IMPERIAL PROVINCE OF IRYALEN

[cadazio 2105]

 

Issued and averred by the office of the

IMPERIAL CROWN

 

 

✠ I: ON THE MATTER OF THE PROVINCE

 

Those of Iryalen shall be recognised officially as a province of the Holy Empire of Man, henceforth given the name of “the Imperial Province of Iryalen”. Their lands shall be sworn directly under the Emperor and will be considered as a part of His Imperial Majesty’s territory. Additionally, the former Iryalen vassal of Rokudo shall be demolished posthaste, the temple razed as per the request of the Shugonate.

 

Any attacks upon those of Iryalen shall be considered an attack upon the Emperor, for it is his province, and so, by virtue, an assault upon the Empire. The Emperor shall do rightly to defend his province, offering them protection against bandits, to garrison their walls in times of war, and to provide aid in their time of need such as against those of the kobold, or darkspawn.

 

The Empire of Man is strong, unyielding, and requires no assistance from those of the druii to come to their aid; the Emperor places no requirement on the druids to fight in his wars. Nevertheless, when the Emperor summons, they must answer the call. 
 

✠ II: ON LAW AND FAITH

 

The application of the Lex Tiberii will apply in full effect, but this does not count for their own local laws or that of faith, but only on matters of offences against the crown and the military. As it was acknowledged during the mandate of both the high-elves, and those of the vikingr, so long as the elven diaspora and their faith does not spread into the imperial crownlands, citizens of Iryalen may practice their local faiths within their territory and their forest surrounding the outlined capital as per the graph below. 

 

If any citizen of Iryalen is to enter the imperial crownlands, or that of Idunia, or of Norland, and attempts to convert any party to their faith, they shall be executed as applicable to the Lex Tiberii. The practice of their faith must remain within the Imperial Province of Iryalen. 

 

✠ III: ON GOVERNANCE

 

Imperial governors will be acquitted for the duration of Iryalen’s existence; the governance of their people shall be maintained by their own elective leader, who, as of now, stands to be the signatory: Sonna Vulnrith. 

 

The Emperor will not partake in the governance of the elven people, and will remain in effective communication with the leader of the province and the changes to its leadership. He shall still be considered their Emperor. It will be the role of the Emperor to help manage any disputes that may cause internal conflict, as this will cause issues itself for the Empire. The election and rule of the province shall remain by the hands of their citizens, and will not be impartioned by the imperial-fold. 

 

✠ IV: ON SECURITY AND DEFENCE

 

The leader of Iryalen will be granted access to direct communications with the Imperial Grand Knight who will dispatch to their aid if it necessitates, and this means: defence and protection of their roads from banditry, to protect them from external warfare (interim: considered a war against the Empire) and the culling of kobold, darkspawn or cultists.

 

Gate access will be provided to the Imperial Grand Knight, the Imperial Lord Marshal, the Imperial Archchancellor, and the Emperor to allow for this to be facilitated. The common imperial guardsmen and knight will not be provided this access.

 

Any movement of imperial guardsmen or knights within the territory of the imperial province of Iryalen shall be made noticed to the leader of the province at its earliest disposal, and if appropriate, before such movement is made. 

 

The Imperial Grand Knight will be granted permission to enter the province of Iryalen to search for the kobold, cultist and darkspawn upon discussion with the Emperor and its local provincial leader. 

 

✠ V: ON THE WESTERN TERRITROY

 

The aforementioned territory will be provided to the imperial crownlands for use. Iryalen’s capital will remain within its current location, with its buildings and architecture to remain in effect. 

 

 

✠ VI: ON THE MATTER OF KURAI-KUNI

 

The Imperial Province of Iryalen accept the following:

1. The Imperial Province of Iryalen will recognize the Kurai-Kuni Shugonate as the sole cultural hegemon of all Oyashi, and will refuse and relinquish any and all Oyashi vassals and tenants.
2. The Imperial Province of Iryalen will recognize the Kurai-Kuni Shugonate as Protector and Defender of the Farfolk. 
3. The Imperial Province of Iryalen will turn over Seisho Ehiba should they once again appear, extraditing them to the Kurai-Kuni Shugonate as a traitor and fugitive of justice.

 

As it is in the nature of many, after discussion and speaking with the Emperor, the following is so decided on the fate of those druids called for:

1. Caius, known as the Bog Druid, will be banished from the Imperial Province of Iryalen, the Empire of Man and its vassals. 
2. The Spore Druid, a known associate of the Bog Druid, will be banished from the Imperial Province of Iryalen, the Empire of Man and its vassals. 
3. Arcelia, a known associate of the Bog Druid, will be banished from the Imperial Province of Iryalen, the Empire of Man and its vassals. 

 

“I do not wish to enter your lands, you do not wish to enter mine – let us exist mutually in silence. Despite my hatred for elves, I am willing to forgo this in hopes of avoiding bloodshed,”

His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Hadrian I of the House Horen

 

AVE IMPERIUM!

 

 

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H V M A N I T A S    I N V I C T A

“Für Gott und Kaiser,”

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Hadrian I of the House Horen, by the Grace of GOD, 

Emperor of Man, Holy Imperator, King of Seventis, Salvus, Renatus & Oren, 

Duke of Middelan, Helena, Lorraine, Sunholdt, Grense and Reutov, Baron of Pestilles, Protector of Grense, Protector of the Heartlanders, Patriarch of House Horen & the Tiberian Dynasty, 

Captain-General of the Church, Defender of the Faith.

BVRGVNDIA IMPERIVM

 

HIS IMPERIAL EXCELLENCY, Ledicort de Senna, Imperial Archchancellor.

 

SHUGO-SAMA Tsukinomiya Honda, Dai Yondaime, Yōbushi of Machiman, Father of the Land of the Heavenly Thunder, DEFENDER OF THE FARFOLK and the rightful Shōgun of Oyashima.

 

Aspects Guide,

 

The Eliheiuhii of Iryalen, Chieftess of the Vulnrith, Archdruid and Hierophant of the Druidic Order, Keeper of the Glade of Hileia, Priestess of the Wild Faith, Fox Druid

 

The Eldiraar of Iryalen, Chieftain of the Caerme’onn, the Moose Druid

 

Arle Sirame-Vulnrith

The Elnaeri of Iryalen, Elder of the Sirame, High Priestess of the Wild Faith, Magnolia Druid

[lemonke 6014]

29 minutes ago, cadazio said:

Arle Sirame-Vulnrith

Once again, a messenger kept her informed. Ehiba expected nothing less; their hatred knew no bounds. Yet what truly wounded her was seeing the name of her teacher upon the missive. She could accept the Empire hunting her, though now she was safe within her homeland. She could accept Norland betraying her for the sake of their people’s security. But witnessing that familiar signature, her sensei’s signature, made her heart sink.

She could not accept it. She could not let it go. It was easy to grow accustomed to every scheme, every attempt to corner her, but not this.

 

"Yare yare… Magnolia-sensei…"

 

Forgiveness for such an act was beyond her. The aged druid stared at the name of her former teacher with nothing short of hate. She understood the reasons, perhaps even the pressures, but she could not forgive it. She would never forgive Magnolia, nor the druids who followed in step. For a fleeting moment, she even wondered whether the Spore druid had truly been the villain at all. Leaning back into her seat, she closed her eyes. There was only one hope left to her now, one person she still believed in.

 

Miyu.

 

All she could do was pray that Miyu would succeed where she could not.

 

 

 

[Reckless Banzai Screamer 15456]

Breathing haggardly through his marine mempo-gasmask, the green shinobi wandered the forests of the Azuras, stabbing a knife into each sakura tree he came across. There was no doubt in his mind that the pink witch had gone into hiding. Such cowardice infuriated Machiman's sneakiest warrior. The Tea Temple had been long locked down and the blood of Fukuro and Shizuka was upon her hands for her poor caretaking. Could she have fixed him? Or did she want someone like Daisuke, he thought to himself.  A reoccurring theme of the saga that had unfolded was the lack of self accountability and self interests. That 'well intended intentions' outweighed promises made. The NDA would be respected and snitches punished. The green shinobi lunged his automail arm out wielding a kunai to stab into the bark of a wayward Haganeki far from the Shugonate snarling through his respirator "I HAVE YOU NOW!"

 

But it was just a tree. This hunt would be to the ends of the Azuras to the islands of Oyashima - Nokumi willing.

 

[lemonke 6014]

42 minutes ago, Reckless Banzai Screamer said:

Breathing haggardly through his marine mempo-gasmask, the green shinobi wandered the forests of the Azuras, stabbing a knife into each sakura tree he came across. There was no doubt in his mind that the pink witch had gone into hiding. Such cowardice infuriated Machiman's sneakiest warrior. The Tea Temple had been long locked down and the blood of Fukuro and Shizuka was upon her hands for her poor caretaking. Could she have fixed him? Or did she want someone like Daisuke, he thought to himself.  A reoccurring theme of the saga that had unfolded was the lack of self accountability and self interests. That 'well intended intentions' outweighed promises made. The NDA would be respected and snitches punished. The green shinobi lunged his automail arm out wielding a kunai to stab into the bark of a wayward Haganeki far from the Shugonate snarling through his respirator "I HAVE YOU NOW!"

 

But it was just a tree. This hunt would be to the ends of the Azuras to the islands of Oyashima - Nokumi willing.

 

Spoiler

 

 

The enraged Shinobi would never learn that Ehiba, the so-called pink witch, knew nothing of Fukuro’s curse, nor of what had befallen him, or that they were angry because of so. She would have spoken, would have listened, had things not spiraled so violently out of control. Never once did she intend to betray or harm her former brothers and sisters, or to spread their secrets; instead, she had hoped to help Ena's Shinobi and teachings grow, and yet all the green Shinobi would find in his wake would be resentment, grief, and anger. All things that will devour him, as it leads only unto the dark side, if not controlled.

 

Alas, if only she had known. If only she could have helped. If only they had known, she would have stood beside them against the Decay Druids and every other threat.

 

Guilt lingered all the same. She did not know where to mend the broken edges, nor where to begin healing a rift born of shouting threats and bitter accusations, but other than satiating one's twisted heart of death, what else could she do? Even so, grieving, wounded, she lived quietly and more peacefully than most, praying that Ena might one day find peace, whether that meant killing her or letting go, for this is how life must go. Nevertheless, despite everything, despite her own ache and disdain, she would forever consider him a brother.

 

Regardless, he would indeed find a tree, nothing more than a tree. It was just a tree, and it will always be a tree. Still, if she had been found and slain, she would become more powerful than they had ever imagined. For an ideal, a martyr is tenfold more potent than any material or magic. Her hood was lifted, and her gaze drifted into the horizon in her own desolation. Only the force of the Kami may know what will happen next.

 

 

[Chuuwys 502]

In the low light of her home, after hours spent with her kin on this matter, the Mali'ame sighed alone whilst her cloak was untied and removed from her shoulders. A weight lifted only in portion to what pressed on her.

 

None of it was ever really a choice. Or one that people liked. She knows in reality that had the situation been less dire, the overwhelming ayes of her kin would instead be nays. She knows it will ruin her nation's standing with others. She knows people will hate the signatories for as long as they live.

 

She knows if they hadn't, the forests and its people would be decimated.

 

The Empire, and in turn their friends from the Shugonate, got nearly everything they wanted. In the end, she supposes Iryalen did too. Some faint fascimile of mercy upon a long struggling people who for no fault of their own became the direct targets of so-called political absolution. 

There's little else to grieve for, now.

[megavoltar 1634]

2 hours ago, Reckless Banzai Screamer said:

Breathing haggardly through his marine mempo-gasmask, the green shinobi wandered the forests of the Azuras, stabbing a knife into each sakura tree he came across. There was no doubt in his mind that the pink witch had gone into hiding. Such cowardice infuriated Machiman's sneakiest warrior. The Tea Temple had been long locked down and the blood of Fukuro and Shizuka was upon her hands for her poor caretaking. Could she have fixed him? Or did she want someone like Daisuke, he thought to himself.  A reoccurring theme of the saga that had unfolded was the lack of self accountability and self interests. That 'well intended intentions' outweighed promises made. The NDA would be respected and snitches punished. The green shinobi lunged his automail arm out wielding a kunai to stab into the bark of a wayward Haganeki far from the Shugonate snarling through his respirator "I HAVE YOU NOW!"

 

But it was just a tree. This hunt would be to the ends of the Azuras to the islands of Oyashima - Nokumi willing.

 

 

"Ena letsu get our GrubHub order."

 

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