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[b]Helpful Links:[/b]
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[*][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4193966]Family Trees (Duchy of Westrock, County of Ryrstone)[/url]
[*]Characters:
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[*][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4187764]Paul Cranston[/url]
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[*]Heir to the Duchy of Westrock.
[*]Olivia's cousin.
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[*][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4188098]Lars Barker[/url]
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[*]Count of Ryrstone.
[*]Regent of Westrock.
[*]Husband to Paul's sister, Mary.
[*]Olivia's father.
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[*][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4188883]Olivia Barker[/url]
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[*]Lady of Ryrstone.
[*]Lars's daughter.
[*]Paul's cousin.
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[*][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4189048]Sophia (of Portston)[/url]
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[*]Peasant and whore.
[*]Paid conspirator of Lars Barker; ordered to seduce/spy on Paul.
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[*][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4198474]Winston[/url]
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[*]Lord of Greenbrier
[*]Paul's bodyguard and most trusted knight
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[b]Story Concept:[/b]
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[*]For more than a thousand years of recorded history, the land simply known as [url=http://i.imgur.com/NhtvPbk.png?4]the Continent[/url] had never seen large scale conflict.
[*]Then, from the north, the [i]Black Duke[/i] invaded his neighbors with the ultimate goal of conquering the entire Continent and becoming its first King.
[*]Over the next generation, nearly every Town, City, County, and Duchy was drawn into the conflict on one side or the other.
[*]Historians would come to be call that conflict [i]The First War[/i], and by the beginning of our story, it had seen thousands of warriors die on the battle field and tens of thousands of non-combatants die from disease, starvation, slavery, and siege. 
[*]When my primary character, Paul, comes home from a failed mission to find his missing father, the Duke of Westrock, he learns that his father's most trusted Knight -- Count Lars Barker -- is not willing to simply hand over the Duchy after having been its leader for so long.
[*]Forces will ally themselves with either Paul or Lars, only furthering the conflict of this, the First War.[/list]
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