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History of the Contemporary Pontificates

"Goddard's Dynasty"

by Brother Philip of Koviran

Published in the Third Sixtan Papacy

Vol I. of Modern Pontiffs of the Church from Exodus to Tetrarchy

Owyn I

1421-1437

Upon the departure of Horen V and the loyalists of the first empire, the pontifical title was again split from the imperial crown by the then-Emperor William Horen III, who issued a edict declaring the Church an independent title outside the bubble of Oren. The Salvian Metropolitan-Bishop and Pontiff Goddard I, a founding member of the Order of St. Amyas, born of the bastard line of Barrow, was the first unanimously crowned High Pontiff in the seat of Savoie at the age of forty-eight. Renowned for his diligence and piety under the reign of Lucien I, having personally financed the rebuilding of the Salvus Cathedral and the Pontifical Estate of Kvaz,  it was to no surprise that he would take the position as Vicar of God. Yet, his unprecedented actions with the powers of the Pontificate would be the source of debate for decades to come.

The imperial state fell early in the rule of William (as a result of the Kingdom of Salvus turning coats and joining the dwarves in the midst of the Great War of 1422), who then took the title King of Oren. In early 1423 William fell ill and named Goddard his regent,His Holiness, Goddard I used this moment to claim that the dissolution of the empire had freed his territories from royal fealty, and that they had been granted autonomy from direct rule when William took the throne. With this in mind, our pontiff claimed the Salvian-affiliated territory Emperor’s Forest (later formalized as the County of Kvaz in the second empire), and the Prince-Archbishopric of Savoie (composed of the County of Norfolk, Barony of Aldersberg, Viscounty of Bar, and other minor territories) as independent of the Orenian crown. This act would bring a deadly stain upon his reputation, as many soon regarded him as a traitor to Oreni principles and an abuser of his spiritual authority.

In a matter of months, the Duke Charles Greymane of Corpathia seceded from Oren to escape the poor leadership of the King William III. He turned to his holiness for shelter and protection. In the west, the Exalted Duke Siegmund Karovium I had just returned from pilgrimage to the mountains of Karon, and was misled by his holiness, Goddard into believing that he too was to be a vassal of Savoie, not knowing that Goddard lacked claim to his lands. These two dukes swore under the High Pontiff, who took the title Apostolic King, dubbing his realm the Holy Kingdom of Savoie.  

In the east, the newly founded Flay-Silverblade island Kingdom of Galahar was not as successful, and it dwindled in relevance as it faced government inefficiency, brutality, and mass emigration resulting from its disconnect with the Orenian mainland. It was soon forced to wild banditry in order to fund its expenditures. During this period, the Kings of Savoie, Galahar, and Oren took protectorate status under the Grand-King Thorin of the dwarven empire of Urguan to try and protect their borders from incursions by one another and the dwarven state. Despite this, Galahar continued its heavy raids until their King Marcellus convened with the Exalted Siegmund, whom masterfully subdued him through diplomatic negotiation. Marcellus, in a fit of grandeur at the Exalted’s prophetic words, abandoned his worldly titles to the Exalted Siegmund, allowing the petty Kingdom of Galahar-Valtheim to fall into his hands.

A sketch fills the next page, detailing the many kingdoms of the era, with the now-unified Savoie and Galahar shown in pink.

Around this time his holiness, Goddard, abdicated the secular titles of Savoie to the Exalted Siegmund Karovium, who had been named heir apparent. This was the first crown held by the Karovium Dynasty, then referred to as the Carrion Vochna in the Raevir common-tongue, since their ancient kingdoms in the ancestral Raevir highland. It is by this time that Goddard had felt that his secular duties had been fulfilled, and the Crow’s Prophecy was to be fulfilled by the Exalted Siegmund. His holiness’s bloodline was legitimized by the Exalted Siegmund once he abdicated, becoming Goddard Carrion, and as a result felt “pure’ enough to truly begin his papacy. To this end, Goddard I took the regnal name Owyn I.

When the Grand-King of Urguan died, the human states were released from their protectorate status and were quickly at odds with one another. Renatus in particular was readying for war against Savoie, its growing influence and power insurmountable. It is during this period in which the Exalted Siegmund’s gift performed its countless miracles. He was witnessed successfully commanding the Grand King Thorin to release the Oreni peoples from bondage, negotiating the Savoyard purchase of the Adunian Kingdom for only 30,000 mina, and bringing the Salvian crown to the Savoyard fold with no weapon but his silver tongue. When he took upon himself the title “King of Savoie”, his lands had grown exponentially, uniting virtually all the kingdoms aside Renatus without a single man slain.  He chose to rename his Kingdom “Ruska” as it expanded, to symbolize the change of hands from church to secular hand. Lauded as one of the exalted prophets matching the descriptions of the Holy Scrolls, the Exalted Siegmund quickly became note to Owyn’s papacy, who chronicled his works greatly.

Threatened by the growth in land and power of Savoie, the King William III of Oren declared his holiness, Goddard I, excommunicated (citing the caesaropapist reign of Horen V as legal precedent for state over church supremacy) in an effort to diminish the authority of the kingdom, nearly pushing the unification process to war. This proved to be his fatal flaw, crippling the Horen legitimacy to oblivion as he called upon a power only an exalted prophet held. The Lord High Steward of Oren, Edward Winter II, met in secret with his holiness, Goddard I, and the two negotiated terms contingent upon Edward’s deposition of William and his gathering the support of other leading advisors and nobles.  

In the span of a single evening, Owyn I and Edward II led a peaceful exchange of power from William III to his cousin, Lord High Treasurer Silus I, who agreed to back the Ruskan-Winter agreement. Silus, a renowned Carrion sympathizer and spymaster, quickly assumed the throne and appointed countless Ruskan nobility in court positions, heralding the beginning of the Abresian Renaissance. In thanks for his services, Edward was created King of Herendul, and given control of his former liege’s, Duke Codrik Green of Hanseti, territories as his kingdom. Herendul, Oren (now renamed Renatus), Ruska, and the weakened state of Salvus then combined into a loose confederacy governed by a constitutional monarchy. At the request of Prince Otto(known as “the Terrible”) and Prince Tobias(known as “the Golden”) of the House Karovium, Silus stepped down as was replaced by Prince Otto as king(who claimed the Renatian throne through his marriage to Horen V’s daughter), facilitating an easy election of King Siegmund Karvoium I of Ruska as first Emperor of Oren, thus marking the dawn of the second empire. In a radical pontifical bull, Owyn I abolished the hierarchy inside the church and vested power in feudatories to elect their own bishops(likely in an attempt to further increase Carrion control in the case an anti-carrion pontiff was elected). Shortly after, Owyn I passed away peacefully in his old age in his sleep at the age of sixty-four.

When reading and discussing the pontificate of Owyn I, his lack of actual theological work or progressions is woefully obvious. His clerical work as Archbishop of Salvus had distinguished him as a man of faith and had fostered a college of adept students, however upon his ascension to the Pontificate, his duties became wholly secular, one of the reasons of why King William had attempted to excommunicate him. Sympathizers argued that his focus on the secular realm fell in line with religious dogma; the church had always taught of the necessity of human unity as apart of Horen’s Covenant, and given the Siegmundic prophecy being fulfilled at the time, it was Owyn’s duty to aid the Exalted moreso than the typical duties of a High Pontiff. He also greatly increased the political importance of the Church, which before him was a tool used by nobles to increase their power within the empire. It’s also noted those who studied under become major political powers or leaders in spiritual communities for years to come.

On the other hand, his acts were clear violations of Pontifical power, and no one can deny of his clerical abuses of power in dissolving the human state. Focusing all his efforts upon his secular agenda, Owyn deeply neglected the Church, allowing the institutions established under Lucien I to fall into decay. The church was horribly understaffed and underfunded with his massive vaults of gold going instead towards the Savoyard state, and only thanks to the fervorous Siegmundic cult was the true faith sustained by the masses in his dark age. Whether his acts were done for the greater good, or for reckless self-ambition, is up to the reader’s interpretation.

Radomir I

1437-1446

The Bishop Francis-Joseph of Kvaz, son to the exalted Emperor Siegmund of the House Karovium and favored pupil of Owyn I, donned the vestments of the pontificate upon the death of his former tutor and took the regnal name of Radomir, leading a church reborn. His election was secure; the peoples and clergy were awash with the prophetic nature of Exalted Imperator Siegmund I, and felt his youngest son would surely lead the faith to grandeur, beyond even the reign of Lucien I “the Good” in spiritual glory. Radomir was the second youngest Vicar of God, anointed at the age of twenty-six. He was the only Pontiff to take his name after someone who was beatified; the Blessed Radomir, whom proselytized much of Raev in ancient times.

Radomir’s reign began under good auspices, and his first works were to begin to reconstruct the framework of the church. He and his Prelate, Bishop Zacarias, made countless strides in progression of the faith. Releasing writings that gave structure to the faith, Radomir canonized several men of great valor and merit and recovered works from before Owyn I’s dissolution of the church. Furthermore, he established the Holy Site of Cavan and appointed the House Dunham as its wardens, housing countless Anthosian relics and scripture. However, Zacarias had soon vanished, and without his whispered counsel, Radomir’s judgement frequently became called into question. The young Pontiff lacked his aged Prelate’s caution, and begin to overzealously push Church doctrine in a highly flawed, radical direction.

Instead of following in the tradition of the Pontiffs before him, his holiness, Radomir I then styled himself High Ecclesiarch. In a single radical edict entitled the Golden Bull of Dibley, he declared his bloodline holy, the pontifical mitre hereditary, and bound the Archbishopric of Renatus to the pontificate, and affirmed the sole right of the leader of the faith to crown King of Renatus or mankind. He also declared himself successor to the Order of the White Rose, and attempted to reform all priests into a legion of battle-clerics. He also appointed the infamous Paul III and Regulus I as bishops, facilitating their corruption of the Church. Under their misguidance, further corruptions of Church hierarchy were instituted; the High Pontiff held full power over a sovereign's right to rule and could delegitimize a King or Emperor by failing to crown him and  the sects were established (political and culturally discrepancies among peoples were fleshed out to be entirely new dogmas, leading to a fracture in Church unity).

Under pressure from the faithful and his council of bishops, he nullified the sections of the Bull that concerned the nature of the succession of the leader of the faith and the divinity of his bloodline. He quietly reigned for several more years, avoiding controversy aside from a brief stint where he flogged a noble of the House Stafyr nearly to death for defending a heretic. This almost caused the House of Stafyr to rebel from Oren, which would have given Sophia Horen and fellow conspirators in the royal rebellion a foothold through which to invade the Renatian heartlands. Luckily, the Exalted Imperator Siegmund I interceded, and the loyalty of House Stafyr was maintained through the Battle of Schattenburg which was won decisively by the Empire, preserving the stability of the state.

Throughout the Tarus Rebellion, Radomir actively patronized propaganda against the Adunian, inciting nationalism in the hearts of many Oreners. However, he faced a loss of faith in his ability to lead after the rebellion and laicized. He named Father ‘Rags’ Yates as his successor, to be crowned by Bishop John of Darfey, sparking a succession conflict that marked a milestone in church history.

Although the events did not occur during his pontifical reign, it is worth noting that his holiness Radomir, born Francis-Joseph Karovium, is the same individual who later created an Anti-Pope and sought to be crowned King of Oren following King Heinrik’s death. When his holiness, Regulus I hesitated in crowning him, he created an Anti-Pope to crown himself, in contradiction to the legislation he himself had written in his time as Ecclesiarch of the faith. This lead to open hostilities with the Church, resulting in his assassination led by the Decterum Order, and foreshadowing caesaropapism.

The Council of Godswood,

1446-1447

Although Father Yates had been named as successor to Radomir I, and had taken the regnal name Alexios I, the Elector-Bishop John of Darfey refused to crown him. The bishops’ opinion of the traveling priest who called himself ‘Rags’ was low, and the Council of Bishops reconvened to deliberate on the matter.

Many of his holiness, Radomir I’s unfavorable rulings were listed for nullification by the next pontiff, and much of the modern canon law was written and agreed upon during this time. It was decided that the synod would convene and vote on a successor to the pontifical mitre, and the synod chose the Prelate Signus Cross to take the post.

Lucien II

1447-1451

Taking the nomination of the Council of Godswood, the Prelate Signus Cross accepted the papal crown at the age of thirty-eight and took the regnal name of High Pontiff Lucien II, in honor of his holiness, Lucien I who is praised for his good works in the name of our Creator. Another star pupil of Owyn I, Lucien was known for his extreme piety and devotion to the Church, and was the first Pontiff to renew a tradition of regular and accessible mass in major cities around Oren.

It is widely agreed upon by papal scholars that Lucien II’s heavy-handedness in diplomacy led to intra-faith conflict. Despite his success in inspiring a popular resurgence of the faith, his reign also marked the deepening of tensions between the sects and corruption within clergy rank. It was under him where the College of Bishops had attained the power to depose a High Pontiff, foreshadowing the conflicts of the  Darfeyist Papacies.

During his reign, Lucien II also encouraged church militancy, founding the Order of St. Lucien and swearing in the Teutonic Order under the Pontifical crown, acts which lead to deep controversy over the Church’s supposed separation from secular matters. However, for the time, the Order of St. Lucien under Lucien II had performed with excellence in fighting the dwarven incursions of the 2nd Great War. Their accomplishments under King Henry’s reign were of great merit, establishing themselves as one of the dominant militant forces in Oren. The church saw significant growth in its numbers of clergymen and men-at-arms, and a few doctrinal issues were addressed and revised in his reign. However, his poor relations with the crown had distanced the Church armies from Oren, establishing a deep rift between church and state to be exploited by his successors.

Frequent political missteps lent his holiness, Lucien II, the moniker of “the Unready”, and he was under heavy pressure to step down from the Council of Bishops. It was during this period where Lucien II succumbed to an agonizing stomach pain for three days before dying. Many suspected a poisoning, as Lucien II had begun to resist the machinations of his inferiors, but regardless, it was far too little, too late.

Regulus I

1451-1456

Unanimously elected by the Council of Bishops to succeed his predecessor, the Archbishop Castus I of Herendul, born Castus Winter, took the mantle of High Pontiff and the regnal name of Regulus I.

The High Pontiff took steps early in his reign that promised progress in the Church. He revised, formalized, and recodified much of canon and doctrinal law. In the early years he managed the Church well, ensuring a smooth transition from his holiness, Lucien II.

However, the High Pontiff was also left with the boiling sectarian tensions of his predecessor’s period. He set to work attempting to mend the budding schism, and managed to sign a treaty with the leaders of the Lucienist and Raevir Orthodoxy sects, followed by a doctrinal amendment that was hoped to reunify the Church, which created tolerance for cultural practices, foreign language sermons, abolished official sects, and abolished the controversial doctrine on divinity, replacing it with the contemporary exalted doctrine. His political machinations seemed to be successful, and he held acclaim as a unifier of the faith. This was not to last.

In the coming year, Raevir and Lucienist tensions turned violent. The High Pontiff foolishly sought to stay impartial and uninvolved, hoping that the conflicts was resolve themselves without papal intervention. The death of the King Heinrik I of Oren led to the Prince Francis (former High Ponitff Radomir) setting claim to the throne of Oren. His holiness, Regulus I hesitated in crowning the former High Ecclesiarch as king of man, cognizant of his failings as leader of the faith. This hesitation led to Prince Francis naming a newly-ordained priest as an Anti-Pope, requiring all his followers to follow the Anti-Papacy, and used the Anti-Pope to coronate himself King of Ruska and of the human realms.

This created a great controversy, and sectarian tensions erupted along battle lines. The High Pontiff denounced the actions of Francis, and threatened excommunication. The King of Ruska agreed to repent if he was crowned, but a bloody coup masterminded by the Chancellor of the Council of Bishops, Archbishop John of Darfey, and carried out by the Decterum Order led to the death of the King Francis and many in his noble court. Despite the origin of the plot, the assassination and various dealings with foreign bodies that established the Zionist coalition that backed the pontificate against the state became known as the Regulan Conspiracies.

Although disapproving of the coup, the High Pontiff took advantage of the situation and declared an interim government by the Church until the next king could be selected. As de jure the head of humanity until a suitable candidate for king could be found, his holiness, Regulus I created a tetrarch regency of the leaders of each human faction friendly to his cause to jointly rule in his stead.

On a Lucienist pilgrimage to the ruins of Abresi, an apparition of the exalted St. Godfrey appeared to him and his retinue, calling for the coronation of the King Peter I of the former kingdom of Kaedrin who had left on Horen V’s exodus. Upon returning, the High Pontiff was surprised to learn that Peter Chivay and most of the surviving officials that left on the great exodus had returned to the shores near the entrance to the Fringe. Rejoicing in the message he had received that showed the All-Father’s favor for Peter, Regulus held a grand ceremony and coronated Peter as Emperor of Oren and the empire of man.

Upon the completion of his duties to the realm, he abdicated the papal mitre and left to spend his remaining days in a monastery, but not before releasing a final doctrinal fiat that limited the involvement of future High Pontiffs to control secular politics and coronation affairs.

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Reading through, a man with a large salted beard coughs, gazing out his window at the forests of Aelidin.

"To whomever wrote this ISSUE,

  The HOLY MOTHER CHURCH has a very rich and long history, it is to be believed that many of our events have been sewed over the course of our history. OUR FATHER put myself on this planet only a handful of decades ago, so my knowledge of events before the Canonist League is based upon scripture passed to me by my father, Paul Carrion (c. Paul de Montfort / Pavl Sarkozic).

   This letter is naught to berate the author but rather to assist in the collection of OUR history, such I will offer copies of my documents to try shed light on the events documented.

  ON LUCIEN I,

 Lucien was a renown tutor, under his tutelage Pontiff Goddard of Salvus (c. High Pontiff Owyn I) rose through the ranks of the church and together with Lucien's blessing pressed the first Crusade - 

LUCIEN, also called the first recorded Conclave which only helped legitimize our Church and found a rich and vivid history, to me, Lucien was the forefather of our rise to power, grooming his Priests who would later rise to notability. -

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NEXT, while I agree that OWYN I (c. Goddard of Salvus) is a highly controversial figure and opinion of him varies from man to man, but little is known of what he did to further our church and foster our history. Before his rise to power, as the Archbishop of Salvus he established numerous Church's across Anthos (c. County of Kvaz, Diocese of Lenfarthing, St. Folly's chapel, and St. Amyas's cathedral) and was also a prominent investor with his most notable being the funding of the order known later as St. Amyas. He also continued Lucien's tradition of tutelage, with many of his students rising to power (c. Radomir I, Lucien II, and Archbishop Osterwald of Renatus). -

Let us also note that it was him who was the first Pontiff to release the Church from it's imperial vassilization and established the Church it's own State (c. Holy Kingdom of Savoie) during his regency for William Horen. -

Also, noted in the history is a grave error which credits Siegmund for freeing the church, wherever that was all done at the hands of High-Pontiff Owyn I -

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AND, RADOMIR I was a figure which most of his accomplishments where lost to history, with no recorded evidence it's easy to forget that he stood stalwart towards the threats approaching Oren and HER MOTHER CHURCH. With Owyn's passing, Radomir continued his policies and took the CHURCH into more of a studied and written body that it wasn't before. Radomir was a renown writer and theologian. It should also be noted that he was able to retain majority of High-Pontiff Owyn I's insurmountable rices.

LASTLY, LUCIEN II, while not much is left to recount his reign, it is known alongside your already established information, that he was responsible for bringing the Church back to poverty. During Owyn's reign, OUR CHURCH held vast tracks of land and riches which rivaled the greatest nations of Anthos."

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And let's go
You are now smoking with the best (the best)
I said one more time for old time's sake
AiiM, drop that beat and scratch that brake
Now just send a little bit of that smoke my way
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Tobia spends 3 days mourning the loss of his uncle.

Thesis on the Church Tradition

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In the beginning, when our Creator birthed Horen onto the dirt of this world there was no such thing as Kings, Emperors, or even Bishops. When Horen penned the Holy Scrolls he paved the foundations to our Most Holy Church, which has a long and rich history of reforms.

In this paper, I hope to highlight the tradition of the Church and how it is important to change, but never to veer from the Creator’s will.

Before Pontiff Daniel I, acolytes would learn all they could from his Priest. There was nothing passed between generations of the Clergy but the Canon Law and the raw history. Each acolytes education was solely based upon the skill of his educator. To put this into perspective, Pontiff Owyn I was taken under the wing of St. Lucien to study, and in turn took Pontiffs Radomir I and Lucien II into his study, a lineage of oral traditions which lasted until Darfey took the Papal Crown.

Under Lucien, Owyn was exposed to Edmond de Sarkozy’s ideals known as ‘Lucienism’ which promoted Pontiff divinity and lowering the Divine’s authority over the Church. In modern time, the Pontiff is the sole ruler in all factors of the clergy and the monarch has little to no authority over the clerical body.

However, Owyn I and Lucien II made the mistake when they drove the church into a different directions, each feeding off the last.

During his era, Owyn I held immense secular power and influence, allowing himself to remove William III from divinity and crown himself “Apostolic-King of Savoie”. Though his actions are a touchy topic to the church, I will focus on his last action. In his final days, with the assistance of his Acolyte, known then as Franz-Joseph Carrion (later Radomir) he published his final bull. The bull abolished the Pontificate and instituted a college of bishops allowing each Bishop to be the apostolic-sovereign of his bishopric. His actions splintered the church into two distinct factions stemming from, one lead by Franz-Joseph (Bt. Radomir) and the other by Bishop Darfey (later Paul III).

Radomir continued the tradition that his mentor, Owyn I established. Having just been crowned Archbishop of Oren he was the most powerful clergyman in the known world, to ensure that the Darfey faction didn’t gain too much political sway he established his cardinals and priests as his own private army. His successor, Lucien II,  attempted the same, and in turn founded the Order of St. Lucien.

After the reformation to a literal tradition rather than oral, we can much easier educate and groom the brothers of the robe. Perhaps this thesis will be read by an acolyte, so that he may understand how much our church has grown & how our history is affected by our personal traditions.

Tobia Sarkozic

Name: Tobia Sarkozic

Age: 26

Birthplace: Eastcliffe

Criminal Record: n/a

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For a moment, he ponders what he had done with his life... Since the age of 6 he had been searching for answers, for his entire life he has lived with many questions with no answers..

Then, within a blink of an eye the door swings open. From outside a sharply dressed sailor stumbles in, trotting towards the man dressed in a garb. The sailor sits in the chair across from the man in a garb...

"...I've seen him. I know who he is." he states, unfolding a small scroll. The scroll shows an image,

For a brief second, the man in a garb gasps. Slamming his finger down onto the table, "This is not him!" he exclaims, "For you have fooled me the last time you joker." the man says, walking to the window. Gazing out, he rests his hand against the cold glass, in one last moment he utters "wHO really is the Esterlane?" he says, jumping from the window.

End

Gwenael smiles from the seven skies, seeing his brother is still alive!

-A small grey kestrel would arrive at the Maer's house with a letter within its beak.-

 

To the lord that governs this fair town,

I hope this letter finds you in the greatest of health. My name is Elvi Terryal and I am hoping to come live in Montfort. I am  young Alchemist so I am hoping to set up my own home and lab here. I also have a few questions as well:

1. Would magic be allowed? I, myself, is a fire mage (Although I am only still in training) but I reassure you, I do not use my magic for evil purposes. I only use it to aid myself in Alchemy, or to defend myself and others when truly necessary.
2. How much would it cost for housing and tax? Forgive me for this strange question but I do like to be aware of things early instead of at the last second.
3. Where is Montfort located?

I am unable to see the city now as I am travelling around Athera and the wilderness for ingredients for a while and I am unsure of when exactly I will be back.

Please reply as soon as you can.

Sincerely,

Elvi Terryal.

Bartender of the Drunken Monk & Alchemist.

~~~

((OOC: Due to bad internet problems, I won't be online a lot for the whole of next week possibly but I'm still wanting to live in Montfort.))

A letter is sent back swiftly, bearing the seal of House Montfort.

"Magic is indeed allowed, however if you are caught violating any magical laws set by the Archmage than you will be punished. As of now the Archmage hasn't set any laws so you are safe.

In regards to your other questions, Montfort is a tax haven. After you've payed your 50 mina down payment your don't have to be worried about housing fees. You can also find Montfort east of Petrus, follow the main road and travel accross the Attavic Highway."

Simon de Montfort smiles while reading the document, "The man has wise words to share on St. Amyas's favor. May Amyas bless those less fortunate than I."

cya

In regards to wiki it wouldn't be a problem at all. My google docs library is filled with old historical lotc doc's which would translate well to wiki entries.

I honestly feel like we've streamlined rp so much in athera that it actually gets boring. IDK thats just my thoughts