Aetosion

A flyer is visible in major trade hubs around Vailor, "To whom it may concern, I, Edward H., am in need of a stately, yet defensible, castle of small to medium size to be built in my land. I will compensate the architect in minas or iron depending on preference. I need this project completed within the coming Saint's week. Provide examples of your past work in your response, and send bird to me by care of my aide."

That was some witty banter, friends. Let's keep the OOC shitfest to a minimum. Thread cleaned up (again) at OP request, and warclaim settled by leaders (some time Saturday, pillage, this weekend, will be elaborated upon by Pat/Taylor when they come to a final agreement).

If I'm familiar with what you're referring to, the "wilds wall" is a server build that was built in creative. It extends the width of the north-central continent on the map. I would heed patu's suggestion and build a wall around your own settlement instead of build-scarring a server build. My knowledge of the wild groups and your own house is somewhat limited, but I can't imagine that conflict being more than 20 v 20, not nearly enough to justify a thousand block long rebuild.

Name: Edward Winter II Age: 56 Race: Human Previous Service: First Captain of the Winterguard, Senior Commander of the Sons of the Creator, Lord General of Oren under the Last Dragon, Patron of the Order of St. Lucien MC Name: Aetosion Are you willing to serve the Order, be a loyal subordinate, and be a pious individual, both publicly and privately? Wholeheartedly Do you understand that as an Unoathed, your actions do not represent the Order of the Flaming Rose? This is understood.

Overcomplicated and involves nation leaders, which spells icky raging. I would just go for unbiased folks. If they're not doing a good job, they will be replaced. The difference between this and the old warclaim team, is that the new team would be expressly bound to the proposed rules, and only function as "constitutional justices" who rule purely within the laws themselves.

+1 because I wrote it. Also, I would think 1-3 completely unbiased GMs or hand selected members known for their objectivity would be the best way to monitor the system. Folks like this are incredibly hard to come by, but I can think of a few that would do a solid job. This team shouldn't be heavily involved in the system, just give judgements on it if there are complaints made. The team would be bound to executing the justice of this document, not their own personal opinions. I'd fancy myself a good example, as I'm extremely logical and can separate my thoughts from any potential subjectivity or personal/organizational motives, but if I'm not involved I would be somewhat weary of any individual with political affiliations being in a position of that sort.

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Edward would note that a military order is not a knightly order, and does not need permission from a font of power to call themselves one. In fact, none of the existing orders are knightly orders, and the only thing needed to form these are the sponsorship of a noble or crown, in this case the House Blackwell. I've also given them further approval to utilize the former Vekon castle and will be supplying them when necessary. Consider the approval, although legally unnecessary, to be from the High Chancery. I'm also relatively certain that Knox gave his own support for this as well.

((The White Rose clearly copied the White Rose. Be more creative Chivays. http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Rose ))

Lord Chancellor Edward has no knowledge of this house yet RPly, but would note that it is not gentry nor nobility within Oren, nor is it even oathed to a nation, nor does it hold land, and its claims as to its own history etc. are unverified. If the house leaders were interested in doing something within Oren they should probably make the proper contact to begin doing so.

dynast of the Great House Winter, former Imperial Chamberlain to the Chivay dynasty of Oren, Former Lord Protector of the North, Former jurist primus of Oren, Former King of Herendul, Kingdom Knight to Oren, Former Lord Chancellor to the Carrion dynasty of Oren, Former Lord High Steward to the Horen dynasty of Oren, Former Lord General of the Royal Orenian Army, Former Royal Scribe to the Orenian privy, Former Baron of Frostlake, Former Count of Northal, Former Count of Skyed, Former Baron of Horenswood, grandson of Harold Winter I, grandson of the exalted St. Godfrey Horen, and "Rex Aquilonius" Profession(s): Heir, Advisor, Politician Special Skill(s): Diplomacy Flaw(s): Sometimes overly logical, ignorant of the common man's view, caught up in theory, over-ambitious Weaponry Fighting Style: Trained in the style of old Renatian nobility Trained Weapon: Sword, bow, crossbow, operation of siege equipment Favored Weapon: Silver tongue Archery: Can shoot for sport, little skill in battle Biography Parents: Robert Winter & Anne Horen Siblings: Harold Winter II, Robert Winter II, Richard Winter II Children: Anne, Edward III, Thomas Extended Family: Pet(s): Horses in chronological order of death: Iustitia, Celestia, Dump, Celeritas, Henry, Horen, Pedro the donkey, Aurellius, Verge History Childhood Edward is the second son of Robert, who was born to Harold, who was born to Edward, who was born to Gren, who was born to Arthur, who was born to Albert. Edward (second of his name), was from a long line of well-educated diplomats and statesmen, all minor nobles of the pre-Godfreyan noble House Winter. Edward was born in the northern mountains of Northal in Imperial Oren on the isle of Elysium as the son of Robert Winter by Anne Horen. His childhood was a quiet one, until the great voyage to Anthos, which he barely remembers. Arriving on Anthos as a toddler, he lived out his formative years in a well-appointed manor house in the Kaedrini borderlands near Malinor. As Edward neared adulthood, his elder brother decided to go off in search of his own glory, to make a legacy apart from his father's and grandfather's, and his great-grandfather's before him. Sailing the high seas with a loyal crew and little regard for his responsibilities, Edward's elder brother left him as successor to his father's legacy. Early Adulthood While House Winter had held the Duchy of Northal and the Barony of Herendul amongst other holdings in past lands, on Anthos they had contented themselves to a stately manor in Koviran and a country home in the Wilds. However, Edward intended to put his family on the map again. At age 19, he helped his father broker a deal with the Chivays to get his family landed oncemore, but just as the negotiations had finished for a March in Kaedrin, the Orenian empire collapsed and the Chivays and many of the Horens boarded ships to sail off to distant lands. Winter was left again with no land, but in two years Edward secured a grant of extensive mountain land from House Winter's family friends (and, if memory serves, former vassals), House Green, who recently had acquired a mostly titular duchy. As his family rose within Oren, Edward did too. Having been seated in the Orenian privy council as Royal Scribe after the King saw his propensity for politics and government, he made a meteoric rise through the political sphere to Lord High Steward, and later became General of the royal military. Maturity The Duke of Hanseti in time turned absentee, and the new King William III of House Horen aimed the Kingdom of Oren towards war with the Kingdom of Ruska and Savoie, ruled by the Carrion Vochna. Still recovering after an attempted assassination on his life, the Horen King wrote an edict excommunicating the Apostolic King of Ruska and Savoie who also was the head of the Church. A war was inevitable, and the dwindling militaries of Oren were doomed. In the dark of the night, the Lord High Steward Edward Winter II met with the Ruskan leadership and the Lord High Treasurer Silus Horen. It was decided that Silus Horen would take his cousin's throne and Ruska, Savoie, Salvus, and Oren would combine into a constitutional and elective monarchy to avoid war. In the hopes of maintaining Orenian hegemony, the Kingdom of Herendul was created and officiated to bolster the vote of Oren in the elective monarchy. Edward Winter II was named King of the new state, on account of his father's infirmities as he succumbed to bodily illness. The Kingdom for over a decade served as a bastion of old-Orenian culture as the Kingdoms to the south bowed to Carrion hegemony and began assuming Ruskan customs and language. The Kingdoms of Oren and Herendul slowly drifted apart, as the opposing peoples and governments suspected the other of plotting against themselves. With the rebel Sophia Horen raising armies to the West, the human empire was on the verge of a schism. It was only as the first battle of the civil war was glimpsed on the horizon, that the King of Herendul made his decision and reaffirmed his loyalty to the Carrion's Imperial Crown. The empire united once more, Herendul and Oren fought side by side to repel the rebel forces and the Grand-Kingdom of Urguan, which fought to strip the empire from the Carrion Vochna. The borders of the empire protected, the sister kingdoms settled into their new roles as close allies. This was not to last, as the Emperor Siegmund Carrion died, and the empire dissolved. The human states were left in a precarious position as the two Kingdoms looked outward to the looming forces on the borders of the human lands. Wary of placing his kingdom under the untested new King Heinrik I of Oren, Edward kept the two Kingdoms separate for the better part of two and a half years. Finally acknowledging the competency of the new Orenian government, the King Edward Winter II of Herendul penned his last edict, merging Herendul under Oren as an Archduchy, comprised of the southern March of Valles and the northern Duchy of Winterlands, which absorbed the County of Savoie, on the 2nd of Amber Cold 1449. The end of the Kingdom of Herendul marked the end of the longest maintained human monarchy since that of Godfrey, but it also marked the beginning of a new age of human unity and brotherhood under the single banner of the Kingdom of Oren. The Age of Five Kings had ended, and the period of Reconstruction had begun in earnest. In the new era Edward devoted his time to the restoration of the Kingdom to stability and cultural integrity. His work on the Prestigium and the publishing of his work, "On the Nature of Nobility", cemented for him a place in the Orenian society as a reformer of the upper class. Sadly, this golden age of social reform was punctuated by continued attempts by the Grand Kingdom of Urguan to topple the Carrion Vochna. Edward took up the sword and lance of his youth and led at the front-lines on his carbarum-barded horse dubbed "Celestia" after the figure of Teuton lore. His horse became legend for its feats of physical strength and endurance, and Edward ran down many a dwarf atop its back. It was in the third year of the war that Celestia was slain under him, as Edward charged atop her from the mouth of a cave, vaulting over 6 dwarven legionaries that stood at the adit trying to pen him in. Celestia cleared the dwarves in a heroic bound, but fell to strikes suffered to her underside after galloping nearly 15 meters away, giving Edward just enough of a head-start to reach Fort Heinrik with non-fatal wounds. Departed from the battlefield to tend to his injuries, Edward spent much of his time in negotiations with the dwarves in an effort to secure an Orenian victory. At the end of half a decade of fighting, it was Edward who represented Oren to the dwarven lords as lead ambassador, and it was he who ironed out a treaty forcing the dwarves to honor the land won by Oren and to pay reparations to the victorious party. Freed from the distractions of foreign intervention, Edward turned his attention back to the state. His work as Lord Chancellor prospered in the auspices of newfound favor with the Church, following a series of pro-Church essays. Edward, for all intents and purposes, had achieved power, and security. However, the efforts of the King Heinrik and his Raevir cohorts had become increasingly disturbing, as they targeted men of the faith with political and military attacks. As these became increasingly frequent, and when his appeals to the King fell upon deaf ears, Edward met with a handful of other lords and clerical officials to attempt to remedy the issues. His work was cut short, however, when he was called away on urgent family business for half a year. Middle Age Edward returned in late Autumn of 1455, just as the oaks and the elms had begun to shed their withered and reddened leaves to be crunched underfoot. He returned to find his Archduchy in shambles. The regent he had appointed in his stead was no where to be found, and his vassals had deserted him on the demands of the increasingly paranoid King, who wrongly suspected that Edward's absence spelled treason. With a sharp tongue and a sharp wit, the former Archduke demanded a fair trial. He sat in a courtroom of hungry-eyed Raevir peasants and defended his family and his honor. He walked out of the courtroom and its confinement a week later, his Archduchy restored and cleared of all charges. While the stab in the back disillusioned him further to the idea of continued Carrion rule, Edward remained a loyal vassal. In the Spring of 1456, the King fell ill and died. His will named as his successor the Prince Franz Carrion. Edward prepared his household to attend the coronation ceremony, but a roaring blizzard struck Herendul the night before the journey was to begin; the horses could not navigate the snow. Sitting in his cold stone keep by the sparse warmth of the fireside, he received a letter by carrier pigeon spelling troubling news. Edward learned that the Prince Franz had branded himself a heretic by creating a Raevir Anti-Pope to coronate him in place of the High Pontiff, and that the Prince intended to make war on the Church's militant orders. As soon as the snow cleared, Edward trekked to the neighbouring mountain peak where the Holy Synod held conclave. He sought audience with the High Pontiff, and learned of the growing support to overthrow the heretic Prince who claimed the Orenian crown. Knowing that he could hold no loyalties to an illegitimate and heretical Prince, and recognizing the right of the Pontiff to coronate the next King, Edward affirmed his loyalties to the rightful regency and faith. When the Lord Ruthern and his men performed a bloody coup, assassinating the Prince and any of his privy and loyal lords and men, the regent government organized by Edward and the High Pontiff took de facto power, preventing a Ruthern monarchy and the resurgence of a Franciscan one. Searching for a monarch to supplant the late King Heinrik, the tetrarch regency governed for nigh upon a year. It was only as the spring's song echoed around the deserted stones of Abresi that the exalted St. Godfrey returned. The Archduke had accompanied a Lucienist pilgrimage out of the newfound land of the Fringe to the ruins of the old imperial palace in Anthos. It was there that he witnessed a spectre of the divine emperor utter the single name of, "Peter." Edward fell to his knees when he set his sight upon the apparition of his grandfather, and pledged then to do his utmost to serve the true successor named by the late emperor's ghostly tongue. When the Rose fleets arrived on the rocky shores from Aeldin, Edward was among the first of the Anthosian nobles to affirm his loyalty to the new regime. Seeking to continue serving his nation as it recaptured imperial glory, Edward was named Imperial Chamberlain on the privy council, the only official of the fallen Vochna to retain conciliar authority. With his newfound responsibilities to a just and imperial government, Edward saw fit to abdicate the archducal coronet to his elder brother Harold who could keep a more vigilant eye on the family holdings while the Chamberlain focused on the affairs of the state. The Chamberlain tended to the Emperor's personal requests in peace time, and maintained his household serving staff. It wasn't until renewed dwarven, teutonic, snow elven, and orcish aggression reminiscent of the Zionist pact threatened the sovereignty of the Imperium that Edward refocused his attention on the defense of his nation. As wars came and went, the dust settled in the Fringe. Edward mourned the loss of his dear friend, the Emperor Peter Primus, but lauded the newly crowned Robert. Political tensions were renewed in the place of clashing steel, and Edward thought it best to pull his family from the public eye. Relinquishing most unneeded titles and assets, the House Winter focused on its attention on service to the Chivay crown. When Kaldonia was abandoned, and the good folk of Oren embarked upon a journey to find a new land, Edward sailed alongside the Emperor and his men. The veterans of the Winterguard stood solemnly at the bow of their ship, the Casticus, through many a sun rise. Happening upon port for a year on a large isle, they refueled and restocked, and counted their losses from the ravages of the sea. Dwindling in number, and for a short time separated from the bulk of the Orenian fleet, the House Winter found the new continent of Athera two years after their kindred imperials. To the dismay of Edward, the House Chivay had been ousted by the Carrion prince, and the Empire was left to the governance of a triumvirate of Carrion, de Savoie, and Chivay, in the interregnum before Boris was crowned. The sweltering heat of summer beat down upon the men of House Winter and their banners, and shelter and asylum was sought with the Chivay loyalists in the Chivay held castle of Angren. Finding a new home with friends of old, the Edward pledged his men and service to the newly founded Order of the Flaming Rose. ((20 RP years I have to scribe down before Edward's death in 1482, working on it.)) Artwork

Yes but... ICly they just killed him.