(King Litten has a library…)
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*visits library*
(Okay, who do I start a PM with?)
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"An excerpt from the book, “The Five Regions " date 1 season ago
PATRICIANS OF THE COAST
The Patricians seldom directly involve themselves in military matters on land. In times of conflict they prefer to hire foreign mercenaries from across the ocean - usually from the Tatterlands - to do their fighting for them.
However, the sea is a different matter. The Patricians maintain a strong and capable Royal Navy on behalf of the Monarch, which they primarily use to guard their trade routes from piracy. Many Patricians, if they find themselves unsuited to the merchant lifestyle, will choose instead to become an Admiral.
The Patricians also in theory have the ability to raise levies from their villages, but they very rarely do so, and many of the villagers along the Coast consider themselves above such duties. In the event of levies being raised, most Coastal peasants will desert at the first opportunity.
CHIEFS OF THE NORTH
Each Chief is always surrounded by a band of warriors who can trace back their association with the Chief’s clan a hundred years or more. These warriors will brawl constantly, with each other or with other warrior-clans, and will occasionally mount expeditions into the Frozen Wastes to try to find and slay an Ice Giant or wyvern.
The mountains and forests of the North are also positively bristling with smaller, Chiefless clans, armed to the teeth and full of savage warriors, who can be rounded up by a capable Chief and brought under their banner in a time of emergency. There’s no such thing as an untrained peasant in the North - even the farmers have a warrior tradition, banding together to protect their fields from bandits or Troldenfolk.
Furthermore, a strong cultural stigma against cowardice means that a Northern force will retreat only in the most dire circumstances. The biggest problem with Northern armies is a lack of discipline - although some Chiefs are cunning strategists, the majority will often eschew tactics in favour of a berserker charge.
COUNTS OF THE EAST
Each Count has command of a small unit of soldiers who operate from their keep. These soldiers seldom see battle and are not particularly well-trained.
The military strength of the Counts mostly comes from their large population and their inquisition (composed of one man or woman). In times of emergency, each Count can raise vast levies from among their serfs. Most of these peasants are totally untrained, barely knowing which end of the spear is the pointy end, and serve as little more than cannon fodder in any war. But there’s a lot of cannon fodder in the East.
In addition, there are a number of military orders who operate in the East. These are groups of religious knights who dwell in monasteries, deep in the forest, and train obsessively. They will ride to protect the Kingdom from ‘enemies of the faith.’ Some of these Orders, such as the Order of the Gossamer Shield, have corrupted over the centuries, and are now little more than mercenaries.
They will sell their services to the highest bidder if they can find a justification for it, and as a result, have been directly involved in recent wars and are a hard-bitten military force. Others, such as the Order of the Drowned Rose, have maintained the old ways and will only go to war if the Church is threatened. This means they haven’t actually seen real combat in a long time and their military prowess is untested.
GRANDEES OF THE SOUTH
The Grandees live in grand, sprawling manors in the countryside, maintaining a small unit of a few guards and drawing levies from the peasants on their land.
Urban areas of the South boast an unusually well-organized, well-armed and well-trained City Watch. In a pinch, the Grandees can pull from the various Watches to make up military numbers, although the Watch recruits will likely be highly resentful of this (not to mention untrained in core areas of combat, such as logistics and the tactics of a large-scale battle).
BARONS OF THE MARCH
Each Baron has command of a small unit of disciplined soldiers, operating from their fortress. This means that the March has a small but formidable standing army, composed of well-trained infantry and cavalry.
In times of emergency, they can also raise large numbers of levies from the peasants to complement this core well-disciplined force. Thanks to the March’s history of wars, most peasants have a longbow or a rusty halberd at home, and Barons will often arrange for sergeants to travel the local countryside, spending a few days at each village to train peasants in the very basics of warfare. This means that the March’s levies are much more likely to show some discipline in warfare than the peasant levies of other Regions.
In addition, the March has a strong chivalric culture, with many second or third sons of Barons becoming knights and competing in tournaments. These knights will also ride to their liege-lord’s banner in the event of war, bolstering a Baron’s forces still further.
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(Fixing this to say (most of their strength is from their inquisition)
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What’s a march?
i have literally no idea
i thiiink it’s like. a grassland or a swamp but idk which
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(Do we have a map)
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no but i can describe it to you
the only region not bordering the Capital is the Coast
on top is, obviously, the North
to the right of the capital on a map is the very expansive East
the Barons and the Grandees border each other, kind-of sharing the same land (e.i. they’re both in the South, but the Barons are in the Southwest)
and the Coast is to the west
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also here’s what I think the regions are based on
no idea if this is true but
- Patricians: England (?)
- Barons: Germany (France?)
- Chiefs: based on the Norse (no idea what their country is called
) - Grandees: Spain
- Counts: (least confident) Russia?
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England didnt really trade tho, I was thinking the Venetians more
When I think money I think Venice
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yeah I say that mostly because they command a great Navy
no idea who the Venetians are
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They were the people who dominated trade in the Mediterranean
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oooh
i can see it
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I would guess Romania. because of transylvania and all
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Yea but for good bits of time Romania was part of Russia, so it works for Russia to
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i kinda assumed England because of the whole navy thing
and England in medieval times was very profitable (mostly because of slavery tho) iirc
were they in medieval times?
i think it was actually called like. Prussia back then
but