[OOC] Regicide: A Civil War in Ancient Fantasy

[gorgenmast]

Family Name: Solonids

Banner: Pending

Home City: Heliocarsus

Satrapy: Not applicable

History: ((I know this is shit but I hate history/bio sections with a passion and I just want to start. I'll explain so much more of the history in post.))

The House of Solon would be naught but an obscure footnote in Calydonian history were it not for it's most important member. Syros the Unbowed expanded Calydon beyond the known world, but he had far less success in creating a dynasty worthy of his unprecedented legacy. For nine years after wedding the Queen Lyca, Syros had tried fruitlessly to bear a son. As his armies trampled underfoot the great empires of the the world, Syros feared that his astounding victories abroad might mean nothing as his queen repeatedly failed to produce a son. Numerous times Lyca conceived to the jubilation of the realm, but every time she came with child the baby was lost. After Queen Lyca's seventh miscarriage, many doubted that Lyca could even bear a child. But her eighth pregnancy at last yielded a son: Galos, the heir to the Calydonian world.

But Galos fell to a Rhumid arrow, and Syros upon the hoof of a chariot horse, and the House of Solon is lost. Syros' beloved wife - Lyca -is the sole survivor of the greatest family of Calydon.As Syros' empire crumbles, the widowed Queen can do nothing but weep and watch as the empire built for her progeny buckles under the weight of personal greed of the late King's generals and the families of Calydon.

[Vilageidiotx]

Accepted, naturally.

[Pepperm1nts]

Wooo!

[Vilageidiotx]

Woah, are we skipping the Battle of Twelve Armies?

[gorgenmast]

Uh... I don't think so. Did I done goof?

[Vilageidiotx]

I dunno. I think we're all confused, since I talked to Hugs and he thought there was a city in the Rhumid desert.

What I thought we were doing was having a big ass battle in the Rhumid desert, and then having all the forces left in Calydon find out and do some clusterfucking near the capital whilst the retreating survivors of the Rhumid battle rush to shore up their power.

[gorgenmast]

Ohhhh... No worries then. That was still what I was going to take part in. I just went ahead and did a little exposition. No need for the royal corpses to just sit around stinking up in some foreign desert. Without modern embalming they would have moved to dispose of the corpses as soon as possible before they start rotting.

[Pepperm1nts]

I think Vilage wanted the news of Syros' death to reach the capital much later.

[Vilageidiotx]

That I can deal with. I know what to do so it doesn't look like Googerleesi has one-day delivery via Fedex jet.

[Pepperm1nts]

Tell me so I can put it into account when I write my post, and if I end up mentioning something related to it.

unless is secretz

EDIT: Also, has RPGuild been really slow for you guys lately?

[Dinh AaronMk]

It has been. A little.

[Vilageidiotx]

"We been standing in this desert for two weeks now, posturing while diplomats and dignitaries try and make under-the-table deals. Desert sucks, but nobody has made a move yet."

And yeh, the RPG has been off and on the last few weeks.

[Pepperm1nts]

Okay, then.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Family name: Comatid

Banner: A yellow, flared star shooting down over a black field.

Home City: Comadua

Satrapy: Lower Qarima

History: The legends of the Comatid's rise date to what'd many claim to be the beginning of the era of man and the retiring of God from the mortal realm. When man was still in simple cloth wrenching at the eyes of their foes with the claws of their own design a man was cast from the heavens to tame a tribe of people known as the Athpenians. The man, known as Comidisus was rumored to have the strength of two lions with the endurance of a sea turtle, and the stamina of hawk and hare.

The old legends surrounding him tell of Comidisus slaying the Cyclops named Pricipus at the hill of Hisbius at the mouth of the river Alos – which runs to just south of the modern Calydonian capital.

The death of the cyclops Pricipus was said to please the heavens so heavily that when his years of blasphemy against their names came to an end and his blood bathed the soil the hill turned to gold and the tribes of Athpenians came to it like a moth to fire. Seeing the beauty of the hill and hailing the strength of Comidisus they proclaimed him their king. As a reward, he wedded the seven daughters of the seven chiefs and sowed the seeds for a dynasty to rule the mouth of the river Alos, to what many would hail as being timeless.

Though the Hisbius' hills is not made of gold, the strategic position of the city had made it a rich kingdom since even the integration into the greater Calydonian kingdom in the Second Era.

The Comatids followed the Calydonians faithful until the reign of King Liandros. The family's historically rich coffers began to dwindle rapidly over the years over an unresolved trade-dispute with the Noble Republics of the sea. An embargo imposed on the family's trade and port over bitter arguments of marriage and the reported kidnapping of one of a significant trade family's daughter had put the Comatids' on the receiving end of piracy and blame.

The dispute – which would have been otherwise harmless – spanned for too long over Liandros' reign and it sapped the family's gold. Pleading the king for assistance and receiving little action the Comatids were forced to bitterly take the embargo, loosing ships, men, gold, and trade posts for over forty years of conflict.

But the death of Liandros and the ascension of King Syros, the To Be Unparralled.

The sapping of their coffers over time had made the Comatids exceptionally greedy, even more so when Lord Meandrin died, leaving at his stead his twelve year old son Thespos as king of the Comatid domain. Though young, Thespos was no idiot or no weakling. Even before his reign the boy had acquired a great story for being strong, with rumors having it he slew a lion by himself while hunting with his uncle in the woods.

Thespos would have revolted against Syros in a bid to acquire the loot needed to fill his family's legendary coffers. But instead, greater things happened. Syros himself was no fool and saw the need in their family and all others. And with tremendous might mustered all the arms of the Empire against their enemies.

How they fell. And how the gold came.

Thespos insisted on entering the field of war at the age of fourteen. And after much violent coercion was given his father's sword – crafted of meteoric iron from the heavens – and armor and sent off to lead a column of warriors on his father's war horse. With the armies of Syros he set out across the world and expanded his own personal legend.

Thespos the Cleaver from Heaven may be a comparatively minor name in campaigns so defined by Syros the Unparalleled. But the means and abilities of Thespos in the wars gave him much honor and recognition in the court and as a gift Syros felt compelled to gift unto the young warrior and his family the southern territories of the conquered Qarima Empire, giving him land and titles across the lower spans of the former, crushed Empire and all its wealth.

Thespos ruled the Qarima not in gentleness. Though he loved the gold, the quality of the wood, and the taste of the wine. He could never get over its impish inhabitants and their dirty skin. Though, he found allies in their people he never saw the means to advance their dynasty, feeling that they better served him as managers in the wilderness provinces of the old Empire, and a means to oversee the less attractive expanses. For the rest, he slew or sent into exile into the magnificent unknown in the west, to be devoured – presumably – by the monsters that live there.

Under Thespos, many of the Qarima were enslaved as workers of concubines in the king's court.

Thespos married his cousin, twice removed when he was fifteen. She being only eleven at the time.

After being given the lands of the Qarima, Thespos did not slow and continued to campaign alongside Syros and his armies for as long as he could until the death of Syros. It is said the two had a great a respectable friendship and that Thespos had been by Syros' side when he was dropped.

[Vilageidiotx]

Accepted.

Also, to show a shitty map that explains some of the current situation.



The general area is the Rhumid waste, with the pale desert to the east and the coast to the south. The white dick section in the middle of the Rhumid waste is the salt flats. The fleshy pink edges would be foothills. The gray line is the road Syros built during their march into the wastes. The black circle indicates the rough area in which the events of the twelve army battle will be occurring, which is where the scattered remains of Syro's army is now.

[Pepperm1nts]

This isn't a bump.

[Chapatrap]

I'll have an app up soon. I've had exams and shit so I don't have time to commit to hardcore RP's at the minute.

[Pepperm1nts]

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