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6/19/2025, 1:30:28 AM
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At great expense, you manage to convince General Dravos that you need at least a Few horses if you are to run a baronate. He deigns to let you have ten horses.
With those, you start sending couriers all over the kingdom to spread the word that your new baronate is recruiting war refuges - people from destroyed or collapsed villages. You offer them resettlement - land, starter cattle and the opportunity to grow in a new land.
Every time your couriers come back, they bring more and more war orphans, which are assigned to willing women to take care of.
Your population begins to grow, though it is mostly children.
A trickle of families, lone women and very young men who haven't been drafted yet start coming from small destroyed villages. They all have sad stories of how their people been ravaged by the unrelenting enemy, they themselves barely escaping with their lives.
Once, one of your couriers manage to attract the surviving population of an entire village (some hundred souls), who grabbed everything they had and came to live with you in the new baronate.
The story of your brave defense of Kent Pass inspires people, who think living in such a defensible place is a good idea.
By the end of the year, you attracted well over a thousand people into your burgeoning baronate, though the demographic pressure is still strong.
In the autumn, you are invited to the king's palace. The make you a silk dress and you recount several times the story of how you defended the place to a bunch of posh nobles.
You learn that creating new baronates is very rare. The last one was decades ago, for similar reasons of bravery. The king wants above all to ensure that his lands will be defended by strategically minded people.
You get to know the king personally. His name is Wenceslaus III.
You realize that these parties at the king's palace are great opportunities for power brokering. How will you spend your time there?
> Connect with the local Count, maybe you can get extra resources to your baronate, even though you know those are stretched thin
> Focus on building good relations with the Royal Family, imply you're seeking a noble marriage and that the king should help you find someone
> Get to know the Generals, Dravos could introduce you to them and you could talk tactics and maybe get some more weapons for your people
> Talk to the local Guildmasters, you will need a lot of artisans to turn a little village into something more, perhaps you could attract some
> Spend time with the Jester and the Court Magician, they know everyone and are trusted advisors to the king
> Write in
At great expense, you manage to convince General Dravos that you need at least a Few horses if you are to run a baronate. He deigns to let you have ten horses.
With those, you start sending couriers all over the kingdom to spread the word that your new baronate is recruiting war refuges - people from destroyed or collapsed villages. You offer them resettlement - land, starter cattle and the opportunity to grow in a new land.
Every time your couriers come back, they bring more and more war orphans, which are assigned to willing women to take care of.
Your population begins to grow, though it is mostly children.
A trickle of families, lone women and very young men who haven't been drafted yet start coming from small destroyed villages. They all have sad stories of how their people been ravaged by the unrelenting enemy, they themselves barely escaping with their lives.
Once, one of your couriers manage to attract the surviving population of an entire village (some hundred souls), who grabbed everything they had and came to live with you in the new baronate.
The story of your brave defense of Kent Pass inspires people, who think living in such a defensible place is a good idea.
By the end of the year, you attracted well over a thousand people into your burgeoning baronate, though the demographic pressure is still strong.
In the autumn, you are invited to the king's palace. The make you a silk dress and you recount several times the story of how you defended the place to a bunch of posh nobles.
You learn that creating new baronates is very rare. The last one was decades ago, for similar reasons of bravery. The king wants above all to ensure that his lands will be defended by strategically minded people.
You get to know the king personally. His name is Wenceslaus III.
You realize that these parties at the king's palace are great opportunities for power brokering. How will you spend your time there?
> Connect with the local Count, maybe you can get extra resources to your baronate, even though you know those are stretched thin
> Focus on building good relations with the Royal Family, imply you're seeking a noble marriage and that the king should help you find someone
> Get to know the Generals, Dravos could introduce you to them and you could talk tactics and maybe get some more weapons for your people
> Talk to the local Guildmasters, you will need a lot of artisans to turn a little village into something more, perhaps you could attract some
> Spend time with the Jester and the Court Magician, they know everyone and are trusted advisors to the king
> Write in
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