Creative Exercise: The Sovereign Dominion of Eyros

[Rystil Arden]

Lurker mode off

Contribution:
Gor'Spak, a 5th generation half-orc of the barbarian half-orc movement, has taken a small contingent of the half-orcs to the Blue Mountains. He is a sorceror of growing power and plans to take some of the wild riding lizards that the Eyrian calvary employs and genetically alter them so that they can fly. He has grand plans of fielding a half-orc army of aerial calvary that will throw down the human and orc pillars and replace them with the truly noble half-orcs. So far, his attempts have only met with failure.

Contribution:

House Taljik is known for its competitive attitude, perhaps because of its lesser status. Taljik members are avid game fans, many enjoying gladiatorial combat and duels, but some preferring quieter games of thought and strategy like Zhakkar or Talyin, the latter of which is an interesting and complicated game that was "discovered" recently by a scion of House Taljik who claims that is was originally invented by Talya to strengthen the minds of her children to help ward off The Twelve's influence.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Mulcibe: Human Pillar. Passionate artists and craftsmen who descended from Mulcibia, who was loved by the eladrin Kampaetnos, they have vibrant red-gold hair, which causes some to make remarks comparing their hair to that of zombies.

Many doubt Pillar Mulcibe's anxious claims of celestial heritage. Those that doubt this claim theorize that Hephas was in fact a Vampire and that the members of Pillar Mulcibe are all Moroii, living vampires.

 

[domino]

He is a sorceror of growing power and plans to take some of the wild riding lizards that the Eyrian calvary employs and genetically alter them so that they can fly.

Shouldn't that be magically alter them?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Although never said to their faces, many doubt Pillar Mulcibe's claims of Eladrin heritage. Those that doubt this claim theorize that Kampaetnos was in fact a Vampire and that the members of Pillar Mulcibe are all Moroii, living vampires.

Slight contradiction with some previously established canon.

All fixed! I still really like the idea.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Shouldn't that be magically alter them?

yeah, they probably didn't have gene splicing back then ^^

 

[OaxacanWarrior]

Shouldn't that be magically alter them?

Yes it should be. Thanks for catching that. I'll go back in and make the correction.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Slight contradiction with some previously established canon.

Change it to "Many doubt Pillar Mulcibe's nervous claims of divine heritage. Those that doubt this claim theorize that Hephas was in fact a Vampire and that the members of Pillar Mulcibe are all Moroii, living vampires." and we'll be all set (Just to know which things were said before: Mulcibe uses Hephas as the name of Kampy, they don't really have a good explanation, but they claim that Hephas was somehow divine, and people do say it to their faces sometimes). Few quibbles aside, this is exactly along the lines of what I was thinking, and I really like the idea.

Done.

 

[Sarellion]

Contribution:

Eyrosian nobles are proud of their lineages and the deeds of their ancestors, as seen in worship of family gods, claim to a common ancestor with in the family and the long names indicating ancestry. Children often learn the names of their ancestors, as far as known. Despite this, emotional connections between parents and their children are not so tight as an otside observer would expect.
The pillars encourage their members to develop thier ties more to the House as a whole or their branch of the house instead of their own core family. Noble children are often watched over by tutors and servants, as their parents are busy attending to political, military or economical matters.

The local family branch grants young adults some income and holdings who belong to the House for their lifetime. Over time both increase as the noble comes into age and is able to gather influence. This can become a large part of the noble´s belongings. Of course the noble has to pay for the lease. After his death the house´s belongings return to the house again. The noble can pass on some of his personal wealth to his children but a large part of the other valuta are expected to return to the house as well. Nobles who enriched their houses greatly are praised by their peers and givan a lavish funeral. The ones who dissapointed their house are given a small funeral only, a mark of shame for their children.

Noble half-orcs of the first generation are encouraged to pass on a larger share of their wealth to thir second generation children. As these children are not members of a pillar anymore, this is their compensation. They are expected to start their own households and are considered to be formally independent of their House. Nevertheless, most of these new households are strongly tied to one pillar, most often one that one of their ancestors belonged to. These minor nobles often applicate for lesser positions in the provinces of their patron pillar or gather holdings of their own in the province. Many are also entering clerical offices, lower military ranks or become tournament fighters (see post 659).

Half-Orcs are allowed to marry orcs or humans. Most often the house concentrates to arrange marriages with members of one race. After seven generations their offspring are considered to be purebloods again. These members of an half-orc house can then enter one of the houses, thier ancestors claimed allegiance to. The senate passed this law after realizing that most members of both races have some trace of the other race in their ancestry after living together for 3000 years. Even keeping track of their ancestries was not sufficient as non nobles are allowed to marry into noble houses as well on a regular basis. These commoners often didn´t keep track of their bloodline or hid the fact the fact that their blood was not as pure as it seems.

 

[Khorod]

Looks like things picked up

Many doubt Pillar Mulcibe's anxious claims of celestial heritage. Those that doubt this claim theorize that Hephas was in fact a Vampire and that the members of Pillar Mulcibe are all Moroii, living vampires.

It is a secret, IIRC most Pillar members don't even know.

New Contribution:

New Haven controls a rocky island some 40 miles by 20. It is an open port- it does not look too closely at ships that journey to them, nor does it charge a fee for docking out in the boonies. As a result, New Haven has a certain lawless vibe, as Halfling Pirates, Human Smugglers, and spies of all nations use the city as a safe port and meeting place. Despite it being halfling owned, everyone except Eyros views it as the closest thing to neutral ground.

The New Haven Vault is the closest thing to a bank on the island. They control a cluster of maze-like sea caves, and they hold and guard the wealth or property of anyone that pays the fee. They are also money-lenders with stiff interest rates for non-halflings.

 

[Arkhandus]

New Haven controls a rocky island some 40 miles by 20. It is an open port- it does not look too closely at ships that journey to them, nor does it charge a fee for docking out in the boonies. As a result, New Haven has a certain lawless vibe, as Halfling Pirates, Human Smugglers, and spies of all nations use the city as a safe port and meeting place. Despite it being halfling owned, everyone except Eyros views it as the closest thing to neutral ground.

The New Haven Vault is the closest thing to a bank on the island. They control a cluster of maze-like sea caves, and they hold and guard the wealth or property of anyone that pays the fee. They are also money-lenders with stiff interest rates for non-halflings.

The gladiatorial arenas popular in Eyros have been attracting freeman competitors from distant lands in recent years, exciting the crowds with new blood and exotic appeal. Dark-skinned Mo'ahhi warrior-women with their ginta whip-daggers and bone half-armor, olive-skinned Nientese sword-dancers with their curved bastard swords and lacquered leather armor, and O'hoa'ti bloodspell zealots with their copper daggers and wicker armor.... All have braved the difficult trade-route passes through the Blue Mountains in eastern Eyros, traveling from distant lands across the Dead Waters Isthmus in the frozen north beyond the Blue Mountains.

The aging Grand Monarch is increasingly worried that these foreigners are testing Eyrian combat skill and readiness, and he has posted more of Zhalccu province's forces near the Blue Mountains part of the border, worried that a foreign invasion may be coming in the near future. The Grand Monarch harbors suspicions that the Sultan of Indracca has been trying to garner aid in freeing the declining Sultanate from inevitable Eyrian rule.....