This is lookin' good, man. Culture and all that is simply if you want to. Your history's really nice, and Amenoi reminds me of Petyr Baelish. Fabulous motherfucker. Overall, you're accepted, just change the claim and you're in.

Going to start working on vassals now, trying to generate them. May the odds be ever in your favor huehuehue

Vassals of Arlais

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Ruled by Lady Mareta Ancel, a noblewoman who has ruled over her household for more than forty years. From her time as a lady she has married two nobles, giving birth to over five children; three boys and two girls. First known as a sweet and romantic dame in tourneys and feasts, she's now grown old and bitter, spitting curses at her children and beating them at times. She has hair on her upper lip and is deaf on one ear. But her keen intelligence, judge of character and brilliant experience in organization and managing makes her an extremely powerful person. 

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The Ancel household was founded by a landowner given several fiefs for his service in one of the civil wars. Aft the gracious reward, he had managed to procure claims on several other counties through marriage, bought estates and swindled minor nobles out of coin. However, he had been beheaded after several such complaints. His only heir was a woman forced to grow and adapt to political environment very fast. Lady Mareta.

Her first husband has been an old man, one of the minor nobles his father had swindled. After having threatened the young lady with pressing another complaint to the royal family, she has married him. Soon enough, he has died of a plague, leaving her with pregnant a daughter, however. The second husband she has married out of love, a third son of the Count of Abaddie, whom she has met on a wedding feast. After a prolonged affair, the two married, but it is rumored that the husband became abusive. After bearing him the rest of the children over the course of twenty years. Her husband having shown signs of madness, she befriended Cardinal Ippocrate Morel, at that time a rather formidable representative of faith in Arlais. Her marriage has been annuled by the Church.

Her children are Pelagia Ancel, her oldest daughter, thirty four years of age and married to a Chernogravian count, depressed after her fourteen year old son died in a disastrous hunt. Gregory, twenty seven years old, unhappily married to Lord Matthias Vidal's youngest daughter, the gluttonous Maria. Salom, a young man barely out of his teens, formidable fighter and regular participant of jousts. Franck, twelve years old, a squire to Sir Germain Vidal. Simona, aged seven, a sickly and spoiled girl.

Her discontent with the Bodou dynasty is widely known, for her father had helped them in their wars, and in her opinion they have been unjust to him and her family. Her contacts and connections are staggering, and her strong ambitions are frightening.
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Lord Matthias Vidal is a middle-aged man, knighted when he was young and hardened by training and battle when he was young. He takes great pride in being an Archmaster of the [i]Order of the Sable-Tigre,[/i] the sigil of which he keeps as his family's coat of arms. He may be a courageous and chivalrous warrior all-right, but as a lord he has some evident flaws. He's shown to be a poor diplomat and general, as well as being petty, naive, trusting, and short-tempered. In fact, he's practically in Mareta's pockets as she intertwined their families together by marriages. The heaavens alone know what will happen when Mareta and he will marry, although he dislikes the idea of it, much to the Ancel Lady's dissatisfaction.

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The Vidal family originally hailed from Chernogravia, having settled in Chalewiel and given lands by the royal family for substantial financial contributions to the royal treasury as a merchant family. A relatively young noble house, Matthias is only its' second lord in Arlais, though it is believed that the Vidals had been one of Koronai's most ancient noble families.

Aft the death of Matthias' father, he's quickly formed a friendship with the house of Ancel. He's reportedly married a lowborn woman for her beauty, and she's given him two healthy children. Hippolyte Vidal is his only son, sixteen years old, and is almost completely opposite of his father - where Matthias is proud, Hippolyte is humble, where Matthias is dull, Hippolyte is a genius. And he loathes Lady Mareta. His sister is a quiet, shy woman, fearful of the heavens, yet loving food. She's been married to Gregory, Lady Ancel's oldest son and heir. Hippolyte has been betrothed to Simona, Lady Mareta's youngest daughter.

Matthias doesn't have a stance on the Bodou family, though he's sometimes referred to as Lady Mareta's blunt minion. In some instances, it's shown to be rather true.[/hider]