Empire 6: Embers of Dawn IC

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The Great Kingdom of Ngedhuun Thukhulu Saar Lhungho
a.k.a.
The River Lords

Years 249-252
Region 221 - Troll Country (Ljung Ghrakka Saar)
Region 220 - Unghlaban
Region 210 - Narava
Region 209 - Konraech
Region 208 - Inkhwabi
Region 202 - Lonn Dhakaa
Region 199 - Cnamhatan

Ruunandaraghal Lhungho, High King of the Dhraan, River-King of the Mikra of Narava, Foremost Sage of the Tribes of Unghlaban, Bulwark Of Civilization
Diplomacy 10
Military 10
Opulence 5
Faith 2
Intrigue 5

Actions

1. [Military] Defend 202 with 2 units (1 naval, 1 land), Bronze, and Thin-Blood Elixir, led by Onoynoyis Mil 10), with help from VYG (1 unit, Black Iron Weapons, War Drums), using Reckless Attack Tactical Doctrine. Total Combat Bonus: +18 ; Total Tactical Maneuvering Bonus: +12
   Onoynoyis spends many a month studying the heart of the Gluttonous Shadows threat from afar, after burning the bodies of his mentor and the beast which claimed her. The man takes to the task of understanding their nature - and the means of their destruction - with a passion that lent itself more to determination than to proper study, never quite feeling finished with the reconnaissance first undertaken in the weeks while they waited for Agatha to bring with her the secrets of Black Iron by which to force their way in. Though he is the first to realize the change in the behavior of the Gluttonous Shadows, his time traveling the Sur and seeking out clues beyond the borders of Lhungho Saar means that even this is too late - by the time he returns to the royal palace, his first visit in nearly five years, a ruinous plague had already settled into the colonies of the river kingdom.
   
   Onoynoyis regretted his...he could only call it selfish in retrospect - behavior almost immediately. It had simply been...every skipped visit to the royal palace had lent itself more and more to a feeling of independence - or perhaps, looking back on it, simply distance. Almost without exception, his entry was greeted with joy and relief - his mother Ichippā raced to embrace him with an almost painful tightness the moment he came into view, leaving a startled and confused cluster of Cha-Daně-Dan captains in her wake. He had missed the birth of nearly a half-dozen of his...well the Dhraan would call them kin-siblings, he supposed. He'd missed the deaths and funeral feasts of several servants and even Eenie's birth-Mother.
   
   And so in his shame, Onoynoyis accepted the task laid upon him. He had arrived within a fortnight bearing word of the dangers to come, but it was scant days after when word came by way of those Dream Speakers who had braved the dangers of the colonies to give witness to the tales of those beleaguered settlements - the danger was greater than ever before. Before long, the palace was a buzz of activity - messengers and communications passed on to powers across the known world to both seek aid in the scouring of this menace, and alert them to the opportunity that lay at Kiswa's feet - to strike a mortal blow against the literal heart of the Blightspawn, and - one hoped - end their threat with finality. Onoynoyis, who had spent years lingering on the fantasy of such a task, would have no role in this - though he felt the yearning to aid in this, so too could he not pry the images of the dead from his mind. Thus, in his private penance, he would meet with the Vygra upon the shores of the Sur, and lead a combined force of Vygra and Dhraan across that great river to cleanse the lands of their taint.
   
   He wished greater luck to those who would venture into the heart of darkness than they had been greeted with in years prior.
   
   
2. [Military] Aid CRO (1 unit, Thorael, 1 Treasure, War Drums) in the defense of 209, with 4 units (1 naval, 3 land), Bronze, and Thin-Blood Elixir, with help from SOS (1 unit, Black Iron Weapons). Total Combat Bonus: +23 ; Total Tactical Maneuvering Bonus: +6
   Elsewhere, though, aid comes from an unexpected corner - Sikar. Highnest sends word that their greatest champion, Kro Thorael, is come to give a final mercy to the creature that leads the Gluttonous Shadows, which once they called 'friend'. The Sentinels, too, send the aid missed in prior years, in the form of Valens of Tarandi, from whose lips fall prayers and praises to a goddess that would ring familiar in the ear of many a Dhraan - and one made all the stranger for it.
   
   In their long vigilance against the Gluttonous Shadows, the river trolls had neglected to keep so careful a watch on all their neighbors, and as such when word comes of aid proffered by the Veramondi to their east, it comes as both surprise and blessed relief, and it is with a great awareness of their own reliance on these makeshift alliances that the Troll King directs Kona's forces to meet with the Elkh-Waden sent by the Vygra and their weapons of black iron, so that they might cross the river and cleanse Inkhwabi once more, the region's very architecture having been warped by now to reflect the fear and uncertainty of the next attack by Blightspawn.
   
   
3. [Military] Defend 199 with 6 units (1 naval, 5 land) and Bronze, led by High King Ruunandaraghal Lungho, using Riparian Ambush Tactical Doctrine, with Deep Water defense bonus, accepting the Duel (Cultural Identity applies to Duel). Total Combat Bonus: +21 ; Tactical Maneuvering Bonus: +9
   Lorna MacGill is the one to surmise the culprits behind the poisoning and devastation of the colonies across the Sur, and this is only confirmed when word arrives of a great force of Anbroch amassing on the river's banks to cross into Cnamhatan. While many of his warriors fight the shadows, he leads the greater part of the kingdom's forces north, over ten dozens of Dhraanish warriors, outfitted with gleaming Vyterrati bronze. The gleam would soon be obscured by the weeds and silt of the river as they prepared their trap for the encroaching invaders, on the banks of the great river....
   
   
4. [Military] Raise Two Land Units
   The need for warriors willing to march under the banner of the Troll King is greater than ever, and news of the pernicious work of the dwarves to the north drives many into a fury - High King Ruunandaraghal has no patience for misdirected violence, however, and a number of Ixhudhu who let this fury out on their thralls are dealt with harshly. A number of Ixhudhu with rather more self-control are convinced to pledge their teeth and their war-thralls (overwhelmingly elven, for unclear reasons) to the royal family's service, under the promise of opportunity to use them on the treacherous Anbroch in years to come.
   
   
5. [Faith] Change State Religion to Way of Green
   
   Spoiler: WIP

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   [Impressing the Trollsmoot @ Bellowing Bridge] [Kamiya and Tuvini; bringing up the possibilities created by miracle of Orem and Enya; restoring the land after the Blightspawn]
   
   
   
6. [Intrigue] Steal Steering Oars Technology from Bel-Dan Armada [Roll Result: 10 - Failure (defender roll: 12)]
   Following the initial failures to see results, the kingdom of Lhungo Saar employs a marginally subtler strategy - sending dwarves to attempt to worm their way into Bel-Dan industry circles to learn what it was that made their craft so nimble on the waters in recent years. Between the relationship of the Dhraan to their dwarven thralls, the nature of the Anbroch's relationship with the Bel-Dan, and the very poorly hidden attempts to discern these secrets in years prior, it is perhaps unsurprising that this strategy would likewise end in failure.
   

Non-Actions
Standing: Accept any Embassies or Technologies offered.


News and Rumors

Spoiler: n&r prompts

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[*]Stories of Singhon[*]Folktale to write: The [First/Best/Most Famous] Sin-Eater[*]Feelings about things in the 'Moot[*]Merchant class struggling with Blightspawn[*]Some royal family info

Spoiler: Recorded In Chorus

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State Religion: Abiherism
Bonuses: +1 Errant Quests, 2d8 Epic Quests

Trade Posts:
Faranandūll (193) - TP3 - Avocados
Lonn Dhakaa (202) - TP2 - Copper
[Singhön] Narava (210) - City - Bananas

Treasure: 0/10

Fortress: Walls of Singhön [in Narava (210)]

Units:
9/18+2 Land Units
4/9? Naval Units

• Land:
• Snapping Maw [20dh+++e/dw]
• Gnashing Teeth [22dh+++e/dw]
• Broken Scales [19dh++dw]
• Spitting Stones [20dh++e]
• Light Bringers [21dh+dh]
• Shade Breakers [21dh+dh]
• Efryt Primals [230vk++vk]
• Efryt Exemplars [170vk+++vk]
• Ravyk Cardinals [260vk++vk]
  
  
• Naval:
• Bloatlurks [18dh+e/dw]
• Mikra Primals [220vk+vk]
• Mikra Exemplars [160vk+vk]
• Cha-Daně-Dan Salt Hawks[180bd+bd/e/dw] ?

The Fallen:

• River's Surge [20dh+++e/dw]
• Lashing Tail [24dh++++e/dw/bd]
• Vyrka Primals [230vk++vk]

Techs:
Animal Husbandry
Irrigation
Sailing
Writing (Veramondi Logography)
Pottery
Masonry
Crab-Claw Sails
Thin-Blood Elixir
Bronze


Embassies:
HEN
UBT
VYG

Organizations:
SOS: +2 Rep, 0 Favors
DSP: +1 Rep, 2 Favors
TSR: +4 Rep, -1 Favors

Spoiler: Legends and Legacies

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Troll King Haanhangandhal - Slain Through Subterfuge
Dip 10
Mil 8
Opulence 5
Faith 1
Intrigue 2

High King Ruunandaraghal
Projected Stat Growth:
+2 Diplomacy
+1 Intrigue?


The Royal Family:
Royal Patriarch & High King Ruunandaraghal
Great Chief Geputen Kw'Torineti
Low King Mhanmosochaan
Grand Princeps Tyja Pemmelg
Herald Prince Parvahdi of Harkatna

Royal Matriarch & High Queen-Consort Ichippā of Henanda
Great Wife Klarakrudkhani
Low Queen Lorna MacGill, formerly of the Anbroch
Grand Princesses Kamiya & Tuvini
Eminent Princess Ingalhiikhudile

Scionary Prince Onoynoyis, Champion of Saar Lhungho (Hero 10)

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Secondborne-Prince-to-Ruunandaraghal

Firstborn-Prince-to-Klarakrudkhani,
Secondborn-Princess-Klarakrudkhani, Kladhaarukughaal
Thirdborn-Prince-to-Klarakrudhkhani
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Sixthborn-Princess
Seventhborn-Princess
Eighthborn-Princess
Ninthborne-Prince
Tenthborn-Princess

Firstborn-Prince-to-Lornamacgill

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Fifthborne-Prince
Sixthborn-Princess

Firstborn-Princess-to-Kamiya
Firstborn-Princess-to-Tuvini
Secondborn-Prince-to-Kamiya

Firstborn-Prince-to-Parvahdi
Secondborn-Princess-to-Parvahdi

Firstborne-Prince-to-Mhanmosochaan

Ingkannu Isidi, Champion and Daughter of Ghrakka Yonghalo (Former Hero 10 - Slain in one last act of spite by monstrosities)