Moldavania - General Info

Travel Times:

School - 1 week to get there 1 weeks to get back and that is by using magical shortcut which is very pricey. Otherwise it will take a 2 months round trip.

Village to town - a few days

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"There is lumber reserves, minerals, and waterway yes? Great potential. My order is to get the old lumberyard near the village up and running again. I will...try to get some mineral surveyors but no promises. Those earthy types are fiendishly expensive even when failure is likely. Besides that you may wish to expand closer to the river. Get some docks and fishing going...would be much easier for to move troops and resources. Alas when that old lumberyard went to hell so too did that."

"...Didn't help that the town further down fell outside our control and it promptly collapsed. Lost an entire damned garrison too," grumbled Sir Flowers.

"Yes, yes i know we need to work on that but the only options besides those flooded lowlands is either haunted lands or those belonging to our neighbor..."

"But those marshes are so damnably cursed even the dead stay away from them," mentions the Knight.

"...Well do YOU have any bright ideas then?"

"I suggest we see ask around, investigate, see if we can get those religions to stop their bickering to take a look. I know ahm..."

"Continue."

"Your father and mother somehow had worked it out with getting those marshes to work would of been a bustling town which is why we put that garrison there."

"Also why they took it from me."

"Aye that is true but it died didn't it? Somehow your parents knew something about that place that made it work somehow."

"So until then you want to poke around at the swamp witches, investigation the cursed floods, and prod the nearby undead?"

"I would also suggest going over old family records and reports."

"...So you want me to piss all those forces off for what a lost town?"

"A great port in the bay my lady."

"Sure this isn't because of that garrison?"

"Its long lost. I just want to know what did it in. It was near deadlands they should of been able to handle it or very least send a message."

"...I don't know what you expect Sir Flowers. You should be well aware of my dire situation and very poor finances. But I will look into it regardless Sir Flowers."

"Thank you Baroness."

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	http://boards.4chan.org/tg/thread/43995280#p44064819
Her place is part of the top river saddling between that and the forest. Only along a small section of it closer towards the end. She used to be the countess for that entire stretch as well as further up that has since been lost control of.

The top left corner and center is wildlands while the right corner is dead duchies. The left is another kingdom whom you have hostilities with.

 	http://boards.4chan.org/tg/thread/43995280#p44064969 Maps
Yours is the oddly colored one.

Purple splotch is her town and the other dots are villages. Many of which are dying.


"We are part of the Kingdom of Harlos bordering some Duchies of the Dead. As for my realm...it used to be much larger. Used to have more people as well. Now I've been reduced to a lowly Baroness with barely a few villages and single township to my name. Before that I had a city, towns, and many villages. Obviously I have been reduced to nothing but a fraction of it all. It will however not stay that way. Your village..well there used to be several villages around that area but only the one survived. There used to a be porttown down river, some fishing villages, farming villages, and villages near the forests as well as wilds. Now there is only the one..."

"The tribals survive out in the wild lands. While they are a bunch of barbaric savages their power isn't to be underestimated. many mighty Empires have burned before their onslaught and countless Kingdoms have fallen before them. So long as they keep to their old ways that keep them strong they are very dangerous. Luckily for the civilized lands the savages prefer the wilds which keeps them strong.

As for the bone...that was a message. For you see my mother was actually a tribal and that is from her. I arranged for it to be returned to her people. Its a gesture of goodwill and they returned the favor with the item they gave you. Its a very good sign for it means we can count them as friends and family. Its actually why my father was able to marry my mother despite her supposed lack of status...he just claimed she a tribal version of a noble. Which was...kind of correct albeit stretching the truth quite a bit."

"Student leave would indeed be good for you to take sometime soon. Though considering your skills I would assume your about to graduate yes? I can see why you would wish to go back and finish it or take up a new course of study."

"The village is under your jurisdiction feel free to do as you will. So long as i get my taxes and certain things are developed I care little."

Lady no Baroness Ezra explains that she is a daughter of a lord who fell in love with a barbarian woman. Despite what the other lords would say he married her despite her lack of official station. Her mother was actually someone sent by the tribals to help deal with the undead. Of which they often due as the undead is a great enemy and should they take the numbers of civilized folks...so they help out. Her mother was one of those helpers when her father ran into her as she was working. The two of them got along so well despite the risks he decided to marry her and the two together were so formidable that even the Duchies feared them.

...Naturally such a power couple could not be allowed to stand. With the tribal support and the undead on the backfoot they became a bit of a threat. There were also rumors of necromancy...and them working with the undead. Naturally they were made to pay and were slain by heroes who bought the idea of them being corrupted nobles who used foul magics to keep the undead at bay and were planning an invasion of the kingdom by the tribals.

So they were 'stopped' slain and all their hardwork was destroyed. With their sole daughter was only barely spared and forced to clean up the mess while expected to thank those responsible.

You could see the flames of rage in her eyes as she recounts it and the venom of words. They would be made to pay. All of them including those so called heroes.

You got the sudden feeling that the tall woman was much more dangerous then you had thought. You knew she was smart, tall as hell(fucking barbarian blood she makes you feel short), but there was also something more...something very much wicked that laid underneath the troubled nice young lady who was trying to do her best for her people and house.

"Necromancy they claim to evil...even when its just used to talk with the dead and who are they to be offended should the dead decide to listen? Decide to take action?"

"Necromancy is merely a means of discourse between the living and the dead. For that reason its demonized and for its obvious yet natural connects to undeath."

"Its why it was so good at dissuading the dead. To help them rest peacefully in their graves. To make our own sounds overheard over other noises that would otherwise awaken them."

"That is what my mother was guilty of and what my father was guilty for abiding. When those two were together the dead were never more at rest then any other time and it was such that even the duchies feared them."

"My father meanwhile with the duchies running scared and with the tribals being friendly was able to ensure a golden age in his lands...naturally all good things must come to an end. I was merely just a girl back when it ended. I was old enough to bear witness to the golden age and was looking forward to a new sibling when it all went to hell..."

"That is why my parents died. They neither saw it coming and were more worried about the rest of us then themselves."

"I know better now. Next time it will be they who wont see it coming."

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With the realm she points out the different towns and cities. Including the lost marked city that was previously her families before it was wiped off the map by the undead as they made their advance into the keep. Taking new lands and mostly the lands that were previously hers.

The power blocks as she explains can be brought up into several different groups. You have the producers those who provide the raw stuffs to keep the kingdom functional. Mostly the farming and mining lords. You have the lords of trade and the border lords. Finally the last one is the royalists.

The border lords are broken into three groups. Her family used to be a member of the borderlords Duchies group until they betrayed her. She has since become an independent who relies upon no power block.

This gets you concerned...but it does explain an awful lot at the same time.

The power blocks are led by the different high ranking dukes who teamed up and combined their resources to form the power blocks. Naturally with such powerful nobles and their retainers together ensured that even the Crown had to be careful around them.

She has since been aligning herself with the Crown and her previous master was naturally a nearby duke whom her family served under. Now that her family has been punished and to keep an eye on her. She was transferred over to the Crown's banner so they could naturally keep an eye on her.

Currently though there is steep lines between drawn between different royals and the power blocks. As one Prince wants to team up with their old enemy the other neighboring kingdom. Another wants to take the fight to the Duchies, one wants to civilize some wildlands, and the last finally wants to be isolationist. They have since formed into a number of formidable camps who are rather...divided to say the least.

The current balance may be broken Ezra explained as the one who wants to ally with their neighbor is working on taking some of the other Princes into it and is working on wooing the neighboring Princess.

The discussions are slow going and its unlikely the other ones will take to it very well. According to Ezra unless something should happen either those camps ally up and succeed with steamrolling the opposition, it maintains a gridlock, or civil war.

When she was a young girl actually was forced to grow up and taught in the capital. There she did manage to make some friends...it was only when she got older she was allowed to return to her lands to find out how badly it all went to utter shit.

If she hadn't been taken away the damage as she pouts on could of been controlled much more easily. But when your gone for years and allow the rot to sink in deep there is only so much you can do.

Your village is at an interesting intersection between the wildlands, dead duchies, river, and oceanic bay.

Unsurprisingly her land is in very poor shape but there are investments she is after and treasures she has dug up. Thanks to her determining that not all adventurers are heroes like those who murdered her family. The kingdom's status meanwhile is in a rather shaky position.

The bone in particular is a keepsake from her mother that is most valuable to her tribe and has she was part of a certain organization. That spread its influence across tribes. That is why she can so easily appease the tribals as a whole. The reason for its value is its actually a priceless treasure made from ancient bone and spiritual remnants.

The tribes according to her are as she warns on average much stronger then the typical civilized man even the women. That is simply because its tough living but it ensues their power. The women she states stick close to home...unless they go off spouse hunting. The men are more prone to wandering and because of how much a pain their women can be also may go spouse hunting. More due to said difficulties then shortages which drives the women off(as men sent forth naturally encrue more losses then the women at home). The women however despite being home doesn't mean its safe. They are expected to keep the home safe and tend to be...tad protective as well as very vicious in such regards to those that threaten it.

Unlike with other peoples whom once you steamroll the men you can have your way with the women, children, and old your gonna be in for one hell of a nasty surprise. Which makes them oddly equal but separate due to their assigned duties and expected tasks.

As for the reason why they can cause such devastation to civilized lands is simple.

Those civilized peoples are soft, weak, and overly selfish. All those qualities can and will get you killed where they are from.

So when they march out of the wilds in mass kingdoms and even empire's can't help but burn. As is their skirmishes and hunting is difficult to deal with as is.

She gives the go ahead on the student leave even writing up some recommendations and her own excusing stuff. She strongly suggests that sometime soon it may be a bad idea to be in the kingdom...and it would not be a bad idea to be back to school when it all goes down. Preferably one farther away and different specialty given you pretty much almost graduated the current your program in anyway.

Village she agrees to as well and offers special things that will serve to encourage it. Stuff like tax breaks and such.

After that you bring up the spirit well.

According to Ezra its very valuable for the resources it generates, the spirits it lures, the rarity(they are according her extremely rare), and a few other benefits.

If one should be a shaman for instance its even more invaluable. Learning spirit skills from the spirits there or training them nearby the benefits are also huge.

The only reason why according to Ezra they aren't more sought out it due to its heavily protected nature and its lack of usefulness outside of the spiritual.

It was dark out and you both were about to visit some more. When unexpectedly you heard a light childish knock and a door opened to reveal a young girl with drooping eyes who sorta wobbled her way over into the lap of the lady.

You were caught completely off guard and were about to say something until you saw the loving look on Ezra's face. For a second you thought it was her daughter but then remembered she was too young...so taking a closer look at the children you realized that despite the shocking resemblance they were clearly siblings.

At that point the Ezra decided to excuse herself as and said you were welcome to stay the night. As she carried her younger sibling to what you assumed to be bed.


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Vamp Lover Agent
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"Great...ah weren't suppose to know this. So let me tell you this he did it under my orders to screw with the vampires by using his ex he is able to do this and despite the dangers he volunteered. He is my double agent and goes by Sir Solace. If you should tell anyone..."