SEVENT ANTIQVE; THE SARVN ROLL

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SEVENT ANTIQVE;

THE SARVN ROLL

or

The Collected Arms and Heraldries otherwise of the Kingdom of Seventis and

its Subordinate Fiefdoms as beheld from its capital of Sarun, the Year of Our Lord 1376.

 

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Foreword

 

The houses of the Seventian Kingdom of Asulon were caught between the ancient traditions of Aegis and prior and the quickly-evolving political landscape that would culminate in their collapse and the rise of the First Empire. Those of Seventic heritage, and whom spoke the classical Seventian language, nearly always utilized Or, or Aurum, in their heraldry – a callback to their Aegisian capital. This is best exemplified by the coat of arms of Seventis itself, Chequy Sable and Or. The only exception to this rule was the personal arms and armor of Princess Maria of the House of Vallark, who used an inverted form of the greater Seventian coat of arms, and with her own House’s colors of white and blue. Notably the House of Drakaene, whose blazon is Gules a Falcon Or wielding in its beak a Cross Argent, did not use individualized coats of arms for its titles held in commandery; instead, these are beheld in nearly all surviving historical documents by imagery of the military coat of the House, Gules a Falcon Or. Of minor note, the County of Ascella retained the coat of arms of the County of Azar from which its rank was usurped, and the two that would come to rule over it in its post-capital era, Marcus of the House of Powell and Jullius of the House of Andromeda, would not change its armorial, but would instead take it as their own coats of arms for the duration of their rule.

 

The other dominant tinctures of the nation were Gules and Argent. Modern experts would take this as derived from the Auvergnat ducal coat of arms of the time – Argent, a chevron Gules inverted in the chief a Cat Sable. Those houses subordinated to the House of Gracchi, whom had risen in stature just as their predecessor, the House of Guivret, had fallen, and both of whom would merge in eventuality to become the House of Valois of Anthosian fame, nearly all donned this same tincture scheme in both their personal heraldries and those of the titles which they ruled. The exception to this rule, of course, comes from the barony of Pont Vert – for in those times, the rule of Human nobility was perhaps less solidified in Asulon, just as many social structures were not left intact from the ancient Kingdom of Oren, and so an Elvish ruler was allowed the rulership of the title. Whilst the Sintels were never raised to Seventian nobility, and instead held the title de facto in perpetuity, the coat of arms of the barony were altered from its original form to reflect their rulership. The furs and verdant green of the Elvish forest were chosen to signify the barony’s holder, and this coat of arms would not change until Seventis’ ultimate collapse.

 

The nation of Seventis was in many ways politically advanced in its formation, allowing only Human nobility and disallowing Human marriages to nonhumans (though documents such as the Memoirs of a Magnate are nearly uniform in their statement that, “...the First Lady Gracchi did by the day [daily] spend nigh Qente [Five] hours with her Sintel ally,” and may point to rather taboo events by today’s standards simply being ignored), as well as continuing hereditary feudalism (whereas the Salvian nation of the time had unmarried co-rulers in Dawn Perea and Enor Sheffield, and the Hanseti ruled by a Hochmeister), titular precedence (as is noted in the Sarun roll, where only one title, the Duchy of Old Sevent, holds higher priority among duchies than its subordinates do among counties and baronies, likely due to its prior status as the crownlands), and holdings de jure marked as different from holdings de facto, wherein one might capture the land of another vassal, but would not then be noble themselves (as was the case in the Auvergnat-Green Point Dispute). While it was advanced politically, though, it struggled to outgrow its roots as a tribal domain; it lost battles even against bandits and mercenaries with unusual frequency, was wracked with internal strife, and found its Seventic ruling class simply not numerous enough to produce leadership on the level or at the scale of the Renatians and Hansetians, nor to be able to properly exert control on its peasant class. Such is why the Seventians were both able to wed a princess of theirs to Exalted Godfrey in Rose Amedius Vallark (and from whose womb would be brought such forebears as Pertinax the Dragonknight), but would be unable to protect themselves from simple Subudai horse-raiders; it is also why, whilst Seventis has graced the list of titles of every true claimant to the Holy Orenian throne, it will in all likelihood be unable to succeed at a national level even should one attempt to revive it.

 

Penned and compiled by Mr. Odoaker Drakaene, 1742

 

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I

THE KINGDOM OF SEVENTIS

 

 

as held by Renati I of the House of Vallark

 

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II

THE PRINCIPALITY OF SOMNIA

 

 

as held by Renati I of the House of Vallark

while subordinated to the Kingdom of Seventis

 

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III
THE DUCHY OF OLD SEVENT

 

 

as held by Symodimi of the House of Drakaene

while subordinated to the Kingdom of Seventis

 

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IV

THE DUCHY OF AUVERGNE

 

 

as held by Ariana of the House of Gracchi

while subordinated to the Kingdom of Seventis

 

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V
THE COUNTY OF SARUN

 

 

as held by Renati I of the House of Vallark

while subordinated to the Principality of Somnia

 

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VI

THE COUNTY OF AEDEN

 

 

as held by Maria of the House of Vallark

while subordinated to the Principality of Somnia

 

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VII

THE COUNTY OF TYR

 

 

as held by Ursolon of the House of Ironheart

while subordinated to the Duchy of Auvergne

 

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VIII

THE COUNTY OF BOURDONNEMENT

 

 

as held by Ariana of the House of Gracchi

while subordinated to the Duchy of Auvergne

 

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IX

THE COUNTY OF SEVENTIS-SENEVO

 

 

as held by Symodimi of the House of Drakaene

while subordinated to the Duchy of Old Sevent

 

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X

THE COUNTY OF ASCELLA

 

 

as held by Jullius of the House of Andromeda

while subordinated to the Duchy of Old Sevent

 

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XI

THE BARONY OF ELLAMERK

 

 

as held in commandery by Sasae of the House of Drakaene

while subordinated to the Principality of Somnia

 

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XII

THE BARONY OF AEDENSHAVEN

 

 

as held by Maria of the House of Vallark

while subordinated to the County of Aeden

 

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XIII

THE BARONY OF ROCKEFORT

 

 

as held in commandery by Bitazity of the House of Drakaene

while subordinated to the County of Aeden

 

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XIV

THE BARONY OF RIENNA

 

 

as held by Ariana of the House of Gracchi

while subordinated to the County of Bourdonnement

 

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XV

THE BARONY OF PONT VERT

 

 

as held de facto in perpetuity by Relgard Sintel

while subordinated to the County of Bourdonnement

 

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XVI

THE BARONY OF URSAKAR

 

 

as held by Balian of the House of Guivret

while subordinated to the County of Tyr

 

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XVII

THE BARONY OF FAIRFIELD-RAMMSHALLE

 

 

as held by Ursolon of the House of Ironheart

while subordinated to the County of Tyr

 

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XVIII

THE BARONY OF PINEHARBOR-HENNESHALLE

 

 

as held by Dimatrik of the House of Drakaene

while subordinated to the County of Seventis-Senevo

[Icarnus 1669]

reads like a movie script.

kino, and prophetic.