bulgaria is white

The Drowned King of Oren circled in the southern desert, contemplating the decisions of his grandfather's namesake. He lingered longer, waiting for his old friend's arrival to discuss the current on-goings at play.

bring back wildy 

Oren is finished.

BASIC INFORMATION

« OUT OF CHARACTER NAME »  Anastasius

« IN CHARACTER NAME »  Bohemond

« SURNAME »  de Savoie

« CLASS »  A3

« GENDER »  Male

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
« DATE OF BIRTH »  19th Sun's Smile, 1571

« HEIGHT & WEIGHT »  5'9, 140lbs

« EYE, SKIN & HAIR COLOR »  Pale blue eyes, fair skin and blonde hair.
« CULTURE »  Savoyard
« MARKINGS »  N/A

PERSONAL INFORMATION
« HOME ADDRESS »  N/A
« PROVINCE »  Duchy of Savoy
« OCCUPATION »  N/A

CITIZEN'S OATH
« ALL CITIZENS » 

I, Bohemond de Savoie, hereby swear my loyalty to the Emperor of the Holy Orenian Empire entirely by my free will. I swear to read and obey the laws of the Empire and understand the punishments and penalties that will be incurred should I violate the law.

« CLASS A OR B » 

I, Anastasius, hereby acknowledge and give my consent to the OOC rule that should my character be found guilty of High Treason within the Empire, the Emperor personally (and only the Emperor) has the right to execute permanently my character. I accept this condition and make it entirely upon my free will.

Bohemond likes, comments and then subscribes to the print.

27 minutes ago, ZaSoviet said:

Height: 6'9"

29 minutes ago, ZaSoviet said:

 

Likes: Exploring the human body

 

 

a likely story 

1 hour ago, Mj. said:

PK clause srsly? Petty.

idiot fool

wtf i hate carnatia now

A letter is sent to the veteran mercenary.

Shuffling through various documents atop his desk, Olivier takes notice of the invitation.

"An utterly degenerate gathering. This shan't take place under my roof, not in it's current state."

To all those concerned in the composition of the Ultimatum of Redmark, dated 1516 - blessings upon you and your House.

We, the Crown of Oren, have grown concerned over what takes the appearance of, to the realm and to Ourselves, a major dereliction of duty by a diverse assortment of Oren’s sworn nobles. Those in question hail from distinct sectors of the realm and they levy each their differing interests, but they have shown that they have in common a cunning to avert both the will and the dignity of the Crown.  Such is the offense when these in question go further as to make demands of Us, to whom they owe their allegiance, to the point of threats, as if they have forgotten what it means to be noble.

We, the Crown of Oren, cannot accept the situation where members of Our most esteemed Privy Councillors sow dissent and foment rebellion. These figures of Our highest level of government carry the expectation to represent the Crown and its interests, and are obligated on both a moral and legal level to oppose and strike down any words spoken against the Crown or its interests. In implicitly threatening bloody war unless the Crown acts in accordance with their wishes, in utter defiance of due process, the signatories of the Ultimatum of Redmark who hold seats on Our Privy Council have erred from their exclusive of due deference and diligent servitude to the Crown. On the account of their failure to act as representatives of Us and Our royal interests, we do hereby strip Franz Vladov of his capacity as Lord Treasurer, as well as August de Montfort of his capacity as Lord Scrivener, striking them both from Our Privy Council. We advise them duly, in the future, to not presume to command Us.

We, the Crown of Oren, instate Hugues Sarkozic, Duke of Adria, as the Lord Treasurer so as to replace the erstwhile Franz Vladov, and to provide an Adrian voice on Our Privy Council, with the condition that he henceforth recant his signature and support for the document entitled the Ultimatum of Redmark.

We, the Crown of Oren, say this as cordially as we may to the House of Vladov - We do feel that while the services your blood have rendered to the Kingdom of Oren over the years have been of an incalculable value, it is just as easy to apply this sentiment to the House de Sola, whose blood you now clamour for, threatening to tear the sacred tapestry of Oren apart for the sake of an ethnic conflict. Nevertheless, the House of Vladov has also proved to be a hindrance to the Crown as of late, impeding Our acts of governance and contravening Our Privy Councillors and middling and lesser nobility, laying bare their disrespect and flagrant insubordination in an effort, deliberate or incidental we know not, to threaten the stability of Our realm and plunge it into bloody turmoil. We condemn this utterly, and if there might be any truth in this final allegation, then We must so seriously question the House of Vladov’s good judgement and the self-discipline within the Adrian ranks as to raise serious doubts in the attitude of the Crown towards their future usefulness.

We, the Crown of Oren, condemn without fail the actions of Titus de Sola, Baron of Dour Watch. We do not consider the disruption of a trial facilitated by Our privy councillors to be acceptable, nor do We consider the murder of noble scions to be permissible. Though the House de Sola has borne its faculties well and possesses a record of military diligence and loyalty to the Orenian cause as a whole, such a transgression cannot pass not without the mark of infidelity to the Crown or Our interests. We condemn the attempts of the House de Sola to destabilize the realm by slaying several of its nobility, and We condemn completely the attempts of the House de Sola, exercised in an official capacity by Titus, Baron of Dour Watch, to undermine and disrupt the governance exercised by Our Privy Council. For all men of Oren, obedience to the Crown is required, and this obedience is diminished and decayed when the Crown’s authority is disregarded in such a murderous fashion.

We, the Crown of Oren, declare Xavier de Sola’s positions within the realm to be forfeit and suspended, on account of his failure to meet the demands of a tribunal try him for the grave allegations against his name. On account of his disruption of a trial which resulted in the Massacre at Wett, his actions being borne of the most bloody murder and treachery, We declare him to be in contempt of Us. We declare that so long as he fails to hand himself into Our royal custody, he is to be tried in absentia within one Saint’s Week, deprived of the chance to defend himself, with the penalty of his determined guilt being death by hanging. We hence declare that it is Our royal desire for Xavier de Sola to be brought into Our captivity, alive and undamaged, post-haste.

We, the Crown of Oren, declare that it is Our desire that any others involved and complicit in the Massacre at Wett, including but not limited to those who assert that their actions were solely out of deference and obedience to the Bloody Baron of Dour Watch, be brought before Us, to be tried and appropriately hanged.

We, the Crown of Oren, hereby declare that the matter of this feud lies beyond Our royal and temporal providence, and so We henceforth sanction an intranational war of arms, to the point of total domination of either party, between the House of Sola and the House of Vladov, as in the days of the Empire of yore, where Denurem and Blackmont feuded under the Horen yoke. We declare that the victor of this war, whoever it may be, yields the favor of God and Saint Owyn, and so is guiltless in Our royal eyes. We forbid the official ducal government of Adria, Vanaheim or Savoy from involving themselves in any capacity, official or unofficial, in this war of arms, and do hence ban them from yielding aid to either of the warring parties, under summary penalty of tax levies directed to the crown. We declare that this war of arms is to be kept from the cities of Brelus and Felsen in all circumstances, under summary penalty of death by hanging for any found to be in contravention of this. To the victor of this war shall go the spoils, and the life ((permakill)) of the defeated party’s leader, that being Franz Vladov and Titus de Sola respectively.

Signed,

His Majesty, King Olivier de Savoie

Edict of the Lord Scrivener

_______________________________________________________________

By decree of His Majesty, King Olivier de Savoie, the office of Lord Scrivener has hereby been established. The position, along with a seat on the Privy Council, imbues the office of Lord Scrivener with the following responsibilities and authorities:

1. The responsibility to author documents for the King and council upon request.

2. The responsibility to maintain and protect the privy seal of the King, and the authority to affix its mark to official documents of note.

3. The responsibility to keep and maintain the history of the kingdom.

4. The right to apprentice and train scribes of the realm to ensure vassals of his majesty also maintain quality documentation and histories.

These responsibilities and authorities are to be executed by a man of solid mind and scribal learning to ensure the authorship and officiation of important scribal documents, creating consistency in edicts and managing privy workflow while simultaneously managing the history and lore of the kingdom. His Majesty, King Olivier Ashford de Savoie of the Reformed Kingdom of Oren, names August Hightower de Montfort to assume the first post of Lord Scrivener.

______________________________________________________________

Signed,

His Majesty, King Olivier Ashford de Savoie

His Excellency, Lord August Hightower de Montfort

tyere ba  d

nice rep farm

The lord's meme

Our memer, who art in heaven

Hallowed be thy meme

Thy imageboard come

Thy memes be done

On earth as it is in 4chan

Give us this day our daily meme

And forgive us our jests

As we forgive those who jest against us

And lead us not into banning

But deliver us from perma

For thine is the meme

And the joke and the ruse

For ever and ever

Amen

<<<

Olivier looks over the document, penning a curt letter of approval and endorsement to the dukes involved in such a project.

Mature, sensible and formal. He has my recommendation.

These passes should require micro transactions so as to keep our server's coffers well stocked!

:stopmusic:

-Reserved for lineage-

THE BOOK OF ASHFORD

"No words but deeds."

HOUSE DE SAVOIE IN ANCIENT HISTORY

“Never before have me or my courtiers come across a house that blends its virtues so,

Their Northman ferocity and Southron wiles make them most useful and worthy,

But I fear all the same for their avarice and ambition.”

The private musings of King Owyn I, in a letter to his second-born son.

The line of Ashford, presently styling itself as de Savoie, is believed to have originated in the time of the second monarch of Oren, Harren I, called ‘the Usurper’. Harren, the progenitor of the Adunian race, is recorded in all Imperial records as a usurper and a vile tyrant. The bastard son of Horen I by an elven temptress, Harren took the throne in a bloody coup with the aid of an elven host commanded by his wife, the queen of an elven tribe who called themselves the Sarai. The king maintained his tight control over the human realm through strength of arms and a vast but untrained army of elves and Harrenites, his own loyal followers. Soon enough the two people began to mix and interbreed, creating the ancestors of the Adunians, and it was through these levies that Harren subjugated his people. The Adunians in more modern times would tell that Harren was Horen’s chosen successor and possessed a blood claim to the throne of Oren, however these suggestions have been proven to be naught but falsifications, half-truths and conjecture.

The ancestors of House Ashford were dark-haired pagans from the regions far beyond the realm of Oren and in fact known civilisation. They were warlike barbarians who resided in the deep mountain passes of the west and worshipped the only god they knew - the sun - who provided for them what little warmth and life they had in the more temperate months in their frigid land. King Harren’s envoy was sent out to their clan and offered them riches and authority in return for their obedience and service, as well as the recognition of their pagan faith. Their clan-father, Sergius, son of Adelric, accepted the king’s proposal and rode a hundred thousand leagues eastwards to Al’Khazar, the capital of the nascent Oren. There Sergius was invited by the king to take up the mantle of a lord of Oren, and he took the name Ashford, derived from the word Esheveurd, which itself was the nomenclature pertaining to the land from whence his people originated and meant in the common tongue ‘ford by a glade of ash trees’. In addition, he took for his sigil the white sun of his god on black. The role of House Ashford and its levies was to act as guards of the royal keep and other personal households of King Harren. While they may have owed their newfound social status to King Harren, their loyalty to him was somewhat conditional. When the aggressively pious Owyn, the son of Horen and half-brother to the bastard king, rose his banners in defiance of Harren, his revolt quickly took hold in many of Oren’s powerful circles. Initially the line of Ashford remained loyal to the monarch who had uplifted them, however Owyn’s immense host outnumbered the loyalists and various elven militias three to one.

The rebels captured the outer regions of the kingdom first, slowly marching their armies down the roads towards the capitol and delivering resounding defeat to the elven paramilitaries, Owyn having ordered any and all heathens that their host came across to be burnt at the stake. Eventually the capitol stood as the last bastion of Harrenite power in the realm, and soon enough, in the bloody Siege of Al’Khazar, the rebel forces prevailed and overcame the walls of the city. The fighting poured onto the streets and thousands of civilians were slaughtered in the sacking, however the royal family, the Ashford forces and the king himself were holed up in the city’s keep, which Owyn’s forces were besieging with great ardour. King Harren, who had been driven mad in the loss of his kingdom, believed that he would be able to starve out his assailants.

Sergius Ashford was not prone to such delusions of grandeur, however, and so he took the king and the royal family into his custody with the palace guard, and raised the portcullis of the royal keep for Owyn and his host to enter. Claiming to have undergone a spiritual epiphany and converted to the staunchly monotheistic faith of Horen and now Owyn, Sergius Ashford bent the knee to him and pleaded for his sins to be forgiven. However all the while Harren and his firstborn son, Baren, had managed to escape from Ashford’s custody through utilizing one of the many secret passages of the royal keep and then swimming under the portcullis that guarded Al’Khazar’s port, where they mustered what remaining Harrenites they could find and retreated to the far northern mountains, establishing their realm of Adunia under their precepts of diversity and tolerance, which Harren ruled over until his death. It was for the forsaking of Harren that House Ashford gleaned a repute for ruthless cunning rather than simple strength.

Sergius Ashford was blamed for the escape of Harren by Owyn, who had crowned himself rightful King of Oren on account of his status as the trueborn son of Horen, and as such while he was pardoned of his service to the usurper he was not permitted to remain in command of the palace guard, which were promptly disbanded. For a period King Owyn sent Sergius with a great host south, along the Kingsroad, in an invasion of Malinor known as the Struggle of Sarai. Even after the deposition of Harren and the creation of Adunia, various elven tribes of the Princedom had maintained their alliance with the refugee Harrenites, and openly opposed Owyn’s regime, denouncing it as tyrannical. Almost as if to cement his loyalty in Owyn’s eyes, the newly-crowned king sent Sergius southwards as the high marshal of his armies to sack Malinor and teach the elves what became of those who defied the human realm.

His army descended from the north and came upon the elven city of Ravenhold. In a brief siege, the Ashford host came upon the gates of the city and breached them. The settlement was sacked and pillaged by the royal soldiers, the elven citizens mostly put to the sword. Afterwards the levies garrisoned the ruined city, however the elven wardens mustered a significant force and sent out their delegation to Sergius, where he met with their mannish High Princess, who had gained the moniker of ‘the Dragonslayer’ through her past feats. After heated negotiations and a duel between the High Princess’ champion and Ashford which the latter won, it was decided that in a fortnight the human cavalcade would march on Laurelin. The next attack proceeded as planned in the beginning, however the siege on the elven metropolis was disastrous. The assault lasted nigh on a month and concluded when Sergius was struck by an elvish arrow and the resulting wound grew infected, seen as an act of God by the royal soldiers.

With their commander dead, the attack on the elven city was sent into a hasty disarray and King Owyn reluctantly made peace with the elves, yielding Ravenhold and paying reparations to Malinor. Sergius was succeeded in lordship of the house by his first son, Edwin, the failed Siege of Laurelin a stain upon the line of Ashford’s prestige.

“You have balls, woman, but what would I gain? My soldiers would call me a coward. I am Sergius of Ashford. I’ll not run from a woman, even if she be a dragonslayer.”

Sergius Ashford to the High Princess of Malinor, prior to the final battle of the Struggle of Sarai.

This stain combined with Sergius’ failure to properly secure Harren left the line of Ashford with considerably less influence than it once possessed, and due to the distance of their meagre holdings they were forced to take up residence in the court of the capitol. Their descendants served the line of Horen for generation upon generation, where they switched from their formerly proud, warrior ways to become, in a case by case scenario, either scheming bankers or godly knights and clerics. Eventually their authority grew more and more until they wielded great power in the city, but only in the city, and with the deposition of the dynasty of Horen after the palace coup of Pampo Perea, the members of House Ashford were attainted and banished from court and the capitol, the lord at the time, Gwenneg, and his wife having been exiled to a penal colony known as Ulmsbottom, half a world away.

The following pages of the historical tome have been torn out, only the glue that once bound them remaining.

HOUSE DE SAVOIE IN MODERN HISTORY

“The road to Malinor is very pretty, but you’ll have a hard time marching your army down it.”

Velwyn Ashford’s counsel to King Peter of Kaedrin, upon the latter’s invasion of Malinor.

The son of the dispossessed Gwenneg, Velwyn Ashford, was the first and the last generation to be born in Ulmsbottom. When he came of age, he boarded a ship bound for Oren in Asulon and simply never returned to the colony. His ship never made it to Arethor and was shipwrecked by ice floes off of the southern coast of Hanseti, where he took up residence and dedicated his life to the Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order, at the time Samuel Bealcrest. After years of diligence and service to the harsh land, he was made Landmeister of Dresden by Bealcrest’s successor, Mirtok Denurem. After Hanseti joined and later betrayed the Oren-backed rebellion against the crown of Salvus, the disheartened Velwyn decided to quit Denurem’s realm and undergo a pilgrimage of God. It is worth noting that during Velwyn’s absence, Hanseti willingly joined the Kingdom of Oren and together with the annexation of Salvus and Seventis formed the Holy Oren Empire under Godfrey I of the restored Horen dynasty.

While on his pilgrimage, Velwyn experienced a revelation of some kind, and returned to Oren after a number of years to create the Order of the White Rose with the brothers Thomas and Peter Chivay. Established first in the keep of Rivia and then subsequently relocating to the mountain fortress of Krak du Rhoswen on an archipelago known as the Holy Lands, the Order of the White Rose thrived and became the single largest and most elite military order in the history of the human realm. All the while and as a married man, Velwyn Ashford joined the Church of the One True Faith and was instated by High Pontiff Adeodatus I as Bishop of the Holy Lands, in which capacity he participated in a feud with the city of Crestfall and the family of Amador on the archipelago’s south-western shore, both of which he saw as iniquitous and heretical. When the Imperial ships sailed for another land, Adeodatus was pressured into resigning by the nobility and the people, and to succeed him Velwyn was chosen.

Velwyn took the papal name of Lucien I and for his great deeds while in the office he is remembered as Lucien the Good, and in present times, years after his death, a band of men dubbed the Lucienists fight under his name. In Anthos, he was granted by Emperor Godfrey the Prince-Archbishopric of Savoie in the far north of the realm, bordering with Hanseti, and sworn to his house was House de Sarkozy and House Varodyr. Under his vassal Hadrien de Sarkozy’s* stewardship Savoie became a significant power in the bustling power-bases of the Empire, its chief-most attraction being the industrial capital of the Empire and ancestral seat of the de Sarkozy line, Aldersberg. In addition to this, under his supervision Count Hadrien and Prince Thomas of Kaedrin** created and drafted up the initial doctrines of Lucienism, a set of teachings under the Faith that did not gain a significant following until the reign of High Pontiff Lucien II.

*Canonized as St. Adrian of Leuvaarden

**Canonized as St. Thomas of Gaekrin

(Figure: The personal coat of arms employed by Lucien I/Velwyn Ashford while High Pontiff. )

Towards the end of the First Empire’s existence and after the dissolution of his vassals, Lucien attempted to laicize and claim his lands as the Duchy of Savoie, however the plan never came into fruition before the great Exodus occurred. Velwyn relinquished his papal office and travelled with Horen V across the seas in exile, where he died at age eighty-four, while his children remained in the fractured Oren. Roland Ashford, his firstborn son, remained incognito for several years, having wed Caroline Chivay, the sister of Lady Blackmont and the niece of King Peter of Kaedrin. Gwenael Ashford wed a lady of the gentry and disappeared into obscurity. Lilianna Ashford wed a commoner, Gregor du Pont, matrilineally, and Velwyn’s youngest son, the leper Carden, died of his ailment. The Ashfords in this time remained as obscure as they dared so as to preserve their bloodline, abstaining from taking part in the politics of the Second Empire under Sigismund I.

In recent times, Roland’s firstborn son Olivier has taken up the style of Olivier de Savoie, changing the house’s name from Ashford to de Savoie in lieu of its former territories in the Empire and present land claims, and High Pontiff Lucien I has been canonized as St. Lucien of Savoie.

The line of Ashford continues to thrive after the House of Chivay is exiled from the throne. Gwenael rising to Grand Knight and Olivier’s influence rising in Aldersberg.

The several pages of the volume after this are blank and empty, waiting to be filled in the future.

(I'm Olivier de Savoie and this is my favorite man in Petrus)