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[Taricus]

And accepted. Once the map is ready, we're good to start the IC thread.

[Hanslanda]

I have no idea how this will all work, so it will be interesting. I understand the mechanics, mind you, just not... What we'll be doing. o.O

[Taricus]

Pretty much, it's going to be fairly political. Watch your back around anyone, lest you get knifed due to a minor border dispute.

But the game will start with the prince's coronation.

[Iituem]

And accepted. Once the map is ready, we're good to start the IC thread.

And here we are.  Full res version.

Spoiler: 50% Version (click to show/hide)

A lot of the specifics aren't worked out yet, and I've taken liberty with a few names, but it's basically there.  The big red splodge in the centre is the Dwarven Kingdom, which is essentially an impenetrable sovereign state.  Their fortresses and cities aren't marked because they are hidden by dwarf magic (or possibly very impressive engineering).  Forts are marked by black plusses, towns by red crosses.  The only definite province boundary (the GM will decide where they start off and we'll hammer out by roleplay where they end up) is that of the White Forest, since it remained suitably isolationist and unassailed during the war.

Also, I appear to have forgotten to mark the River West, at the mouth of which is Ciall.  Oh well.

[Taricus]

Alright, as per a few location requests on IRC by people who didn't state their locations in their sheets, I shall be put them forth here. Anyone else that is a landed noble or the like, ought to step forward for their Demesne as well. The players are allowed to change the name of the individual cities, and name their own title (In the case of dukes)

Anyway, the list:
-Azthor: Stormport
-Tiruin: Severance
-Ardas: Whitehall

[Hanslanda]

... Do I need to claim Dorenshadt for Daelin? Earl Daelin Borokshtan is leader of Dorenshadt, although he WILL be attending the coronation because that's how dwarves roll.

[Taricus]

Nope, you already claimed it in your app.

[Taricus]

Alright, due to a lack of response from Iituem about the amount of parcels everyone gets, I'm decinding it myself. Dukes (And equivalents) will receive ten parcels, along with a city at the start. Counts (And equivalents) will gain a castle and five parcels.

Anything lower (While baron-level can fit onto the system at two parcels, it's not really going to be interesting for them.) is considered unlanded for mechanical purposes.

The IC thread will be up in a bit, once it is either Iituem will start, or I will if he is not around to (Which may start the kingdom in an interesting position.)

[Taricus]

Triple post, but the OP has been updated with a link to the IC thread.

[Shootandrun]

Changed my char back to the original ones, mostly because as time passed the satyr grew less and less interesting. He's pretty similar to the first one I posted.

Spoiler: The Smiling Bowman (click to show/hide)

Name: Anders "the Smiling Bowman" Banegem

Starting point distribution: Charisma, Weaponmastery - Bows, Weaponmastery - Swords

Description: A tall, relatively muscular man with blond hair and brown eyes as well as a short beard. He fits nicely in most definitions of handsomeness, possessing a masculine look and a charming smile - one he tends to wear often and generously. He dresses in a relatively plain fashion; the one thing that stands out most about him is his longbow, a weapon that is almost as long as he is tall which he wears around on his back. He also bears a sword by his side at nearly all times, and he has chainmail hidden under his clothes if he is not bearing heavier armor openly, slightly padded to kill any sounds it may cause.

Biography: Anders was the third son of a very wealthy merchant who resided in Falken. Being unlikely to inherit and lacking interest in the business, he spent much of his youth fooling around with a few friends of his, some of whom happened to be squires to minor knights. With them, he learned how to speak to men above his station and how to handle a sword; and at his home, he was made literate and taught much about the ways of the world.

As he started to grow older, he lost interest in the games with wooden swords that had animated his younger years, starting to understand that fighting in the melee was considerably more dangerous than the play might make it seem. Developing an interested in ranged combat, he bought a longbow of great quality and became quite the marksman with it over time, having little else to do but to practice and socialize. He decided he wanted to make his skill at arms into his line of work after he won an archery competition in his home town, and as soon as he was of age, he left his family behind.

Beginning to work as a security specialist - that is to say (depending on the employer) a thug, an assassin, a bodyguard, a spy, or simply a retainer - his travels brought him to the princedom of Stormborough, where he believed more opportunity might be found than inside Falken. Gaining a reasonably good reputation by winning a few archery competitions and ending up as a finalist in some melees, he became known as a talented "problem solver", one of the best in the business. In the recent months, however, he started taking interest in working exclusively for nobles…

[Taricus]

And accepted.

[Iituem]

Alright, due to a lack of response from Iituem about the amount of parcels everyone gets, I'm decinding it myself. Dukes (And equivalents) will receive ten parcels, along with a city at the start. Counts (And equivalents) will gain a castle and five parcels.

Anything lower (While baron-level can fit onto the system at two parcels, it's not really going to be interesting for them.) is considered unlanded for mechanical purposes.

The IC thread will be up in a bit, once it is either Iituem will start, or I will if he is not around to (Which may start the kingdom in an interesting position.)

Thought I had responded.  :O

With my girlfriend at the moment, off to see a movie, but will write up first post in a few hours when I get back, alright? 

[Taricus]

Alright, I await the post!

And you did, just not specifically about the fiefs themselves (Or atleast anything concrete so...)

[Iituem]

There we go.  Opening it up to introductions and for the GM to set the scene as to exactly what our current situation is (who claims what land, who still has an army etc).  I took a liberty to suggest armies clustered around Stormborough; these by no means have to be even a full unit, they could just be sizeable representatives of the gathered lords; it's a flavour thing.

Oh, and in case there's any doubt the "figures of interest" the chamberlain let in are the non-landed PCs. 

[Taricus]

Okay, and updated the OP once more, this time with land and troop counts. You are assumed to have your basic income already in the treasury as well.