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Hi, I made an interest check post a couple of weeks ago about a new game.
Now I am ready to start the recruitment.
If you want to read things that we said about the game and questions people interested asked here is the interest check post, I suggest you give it a look.
The game will be using a custom ruleset that I have created and can be found Here
you will play as the ruler of a noble house. After the fall of your lieges you will find yourself suddenly as independent rulers among your peers and it will be up to you to decide to strike on your own, form alliances, start invading or peacefully try to unify the empire once again.
Here is the Map that we will be using and here is a brief history of the empire and the setting.
The ancient Empire of Glasya’s origins are lost between history and legend. The story says that when the race of men was young and still afraid of the dark a baby was abandoned in the woods and raised by the fair folk of the forest. Growing up with the wisdom of the forest dwelling creatures, and a sacred pact to not ever hurt the boy or his followers, he founded a city at the center of the great lake, Glasya, and for a thousand years the influence of the city grew, at the start people wanted the protection the boy and his bloodline offered to their subjects against everything that go bump in the night in the wildest corners of the land, then they came to revere and respect the wield of political power that the boy’s descendants, the Ericine dynasty, could command.
But the stories of Goblins and gremlins and pixies and faeries living at the edge of civilization started to be just stories whispered in the ears of the paesants, a powerful bloodline and the right of rule by the rules of men became the only real claim to power.
Then in the year 2465 of the glasyan empire the rule of emperor Hadrian Ericine came to a sudden end. Some say it was sickness, some that it was poison, all said that with his two twin sons as heirs his death would start the most brutal succession war the empire has ever seen.
And so it was, many of the major nobles threw support to one side or the other while none of the heirs had a more true claim than the other. Battles, assassinations, the siege of the capital city. The war was never won.
Both sides destroyed each other, most of the nobles involved killed, either in battle or murdered in their sleep by faceless assassins. The once proud capital reduced to a ruin, a graveyard for the empire former glory. Chaos and anarchy swept through the empire.
The political landscape of the empire was forever changed. No emperor was sitting on the throne, no archduke governing vasts amount of land. What remained in the empire is a handful of noble houses with no direction anymore.
And from the smallest villages the rumor rises, with the emperor of men gone, would humanity still have its truce with the creatures of the wild?
The area of the map occupied by the hexes 2413, 2314, 2414 will be the place where the old capital used to be.
I would like to have a lot of players as such I will not really make much of a selection, but I would like to have good roleplayers so here is what we will do.
I would like for you to have a declaration of intent, not a real process of character building (as I would like to have you confirmed and in an environment where you can talk with other players, establish ties and engage in a little bit of collaborative writing) so I would like to have from you a vague idea of what you aim to build. Like for example: "I would like to take some region in the mountains and make some sort of high economy mining community, with a regent very involved in commerce and being sort of a merchant prince." Or "I would like to be in the desert and create something with a Mesopotamian feel to it" or "I would like to make a land with very strong ties to a religion of my invention and with a mission to convert the empire to it" Remember, this used to be an empire, by definition it can host many different cultures under its roof.
I would really appreciate if people that have something to show for their roleplaying talent would link to some PbP they had here or any other type of roleplaying writing anywhere. Is not a requisite to participate but the proof that someone can roleplay interesting characters is really appreciated.
the game itself will be run mainly on discord and I will create a server and send invites as soon as we have a few entrants.
Hello! I'm back from the interest thread, and very excited to finally see Glasya arrive. Anyways, here goes:
Declaration of intent: I would like to take some outskirts region, playing a noble obsessed with the founding of the Fallen Empire of Glasya.
Link to my favorite PbP thread: Link
I'm Abaos, in that one.
If there's anything more I need, please let me know!
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I am also here from the interest thread. Glad to see the recruitment finally open!
For my Declaration of Intent, I would like to have some form of coastal kingdom (at least one of my regions being on the coast). I am thinking of going into having high economy regions, with a slight focus on seaborne trade routes, leading to a very Venitian feel to the kingdom.
As for examples of my previous PbP, here are two games in which I have played:
Just One Run, in which I played Ranif Tharystrix.
GM Leinathans A Galaxy In Flux, in which I played Zenvisk. I came into this game somewhat late into it, so I linked the page when I first came in.
And for a game I am currently playing in:
Jimbles Dead Suns, in which I am playing Entiren Vraken.
Also from the interest thread.
I am wanting to try something a little different than my usual shady, saboteur, information broking fare.
So for my declaration of intent, I would like to have some sort of region that has a focus with decadence, art and overall diplomatic relationships, possibly near a body of water (could even be a lake, its really for beachside parties and festivals/holidays). Think a very Bacchus-inspired feel, as if the Roman Party Tendencies made it to the Renaissance; but without the heavy military focus.
I'm up for changing and moving things, I've just been very interested in political games recently so I'm just happy to play.
Some references:
Red Hand of Doom [E6] where I play as Bran O'Dimm. This is Current.
Death and Taxes - GM Budd the C.H.U.D.'s Feast of Ravenmoor, where I played as Dramin Jodare.
My submission: an educated, progressive lord of a bustling, cosmopolitan city (possibly at the mouth of the main river) who wants to peacefully recreate the Empire as a constitutional monarchy (not necessarily with himself as king, by the way).
To give you a better sense of his plans and style, here’s a message I intend to send everyone else when the game starts:
Respectfully,
Lord {Name TBD}, Protector of {Name TBD}
Vespartius Caudex
Alezandu Pavlenco
Duanimon
I am interested in playing a Robber Baron that took his region through (con)quest.
Region 2718 should be a Free City.
Interested.
I want to set up in that three island cluster as well as purchase a newly acquired mainland port town or two. A nation of proud islanders that chafed under the empires restrictions and can now expand their control by any means.
8-9 noble houses is basically ASoIaF, so that's pretty good. I mean, it worked out pretty well for George R.R. Martin! Ought to be great here! Let's just not kill as many named characters off, alright guys haha?
Yeah, from the perspective of the nobles ASoIaF probably isn't the greatest model. :)