Karses II, Friend of Caesar, Heir to the Loam Coast, and Descendant of the Divine Clay Elf Bloodline:Condition: Fine
Holdings:
Cash Reserves (Aproximately 4.7% of Imperial Coin in Circulation)
29% of Total Shares in 'Sons of Caesar Trading Company'
45% of Voting Shares in 'Sons of Caesar Trading Company'
Mansion in the Heartland City of Portum
4 Docks in the City of Portum
Luxurious Apartment with the Imperial Palace
Country Home along the Imperial Highway
x19 Shops and Workshops (Scattered Across the Imperial Heartland)
x17 Vineyards and Plantations (Scattered Across the Known World)
x14 Mines (Mainly Precious Metals and Gems, Scattered Across the Known World)
x30 Imperial Merchantmen (Divided into two fleets)
'Wayward Clay' (Personal Flagship made from Enchanted Ceramic. Armed with two ballista and a crew of trained soldiers. Coming of age present from your father)
Traits:
Businesself
Networker
Negotiator
Public Speaker
Wealthy
Well Traveled
Greedy
Ambitious
Empathetic
Self Controlled
Living Legend (Civil Rights Icon, God Incarnate)
The Sons of Caesar Trading Company will loan Mooselund the money he needs,
and you will guarantee 50% of that loan personally. Next you handle the concubine issue; You strongly feel that giving Tideus a concubine who lost her son and husband to his forces would be a bad idea. Instead the Sea Demon shall receive the bastard grandaughter now, and one of Mooselund's legitimate granddaughters when the girl eventually decided upon comes of age in about five years.
With all other business out of the way, you bring up the hostages,
and quickly get Mooselund to agree to send Tideus two shiploads of tin in exchange for his brother Vulfhorn and the other naval officers. The pair are reunited on deck in what turns out to be a touching moment.
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Once the treaty is signed, you meet with Tideus in private, and tell him you would like both the
Flower Demon and some supplies to rebuild the Loam Coast in addition to the promised warships.
The Sea Demon, impressed by your work at the negotiating table on his behalf, agrees to send you half his grain reserve as part of the dowery, and fifteen shiploads of lumber in exchange for services rendered.---
Tideus leaves half his fleet in the vicinity of Humpback Island to ensure that Mooselund lives up to his part of the bargin,
but returns with you, your fleet, and his officers to Tusk Falls Castle to celebrate the victory. During this trip, you write up the order for the loan to be sent to company headquarters, and mull over the idea of getting Xamut V married.
You think the Acid Elf War-Queen Whipscale would be an ideal canidate for several reasons. First and foremost is the fact she controls about as many soldiers on the Southern Continent as Imperial and Clay Elf forces combined at the height of the war, and even a small number of Acid Elves makes for a terrifying enemy if they are properly equipped with non-primitive gear. You also know Whipscale is fanatically loyal to you and a follower of your people's religion, which teaches that you and Xamut are the same person on a spiritual level - as such, the marriage should be quite appealing to her.
There is also the fact that you would like Xamut V to marry outside the family.
You are not yet sure if you intend to fly in the face of imperial tradition and make wives of your sisters as well, but if you don't he and does, his children might have a better claim to the title of Pharaoh than your own.Still, with all these factors in favor of the marriage, you are not entirely sure it is possible.
Your brother's hatred of the Acid Elves is rather well known - sailor's tales say that any member of the savage race picked up by Xamut V's pirates is subject to a slow and painful death personally inflicted by the young admiral.
This hatred stems from the slaughter of your mutual litter mate Xexllas, who was publicly dismembered alive by demon-lead Acid Elves during the Long Ear War. Shortly after that incident, Xamut attended your coming of age party and begged you to return home to claim your birthright, as he had no desire to be Pharaoh himself without Xexllas as his queen. At the time you agreed to consider his request following the death of Caesar Menas, whom it was presumed your father would easily outlive.
The fact that Xamut has moved on to the point where he can have a mistress is promising,
but you will have to gently broach the topic of marriage with him, especially if you wish for him to make an Acid Elf his bride.
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After a week of partying with Tideus and his sailors at the demon's castle, it comes time to move on.
Tsunamia, already bored with life ashore, and worried that spending too much time with you before the wedding might besmirch both of your reputations,
intends to return to her fleet and take charge of whatever chaos your monopoly busting efforts have spawned. Jericho, ever the risk-taker, points out that he was raised in the Eastern Provinces and knows them like the back of his hand, so he intends to tag along... wrath of Caesar be damned.
Tideus gives his daughter a large chest full of the means and knowledge required to summon and bind the Flower Demon. Your betrothed informs you that she thinks it would be wise to wait until you get settled in your new home to preform the ritual, that way any runes created can be placed on the walls in some private chamber for safekeeping.
Xamut would rather not lead his fleet back into Imperial Waters without you present to vouch for it, just in case, and as such intends to remain in Tideus' service until the wedding... unless you wish to take a war fleet with you on whatever busniess you intend to deal with before the wedding.
This gets you thinking about what you wish to do before the wedding, which should take some time to plan.You could return to your mansion in the heartland, where you can attend to your business affairs, participate in the wedding planning, and perhaps help pick out the judges and other minor officials that will be appointed to serve the new Imperial Province of Loam Coast.
If you wait another month or so, perhaps touring the Everstorm Lands or hobnobbing with Tideus' court,
enough time will have passed that you can head to the Loam Coast and assume your throne.Another way to kill time before the wedding and/or your rule would be to
sail to the Southern Continent and travel the lands around the Loam Coast, forming new bonds with your neighbors, and likely receiving gifts and praise from the ones that idolize you. If you drag Xamut along, it might be a good way to help him get over his hatred for the Acid Elves, of whom you would likely meet plenty.
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Topic: (SG) Vassal: Rise of a Pharaoh (Read 23884 times)