also claimed he was a pure elf, and was a supremacist. Rolar was a very contreverisal Emperor, and riots soon broke out. This escalated to civil war, and Rolar recruited Kris as his top general. By 1940, the separatists were nearly finished, until Kris discovered files about exterminating non-Human or Elf races. Being a Vampire, Kris was very pissed. He gave these files to the Ratfolk, Goblins, and the rest of the world. Kris then defected, joining the resistance. He was given a Vampiric army at first, but that didn't last very long. Vampires despised Kris, he was a human folklore hero, a warrior who was depicted to kill thousands of Vampires. Even though he tried to explain he only killed a couple hundred, they didn't follow his orders anyway. Kris was then given a Ratfoll army, who was much more loyal. At the time, Ratfoll was depicted as vile creatures, but with Kris's leadership, the Ratfoll gained countless victories against Rolar's armies. There is a legend that he didn't lose a single man, that's wrong, he lost five out of 300. In 1951, after almost 12 million people were dead, Kris marched through the last line of Elvish defense and marched through the Forn. Rolar ate a cyanide capsule, and the war, Kris's last war, was finished. Kristopher then advised 14 Emperors after that, through thick and thin, for the next 66 years. He grew tired of the hack politicians, nothing like King Ericsson, and left with the last Emperor (she was a handful). He is now retired, and is teaching of Urbis Forum University to fulfill his life. Kristopher Devonshire reached History (he lived through 3/4 of the textbook), and is the Director of the War Reenactment club.

It seems a little overpowered to say that within 3 years separatist forces were nearly finished, but it may be fair to say that one large element of the separatists were nearly finished (goblins, ratfolk, vampires, werewolves, etc). You would also obviously be one of many generals who helped defeat Rolar, although perhaps being a key general who brought centuries of experience and useful intelligence on the Imperial Armies. Otherwise this looks good

[Dalria]

I wonder if most of the characters are going to convene at The Silver Bullet for first character interactions.

[WhatsamattaU]

I wonder if most of the characters are going to convene at The Silver Bullet for first character interactions.

"Setting the Stage".
I'm told it's a fairly big and gritty dive.
So, it depends on the character(s).