JoanOfArc 4586 Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2021 THE SECOND DUMAPALOOZA; TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST “THE HOUSES KAROVIC ARE BOUND BY BLOOD AND TRADITION TO SUPPORT OUR KIN AND TO PROTECT THEIR HONOR AND HOME, SO LONG AS THEIR CAUSE IS JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW OR THE CREATOR.” In the year of our Lord, 1732, a righteous forefather of my family, Carrion-Tuvyic, and the namesake of my father, Dima, had a wonderful dream. A dream of Adria, the land of his forefathers, restored in its full splendor. He toiled for years sending letters all across the land. He called for every half-remembered favor from any ally of his friend or of his country, anyone who would hearken to his vision of a future of Golden Liberty and prosperity. He poured his heart and soul into the restoration, his life’s work, only to have it snatched from him at the last second. For those Crows who remember it, Dumapalooza was an event of the ages. The Duchy of Adria never stood so strong as on that day, when scores of men and women stood together and renewed their fealty to a nation they had long left but not forgotten. It was a day of love, of confraternity and passion! The trouble came only when the perfidious Joseph de Sarkozy (posthumously known as ‘Emperor’ Joseph II Novellen) received the title. He went about a campaign of ruthless "centralization" that took everything, from the roofs of barns to the scarves on kindly grandmothers’ heads, and turned the Duchy into little more than a pleasantry spoken in the Imperial Court. Unbeknownst to the good Adrians, the name of Joseph bears a curse. It was Iosif the Red who went mad with power and butchered his own citizens, Joseph "the Deceiver" who sent Ves Watchmen to die for his ambition, and Joey Novellen who received the Adrian title and plotted against the good Adrians. Born to the Duke Who Shall Not Be Named, Joseph II was maddened at a young age by the alternating barbs and seductions of the Palace Courtesans. In a bid to impress his left-handed wife, he assumed the title of Adrian Duke. To assert his power in an Empire governed by effete tea-sipping pageantry, he never set foot in the Duchy again thereafter. Through dereliction of his sworn duties, Joseph II failed to assemble a Duma to uphold the succession of his heir. Falsely assuming the title in ignorance of our laws of succession, the Novellen Emperor styles himself a meager pretender to the Duchy of Adria, illegitimate and unsuited to carry the title of Duke. Many promises were made to rebuild Adria, to return the despoiled wealth of its people. Few, if any, were kept. The Adrian people have since realized the treachery and abomination perpetrated against them. Like myself, they realize the folly of the Novellen dynasty in destroying our prosperous nation for a titular title. Our cousins, the Novellen, have sought not to further the Raev people but suppress us in an effort to unify the Empire. That is why I call on YOU, brother-Crow, to come to a second Dumapalooza and elect a new successor to the proud and enduring Adrian tradition. For the Raevir people, for the Bard who was cut down on the battlefield, for Golden Liberty and Sortition, and for the traditions of Ves and Belvitz. Come and cast your lot, and write your name in the history of our resurgent nation. What Emperor Joseph II sought to destroy in the darkness, the Crows shall illumine once more. On this very day, I call every Crow to attend a new Dumapalooza. One to right the wrongs committed by Joey Novellen with the following rules: 1. Only a Crow shall ever hold the Duchy of Adria. 2. The namesake of Joseph is hereby officially known as being cursed. No Duke of Adria shall ever henceforth hold the style of Joseph or any variation of said name and the title of Adria. 3. The Duke of Adria shall only hold the title of Duchy of Adria foremost. Those candidates with titles above that of the Duchy of Adria (King, Emperor, etc.) or in line to titles above that of the Duchy of Adria, are hereby barred from holding the title of Duchy of Adria. The following electors are summoned to attend the Duma: THE PONTIFICAL THRONE High Pontiff Everard VI - @Pureimp10 THE HONORABLE CROWS Barbanov - @Rudi Barbanov-Morovar - @Gusano Basrid - @Monomakhos Kovachev - @Kholibrii Sarkozy - @Publius Hanseti-Ruska Rutherns- @biggestdon Orenian Rutherns - @Imperium Bracchus - @TicTocTom Carrion-Tuvyic - @JoanOfArc Carrion-Tuvyic - @GMRO Barrow - @Hephaestus Ostrovich - @Maclunkey Ludovar - @erictafoya ESTEEMED PATRICIANS OF VES Ault - @Archangelic Montelliano - @Enlightenment Watanabe - @Moo_bot Rutledge - @1_Language_1 Kortrevich of Jerovitz - @Luminaire De la Baltas - @monkeypoacher Jewelbeard - @Nooblius Enrique - @Werew0lf BIRDS OF A FEATHER Granj Vojvoda - @Quantumatics Red Sigismundaroșie - @Burnsider Chubb and his Green Thumb - @TidgemoCharity Vote For The Immiserated People Of Norland - @_pr0fit Western Turkin - @Arteh Eastern Turkin - @MinasOrDie ‘Reply with haste’, as the great Dima once said. All cousins must unite for this! And if you are a cousin or esteemed patrician who believes they ought a right to vote, please send a letter to me and I shall sort out this wrong. No voice must be left unheard! Hurry to the Grand Duchy of Vasiyeva so we may restore our pride! Ave Adria! Franz Nikolai Carrion-Tuvyic of Dobrov Spoiler The Second Dumapalooza shall be held at the Grand Duchy of Vasiyeva on Sunday, 5pm EST (9/12/2021). 49 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickando 3395 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Mardon Tuvyic prepares their best thinking cap and era-appropriate bloodpact dagger to attend Dumapalooza with! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monomakhos 1837 Share Posted September 11, 2021 A certain crow readied his papakha for the joyous occasion. He was indeed down to get his Dumapalooza on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiumSedai 4837 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Holy Sir Armand, bound to the esteemed lineage of Carrion-Tuvyic by marriage, and a witness to various abuses of historical claims perpetrated by malicious forces, sent a letter in support of his in-laws. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lhindir_ 3436 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Dead Otto, sitting upon a wretched throne far, far below, manages a smile across a cold and unliving face. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axelu 3691 Share Posted September 11, 2021 A Karovic scion of yore's heart swelled with pride, mouthing of brave Franz, "Dobry.. He must have been drenched in carrion black many times as a boy." 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hephaestus 1317 Share Posted September 11, 2021 _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0sflDPa9zY DIMPLES encroach either end of VLADISLAV's leaden maw, jowls stretched into the, albeit, lackadaisical and waylaid, semblance of a gregarious grin. Limelight ceded to his appallingly gilt-tinted teeth, canines waxing with jaundice, as if'; a heinous and appalling tone of yellow, whereby his gelid, kaleidoscopic eyes surveyed the missive — with awe and zeal in equal gusto. The gin-soaked CROW hacked, in a guttural cacophony, then deliriously raving, in the throes of a demented fit, melodically: "… I AM THE LORD OF BA-RROW; I AM THE LORD OF BA-RROW …! — … I TH' L'RD OF BARROW; ITH' L'D AF BA-RR'W…" _________________________________________________ Quote “A barrow is any bastard of carrion blood, how do they have their own house?” Eriks angrily. “Do they know nothing of our traditions.” - @Imperium _________________________________________________ 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Nerevarine 133 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Csertan Otrok, a venerable elder of the Kadaksleri Turkins, sent word of his coming attendance by way of a hazel feathered, dishevelled Donek, which found its way to the bird coops of Dobrov. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werew0lf 12024 Share Posted September 11, 2021 An ancient wayfaring Enrique, crippled from his prior battles, heeds the missive. He prepares his satchel for the journey onward, a wooden cane hampering his walk. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypoacher 6993 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Aubergine de la Baltas is troubled by the letter. Where would he find a tailor on such short notice? What would he wear? The pinstripe suit hung ominously in the closet. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pureimp10 5179 Share Posted September 11, 2021 A letter arrives from the Holy See, sealed with the coat of arms of Everard VI. "We are surprised by the invitation, but We shall decline to attend. This matter seems domestic in nature, and We have no interest in involving Ourselves with a nation's domestic politics. We shall however state that Our predecessor Venerable Jude II crowned John VIII, successor to Joseph II, as Duke of Adria, and as such, Novellen's claim to that title is legitimate in Our eyes." 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1_Language_1 1671 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Abraham Rutledge awakens to the pecking of his window, a bird has delivered this missive. He never thought he'd see the day when something as ancient as his great, great, great, great grandfather arrive in his palms. "This.... this is interesting. I thought Ault was banished though for crimes against Adria." He'd blink, scratching his forehead as he searches his library for books dating back to Adria. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoanOfArc 4586 Author Share Posted September 11, 2021 11 minutes ago, Pureimp10 said: A letter arrives from the Holy See, sealed with the coat of arms of Everard VI. "We are surprised by the invitation, but We shall decline to attend. This matter seems domestic in nature, and We have no interest in involving Ourselves with a nation's domestic politics. We shall however state that Our predecessor Venerable Jude II crowned John VIII, successor to Joseph II, as Duke of Adria, and as such, Novellen's claim to that title is legitimate in Our eyes." Franz Nikolai wrote back, "And the Holy Orenian Emperor held claim to the perfidious Savoyard title after they slaughtered Bl. Jon Renault, the rightful Prince of Savoy. A title they had no right to. A claim that St. Theodosius II asserted upon his matyrdom. What a ruler is crowned is not always what they are. Some Pontiffs are forced by the imperials to do their bidding. No more. No longer shall the Raev be oppressed by the Imperial Dogs. No longer must any clergy kowtow to the Pertinaxi-'Sarkozic' demonspawn. I shall not rescind my invitation to you, however, your Holiness, and hope you shall reconsider. God be with you. - FN" 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnsider 4542 Share Posted September 11, 2021 "I need to bake some more honey cakes!" Ursula Vasović exclaimed, running around the palace kitchens, prepping for the visit of such honored dignitaries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenevolentManacles 2232 Share Posted September 11, 2021 The Duke of Adria prays for his beloved and departed brother. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts