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Crest of the Ex-Ruler of New Vienne

 


 

Published throughout the realms of Velen, Minitz, Adria, Aaun, Merryweather, & Sedan on

9th of Byvca | 21st of Horen’s Calling

471 Ehr Sigmunda  |  1918 Aaun Calendar

 

THE AAUNIC TIMES

 



 

THE WAR IS LOST with CHARLES ALSTION’s recent signature on The Armistice of 1918. Just over a month after the Loyalist army’s destruction at Rolly’s Hill, the former ruler of New Vienne finally made a move, communicating in secret with the renegade DUKE HEINRIK OF ADRIA. Peace talks between the two parties at Eastfleet were swift & decisive, resulting in immediate publication of the armistice. Hostilities have temporarily ceased, and the Rebel army has stood down.

 

CHARLES ALSTION, known for making large concessions to pursue & maintain titles at all costs, has outdone himself with The Armistice of 1918. The Adrians, of course, have been granted full independence, but are also given without reserve the entirety of the Upper & Lower Petra. This region includes CHARLES ALSTION’s home of New Vienne and the entirety of his lands outside (known as the Crownlands by some government documents). Furthermore, this land ceded to the officially sovereign Adria composes roughly half of the territory formerly associated with Aaun, the majority of the Heartlands’ population, and practically all the developed & arable land.


 

AAUN IS OFFICIALLY A RUMP STATE due to the Alstions’ complete surrender of the Crownlands. Just twenty-five years after the Heartlands were inherited by CHARLES ALSTION following an era of wars, betrayals, and foreign incursions, the family has been visited with their own ill-treatment of Humanity, stripped of their holdings and sent westward in to the hills & woodlands. It is unknown where they will take residence for the time being, considering most of the country this way is divided between many autonomous polities. The Duke of Minitz seems most likely to receive the Alstions, given his ties & commonalities to the former ruler of New Vienne.

 

Tremendous losses like this are almost unheard of among rulers of Man who retain their titles for any length. Even the Novellens, who ruled over the longest period of the Holy Orenian Empire’s history thus far, were able to manage the country’s slow & gradual decline and eventual fall to internal strife. The great monarchs descending from Horen are always known for their willingness to fight, but it is not so for the Alstions, whose attitude is summarized by the grandson of CHARLES ALSTION:

 

You must be rather delusional to think that a sane monarch would send himself into the spears alongside his people…

 

Indeed, it was better for the former ruler of New Vienne to save his title than to stand with the men dying for it.


 

WE ARE NOT SAFE unless CHARLES ALSTION carries out the terms he is charged with in The Armistice of 1918. The ex-ruler was given two months to both petition His Holiness, the High Pontiff, to allow DUKE HEINRIK OF ADRIA penance for a lifting of his excommunication, and to disband the coalition of foreign powers assembled against the Adrians. It is unclear if these terms must be fulfilled in mere attempt or full execution, but there is no confusion that the fighting will continue in the second week of Godfrey’s Triumph if the duke of Adria is not satisfied.


 

 



 

CLASSIFIEDS


 

WHO IS ROLLY? - Why is the hill named after him? Does he own it? Asking for a friend.

 

WIFE WANTED - Must be Human, Canonist, no older than thirty. A bit plump preferred. I have a sturdy home & fruitful orchard. Write interest to Mr. Fuller.

 

DOG PROBLEM SOLVED - The issue with the feral hounds is solved. On another note: non-rat meat for sale at market this week.

 

LOOKING FOR WORK - Former Aaunic bureaucrat, nine-years experience. Will take up any post with the new government. Please send to T. Strickland with any openings.

 

ARE WE ADRIAN? - I never understood the Aaun thing, anyway. I think it’s a place in the Scrolls.


 

 


 

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