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Imperial Court of Wetull
New Goras Era
The Third Era factions
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Royal lines*
Arguen Garth Aniculo (Hardir O’ Fardor)
Inis-Mir Aniculo (Princess Heiress)
Lithoniela of Baltoris (The Elderblood Princess was 3rd in line of succession)
Loyalists & associates (for Hardir O’ Fardor’s line with ‘official’ positions.)
Lord Fikumin Flintfoot of Glorfalc, King’s Shield, Governor of New Goras, Priest of Luthos.
Lord Suraer –Governor of Lo-Minas, Keeper of Imperial Stables (Lady Aelinole, Berthas)
Lord Onas –Master of War, King’s Diplomat, shadow Governor of Ani Ta-Ne, general.
Lord Anfalon –Lord of the Phalanx, First of the Hallowed, general.
Lady Olonelis –Keeper of Nesande’s Garden, Abarat. (The mother of Darunia).
Lady Aenymriel –Imperial Surveyor. Surviving younger sibling of the fabled Elas and ancient era’s Vaelerthiel ‘of the woods’ offspring. Considered unstable.
Lord Elwuin –Imperial Architect, Baltoris Port. Quiceran’s pupil.
Lady Vaelenn –King’s Judicar, Governor of Abarat.
Master Rybel –Master of Ships, Naval Engineer, Hardir’s Port.
Master Laius Cinna –Imperial Treasurer, Advisor.
Master Doris Alden –SETC board of directors, Advisor and part shareholder.
Master Luvon –Bank of Goras, SETC board of directors and part shareholder.
Viceroy Metu –Governor of Ani Ta-Ne, Diplomat, ex-treasurer, SETC part shareholder.
Priest Voldomir -High Priest of Nesande’s Temple, Priests Estates district of Taras.
Priest Feyras -High Priest of Eodrass Temple, Chimera’s Mouth Gulf, Old Goras city center.
Master Voron -Lord of Public Works, Seat’s Chief Architect.
Master Folen -Master of Silence, also businessman? Former bard? Ex-criminal?
Master Laedan –Denmaster, Master of Beasts. Un-repented flesh eater.
Master Kamat-Fin –Master of Birds. Former employee of the Sopat family.
Lady Kilynia –Royal Chamberlain at Morn Taras. Former 2nd Era court official.
Rimeros –Morn Taras Castellan, Advisor. Former 2nd Era official.
Master Eilven –Royal Artist, Sculptor, Painter. Late Quiceran’s prodigy.
Flardryn –IM Leader, Captain of Galleons, Serpent’s Canal Docks. SETC Admiral.
Maeriel –Imperial Rangers Leader, trainer, Princess’ Guardian. Faelar’s last known pupil.
Roran –2nd of the Phalanx, with the First Othrim at Ani Ta-Ne.
Lefyr –Commander of Rain-Minas, Imperial Marines officer.
Vulreon O’ Kataer –King’s Scribe, former 1st Era intern, former 2nd Era junior scribe.*
Phinariel –Royal Scribe, working under Fikumin. His spouse after 195 NC.
Theron Gravelbrow –Advisor, working under Fikumin.
Captain Esau Fane –Taras Guard commander, under Fikumin.
Lon-Iv Sopat –Advisor, Merchant’s Guild and SETC part shareholder.***
Ran-Sahor –Mercenary commander, under Lon-Iv Sopat.
Kalac, the Brave –Lord of Snakesville, warband leader. Recruiting Horselords on Eplas.
Vycaris & Oelinael –Royal Tailors.
Angrein O’ Mecatan –Imperial Blacksmith.
Zaos O’ Mecatan –Imperial Blacksmith. (Angrein’s pupil.)
Sir Alan Kirk –Royal Rokae, King’s Adjutant.
Hagen –King’s bodyguard.
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Samak & Hesam –King’s bodyguards, former slavers for the Sopat family.
Iskay O’ Morn Taras –Royal courtier, a former slave.
Atju O’ Morn Taras –Head Royal Servant.
Memphes O’ Morn Taras –Royal Servant.
Berthas O’ Aelinole –Court’s Sorcerer, Instructor of Magic.
Keya O’ Berthas –a young Sorceress at Berthas Academy.
Sir Delmuth –Royal Rokae Leader.
Sir Maderas –Lord Suraer’s Adjutant, Royal Rokae
Sir Qildor –Royal Rokae, Princess’ Own.
Sir Nuvian –Royal Rokae.
Sir Nyvorlas –Royal Rokae.
Friends (sic.) –Known Loyalists without positions.
Whisper Jinx –Founding member of the Gallant Dogs mercenary company, ranger.
Soren, the Mighty –similar background as Jinx, adventurer.
Troy, the Titan of Novesium. –an ex-champion of the Pits, Chiliad general, adventurer.
Sam Mathews –known adventurer.
Clinton Marlo –known adventurer.
Asper –Ex-Chiliad leader, a gladiator that formed his own band (with Beskar and Kelly).
Wetull Underworld
Nigel ‘Nightingale’ Grim –known Thieves Guild member and representative.
Ryker Phantom –less known Thieves Guild member.
Hulanor O’ Alenia? –rumored greater Goras Crime Boss, through Folen. Earned gravitas due to his presumed relation to the notorious ‘Aeson the Elusive’, a 1st Era felonious arms smuggler during the Aken-Zilan war, wanted traitor and mass-murderer.
Rumored supporters also include the mysterious ‘Eight’ and ‘Toloth Ama Erea’, the leaders of the old Imperial and the post-Imperial branches of the Thieves Guild.
1st and 2nd Era Imperials and other unaligned.
Lithoniela of Baltoris, the late Queen’s only daughter.
Caruso –An adventurer, former man-hunter and outlaw from Raoz.
Moira –A freedwoman healer following the Princess.
Lord Paeris, the attractive. A famed Elderblood bard, 1st Era court ‘advisor’. Unaligned.
Soletha –Healer, Priestess and Moon’s Daughter Cult disciple, Mayor of Sinya Goras.
Mylael O’ Soletha –Healer, Moon’s Daughter Cult disciple.
Lord Sulynor –exiled former Lord of Rain-Minas. Former Rokae Leader. Governor of distant Neil Dan. Known staunch supporter of late High Priestess Edlenn, the Sibyl ‘Night Moon’.
Aeleniel O’ Faelar –Exiled Imperial Ranger leader, late legendary Zilan ranger Faelar’s favorite pupil, with Maeriel of Goras being his last surviving. Faelar had been a known Edlenn loyalist, close friend and the presumed lost Aelrindel’s sworn former guardian.
Tanulia O’ Aeleniel and her pupil Azrael O’ Tanulia, Zilan Rangers out of Dan. Last seen in Lai Zel-Ka.
Ralnor, also Larn. A shadowy Mori-Zilan/Zilan half-breed rumored to be a former member of the infamous ‘Nym’s Circle of Servants’. An Imperial Guild of Assassins. One of many of Edlenn’s Strays, who were outcast young Zilan the late High Priestess had saved and attempted to tutor after giving them access to Nesande’s Garden in the waning years of the Aken-Zilan war. While they originally settled near Rain Minas, the majority of them are still living now -still exiled- in the distant northern Eplas Zilan colony of Dan. Unknown whereabouts.
Rhys Vardran? –A rumored member and leader of the ‘Silent Servants’ Guild on friendly terms with Lithoniela. While not a citizen of Regia, or any of Jelin’s kingdoms, Rhys’ name strangely appears in Greater Regia’s court transcripts of King Lucius’ private sessions and is found in other official documents as the owner of pricey parcels of highly-coveted coastal land around Novesium. Last seen at Cartagen’s West Gates.
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Notes:
*Lord Elas’ skilled assistant Kataer, had taken over from him after Queen Baltoris ascended the throne as first scribe and advisor in court policy. Kataer, while heeding the experienced Elas’ advice got overwhelmed with the amount of work that fell on him due to the Queen’s frequent absences and unofficially elevated his own pupil Vulreon (with the blessings of Elas who liked the younger Zilan and had used Vulreon in the past to transcribe older texts) as another royal scribe. This gave the dutiful Vulreon the opportunity to witness some of the closed door meetings of all three Eras and under three different rulers.
**The Sopat family, through Sen-Iv’s marriage to Arguen Garth and their daughter Inis-Mir, had blood relations with Wetull’s 3rd Eras’ royal line that Hardir O’ Fardor started.
***The abbreviated SETC, or South Eplas Trading Company, board of directors had several members including King Garth, who was the majority owner of the shares. Some of them were responsible for recognizing opportunities across the South Seas and directing the production of goods so as to be more-profitable. Others, mainly Flardryn who was in charge of the initial flotilla, carved the safer routes towards the friendlier ports and then followed the merchant transports with his warships.
Heavy taxation and tariffs imposed on Wetull goods transported via the land route through Scaldingport after 195 NC and the unstable situation due to the war especially after the 2nd battle at 3Roads, forced the leadership of SETC to seek more distant and direct routes. This strategy targeted the city port of Novesium, who struggled to replenish its population and its wealth after the ‘Spring of Malady’ that had followed Regia’s Civil War and was ruled by an approachable governor.
The famous ‘Coin Route’ avoided most of Regia’s coast in a straight shot through the open seas, but needed a closer base of operations. So Master Rybel, Doris Alden and Flardryn came up with the idea to ‘angle even more to the south first afore turning north’. Two months after the meeting an Imperial Galleass navigated the reefs and treacherous channels of Sinking Isles and moored at the easternmost of them, the sparsely-populated Worm Isle in the summer of 195 NC. With clean water from the Sparrow Lake, the Zilan moved fast to secure the islet from the few Gish that swam as fast as they could to their mainland and then worked with some local collaborators to improve the small natural port.
Mussel that had turned back into a ruin after D’Orsi’s Expedition was swiftly rebuilt using prisoners, slaves and workers with funds generated by the strained SETC’s coffers. Several prominent rich merchants volunteered to assist and Lord Garth ordered the Bank of Goras to allow foreign funds to pour in the company’s purse. SETC soon started to build its own ships, train sailors and soldiers without consulting with Laius Cinna, the latter busy trying to balance the books of the rapidly-expanding and rebuilding kingdom.
At the start of that year, a secret meeting of the heads of the Bank of Goras, the Bank of Dinar and the Bank of Trust had been held at Scaldingport. The different banks represented the Khanate, Wetull & its Allies and Lesia’s trading partners on Jelin. They decided that given the dispute on who controlled the –still undecided and uncharted- Coin Route, which parties products/goods had priority and mostly the price of said products, the ancient ‘rule of three’ fitted the situation perfectly.
The Bankers from all sides signed the ‘accord’ that was to normalize warfare from all parties involved for control of the trade routes.
‘Whatever happens at sea, any action by a trading vessel,’ Lord Kosey Toka told his daughter Tamun-Toka when he returned, ‘stays a trading matter. That’s what was decided. Which means this horrid ordeal is about to spill-out to land and involve a lot of unsuspecting people. A license for bloodshed and violence. A pirate’s biggest wish. But if we are don’t get involved, then by the time the Khan’s war ends, the Khanate will only move goods during a few short summer months from the ‘Northern Route’ and have only Rida’s port facing Jelin, provided we do keep control of the Shallow Sea.’
*4 The similarly-named gargantuan in size city was destroyed by a series of volcanic explosions and earthquakes, three or four years before the start of the New Calendar now used by the Khanate on Eplas and the three human kingdoms on Jelin. In its place the Zilan erected Throne’s Seat at Morn Taras –Tenebrous Castle, the industrial Hardir’s Port, the cosmopolitan Taras –with its many districts, the trade hub of Sinya Goras Port, and the distant military outpost of Mussel Port.
These several towns and ports for the humans, what the Zilan now call New Goras.