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Addendum III
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The Lorian Lords
Known families & titles around 192 NC (part III –expanded)
Volume II (Lesia)
KINGDOM OF LESIA
(Also known as the land of the six rivers)
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> The old ‘High Barons’
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> (Lesia was splintered into many Baronies afore King Divinus Colenus I (Colin I) wars of unification. Members of the Council of Barons.)
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> A) The Davenius (from the moniker ‘Divinus’), Davenport –
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> (the name an amalgam of the known phrase ‘Divinus Army port’ that birthed both the name of the capital Armium and the Davenport family name.)
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> Royal city of Armium
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> Coat of Arms, the ‘White Boars’.
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> Dictum ‘Endure & Overcome’.
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> Armium (Capital city, port). Large city facing the Lesia Gulf at the delta of Dave’s River (Old Dwarf name Da Rivrumm). Armium, despite not being bigger than Cediorum in population was the only city in Lesia and on Jelin to hold an Admiralty, a Military School, an Academy and big temples of worship for three of the Five gods of the pantheon. Tyeus, Uher and Oras. Naossis wasn’t favored in Lesia as much as in the neighboring Lorian kingdom and the short in statue Luthos -despite having the mighty dwarven ruins of Gargulor deep in the Lesia Plains dedicated to him- was per usual overlooked completely.)
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> Dave’s Fort (Desert town fort guarding the Long Road to Levacum)
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> Dave’s Stables (Royal holding on the River Plains turned into a small city)
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> Sisterville (Large hunting and fishing village in the King’s Forest)
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> The Desert Barony of Levacum
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> Coat of arms, a desert Vulture.
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> Levacum (Remote city castle, a very rich holding near Leviathan Oasis)
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> Diamant (Famed mining village inside the Maze, mainly for diamonds and gems)
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> King Frances (archaic styled name, Frances Divinus of Davenport, First of the Alesian Barons)
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> Queen Saskia, of Cediorum (Lord Lennox’s daughter)
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> Lady Saskia the young, (named after her mother, a very vain woman)
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> Sir William (Saskia’s twin brother, the Charming Knight of Armium. A famous tourney knight and multiple times champion that did lose to Sir Hector Andal some months before the latter was killed near Storm’s Rest by Lucius in 192.)
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> Sir Darius IV
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> Colin IV (the King’s youngest son)
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> Baron Angelo, Davenport of Levacum (Baron of the Desert, the Diamond Baron. The Levacum Davenports were a cadet house of the Davenports of Armium. One of the two ‘Guardians of the Sands.’)
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> Sir Virgen, the Rejected, of Levacum (Shockingly took his own life falling on his sword aged only twenty, after a failed marriage proposal to a very young Lady Sandra of Aegium in the summer of 192.)
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> Sir Heracles, of Levacum, the ‘Tall Knight of the desert’.
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> Lady Octavia
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> B) The Lennox (Brevis from archaic ‘lenis noxis’, the serene pain, a moniker of the first Baron of Ballard)
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> Grand Duchy of Cediorum
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> Coat of Arms, a gazing green Stag.
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> Dictum ‘Strong deeds, gentle words.’
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> Cediorum (Very large city at the Lesia Turn overlooking the Lorian Gulf, one of biggest ports on Jelin. A massive natural harbor.)
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> Alesian Fort (Large Fort near the large freshwater Alesian Lake. The Second Legion’s permanent Castrum was built very near it. The myth is that the first Lorian settlers traveling down the Barren Coast stopped there to rest in the idyllic environment and emboldened marched on finally finding Rochestab River. The name adopted by the people of the Kingdom that kept on journeying further trying to find a way over the endless mountain ranges in the north and the desert in the south. Stubbornly and river by river until they reached another lake with frozen cold waters and ‘the Turn’ as they named it. Where the North started.)
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> Rochstab (Large commercial town less than fifteen kilometers from Cediorum, right on the road leading to Rochestab’s River First Bridge. Named after the nearby river.)
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> The old High Baronship of Ballard.
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> Ballard Castle (Large Castle city near the banks of Rochestab or ‘Rochstab’ River, overlooking the massive Stag’s Forest, mainly the famed Lemon Trees grove.)
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> Coat of Arms, a giant black Elk.
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> Dictum ‘Hard but just, like the land.’
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> Jackal’s Fort (A castle built near the mid-bridge over Rochestab River directly across Desert Howl Peak.)
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> Lord Miles Lennox, the Honorable (also the Old General) King Colin’s III and King Frances’ longtime Lord Shield, Former Lord Commander of the Lorian Legion (1st), a Knight and veteran of the ‘Warbands Rebellion’. KIA during the Battle of Kas along his warhorse in the summer of 190 aged sixty five, despite efforts to revive him. He had sustained a freak injury by Layton the Nord.
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> Duke Roman the second (Miles firstborn. A Knight. Commander of Cediorum Regulars.)
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> Queen Saskia (Miles daughter. King Frances Davenport’s wife.)
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> Sir Patrick (Lesia’s Lord of Sea)
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> Captain Gareth (Lord Patrick's son, captain of the Belvoir)
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> Baron Marc Lennox, Lord of Alesian Fort. (Miles first cousin)
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> Lady Vinia (Marc’s daughter. Married to Sir Otelo Zaro )
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> Ed Lennox (Marc’s son)
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> Sir Emerson Lennox, a Knight Errant, the Exiled, former Lord Baron of Ballard. A famed knight and tourney winner on Jelin. A grand champion of the Pits of Fu De Gar on Eplas. (Also Mista Savar in archaic Cofol, the Pale Jackal, the Gray War Leader, or the laconic ‘Ballard of Lesia’.) Sir Emerson bequeathed his title to his sister Lady Lila for unknown reasons.
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> High Baroness Lila Lennox, the Black Baroness. The solemn lady of Ballard. Ruler of Ballard Castle, Keeper of Stag’s Forest and through the control of Jackal’s Fort one of the two Guardians of the Sands. (Remained unmarried for decades despite several lofty offers from all over the Kingdom and bequeathed in turn her titles to her brother’s son in a very controversial decision.)
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> Sir Tony (Emerson’s third cousin. Commander of Jackal’s Fort guards.)
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> Emerson ‘the young’. (Also known as Mista Savar’s son. The ‘Eplas Lord’. The Golden Jackal.)
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> The lesser ‘Dukes’, High Barons, or the King’s ‘Marquises’
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> Duchy of Dokamna
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> Coat of arms, the 'twin hammers'.
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> Dokamna (Large city near Haggart River)
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> Frye’s Hold (large town and horse breeding center facing the Lesia Plains)
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> Stingray (Town near Gates Peaks at the sources of Haggart River. Big hide market.)
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> -The Frye-
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> Duke Osmund Frye, Lord of Dokamna (His Marquise title was turned into a permanent Duchy title during Colin the Third’s reign. Master of Horses. Guardian of the Plains.)
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> Sir Gundi (Osmund’s firstborn and Lord Commander of King Frances Royal Knights/Guards)
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> Doni ‘Haggart’ Frye (Legitimized bastard of Sir Gundi. The Knights of the Royal Guard weren’t allowed to marry.)
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> Sir Manuel
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> Baron Feld, Lord of Frye’s Hold and Keeper of the Stables.
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> Willie Frye, the ‘Fool’ (Feld’s son. A wild horse kicked him in the head at a young age leaving him impaired in his speech, but otherwise functional.)
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> -The Mortymer-
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> Lord Cornelius Mortymer, petty Baron of Stingray, Lesia’s Master of Silence. A very distant relative to Lord Frye. Close friend to Jacomo D’Orsi.
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> Lady Liliana, of Stingray (Mortymer’s daughter)
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> High Baronship of Parmaport
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> Coat of arms, the 'Iron Fists'.
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> Parmaport (Large city port facing the Green Coast and one of Lesia Fleet’s anchorages.)
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> Miloville (Large town in Dwarf Forest and old river port turned into a lake port. It now faces the east banks of the artificial large Cresta Lake. The Dwarfs Crafter’s Guild has a building purchased near the town’s center. Rumored that it is build close to the secretive Dwarf city Eth Dehur, which means ‘The Deep’ in the Old Tongues.)
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> Di Cresta: Original name ‘Ville de Di Cresta’. (Originally a large village, turned into a resort town, ideal for hunting, fishing, or swimming. It was built to accommodate the thousands of workers (over thirty thousand according to sources for the twenty years of the construction) that had been employed to work on the famed architect’s dam at Ostrich River. With the creation of the Cresta Lake after the dam was finished, the picturesque rural area became a cherished vacationer’s destination and the town named also after the scholar, grew in turn disproportionally. Di Cresta himself never visited the place after the work was finished as he hated the humidity of the area. A large lifelike statue of a younger scholar stands today near the Mayor’s palace.)
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> -The Hermon-
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> High Baron Theodore Hermon. Lord ‘Iron Fist’. (Commander of the mercenary company the ‘Iron Fists’, one of the three ‘armies’ employed by the Bank of Trust. Was injured during the second battle at Storm’s Rest and had to retreat. Was ruined financially after the defeat of his famous outfit and despite rebuilding it in the years that followed out of his own pocket as he lost the contract, he died in 196 without taking the field again.)
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> Julius Hermon (After 196 High Baron of Parmaport. A Knight and later commander of the Iron Fists. Theodore’s son.)
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> Sir Ramsey (Theodore’s younger son.)
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> Lady Renia (Theodore’s daughter.)
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> -The Drumo-
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> Lord Leroy Drumo. Petty Baron of Miloville (Former Marquise, his family had been elevated by King Marco ‘The Unlucky’ around 151 NC, when they controlled Parmaport, but they lost favor under King Colin III and were stripped of the title. The Drumo kept their crests and coat of arms, their wealth and bribery allowing them to gain a relative support for their return to at least a High Baron status -especially after Miloville boomed in population with the construction of the Cresta Dam, but they never managed it. KIA in a cavalry charge during the battle of the Half-Bridge, probably by Decurion Long, in 192. Close family friend of the Hermons despite their rivalry.)
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> Sir Mario Drumo (Later Baron of Miloville, the Decent. Leroy’s son. A cripple as he lost his right arm during the battle of the Half-Bridge in 192, his humble personality endeared him to King Frances, but nevertheless he as his father afore him remained petty Barons.)
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> Roy Drumo (Mario’s son.)
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> -The Wine Barons-
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> High Baronship of Flauegran
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> Coat of arms, ‘Vines’.
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> Dictum: ‘Bound by nothing’.
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> Flauegran (Large merchant city near the grey sandstone cliffs range, at the northernmost side of the massive Flauegran valley that extends as far the Alesian Lake to the south, Old Fort in Regia to the west and the city of Atetalerso in the east. It is surrounded by vine fields and three Estates the size of small towns. Sava, Sartor and Faro. While the High Baron position exists it changes every two seasons via a vote in their holdings. The three ‘Wine Barons’ hold significant power even after one of them is appointed as High Baron and can veto any decision via a majority vote of the Small Baron Council. Eligible for the positions of power are the members of three families –an unheard of practice- which is the remnant of an older type of government before the birth of Lesia’s Kingdom and hasn’t changed. The city has extremely close relations with the nearby city of Atetalerso due to the heavy investment of the Bank of Trust in the wine business. The rich red, flowery in taste and sweet wine produced in the valley is perhaps one of the most valued commodities in Jelin, reaching as far as Eplas.
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> Extremely expensive and sought after it is even rumored to have ‘mild therapeutic properties’, a fact never fully proven and enjoyed almost two centuries of dominance over lesser variants, or brands of wine, such as the white-gold sweet Aegium wine, the strong bitter white of Novesium, or the brusque reds and whites of Asturia. Only when Castalor first and then Scaldingport started importing the exotic ‘Goras Wine’ from Wetull and the Pirate Reefs the Wine Barons dominance was threatened. For them the rival wine was a bigger threat to them than winning the war against Lucius and they acted accordingly.)
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> Petty Barony of Sava (Large estate town located in North Vine Fields belonging to the Napoli family.)
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> Petty Barony of Sartor (Large estate town located in the massive South Vine Fields belonging to the Trupo family.)
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> Petty Barony of Faro (Large estate town located in the coveted East Vine Fields where the best quality of berries were produced belonging to the Riveras family.)
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> Baron Arturo Napoli (Sava, Flauegran’s Treasurer)
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> Lady Mikaela (Sava)
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> Maurice Napoli (Arturo’s son)
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> Sir Jan Napoli (Arturo’s son, a rare knight out of Sava.)
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> Baron Dominique Trupo (Sartor. Voted twice to serve as High Baron.)
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> Anton Trupo, the third. (Dominique’s firstborn, Mayor of Flauegran)
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> Varus ‘The Book’ Trupo (Prefect of the Third Legion under Lucius. Scribe de Legionis. Disinherited second son. Surprisingly several members of the –frequently sporting a prominent mustache- Trupo family had served in the Legion, but none had managed to return after getting thrown out like Trupo. A very educated man like all the Baron’s sons, he later became a military historian before rising further than any Trupo, or wine baron for that matter, had ever had afore him.)
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> Domus Trupo, the ‘Mustache’
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> Lady Domitia Trupo, ‘Petite Domina’. (Dominique’s daughter.)
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> High Baron Enzo Riveras (Flauegran. Perhaps the most influential and rich of the three wine Barons. Served several times as the High Baron mainly during the war years.)
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> Mikael Riveras (Armium. Enzo’s firstborn. An advisor to King Frances.)
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> Sir Paris Riveras, of Faro (‘Sir Graceful’. A Knight of Tyeus. Traditionally the second son of the Riveras family became an ordained knight. Faro had an excellent, but small cavalry force.)
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> Lady Biby Riveras, the ‘Burgundy Bouquet’.
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> Lady Vivina Riveras, the ‘Lady of Vines’.
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> Mclean & Merck
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> High Baronship of Atetalerso (A modest to small city, housing mostly business buildings, several merchant enterprises and very little agriculture or other professions. It does house a massive training camp for mercenaries near the city. The mercenary Guild presence in Atetalerso is thus prominent. Originally a small village, it has bought the High Baronship more for administrative and tax purposes, although Atetalerso pays nothing to the King due to a special arrangement with the Treasury. Perhaps the dullest and safest city on Jelin, Atetalerso city’s center streets can only be walked, as the use of horses or carriages is prohibitively expensive.)
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> Coat of Arms, a ‘Gold Coin’.
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> High Baron Jacomo D’Orsi (Armium. The Baron’s position while hereditary had mostly devolved in being the Bank’s spokesperson in Court. Jacomo had bought a share in the Bank through careful maneuvering and stood at better negotiating position than his predecessors. The ‘300’ mercenary company that got destroyed in Eikenport was his pet project. He replaced it with another company he aptly named ‘333’. The reason for the naming remains a mystery to this day.)
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> Dino D’Orsi (Atetalerso. The Baron’s Shield.)
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> Tussio D’Orsi (Jacomo’s cousin. KIA in Eikenport. By Unknown in 191, or early 192, probably by knights serving with Sir Gust De Weer’s expeditionary force. Last commander of the ‘300’ mercenary company. The unit was disbanded. All serving are presumed lost.)
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> Primo D’Orsi (Atetalerso. Commander of the ‘333’ mercenary company.)
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> Eleonora D’Orsi (Jacomo’s niece. Married to Fausto Mclean. Unknown whereabouts.)
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> Marquise Federico Mclean, (Empty title given by the Throne of Lesia for services rendered. Majority owner of the Bank of Trust. While not a full-blooded Lorian, the Mclean family is one of the oldest now in Lesia.)
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> Simon Mclean (Atetalerso. Director of Special Projects. Bank’s Vault keyholder.)
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> Lady Manuela Mclean (Unknown whereabouts. Requisitions Task Force Director.)
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> Fausto Mclean (Unknown position in the Bank. Unknown whereabouts.)
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> Lady Delia Mclean (Armium. D’Orsi’s Wife)
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> Lady Diana Merck ‘Miss Black Gold’. (Claus Viceroy’s wife. According to the strict marriage certificate her children ‘were Merck’s when serving the Bank, Viceroys’ for everything else’. A very weird arrangement. Minority owner in the Bank of Trust. An Issir-Lorian half-breed with rare blond hair.)
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> Benito Merck-Viceroy (Cediorum. Diana’s son with Viceroy. Naval Engineer, Director of Security.)
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> Claus Viceroy (the President of the Board in the Bank of Trust. A Merck puppet. A survivor of the Battle of the Half-Bridge in a sense, though Claus’ role kept him well away from the frontlines.)
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> Lady Laura Merck-Viceroy (Diana’s young daughter.)
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> ‘Duchy’ of Andatelia
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> Coat of Arms, the ‘Cave Devils’
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> Andatelia (Remote but extremely rich city near Andalus River. The small Duchy owed its title to the massive Gold Mines located in the cliffs located at the edge of their holding. The Bank of Trust paid them premium for exclusivity which slowly but surely enriched the Lords of Andatelia near the level of much bigger and more easy to reach cities, or markets.)
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> Telus Port (Natural port and town near Andalus River. An anchorage for the merchant fleets of Lesia during the winter.)
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> Andal Gold Mines (Expansive gold and platinum mines found inside natural caves at the mountain range hugging the Uher’s Heights in the distance reaching kilometers under the basalt rocks. Relatively close to the so called ‘entrance’ of the inaccessible Troll Valley deep in the mountains and the Bronze Mines of Con.)
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> -The Andal-
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> Duke Luke Andal. The ‘Gold Duke’. (Armium. Lesia’s Treasurer.)
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> Sir Oscar Andal. The ‘Lone Eye’ (Andatelia. Luke’s firstborn. Moniker given for missing a pupil due to birth defect.)
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> Sir Hector Andal (KIA in 192 during the Battle of the Half-Bridge near Storm’s Rest in a duel with Lucius Alden, aged twenty one. He killed Lucius’ famed warhorse Stormbolt during the struggle. An aspiring knight and tourney champion Sir Hector managed to unhorse Sir William in Armium earlier that year.)
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> Lady Leonia Andal (Andatelia. Luke’s daughter.)
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> Santo Andal (Armium. In the Military School.)
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> The Caxaton (A Cadet branch of the Andals)
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> Lord Godfrey Caxaton (Petty Baron of Telus Port)
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> Vicus Caxaton (his firstborn, Telus Port)
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> The Testa
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> Baron of Andatelia Umberto Testa
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> Sir Mario Testa (Killed in Kas 190 NC)
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> High Baronship of Con
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> Coat of arms, a ‘Bronze Pickaxe’.
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> Conium Castle (Large Castle city near Hope River that has its sources in the Cold Lake. The last city settled by the Lorians of Lesia, trying to flee from the Zilan and later the Issirs. The Borginas and the Andals remained –while antagonistic to each other- cautious, even suspicious to the agreements the Davenports made with the Aldens and the Issirs. They remained aloof and living under a much earlier version of the Lorian customs and avoided signing deals on paper unless absolutely necessary, believing that a ‘word spoken aloud, is contract enough. Breaking it means breaking one’s own soul.’)
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> Lastport (Important but modest in size port and town. The last port before the Turn, the point where the icebergs coming from the North broke into smaller, but still dangerous pieces due to the current. A vital stop for the merchant ships making the risky journey to Kadrek and the closest of Lesia’s ports to the distant vassal Duchy. It lost some of its significance after Sovya broke away due to Lucius Northern campaigns, but remained important enough, as the trade never really stopped even during the war. The well-known Durio family among others has produced many officers that have served in the Legion and due to Lastport’s small but well maintained Engineering School, some brilliant engineers, naval architects and well… miners.)
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> Con’s Bronze Mines (Very large bronze deposits discovered just like the ones near the Andal territory deep inside ‘natural’ caves in the guts of the mountains. A major income source for Conium, along the trade for iron, hides and hardwood from the North.)
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> High Baron Percival Borginas (Armium. Keeper of Cold Lake. Guardian of the Northern Border and Lord of Lastport.)
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> Sir Tobias Borginas (Armium. Percival’s son. A Knight of Tyeus.)
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> Lady Bianca Borginas (Percival’s daughter. Married Prospero Grimani, Captain of the 333 Lancelot Grimani's brother)
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> Lady Carmen Borginas (Percival’s daughter.)
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> Daniel Borginas (Conium Castle. Tobias cousin.)