ON EMPEROR'S ORDERS: FORTHWARD THE STALLION'S BANNER

[Treshure 5817]

 

 

ON EMPEROR'S ORDERS: FORTHWARD THE STALLION'S BANNER

 

The sun was setting deep reds over a summer’s sky as the last of Hughes’ cohort entered Belcrest’s ruins. As the night grew, lights shone from the once decrepit town with cries of Illatian jest and drunken Lotharingians. However, their Lord Margrave was elsewhere.

 

Hughes had remembered the day he first laid eyes on the Emperor. Atop his throne with light bathing his retinue behind, it seemed Hughes swore fealty more to a God than a Man. Yet, in this small room, he stood level with the Emperor of Humanity. The plainness unnerved him even more.

 

It was only a simple exchange before Hughes left Carolustadt, carrying precious orders from the Imperium.  Subjugation, vassalization, and the incorporation of territories lost to the Empire of Man were beset to the stallions of Lorraine. Failure was not an option. They would not return again to Carolustadt without success to propose the Divine Majesty. And so, the banners were called.

 

The letters sent to the marked settlements and structures were thus,

 

 

Spoiler

 

“The land you inhabit belongs to the Empire of Man. Seek out the Lord of this land, the Margrave Hughes D’Amaury, for peaceful incorporation.”

((Andjew#0994))

 

 

((Letters sent to the red and blue structures.))

 

 

 

[blago 1602]

"An' so we grow." William Gromach would state with his fellow Daelanders, looking over the re-claimed home his ancestors had built.

[Guest]

"Long live the Empire!" uttered a bewildered Ilya Ivanovich, though his men would note that he had an irked expression at the details of who exactly was expanding. 

[Enlightenment 2295]

Marco Aurelio d'Montelliano looked to his fellow Illatians, "Ave Lorraine, Ave Illatia! Let these petty 'fiefs' settlements bow to the stallion!"
 

[Juststan147 277]

I don't think they own all of that "Ithilian would say" but sure, almost as big as their ego's