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Regicide: A Civil War in Ancient Fantasy

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Regicide: A Civil War in Ancient Fantasy

Family Name: Mithrids

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A golden sun below a white sword and scale, on a crimson field bordered with gold.

Words: We Tend The Flame

Home-City: Mithreum

Satrapy (if applicable): Transepruxia

History: The Mithrids hail from the bureaucratic east of Calydonia. Mithreum is situated south of Heliocarsus, on the base of a mountain. Its fortress, and seat of the Mithrids, lies midway up the mountain and overlooks the rest of the city. It's built partly into the rocks, with waterfalls that bring fresh water in the form of small canals/aquaducts that pass through/under its walls. These canals are used to bring in drinking water, but also as a defense mechanism allowing defenders to divert the water so it rushes down the rocky inclines leading to the castle, if an army were to try to climb to it.

They trace their descent to the legendary hero Mithreus, who's feats were instrumental in the foundation of a united Calydonia in the Second Era. Since then, the Mithrids have upheld the rule of law as staunch supporters of the Kingdom, and later Syros' empire. Few Mithrids have ever dealt in politics, or striven to rule themselves. Instead, the Mithrids insured the stability of the realm through military force, becoming one of the most well-known military families, and earning the trust of even Syros when it came to military matters. A strict tradition of service to the state has yielded many excellent generals and soldiers loyal to the king/emperor.

Marcellus was the patriarch during Syros' rise to power. A good friend to Syros' father, Marcellus was among the first to rally behind Syros. He became one of Syros' most trusted and skilled generals early in the conquests, but was slain during one of the battles for what would later become Transepruxia. His son Marius finished what remained of the campaign there and was granted governorship of Transepruxia. He followed Syros but never reached the greatness of his father. He brought shame to the Mithrids when he retreated during a battle against the Qarima Empire, losing over half of his force in the process. His son, Cassian, never forgave him and lead a force to capture Marius so that he could be brought before Syros and be punished. Marius survived his retreat with serious injuries and was succumbing to infection when he chose to take his own life, rather than face Syros' wrath.

Cassian, the current patriarch, is a battle-hardened general and ultra-loyalist. He earned Syros' trust after proving himself more competent than his father through multiple campaigns, and the two had formed a bit of a friendship. Cassian supported the safeguarding of the empire, and strongly opposed any notion to break it up. He was among the first to mobilize his army when it was clear that civil war was inevitable. While some families work to make their provinces into kingdoms following the death of Syros, Cassian has made his intention to keep Transepruxia a part of the empire very clear.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

If you invade Croatia, I will come back from not posting and fucking wreck you.

Regicide: A Civil War in Ancient Fantasy

Looks like the OP has been updated a bit.

I'll join this soon. Hopefully more people notice this.

Regicide: A Civil War in Ancient Fantasy

You can play as vassal Houses/families that are under the major family in whichever region. But it's the major family/player in the region that has final say on anything big. I think we're all willing to give people freedom to do whatever they want with their families, and really anything, but you'd probably have to ask the major player in the region before you decide there's a giant wall stretching across the entire province.

Regicide: A Civil War in Ancient Fantasy

Sorry, that's my gig.

I want to try a NRP. (Do you want to run it?)

TheEvanCat said
PoW is fantasy in the fact that we've had a post where Spanish Special Forces flew a helicopter to Canada and stole a moving train off the tracks containing some important person (think that scene in Batman with the planes.)

It was a plane.

... As We knew It

You all suck, New England is best.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I'd have to go back and check Duck's app. But I remember he asked me a lot of things when he was writing it so I don't understand how Croatia ended up part of Yugoslavia seeing how it was part of Austria.

EDIT: Yeah, as the lore summaries say: Croatia and Slovenia were part of Austria until mid-way through the 70's when Prussia took over Austria and granted them (Slovenia/Croatia) independence.

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Stale Pizza said
Well then, the canon is indeed a bit mixed up. So can you clarify what happened in the Balkans in PoW?

They have been largely untouched, aside from a rebellion in Greece that freed it from Ottoman control. Serbia participated in the Swiss Debt War, but their support was probably very limited. Aside from that, if we're keeping the canon as it was, which I can't remember, the only noteworthy thing to happen was Croatia/Slovenia getting their independence from Austria after Prussia annexed it and found it was too much trouble trying to also annex Croatia along with it. Because, while Austria joined up without a fight, the same could probably not have been said for the already super nationalistic Croats.