Welcome to the House of Lifespanius in Gorina. We are descendents from two great families stemming from Noshuret. Those would be the House of Atrous and the House of Lifespanius. I am Prince Diutius, ruler of Gorina. My family and I run a semi-relaxed set of laws in Gorina as we are still a very small city. We are very glad you chose to visit Gorina and hope you will chose to stay. There are many benefits for starting on the ground floor, so to speak. OK, let me start off by showing you the family tree.

Prince Diutius Lifespanius
Princess Caia Lifespanius Helena- wife
Praeditus Lifespanius Maximus - son
Diutia Lifespanius Bellona - daughter

This thread is still under construction, listed below are some facts about Gorina and other odds and ends. This will also be a place for family conversations and other relevant discussions.

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Just some local stats about our city above, and below is a birds eye view of Gorina.

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The Lifespanius Family of Gorina
Maximus Desmond Nevelis
Honorius Peesea
Agrippina Peesea
Gontskius Maximilian II

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Citizens considering Gorina
Kathrine "Katie" DiSaaMuel
Walter and Mellita Roberts
Marcus and Ribeena Lifespanius

Lauren approaces Diutius
Lauren: I regret to inform you that Brian was killed in the Barbarian attack... Silly boy, couldnt run fast enough..
Well, anyway, hes dead and the marriage will not be able to take place. Just a word of advice. There is always still Walter...

Emperor Atrous approaches the Gorinian Palace with Tasius and a team of guards...

Random Gorina Guard: Hail Emperor Atrous!
Diutius: Hail, Atrous! My leige, we were not expecting you. There shall be a feast in your honor, Emperor.
Atrous: Thank you, my son. Now, please show me the palace.

Honorius Peesea is seen approaching Gorina with a unit of warriors and his sister, Agrippina.
Honorius: I have traveled to Gorina, and my warrior unit will be officially stationed here. I want to help you repel Nero Viviano's forces with my unit, as it will probably come under the heaviest attack when he decides to attack. My sister Agrippina and I also come to live in this fair - albeit small - city.

Gorina hasn't seen this much traffic since its creation, thinks Diutius silently. He glances to the hills to see if the Jade Commandos are in route. Nothing. Ah, well. Time to play host.

Diutius bows slightly to the Emperor. "But of course, Sage Atrous. My palace is your palace." He subtley signals a guard to have a feast started. The guard disappears like a wisp of smoke.

"Please come right this way, we'll go straight there, where you can relax and bathe your feet. I'm so glad you've come. With Lauren, Maximillian, Honorius, and Agrippina joining us we are starting to have quite a military camp. I wish my father and brother were here."

Diutius slowly walks the Despot inside his home and directs staff to assist him. "Right through those doors you'll find pools and women to help you. I shall join you in a moment."

The Despot thanks Diutius and wanders off to bathe. Diutus heads back to his other guests.

Welcome Lauren! I had heard that my sister Mellita was considering a marraige with Brian, I am sorry to hear of his demise. I will try to inform my father Briefus so he can plan a new course of action.

I hope you brought your bow...it looks like Gorina will turn into a hot-spot.

"Welcome to Gorina, Honorius and and your lovely sister Agrippina. So nice to meet you. I am certainly glad you have brought your troops with you. There is a camp on the south end of town where your men can be fed and quartered." Diutus takes Lauren and Honorius, followed by his sister into the main hall of the palace. He there instructs more staff to care for them.

"I must return to the Emperor and be sure he is in good health. Your needs will be seen to by these people, farewell." And Diutius is gone as quickly as he first appeared.

The Jade Commandos arrive in Gorina. Soon Gontskius Maximilian II enters the hut of Prince Diutius Lifespanius

Prince Diutius Lifespanius: Hello, welcome to the Royal House of Lifespanius.

Gontskius Maximilian II: I have heard that my daughter is going to marry Marcus Lifespanius. Do you know where his father is since I would like to meet the father

Prince Diutius Lifespanius: They are in Noshuret right now. You and your Daughter have traveld a long way.

Gontskius Maximilian II: Hopefuly it would be possible for me to find a home in Gorina.

Just a Note- Lauren may not be alive anymore (CT hasnt updated who's dead and who's not), so this is Katie talking now
Katie: Ah, what a lovely court and reception. Perfect for a contessa like myself (pending death of Lauren, Eldest female recieves title). I am here to arange the marriage of my adopted father.. werid.. Always thought it would be the other way 'round.. Oh well. Anyway, Diutius, back to the talks!

I've just gotten word from my father that there is to be a double wedding for my twin siblings, Marcus and Mellita. This is wonderful. Katie, Mellita is to marry Walter and they are both in Noshuret now. Marcus is there also, awaiting Ribeena.

Ribeena, Gontskius Maximillian II, and you Katie should take the road back to Noshuret by the fastest means I have available, to attend the wedding. We must not delay. Then I hope Maximillian II will return for the battle (and Katie too, if she wishes to live here).:)

Maximus Desmond Nevelis starts making some preperations.

By the blood which flows through my veins and the arrow which I hold, of course I shall return to battle. There would be no greater honor. I give you the hand of my adopted father (weird, right?) for your daughter. Meanwhile, after the wedding, I will begin looking for a husband. I will only marry a smart, fast man. Nothing else.

See you at the wedding!

NOTICE FOR GORINA CITIZENS:
helena, princess of gorina, now owns the lands around gorina as atrous died of old age.
the citizens of gorina will surely benefit of those ownings. my first step was to build up defence of the gorina territories... 2 legionaries should be enough for the first step.

in the next days, people who moove to gorina will be able to lent land for usage. so if you like to build up something, for example a farm, you can do so. the ownership will not be transferred, only the right to use and live on the land.

the administration of this territory will be given, as before, to my beloved husband ditritus.


OOC:
cyc, we had to pay 5 shield for the troops. also we need to pay 2shield+2food for their maintenance.
please reflect this when you give out usage rights to people.

A note to all- the wedding has to be a flashback, since Walter is dead (unless the weding provided a life boost)
Ill process the kids tonight

Honorius: I would like to rent two or three plains or hills tiles. This is to allow me to build up my forces for the upcoming invasion, and upgrade my current warrior unit.

Cyc- You begin with the marrage, I'll do the birthing. Divide characters by two and have any excess go into a RNG between you and I?

A note: Just ran it. Congrats, Cyc. Youre a grandpa. Successful delivery, a boy.

Didnt name him, but here are his stats

Agility: 15
Discipline: 11
Charisma: 13
Constitution: 11
Intelligence:14
Intellectual, Cultural, Tracking

DiSaaMuel Genes, IMHO

Now, whose is it?

OOC: Who is dead in the royal house of Lifespannius in Gorina and who is alive? I think that Diutius is dead at 48 and Helena is alive at 45, but I could be wrong. BTW, Honorius (age 35) is still looking for land to rent.

Both are still alive at 42 years of age. More later.

Stuck, as Mellita is still alive at 40 years of age, Too old to bear another child, I would think that the boy would stay with her in the upper Noble status. (btw, the marriage took place this morning in Noshuret (Rouge Sage thread).

OOC: You're right, Cyc. I was looking at the wrong characters.

Honorius Peesea comes to a dinner being held at the palace of Prince and Princess of Gorina. Little did they know of his plan.

Honorius: I am proud to be a guest of Princess Helena and Prince Diutius. I salute them. However, if you’ll excuse me, I have to leave for a short while.

Honorius leaves their palace, where the dinner is being held. He meets with his warriors and his niece Cornelia, who had been told to march silently to a location behind the palace.

Honorius: My warriors, we will execute our plan as discussed.

Honorius motions for a group of four warriors and Cornelia to sneak around to a hut next door to the palace, whereas the rest of his force, including him, moves to the rear and waits. The warriors near the hut next door, including Cornelia, begin their part of the plan. The warriors begin creating a commotion on the road in front of the hut, and pretend to attack Cornelia.

Cornelia: Help! We are under attack! I am being assaulted!

The unit of legionaries that was to protect Helena and Diutius rushes out of the palace to help Cornelia and defend the city.

Honorius: Now we attack!

He leads his warriors into the rear entrance of the royal palace. Approximately twenty warriors rush into the hut, intent on killing the Prince and the Princess. They surround them and start to attack them with their axes. Their bodyguards are at the next house, fighting the four warriors, and no help for Helena and Diutius could possibly arrive in time to save the Prince and Princess.

OOC: Permission to kill was granted by Chieftess. Whether the assassination was successful or not is for Octavian to decide.

Ok. The boy is yours. Feel free to name him.

With that, Katie departs and heads to Penguinadua, her new home.

@ Bootstoots - Just so you are aware, the Gorina Palace is no longer a hut. We are on the virge of perfecting Masonry. We have Granaries with walls. The Palace is very large with baths and walkways (as stated in previous posts). Also, not only do the Royal family have their personal guard with them at all times, the Jade Commandos are at the Palace. I doubt the personal guards at a dinner would give up their posts to run all the way outside to quell a disturbance. Nice try though. See you in the history books.

OOC: Octavian will decide whether it was successful or not. I just wanted to spice up the storyline a bit. The Jade Commandos may be in the city, but they are not in the palace when the assassination takes place. Maximillian Gontsky went to the palace to procure a place to live, not to station his Jade Commandos there. Also, the soldiers may leave their posts, as they are probably on guard to protect against Nero Viviano, and they probably would have thought that he had finally decided to attack. In addition, the palace wouldn't be too grand, as we don't have masonry yet. I will change "hut" to "palace" in my post, however.

Conflict Manager: First off, boots, I don't like the fact that you just fabricated a bunch of people following your character. If I had seen a group of actual characters organizing on the forums, I might've been more receptive in the following outcome...
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Honorius leads his group of twenty to the Palace of Gorina, intent on destroying the city's royals. Just as they break down the gate protected the residence, they find the contingent of warriors, previously raised by Atrous and placed under Diutius and Helena's control. A few were gone, checking out the previous distraction.

Without fear and with overconfidence, they charge into the waiting warriors. In the battle that ensues, 15 of the group are killed, 5 escape, and Honorius was captured. He is brought before Diutius...

:mad: :groucho: "Hehehe...time for desert" :mischief: :flamedevi :cooool: "I think I'll consult the missus on this one. She may have an evil streak in her that I can draw from. Guards! Take this weasel to the dungeons."

OOC: Oct, this was a military unit of warriors, owned by Honorius, not a bunch of NPC's following my character.

A group of seven warriors, the five that escaped plus two from the diversion, as well as Honorius's niece Cornelia, travel back to the Peesea house. They spot Julius Peesea, Honorius's nephew, back at the house.

Warrior: We were participating in an attack on Diutiutus and Helena, ordered by Honorius. His guards attacked us, and 15 of the attacking force plus two warriors in the diversion were killed, and Honorius was captured! We are the survivors.
Julius: An assassination attempt? By my uncle? Why did he do this? You may come back to this house. I will try to build the remnants of this unit back up to normal strength. I will have to go to the palace of the Prince and Princess and proclaim that I had no part in this attack.

Julius goes to the Palace, where Diutius and Helena are angry and slightly shaken by the attempt on their lives.

Julius: Your Royal Highnesses, I decree that I had no part in this cowardly attack on your lives. Also, my sister Cornelia and the remaining warriors should not be blamed for this, as they were merely following orders from my insane uncle, who may have killed them if they disobeyed. Do what you wish to Honorius, but please recognize that he is the only one to blame for this disgraceful attack.

Meanwhile, in another part of the palace...

Honorius: Please don't do this to me! I'll do anything...
Guard: Shut up! He kicks Honorius in the buttocks
Honorius: Not the dungeon!

The guard roughly shoves Honorius into the dungeon below the palace, chains him to the wall, and leaves him there with some moldy bread and a pitcher of murky water.

Caeser Jade arrives to the Lifespanius Palace with his 25 Solders

Prince Diutius Lifespanius: Hello, how may I help you?

Ceaser Jade: I am Flavinius Jadius Caeser, but you may call me Ceaser Jade. I am sent here to over see the protection of you and your Nobles. Ever since the assasination the Warlord has been a bit Jumpy and decided to have our Peace time duties protecting Nobles and other Dignitaries. I also hold the Rank of Centurian though a security force contains way less solders

Prince Diutius Lifespanius: Nice to meet you, Your first assignment would be to capture the assasin.

Ceaser Jade puts on his Roman Style Centurian Helmet and salutes to the Prince. and beguins to patrol the Palace

Ceaser Jade: That assasin has to be around here somewhere.

Soon he noticed that Honorius is sneeking away from the seen of the crime

Ceaser Jade: Halt, in the name of the Prince. I order you to stop. Guards get him.

The guards soon aprehended Honorius and sent him to the Dungen

Well, good. Now that we've got Honorius in the dungeon, Julius... I've heard your plea, thank you for the explanaition, your are dismissed."

Noting that the assasination attempt kind of spiced up the normal goings on here at the Gorina Palace, Diutius feels good, maybe even a little younger. "More food, more wine for everyone. Especially the Jade Commandos".

Not being able to find the missus, Diutius confronts the Captain of the Guard, "Have you seen Queen Helena? She seems to have been frightened into hiding. We should have an all out search to find...wait a minute, cancel that order. Bring me some more wine!" :)

Julius: I am the son of Agrippina, who died during childbirth. I would like myself and my sister Cornelia to be considered citizens of this fair city. I would like to be granted usage rights to some land, preferably land that produces shields, so that I can upgrade Honorius's old warrior unit, which I will take command of and build back up to its former strength. In other news, I will marry my sister Cornelia here in Gorina.
OOC: Marriages between siblings were, of course, common during ancient times.

As the sun rises over the hills, Diutius and Helena stand on the Patio area outside their bedroom, talking, thinking, and admiring the garden the children played in. One could get a clear view of Gorina Valley from there.

After a long pause Diutius speaks, "We have ruled Gorina for many years, Helena. We have always tried to be fair in our dealings with the people. We have always sought to protect them and make sure they were well feed. We have built this city up from a small town to one that could supply Fanatica with a Settler group. And we are now building the first Granary to store food in, so that our citizens lifespan will be longer. Yet, in our dungeons is a man who attempted to take our lives last night. A citizen of Gorina, no less" Diutius moves closer to Helena, "Do you think this is the first sign of unrest for the people as a whole, that could possibly encompass all of Fanatica?"

Helena lifts her still beautiful eyes in to the twilight rays of the morning and looks at Diutius, "What you say may hold more truth than you know. Fanatica is being ruled by the Royal Families, but the nation has been without a true Despot for sometime now, since the passing of Atrous and those that would have followed him. Perhaps it is time for you to claim the title."

"Yes, I have been thinking the same", Diutius nodded. "Very well then, today shall be the day when I make the announcement. We shall have a Despot once again."

Julius: I will support you, Diutius, in your claim to the Despotism. If this requires combat against anybody, including Atrous's son, I will pledge my troops to the battle. You are the one who truly deserves to be the Despot. Also, I would like to announce that I recently married Cornelia in a private ceremony.

Thank you, Julius. Your commitment to the Lifspanius Family is welcomed. Let us talk of your request for land afterwards.

h-e-l-e-n-a
Hello my beloved husband.... i, the princess of gorina, would like to make the following announcement:

DUE TO THE RECENT DECEASING OF MY BELOVED FATHER, THE GREAT DESPOT ATROUS, I FINALLY GOT OWNERSHIP OF THE LANDS OF OUR FOREFATHERS

those lands are the 2 tiles surrounding gorina, but will hopefully expanded further to the south soon.
at the moment, those lands will be guarded by our freshly raised legions and spearmen units.

additional notice:
we need people building things! apllicants should state their request in here. we wont accept all applicants, but the most promising will be given land for usage (not that this does not include raising units or ownerhip on that lands. only peaceful creation of goods will be supported).

Caeser Jade: Ahh, Diutius Lifespanius, I have been looking for you.

Diutius Lifespanius: Do you have anything to report Centurian?

Caeser Jade: Nothng much, Only that my Cusion, Mara Jade III is comming to visit me.

Conflict Manager: boots, in response to to your early claim of control of a contingent of warriors: your control of the warriors was with a few strings attached. See this post by Plex (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=973150#post973150) for details. When Aza died, those warriors reverted to command of Atrous.

Oct, those warriors were granted to Honorius according to this post (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=979023#post979023) by Plexus, which was made after the post you stated and overrules the first one, clearly stating that the warrior unit would pass to Honorius after Aza's death.

Ceaser Jade runs in the halls searching for Diutius Lifespanius

Ceaser Jade: Diutius Lifespanius! Diutius Lifespanius!

Diutius Lifespanius: What is it?

Ceaser Jade: Its Little Italy

Diutius Lifespanius: Oh, I know about thoes Rebels. Taking my land from left to right.

Ceaser Jade: With your permision sir, I would like to have the Jade Commandos take down the leader. Since I personaly would like to get him.

Diutius Lifespanius: Hmm, and what would you want in return?

Ceaser Jade: a Small Parcel of Land to take care of and build my house in, and also a Title of Nobility.

Diutius Lifespanius: Hmm, let me think about it.

Scrobius: Please grant me a hill tile of land. I would like to oversee the training of a group of warriors. They of course would be loyal to you, but I would be their captain and comand your will during battle.

This is but a small and humble request. If it is not granted please grant me citizneship anyway and perhaps a small job under you in the city. I have been well trained for battle as well as many woodsman skills.

Please note that this thread died out. The Lifespanian ownings (Helenatica) have their thread here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54255)... but if you want land, helenatica can only grant you usage for a business. If you want to own land you need to go to the despots thread... and request it there. This will not be in Helenatica though.

btw: the despot thread is here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54055)

obsolote--- wrong thread :-)