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Looks good to me!

Glad you guys like it :) I can't take the credit for the blank map, though. I found it on another forum. I did change up some borders but most of it is just coloring in :D anyway, I can share the blank map if anyone wants it for future projects. Detailed maps of Europe with a lot of administrative divisions are hard to come by, apparently.

Interesting concept of Houses, declare my interest

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!

 Almost done with the political map. I plan on adding capital cities and names of countries and that should be it. I've considered adding rivers but I think I should leave it for terrain map. PS: some HRE states are bigger than they should be, but I didn't want to add small irrelevant counties so i just made the most notable ones bigger.

Maybe you should. If we're mainly gonna be role playing in Austria or somewhere else, perhaps a simple terrain map would suffice.

> Maybe you should. If we're mainly gonna be role playing in Austria or somewhere else, perhaps a simple terrain map would suffice. Yes, I didn't mean to make a terrain map of entire Europe, it's too much work :D just the area around us and I will try to expand it as our kingdom expands. But even this is a lot of work and the hardest part would probably be adding capital cities and positioning them properly. Anyway, I think as far as the map goes it's a nice progress. I'm going to finish that and work a bit on the concept of economy.

Don't push yourself too hard though.

Quick question: Where do you stand on the use of assassins in this RP?

> Quick question: Where do you stand on the use of assassins in this RP? Depends in what concept you plan on using them. As a kind of brotherhood like in Assassin's creed, or just your noble house hiring assassins to further their political goals? Because I'm okay with the latter.

Does latter mean the brotherhood or the hired killers?

I'm okay with the hired killers. An order of assassins is a bit unrealistic but Chivalric orders will be present.

Alrighty then.

Central Europe looked like my grandmothers patchwork blanket in those days. I'm not sure I fully understand the concept of the RP. Are playing IRL principalities/kingdoms within the HRE or are we playing made-up nations within the HRE?

Question could I perhaps be a loyal lord/knight to perhaps the duke or count of an HRE state or shall I lead my own?

> Central Europe looked like my grandmothers patchwork blanket in those days. > > I'm not sure I fully understand the concept of the RP. Are playing IRL principalities/kingdoms within the HRE or are we playing made-up nations within the HRE? We're playing as royal houses within a single state in the HRE. Basically you fight for dominance in the state while allying yourself with other royal houses to further your own goals, fighting other royal houses for possessions (villages, towns, castles, mines, fields, etc.), all the while the country expands as time goes on. Our kingdom is like a small world on it's own where noble houses fight for power, but there's a whole other world outside of our realm's borders that is simultaneously evolving. In times of war, the noble houses of our realm unite to fight an outside power (or they can ally the invader) in order to expand our kingdom and give more space to fight over. It's kind of like any other RP but with the playground changing size every now and then. I will make an enlarged map of our kingdom and that will be the main map we will use in the initial stage of the RP. I made this big one to show current standings in Europe and I will use it later on as well to graphically show results of other wars in the world.

> Question could I perhaps be a loyal lord/knight to perhaps the duke or count of an HRE state or shall I lead my own? That's pretty much what you will do. Instead of owning a state in the HRE, you will lead a royal house in my kingdom, so yes. You can be a noble/knight and you will be awarded some land to look after. The entire Roleplay is happening inside a single country.

> > Question could I perhaps be a loyal lord/knight to perhaps the duke or count of an HRE state or shall I lead my own? > > That's pretty much what you will do. Instead of owning a state in the HRE, you will lead a royal house in my kingdom, so yes. You can be a noble/knight and you will be awarded some land to look after. The entire Roleplay is happening inside a single country. No I meant like be a lord to one the royal houses. Basically how in GoT King Robert ruled Westeros The Starks lead the North but had bannermen such as Roose under them. That's what I mean.