HOUSE HOREN

[Mickaelhz 4300]

 

 

12th of The Amber Cold/Harren’s Folly, 1778

RESTORATION OF HOUSE HOREN

 

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Once more does Mankind find itself embroiled in a global conflict orchestrated by the hand of those who loathe all that which is divine and sacred. Thrice already has the hand of Chaos pulled upon the strings of its servile puppets to turn brother against brother, to entice Man to forsake his ancient oaths for pacts of unholy service, to uproot tradition and abandon GOD in reckless drive to vanquish history and warp the unbreakable ties that bind the Imperium of His chosen folk.

 

And while the unholy legions of the Deceiver rain hellfire upon the realms of Arcas, wretched usurpers and bastards sit upon stolen thrones and command men, women and children of Oren to throw away their lives against our Descendant allies, against the kin of Horen, against our brethren in faith; they do this not for the salvation of all, but their own sake. Scores of bootlickers prostrate at their feet. Power is what they seek and have sought through the demise of thousands in the Great War, in the Rubern War, in the invasion of Sutica. They reign in desecrated halls of their betters, in cities seized from once immortal Defenders of Man, now rife with sin and debauchery where hymns of GOD and Mankind once joyously resounded. Their blackened nails claw at Imperial legacy, their howls command death to all, their slaves to reject virtue and salvation so that their reign of hell might last forevermore.

 

No longer.

 

No longer shall the true heirs of Exalted Godfrey lie dormant in the shadows and permit the daring extinction of Mankind to proceed. No longer shall the Dragons of Man suffer upstarts that brazenly defile the Imperium's legacy. No longer shall these weak and craven men be permitted to decide the fate of knights and heroes.

 

First of many pieces of literature in a period dubbed by scholars as the ‘Adrian Enlightenment’, a young seneschal of Adria wrote an unassuming statement as part of “a true account of the villainies which have beset the Adrian people since the succession of Emperor Anthony” years prior to his own life being cut down during the failed Haenseti-Adrian uprising against the imperial crown. Rife with political observations concerning the sacking of Ves, within this prosaic account is the brief, albeit insistent, point that Calculus of Sola bears a rather peculiar resemblance to Emperor Anthony himself in speech. It would be part of this ‘Adrian rumour’ that Antonius II Horen, who would be nearing his seventy-third year now, would instead be rightful heir and claimant to the throne. Little would this matter in the current era, as Antonius II Horen was ignored by the bastard-son and his fellow burgher political claimants, who instead installed the de Sola child following a power vacuum that existed if but only due to their ousting of their own lord-protector. 

 

Let it only be by virtue of some political expediency that the law of primogeniture that the empire had followed for its succession was disregarded in multiple cases by this claimant-government, which waited twenty years between each iteration that further distanced itself from the rightful succession of Helane-branched Horen and further aggrandised its own claim. It is the 1737 Law of Heirs to the Holy Orenian Empire, as legislated by then-protector Adrian Sarkozic and his leal solicitor-general, that attempted to disregard the “attempted reforms of the Marnan era” and instead subvert primogeniture entirely, allowing men marrying women of noble stock to “be capable of acquiring, holding, maintaining and possessing any of the aforementioned properties and rights, as if it were his own direct patrimony, through virtue of marriage”. So is laid the first step in allowing true burgher claimants to wholly obtain imperial titles through marriage 

 

Edicts of succession that followed, such as the 1759  Edict of Succession, further legitimised this false premise, allowing the legitimate descendents of the ‘princess-imperial’ to retain their claims to the throne. Placing this as a foregone conclusion where “all doubt as to the rightful line of succession be dispelled,” the rightful claimants to the throne are displaced from imperial discourse if but only due to the framework of the successionary laws being moved so severely. It would be, by virtue of transferring his claim to his legitimate children, the children of Persus Helane, as the eldest son of Antonius I, should the ignoring of Antonius II Horen remain. Current Imperial law, as by intention, does not accommodate anything beyond securing their own position.

 

It is the duty of the remaining patriarchs of the branches of House Horen to restore their house, if but only to affirm their stance as rulers of man while being faced by a great bureaucratic peril that seeks to remove the Dragonsblood from their birthright.

 

It is by the sacred oath of the heads of Dragon's Blood that on the day of the 12th of The Amber Cold/Harren’s Folly, 1778, by the Grace of GOD, the Holy Imperial and Royal House of Horen is restored. To all our rightful subjects of Humanity we thus proclaim:

 

 

- That undeniable proof exists that the usurper Peter III is not, in fact, the first born child of Emperor Antonius I, but rather a bastard child of the Imperial impostor Calculus de Sola, installed by the illegally enthroned Lord Protector Adrian Sarkozic for the advancement of his unholy agenda to destroy Mankind and its illustrious history in service of the Imperial House of Horen; thus we do declare his claim to the thrones of the Holy Orenian Empire, the Empire of Man, and all of their constituent titles and vassalages void for himself and his kin and children;

 

- That the usurper's unholy administration had ushered in an illegitimate regime backed by murder, genocide, slavery, theft and reactionary purges of ancient nobility and customs and of Renatian, Curonian, Kaedreni, Haensetic, Lorrainian, Suffonian citizenry; thus we do declare this governance forfeit;

 

- That the rightful heir to the offices of the Emperor of Man and Renatus, King of Cascadia and Renatus, various other kingships and domains of Man, as well as his ancestral title of the Duke of Helena remains Prince Persus Horen-Helane, and that this right is therefore restored to his legitimate issue and inherited by his eldest legitimate son, Prince Antonyus Horen;

 

- That the rightful heir to the offices of the Holy Orenian Emperor, Emperor of Aeldin, Apostolic King in Oren, various other kingships and domains of Man, as well as his ancestral titles of the Prince of Alstion, Duke of Balamena and Alba, Count of Johannesburg, Enswerp and Walden remains Prince Charles Edward Horen-Alstion, and that the right of succession to his titles is granted, in the absence of living legitimate issue, to his brother, Henry Stephen Horen-Alstion;

 

- That Princes Persus Horen-Helane and Charles Edward Horen-Alstion, and all the heads of Dragon's Blood do hereby affirm this succession and relinquish their Imperial titles to Prince Antonyus Horen, therefore affirming him as the legitimate Holy Orenian Emperor and Emperor of Man and Renatus, and heir to all domains illegally claimed by the usurper and his administration. 

 

May GOD guide us to peace in our time, may GOD unite us against these demons, may GOD guide us to TRUE glory.

 

 

• https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/180792-in-defense-of-the-adrians-or-on-the-emperors-lies/

• https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/186343-law-of-heirs-to-the-holy-orenian-empire/

• https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/189695-edict-of-succession-1759/

 

Signed, HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY Antonyus “Big Tony” Helane 

 

HIS ROYAL HIGHNES Persus Helane, Patriarch of House Helane 

 

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS Oliver Helane 

 

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS Junius Helane 

 

HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Lord Pertinax Augusten Tiber

 

HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Charles Edward of the House of Horen, Prince of Alstion, Duke of Balamena and Alba, Count of Johannesburg, Enswerp and Walden

 

HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Antonius Martius, The Prince of Vilachia, Duke of Krajia, margrave of Styria, Lord of Vilacz

 

HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Radu Vilac, Son of Yury Vilac

 

 

 

 

[Elite Snipes 3563]

God bless you Big tony. Restore the Human empire that legends famed it to be. Not the scum of villainy of what it is now. 

[VIROS 2915]

“Peter III was crowned by the Church of the Canon, and we alone determine the rightful Emperor,” comments James II to his court. “Every human is the blood of Ex. Horen; nearly every noble is a relative of Ex. Godfrey. Do not worry yourself with these pretenders.” He then quotes the Gospel 7:2-10

 

“But it came that Reynard, Godfrey’s seneschal, envied the blessings of the Lord. Long had he held the crown of Renatus in waiting for the line of Horen, and now he hated that he had not taken it. So Reynard went to Godfrey’s servant, Zacarias, and spoke ‘See, Godfrey has stolen your kingdom. You are the blood of our last king, who took the throne in Daniel’s departing, and who is Godfrey to steal it? Who can know his lineage and his claim?’ But Zacarias was loyal and he said ‘You have forgotten the blessings of the Lord, who by Eshtael brought Godfrey to us. He is a pure son of Horen, as are you and I, and that is lineage enough; God gave him over to us as our king, and that is claim enough.’ And Zacarias told Godfrey of Reynard’s treason, and Reynard was banished from that land.
 

[helldiving 5793]

HIS SERENE HIGHNESS Antonius Martius, The Prince of Vilachia, Duke of Krajia, margrave of Styria, Lord of Vilacz smiles the sun’s smile.

[Shezept 304]

“Ave Big Tony” calls a Dryad from the crowd with a raised fist to the sky, cheering in joy as the waves are being created

[mika1278 3213]

Mika Goldhand would smile upon the announcement from the house horen, commenting with ”No emperor but Horen” before continuing with his day in sutica, recruiting more guardsmen by the day.

[AstriaS 4988]

The High Keeper adds another bottle of liquor to the table for her nightly meal as the Southern silliness gets more complicated.

[Dyl 2088]

Sir Jahan would laugh at these guys, “Wrong coat of arms dumbasses!”

Spoiler

 

[Epistile 856]

Chan-Tuzi laughs from his seat in the monastery as he was told of the announcement made by Antonyus

[BannedGecko 59]

Otho de Vaisery smiles as he continues to pillage the Orenian Countryside with Chamavia Company.

[frill 2277]

Fyrrathul tries to balance a coin on the edge of his parasol’s side-table but it loses its equilibrium, rolling off of the flat top. He is told the news but he instead spends his time trying to find the coin he dropped. It must be somewhere under his deck chair.

[Shezept 304]

18 minutes ago, mika1278 said:

Mika Goldhand would smile upon the announcement from the house horen, commenting with ”No emperor but Horen” before continuing with his day in sutica, recruiting more guardsmen by the day.

 

“Remember to get a house it’ll be fine” the Dryad calls out to Mika from the crowd, giving him his daily reminder

[trinn 5146]

Adeline, in the confines of her golf™ course in the seven skies, frowns upon the restoration of the house she had dissolved. 

[Axelu 4333]

The Imperial Princess Vivienne Francoise, mother to the very Empress that had dissolved the house, grew weary of the tumult  spurred by the warring men. She stood aside Blessed Adeline in the heavens, a look characterized by maternal pity strewn over her face.

 

”Bah! Enough of this incessant back and forth. How dreadful they all seem, ma cherie... It is as though they spit on the gracious name of good Aurelius himself.”

[ErikAzog 3575]

looks at the announcement, and in a mocking tone, “I am AntonYUS, son of Persus. My Mother who was a w**** told me. So I am rightfully the Emperor of Oren! Please believe me.” Peter Baldwin d’Arkent exclaim in a mocking tone to his comrades in the Imperial State Army. he would then proceed to throw the missive into the trash can, shaking his head disappointingly.