Y1100: New Houses

The character creation is very basic. To keep things simple, you are all a minor houses from the human faction (Knight):
* Just describe your house a little bit
* Your relation to your liege and
* One or two relevant people in your retinue.

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To tie things into the campaign (and overall story arch), pick from these starting Heroes:
Quick note, hero is noble commander/lord in this setting, basically any named character


1 player for Lord Kraeger

Viscount Kraeger is the decorated and influential Commander of The Empire's northern reaches, a hero known for his loyalty to the Empire.



1 player for Lord Gallavant

Lord Alberon, a king within the Empire, experiencing difficulties with pirate raids on his kingdom, dispatched Lord Gallavant to the outer isles, leaving his sister Drakonia to take care of the family's estate.




2 players for Lord Morglin Ironfirst

Morglin Ironfirst's father was ruthlessly assassinated by his own brother, who took over the Ironfist Lands. Morglin now serves as Baron to King Ragnar, his cousin. Ragnar gained much influence over the Emperor with his marriage to Princess Ewine

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Each game faction has a number of unique units. To help you add some flavor to your house, Humans/Nights usually have:
Quick note, there are other factions in the game. You will be able to switch/gain from other faction during the game.

* Peasant/Squire
* Archer/Ranger/Crossbowman
* Pikeman /Halberdier
* Swordsman/Paladin
* Cavalry/Knight
* Monk/Cleric
* Griffin
* Ballista/Catapult

I'll roll at random for mine.
Update: I'm Team Ironfist it seems.
Update 2: I apologize to my possible future relative in advance.

I'm going to roll too because why not

1. Lord Kraeger
2. Lord Gallavant
3. Lord Morglin Ironfist

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Lord Gallavant it is then

Cool! so, I'm not sure if I mentioned it already, but Windy is not joining after all. This means it just mormegil to choose now.

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Just to give you guys and idea:
* Ironfist has the option for two players, so the idea is to test cooperative playing.
* Kraeger is one its own and will oppose Ironsfist early on, so the idea here is to test PvP.
* Gallavant will start on it's own and join the others on scenario 3. So it is meant to test a bit more the single player option. It can go both cooperative or PvP after that.
* I can fill in the missing space to test the GMlessness of the game ;)

House Name: House Novaro
House Leader: Rodrick Novaro
Heraldry: Black Shield with a White Griffon
House Motto: "Fierce and Dangerous"
Liege Lord: Lord Gallavant
House Background:
The Novaro house control major port in the outer isles, Griffon's Peak, the central and largest isle in the archipelago. It is mostly known for breeding griffons for the Empire. Novaro family is among the oldest noble houses, while they focus largely on diplomacy, choosing to broker a deal rather than go to an armed conflict, they are not someone to scoff at. Harsh environment and yet-to-be-tamed griffons leave little room for softness and no one was able to take control of their island since they have claimed it. The House would declare itself independent if not for their family ties to House Gallavant.

When Lord Gallavant was sent to the Outer Isles, Rodrick offered his cousin to stay at the Novaro Estate and assigned his second son, Bartholomew, to accommodate Lord Gallavant's needs. Lord Gallavant's presence, however, created a rather tense atmosphere as a lot of the House's arrangements aren't strictly legal, though, greatly beneficial to the region.

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House name: House Erim
House leader: Earl Vali Erim Heraldry: Plumetty cendree and sable; a lion cadent azure armed brunatre. House Motto: ''Beware the forests''
Liege Lord: Lord Morglin Ironfirst
House Background:

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A relatively new minor house descended from a long line of hunters and farmers, House Erim was granted it's peerage when Vali's great-great-grandfather saved the then ruling Lord Ironfoot from an erstwhile mountain lion during one of his hunting trips. The lord's party was ambushed by the lion who leapt at lord Ironfoot who was about to get mauled if not for hunter Erim's quick thinking. Interposing himself between his liege lord and the animal, the hunter killed the lion but not before taking fatal wounds himself. Thankful and distraught at seeing a loyal subject die because of his carelessness Lord Ironfoot quickly went to the side of the dying huntsman. The last words of the brave man was, ''Beware the forests, my lord...the beasts are roaming this time of year...''.

The hunter was buried with honours in the lord's own family crypt citing, ''Any person showing great acts of loyalty to me and my kin is my family as well'' The hunter's surviving family was given noble peerage and to any descendants thereafter while also having the deep forested lands in the south east as their demesne. Today house Erim is in charge of Lord Ironfoot's hunting grounds, and protecting the southern areas from poachers, criminals and monsters. The current head of the house, Earl Vali is fiercely devoted to the current leader of Ironfoot lord Morglin and has reaffirmed his loyalty by sending his best scouts, Rangers and knowledge of the woods and trails in ready supply. Tread carefully when you step inside the deep woods. sometimes errant beasts and monster claws are the least of your worries. for underneath the shadows of the trees, sharp blades and readied bows are waiting to drive home the message clear and true: ''Beware the forests...''

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Websites used to create leader portrait and heraldry:

Portrait: artbreeder.com
Heraldry: drawshield.net/random/

Due to random rolls took some liberties but open for tweakage.

House name: Clan Ishiyari
House leader: Currently Ichigo Ishiyari [The First Spear]

Heraldry: A red mountain split by five black spears
House Motto: ''The world is my weapon and I shall hewn it''
Liege Lord: Lord Morglin Ironfirst
House Background:

A clan based in the mountains that live a quiet warrior's life seeking enlightenment and mastery of the ways of the warrior, a hierarchy based on a meritocracy system between 5 siblings. The main family can shift annually depending on the merits accomplished by the main family and the 4 branches. Disciplined and militaristic when given the opportunity to become a vassal the clan as a whole saw it as an opportunity to use the world and traveling it to hewn their skills and sharpen their spear least it become rusty.

Oh wow, those are great!

MagnificentFly, I like what you did with the outer isles
Remnant that eastern touch to a clearly western-based game will be interesting :D
mormegil, that is exactly as I envisioned the game posts: a challenge (lion appears), an hero (Erim), and the resolution (Saving Lord Ironfist). The question is if that has enough depth for you guys or you want to try writing something more detailed/complex?

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So that sounds like it is all done. We have 2 Ironfist (cooperation) and a Gallavant (single playing). I'll ask around for a new player again, wait the weekend for anyone interest. Otherwise I'll run Kraeger :D

I will edit my post a bit to keep the same format on the thread and will add a few things to flesh out the house.
These are nice. Thanks for sharing these amazing tools, mormegil.

How about this one:
House Name: Blackwall
House Leader: Baltasar Vodan
Liege Lord: Viscount Kraeger
Heraldry: A red axe on a white field
Motto: Glory Everlasting

Blackwall used to be a city guarding the border. The family protected the border for decades with many joining human armies and serving with valor. Recently, the city has fallen and, as a result, the Blackwalls are now known mockingly as the Vodans, after their much smaller holding. Baltasar hopes that if his liege is victorious, some of the family's wealth might be restored...Thanks also for the recommendations

Oh wow. This is a perfect set up! Great start :)

I left it vague. I'll see if I can find that picture of my house's retinue member. It isn't displaying properly

Not to sound too impatient but when can we play? I'm excited to see how this looks in motion!

Personally, I'd like to see everybody else take their turn first. This might be a little confusing at first

I'm going to split the campaigns:
* The Price of Loyalty: Remnant's Clan Ishiyari and mormegil's House Erim start with Uprising
* The Price of Loyalty: raven_179's House Blackwall starts with Island of Chaos
* Voyage Home: MagnificentFly's House Novaro starts with Stranded

And I got a (random) map we can use to track your movements :D

@Snowcrash Let us know which "Lord" you want to play for. There is still one campaign I'm not using. They will tight in at the beginning and the end witht he others, but it is likely to be more of a single player feel if you want. Yu can, of course, join any of the others :D

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Maybe we can start with you guys submitting some character sheets, mostly so we can track/look at some heros/houses during the posts?

Hi guys. I'll do my best, tell me if it fits somehow :)

House Name: House Kohola'uhane
House Leader: Wikolia Kohola'uhane
Heraldry: Azure shield with an argent killer whale and a torch
House Motto: "Calm heart, clear mind"
Liege Lord: Lord Gallavant
House Background:
One hundred years ago, people living on the small islands extending too far from the outer isles to be of any interest, were simply calling themselves "Children of the sea" (or "Keiki o ke kai" in an ancient native language). They weren't interested in politics or kingdoms rising and falling on the mainland. That was until the raiders came, pirates as cruel as cunning. They enslaved many islands, burned many villages and taken many as slaves.
Then one woman stepped up, her name Lanakila. She united nearby villages and send messengers to the Children still able to fight. Then, she did the one thing no one before her dared - she asked for help from the mainland. Lords presiding over the coast aided her cause and helped drive the brigands out. After the fighting was done, she was decorated with the title "Mother" and given a coat of arms. That's how the House Kohola'uhane ("Spirit of the killer whale") started, the only house from the southern seas recognised by the empire.

When Wikolia took took over as the next Mother, her granddaughter, Lilinoe was almost eight. Although usually behaving like an ordinary, happy little girl, sometimes she would talk to herself or describe weird histories from the past. On the islands, everyone knew what this meant: the girl was Uhana - the one who could talk to the dead. She inherited the gift from her mother and grandmother and now needed to learn it's usage. That's when Wikolia had the strangest idea that sounded almost blasphemous - she sent the girl to be raised as an apprentice to a northern wizard named Solmyr. The family, The Children and the islands would certainly need her gifts one day. Maybe that day is near?

hey Snowcrash, House Kohola'uhane sounds great. You are putting down Lord Gallavant as your Liege and saying Lilinoe was sent to study with Solmyr. Which means you will be both on Lord Gallavant and Solmyr campaigns (they are not unrelated).

I made one small adjustment on the house threat :D

That was basically my idea, yeah

Great, I’ll try to set you up tomorrow