TURN 3. October, 1815 to March, 1816.
OctoberOctober 3rdThe Zeelian Kaiser James Conrad formally invited the members of the Diet of Palovia to the Zeelian Palace to discuss things and ease tensions. On the third of October the Diet arrived, a light snow falling across the plaintive fields. The Diet--lower level Palovian nobles--supped and dined with the Kaiser for eight long hours, discussing everything
but Palovia. Those Zeelians standing guard had grown tired, and at the changing of said guards the Palovians struck. Several men rushed the guards and the other half dozen charged the Kaiser. His subdued guards watched on while Palovian nationalist and writer Laurent Kavocz drew the Kaiser's own sword and ran him through with it. The Palovians fled, ten of the twelve escaping while two of the men were shot and killed inside the palace.
Assassination of Kaiser James Conrad, 1815The
Zeelian Empire sees Zachary Conrad appointed to the throne as Kaiser Regent. Not old enough to rule until his eighteenth birthday, the Zeelian government appoints a seven man council to rule in his stead until he is old enough.
[
Zeelian Empire may only take
2 Actions per turn until
1818.]
October 19thMarshal Bartjan Visser, one of the Tyrant's most trusted aides during the war, is found hiding in Ovelius. A charming, effeminate and suave young man, Visser was nicknamed the "Conqueror of Hearts" for his ability to woo women with the same efficiency that Cato destroyed armies. Among this however, Visser had commanded the massacre of thousands of Dallin and Azrekan troops in the Meribou Bog during the War and was seen as one of the world's first "war criminals."
October 25thAfter a brief military tribunal, where a consensus of guilt is established, Marshal Visser is taken outside the Palace of Justice in Ovelius and instructed to stand before a firing squad. His last words were, "
Kavikiun sa vakian." Translated from Civitan:
Luck, not destiny."
Execution of Marshal Visser, October, 1815Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa The
Barber of Tetrino premières at the Teatro Marco in Marsie, Plebina.
November 16thHorst Heindl departs from the Vornehm port of Wichendorf to begin the
Serranthian Expedition. Aboard the sloop
Schutzen, he curves around the Azrekan coast toward the Serranthian continent.
DecemberDecember 4thWhile reigning with a regency council, the Zeelian inventor Michel Horthun revealed the
Hortun, the world's first steam powered locomotive. The train's first trip pulled ten tons of iron and twenty-one passengers (all in the same train car) 6.1 miles from a local mine to the city center of Savom.
Horthun, circa 1815The Azrekan passenger ship
Savoya runs aground off the coast of Western Serranthia, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a minor scandal in the Azrekan government.
[
+1 Unrest in
Balden, Azreka]
December 12thHorst Heindl lands on the coast of Serranthia at the outlet of a great river. A settlement of forty sailors and cartographers is established there, titled Groß-Friedrichsburg. Horst Heindl continues to move inward along the newly named Weinde river.
JanuaryJanuary 16th350 Dallin volunteers set sail from the Madeiran port of Portimao toward Takervia. With permission from their monarch, they intend to join the Takervian Second Uprising currently on going in Seljuk.
FebruaryFebruary 16thThe
Principality of Mutecci and the
Kingdom of Sevola merge their thrones with the death of Muteccian Prince Reynault Savoia, married to Queen Sebastian de Nolo of Sevola. His death--as awarded in a secret will--grants full control of the de Nolo dynasty to the Muteccian Principality.
Principality of Mutecci and Kingdom of Sevola, circa 1816The
Kingdoms of Sevola & Mutecci reigns over 4,700,000 citizens and bolstered a strong diplomatic position within the Lavarattian group of nations.
MarchMarch 4thA Dallin meteorologist Ovio Maarkham dubs 1816 the
Year Without a Summer. Evidence from the Civitan volcano explosion in Faresia last years seems to have effected global temperatures, dropping them by 1.5 degrees over the entire globe. Heavy snowfalls batter Nostra, Vornehm, Dallin, Azreka and even Gilbradia and Zeelia. The sulfur from this eruption reflected the sun's rays and caused severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations.
March 19thThe
Kingdom of Azreka Armory of Saxor unveils its
Musket Model 1816. Easily manufactured, with only 27 separate pieces, the M/16 can be replicated in any armory with similar working parts. The weapon itself weighed less than ten pounds and it was predicted that a trained infantryman could fire four rounds a minute.
[+5% Preparation to
Azrekan Army for next 3 turns.]
Azrekan Model 1816
FortunesFaded
Spiffy
Scrawl Banditta
