NutraNES: Aros Arisen

Artemalcles is going south to train some Sakkeman Archers. He specified nothing about him following you to war, but there is a lot of wiggle-room so it will happen.

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No need for it, really, now that I thought of it. He will serve his purpose better in the south while we use Volgars as scouts, seeing as they have a home ground advantage.

Nutranurse said:

The expansion of the navy does not include the continued payment of marines. That would be a professional navy, something which the Republic does not have. It summons marines when necessary.

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Eh. Is that even practical or sane when were having our commerce raided?

"Hey bro, our ships got raided"
"Right, we better call up the troops, get the ships ready and then supply them: it'll take a few weeks"
"Cool, I guess the raiders will be gone by then"
"Yessir"
"For that matter, with no opportunity for loot, who the hell is going to show up"
"Beats me?"
"I suppose we could raid our own shipping?"
"Guess so"

This is notwithstanding the problem associated with keeping ships in port for any substantial period of time.

No, it's not practical or sane. Your navy is weak. Weak as hell. Probably the only reason you defeated the black-eyed sailors is because A) you had more men to throw at the problem, B) the ships were being commanded by an Immortal.


Also, I am missing your orders, Masada. Please e-mail them to me. Do the same, erez.

Hell and damnation.

Can I send the orders to you and can you cost them tomorrow so I can make the appropriate changes, if needed, tomorrow. In the mean-time I'll just use my economic skills of dead-reckoning.

eh, just send them when youre ready. rather not rush it.

I did a write up

Queen Brygima is a brilliant warrior and excels in the use of the spear, shield and sword. She enjoys training and duelling with Sakkeman warriors, those that excel can often be raised to positions in government or become a general. She loves her people dearly and firmly believes it is her responsibility, bestowed to her by the Gods, to lead Sakkema to glory and protect its people.
Brygima publicly adheres to Ionelima and Akyrosyne equally depending on the situation, such as during a duel she favours Akyrosyne or leading the army she favours Ionelima.

During the early successes in the Corian war she was desperate to prove her skill as a warrior she threw herself into the thickest fighting and challenging the greatest Corian warriors in single combat. Her fellow Gamiens followed her lead and her orders on the battlefield often ignoring the commands of general Niptileo.
The Corian states uniting under Odyrmyria changed everything; the army suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the rejuvenated Corians, during the battle they received conflicting orders from Brygima and Niptileo who blamed each other for the mess.
They found themselves cut off the rest of the Gamien forces and hunted by the Corians, Brygima wished to face their hunters as true Gamien warriors and Niptileo favoured avoiding the Corians and regrouping with the rest of the army which would take months. The supporters were verging on fighting amongst themselves to decide which course of action to take.
But Niptileo was discovered to be a traitor, a stash of Corian coin was found in his tent, he lost all support, his claims of trickery on Brygima’s part were ignored and in a duel with Brygima he was slain.

Under Brygima’s command they took their pursuers by surprise securing favourable terrain on a hill, the Gamiens were ferocious in defence as they battled for their lives. Brygima seemed to be everywhere at once; where the Gamien line was faltered she would appear splattered in blood and gore renewing the men’s spirits.
The Corians had expected to face a demoralized force and crush them easily, but the stubborn resistance made them lose heart and they allowed the survivors to escape, although truthfully they had the numbers to defeat the Gamien force in time.

Upon their return they praised the name of Brygima to any who would hear and she became one of the heroes of the Corian war.

Masada, I've still not received your orders. If they're not in when I wake up then I'll just glaze over your actions.

So, uh, working on the update still. I had it done initially, but then Masada's orders came in rather late and I didn't feel like being a dick so I went about including them. While doing that I realized that his orders shook some things up and the original time-span for the turn (2 years) made no sense, so I went about extending it. After that I got a bunch of ideas of how I could keep yall interested despite me being rather poor at getting in updates on time so in the end I decided to combine the update I was going to do for turn 5 into this one and let the turn cover 10 years.

Just wanted to keep you guys informed because I think it helps to be in the loop.

Thanks Nutranurse. I've had my free time substantially eroded for the past few weeks. Hopefully, I'll gain some back in the meantime. I'm also amused that my orders had any measurable or demonstrable impact on the update: that wasn't intended I actually tried to minimise my big ticket items.

Update 4​

A Titan Falls
A.F. 216 - A.F. 226​

Census of A.F. 224

The census was taken once again in A.F. 224 and despite all the calamities that had befallen the Republic from without, the census revealed that within the population of the Republic had increased by a whole two-thirds. Specifically Sioth, Aros, and Haplesia saw significant rises in their numbers and Haplesia even began to throw around its weight as an economical contender to Aros after the the town's discovery of significant iron deposits further into the Appen Mountains.

To the north of Aros the former Lachykan province, now renamed Erita, began to show signs of urban development due to increasing numbers of the lower classes coming under Patrician patronage as retainers. Penumar and Diapthylos lands saw a huge flood of new farmers due to the completion of the Via Clementia in A.F. 220 and in the following six years their coastal towns thrived.

Xanbia also saw an increase in its numbers as more and more people fell prey to Xanthus' infectious charm. However the conflict between the settled Rhabdian clans and growing number of Arosans hindered the settlement's growth.

At the end of A.F. 226 the Republic stood a little over 500,000 people.

*Note that only a fraction of this number are citizens

[+Aros Overall Income: 310]

Population Boom (A.F. 216-226)

In future generations these ten years were looked back as a time of extensive growth for the Republic within and without.Since the conquest of Clementia in A.F. 215 the people of Aros proper enjoyed great opportunities such as access to land, wealth, and prestige that had been denied to them before due to the Republic’s limited size. As men came home to their families in the fall of A.F. 215 they began a great reproductive undertaking. Twins, even triplets, became common among the Arosans in those years.

'Triumph' of Zelotage (A.F. 216)

Despite the dubiousness of the conclusion of the Zelotegan campaign, Aristomachos still felt himself driven to reward the veterans and alleviate the rest of the population's fears. Celebration was reserved and the highlight of the event was not grand parades of victorious soldiers, but a simple speech given by Aristomachos.

"My people," He began as they feted on the foods that Aristomachos had hastily gathered in preperation for the triumph, "This... This is not a celebration of our victory over Zelotage. Whatever dark arts and foul things Zelotage used to quit the field that day did not ensure our victory. We still may come under attack from his evil practices at any given moment," He paused for effect and the crowd, including his Immortal equals seated about him, stared up with anxious eyes, "And that is why we must take the initiative before Zelotage can sweep through our lands with his malevolent might!

"Our Sakkeman cousins to the south have called upon us to aid them in their war against Vorexia, self-appointed Queen of Darkness. Even now my fallen sister prances upon fields made from the bones and flesh of our new Volgar allies. She presents a more terrifying, and immediate, threat to our gentle people; she even threatens our gods with her vile misdoings! Such is the might of Vorexia!

"But brothers! Despite all this The Sakkeman would still war with Vorexia and that war would be a most noble and honorable one. The Sakkeman have such a history of violence that they have made Akyrosyne their chief goddess and even now the Bloody Woman sharpens her sword in anticipation of the black strength her loyal followers will see. And still yet the knowledge that Akyrosyne is behind their blades is not enough for the Sakkeman to undertake this war. They have come to ask the true heirs of war to come and stand alongside them!

"I will not ask for a myraid of men, but only for the ones who wish to bring honor and glory unto themselves. I do not want to take farmers away from their farms, merchants away from their drachmas, and politicians away from their politics: I want to bring warriors to a war.

[-Aristomachos Private Wealth: 10d]

Assistance Provided to Veterans (A.F. 216-218)

In an act of benevolance Aristomachos took it upon himself to see that the veterans of the Zelotegan campaign who had needed the plunder in order to sustain themselves were not left in poverty. Over a two year period Aristomachos paid a total of 5 drachmas to those in dire need as well as the poorer soldiers who had proved themselves in the Lachykan Campaign, but failed to gain plunder during the Zelotegan Campaign. Some grumbled that Aristomachos could have spent far more if he so chose to, but the majority supported the act and looked at Aristomachos with loving eyes.

[+Aristomachos General Popularity (Celebrated+); -Aristomachos Private Wealth: 5d]

Roads in the Republic (A.F. 216-226)

A new area of transportation is dawning in the Republic. Previously hard-to-reach lands are now seeing an increase in the number of travelers, merchants, and immigrants moving through and into the regions. This sudden swell in travel is partially owed to the newly opened sea-lanes, but in truth it is the roads of the Republic that are pumping people throughout the state.

The completion of the Via Clementia and continued work on the Via Agrisurusm both linked faraway lands to Aros. The Via Clementia quickly became a major highway as trade between Clementia and Aros increased. The Via Agrisurusum, a coastal road that split off from the Via Clementia and would eventually end at the Ruins of Lachykos, also saw the enrichment of the Penumar and Diapthylos lands in the Erita countryside. The Erita lands held by Epicurus and the Eluthyerus would also see an increase in their prosperity when the road was completed some time after A.F. 226.

[-Aros Treasury: 858d; +Aros Overall Income: 335d; +Clementia Overall Income: 120d; +Income of Penumar & Diapthylos coastal settlements; More drachamas needed to complete Via Agrisurusm]

The Grand Harbor at Sioth (A.F. 219)

Towards the end of 219’s summer the Grand Harbor at Sioth finally saw its completion. A testament to the Republic’s continued interest in naval affairs, the harbor saw Sioth change from a minor port town to the 3rd most populated city in the Republic. Enterprising Arosans flocked to Sioth in the hopes that they could gain wealth by hawking wares directly to outbound ships, skipping the middle-man often present in the deals done in Aros; seamen and their extended families eked out existences in between voyages, creating a sprawling neighborhood of sailor’s wives; Diapthylos retainers flooded the cleaner streets (the few that existed) and acted as intercessors between the masses and the noble family.

However, this increased activity saw a dirty underbelly arise in the harbor-town. Gangs took to roaming the streets, and in the extensive slums of Sioth they were practically kings. A particular gang, who called themselves the Heirs of Dorarities, terrorized Siothians without mercy. In response to this Ichthyos pledged to see the population be saved from the ruffian menace and created a special force devoted entirely to rooting out the gang violence.

[+Major City: Sioth; -Aros Treasury: 215d]

Sale of Southern Clementian Land (A.F. 217)

As agreed upon by the Council of Patricians and Council of Immortals roughly half of Clementia’s land was taken from the city and put on sale for Arosan citizens to purchase. The results were a remarkable departure from the last sale of land.

Competition was fierce and most of the Patricians were shunted out of purchasing land in the wake of the Diapthylos snatching up a huge swath of land and the Immortals purchasing what was left. The land was split practically disproportionately between the two forces, the Diapthylos in the north and Immortals in the slivers of land left in the south.

In a similar event, Ichthyos purchased more land in Erita, extending his territory northwards to border the Kataxen.

~Insert Purchase Map Here~

[+Aros Treasury: 500d; -Cedros Private Wealth: 50d; +Cedros Private Wealth: Clementian Land; -Aristomachos Private Wealth: 5d; +Aristomachos Private Wealth: Clementian Land; -Matiea Private Wealth: 40d; +Matiea Private Wealth: Clementian Land]

Arosos- A Fine Wine (A.F. 216-226)

The ten years of relative prosperity was helped along by the sudden swell in interest surrounding the cultivation of wine. A beverage that had long been present in Arosan society, it was not until the Immortal Epicurus’ vineyards south of Aros began to produce grapes that the alcohol became integral to Arosan high-society gatherings.

Over the past decade the wine’s popularity soared largely due to the growing unsanitary waterways around the Arosan urban centers that were home to the Republic’s richest and poorest denizens. Epicurus coined his wine ‘Arosos,’ in tribute to the Republic and as a way to distinguish his product from the myriad of wines that would soon be cultivated; on his coattails were the wines produced by the Penumar and Diapthylos patricians, as well as his Immortal sister Matiea. While the other three’s vineyards and the horde of independent farmers jumping onto the bandwagon are all making a profit, Arosos remains the republic’s most popular and sought after wine.

[+Aros Trade Resource: Wine (Normal); +Epicurus Private Wealth: ‘Arosos’ Vineyards; +Epicurus General Popularity (Celebrated+), -Epicurus Penumar Patricians Popularity (Very Unhappy-)]

Tenant Farmers & Freed Slaves

With the land they bought Cedros, Ichthyos, and Matiea saw to enriching the Arosan poor even more. Albeit the farmers settled on Matiea’s and Ichthyos’ land were to take on the roles of tenant farmers, something which left a sour taste in the mouth of many of them, but they swallowed their pride in order to seize this opportunity to better their lives. Between the two Matiea was once again the more benevolent master, putting her tenant farmers to work on the vineyards she began to set up in her newly gained land. Ichthyos’ tenant farmers were derived largely from poor Siothians who are looking to escape the squalor of the city in exchange for land that the Immortal provides to them in exchange for service on his ships.

Unsurprisingly, it was Cedros who shocked the Arosans with his actions. In an effort to show his continued support to Aros’ most overlooked and degenerate caste, Cedros purchased a great number of slaves bound for Hypema and instead settled them on land newly purchased in the southern Clementian countryside. Though these men were made tenant farmers they were certainly grateful for their elevated status.

[+Income of Ichthyos & Matiea Tenant Farmers; +Cedros Private Wealth: Settled Farmers]

Troubles in Xanbia (A.F. 217)

All of Xanthus’s immense charm and charisma were lost upon his Rhabdian subjects as they lead a vicious rebellion against the Immortal and the Arosans in Xanbia. For the past few years they had complained to Xanthus that the Arosans were encroaching upon the Rhabdian land. Being a somewhat xenophobic people the Arosans also complained that the Rhabdians were leading their great cattle herds into Arosan farmland. Xanthus chose to ignore the quarrels, instead focusing his attentions on his hand-selected elite.

Great parties were thrown in-between rigorous training sessions and Xanthus seemed to dedicate himself wholly to fighting on practice-fields and in bedrooms. Xanthus became well known to many-a daughter and it is said that in that year alone Xanthus lay with over a thousand different women. One of those women turned out to be the daughter of Horkalai, chieftain of the Amiantoida Rhabdian clan. The Amiantoidas were the largest clan within Xanbia and by the trouble of A.F. 217 the Amiantoidas were the most influential clan. Horkalai’s efforts were what had been keeping the Rhabdians from rebelling outright, claiming that Xanthus would listen to their pleas if they persisted peacefully, but the slight felt when Horkalai’s daughter Nikymi was said to have been conquered by the lascivious Immortal sent Horkalai into a rage. The raids began almost immediately.

In truth the Rhabdians were doomed from the start. Their numbers were far fewer than the Arosans and they did not have anywhere near as strong a military tradition as the Arosans—what they did have was surprise and nothing to lose. Appearing just outside the limits of Xanbia, the Rhabdians relied upon their sudden ferocity to catch the Arosans off guard and the initial skirmishes went well for the rebels. They pushed their way into Xanbia and effectively took over the small town for a few days, during which they indulged in all the behaviors that were said to inhabit Xanthus, albeit the Rhabdian’s were far more violent in their celebrating.

The response was swift. Xanthus appeared atop his white steed the four days after the attack began, behind him his Companions of the Valiant Lance. What followed was not a battle and despite whatever way future songs, tales, or plays would paint the event it would go down in history as a slaughter. The rest of the year was spent harrying those Rhabdians that remained, regardless of their participation in the attack on Xanbia. Men were slain while women and children sold into slavery; the Rhabdian herds were distributed amongst the ‘afflicted’ Arosan population.

Xanthus was hailed as a hero and he enjoyed the spotlight, though a few of his detractors whispered how the bloody situation was started exactly because of the people treating Xanthus with hero-worship. Furthermore they went on to spread the rumor that Nikymi had survived the extermination of her clan and was heavy with child. None could confirm the rumors, however, because Nikymi was no were to be found.

[+Xanthus General Popularity (Liked+); Xanbia will require a 25d investment for reconstruction of damaged buildings]

New Trade Routes Forged (A.F. 216-226)

Lead by Epicurus, the Immortal quickly becoming the captain of Aros’ mercantile industry, sea trade with Sakkema was created soon after the forced abandonment of Salpe to the strange warriors that plagued Aros’ waters in A.F. 215. Though far from as profitable as trade with the Salpen-Corians, through Sakkema the Arosans were able to find the more lucrative routes to Hypema and Rhabdia.

In Hypema, a land regarded to be the wildest in the Peninsula, Arosan traders found that the luxuries rejected by the Sakkeman were lapped up by the Hypeans. Under Sakkeman law the Hypeans were forbidden from entering Sakkeman land without permits that were near-impossible to obtain, limiting who could get Sakkeman goods to a few very privileged and often corrupt chieftains. When the Arosans came to do trade—with the permission of the Sakkeman, of course—the Hypeans found themselves with an easy access to goods that had long been denied to them. Of course luxuries could only sate the Hypeans for so long.

The slave trade came to Hypema in A.F. 219, brought by a joint venture by the Elutheryas and Diapthylos Patricians. It immediately took off as the Hypeans bought slaves by the hundreds, sending them to work on their farms... amongst other things. It has become increasingly common for the richer Hypean chieftains to purchase slaves specifically to put into the blood sports the Hypeans love so much. Often the slaves meet grisly ends as they are forced to do battle against each other and all kinds of vicious creatures.

To the north of Aros Ichthyos has secured very profitable trade routes with Clementia, virtually monopolizing any sea traffic to the city with his command of the Republic’s fleets. This was helped in part by the cultists of Dorarities who established themselves in the city some years prior. However, his efforts have been hindered largely due to the high level of corruption that had been present ever since the ascension of King Steratos I.

[+Epicurus Private Wealth: Sakkema Trade Route; +Epicurus Private Wealth: Hypema Trade Route; +Ichthyos Private Wealth: Clementia Trade Route; -Ichthyos Private Wealth: 50d]

Expansion of the Grand Arosan Navy (A.F. 217-226)

In an unprecedented expansion of the navy, Aros ordered the completion of 268 ships over the decade, effectively increasing the Republican fleet by almost 7 times. A great recruitment effort was undertaken by both Aristomachos and Ichthyos, with the former supplying a great number of former poor infantry. Ichthyos held true to his seemingly philanthropic nature by bringing poor men into his service. The size of the fleet was so immense that the Immortals had to open their recruitment to women in some cases.

[-Aros Treasury: 536; +Arosan Grand Republican Navy: 268 ships; +Arosan Grand Republican Navy: 10,720 Poor Marines]

Preying Upon Fears (A.F. 217-226)

Ichthyos seemed to have known how terrified the merchants of Aros were to venture out on the seas again and so he took it upon himself to alleviate those fears—along with some of the merchant’s gold. In a move all at once considered generous and greedy Ichthyos offered to use his personal fleet, as well as the Republic’s, to safeguard any ship so long as the protected ship paid a fee roughly equal to 2% of whatever profits they hoped to make. While some merchants, particularly those under Diapthylos patronage, complained and likened Ichthyos to a highwayman upon the seas, many more simply swallowed their pride in search of profit.

The service was denied to any ship whose patronage came from Epicurus.

[+Ichthyos Private Wealth: Protection Services; -Ichthyos Diapthylos Popularity (Unhappy--)]

Metals in Haplesia (A.F. 219)

Haplesia’s sudden growth was aided largely in part by the deposits of iron ores found within the nearby Appen Mountains. In truth earlier expeditions had been made in A.F. 217 and A.F. 218, but each party disappeared without a trace. When Epicurus himself lead an expedition into the mountains, however, whatever ills befell the other metal-hunters did not plague the Immortal. Metal was found and Epicurus provided funds to the city to begin its first foray into iron mining.

The discovery of iron came to be a remarkable departure from Aros’ previous reliance upon bronze weapons and armor. Although only the rich could afford iron at the time, the arms made from them easily bested the former bronze arms. By the end of the decade many nobles had cast aside their bronze items in favor of iron. The bronze flooded the markets and the otherwise unarmored poorer citizens found themselves with the means to arm themselves, albeit poorly.

Yet, only a small portion of the metal mined from Haplesia went to Aros. The vast majority of iron was traded to Sakkema whose warrior-society proved to be ravenous for the precious metal.

[+Aros Trade Resource: Iron (Poor); +Income to Epicurus’ Sakkema Trade Route; +Iron Arms to Arosan Rich Infantry]

The Student’s Dissent (A.F. 220)

When Cedros finally finished his great lexicon of Arosan myths he found himself greeted with ire. His students—save for those few who he had kept within his inner circle—felt that the Immortal had thoroughly neglected his scholarly duties and shamed not only himself, but Ionilema’s doctrine of knowledge given freely. They did not make demands upon the Immortal, such a thing would be unthinkable to most, but they treated his privileged few scholars with such disdain that it prompted Cedros to speak directly to the entire population of Aros. Or at least those who would listen.

Facing a crowd swarming not because of their great number, but because they moved about regardless of Cedros’ words, the Immortal chastised the population for turning their backs on him so suddenly. His plight, he argued, was a scholarly one, one meant to enrich the republic in ways simple warfare could not. Few paid him attention, but among those who did they were convinced of the haste used to damn the Immortal and his circle.

Putting actions behind his words, Cedros made the lexicon available to all and even set some of his students to copying the tome. In a gesture of peace he has distributed an abridged version of the tome to his Immortal kin. To mollify his students he pledged to expand the academy into a university complete with housing for students who come from afar. He made good on this promise a year later in A.F. 221 when construction began.

[+Cedros General Population (Apathetic); +Cedros Private Wealth: Lexicon of Arosan Myths (Complete); +Other Immortals’ Private Wealth: Lexicon of Arosan Myths (Abridged); Expansion of academy requires 90d more investment]

King Steratos ‘The Great’ (A.F. 216)

It did not take long for the re-branded Zelotegans to reform under a new leader: King Steratos ‘The Great’ of the Epistrios House. In truth his ascension to power was far too fast for him to have done it without help from some outside force and the sudden deaths of many of his political rivals certainly is indicative of such help. Regardless, by A.F. 220 King Steratos I was too entrenched in his position to be easily removed by anyone—even an Immortal.

The reign of King Steratos has thus far been a profitable one for the king and his allies. Not long after his ascension a great multitude of the Zelotegan aristocracy expatriated themselves in favor of Aros and not a one of them is willing to explain why. The nobles he put in place were raised from those few merchants and artisans who were not ruined during the war Zelotage provoked. Unaccustomed to the high life of nobility these families are thoroughly loyal to King Steratos due to what they see as his benevolence.

However, the lower orders of Clementian society have seen a far more different side of the king. In an effort to pay the high tribute Aros has forced Clementia to pay, King Steratos put in place an equally high tax upon the poor. The already destitute poor were made poorer and faced a life of slavery unless they can somehow worm their way out of debt, and to do that many joined in on the crime plaguing the city.

Corruption ran rampant in Clementia and battles were fought by rival gangs who would seek to control one squalid neighborhood or the other. All claim loyalty to the king and there were rumors that he supported their black endeavors, but no concrete evidence had been found.

As a result of this state roughly a half of all drachmas that went into Clementia up and disappeared into the black recesses of its streets.

[+Clementia Overall Income: 150; +Clementia Overall Corruption: 75d]

Cult of Dorarities Spreads to Clementia (A.F. 219-226)

With the Clementian poor in such a pitiful state they had not thought they would be brought up from their poverty, but Ichthyos made that all change. Early in A.F. 219 the first of Ichthyos’ cultists came to Clementia on trade ships. Bringing wine to the rich, they brought hope to the poor in the form of bread and promises. When the cultists left they took back a small number of the poor and when they returned the next year they brought Clementian acolytes of Dorarities.

Soon after that the cult began to spread rapidly, especially along the dockside neighborhoods. Poorly consturcted shrines to Dorarities began to pop up all about these neighborhoods and before long a small, but dedicated, section of the population appealed to Dorarities to bring them up from their misfortune. Some say that Dorarities answered in the form of Ichthyos.

In A.F. 223 Ichthyos himself landed in Clementia. He ignored King Steratos’ attempts to fête the Immortal and instead strayed no further into the city than the dockside neighborhoods. There he made a simple address to the people: he would ensure their safety, their prosperity even so long as they pledged their lives to Dorarities and his law. To a man they swore themselves to Dorarities and Ichthyos; not long after groups of ‘Enforcers’ began to patrol the devout neighborhoods, bearing the sign of Dorarities on their foreheads and weapons in their hands.

[-Ichthyos Private Wealth: 30d]

The Journey through the Mountains (A.F. 218)


Word was sent back to the Volgar barbarians that the Republic would come to their aid, but not without a price. Aristomachos demanded that the Volgar send their noble sons and daughters and within a year’s time the Volgar returned with fifty five of their own to be kept in the households of various patricians. With the hostages secured it came time for the Arosans to hold up their end of the agreement and so Aristomachos set off eastwards as soon as the first frosts melted.

His force was composed of a surprisingly adequate band of men, or so he thought, 12,000 strong. Initially he had intended to take only 10,000, but hundreds of men offered their service eagerly and the Immortal general even had to turn down a disappointed few. The backbone of the army was the Adored Thousand of Akyrosyne, the personal soldiers of Aristomachos and by far the most disciplined force in the host. Due to the advent of iron weaponry and armor occurring a year after Aristomachos set out on campaign against Vorexia the Adored Thousand were not armed with the fearsome weapons they would later come to be associated with. Instead they carried the typical affair of bronze. Accompanying the Adored Thousand were those noble sons whose families had forced them onto the battlefield out of a sense of duty to the Republic. Not a one of them were experienced soldiers or had even seen a battle, save for the Kataxen sons who thankfully outnumbered the rest of the patrician families.

Xanthus rode with his noble brother, seeking to clear some of the shame brought to his name after a few scandalous affairs, though given how the Immortal acted during the march he may simply have been searching for fun. With Xanthus came half of his Companion Company and their own retainers, giving a strong, if small, cavalry wing to the army.

Accounting for the rest of the army was a hodge-podge of rabble whose status as Arosans was as dubious as their armaments. Few of them wore armor and their weapons ranged from rusted swords to pitchforks still bearing bits of hay. Archers were provided by Artemalces, but the wildman-turned-Immortal was too busy selling his skill to Sakkema to accompany the small Arosan force.



Lead by the Volgar, the army entered the mountains and would not emerge until the last weeks of summer. All attest that the journey was a harrowing one. Almost immediately after entering the mountains seemed to close in on the travelers, and no matter how high they went some blue-black peak always loomed above them. The temperature dropped sharply, causing many men to die from hypothermia and others from falling due to a misplaced step. Through the first stretch of the journey the two Immortals kept grim expressions, as if aware of some greater darkness hiding somewhere in the mountains. But what it was that dampened their spirits neither could attest to and all that they knew is that something not right worked within the perilous peaks of the Appen Mountains.

The Volgar kept to themselves, always staying well ahead of the main army and only bothering to slow down when the Arosans fell too far behind. For allies they were remarkably mistrustful of the Arosans and with sharp tongues referred to them as Kinsar. Unlike the Arosans, the Volgar seemed prepared for the journey, dressed in thick furs instead of gleaming armor and carrying walking staffs in place of swords. From his extensive travels Xanthus knew these men had no business being so well wrought for travel through the craggy, cold mountain paths. Their preparedness struck Xanthus as overwhelmingly odd, but when he asked questions he received cryptic answers spoken in broken Gamien.

They talked of prophecies and how it was the Volgar’s destiny to do this, and so of course they were prepared. Xanthus could gleam little else before the Volgar’s explanations fell into a tangled web that was their mythology.

Aristomachos dealt with the Volgars in a different way and for a very different purpose. The warrior-Immortal approached the Volgar with a confidence that impressed the barbarian people. He simply asked to do battle with their greatest warrior and though they Volgar were cautious at first, they eventually obliged. To Aristomachos’ surprise it was a woman who stepped forward, albeit it took him a few moments to realize that the muscular mammoth across from him was female. Unlike the other Volgar whose complexions were muddy and worn, and features almost animalistic, this woman was a pale mastiff with red hair that flickered like flames as it was blown about in the high mountain winds. But the most striking feature of the woman was a circular tattoo that she bore on her leg- a snake eating its own tail. Aristomachos recalled that he had seen the same tattoo on the back of Basilika.


The barbarian woman came at him with a speed that contradicted her mass and she almost, almost caught Aristomachos off his guard. His response was swift and his blade clanged against hers as she rose it at the last moment to defend herself. The Arosan and Volgar onlookers stood transfixed as the two warriors exchanged blows in rapid succession, but in the end Aristomachos won by feinting a feint and catching his opponent in her side with the flat of his blade. She kneeled to him and acknowledged that had Aristomachos wished it he would have cleaved her in half with that strike. According to what appeared to be Volgar custom she offered Aristomachos her sword, but he denied it and instead only asked to speak with her. With that display of humility Aristomachos began spreading the teachings of Akyrosyne to the Volgar that accompanied the Arosan army.

Far from full-fledged cultists, the Volgar still were remarkably receptive to what Aristomachos had to teach them. Apparently the Volgar had a similar warrior-goddess whom they called Yuta, but unlike Akyrosyne, Yuta was only the consort of a greater war-god whose name the Volgar dared not mention. Aristomachos went to great lengths to connect Akyrosyne to Yuta, going so far as to learning the rudiments of the Volgar language during the trip through the mountains. He taught them the most basic Akyrosyne blood-letting rituals and overtime the distance between the Volgar and Arosan hosts closed till they were one.

The remainder of the time spent traveling through the mountains was uneventful. A few more men died from misplaced steps or the harsh Appen elements, but with the disappearance of the animosity between the Volgar and Arosans spirits were buoyed enough to take a few more losses. They emerged on the other end of the mountain range at the beginning of winter and chose to press on to Vorexia’s heart into the horrors that awaited them.


[-Aristomachos’ Army: 100 Patrician Sons, 100 Mounted Patrician Sons 250 Rabble, 350 Skirmishers; +Aristomachos’ Army: 500 Volgar Warriors (Heavy Infantry; exp.5 dis.2)]

Fall of the Sikorimos (A.F. 216-221)

While the battles against Vorexia raged on political warfare of a far more sinister kind painted the Arosan streets red with the blood of the Sikorimos Patricians. Later in history the eight years that saw the Sikorimos’ fall from power and the ascension of the Penumar in their stead would be characterized as a dark one that preempted a later reign of terror by a far greater threat. It all began with the sale of the state contracts in A.F. 216.

The Immortal Matiea and a mortal budget committee run by the Diapthylos Patricians saw the sale of Republican construction contracts to Sikorimos retainers. What would normally have been a routine affair turned into the beginnings of a scandal. It was apparent from the start that the contracts were the largest the Republic had ever drawn up and were highly sought after by all the houses.

Unsurprisingly the Sikorimos seemed to use their pull with the Diapthylos to get the highest paying contracts which included the construction of the Via Agrisurusm and the expansion of the Grand Republican Navy. With each passing month the Sikorimos retainers reported that their construction efforts were falling just slightly behind, blaming worker incompetence, poor weather, and a myriad of other minor reasons that would have been permissible were they not given in such rapid succession.

In A.F. 217 the Council of Patricians made an official inquiry into the progress of the two projects and the Sikorimos retainers’ reports were woefully behind schedule, but they received only warnings due to the council majority that the Sikorimos enjoyed. A.F. 218 came and the projects still were far from meeting the quotas set by the Council of Patricians, and although eyebrows were raised any further inquires were squashed due to the intense campaigning (or in other words rounding up as many rural citizens as possible) of the Patrician families. Despite attempts by the minority families, the council remained virtually as it had been since A.F. 215 save for two seats the Diapthylos took from the Penumar.

Trouble for the Sikorimos finally arose in A.F. 219 roughly around the same time Aristomachos was leading his forces against Vorexia. Disgruntled by their sudden lack of a voice, the Penumar turned to the Kataxen and Eluthyeras and formed a coalition of sorts dedicated to bring the Sikorimos down a few seats and put the council back on a balanced level. The three families found the lagging projects issue the thing to focus on and they successfully lobbied for a full investigation to be committed.

After the initial investigations turned nothing up the plans were abandoned, but the Penumar continued searching on their own. In the spring of A.F. 220 they into uncovered the fact that a small amount of the funds for each project had been stolen and put into an unknown place. When this was brought to light the Sikorimos Patricians denounced the retainers involved and attempted to distance themselves from the scandal, and they almost did just that had the Eluthyeras uncovered where the embezzled drachmas went to.


By A.F. 221’s winter the political scene was in an uproar over the events of the past year, both in Aros and without. The news of Aristomachos’ defeat was hard to swallow for most Arosans and the news of the civil war dividing Sakkema in two had set the Arosans on edge; when it was found out that over 500 drachmas had been ferreted away from the projects and stored in Myrolos Sikorimos’ estates. The uproar was immediate and the Arosan people called for violence.

A kangaroo court was held by the Patricians during which they condemned a rather surprised Myrolos Sikorimos to the worst fate any Patrician could ever face: permanent expulsion from Aros and the seizure of all his family’s properties. Within the blink of an eye the Sikorimos were ruined and to some the entire situation seemed to pan out too neatly and conveniently, but far graver matters were raging on just outside the border of the Republic. Later historians would note it was a harsh punishment which signaled the beginning of a harsh time.

[Sikorimos Faction Removed; +5,000d (Sikorimos Assets) to the Republican Treasury]

The Death of Aristomachos (A.F. 219-221)

Part I. The Fall of Vorexia


When Aristomachos and his army emerged from the Appen Mountains they found themselves thrust immediately into the heartlands of Vorexia. The land that lay before them was not hellish or misshapen; in fact the land was eerily green even for the mild Anionian winters. With no need to set up a winter camp, and no real desire to do so, Aristomachos lead his army in a headlong rush to the capital of Vorexia with the hopes that he could seize it and effectively divide the kingdom in two.

Much of his plans relied on the support from the Volgar and Sakkeman. During the last weeks of the year he received word that the Sakkeman army would march north under the command of a mortal called Eurybia Lytreus. Eurybia was a woman in much the same position that had damned Myrolos—in an event all too convenient, sudden, and against her character the woman who headed Sakkeman’s Warrior Council was found defiling a statue of Ionilemia. She was almost expelled from the kingdom for such a heinous display of heresy, but Brygima saved her from that fate by convincing the council to allow Eurybia command of the first army that Sakkema would send to Vorexia.

Oddities abounded in this decision and many Sakkeman were at first suspicious of Brygima having a greater role in Eurybia’s downfall. It was common knowledge that the two women were political enemies as Eurybia advocated the mortal cause while back the traditional rule-of-Immortals. Eurybia had seemed to be finally gaining what she and her predecessors had longed for: a mortal with equal governmental power as the Immortal Queen. But these hopes were suddenly dashed with her heresy.

Eurybia still had many supporters and the vast majority of them were marching north with the former council head. She reported to Aristomachos that she was leading a force over 50,000 men strong (she even went on to say that this was only a third of the warriors her great nation could muster) and would converge with Aristomachos’ far smaller force by mid-summer.

Word too came down from the north where the Volgar had been occupying the brunt of Vorexia’s attentions for the past seven years. Their news was all at once disheartening and triumphant: their ‘king,’ a man called Hekonoge the Strong, was killed by what they described as Vorexia’s ‘darkness,’ but before he fell he severed the black queen’s right hand. The troops, and the Immortals, took solace in this, believing that without her hand whatever evils the queen could conjure must surely be limited.

And by Vorexia’s reaction it seemed that the Arosan army was right to think so. The Volgar reports went on further to describe how shortly after losing her hand Vorexia quit the field, her ashen legions leaving with her. This gave the Volgar room to breathe and time to elect Hekonoge’s fourth son Keltesis to kingship. Keltesis sent word to Aristomachos that he fully intended to seize this opportunity as a time to strike back at Vorexia and, at the very least, harry her army. He told the Immortal to not fear Vorexia or her army appearing on the horizon anytime soon because Vorexia’s horde moved far slower than any army the Volgar had known. His spirits lifted, Aristomachos continue to lead his men east to the heart of the empire.

They reached the city by late spring of A.F. 220 and it is likely they would have reached it sooner had Aristomachos cut a bloody swath through the Vorexian countryside. He looted every village, burnt every field, and killed every man in his path. Mercy was not even extended to the women and children of each settlement whose fates were arguably far worse than that of the mens’. However, Aristomachos was cautious in his looting, as rapacious as it was. He never let his men tarry for too long and while they pillaged he searched the village for any markings of Vorexia’s black magic. The only traces he found were obelisks of a deep purple which thrummed as he approached them. Understandably he forbid any of his men to go near these strange objects and by mid-summer the Immortal had battered down Vorexia's gates and slaughtered every citizen within its walls.


Part II. The Sakkeman Civil War

Vorexia fell very easily, almost too easily and it put Aristomachos on edge. Basilika, his effective second-in-command, shared this feeling and implored for her master to retreat back to the mountains. Aristomachos seems to have seriously considered her words, but the decision was made for him with the appearance of Eurybia’s army by mid-summer of A.F. 220.

Aristomachos found Eurybia to be a respectable woman and easy to work with, despite all the venomous words he had received against her from Brygima. A sort of friendship was even kindled between the two, but before long it would be broken.

As the summer dwindled into autumn the two generals found it odd that they had heard no word of Vorexia’s army marching south or in any direction for that matter. No further word came from the Volgar and scouts sent to the north did not return. Something was amiss, that much was known, but neither leader could grasp what unsettled them so much.

During a war council a great commotion interrupted the proceedings. A messenger burst into the room and brought with him a grave message: the Hypean people were once again in revolt. The reinforcements lead by Brygima would be forced to change course and the Immortal queen ordered her general to take half of the northern army to march south and enclose the rebel Hypeans. Eurybia departed soon after the news was given, leaving the remaining 25,000 Sakkeman under the control of Aristomachos.

While marching south she noticed that no Hypean harried their supplies like they had done in the last war, no village was deserted and its stocks burned to the ground, not even the traditional Hypean display of war—a flayed body of an enemy—was nailed to a tree or carefully placed in front of the army’s path. Without any signs of another Hypean rebellion occurring Eurybia grew paranoid and surmised that Brygima was attempting to lure her into a trap of some kind. Still she continued on along the coasts to Hypema, ever wary for an attack that would not come until the New Year.

Upon finally arriving in Hypema Eurybia’s army was beset on all sides by what seemed to be vicious Hypean warriors. They bore Hypean arms, tribal markings, and even features, but these warriors fought like no Hypean. Their attacks were highly organized and not a one of them slipped into a berserker rage. They fought with a concentrated fury that was the hallmark of Sakkeman warfare, and this deadly combination of the Hypean’s inborn strength and the Sakkeman dedication to bladework almost did Eurybia in. It certainly destroyed her allies and on that day her army was slaughtered almost entirely, the only people to escape were Eurybia and her closest companions.


Brygima had not been sighted during the battle and Eurybia had no concrete evidence to blame, but she knew that the Immortal Queen was behind the slaughter. She charged one of her companions with the task of racing to the north and gathering the 25,000 Sakkemans there while she rode south to bring word to the council of Brygima’s supposed betrayal.

She reached Sakkema by the second month of the year and her arrival caused quite the stir. None of the council members who had remained behind the conflict had expected to see Eurybia and their surprise was shown clearly though their mild treatment of the haggard warrior. Despite Eurybia’s attempts to summon the council for a hearing on the battle at Hypema none of them would heed her and the boldest among them even denounced Eurybia as a traitor to the state and a poor warrior. It was clear that these men and women were no friends of Eurybia. Not wishing to risk capture and execution by the Brygima—who by this point Eurybia was thoroughly convinced was her enemy—she fled into southwestern countryside.

There she began to convince her loyal rural supporters that she had been slighted during the Battle at Hypema and even claimed her heretical actions were not done out of free will. All blame was laid on Brygima and Eurybia painted the Immortal Queen as a foul tyrant worse than Vorexia. Her support in the south spread like wild fire as the patchwork system of communities fell prey to Eurybia’s rhetorics. Incensed they soon marched on Sakkema where they stormed the palace, killing two of the thirty council members left and imprisoning the rest. Eurybia’s supports called for Brygima to submit herself to their custody to answer for her ‘crimes,’ but as the rebels scoured the city they found that Brygima had quit the city long ago and departed for the northwestern communities.

During all this Brygima had been busy raising her own army in the settlements along the Arosan borders. Though not nearly as rich as their southern cousins, the northern Sakkeman had a strong conservative tradition and, for the most part, had been her basis of support within the Warrior Council. Rallying all the Taxis from these villages Brygima was marching south again by spring, A.F. 221. The Sakkeman civil war had begun.

Part III. The Death of Aristomachos

Much further to the Arosan Immortal had been waiting fitfully for anything to occur. While the two Sakkeman leaders had been dragging their kingdom into a civil war, Aristomachos had sent Xanthus out with a small number of the Companions to search for any traces of the enemy and set fire to the surrounding villages in an effort to draw out Vorexia. While Xanthus was out pillaging Eurybia’s messenger arrived at Vorexia. When Aristomachos heard the news of what was unfolding to the south he cursed both Brygima and Eurybia. How two women he had believed to be competent were able to let themselves fall prey to petty political rivalries was beyond him. Hearing that Eurybia was recall all 25,000 Sakkeman soldiers he vehemently refused the messenger’s request, even going so far as to forcibly turn the man out of the camp whilst calling the man a pawn with no greater perception than his small kingdom.

The messenger returned the next day and brought word to the Sakkeman troops that their general was battling to the south and desperately needed them. The 25,000 Sakkeman had been, by in large, loyal to Eurybia from the start and so they needed little convincing to ready themselves to march south. However, Aristomachos was adamant that this did not happen. He attempted to convince the soldiers that Vorexia was the true enemy, not Brygima, but the Immortal was cut off by the messenger who began to call Aristomachos an enemy of Sakkema for attempting to bar their way. The messenger spat fiery accusations at the Arosan, claiming that he had been a part of Brygima’s ploys from the beginning. Confused, but infuriated, the Immortal violently denied the messenger’s accusations, but the mortal went on. He claimed that, perhaps, all the Immortals were behind this—Vorexia included, that all they really wished to see was the complete and utter subjugation of the mortals. Likening Aristomachos to as dark a force as Vorexia, Lachykos, and Zelotage, the messenger stirred up both the Immortal’s and the soldiers’ anger. Overcome by the moment Aristomachos struck the messenger, not with the force to kill the man, but enough to knock him unconscious.

There was a moment of complete stillness before the crowd erupted. They tried to swarm the Immortal, but he fought them off long enough for his own army to realize what was occurring. Once they did their own attack was swift and brutal. The entire camp exploded into a battle without sides as former allies fought against one another.

Even though he was unarmed Aristomachos had little trouble dispatching the horde of men who surrounded him, though even will all his skills he was not able to avoid all the attacks. In truth Aristomachos probably would have died there and then was it not for the efforts of Basilika coordinating the Arosan and Volgar mob into a force capable of penetrating deep enough to be within sight of their Immortal general.
Fighting with a fury that was near inhuman, Basilika finally was only a couple dozen meters away from Aristomachos when the commotion suddenly halted as the sky seemed to gather in on itself to form a black mass. High above the city a storm was forming with an unnatural speed and it did not take Aristomachos long to realize its source: Vorexia had finally shown herself.

Lightning flashed and blinded the Immortal as it struck the Sakkeman before him, setting the poor mortals ablaze for an awful instant before they were burned away till only dust remained. The men screamed and turned to flee, but found their feet swallowed by the city’s cobble streets that now hummed with a purple power.

A laugh cruel and shrill flooded the city and the dead bodies scattered around the city center rotted to skeletons in the blink of an eye. The fell energy was almost palpable as it burned the air. It buzzed in Aristomachos’ skull and brought the battered Immortal to his knees. He closed his eyes, prayed to the gods above that the things he heard would stop. It did after a time and the Immortal opened his eyes only to see two black figures in front of him.

What happened after that is highly debated and many stories were brought back to Aros. Some said that Aristomachos rose up then and there in a great fury, attempting to destroy Zelotage and Vorexia. Others claim that Aristomachos knew the futility of any attack and instead bowed his head as the two fell figures leapt on him with wicked knives. His most ardent followers hold that Aristomachos sacrificed himself so that the rest of them could escape, while his closet devotee—and arguably his heir—Basilika believes that Aristomachos knew what would happen to him and accpeted the fate with the humility of an honorable warrior.

Whatever actually passed in those few seconds that eked by with a painful slowness does not matter nearly as much as what resulted from them. In the instant Zelotage and Vorexia left in a flash of light Aristomachos collapsed to the ground lifeless.

Raised red markings cut across the Immortal’s body and they converged at the center of his chest where they formed a sign that would come to be feared by the Republic.


[+Major City under Aros: Vorexia]

Minor Domestic Events

Artemalces Addresses the Arosan People (A.F. 222)

Shortly after the news of Aristomachos' apparent death reached the Republic Artemalces made a public address to the Arosan people during which he attempted to allay any fears concerning the Cult of Sphasia-Artemalces. He claimed that the majority of the cultists were acting on their own and that their heretical behavior would be corrected. To this end he raised five of the Hand of Sphasia to the status of priest, giving them the power to rule over religious affairs within the cult. Among those five was the archer who had won the archery tournament some years ago, Oroippa.

However, not too many people paid Artemalces any attention as the fear that hung over their minds occupied too much of their thoughts for them to worry over something as 'trifling' as a wide-spread rural cult.

Myrolos Sikorimos Murdered (A.F. 224)

The Patrician-turned-pauper was found in Sioth dead with a dagger sticking out of his back late one evening. After his exile from Aros and the seizure of all his properties, Myrolos' family had abandoned him and attached themselves to the Diapthylos Patricians as household retainers, even going so far as to change their surnames to distance themselves from their unexpected shame. With no friends and a world of enemies the former-Patrician sought refuge in the Sioth home of one of his former retainers. His residence there was known to few and most had already believed the man had committed an honorable suicide as Arosan tradition would dictate, so the Arosans were reasonably surprised to hear that the Heirs of Dorarities had burst into Myrolos' hiding place and killed the man.

Xanthus Seizes Vorexia (A.F. 222)

Upon returning to Vorexia to find the city near-empty save for a few cowering Arosan warriors, Xanthus was perplexed and worried. His worry grew to anger and regret when he heard how Aristomachos had 'died'. Yet, ever the man who lives in the moment, Xanthus did away with these somber emotions and immediately set to consolidating the remaining Arosans in order to scour the Vorexian countryside. No soul was found and all the life the Arosans had encountered during their march on Vorexia had mysteriously disappeared. Xanthus did find black scorch marks in the same place in every village. He made sure to burn down all the buildings that stood in an effort to cleanse the land.

He sent these reports back to the Aros, but requested he be given governorship of the empty province as well as enough settlers to begin two colonies.

The Mausoleum of Aristomachos (A.F. 223)

Almost two years after Aristomachos' death a huge funeral was held for the fallen Immortal. His body, which Xanthus had sent back to Aros along with his reports, was entombed in a mausoleum built from the melted down metals from all the weapons the Cult of Akyrosyne could find. The mausoleum became a secondary temple of sorts for the cult and everyday a cultist would bring some kind of blood offering to burn on its steps.

Within the cult Aristomachos ascended somewhat to 'Godhood'. Though the Immortal was still beneath Akyrosyne it came to be believed that the Immortal had ascended to the heavens and was now fighting alongside the Warrior-Goddess. A small sect of cultists even came to say that Akyrosyne was the one who had killed Aristomachos for the goddess so fiercely desired Aristomachos to be her mate that she was unable to stop herself from rending his body in search for his soul.

Minor Foreign Events

Birth of Princess Sakkelia (A.F. 226)

King Steratos Epistrios I of Clementia celebrated the birth of his first child, a daughter who he named Sakkelia. What would normally have been a rather unimportant event became noteworthy when the mother was announced to be none other than Nomasma Lytreus, the 15 year old daughter of Eurybia Lytreus. Rumors abounded and many questioned how this union had even come about. Steratos did not let these rumors last long, for he announced that he had married Nomasma in a private ceremony and made the Sakkeman noble-woman his queen.

What this means for the relations between Clementia and the Sakkeman rebels is unknown, but most agree that it complicates things.

The Sakkeman Civil War Continues (A.F. 226)

The Sakkemans have continued to wage war against one another despite Aros' best attempts to bring the two sides to a peaceful summit. In the summer of A.F. 226 the war only intensified when the Hypeans declared their allegiance to the Immortal Queen Brygima and began to press the Sakkeman rebels from the north. However, the rebel leader Eurybia (who refuses to take up a formal title) seems to have contracted the aid of strange foreign mercenaries, an act which made the more traditional Sakkeman scoff. The mercenaries, who call themselves Mommyrmons, come from a distant eastern place called Mommyria. By the looks of their arms and tactics Mommyria is an advanced and wealthy place.

The Mommyrmons fight in separate units from the Sakkemans (whom the Mommyrmons openly refer to as barbarians) and in a dense formation they call a 'phalanx'. In this formation the Mommyrmons have managed to win two key victories for Eurybia, pushing Brygima's borders back just slightly.

A Political Gaffe (A.F. 225)

After the war with Vorexia finally came to an end what had happened to the Volgar was on the minds of many Arosans. King Keltesis, the Volgar elected king, broke his people's silence and sent a formal delegation of his fearsome peoples to Aros. They brought a tale which claimed that Vorexia herself appeared before King Keltesis and nearly killed the Volgar king in her surprise attack. Following on her black coattails were the 'ashen legions' that seemed to rise from the very ground and the rest of the tale simply describes who King Keltesis was too occupied fighting against the army he had thought he defeated.

Few of the Arosans believed the barbarians and many were angered by their excuses, saying that it was the Volgar's timely disappearance that had cost Aristomachos his noble life. The Volgar grew angered and claimed the Immortal had lost his life out of sheer stupidity on his part when he did not move to strike the evil queen and her black companion. Without another word the Volgar departed for their lands, taking the noble hostages Aristomachos had claimed with them.

However, a few of the Volgar remained in Aros and among them the pale-skinned woman who he did battle with during the crossing of the Appen Mountains.

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Oh the horrors of death!

I Cedros will personally see to it that Aristocmachos will have a great statue built in his name to celebrate his victories in the west and his sacrifice to bring us a victory in the east.

OOC: I understand my research after the black things from last turn and other weird things didn't provide us with anything?

OOC: You'll get the results in your stats

Public stats are up, will get to private stats probably tomorrow. I have to pack today and do a bunch of other annoying little errands.

Huh, guess I wasn't all that immortal after all.

EDIT: But you could've at least spelled the name right if you all admire him so much.

I lament the death of my brother, Aristocmachos, for he was a true hero, a true warrior. Let no one forget what Aristocmachos has done for our people. Never has any individual been more worthy of praise for he has made the ultimate sacrifice in protection of our great nation. He has sacrificed his life. Let his funeral games last for 30 days and 30 nights, so that we never forget him.

A quick note:
Xanthus does not want to be a governor of any republic; instead he asks that his friends in the noble Dorarities family be given governship.

Xanthus is of the belief that governship and leadership are thankless jobs that forces one to spend all their time pushing papers and listening to whining little nuissances. He would much prefer to lounge at the edge of a noble's pool, a glass of wine in one hand, a young noble's daugter on other arm.

Brygima didn't go with the army to the north? we trained the Hypeans? I actually scrapped that part of the plan, it was all about getting her exiled and if she refused we would settle it removed from our support bases. But my mistake for not making that clear.

Immaculate said:

his friends in the noble Dorarities family be given governship.

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Dorarities is a cult, ironically controlled by your buddy Ichthyos.

Oruc said:

Brygima didn't go with the army to the north? we trained the Hypeans? I actually scrapped that part of the plan, it was all about getting her exiled and if she refused we would settle it removed from our support bases. But my mistake for not making that clear.



Dorarities is a cult, ironically controlled by your buddy Ichthyos.

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which one is the noble family that sold me land on credit?- thats who i meant. sorry- there are LOTS of characters to keep straight.