Kingdom of Montemshaven

Worldbuilding notes:

The Kingdom of Montemshaven sits about a day's travel south of the Montem River, which separates the colder, harsher northern climate and mountains to the milder south.

The large northlander village town of Norvegrheim, or Norvegr, sits about 6 days' travel uphill from the Montem river, about 7-8 days travel North- Northeast of the Kingdom of Montemshaven

The Great Inland Sea is to the West by roughly 5 days' travel.

The border of Montemshaven sits on the Montem river; northlanders have always beaten back any attempts to annex any land beyond the river. Several villages sit sporadically within 7 days of travel.

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The Kingdom of Montemshaven is a relatively young kingdom, with only two neighbors to the south-east and south-west. Being the most northern kingdom in the patchwork quilt of the 'civilized world,' they're generally remote and left alone by most going-ons. Having only been establish 4 generations beforehand, they don't yet have strong blood ties outside the three northern kingdoms, nor anything of note beyond some specific resources.

The native reindeer and caribou are much larger than normal. Northlanders generally tame and ride the caribou, and the reindeer are ridden more often than horses by the people of Montemshaven. Regular horses aren't used to the snowfalls, steeper terrain, or colder climate, so the few horses that are found are sturdier, stronger, and fiercer.

The migration cycle of the caribou pass very close to Montemshaven- those caribou that aren't domesticated or penned as cattle are generally hunted as the herds pass.

Furthermore, because of the large size of the local four-leggeds, regular wolves are somewhat uncommon. One's more likely to run into the smaller packs of the much larger direwolves, and even more rarely than that, the extremely dangerous sabertooth- the belek. The belek has been often considered to be one of the most dangerous creatures in the world, easily more dangerous to the southern orcs, or the mountainous goblins. Beleks hunt for sport as much for food; they never back down from a fight, and will toy with their prey.

Culturally, the people are similar to Persian culture, with festivals celebrating the beginning of spring, midsummer, midwinter, and the passing of the caribou herds- which often number from several hundred to several thousand.

It'll take me a bit to get used to this character, and then I'll be right as rain!

Thats ok. I am figuring her out too. I'll reply in the a.m. I am not feeling well right now.

Aww. Hope it doesn't turn out to be anything major, I do.

Costume. ... The costume most commonly associated with belly dance is the 'bedlah' (Arabic: بدلة‎‎; literally "suit") style, which typically includes a fitted top or bra, a fitted hip belt, and a full-length skirt or harem pants.

Pashak. ...cotton candy

Baklava. ...pastry

@OfWindAndRain

Hey I won't be on tomorrow til later in the afternoon. I have appointments in the morning. Did I give you enough to go on in that post?

@Wick
Absolutely. Do you want me to skip ahead to the party?

@OfWindAndRain

Yes that would be great, I have some things going to happen there.

Oops sorry I didn't see it.

@Wick
Now,
I can post in reply to your post right now, which I already have written
But Wulfric's reply would be terribly condescending. Extremely so, and with perfectly good reason.

Your guards let in a creepy, bad-vibe sort of man straight into a party, who then followed members of the royal family to their chambers, without being challenged, murdered them both, and escaped both the keep- which should be chock-full of guards- and presumably the city without being caught. A murderer literally walked in, murdered whomever he wanted, and ran off without a challenge.

Then your king asked Wulfric, a strange barbaric northern man who's not even been south of the river once until this day, to guard his current heir to his throne. He has no idea if he's looking to take anything valuable and run, or maybe he might rape his new heir the moment he's alone with her.

I can either post as it is now, or you can go and change it so it's not as... well, awful. This plot twist isn't very well thought-out, and a dozen men with Wulfric could probably take over the entire city with that sort of competence. Medieval times were harsh, and soldiers were more likely to kick someone out on their asses for the smallest things- things much smaller than following the royal family across a throne room, much less into the keep itself, and then into their bedroom.

Never mind, I thought you wanted to have fun writing with me. I'm not writing a book here this is supposed to be relaxing to me. I don't need all of the crazy details since I would have assumed that all normal security measures had been taken I wouldn't need you to actually write everything down like that. This is not going to work.

That was generally just uncalled for and rude.

Of course this isn't going to work. I have standards about my writing- I want things to make sense. You're right- we're not writing a novel. But we are writing a story, and I find it relaxing when things make sense, and characters aren't making totally irrational calls and decisions just because.

My apologies for wanting to roleplay with someone who put in some effort to the story. I'll screen people better next time, so I don't end up with another situation like this.