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Peasant

Oh vassal, who is your lord? Be you Pict? Briton? Irish? Perhaps even a Northman? Are you a virtuous Christian or a Pagan fluent in the rituals and sacrifices?


You are a vassal lord in the realm of Britain around the late 7th early 8th century. Your duties include raising armies to fight when war comes and keeping peace around the realm, and by that it means brutalizing the peasants and killing bandits.


Name:Irish, Celtic, Breton, Welsh will work
Age:
Physical Desc.: Please know a lot of people (as in 90%) in the dark ages weren't tall or really muscled
Bio: At least a paragraph
People: (i.e. Germanic, Breton, Irish, Welsh, Pict, Scandinavian...)
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Hand Weapons:
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:
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Condition: Nil


That should be it, unless i left something out.

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Name:Bran Cynbel
Age:17
Physical Desc.: Tattooed from head to toe with Celtic and Pictish designs. Wears both his hair and beard in braids.
Bio: Born a pagan before being captured in a Christian raid. He was taken to serve for an Abbey which he later escaped. Since then he has returned to his people in Northern Scotland.
People: Pict
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Hand Weapons:Seaxe
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Pictish Shield, Cloak
Treasury:500 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Petta (Farming implements: Might as well have just got off their farms)
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Condition: Nil


There is a town nearby



Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 400 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil

hm, something luxury, but you know back then. Perhaps a chapel or grove (depending on whether or not you're christian/pagan)

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Name: Cross Gotti
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Appearance: 6'1, pale skin, blue eyes, scrawny, brown hair.
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Apparel: Military BDU's.
Inventory: Catholic Holy Bible, Cross, Three Treatises of Government by John Locke.
Weapons: M16A4 (205 rounds total), M1911 (5 mags), Standard-Issue Army Knife.
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Health: 100/100
Abilities: Adept rifleman, fast runner, discipline
Perks: Good with a sticker.

Around this time I think Britain was Catholic. Germany was Protestant but my Fosterling father got me when I was an infant so I guess he would teach me more Catholic lessons. I guess it doesn't matter so long as it's Christian. Anyways, make that Church and spread the message of Jesus on those *****es.

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Name: Cross Gotti
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Appearance: 6'1, pale skin, blue eyes, scrawny, brown hair.
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Apparel: Military BDU's.
Inventory: Catholic Holy Bible, Cross, Three Treatises of Government by John Locke.
Weapons: M16A4 (205 rounds total), M1911 (5 mags), Standard-Issue Army Knife.
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Health: 100/100
Abilities: Adept rifleman, fast runner, discipline
Perks: Good with a sticker.

Catholicism didn't happen until 1054, there is Roman/Celtic Christianity, German gods and old celtic gods

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Name: Cross Gotti
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Appearance: 6'1, pale skin, blue eyes, scrawny, brown hair.
--
Apparel: Military BDU's.
Inventory: Catholic Holy Bible, Cross, Three Treatises of Government by John Locke.
Weapons: M16A4 (205 rounds total), M1911 (5 mags), Standard-Issue Army Knife.
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Health: 100/100
Abilities: Adept rifleman, fast runner, discipline
Perks: Good with a sticker.

Oh vell then, guess we could get all specific. >_> No, I'm kidding. We'll just throw down a church that's Christian in general. :P

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Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 375 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil

Well it'll cost 300 to build and take a month to make

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Name: Tanay Sishodia
Age: 28
Physical Desc.: Black hair, Black eyes with a hard gaunt face and medium build of 5,9"
Bio: The younger son, from a once mighty family brought down by betrayals and calamities. Sishodia family were Lords of this land in old times but fallen on bad times after his great grandfather's times. Sishodias have lost their lands and treasures but their name still holds power in these lands. Tanay was a young lad when he was given charge of a village by his father, to prove his worth, whose ideal was that the best experience is gained on the field. He knows how to rule as he was taught by his father who was taught by his father and so on.
People: Welsh
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Hand Weapons: Short Spear
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions: Small Square Shield, Tunic
Treasury: 500 Scillingas
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Condition: Nil

that's real specific, for a one sentence bio. I'm under the assumption you haven no real military experience, if you want to drill them, you'll need an instructor


Now where is your weapon merchant. He was due to arrive.
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Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 375 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil

Oh, well then. I don't think I've paid for those weapons yet, so we just post-pone that. Okay, moneh-makers, what've you got?

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Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 375 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil


you have paid for them


also weekly income from the village
Selling loot from slain enemies
trade caravans

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Name: Tanay Sishodia
Age: 28
Physical Desc.: Black hair, Black eyes with a hard gaunt face and medium build of 5,9"
Bio: The younger son, from a once mighty family brought down by betrayals and calamities. Sishodia family were Lords of this land in old times but fallen on bad times after his great grandfather's times. Sishodias have lost their lands and treasures but their name still holds power in these lands. Tanay was a young lad when he was given charge of a village by his father, to prove his worth, whose ideal was that the best experience is gained on the field. He knows how to rule as he was taught by his father who was taught by his father and so on.
People: Welsh
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Hand Weapons: Short Spear
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions: Small Square Shield, Tunic
Treasury: 500 Scillingas
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Condition: Nil


The next day a man arrives with a small caravan, filled with what seems to be a mobile smithy, he sets up over the next few hours.

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Name:Bran Cynbel
Age:17
Physical Desc.: Tattooed from head to toe with Celtic and Pictish designs. Wears both his hair and beard in braids.
Bio: Born a pagan before being captured in a Christian raid. He was taken to serve for an Abbey which he later escaped. Since then he has returned to his people in Northern Scotland.
People: Pict
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Hand Weapons:Seaxe
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Pictish Shield, Cloak
Treasury:500 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Petta (Farming implements: Might as well have just got off their farms)
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Condition: Nil

I send someone there to see if the town has a smithy who would be willing to help us.

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Name:Bran Cynbel
Age:17
Physical Desc.: Tattooed from head to toe with Celtic and Pictish designs. Wears both his hair and beard in braids.
Bio: Born a pagan before being captured in a Christian raid. He was taken to serve for an Abbey which he later escaped. Since then he has returned to his people in Northern Scotland.
People: Pict
--------
Hand Weapons:Seaxe
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Pictish Shield, Cloak
Treasury:500 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Petta (Farming implements: Might as well have just got off their farms)
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Condition: Nil


He comes back and reports there is.

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Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 375 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil

Okay, I'll have somebody get on the trade caravans, probably an emissary. Is there anything else that I can do to get some money?

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Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 375 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil


if you want a caravan, you'll need am merchant, guards, horses, carts, goods....

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Name: Yannic Gwallter Cecil
Age: 16
Physical Desc.: Brown-hair, pale, dark-brown eyes, 5'8, scrawny.
Bio: No one really knows who Yannic was born unto. He was found as naught but a babe on the side of the road by a minor Nobleman who had business in Germany. One of his guards made a snarky comment about the &quotoor peasant child in the side of the road" and the Nobleman ordered the carriage to stop. A soldier brought Yannic forth, and he was wrapped in soft blankets with a House's symbol, too muddled to identify. The Nobleman returned to England, bringing with him a Fosterling. He rose Yannic as his youngest son, teaching him the ways of Honor, Chivalry, and the Code of Battle.
People: Germanic
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Hand Weapons:Hatchet
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Tunic, Small Round Shield
Treasury: 375 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Kotselta Seaxe (Short spears, Bucklers, Tunics: Free men trained to defend their homes when needed)
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Condition: Nil

Oh, well, I think the only things we're really lacking are carts and goods. We could probably just throw a merchant from the markets in there... Hm, what if we built a Carpenter's place? Or even a Pub?

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Nomad

Name:Bran Cynbel
Age:17
Physical Desc.: Tattooed from head to toe with Celtic and Pictish designs. Wears both his hair and beard in braids.
Bio: Born a pagan before being captured in a Christian raid. He was taken to serve for an Abbey which he later escaped. Since then he has returned to his people in Northern Scotland.
People: Pict
--------
Hand Weapons:Seaxe
Ranged Weapons:
Armor & Possessions:Pictish Shield, Cloak
Treasury:500 Scillingas
Troops: 12 Petta (Farming implements: Might as well have just got off their farms)
-------
Condition: Nil

I commission him to make weapons for our village, and try to find someone with enough fighting experience to train the petta.

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