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[@Rekaigan] Loving how your character is the first proper foreigner in the cast. Looking forward to seeing how Magnhilde reacts to Monster and Chimera staff members at the Institute. ;)

Accepted, and PM'd some cultural details on Airelosia that other characters will definitely not be aware of.

[@LordofthePies] Brush up the formatting and pull off the scale stating what which numbers are worth. I might personally suggest throwing in some mentions of a corrupt magistrate and lazy police forces as well. Living in a family of ne'er-do-wells would make him the target of local police, who act more like thugs than protectors -- at least, outside of the Imperial City of Unoctoc Station, where there is no civilian police force but rather a military police force. It's your biography of course, so do with it as you wish.

Accepted once the CS is finished. :)

[@Avant] Military families aren't always down-to-earth and accepting, but this one seems to have learned the lessons of service well - especially since many of the most dedicated soldiers in the Empire are Chimeras, though they aren't as prevalent as they are in Flynenhael. Joseph's family may have been involved in a recent military action that's been documented but yet not posted on this interest check - dumping it in a hider below. Don't have to add it to your biography, but it's stuff that his family would at the very least have heard of, given their military affiliations. :)

Accepted.

Other characters may be aware of this conflict as well, with the possible exception of characters from Flynenhael, Southern frontier towns, or the Northern City-States (will expand upon Southern and Northern towns further in the OOC).

[hider=The Airelosian Gulf Conflict]There was an event six years ago in which Airelosia made an attempt at expansion to the South, where they occupied the Caribbean and exterminated the local sapient Monster populations. When Airelosian forces didn't stop their move through the Deadland Gulf southwards, the most unusual thing happened: a distress call from a magic academy operated by Monsters was sent to their associates in Mordhaben's Institute, and the Institute requested military aid on behalf of the Yuutos College in exchange for their agreement to operate as an official military university for the Empire.

While the Unoctocan Empire had a much weaker navy than Airelosia did at the time, Airelosia had dedicated their entire navy to securing lands to the south, inside the Deadlands. They needed the entirety of their naval forces to be able to hold off oceanic Monster attacks while making landfall, which meant that the Unoctocan Empire was able to blockade the mainland and cut off fuel and food transportation. The UE offered for Airelosia to surrender, they declined, and the Unoctocan Grand Fleet attacked the Airelosian forces from the north, sandwiching them between the land-based magical assaults of the Yuutos College, oceanic Monster attacks from the east, and artillery fire from the fleet itself. After most of their vessels were crippled or outright destroyed, Airelosia surrendered, and a ceasefire was signed.

Unoctocan forces took almost no losses, and the primary cause of Unoctocan soldier deaths during the entirety of the conflict wasn't combat but rather a sickness similar to influenza, so the victory was used for widespread patriotic propaganda printed in state-owned newspapers.

Joseph's family is likely aware of Airelosia rebuilding their military forces with a higher focus on land-based combat over naval combat, though this will take ten years at the minimum to be even the remotest threat to the UE, which has vastly superior ground forces and a modestly superior air force.[/hider]