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[Harbingerjm]

This may sound like a feudal warfare game, but it's more than just that. It's an attempt at being a simulator of the entirety of being a feudal lord, complete with oppressed peasantry,

Why hello there.

Posting to express interest, and also suggest we all co-operate to make the name Moon Wu more unthinkable in the setting than it would be to name a kid Adolf Lucifer Morgoth Stalin IRL. In the interests of timefuckery.

[Lucus Casius]

I second this motion.

[Harbingerjm]

Family Name: Undynne.
Family Crest: A pair of adjacent skulls facing outwards to the left and right on a starry sky background, enclosed by a pair of spread raptor wings in gold.

>Family skull's name: Sebastian
>Lord's Name: Luther
Lady's Name: Iioneyse

Starting Traits:
Genius
Charismatic
Clumsy

Starting Skill:
Oppressing peasants Commanding underlings to oppress peasants Speaking in euphemisms while commanding underlings to the effect of getting their underlings to solve problems via opressing peasants (Estate) Management.

[Harry Baldman]

Spoiler: Signup Sheet (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Dansen

Family Crest: six unclothed legs arranged in a regular star shape on a sky blue background (think Isle of Man flag, but no armor, double the legs and different background)

Lord's Name: Fantabulo
>Lady's Name: Greta

Starting Traits:
Charismatic
Tough
Faithless

Starting Skill:
Close Quarters Combat

[Ghazkull]

Spoiler:  House Blacklumber (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Blacklumber

Family Crest: Silver Tree on Green Background
Lord's Name: >Jorhan
Lady's Name: Jekaterina

Starting Traits:
Tough
Genius
Faithless

Starting Skill:
Strategy

Fluff:
House Blacklumber comes from the heavily forested highlands. They have been there since gods knows when and propably will stay there till the whole thing burns down around them. As one can guess the vast and dark expanses of the Blackwood are dangerous, the forests are still wild and teeming with animal and beast alike. It is in complete contrary to the more civilized parts of the land still very primal. At night one better closes his shutters and doors and hangs up magic charms to ward against the things that go bump. Though not officially following any creed or religion ( mostly due to being too stingy to sacrifice or waste time on praying), the Blacklumbers and their subjects are nonetheless a very superstitious lot and often believe in signs and portents, the spirits of the wild and other such ridiculous things.
Although being pulled kicking and screaming into the Feudal Age with all its advantages and disadvantages, the Blacklumbers and their subjects still are very clan based and it is not uncommon that a weak blacklumber simply gets replaced by somebody else who then calls himself by that name from now on. It is more of a title among the Clansmen than a family name.
Economically they mostly live off the forest. In fact in that regard they are centuries ahead of their fellow countrymen. The Blacklumbers actually do forestry. When trees are felled new ones are raised and painstaking care is taken to not take more than one can grow back, some do it because its common sense, others because they fear the wrath of the forest spirits. Hunting works after a similiar concept and several of the Clans have turned to raising large herds of deer or apiculture and pisciculture - in short things rich nobles from not so forested parts desire in large quantities.
In times of war the Clansmen are known to wield mostly axes and crossbows into battle. Both are better for combat in forests than longbows or swords. While they occasionally raid they mostly keep to their forests and prefer to ambush any would be conquerors. Nonetheless, if the Banners are called the Blacknumbers are always among those who arrive most numerous and their successfull trade in high quality wood and delicacies has made them rich enough to purchase steel and iron from outside, allowing the clans to field heavily armed and armoured infantry.

EDIT: changed name and updated description of the hosue.

[highmax28]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Vargson

Family Crest: A grey wolf with a yellow full moon inside of his mouth, marked with the words "Our wild hunger will never be satisfied" in old Norse

>Lord's Name: Sigurd
Lady's Name: Agata

Starting Traits:
Strong
Corageous
Withdrawn

Starting Skill:
War wolves

[Evil Marahadja]

I assume it is first come first serve? And that is it pointless to post a sheet now?

[Kashyyk]

Spoiler: House Corrin (click to show/hide)

Family Crest: A white cross, upon a black and green field split down the vertical.

>Lord's Name: Phillip
Lady's Name: Isobel

Starting Traits:
Genius, Charismatic, Absent-Minded

Starting Skill:
Economics

[highmax28]

I assume it is first come first serve? And that is it pointless to post a sheet now?

People are still applying. And I need more people to raid allies

[High tyrol]

My application
Family name:hofer
Family crest : a brown eagle on a white background
>Lords Name: Andrew
Lady's name : Jane
Starting traits:
Fortunate
Genius
Faithless
Starting skill:
Stewardship

[heydude6]

Family Name: Salivar

Family Crest: A dark mountain split in two at the top. Between the split there is an upside down white heart that is also split but this time it's split apart completely. Between that split is a gold coin. At the base of the mountain there are black silhouettes of people who look like they are looking at the coin.

>Lord's Name: Rickward
Lady's Name: Antimony
(Please place a ">" in front of the gender you wish to play as.)

Starting Traits:
Genius, focused, cowardly
Starting Skill:
Innovating

[GiglameshDespair]

Family Name: Ketari

Family Crest: Twisted trees sprout from a layer of skulls. Above the trees, a large bird with jagged wings devours a smaller bird.

The family colours are black on green, and soldiers and items often are decorated with ornate crests of blue-green feathers.

Lord's Name: Algarius
>Lady's Name: Volia
(Please place a ">" in front of the gender you wish to play as.)

Starting Traits:
Strong
Fortunate
//Faithless

Starting Skill:
Combat

The Ketari Kingdom is a nation of conflict. A nation of steep hills and thick forests.
It used to be a land of dragons, but they have passed from the world.

The bones of the past dragons can be found all over, snarled in the roots of the mightiest trees, lying forgotten in caves, or bones dug out in the mines so old they've turned to stone. It is after the legendary fierceness of the dragons that the nation models itself. The war-priests tell us that the bird-goddess, Ketar, saw the gold-scaled beasts as an affront to bird-kind, and so slew them with a spear pointed with their own teeth.

The Ketari royal family, such as it is, places great import on combat. It is traditional for suitors to the monarch to best them in a duel before the marriage can go ahead, though this ranges from actual life and death struggles (well, for the suitor, at least) to formal displays choreographed like a dance.

THe Ketarian people favour strong, stone dwellings, of thick blocks put together with no mortar. Often, they build down rather than up, making compex cave-cities in the hills. The land outside is sculted into terraces, or used to graze the hardy llamas that provide meat, leather, wool and milk to the people.

The warriors have plenty of metal from the mines in the hills, but few cavalry due to the thick forests. Every warrior has his fang: a weapon much like a Macuahuitl, with blades of obsidian, steel, or even dragon's teeth. In addition, every warrior carries a shield and javelins. To lose your fang is a mark of shame, and many fangs have been passed through families for generations. Soldiers decorate their armour with large crests of feathers, animal skins, and fiercely carved or forged masks.

[highmax28]

I was wondering if we could also specify characteristics of our kingdom, like architectural types, culture, faith, and preferred weapons of our military units, like:

Architecture - Mostly wooden buildings, with nobleman housing being made of stone. Wooden spiked pallisades
Culture - Honor based, believe fiercely about dying in battle. Raids are almost usually seen as a good thing
Faith - Pagan gods
Preferred Weapons - Infantry use axes and pitchforks as the soldiers poor. Cavalry are the only ones with swords (as those who can afford swords were wealthy and horses were farmers or wealthy) which are big and heavy bastard swords for cleaving horse heads and human heads. Archers are usually hunters and use their hunting bows, with arrows designed for hitting and piercing hide and flesh (not armor)

[zomara0292]

Spoiler: House of the Bolt (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Dixon
Family Crest: Three (One Bronze, silver and gold) Arrows striking an red Shield with the crest on it

>Lord's Name: Richard VII
Lady's Name: Xerodette

Starting Traits:
Charismatic, Agile, and Feeble

Starting Skill:
Besiegement (Fighting off sieges)
Architecture - All buildings are spacious with flat topped roofs and a protective railing. living areas are generally separated by job types, the lower the labor, the farther away from the castle.
Culture - Family/Class Based. Moving beyond or under one's class is seen as an act of treason held on all of ones offsprings, generally lowing ones caste unless circumstances, such as wealth, or noble noticing, raises it.
Faith - Vento (God of the winds), Caca (minor god of the birds), Lesili (Goddess of the Sun and day and life), and Mauta (Goddess of the night, darkness, and of death)
Preferred Weapons - Long ranged weapons such as longbows are extremely common, though most archers also have daggers or other small weaponry. Midranged weapons are carried by all soldiers, ranging from throwing spears, to bolas, to even Chakras.
Calvary is nearly unheard of.

[Tomcost]

Spoiler: Application sheet: Crowden family. (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Crowden.

Family Crest: A crow, standing over the ground while looking at the sun, placed on the top-right of the image, while the background changes subtly from the dark moon-less night to the bright blue sky on the rightmost side of the image, where the sun is.

Lord's Name: Gerard Joong Crowden
Lady's Name: Rachel Ahn Tsung

>Male

Starting Traits:
Genius
Focused
Faithless

Starting Skill:
Trading

Additional information:
Built almost from the ground, the power of the Crowden family comes from one of the most difficult things to acquire: knowledge. Curiosity was something that always drove most members of the family, and, with a lot of wit, they could capitalize it. Knowledge about what people want to pay for, and an understanding of the market eventually gave the family an edge in trading. And trading brings gold, and with that, comes power.
The lands owned by the family have a particular condition: the lack of explicit conflicts. Being an empire managed by money means that those rich enough either support the rulers (finding mutual benefits), leave, or lose their belognings in the long run. The exploited population is kept at bay via marginally reasonable benefits to distract them from protests, while the rulers resort to spreading misinformation and causing dissent between the lower castes when it becomes necessary to mitigate possible confrontations.