The Sack of Seahelm

[Nathan_Barnett36 1564]

"The sacking was the best part" says Ivan

[Sultan 3953]

Ronold FitzAdrian, relishes in the victory his efforts to keep all communication between the different brigades within the army  was a success, he looks forward to further success in his military career. 

[Esterlen 4499]

Rat Tom plotting his demands to the Emperor (1581), John Morley

 

"A soft, craven and weak man, who shares his bed with youthful boys and indulges in the foulest of excesses at his table, returning generosity with outright treason [...] I say now I am no apologist for despotism, least of all in the form of our Emperor, the Pontificist, but the Ostavarite's actions fly in the face of all singular virtue. Think little upon him, Your Grace, for I am certain he is of no consequence or so small a consequence as to not concern your approbation for better or worse."

 

-Malcolm Lawrence, clerical nonconformist, in his private correspondence with the Duke of Leone (1557)

 

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"To posterity, 'Rat Tom' Ruric and his incitement of the Rurikid Rising of 1556 has stood as the archetypal traitor in Imperial history. In addition, modern and contemporary historians have been liable to view him as a highly mentally unstable man whose lust for power ended in megalomania and bloody conflict. In his work and magnum opus, the Universal History of the Orenian State (1616), Macdonough draws upon many neo-Huguesian arguments in an attempt to justify both the Renatian Wars and the Duke's War alike, many of them contingent on the widely-held belief that the sovereign had breached the social contract owed to his subjects in giving them just government. Curiously, neither he nor any other scholar of note make any effort to exonerate the Rurikids in their rebellion, which in his words 'brought the country into violent war for no other reason than to sate an up-jumped Northman's lustful hubris'.

 

In this way, and as one of the few times myself and Macdonough write in harmony on political matters, I must contend that the Ostavarite conflicts of the reign of John II are intrinsically more reminiscent of the Harrenite risings of the First Empire (That is to say short, abrupt, uncivilized and without real cause or justification) than they are any organized rebellion where ambiguity has surrounded the righteousness of either cause. Rat Tom was one of the most debased, cruel, arrogant, spineless and ultimately purposeless creatures of the 16th century, and on account of his actions the name of Ruric would eventually become a byword for a failed treason." 

 

-William Godfrey, in an excerpt from his Encylopaedia Johannium (1621) 

 

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"The common-folk of Riga have taken to burning effigies of Rat Tom Ruric in the street this night, on the one year anniversary of the Sack of Seahelm, singing all manner of ominous chants as they do so. I have read much and more of the pagen (sic) chants of antiquity, praising the sun and flame gods, and I daresay that this be reminiscent of what I imagined them as. The largest effigy was at least six yards tall and weaved expertly of reeds and other wooden parts - in the belly of this effigy of the Ostavarite traitor were a number of caged domestic cats, who upon the flames reaching them in their captivity unleashed the most horrid of noises and smells as they were immolated alive, much to the delight of the peasantry. The Duke of Courland banned the celebrations after he judged them to be 'dangerous to public order'. A wise decision truely (sic). My finer garbs are very eaten by moths, and I must acquire a replacement. The pain in my head, behind my eyes, plagues me also, and I must remember to take some of the salts the apothecary has given me."

 

-Ferenc Horthy, a Carnatian traveler around the provinces, in an entry from his personal journal (1559) 

 

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"Remember, remember, the Earl of Ostavar,

The Rurikid's treason and plot,

I see no reason,

Why the Islander's treason,

Should ever be forgot." 

 

-A Crownlander folk verse, source unknown, circa 1560s

 

 

 

[Harri 4815]

10 hours ago, ChumpChump said:

Lorelai the Manslayer lets out a final sigh of life, felled by the Nauzican onslaught his last moments in this world are spent watching his friend & lover Porky retreat to fight another day..

 

Roland sheds a tear at the memory...

[lawnmowerman 3040]

Vitallius of Dyffra ravages through loot found within the burned down Seahelm.

[LuneAria 169]

Eurlek wandered through the pillaged remains of Seahelm in search of the rotten scraps of meat men had left behind. "Wie pinkeh kile latzelfs? Iz nut clawn klomp." He'd speak his thoughts loudly. His massive arms eventually filling with rotten meat, he'd leave. Never to return to what was probably going to be a broken town for quite some time, if not forever. "Pinkeh goi ugloi. Mi nub loik eet."