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[micelus]

Yay

[chubby2man]

Sure thing!

[Rockeater]

I wonder, can I be a magic hunter or part of a magic hunting group?

[Ghazkull]

Possible yes, sane? no. The thing is if we turn over the entire kingdom you'd find between 1 and 3 Magic Users, out of which maybe one has any idea what hes doing. If we look throughout the Thousand Kingdoms it would be in the high hundreds with maybe ten or twenty at what would commonly be proper mage level (as in they can regularly cast spell without blowing themselves and everyone around them up) and a single person who would reach something like archmage level.

The vast majority of what you would be hunting is poor old women who sell herbal remedies. And of the Mages most are secretive people of wealth and power, since the necessary things to properly learn magic require books which are hard and expensive to come by. So you would be dealing with angry, Mage-Nobles.

[Rockeater]

Well, I probably thought of it from the wrong direction of magic is hard and dangerous.
What if I'm a part of a group that looks for magic books and artifacts and destroy or hide them before someone insane enough try to use them.

[ggamer]

Love to get involved in this game, if you're interested.

Spoiler:  Arwad du Haullen, Duke of Lestmarch (click to show/hide)

Appearance: The young Duke Arwad has stands at 5'9, with a healthy build, a beautiful (some would even say feminine) face, and middling blonde hair. He has a taste for decadence, shown in his fancy clothes and endless taste for the finer things in life. He is incredibly energetic, known to smoke two cigars and drink at least a fifth of Gnyferian brandy before dinner even begins. Despite the kind of spoiled snottiness such a behavior would suggest, Arwad is incredibly friendly, and has begun to cut down on such behavior with the worsening state of Argas.

Bio: Arwad du Haullen hails from the Grand Duchy of Haullen, a country far to the east. Arwad was seventh in line for the throne though he is the fifth son of the Grand Duke, the designation of which caused him to abandon his family birthrights (yet not the name) and seek his fortunes in Argas. He arrived in Lestmarch at the age of 15, and quickly used the small amount of wealth and influence to rise to prominence in the court of the old Duke Arthur. The Duke was unmarried, old, and had no children, yet passed over his brother Norman in favor of naming Arwad his successor; at the time, a major scandal. The few short years Arwad used this position to travel and build his reputation as a friendly debutante all over the kingdom, before the current troubles hit the kingdom in full. The old Duke Arthur died when Arwad was 20, about ten years before the assassination of the old King, and Arwad set about making a name for himself.

Belaying his appearance as a debutante, Arwad shortly transformed the Duchy of Lestmarch from a smaller border country to the largest nexus for trade outside of the twin rivers of Argas. Using his influence in the petty kingdoms to the east as well as his home Duchy, Arwad built several safe and secure trade routes transporting the many goods Argas is known for, as well as Wakeleaf: a unique herb only grown in the lands in the south of the Duchy, smoked by locals for centuries to improve mental acuity. The material expenditure needed to undertake such a project is rumored to be why he celebrates such excess in the present day.

Due to his wealth and influence from the establishment of the Lestmarch trade routes, Arwad has fingers in just about every pie in the entire Kingdom. His name and well known, and it seems the only people who truly hate him are those who buy into rumors of his more excessive exploits romantic and otherwise, though he denies any such accusation. Darker rumors paint him as an information monger, willing to sell any information he gleans to the highest bidder. After all, he must have had a hand in the death of the old Duke's brother, the Marshal of Lestmarch, despite what the official word was about his natural death. Even so, most have a fairly positive view of him, though they might be less willing to share more confidential information (at least while sober).

Arwad has traveled to the city of Arg Caís after hearing news of the assassination, hoping to learn about the assassin and get an idea of what kind of person the new King is.

[Ghazkull]

Unfortunately all Duchies are gone, you can start as a Count in the service of another Duke

[Rockeater]

Anything I could be?

[ggamer]

Unfortunately all Duchies are gone, you can start as a Count in the service of another Duke

Cool, if Ardas is alright with it i'd like to be a count in his service. I'll rewrite the bio if so

[Ardas]

Sounds good, adjust it and we can roll.

[ggamer]

Modified, then.

Spoiler:  Arwad du Haullen, Count of Wexford (click to show/hide)

Appearance: The Count Arwad stands at 5'9, with a healthy build, a beautiful (some would even say feminine) face, and middling blonde hair. He has a taste for decadence, shown in his fancy clothes and endless taste for the finer things in life. He is incredibly energetic, known to smoke two cigars and drink at least a fifth of Gnyferian brandy before dinner even begins. Despite the kind of spoiled snottiness such a behavior would suggest, Arwad is incredibly friendly, and has begun to cut down on such behavior with the worsening state of Argas.

Bio: Arwad du Haullen hails from the Grand Duchy of Haullen, a country far to the east. Arwad was seventh in line for the throne though he is the fifth son of the Grand Duke, the designation of which caused him to abandon his family birthrights (yet not the name) and seek his fortunes in Argas. He arrived in Wexford (a smaller city very close to where Arnmarch borders Gaul in the west) at the age of 15, and quickly used his small amount of wealth and influence to rise to prominence in the court of the old Count, Arthur. The Count was unmarried, old, and had no children, yet passed over his brother Norman - treasurer of Wexford - in favor of naming Arwad his successor; at the time, a major scandal. In a few short years Arwad used this position to travel and build his reputation as a friendly debutante all over the kingdom, before the current troubles hit the kingdom in full. The old Count Arthur died when Arwad was 20, about ten years before the assassination of the old King, and Arwad set about making a name for himself.

Belaying his appearance as a debutante, Arwad shortly transformed Wexford from a smaller border city to the largest nexus for trade outside of the great city of Risfurt. In his time as a ward of the old Count Arthur, Arwad traveled to Gaul to build relationships with the local merchants, at the time looking for a certain plant that Arthur would brew into a tea to ease the pains of old age. He used those relationships, and a significant amount of capital, to create a collection of trade routes into Gaul - one of the countries that the twin rivers don't flow through - that brought a much needed source of income to the city. Many goods were exported to Gaul: grains, spirits from all over the Kingdom, finer clothes from the east, tobacco, and - most importantly - wakeleaf: a unique herb only grown in the lands in the east of the Kingdom, smoked by locals for centuries to improve mental acuity. The material expenditure needed to undertake such a project is rumored to be why he celebrates such excess in the present day.

Due to his wealth and influence from the establishment of the Wexford trade routes, Arwad has fingers in just about every pie in the entire Kingdom. His name is well known, and it seems the only people who truly hate him are those who buy into rumors of his more excessive exploits, romantic and otherwise, though he denies any such accusation. Darker rumors paint him as an information monger, willing to sell any information he gleans to the highest bidder. After all, he must have had a hand in the death of the old Count's brother despite what the official word was about his natural death. Even so, most have a fairly positive view of him, though they might be less willing to share more confidential information (at least while sober).

Arwad has traveled to the city of Arg Caís after hearing news of the assassination, hoping to learn about the assassin and get an idea of what kind of person the new King is.

This good?

[NUKE9.13]

Unfortunately all Duchies are gone, you can start as a Count in the service of another Duke

So, are there only three Duchies (of which one the Royal Demesne) in the country? Or are the other Dukes NPCs?

E: Wait, I just noticed that Atian edited his sheet to be a Duke as well. Which would make it four Duchies.

[Ardas]

Unfortunately all Duchies are gone, you can start as a Count in the service of another Duke

So, are there only three Duchies (of which one the Royal Demesne) in the country? Or are the other Dukes NPCs?

E: Wait, I just noticed that Atian edited his sheet to be a Duke as well. Which would make it four Duchies.

I believe that the idea is similar to original Elbreth - we start in a small kingdom and try to grow it (not show it).

E: Wexford sounds good - Ghaz, care to pen it into my duchy?

[Ghazkull]

Three Duchies + the royal demesne.

Atian in case you haven't gotten the green light, you have green light as The Duke of Gynfr, with the caveats mentioned in the pms

As for the count of Wexford, huuh boy, i will have to tear through several things in your app, sorry for that:

First To the East is the Ocean and then a whole lot of nothing, except for some island chains. However Argas is so far north that they certainly won't be getting in any tobacco or silks or others of those goods via a sea route. We can however assume a smaller continent being this far north in the east (to get your grand duchy sorted) but again climate wise its colder and darker and not really bringing in silk and tobacco.

Beyond Eastwards, there is mostly trade northwards especially in grain and other foodstuffs as the kingdoms who dwell farther north have difficulties with Agriculture.

Westwards there is mountains, as well as northwards and all of that is inhabited by the Mountain Tribes, who trade mostly via Risfurt with Argas or raid the countryside further north. But there are no civilized kingdoms (as far as you know) beyond those mountains.

Most trade is indeed in the South, coming up north via the Argr. Selling Southern Goods in Risfurt, staying a few days in Gynsr and then buying up Food in Arg Caeís to sell in the north is rather popular way of doing business.

And despite all of you wanting to be rich traders apparently (what with Arg Caeis being a trade hub, Gynsr being one, Risfurt being one and now Wexford to) Argas is supremely poor. It is a backwater on the arse end of the world. All it shares with the Thousand King and its former glory is the name of High Kingdom of Argas. The original capital isn't even close to were you are but indeed months and months of travel to the south.

The Kingdom isn't particularly large either, if you boat up the Argr from Risfurt to Argas you are through that in four days, probably stopping one or two days in Gynsr in between.

Okay with all of that being said, your app is excellent, but unless you make Wexford a town sitting on the mountain borders next to the Arngar there really isn't any space left for yet another Trade Hub. I mean even Risfurt being the richest place is rather poor and Gynsr being wedged between the capital and Risfurt even more so.

[Ardas]

I think a map is kinda critical at this point, if people want to orientate themselves for any free spots.