The Story of Souls: A Sweboz AAR

Hello everyone This will be my first AAR on these forums so plz be nice to me :beam::beam:
anyways the rules of my AAR are the difficulty is M/M, i will fight all FM battles myself unless i or they are horribly outmatched and i will be posting in chapters of about 5 years each.
For the first few posts i wont be able to post screens due to the fact that im working on get it to like me when i hit the print screen button:thumbsdown:
Also i will be posting many of the names without all the marks and other things that the game uses cuz i cant get my comp to do that.
Disclaimer: NONE OF THE PICTURES AND ARTWORK USED IN THIS THREAD ARE CREATED BY ME (except for maps and screenshots). I HAVE GATHERED MANY OF THESE PICS FROM ACROSS THE INTERWEBZ. AS SUCH IT WOULD TAKE WAY TO LONG TOO CREDIT ALL OF THOSE ARTISTS.
ACT 1:The Story of Souls

Introduction:The rise of a tribe.
EXERPTS OF THE GREAT HISTORY OF OUR PEOPLE


The first Winter of unity:(272 BC)

My name is Aluruno. I am ten winters old and I am the daughter of the great chief of all Sweboz and ruler of the lands between the Oder and the Elbe, Heruwulfaz. As he is the son of the unifier Swartagazaz he inherited the chieftenship from my grandfather upon his death just two months ago. My father told stories of my grandfathers conquest around the fire in the mead hall last night, and the old priest that my father assigned to me to be my tutor as he doesnt have a son yet told me to start a journal and write of momentous events within it. I will do my best to relay these event now.

My father was a great man. Great for his victories,Great for his courage, and great for his love of our people. When the Macromannez of the Elbe insulted our tribe with the sacking of one of our villages we responded with unbeliveable force. I myself rode with the Ridonez while my father and his personal guard assulted the Macromannez villages one after another fell like dust. When we got to their main village we promptly found ourselves outnumbered five to one. My father was told we should retreat. He laughed at the face of danger the had the fools who suggested it torn apart. when we attacked the village they sent most of their force after my Ridonez. As we rode i directed them into a patch of woods where our host was waiting for them. I taunted them into our trap. As the warriors shreded the foolish Macromannez, my fathers guard attacked three whole warbands of enemy spearmen and crushed them. We then proceeded to crush the personal guard of the Macromannez chieftan. My father personally fought the enemy leader in single combat. As they met the enemy chieftan roared his cruses at my father and leaped at him with his sword drawn. My father easily parried his foul blows as he searched for a weakness. When foolish man tried to cleave my fathers head from his shoulders my father ducked beneath the blow and shoved his sword straight through his heart. He then pulled it straight up spliting his skull in half. (My father laughed hard at this point for serveral minutes). Ahhh...Now upon see their chieften fall the few remaining Macromannez surrendered to my father and all was at peace in these lands. However a few foolish Macromannez were still bitter about the defeat. And one dark and bloody night the cowards poisoned my father. However my fathers will was strong and he lingered for serveral weeks as i hunted down the assassins and killed them. Unfortunelty the will of Odin dictated that he go to the hall of the heavens. As such he named ME ,Heruwulfaz, as chieften in his stead.

And with that the story has come to present. Now a few things about myself. As i stated before my name is Aluruno and i am only ten winters old. I have been told by my father that i have the most beautiful blue eyes hes seen since my mother died giving birth to me and hair as golden as the fields of wheat from the the southlands. I am currently being taught the runic script of our people by an old priest of Odin due to the fact that i am my fathers only child. I started this journal on the adviced of this priest as he said he thought id make a good historian. Im writing in a new invention from the southlands called a codex by a people called the Romani. The pages are of a material called parchment. My father says it was not easy to acquire one of these codesies for me to write in but i promised him id be careful. My teacher thinks this is a wonderous idea for me and it would be a way to make my tribe proud. However for now i must go for my father calls for me.

Interesting start, but is Swartagazaz really the father of Heruwulfaz? I always thought he was just there because RTW demands that everyone have a father.

I can't remember off-hand, but doesn't it list his birth date as, like, 350 BC?

Ah, finally a Sweboz AAR! I wish you the best for the future and may it last long (unlike most AArs sadly). Good intro btw, here have a balloon from me: :balloon2:

Maion

P.S.: You can download Fraps from the net, it's a free and easy to use picture-taking program.

YAY I HAZ BALLOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:balloon2:

Ok on a serious note
@desert i looked on the family tree and it says he was a former faction leader so i RPed him uniting Swebozlandam and yes imma make this last ALAP so let see where this takes me.

BTW NOTE: right now its already 243 BC so im well into it ill prob start posting pics once i get to that set of posts, also according to the EB historical notes the Sweboz call years in terms of Winters passed so my years are winters

Alrighty now for the first set of chapters

Chapter One: The Coming of Darkness
272-269BC
Yesterday news of strange tidings reached the ears of the court. Messengers brought news of bear rearing up on their hind legs and dancing, of wolves howling and trying to fly by jumping off of hills and of the men of the other tribes of my people preparing for war. My father was disturbed by these omens and order the seers to try and make sence of this turn of events. While this was going on a man came to the court demanding to see my father, for he said that he had horrible news for him. When i looked at the man he turned and smiled at me thourgh the folds of his hood. I was horrified at the sight of his face. Within the hood i could see eyes blacker than coal and i though he must have been scarred in some way. When my father let him speak he first greeted him and then proceded to remove his hood as my father requested. I almost threw up at the sight of this man. His hair was Shocked white with streaks of blood red within it. He had this....well... all i can call it is hungry look on his face. And most terrifying of all he had on each eye a DEEP scar that started above his eyes and went down to stop below his eyes. And I swear on my grandfathers grave they were glowing red-black. However when i looked at the other people in the room they looked at him as if he were a normal man. Even my father said nothing to his about what i saw. He didnt even look disturbed at the sight of this man. And then he started speaking to my father. I will record the conversation here.

"My lord i regret to inform you the the combined might of the Rugoz and the Kimbroz tribess are attacking the north of SSwebozlandam. We must prepare to sstrike them at once." My father looked at the man and said to him, "But my good freeman how can you claim this? We have an alliance with these northern tribes" And the man said to him, "My lord ive brought sseveral people from my village to confirm thisss". As he said that several bedraggled looking peseants came forward and told my father the same story. And my father was grealty troubled by this ad said "I will send emmissaries immedately to the Rugoz and Kimbroz. We must find the cause of these attacks". But the Black-eyed man spoke up again and said "No ssire we must strike them down while they are sstill Celebrating their ill gotten gains." And my father looked at this man and said, "Why must this be?!?!? You would have me attack like a coward??" and the Blackeyed man said, "No no ssire why i am merely ssuggesting prudence. Am if i am not mistaken your father did much the ssame thing when he defeated the Macromannez". At this point my father stood straight up and looked at this man who i thought was insane and said "YOU DARE TO CALL ME A COWARD AND A FOOL?!?!?!?!!?! How DARE you sully my good name so....caulallsly!!!" The Black-eyed man merely stood there and waited for my father to be done, then said "SSire no thatss not what i mean at all. I also ssnuck into a camp of the Rugoz the night after my village was burned. And i heard the leader talking, he had ssaid that if this doessnt lure that fool Heruwulfaz into our trap nothing will. I believe they are trying to kill you and have left their villagess unguarded as a result." At this my father calmed down instanly, almost inhumanly, and the he smiled and said,"Stranger i know not your name but you have given me wonderous news indeed. I will proceed to attack the Gawjams of the Rugoz and Kimbroz and end this war before it starts." The Black-eyed man said, "Ah my lord of coursse how rude of me not to sssay my name before now. I am know as Parssal." Well at this point i though tha my father was done with this man and his trange lisp. But to my shock he said, "Excellent Parsal i am going to make you a wealthy, wealthy man. You will join my court of advisors and aid me in my endeavors." The Black-eyed man i now knew as Parsal said, "Ahh yess ssire may i make a ssuggesstion then?" My father nodded. He then said, "Well my i say that i dont think you sshould go becausse if they notice your missssing then they might become ssupisssiouss and hury their forcess home." My father thought about this and then said,"My brother Athawulfaz (he steps forward at this point) will lead our attack on the vile Rugoz, you will go with him to assist the campain. Meanwhile my cousin Harbranaz will attack the Kimbroz fools while they are unready". My father smiled at what he though his own cleverness. However Parsal smiled at that moment too. And his smile made me shudder. He then said' " As you wissh ssire." Then the meeting broke up.

I later had a private talk with my father and asked him if he was crazy allowing this man to live in our home and aid him in his affairs of state. He told me that this man was a treasure because he seemed to be a true freeman serving his king with his own free will. I blurted out "But hes a FREAK!". My father looked at me like i was crazy and ask what i was talking about. I told him of the Features id seen on the man. He looked at me like i was the crazy one here and said to me,"How can you say such things of him when they are clearly not true. I have seen notbing of such traits in this Parsal." I was dumbfounded, for i KNOW what i saw of him. But when i insisted my father became angry with me and yelled at me. He said that i need to learn the hard life that his men face so that i wouldnt have time to make up such vile lies. He ordered me to go with Parsal and record the campain in my journal for future generations. With that he left infuriated and yelling curses at servants left and right. I was scared out of my mind. This was not how my father acted. I hurried to ready my things so not to make him any angrier. All the while i was crying for my father had never yelled at anyone not a foe like that before.

I left with the men the next morning and we began the four month long march to Gawjam-Rugoz. All the while this Parsal was issuing orders like a general or even a king in his own right. The strange thing was that none of the warriors, Several of whom id known for year to not tolerate such treatment, obeyed insantly as if this man were my father.
271BC
Today we reach the Gawjam and found it more densly populated with men than was at first predicted. Athawulfaz looked at Parsal and said,"This is not as you said it would be. All of their fighting men are here." And Parsal said to him "But look none of them have weapons and they are at ease as they would not expect us." Athawulfaz looked at this an said, "i see... Well lets begin the attack." As we apporached the unsuspecting village my told me to stay back and watch. So i stood a group of archers and watched the.... well i cant really call it a battle. Rather id say it was more of a massacre. The warriors attacked the villaged from three sides and overwhelmed the poorly prepared people. The only real resistance was when the enemy chieften and about 50 of his guard charged some Dunguntiz. But they were quickly surrounded and butchered. When the chieften was killed the enemy surrendered. And Parsal ordered the warriors to raize the village. Parsal himself oversaw many of the killings himself muttering strange words the whole time. When it was over it seemed as if the lines apprently only i could see were glowing stronger. And thus the Gawjam-Rugoz was captured. I found a Rugoz woman hiding under the floor of her hut. When she saw me she screamed,"I THOUGHT OUR PEOPLES WERE AT PEACE. SINCE YOU MONSTERS KILLED MY HUSBAND AND THREE SONS I HOPE YOU ALL BURN IN THE PITS OF HEL FOREVER!!!" She was draged off broken and screaming. I was confused. Didnt they attack us?
270BC
Today our host has returned home yet im still shaken by the events atthe Gawjam of the Rugoz. When i got to the court i heard of similar event in the Gawjam of the Kimbroz. And i was also told by my teacher that papers had been found that linked the "attacks" to the tribe of the Habukoz in the west near the mighty Rhine. My father order his brother to attack the Gawjam of the Habukoz. I was to go with them again. However this time Parsal didnt go for the king asked him to aid him in administering the new territories. I have grown uncomfortable with the amount of influence this man holds over my father.

Spring 269BC
Today we left our Gawjam behind, on our way to war again. My uncle had his orders. We marched out during the spirng of the fourth winter of unity, thorught the dark forests and bog swamps around the Sweboz Gawjam as we marched i once again smelled the dark earth and saw the bogs form atop the elevated roads of my homeland. I talked to my uncle and asked him what he though of all these happenings. he told me that while he though these strange his first priority was to his king. As such he march his armies out to the lands of the Habukoz and assulted their Gawjam.
Summer 269BC
While our enemies were unprepared once again they held out for most of the summer due to the walls around their Gawjam. However once we had built a ram we began our attack. As the ram was moved up to the wall it became stuck serveral times. However we got it up to the wall and broke the gates into splinters. And our warriors poured in to the Gawjam. The weakened enemy desperately tried to stop us five different times however when their chieften fell they retreated to the center on the Gawjam and fought to the death. In all it was a brave defense, however futile. However my uncles orders were to bring all of the inhabitants back to our Gawjam to be terminated. I found this horrifiying. However my uncle had his orders.
Winter 269BC
Just yesterday we arrived back at our Gawjam with many prisoners,among them the son of our enemy chieften. Parsal ordered them al to be executed, except for the boy. He is barely 12 years old and is one of the most beauitful people ive ever seen. This poor boy was brought before Parsal and he was questioned. When the boy told Parsal he knew nothing of his fathers plans, Parsal because irritated. After several hours of questioning that got him nowhere he became enraged and ordered the boy brought to his private chambers. I followed them as they shoved the boy inside. Parsal tortured him for another hour. When the boy still didnt talk, Parsal got REALLY quiet. he then put his finger up and began to mutter more of those strange words. Then he placed his finger to the boys head. What happened next brings horror to my mind as i write it down. I swear to you, Odin, Thor and all the stars in the sky, when that "man" (at this point she throws up) put his finger on this tender youths head the boy stood shock still then after a few seconds his stomach began to roll up and curl. Then it looked to me as if bubbles were forming in his stomach.Theyquickly speard to most of his body. He looked as if his were being ripped apart by monster and evil spirits from the inside out. Then he opened his mouth to scream. What came out of his mouth was not a scream but instead it was his blood and red tinted steam. Parsal had i realised caused the boys blood to BOIL. As i watched his body MELTED into a puddle. Parsal merley got a servant to wipe up the mess and then went on with his day. I cant write anymore as this weeks events have left me bone tired and frightened.

Wow, you have talent with this, seriously! You are now officialy a fellow AAR writer!

Maion

At this point not a lot happened in my Game as i was 21k mnai in debt but thanks to all the conquests i was able to get out of it in about 3-4 years. So this is mainly a story part.

Chapter Two: Omens
269BC-264BC
Winter 269BC
Today my father summoned me to his private chambers to celebrate my thriteenth winter of life. The only people in attendance were my father, my uncle and his two boys,and my new baby half-brother named Wagaztizga. The little baby had a rough time coming into this world as his mother died giving birth to him, much the same as mine did. As the only boy born to my father he was to be the heir to my fathers kingdom upon my fathers death, i pray that never happens. However i fear it may be far sooner that i think for recently my father has become pale, sickly, and weak. While he remains an able adminstrator, it is my uncle who does most of the fighting. However recently there has been peace among our lands, as well as a population boom. With all the new and empty lands that have been conquered the people have begun moving to rebuild the destroyed Gawjams and resettle the new lands. And most of our enemies fear us for our prowess (i think its the amount of buchery and shadow warfare we have engaged in) as Parsal puts it, they mostly keep to themselves. However today was a happy day and i am now proudly one winter older and only three winters away from the marriage age.

Summer 268BC
Today we recived more strange portends. The Thing brought us news of a fallen star in the south of Swebozlandam. My uncle immediately called upon Parsal whom, as we had gradually found over the past few years, was a highly skilled seer to interpret these events. Parsal first asked if the star had been found. The Thing's messenger pulled forth a small chunk of a strange colored metal. This was VERY different than the peat bog iron that you would usually find in these lands. As most of the iron in these lands is peat brown/black, this chunk was blue and it shimmered in the light. At the sight of this metal Parsals eyes grew wider than shields. He immedialty DEMANDED the messenger give it to him. As the man did so Parsal smiled his horrible smile wider than usual and started drooling as if he had recieved services from one of his female "servants" better than usual. Then he immedialty retreated only say to my father that he had to study this portend. My father did nothing to even question him. I sometimes wonder what happened to the man i used to know and love.

Winter 266BC
Today we got a shock. Apperently the tribe of Heruskoz were raiding our southern borders. Immediately Parsal took command of our warriors and bade them march to the Gawjam of the Heruskoz and crush them. I was not to go as it was to cold for one as young as me to be raiding.

Spring 265BC
News from the southland raiders is not good. Apperently our forces were driven off as we tried to assult the Gawjam. Even as i write this they are apparently raiding smaller gawjams of the Heruskoz inpreparation of the next attack. Also i have noticed strange things happening within our Gawjam. At first it was minor like i though that i saw shadows moving or objects floating. But then it got worse such as several murders of young men and women where apperently their blood have been drained away. I think it is all Parsal's fault but my father says its nonsence and that these are the omens of the Gods. I simply cant understand how he can like this man so much when hes never trusted anyone but his brother and me like that before. But then i think what can i do and go to my favorite place within our gawjam. In the western side of the Gawjam there is a great old oak tree that has been there for centuries. In fact out village had been build about this Great Tree for an omen had told us it was sacred to Odin. And whenever i am sad i go there and sit in it great branches to clear my head and think things over. I also sometime see little fey (spirits) playing within the boughs of the tree.
This is a sketch of my tree.
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However when Parsal comes near they all start crying and run away. I simply dont now what it is about that man that bothers me other than his prowess as a seer. I mean yes he does have a penchant for cruelty but then most of our people are like that. However i have also noticed his strange "obsessions" such as his love of what ive come to call blood boiling. Also he seems to love very young women a bit too much. I hope he never turns his "attentions" to me.

Winter 265BC
Today is the best day of my life!! Today my father and i celebrated my 16th winter of life. He went thorugh the ceremony of declaring me a woman before the Gods at the glade of Odin within our walls. Once he was done he immediately asked me what i though about being an adult now. I told him it was a wonderful feeling. Now i would be able to make him proud of me. After our little celebration i went to the tree again and mulled over my day. As i sit in its branches im writing this. i will have to go as there are important adult (she says this with joy and youthful impatience) matters that i must attend to.
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Tear stains are all over these pages

Winter 265BC
OH horrible, TERRIBLE day! Even as i write these words iam shaking like a leaf and i appologize if my writing is sloppy. Barely a week after i became of age Parsal came to my father and askedfor my hand in marriage. I was horrified at the prospect but thankfully my father said to him, "My friend. I am sorry but i cannot grant you this favor as you are not of royal blood." As much as Parsal insisted my father gently but firmly refused. Parsal left angry but undaunted. Then just yesterday while my father was sleeping Parsal barged into my room and grabbed me by the throat and dragged me to his chambers. I kicked and screamed the whole way, cursing at him telling him my father would kill him for this. He just laughed his bone-chilling laugh and threw me onto his bed. He then stripped me down and said to me, "No matter what your father ssaid i WILL have you!!"". He then......he.....(she stops here and starts to bitterly weep)...he had his way with me. He was....(more tears)... i cant even bear to write about what he did to me. After he was done and had passed out i ran away as fast as i could i ran to the tree and weapt for several hours at what that....that MONSTER had done to me. The next day i told my father everthing but he didnt even beileve me or seem to care. When i saw that monster again he somehow froze me in place and told me that he hopped id bear good children for him. He then walked away laughing his hateful laugh. As i write this i am still crying my heart and soul out. But now i must go and get some sleep.

Hmmm. I see you're going more for a fantasy fanfic of EB than a true AAR, but it's pretty good. For some reason it reminds me of Doom 3.

@desert Umm i though that threr was no difference between the 2?

EDIT: Doom 3?? wow i didnt think it was all that crazy

I like what i see so far, it makes me want to go start that sweboz campaign that i have always wanted to play but haven't got around to yet. I will definitally stay tuned.

Ok now for an intermission

INTERMISSION

I am taking this time to explain to all those out there that are reading this some of the things that are going on in my AAR. As desert pointed out this is not a true AAR. My apologies for this but as it is my first time writing i missunderstood how broad the term AAR could be used. :oops: As it is this is a fantasy fiction story and im RPing it with the Sweboz faction. And yes there is a campain im using i just didnt take any screens till now due to comp issues (anti-alasing) :embarassed: How every i have worked around this problem and have take a screen of my current situation ill try to post it here

and it wont let me :help:
ok anyways i was going to say firstly a BIG

THANK YOU

to all those that have read this and i hope to provide you with a satsifying story for as long as possible
secondly let me explain to you how this AAR is different from a more "real world" style one such as MAAs or Chuiregon's (btw if either of you 2 read this just let me say you guys are my heros, MAA your Makedon AAR is BEYOND epic, and Chuiregon i LOVED your Lusotannan AAR and i wish it didnt end)
There are of course my references to magic. And no its not like the pretend magic that real life peoples of that time used its acutal magic. You know the kind that where you look at a person wrong and he turns into a goat, sheep, bursts into flames, ect...

there will also be the plot twists (i wont reveal any of these as not to ruin the story) that involve thing that are impossible in this "reality" like stuff right out of LotR (except without copyright lawsuits)

Finally i would like to say that EB is one of the GREATEST games i have ever played and the commounty here is wonderful. Well thats about it for me

END OF TRANSMISSION (chaotic static sounds)

EDIT:
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there we go

It's ok. This kind of AAR is fun too. You don't necessarily stick with reviewing your gameplay in an AAR. There have been many I've read that were mostly just fiction. Keep it up! :2thumbsup:

As for screenshots, I would suggest downloading some kind of software to do the screenshots, such as FRAPS. This way, you can take screenshots without having to turn off AA.

Ive said it before and i KNOW i will say it again "TIME TO SHED THE BLOOD OF ENEMIES!!"

Chapter Three:Times of War, Times of Insanity (Part One)

Spring 263BC

It has been awhile since ive wrote in this journal. Things have gotten chaotic within Swebozlandam as of late. Firstly i will write of the conquests of our armies. In the lands of the Heruskoz to our south the warband my uncle commands has been reinforced with a few bands of Jungunthiz and even some Skutjonez. As i write these words in my tree they are assulting the Gawjam of the Heruskoz even as we speak and if the last messengers report is true to words, then we are finally succeding. Also to our far north the lands of the Skandza will soon come under the assult of our armies. Apperently there are a people to the north of the Skandza that arent human. From what minds our spies have picked these strange creature call themselves elves or something of the like. Parsal became VERY interested in these creatures when he heard of them and asked the Skandza to turn one of them over to him. Even though he offered a heavy sum the Skandza sent the messenger back in pieces saying that they would NEVER turn over any of the cherished of Frejya like some common animal. And so we go to war to try and captures at least one of these beings. I fear that he will want to preform one of his "tests" on one if he gets half the chance.

This brings me to my next topic. As of late Parsal has begun to say strange things. Whenever he speaks on his platform in the town square, he talks of a way of seeing that allows one to control the world around him and shape it to his will. Some say that this is a right only reserved for the highest of all the gods, Odin. Parsal merely laughs at this and says that he has seen visions of an even older and more powerful god than Odin, a god that grants his faithful the powers of these "magics" as he calls them. And the god allows his followers to spread his name and his powers among the peoples of the land. He says that many other peolpes have already become disciples of this god and that they follow his teachings. And he offers to teach those around him who will but dare to follow, and dare to believe. Many don't, for they cant bring themselves to abandon the gods their fathers worshiped. But a few do. The people he does manage to recruit are immediatley divided up into three groups. The worshipers are by far the largest. These are normal people who worship this new god. The second group are far fewer. However the "gifts" they recieve are sickening to look at. They have become monsters. They have grown horns and scales. Tails and forked tounges. They remind me of snakes. They are also far stronger and much, MUCH more aggresive than most of my tribe. And thats saying something for the whole of the Germanic peoples have always been angry and passionate about their battles. But i wander....Now for the third group of.....i dont think i can call them men anymore. This is a group of three or four youths that Parsal has taken under his wing. And he teaches them how to use the magics. These are the people responsible for the "gifts" of the second group.

Also i do have a little good news. After the ...... night ...... he waited for me to bear him fruit. However, and i praise Odin for this, his vileness didnt carry within me. As such he lost interest in me and moved on to ply his "passions" on other women. He has also set up the school for his students underneath my tree. As such i must be careful to NOT be anywhere near the tree when his classes are being held. Fortunatley he only holds them at night in this little hovel that he has built beneath my tree.
So i must go and pack my things for i am expected to go on the campain to subdue the Skandza and capture one of these elf creatures.

Autunm 263BC

It sure gets cold REALLY soon here in the Skandzalandam. Our army quickly overwhelmed the Skandza and their walless Gawjam in barely a week after arriving here near the end of the spring. The battle was short and brutal. While my uncle held the front some Jungunthiz circled the gawjam and wiped it out. By the time the enemy realised this it was far too late for them. The local Thing surrendered. However my uncles orders were to butcher the inhabitants, as usual. After we burned the village we consturcted our camp upon its ashes. Then my uncle order the band to go forth and bring before him an elf creature. It turns out that these elves are VERY hard to find. And they also apper to very good at hiding themselves. we search the whole summer near and within the desnse forest to the north of our camp. All we got for it was dead warriors. We would find usually three or four a day full of arrows either on the ground or up in a tree. At the end of the summer, when the first of settlers arrived from Swebozlandam we found that an entire band of Jungunthiz had been ambushed and butchered. All told we lost half of the army hunting for one of these elf creatures. I do believe however that i managed to find of one of them. Or rather he found me. I was sitting in a tree one day outside of the camp while most of the warriors were away. I think i had fallen asleep. Well i woke with a start because i had though i had heard a noise in the branches above me. When i looked around i saw nothing but i had this strange feeling come over me. It was as if i was being watched. After a few minutes i didnt see anything, but i noticed the sun was about to set so i prepared to get down and go to the camp so i didnt get hurt or locked out after the sun set. As i was making my way down i slipped off of a branch and started falling down until something caught me. I looked up and saw a slender hand holding onto my wrist. As the hand pulled onto the brach i saw what was attached to the rest of it. He had to be the most wonderous being i had ever seen. He was about 20 hands tall, towering over me at a mere 12 hands. He had the most lustrious gloden hair i had ever seen, and his eyes were as green as the leaves that surrounded me. But when i looked at his ears i saw that they were elongated by about half a hand and ended in points. As soon as i saw that i knew he wasnt human. Thinking he was about to kill me i recoiled backwards. He grabbed me again, and sat me down, holding onto me this time. The he spoke to me in near perfect German with a lilting accent. I have recorded the coversation here.
He said to me, "Who are you?" At this i was shocked. But i gathered my wits enough to respond. "My..my name is Aluruno", i told him. He bowed deeply before me. "Greeting to you Aluruno, my name is Kellelsin." I curstied as best i could. "Thank you for saving me Kellelsin. Now what to what do i owe this visit?" He told me,"I am trying to assertain the reason why your people butchered the Skandza and are currently hunting for my people." After a moment i looked at him. "It is a LONG story"' I told him. He said to me,"I have the time." So i sat and began telling him the tale of the coming of Parsal. Of how he had single handely taken control of my father and thusly the Sweboz tribe. And i had told him of how Parsal had used my father to declare wars with the other tribes to take control over the region. And i told him why he was interested in the elves. After i had said these things he was quiet for a very long time. Then he said to me,"All that i can say is that i pity your people for they have come under the influence of a monster. Also know this None of your men will ever be able to catch us. For we know these forests to well. We know how to hide and how to make our hunters become the hunted." I nodded. Then he saw that it was getting late so he offered to take me back to the camp. As we were on our way i told him some things of myself. When i told him of my Codex and of my histories, he looked at me for a second. Then he said to me,"If i may be so bold good lady, please write of my people in your codex under our true name so that we will not be forgotten by the world. After all we have existed in the northern lands for a very long time and we all fear that our people may one day be wipe out by our aggressors." I gladly agreed. After all he had saved my life. I asked him what their name was. He said these words to me, "Ulmor Caraz Elfroditch". After that we arrived back at the camp and said our goodbyes.
This is, to the best of my abilities, a sketch of him.
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Two weeks after this incedent (Which i told NOONE of) my uncle gave up the search and helped the new settlers build the camp into a real gawjam. After this he ordered several Jungunthiz bands at the new gawjam to remain while the rest of the army went home. We leave tommorow, so i must go and pack my things.

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It's ok. This kind of AAR is fun too. You don't necessarily stick with reviewing your gameplay in an AAR. There have been many I've read that were mostly just fiction. Keep it up! :2thumbsup:

As for screenshots, I would suggest downloading some kind of software to do the screenshots, such as FRAPS. This way, you can take screenshots without having to turn off AA.

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OMG I got MAA to comment on my AAR :bounce: (Does the super happy dance then goes insane and does this:wall:)

OK on a serious note
@MAA Thanks for the advice on AAR content, also i did Download fraps and it works for me what im having problems with is uploading screens to my posts
but thanks for posting:beam:

Chapter Three: Times of War, Times of Insanity (Part Two)

Spring 262BC

We have returned to the Capital. However upon our arrival we were stopped by some of the snake-men that serve Parsal. They questioned us about our exploits against the Skandza. However after we told them, they asked us if we had captured an elf creature. We my uncle told them no, them became enraged and attacked my uncle. It took 25 of the soldiers to get them off a of my uncle, and when we had done so, my uncle was forced to be bedridden for four weeks with scars and fever. He managed to beat the illness. I thank Freyja for this. Parsal was very angry when we had not magaed to capture an elf though, so relieved my uncle of his command. In his place he put my cousin Harthawulfaz.

There has been news of the assult of the Herukoz and their gawjam. Our army has yet to break down their walls. However, we have completely encircled them and are currently attempting to starve them out.
Also there is news of the world beyond the Germanlandam. To the west the civil war within Gaul is still ongoing, with no winner in sight. To the south the Romani have taken all of the Po valley. To the far east a people called the Arche Seleukia have apperently beaten a people called the Aegyptoi in a conflict called the Syrian wars and are currently assulting the River homeland of the Aegyptoi. These messages have been sent to us by our great explorer Hargardaz. However i must go now for one of the servants is calling fior my aid.

Summer 262BC

Sad tidings! About three weeks ago Parsal was holding one of his classes beneth my tree his little hovel suddenly burst into flames killing all of his apperintices, and burning the life out of my poor tree. However that bastard escaped unharmed. When he was questioned as to what happened, he told us that one of his students tried to grasp a power far beyond his scope. It had detroyed them all. He would have died too if his skills with the magics werent so advanced. However since the incedent he has refused to take on more apprentices. After the fire i went to my tree and tried to climb into it. When i got to the spot i usually sit at the sence of comfort that i usually felt was gone, destroyed along with the life of the tree. I wept for a few hours thinking of how that monster was trying to destroy my soul. First he takes my father, then he....takes my innocense, and NOW he takes my sanctuary from me?!?!?!!? While i was crying however i saw that a Fey was approcing me. I was confused. Usually the fey leave me alone and i do the same for them. However this one came up to me and spoke to me. I will write down the conversation as best as i can.

The Fey said to me,"Young one why is it that you sit here and cry?" I told him,"Because i used to love sitting here when the tree was alive, this was a place of comfort for me. But now that monster has destroyed it too." The fey looked at me and said, "You know the being that destroyed this sacred place?" I told him i did. The Fey then said," With your permission, i would like to see what your mind has seen of this being." I though about it for a moment, then agreed. When i said this he immediately got very close to my face and stared straight into my eyes. Then i felt him sifting through my memories, searching for the images he sought of Parsal. Surprisingly enough i felt no pain as i did when the seers do this to me. He was very gentle with me. When he was finished he looked at me and immediately said, "Your people are in grave danger. The man you know as Parsal is in fact a demon. My master, Odin, to whom this tree is sacred, has been hunting this demon for he serves the giants who seek to topple The Halls of Heaven. All of the gods are threatened by the giants. This demon serves the giants and spreads their vile ways and twisted magics." I was stunned. The man whom had taken my father was a demon?!?!? The man whom had....taken my innocence....Was a DEMON?!?!? I began to cry again. The fey looked at me and told me, "Little one do not weep. For i have seen within you the potential for great good." I looked at him, very confused. He then took a deep breath, and told me,"As i was looking into your mind i saw that you have the potential for the magics too." I looked at him horrified. He saw thelook on my face and said, "Fear not young one i do not mean magics like that of the demon. Let me tell you a truth of magic. Magic is only as evil as the person who uses it makes it to be. Odin himself is a master of the magics. He has created Three Laws for those whom have the talent to use the magics. Disobdince to these laws are what makes the magics the demon uses evil. He has become a Waerlinga, a foul oath-breaker. He feeds on living souls to increase his powers. He takes the slain souls of your peoples military conquests and feed hem to his foul masters for more powers." I shuddered horrified at what this meant. All the years of death, bloodshed, and hatred, all of that, were for nothing more than to feed this power-mad beast. Then the Fey spoke to me. He said,"If you wish it i can teach you the ways of proper magics so you may defeat this demon and save your people. I will not be easy and i cant promise you it will be enough. but its the best chance your people have for freedom. And i will require a life-long pledge to Odin, for he will be the one to gift you with the magics to use as you will." I though long and hard on this. I though of what that demon has done to my father, to my people and to me. Then i agreed to it. The fey smiled and told me the oath i was to take. When i had done so he began to speak in a strange language that sound similar to but less meancing than those of the demon. After he had finished i felt a surge of what i can only call pure power within me. I could see the world far more clearly. I could feel the earth beneath me within my bones. I could taste rain that had not yet formed. Then i felt a shield go up around me. I looked at the fey and realised he was shielding me, i asked him why. He said to me," I am protecting you from the sight of the demon. For he can sense the powers around him just as you can. If he were to discover you had recieved power then he would not hesistate to destroy you before you became a threat. But now i must teach you your most important lesson. How to shield yourself from the sight of others with the power. For the first law of magic is that where a magical entity tries to change the world around it, the scope is very limited to the immediate area around the entity. However, two magical entities can fight each other across contienents."
I learned that lesson quickly. I went home that night sore but feeling very safe and finally, for the first time since that demon came into my world, like i had some control. For the rest of the summer i learned of magics and how to use them from the Fey. From him i learned of the other two laws of magic, That magic given freely may be used for whatever purpose but that stolen magic, which is usually far more powerful, cannot be used without care, for if it were to get out of control then it would destroy the wielder. The other law is that when the user of magic becomes powerful enough it physically manifests upon the user, in the form of how the magic is used. I also learned of the abilties to manipulate the wind to carry object to where i wanted to go, of how to use even the tinyest light of a candle to heal even the most greivous wounds. I also learned of how to form light into a holy weapon to smite my foes. As i learned of magics i also began to study my opponent to see what i could learn of his weaknesses, to see if i could use them against him. Now as the leaves turn golden-brown i prepare to enter the hardest part of my studies. How to define the magics as a part of my soul and of my being. I must go now my master, the Fey whose name ive come to know as Ridougud, to begin it.

Winter 262BC

There is news from the southlands. The gawjam of the Herukoz has finally fallen. The enemy warchief, a man named Athagaraz, finally saw that he had to drive our forces away before his people starved to death. However when almost all of his forces were outside the gate, a group of our snake-men, cut them off and took the settlement. The people there were bound in chains and sent all over our kingdom to serve the Sweboz. And more settlers are going to the newly conquered gawjam to live there as our lands are rather poor. However, this is not enough for Parsal. He wants more conquest. More chaos,and more death. Also my brother seems to have developed a fever as of late. My father sends Parsal to heal him. And yet when Parsal leaves him he seems only to have gotten worse. So i use my meager healing power to try and remove the damage to my brother that that monster has done. However i am losing, for that monster is doing far more damage than i can correct. (There are tear stains here) I fear i may lose him.

Now onto happier news. I have learned of a spell that may defeat the demon. However i will only get one chance to use it, for when cast upon him it will reveal his true shape and nature for but a brief time. This will weaken him for as long as the spell lasts, and he will know whom cast it upon him instantly. So i must bide my time until i am strong enough to take him on. I must go now for my father calls me.

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what im having problems with is uploading screens to my posts

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What problems are you having?

It probably how im trying to upload my screens. See im thinking that i can copy/patse them onto my posts if anyone know how to get them on to the posts plz tell me

Thanks in advance

:laugh4: I didn't even know I was famous. :laugh4:

Usually, the image hosting website will give you a series of windows with code in them after you upload your picture. Find the the one with [ IMG ] [ /IMG ] , copy it, and put it in your post.

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It probably how im trying to upload my screens. See im thinking that i can copy/patse them onto my posts if anyone know how to get them on to the posts plz tell me

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You cannot just paste the picture from your computer, the pasted picture has to be caopied from some place on the Internet, whether it be an image-hosting website, a personal webpage, wikipedia, etc.

You have to upload them onto your account at some image album website such as PhotoBucket Picoodle(?), Picasa, etc. Then, when posting on .Org forums, you have to click the "Insert Image" button (a small yellow icon with a picture of two grey triangles and a grey square in the corner). A small screen will pop up, prompting you to insert the image URL. When you get to this point, you go to your newly-created album at an image-hosting website, right click the particular picture and one of the options will be "copy the image location". Click on that and you will have the image URL on your clipboard. Then just Ctrl+V the address into the "small screen" that appears when you click the Insert Image button. After this post whatever you have written/pasted and the URL magically turns into the picture you wanted!

Hope this helps; PM me if you need clarification.

EDIT: Oh well, MAA beat me the post. That's what I get for being so wordy!

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:laugh4: I didn't even know I was famous. :laugh4:

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As for that, you sure are. As a matter of fact you're my personal .Org hero. No joke intended there.

i DID IT WOOT
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This is my current situation
No that ive figured that out i would like to know where id get one of hose faction symbols for my sig plz??
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No that ive figured that out i would like to know where id get one of hose faction symbols for my sig plz??

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You go here: https://www.europabarbarorum.com/downloads_artwork.html and copy&paste the picture into your signature slot.

Chapter Four: Rebirth (Part One)

Spring 261BC
There is news of our army. Parsal has order the troops to march out under his direct command to the gawjam of the southern Heruskoz. Many winters before we invaded the northern tribes lands, the Heruskoz had grow VERY large. So large that their tribe had split in half. Some stayed in their gawjam in the north. However many instead chose to migrate and invaded the lands of a celtic tribe to the south. The land that we are about to try and take still bears the name of Mroc Arcouge. They took EXTREME offense at our invasion of the northern Heruskoz gawjam and are preparing to fight us. As Parsal goes to subdue them, he has replaced many of my fathers guard with his snake-men. I beleve this is to try and keep my father n line while he is away. He has also ordered my cousin, Harjarwulfaz to go east. To the east there is a tribe of Germans called Silengoz. They live in a remote area to the southeast of Swebozlandam. So the fight will be hard however i have every confidence that he can win. However that is far from my mind at the moment. When Parsal leaves i am not going with him. As long as he is away from the capital i can practice my magics far more freely and i can get stronger far quicker. I WILL also be using this time to heal my brother of the illness. While i was trying to correct the damage the Parsal had cast upon him before however i began to suspect that it had been Parsal whom had if fact infected him in the first place. Now that Parsal is leaving i can try to correct the evil that is within my little brother rather than just ease his symptoms.

Also news has come in from the west apperently the Gaulish tribes met in a huge battle that destroyed both armies. It may be some time before either side can recover. I believe Parsal will attempt to crush them underfoot after he has conquered everything on this side of the Rhine. I hope i can destroy him before he has the chance to envolve us in an insane attempt to conquer the rest of the world.

Spring 261BC
As i am writing this Messengers are coming in from the east. My cousin has succefull managed to subdue the Silengoz. It was a hard fight, but the tribe was underequipped and heavily outmaned, so my cousin just ran them into the dirt. As he works to set up and local Thing, loyal to Swebozlandam, he is also going to spare them any unesassary butchering and enslavement. My cousin has always been a kind man, just like my uncle was. However, when Parsal hears of this, he may relieve my cousin of command. My uncle tried his best but he had been under the direct influnce of the demon, so there was little he could do. My cousin however is advocating unity and not bloodshed for the people of Germanlandam. He thinks we should unite and crush our enemies rather than each other. I think that if this happened we'd be nigh-unstoppable. But as long as Parsal exists this cannot happen, for the demon's very nature is to cause suspsion and hatred. So i still bide my time, getting stronger and preparing for the day when i can susecfully overthrow the demon. I have also been securing the loyalties of those dissatisfied with the demons rule. I currently have under my command a whole band of Skutjonez. It will be up to these men to suppress the followers of the demon and destroy the snake-men whom serve him when the time comes. I am also in communications with the remaining human royal guards, many of them are dissatified with how Parsal has made my father into an ill and broken shell of the great man he once was. They are also pissed at the fact that Parsal is ordering many of them to step down. This may just work in my favor. I am also happy to report that i have managed to remove most of the cursed illness the the demon put upon my little brother. However i suspect he may have been irrepribly harmed by the disease. Only time will tell i suppose.

Autunm 261BC
Messengers have come in from the south. Apperently Parsal had an attempt made on his life by an assassin of the Heruskoz. However he used his magic to capture the man. Then he brought the poor man before the walls of their gawjam. He applauded the Heruskoz for the attempt however commented to them that resistance to his rule was foolish. He then took the man and did a PUBLIC display of his ability to boil someones blood. Now while this assassin was probably not the best of men he did NOT deserve that fate. When Heruskoz saw this they were HORRIFIED the messenger told us, and he believed so were most of our own men. The Heruskoz have been disheartened and will soon fall. The messenger told my father that Parsal expected to be home by the snowfall. Upon him saying this i made up my mind about something. I cant wait any longer. I have no more time, for if i let this go on he will become too strong. The more souls he gets his hands on, the more powerful he becomes. Once hes done with the Heruskoz he will learn of the Silengoz's survival. He may have my cousin killed for his insolence. And then he will order the massacre of the Silengoz putting him permanently out of my ability to stop. So i must kill him this winter or DIE trying.

And here it is

Chapter Four: Rebirth (Part two)

Winter 261BC
Let me begin.
Three weeks ago Parsal arrived back from the Heruskoz battle, flush with victory and his own invincibilty. Having obliterated the last of the truely free Germanic tribes he immediately sent many Sweboz settlers to the new lands. He then asked for news of the Silengoz. When he was told that my cousin had spared them, he became enraged and immediatly ordered him to come back to the capital. He was to be tried for treason. At this point i began to develop the plan to overthrow the demon. With most of the garrison supporting me, we began to gather supplies and weapons for the upcoming battle. The plan was that when the demon (and none of them knew the full extent of what Parsal was) brought my cousin to trial a signal would be given. When the signal went off the garrison was to attack and arrest all of the demons followers, suppporters, and converts. As for the snake-men, we knew they would never give up so we planned to kill as many as we could. The captain of the human guard, a man named Tharokoz would bring as many men that dared to defy the demon. If he could be arrested then so be it otherwise he must be killed. It took the captain a long time to convince me not to just have him killed on the spot. My part in the battle was too say the spell that would weaken him so hopefully we would bring him down without too much loss of life. However, that plan changed as soon as my cousin reached the capital. For instead of giving him a trial, the demon ordered my poor cousin brought to his private chambers. I knew instantly that he would kill him right then and there. So i put on this wonderfully light scale mail armor that the good capitain had provided for me. Then i went and put a scrying spell upon my cousins person and viewed the events from within the braches of my tree. My master Ridougud sat and watched with me. We waited for the right moment to strike. The demon questioned him for about an hour trying to figure out why my cousin had done it. I didnt let the torture go on any longer than that I immediatly told Captain Tharokoz to signal the attack and began to chant my spell. I shall record what happened next here to the best of my memory.

As the captain sounded his horn, and ran to join his men, my spell began to reach fever pace. I knew i had to hurry because as soon as i had started the demon knew instanly that something was wrong. It didnt take him long to realise that someone was tampering with his magics. He raced out of his chambers, the human form around his body shimmering and dimming. I could tell he was heading straight for me. So i increased the pace of my spell still further. And though i could no longer see him i knew he was desperatley racing towards me. My master knew he would make it before i could finish by myself so he joined in adding his magics to my own. At this the demon wailed a horrific cry of terror and pain and tripled his speed. However as he turned the corner at the section my tree was in the spell was completed. Suddenly, he stopped, as the visage of humanity around his vanished. What was in its place i could hardly believe. There stood before me What i would have at first mistaken for a snake-man. Except this one, in addition to the scales, claws, tail, and forked tougne, were eyes as black as the pits of Hel's domain.He also had huge, leathery wings not unlike those of a cave bat, except far larger. Also his feet were clawed and elogated into a shaped not unlike that of a swamp frog's. Also his mouth had become like a bear's muzzle but wider and scaled, and full of razor sharp teeth. He seemed to drool fire. And eminating from serveral pores on his body were flames as black as night. They seemed to consume the light around them. I stared at this horrific being for several seconds before he located me as the source of his exposure. Villagers around him screamed and began to flee for their lives. He then did a strange thing. He killed three of the villagers around him and while doing so spoke more of the words i had come to realise were waerlinga magics. I watched in horror as the poor souls were shacked and the thrust into his pocket of his trousers, which were the only thing on him to survive the transformation. I thought this odd so while he was busy i used a little of my magics to see what was inside. To my surprise it was the blue stone that the local Thing had delilvered nearly seven winters ago. I realised to my shock that he was using the Stone to hold the souls of his victims and feed off of their power. I realised that my revealment spell had knocked loose his hold on the Stone. So i figured that if i could break it he would be helpless against me. As he finished his "meal" he turned to me and spoke. His voice was completly different. It has become a low roar with deep undertones. He said, "Foolish witch, you have exposed me. So now you will die." I laughed at him, desperatley trying to keep the fear out of my voice and said to him, "NO DEMON! It is YOU whose turn has come to die. The blood of many tribes are on YOUR hands. And i WILL deliver the justice that is due unto them." I began to climb down from the tree while i spoke this. As i did so i could feel him gathering all of the power that my spell had not sapped from him to the fore. He then laughed his hateful laugh and said to me,"You speak of doing your "justice" upon me!?!?!?! HA! You couldn't even hurt a fly without your little friend there." He then pointed at Ridougud. I realised something else at that moment and it gave me hope for the coming fight. He though that my magic had not been bound to my soul yet. He believed that if my master were to die i would be left powerless, and defensless. I yelled at him, "Its time to see justice done!! FOR ODIN!!FOR THE HALLS OF THE HEAVENS!!!" At this he laughed, and then let out a huge roar. He then proceeded to wait for a few moments. When no sound was heard in return he became confused and angry. I realised that he was trying to summon his snake-men and worshippers. I was realieved and scared at the same time. For this told me that the garrison and the human royal guards were doing their job but that was also on my own with this monster. He then roared at me and charged with fireballs forming in his hands. I immediatly began to bufferet him with the power of the winds. And then when he had slowed i took the rubble of a building he has broken, and sent them fly around him, putting him in a mini-whirlwind. However he almost immediatley burned thorugh it and threw three fireballs at me in VERY quick sussecion. The first two i managed to fling away from me with the wind, but the third one i ducked under as it flew over me and hit a building behind me. The building..well i cant really say it any other way. It EXPLODED! Then as i was recovering the demon charged me throwing blackfire at me. I was struggleing to deflect his flames. He was far stronger than i thought, even after i had drained so much of his energy. He was still far more powerful than i was. Then Ridougud joined the fray. The fight evened up almost immediatley. Sensing this the demon cast a buffet of flames and cast me to the side so he could take on this new threat. I flew almost 10 hands into the air. I landed with a thud far to the side. As i got up i realised i had lost a LOT of energy. About 15 hands away from me the demon and Ridougud were battling it out, the demon throwing fireballs and making snare trails of flame, while my master was hurtling gusts of wind and ice barbs at him. I began to run back towards the battle. However, he began to throw fire over his back at me. He probably wasnt trying to hit me, just keep me away from the fight for long enough to kill my master. As i ducked and dodged the fireballs, i could tell the demon was begining to win. I tripled my pace but at this point my master was bound in the painful flame snares. Then the demon laughed and said to my master, "Little fool, it is time for you to join the others within my Stone." As he said this, he began to rip my masters soul apart and feed it into his Stone. I screamed, and formed the last of my remaining energy into a single blot of pure light. With a momumental effort i threw it at the Stone. With most of his defenses drained away and his concentration on my master, the bolt hit the Stone dead on. It shattered into little pieces. The demon threw my master's body away and began shrieking a baleful howl. As the souls within the Stone began to tear the demon apart, he grew more and more, until his own energy detroyed his body. He exploded, and the fire poured from his corpse into the town. And when the heat hit me, i blacked out and knew no more.

When my eyes opened again, i was in a high hall with pure white light everywhere. The hall was made of solid stone. Around me were warriors, women, chlidren, and above me were flows and flows of magic. And then i heard a voice. What happened next i will record here.

"Arise Child.", the voice said to me. This voice was deep and rich. I could tell it was also kind and gentle. As i rose, i heard the voice again. It said to me,"Come forth and approach us." As it spoke the sea of people parted and to my front was an open door, with incredibly bright light eminating from it. As i moved towards the doori looked at the people around me. I then noticed that they were staring at me thorugh sightless eyes. I suddenly realised i wasnt among the living anymore. As i realised this another voice spoke. It was feminie, beautiful and lilting. It said,"Yes child these are the Halls of Heaven. Now come forth and approach us." As i approached the door i slowed unsure of the light before me. The deep voice spoke again. "Do not fear for if you are pure of heart and mission the light will not harm you." I took and deep breath and plunged into it. When i emerged on the other side i found myself in a room of the whitest stones i had ever seen. The room was circular and at regularly spaced intervals were 5 large thrones. On the throne directly in front of me was an old man with a gray beard. He was dressed into old leather armor with a battle axe by his throne. One of his eyes was missing and upon each shoulder was perched a raven. To the direct left of him was a stunningly beautiful woman with nutbrown hair and beautiful blue eyes. She was dressed in a leather chestpiece with chainmail trousers. On either side of her throne was a shield and spear. To her left was a awesomely beautiful man that looked much like her with the same shade of nutbrown hair and blue eyes. He was dressed in a cloth jerkin with leather trousers. Leaning on his throne was a large poleaxe. They looked like siblings. To the right of the old man was a man with a mane of red hair he was dressed in solid chain-mail and he had on his head a winged helm. Upon his lap was a HUGE battle hammer. To his right was a smaller man with golden-brown hair. He was dressed in the clothes of a mountaineer at his feet was a small sword. And upon his lap was a long horn that looked like it had seen much use. After looking around i realised that these were the high gods Odin, Freyja, Frejyer, Thor, and Tyr. I immediatley fell to my knees and STAYED that way. Odin began to chuckle.I stayed were i was. Then Odin said, "Please child rise, you have more than honored us this day." I did so. Then i asked, "Excuse me my Lord, but am i dead?" When i said this they all started to laugh. After a few minutes, (and much embarassment for me) Thor spoke to me. He said," No, no little one you are not dead. We are just restoring you to your true potential. Ahem... now Odin has some words for you." I turned to the mighty God. He said to me," Aluruno you have saved your people from a fate FAR worse than the pits of Hel's kingdom. As such i am here to offer you a reward. In exchange for continuing your service i will promise you more power to help those around you, to heal the hurts of the world around you. However it will come at a price. Just as i lost my eye at the Well of Knowledge, so you must lose your human sight." I though long and hard on this. I though of my father, of all the people slain in the demons mad lust for power. I asked mighty Odin a question. "If i do this will i be able to continue to live as i once did? With my father my family and my people?" The God said to me,"You will be FOREVER HONORED amongst your people and you shall be immortal so long as your are not killed by sword and spear. Also yes you shold be able to continue as you once did." Then i though about it some more. Finally i said, "I agree." Odin smiled at me then his two ravens whom i now knew to be Truth and Wisdom flew off of his shoulders and towards me. They stopped just in front of me and each one touched their beaks just above both of my eyes. Then the world slowly faded away. However i was still consious. Then i heard Odin speak to me. "Now GO child. Return to YOUR PEOPLE!!! Bring them the peace of the Gods."
Only then did i know no more.


As i awoke the first thing i noticed was that i was resting on a bed. It was very comfortable, full of down feathers and straw. I looked up and saw a wooden roofed hall. However something was different about everything. Then i realised that everything was in a different shade of color than it would normally be. It was purer, more vivid, and far more thrilling than my normal magic sight was. I realised that this was true vision. Then i looked to the left and saw a man with his head down on the edge of the bed. I noticed that he was asleep. So i nudged him with my foot. His head shot up and i was staring into the face of my father. He had been crying, VERY HARD apperently. The first thing he did was to hug me and start crying again. I could tell immediatly that my father was back. He then said to me,"Can you ever forgive me for what that bastard has done to you." I hugged him just as tightly back, and i told him that it was fine that i had done everything for him and for our people, and that i still loved him. He then said to me,"Im so so sorry for what has happened to you my daughter. So sorry for the years of anger, of murder, and of was has happened to your beautiful eyes." I looked at him confused. Then he pulled a basin of water towards me. When i looked into it, i almost immediatly recoiled away HORRIFIED at what i had seen. From above each of my eyes to below each of them, there were the same kind of scar that had decroated the demons face. The only difference between his scars and my scars were that his scars had been emeniating red-black light mine glowed very light-blue. I began to cry. My father hugged me again and told me that it would be alright. He still loved me and i could tell it too. We sat there for a while and then he called in several guardsmen. He spoke to them and told them to stand guard over me so that he could get the festivities ready. I asked him what festival. He told me the one in my honor for i had saved our people from the grip of that demon. Then he left my codex by me and walked out.

Wow, you really have some inspiration writing all of this! I really admire you, as I don't get such inspirations (I get bored soon :-P). Anyway you keep on rocking:thumbsup:

Maion

Nice. Haven't seen the Sweboz in action since my second AAR, which died out a while ago due to lack of interest. Oh well.

This is excellent. I always thought there weren't enough Sweboz AARs.

Use the soul cube!
lol

Chapter Four:Rebirth(Part Three)

Winter 261BC

Today i am to be honored by all of the people of Germanlandam. Today i am also celebrating my 20th winter of life. There have been festivities all month long of me but today is the greatest of them all. Ive even been given a new name apperently. The people have taken to calling me the White Lady. I know not were they got such a name from. Im very embarassed, all of this attention..... Oh well i guess theres nothing i can do.

There have been many things going on within Germanlandam since the demon was killed. Firstly the few remaining tribes have been given there rights back. There are only four tribes remaining within the Germanlandam, out of the 15 that were here before the demon came. They are the Sweboz, the Silengoz, the remains of the Heruskoz and the Skandza. Each of these tribes have been given the right to form their own tribal Thing. My father is also putting together something he is calling an "All-Thing". This will be were people from all of the tribal Things will come together and discuss the important issues, and decide upon what to do about them. The Heruskoz from Mroc Arcuogue were wiped out by Parsal when he defeated them. However the northern Heruskoz magaed to survive and are currently thriving. The Skandza went into hiding with the elves after my uncle defeated them. However the elves sensed the great change in the power of the world upon the death of the demon. It was only then that the Skandza came out of hiding. After all the years of bloodshed, hatred, chaos and evil commited by the demon against all Germans,My fathe had a decsion to make. When the first All-Thing met my father offered to give up all of the territorial claims that the demon had pushed my tribe into. While there were delagates of the Heruskoz that really wanted this to happen in the end the five man delegation split two for and three against. The Heruskoz decided that it would be better to stay within the umbrella of the Germanlandam than fall under a truly foreign power. The other three tribes agreed that it was how things needed to be.
Also of note in the middle of these proceedings a VERY tall man burst into the chambers. What happened next i will record here.
As the man entered the committee turned and looked confused. The man was dressed in a deep green cloak with the hood up. His armor was dark leather. At his side was a short sword. However the thing that caught the attention of the committee the most was the fact that on the sides of his hood were two holes. And out of those holes there were elongated ears that ended in points. My father spoke to the man. "Who are you and why have you barged in on us stranger?" However i recognised him immediaelty. I said to the man,"Hello there Kellelsin". I got up and walked over to him. He bowed before me. And then he spoke with his lilting voice," Ah and greetings to you Aluruno. I trust you have been well?" At this i laughed and said,"Why yes of course, in fact that monster has finally left us did you know?" At this my father spoke again,"Aluruno whom is this man and how do you know him? In fact WHAT is this man?" At this Kellelsin removed his hood and revealed those same deep green eyes to the council. I spoke to my father. "Father this ones name is Kellelsin and he is an elf." At this the whole council stared at him shocked. For as far as i could tell none of them had ever seen an elf. "And as for how i know him father, this elf saved my life once.", i said. Then i old him the story of how we met. When i had finished the tale my father looked at Kellelsin and said,"Good elf i thank you from the bottom of my heart for saving my daughters life and i wish to honor you." Kellelsin then said,"My lord it was nothing at all. After all i did get what i needed that day. Now i have a messeage for you." He then pulled a scroll out of the flods of his cloak. As he unfurled it he began to read. "To the most esteemed leaders of the Germans, We of the elves have recived signs that the former evil among you has been removed. As a result of said events we wish to join our peoples together as one nation, for there is safety in numbers. There have been many threats to our race over the years. We have had a poilcy of "Leave well enough alone" for most of those years. However the recent events of the invasion and the rise of the demon have shown us that we are vernerable to the events of the outside world. So our people have chosen a new course. We will side with the Germans due to the fact that you honor our mother Frejya. So as leader of the elves, i, Erllashe Trir Mourtague, do humbly request to be accepted among the people of the greater Germanlandam, my people, The Ulmor Caraz Elfroditch." As he finished my father and the other delegates looked deep in thought. Then one of the Silengoz delegates spoke. "I would support this inclusion into our great nation, for if any free people, human or not, would like the protection our armies can give them, then by the Gods we should support them!" Many among the council agreed. However the Heruskoz didnt like the idead of non-humans being allowed within Germanlandam. Arguments began to break out. Then my father said,"Noble delegates im sure this can be solved reasonably. I suggest this be put to a vote." It was agreed. A vote was held, and the final total was 12 for 11 against so the motion BARELY passed.
After the vote Kellelsin was sent back to the Elves with a list of requirements that would be required for them to be accepted. Meanwhile other votes were passed. Such as army reform, mutual defense treaties, crop and hunting laws and boundaries, and of course trade treaties. As the night wore on and i got tried and left for the evening.

Summer 260BC
Since the demon was killed, the Germanlandam has prosepered. The dead fields of previous winters have been replaced by lush and bountiful crops. The fields of wheat, barley and other fruits of the earth have become large and plentiful. I can only hope this time of prosperity lasts.
There is news of the southlands as well. Apperenlty there are many rumors of revolt among the celts of Mroc Arcugoue. The death of the demon has left them thinking we are pitiful and weak. Well if they should try anything then we will show them.

At this point very little either story wise or campain wise actually happened so imma skip ahead a few years.

Chapter Five:Changes

Summer 256BC
It has been many moons since ive written for the times of peace have been busy and fun. But there is great news. Many of the gawjams that were crushed by the demon have been fully rebuilt and are growing at an incredible rate. In fact the gawjam of the Kimbroz has prospered under Germanlandam rule. Many new villages are being built. In fact my father has begun extensive work on the Warrior's Hall. Soon it will become a true Hall of a Warlord. I must go now for there is still much work to be done.

Winter 254BC
There is news. Filthy celts from the south have begun to raid the Mroc Arcogue. Despite past treaties, the celts of the....i believe the word i "Oppida".. of Vindccoples have begun butchering the southern Germans and encouraging revolt among our celtic subjects. Meanwhile to the East there have been tribes of Balts, Gaetians, Celts, and even rumors of a People called Makedonias, the bastard children of the Gaetians raiding and butchering the Silegoz gawjams. Several armies under the command of some of my distant family have been sent to control the situation. I can only pray for their safety.

Spring 252BC
There is Horrific news from the east. Apperently almost all of the troops we sent there were.....well if reports are correct they were flatly ANNIHILATED. A huge army of incredibly skilled celts under a Traitor Makedonian general named Diazenis ambushed our army and utterly obliterated them.
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(and no i didnt spawn this with code. it fricken hit me like a train)
All of the members of my family that were there were either killed our captured and put to death in HORRIFIC ways. Ive even heard reports of one of my cousins having been tied up in a tree and torn limb from limb by a flock of flesh eating birds. As the news is coming in i can only pray for the safety of the Silengoz. My father is raising an army to be sent to the eastern front. I can only hope that the remain of the first army can hold the gawjam of the Silengoz long enough for our army to arrive.

Summer 252BC
Apperently the east has stablized....for now. The huge celtic force is having to deal with the highly expasionistic Gaetians. However in the south the celts that remain within Mroc Arcogue have risen in revolt and fled to the forests. It will take a LONG time to flush them out. However the army that my father raised to fight in the east willl instead go south and i will go with them. For in the area of the revolt i can sense powerful shields of magic. So i guess that the enemy has seers within their army. I can only guess as to how many and how strong. I must go now and prepare for battle.

I thought that after Parsal died the story would end. Guess I was wrong. Let's see how old she gets.:yes:

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I thought that after Parsal died the story would end. Guess I was wrong. Let's see how old she gets.:yes:

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OK and Y?!?! would i end it after only 10 years? She may get old but i can get more ppl to replace her. this wont end till i say it does :2thumbsup:
So sit back, relax and enjoy:beam:
And be gald ur not with themVVV

Alrite here we go again

Chapter Six: The Shields of Sucellos (Part One)

Summer 251BC
There has been much going on in the world outside of the Germanlandam. To our south the Romani have begun to expand into the Alps. I see a dark future in those mountains. Beyond the river Rhine the civil war is still going strong, However the Aedui have won a key victory, we will see what becomes of it, and if the have the nerve to make themselves great, like we have. To the far east the war betweenthe Arche Seleukia and the Aiegyptos has stalled as far as we can disscern. (BTW if anyone can tell me what to do to get the reveal map thing going so i can post a screen with a full update plz tell me. Thanks in advance.)

In the meanwhile much closer to home there is news. The revolt within the Mroc Arcogue has grown. When we went to supress it the rebels fled before us. However we have yet to catch them and have been fighting a running battle. After our first encounter we uncovered documents assetaning to the identity of an Order forming within the rebels camp. They call themselves the "Shields of Sucellos". We have chased these "Shields" and their servants from the borders of the Mroc Arcogue, to the lands of the former Kimbroz, into the south of Skandzalandam, and even to the gates of the Capital. After we drove them off there they fled to the south of Swebozlandam itself. The army goes to try and pin them down, but i cannot go with them.
I have recieved a vision from the High Gods. I have been commanded to create an Order to preserve the German people and protect the world from the Giants and other malignant forces. I have had much suscess in this endeavor. As it is i have recruited nearly 200 men and women of good hearts and stout character to teach the magics of Odin and the other High Gods to. Thanks to my purification within the Halls of the Heavens i can see the magics of this world directly. However the new seers cannot see them this way. So much as my former master taught me using rocks and flames so must i give them the use of RuneStones.
A RuneStone is a simple device when all is said and done. It is a stone that has a word in our peoples runic script that has been given the abilty to use the properties of said word. So if i were to write the runes for fire upon a stone and magically empower them to do so, all that one must do when using the stone is to focus his talent as a seer upon someone or something and say the words. Then the offening object or person will burst into flames. However this knid of use has it limitations. Firstly the RuneStones can only hold so much power before you must refill them with magic. So you cannot make a dozen fires burst out at once or it would destroy the rune. This makes them VERY good training tools, because if the student makes a bad mistake or draws upon too much power it is the rune that will be destroyed rather than the student and his surrounding environment. I learned that from the school that the demon tried to raise, and its destruction. Another limitation of runic magics is that they are inflexible. If you use the rune for fire to make something burst into flames thats all it will do, it will not spread the flames, it will not try and control the flames, all it can do is create them. As such when i or another master of the Order deem the student ready, he will be taught how to use the magics around him, however due to their inability to become truly pure, as the High Gods did for me, they must use a viewing RuneStone to see the flows of magic around them and how they can be used. I must go now and review my record and assertain supplies for the Order for the next year.

Spring 248BC
There has been news from the Mroc Arcogue. We have managed to traps the Shields and their servants within the eastern forests of the Mroc Arcogue. Nearly the entire army of celts has been surrounded and refuses to come out of their defenses. It appears that we will have to starve them out. I am soon to be going to the area and preparing to fight the seers within the enemy army. As leader of the Order, (Which has been given a name, The Runic-Hand) i have appointed several higher masters to positions of management. This is to assist me with tasks such as supply and army-seer coordination. My father has approved the project.
On that note my father has also said that he wished he himself could go and crush these rebels, but due to the fact that the demon had interfered with his health and body while he had controlof our people, my father has been permenantly forced to remain in the capital, for he could not survive the rigors of campaining without great assistance. He often remarks on this with a sense of bitterness. For he was once one of them mightiest warriors our people had, now he is a bedridden councilor. At 52 he must sit on the sidelines due to terrible health. I have done my best to help him but the magics of the demon had done far too much damage for me fix it. The same has happened to my little brother. As i had feared after he was healed of the illness he had beeen struck blind and deaf, thus forcing my father to take him from the line of succession. I can still communicate with him using my magics, and i find that he is a bright indiviual but he will never be as storng as my father was or as well oriented due to his disabilities. I teach him numbers and runic everyday I can but its hard for him.

Chapter Six: The Shields of Sucellos (Part Two)

Summer 248BC
Apperently physical change is VERY painful.
Let me begin.
My cousin, Harjarwulfaz, summoned me tothe front five weeks ago. He told me that there may be an attack soon so i was needed to help combat the obivous use of enemy magic by the seer within their army. The next day, at about noon, the enemy appered out of the woods and formed up for battle. They appeared well fed and rested. So as we began to form our battlelines, our scouts came back and reported the status of the enemy army. They had many, many levy troopsamong them, i think the word they use is Lugoae. However there were also report of a large congent of slingers as well. At first this confused us as we didnt know where the Shields were. Then another scout came back with reports of wild, and NAKED spearmen comming out of the woods with a band of heavy swordsmen at their back. Due to the design on their shields we knew these swordsmen to be The Shields of Sucellos. We formed up, the Gaizoukom Fruizot on the left, the Dungunthiz on the right and the brave Jungunthiz in the center. However i am in the rear with the Skutjonez reserves,preparing my magics for a LONG and hard fight, for as i look at the size of the magics arayed before me, i realise ive faced few among the petty rebel seers that came even CLOSE to this man. As we prepared to charge my cousin gave a brave speech. I will record his words here.

"Free men of Germanlandam, LOOK AT YOUR FOES!!!!! Look at them and remember, everyone of them are afarid. They have much fear, of me, of you, of our POWER AND MIGHT!!!! They fight for a lost cause. They have fled before us, run screaming, and have hidden. Now that we have cornered them it takes these cowardly fools months to come before us, to make their stand and FIGHT!!!! Now i say this to you, DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT!?!?!?!?!?!?!" At this point the men roared their approval. My cousin continued, "GOOD!!! Then we will have a FIGHT!!!!" More cheers. "Now then......CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!"

At that the battle was joined. When the lines collided i looked to see my cousin fight with his body guards. They were on the far right flanking the enemy lines. Then to my horror the enemy began to push the Junguthiz back. There was a bludge in our line but the Jungunthiz didnt give up. I immediatley ordered nearly half of the reserves to go an back them up. As this happened, i saw to the even father right, the unit of crazed naked men running to attack my cousins bodyguard so i sent the rest of the reserves except for my bodyguard of Skutjonez to that part of the battle. As these lines collided the Skutjonez at the front of the fighting barely managed to hold the naked men, as the rest of the reserves ran past them and began to attack the back sides. Even under this assult the spearmen didnt break, they acutally took the offensive and began to rip apart the Skutjonez. I then sent fire among the naked men. As many at their center began to burn, the power oftheir attacks stalled. However i was begiining to run out of energy. For i had already burned a third of the enemy line up , and i had thrown a big tree at a charging group of slingers, utterly wiping them out. I also had to content with attcks by the enemy seer upon our lines. He had tried to set fire to many of the Jungunthiz. He was also using his magic to fuel the rage of the naked spearmen far beyond that of normal men. He was also attacking my shields even as i attacked his, trying to locate him directly so i could attack him. After nearly ten minutes of battle, the enemy began to lose steam on the flanks and my cousin broke through the right flank, routing many of the foe. However he got caught up in the chase and ran far from the main battle line chasing down the cowrds. As he did so i notcied that his unit was coming under attack from the fire magics of my oponents somewhere close to him. It was then i though that i had located them. He was off to the right of my cousins bodyguards in a group of trees. I immediatley launched nearly all of my power at him intending to destroy him instantly. However after the magic went off and i felt something get destroyed. I got hit by a HUGE fire burst. I then realised that what i had hit with almost all of the magic i had left was a dummy, and the dummy traced my magics right to me. I crused my ill fortune and finally located the enemy seer. However he was hitting me with large amounts of magic that i could barely deflect. As such i began to use my reserves and started launching wind blasts and shards of light at him. However his shields were far too strong, and my attacks bounced off of them like it was nothing. The situation was looking grim, and i began to fear for my life. I then decided that if i was going to die i might as well take him with me. As i prepared to cast my spell at him i began to feel terrible pain upon my upper back and at the base of my spine. At this i fell to my knees crying in pain. At this point i went berserk and unleashed a titanic amount of light shards and whirlwinds upon my opponent, all the while the pain kept getting worse and worse, driving me insane. I finally managed to shatter his shields and the light shards threw him through one tree and impaled him into another. The last thing i knew was that he was dead and then i knew no more.

As i awoke i heard dim voices, saying things like "Be careful with her." or "Watch that wing." I was confused as to what they meant by the wing. But before i could speak i passed out again. As i awoke again i felt that i was resting on a soft bed of feathers, it had felt wonderful. As i began to get my mind working again however, i felt that i had become somehow larger than i was before the battle. As i opened my eyes i sat up and several mencame up and held me down. I began yelling at them to let go of me, which they propmtly did. As i got up they appologized, and said it was to prevent me from hurting myself. As i strated to ask what they had meant i suddenly realised something. The feathers on the bed had apperently followed me up. As i turned to brush them off, i got a BIG shock. There were wings behind my back. They were like those of a bird and covered in beautiful, glowing white feathers. It took me a moment to realise what had happened. Apperently the pain that has driven me mad upon my back was my power finally manifest in these wings. As they had grown upon my back i had somehow found the will and energy to kill my opponent. Then one of the men whom had pushed me down spoke to me. "My lady we are sorry for the rough treatment but those wings have been giving us trouble when we tried to heal you. And dont get me started about the tail..." "WHAT!?!?!?!", i yelled at him. I took off the blanket and sure enough there was a feathery tail coming out of the base of my spine. I though "What else has manifested?" When i searched myself, i found that my eyes had changed as well. They had gone from blue human eyes to eyes like those of a falcon. The clear blue was still within them but the change was marked. I began to cry. It was then that my cousin came into the room. He hugged me and told me that it was alright, that i didnt look all that bad and that i had done a great job. He even told me that he though the wings were beautiful. At this i laughed. After i had calmed down he told me what had happened after i blacked out. After the enemy seer had died, the naked men had been forcibly removed from their berserk high. This killed most of them on the spot. Those that survived fled and when they had fled the rest of the enemy had been disheartened. They broke too. However almost none of them got away. It was a great victory.

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After he left i looked at my newly aquired wings. I though about it for a long time. Then i began to write this entry in my codex. I must say they feel wonderful, but they sure make it hard to write. Well i must be finishing up now for the army is going south to confront the filthy celts of Vinccopoles that have formented this rebellion.

Haha, she's a Coralian!

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Haha, she's a Coralian!

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Ok a what?
And what show is that from?

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@ Desert NOT PIXIE WINGS!!!!!! ANGEL WINGS!!!!

Although yes Eureka Seven KICKED ASS!!!:2thumbsup:
btw good eye from these kinds of details but i came up with that out of my own head. I need t watch all the old and good anime's again.

So that's how you knew it was from a "show".

If that displeases you, then how about this?

https://i494.photobucket.com/albums/...gel_I_0021.jpg :smash:

Por favor, continúa con tu cuento. Es beneficioso por la comunidad.

@ desert ok thats is more of what i had in mind
and yes ive seen all of the episodes that they will show in america so yea from what ive seen its a very good anime but anyways :focus:

-_- ok due to SEVERE issues with my campain i MAY have to end this AAR. Somehow ALL of my savefiles are corrputed/i get constant CTDs, i cant even advance a turn without the thing crashing. If someone can help me i would be grateful

EDIT: Ok after having to remove serveral savefiles ive managed to get the game running again so ill post another chapter asap

Chapter Seven:Conquest

Spring 247BC
As the leaves return to the trees, we are preparing for our assult upon the "Oppida". We will bring the rams forward as the Skutjonez, the Gaizofulkom Frizot, and the elven hammermen, and archers move to support them. As i watch the preparations getting ready, i think back to almost 20 winters ago. This army was not even possible. The different tribes slept seperatly, fought as different units and didnt like each other very much. They also refused to share food and fought alot over idioctic issues such as who was taller or who had killed more of the foe that day. However, 20 winters later there is so much that is different. As i watch i can see Gauts and Skandzas helping the Heruskoz build a third ram. I see Silengozes and Swebozes returning from hunts and scouting missions laughing with each other. I see Swebozes and Gauts discussing how best to use a spear without it coming to blows. Even the elves are welcome here and that took FAR more effort than the different human tribes coming together. At first the elves were ridiculed by many people whom were afraid of them, of their ears, of their hearts, and of their devotion to the High Gods. They were spat on, attacked, threatened with death, and even driven out of villages. However recently they have preformed acts of true heroism, especially against the celts and the rebels. As such the people have begun to accept them and even welcome them. The tribes and peoples of the Germanlandam are becoming one, and it makes me proud to be a part of such a mighty and brave people.
Many things have happened within the Germanlandam. All along the Rhine there are many new settlements, the main gawjams in those areas have grown and are prospering. In fact as we advance into new lands there are often many people following our army, founding new villages in areas we have taken for our rightful use.
Ah and of course there has been more news from the outside world. Apperently the Romani have invaded the the land beyond the alps and are being fought back by various Tribes of celts. To the west the Gauls are still fighting, being no closer after several Avernai victories. To the far west a people called the Lusotannan are slowly uniting a land called Iberia. They may have the same goals in mind that we do. If they should ever want a fight we WILL give it to them. To the east there is a land called Hellas. There are three great tribes of people called Greeks that include the Makedonians are currently fighting over the land. Apperently the Makedonias are losing ground, to a people whom call themselves the TRUE Hellens. I hope they destroy those foul Makedonians. Also even father to the east there is surprising news of Aiegyptos. They have apperently annhilated three full armies of the Arche Seleukia and have won back all the land that they lost during the first of the Syrian wars.
But i must go as the elves are calling for my presense on an important issue.

Summer 247BC
Today we celebrate victory.
The assult upon the Oppida was fast. We quickly pushed the rams to the walls, while the Skutjonez and elven archers laid down a murderous rain of death upon the foes just behind the walls. However when all of the rams had broke large holes into the walls we saw that there were men armed with spears in a strange fashion. They held their large shields up and had their spears out between them. This effectivly blocked the hammermen and Gaizofulkom Frizot from getting a fast entry. And when the archers came to the front, their arrows were harmless as they bounced off the big shields. It was then that i got the idea to try lighting the rest of the walls on fire, in the hopes that that would bring down more wall than they could cover with their big shields and spears. However there simply was not enough power in the air to use that could bring THAT much wall down. Frustrated, one of the elves came up with a solution. He sugested that i light their arrows aflame so hot that the walls would catch fire if hit properly. It tooks a LONG time and only the elven arrows could be lit aflame to the temperatures that were nessasery. However the walls eventually caught fire and burned rather rapidly. And some of the arrows hit the men with the big shields. When those arrows caught on the big shields the men behind the carriers caught fire and the carriers usually melted. It was horrific. When many of the big shields saw this they began to fall back. It was their last mistake. For i ordered a massive volley of fire arrows into their backs. Most died instantly. What few remained fled screaming to the centre of town. It was then that the walls finished burning and collapsed. They also set fire to several rows of houses behind them. I think im going to be using this technique rather often. In the meanwhile the hammermen and spearmen moved forward before the enemy could recover. As they spread out into the town there was much fighting and killing. It was hard, hard fighting. One unit of hammermen was surrounded by some enemy spearmen. The fight there became brutal. Many elves were killed. However many more of the enemy were slaughtered and the elves didnt break, much to their credit. Not to be outdone half of our spearmen rushed the town square. Many, many enemy soldiers were stationed there. The fight was brutal. It ground into a stalemate very fast. However, many of the hammermen that had survived charged aorund the backside of the mass of death. Even most of the Skutjonez put down thier bows and grabed their tall spears. their charge is what broke the enemy. Of course the filthy celts fought to the last. Brave but foolish. I must go now for there is a celebration at hand.

Chapter Eight:Haven
Winter 246BC
I returned to the capital three weeks ago and yet so MUCH has happened within that time, that it will take much time to record it all here. As i arrived i met my father. I must admit that he had a heavy look on his face at the time, but i thought it due to the wieght of his office and his health. We talked for a while, and we spoke of the southlands and the eastern wars. I told him of the rich lands to the south and of how easy the conquest was down there. At this he laughed and said that the eastern wars were at a stalemate. However we had subdued the tribes of southern Balts, this was not due to the actions of my uncle Athawulfaz, but of my other uncle, the crown prince, Ansuharjaz. I shiver whenever i think of the man. He is the tallest of my fathers family. With firey red hair and INTENSE blood-red eyes, he frightens little children. Out of the four brothers he is by far the most severe, stern, aggresive and enraged man youve ever met. However, he is by far the most capable man within the empire. He has done most every higher job that needs doing. He has conquered the celts across the river Rhine, even though that conquest was very short-lived,. He has assulted many a celtic Oppida, and he has governed the gawjams upon our side of the river with incredible efficency and has turned a profit out of regions thought far too poor to be of any worth. He repelled raids by the celts of Gaul upon our homelands for many years. And now he is in charge of the eastern wars. And has done far more than most of the commanders of that post. The man even frightens my father at times. Had he been the first born the kingdom would have reached its current size many, MANY winters ago, my fathers says often. And my father also says that he would have had the wisdom to crush the demon before he had gained power rather than fall under its sway as he had. I tell my father that that's not true, that he is a wonderful leader, and a VERY good ruler. At this my father laughs and i usually do to. However this time around my father doesnt laugh. He speaks to me with a serious voice. I will record what he said here.
"My daughter......(sigh).....i must ask of you a favor. And i dont think that you will like it." I look at my father, and i say,"And what might this boon be?" He then says,"Well please dont be angry but i need you to get....married." At this point he cringes as if expecting me to explode. I am only stunned. I then camly say,"Father i will NEVER let another man near me after what that demon did to me. YOU KNOW THIS!!!" He looks at me as if he expected this answer. Then he says,"My little one i know this. But i need you to think on this proposal. You see there are still many faults within the Germanlandam. There are people that say we are far to weak under the current leadership. Some think that they could do a better job. and those that wish to use violence to get there. It is my belief that if we show a sign of strenght such as one of my kin being married and sealing together many houses of power, it should quiet the final few lines between the tribes." He clears his throat and then goes on. "Besides, i have noticed that you have not been yourself lately, that you have been getting lonely and tired of being that way. So my precious one i urge you to consider what i am saying." I told him, "Father you know faltery has no effect upon me." At this he laughed very hard. So hard i fear he hurt himself. However,he recovered and said,"Yes i know this but im thinking about you in all of this little one. I wont ask for an answer today, But please think upon it." "I will father."
I then left his presence. As i walked along i began to think about what my father had said. I knew he was right about how this would erase the few final lines between the tribes of my people. And as much as i hated to admit it, i was feeling VERY lonely within this world. I watched other get married and have happy, beautiful relationships. I wondered what kind of a man would want me. And i was ever scared that the man would treat me as the demon had, if i ever met him. However the more i thought on it the more i began to realise that my father was right. I couldnt be alone my whole life. It was a useless attempt to compensate for my fears. After about three days of thinking, I told my father that if i could see the man then i would consider it. He looked relieved and scared. Three days later i met the man whom was to become my husband. His name is Aragisalaz. He is about a hand shorter than me, and he is several winters younger than me. He has dirty blonde hair with a scraggly beard. And he has gray eyes. They look like clouds on a rainy day. He is of noble Silengoz blood. I see how my marriage would erase the lines of my people. I find that he is very gentle with me and treats me with respect. He understands what happened to me with the demon and he has vowed to fully rid me of his influence one day. All in all i find that i like this man. If he is a worty husband remains to be seen.

Spring 245BC
As more time goes by i find myself falling more and more in love with this man. He know how to treat me to a good time wherever we go. A funny story was when i used my magics to introduce him to my brother. Upon their minds linking, my brother almost killed him with his questions. As they talked however Aragisalaz became....well awed by my brothers intelligence. He couldnt believe that anyone in my brothers condition could be so intelligent. My brother laughed inside and said that he was so intelligent that he could read my fiancee's mind. At this Aragisalaz became scared and begged his forgiveness of my brother. My brother forgave him but said that if he even THOUGHT about such things until we wed he would personally rip him a new throat. At this we all fell down laughing.
(Sighs) However, beyond our happy sanctuary there is news. The Romanoi have taken a full thrid of the Alps. To counteract this advance my cousin Harjarwulfaz has captured another quarter of the Alps. I fear war may be immenent.

Summer 245BC
I am sorry if my writing is sloppy right now but i am still recovering from an INTENSE passion of heat. Let me begin. Two days ago, i was married. It was a hot, late summers day. However it was a happy day, for the whole of my nation. This union was overseen by everyone of my surviving family members. There was much celebration, many feasts and games of honor among my people. However this news is tempered by the news of the Romani. We are at war with the fools. They make constant slave raids and attacks upon our people.
Now onto different things. My husband has fullfiled his vows of cleansing me fully of the demon. He is such a MAN. I can tell he has done this before. Hes even managed to cleanse me of my fears of men. His beard tickels when..........well id best not get off subject. I must go back to his bed for we will not get many chances more to do this. I recently found out that we are BOTH going to be deployed in a week or so. We both have our duties to our nation and people. So we MUST make the most of this time.

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(The edges of these pages are crisp.)
Autunm 245BC
I am with child. I can finally say it. And im SO HAPPY!!!!! Ive missed my time of the month, of that i can be sure. I have already woven a complex protection spell into the lines of my belly to protect my unborn child. As i write this i am returning from a small battle with some Romani slavers. I can only hope my husbands patrols did just as well for i cant WAIT to tell him the news. However, i also hope that this child will be born into a world at peace rather than at war with itself forever. UGH!!! There is a comotion outside. I guess i shall have to go an................ (There are burns here)............(There is poorly srcawled script).............(More burns.)

At this point the writing changes from a soft and lilting form of runic to a rigid and unflourshied form. We ALSO open a new book. The language of this book is FAR different from the runic of the other book. It is in fact written in the language of Latin.

Chapter Nine:Captured!
(From the Latin book):
Autumn 245BC
As i write these words i am reciveing news of my army. And its not good. Apperently half of the Legion has been annihilated. But the army of filthy German dogs has been crushed. You would think that a suprise attack upon a sleeping camp of Germans would be a true victory. However just as the attack reached the camp half the attacking force burst into flames and melted. This fightened many of the men. The thurmagures that accopany the Legio IX told me that they sensed powerful magics at work. However eventually the men overwhelmed the wakening Germans and killed all of them but two. And i even have gotten a prize from it. The two prisoners that were captured arent even human. One of them is a woman that has the wings of an eagle that are purest white. She also has the eyes of a great bird, that are of the deepest blue. She even has a tail covered with feathers. My thurmagures have determined her to be the source of the magics that killed half my legion. She also carries with her a codex of Roman origins. When i tried to read the codex i found that i could sense what the words meant. So i set it aside. The other prisoner didnt remain with us for long. He looked far more like a man but he was very slender, had deep golden eyes,and had ears that were elongated about a half a foot beyond what normal humans ears are, and they end in points. However he escaped barely an hour after he had been brought here. And he took the girls codex with him. No matter how hard we searched for him we could not find him. However the girl is still with us, but she struggles fircely and does her best to get away. However, i am planning to take her back to Roma to be given to the Augurs, so that i can find out WHAT the hell she is. I am also to be given a title by the Senate, it is Germanicvs. Soon my new name will be Terrvs Marivs Germanicvs.

(From the runic book):
Winter 245BC
There is HORRIFIC news from the southlands. The White Lady has been caputured. The codex has just reached the Hand as i write in it. My name is Gurigalaz and i am a master member of the Hand. I have already sent messengers to the king and the whole of the royal family. I can hear him screaming his rage now, he is saying that he himself will oversee the rescue. I must go and calm him before he kills himself or anyone else.

(From the Latin book):
Winter 245BC
I write this from the comfort of a villa within the walls of Patavium. It took us almost two months to get back across the Alps. The Legio XX is to take the place of the Legio IX and we are currently fighting German armies for control of the passes. It will be a hard fight but Roman arms and valor will prove the day, of that i am sure. However, i wil soon return to Roma. It is a week long journey from here, unlike the Alps which are roadless, Roman lands have a large network of roads that allow for fast travel.
In other matters i have discovery the feathered bitch to be with child. She has been quite a handful, i must admit. She has killed almost 30 of the men that i have set to guard her, including two master Thurmaguers. As such i have had to keep her under constant watch. There are three Thurmagures keeping her powers down at all times. This should give me a LARGE promotion with the Senate for finding such a creature.However, I must cease writing for now for i will be leaving in the morning for Roma.

(The handwriting within the Runic codex changs again. This time it is a heavier, more focused handwriting.)
(From the runic book.)
Summer 244BC
My name is Heruwuflaz. I am the High King of the Germanlandam. And i am in pain. I am in pain over my daughter, whom has been kidnapped. I am going to rescue her, even if my advisors say i have not the health for it, even if they think i will DIE doing it. If thats my fate SO BE IT!! I have issued the call for all avalible warriors to come to the south and join me in the war. MANY, MANY warriors and Hand members have responded. The elves have sent almost their entire fighting force to my banners, many elven hammermen and archers are coming. Among my family, I, my brother Athawulfaz, his only surviving boy Harjarwulfaz, and my son in law whose child my daughter carries, Aragisalaz, are gathering our personal warriors and marching to the south as well. As leader in my stead i am leaving my younger brothers, Ansuharjaz, and Harkilaz to manage the home front. I must cease this writing for i am preparing to leave.

I've been following this, good stuff keep it coming! A picture or two wouldn't hurt, btw, even if they aren't EB-relevant.

Maion

Chapter Ten:Battle (Part One)
(From the Latin book:)
Spring 243BC
I have received the title Germanicvs and i have even been given command of a huge army, THREE FULL LEGIONS worth of men, for upon my return the German pigs began to invade with haste upon our rightful alpine territories. Well i will soon deal with that nusance. Hell once im done i can run for office, maybe even Consul.
In other events the bird girl bitch has frustrated every attempt to examine her by the Augurs. Even the high priests of Jvpiter cant get anywhere. She is proving incredibly resistant to our efforts. Well done everything from pulling hair and feathers to beating her over the head. When the Priestesses of Jvno attempted to do a simple scrying upon her womb to detremine the health of her child, she outright killed one of them by wraping her tail around her throat and severly injured two others with her wings. She only stopped once a soldier put a sword over her swollen belly. When the surviving priestesses did the scrying, she screamed and wept the whole time, with a look of pure HATRED upon her face. But they came back with a few findings. In fact she carries not one child but two. And they are human. How this is possible is unknown as they came upon a POWERFUL barrier shortly thereafter. The barrier in itself killed one of the priestesses. After this they cursed her children to death and left. I cant blame them for that. However i must go now for i am needed at a ceremony.

(From the runic book:)
Winter 243BC
I my name is Athawulfaz and this is the first time in years i have written in runic. I have just finished a battle with the vile Romani dogs and it was a GREAT victory! Let me begin.
As the lines of the Romani formed up atop a hill across a valley from our position so i would be fighting uphill. However i had far more warriors than the enemy did. For this i was grateful for it made my job FAR easier. The battle began as i charge my Skutjonez upon the enemy position. They fired many arrows upon the Romani slingers and heavy infantry. The slingers began to fall back. At this point i charged my infantry forward. While most weht forward some of the Spears went left to take down the enemy cavarly. Others went right into a patch of trees to surround the enemy. Then the lines collided.
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The infatry in the woods hit the backs of the Romani dogs like a bloodstorm. The levies of the Romani broke upon impact. However the Romani elite, called Triarii, stood firm. I must say that their bravery is impressive but foolish. However the Luigurian levies didnt even fight. they turned to flee. However it was at this point that their general was pulled down and ripped apart. At this the Triarii turn to pull out, whilst scarificing the remaining levies and slingers. However the Ligurians would not escape for the spears had finished the enemy cavalry and were returning, they saw the idiotic levies as FRESH FLESH,and cut them off brutally.
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The battle ended soon after. What remained of the Romani forces has fallen back upon heir main hold within the Alps. There will be a battle soon with these stone walls in front of us. However many more forces have come to our aid.
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(From the runic book:)
Spring 242BC
I celebrate im mourning today. For even though we have made short work of the survivors within the Romani fortress,
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there is terrible news from the west. My brother has died. He was killed by vile Romani scouts who cornered him while he was puking blood and then they killed him. He took ten of the dogs with him but in the end it was not enough.
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However my niece's husband has arrived with MANY soldiers and marches south as we speak. I will join him as soon as i can but i must clean up the remains of Romani dogs here.

Your pictures aren't showing up. It probably has to do with the "..." in all of them.

:help:Photobucket wont let me get them on here any other way that i know of:help:

Chapter Ten: Battle (Part Two)
(From the Latin book:)
Summer 241BC
There is sickening news from the north. Apperently the German high king has obliterated all of the Roman power beyond the Alps and is invading the Po valley. Let me begin.
Nearly year ago a large force of Illyrian levies were advancing upon the main German hold within the Alps.
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However they were cornered on top of a wooded hill by a large army made of German "freemen" as they call their people at the bottom. The overseers of the Illryians had fallen behind. The foolish levies decided to charge downhill throught the woods.
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The German filth turned nearly as one man to meet them. The poor fools didnt wait for their betterly armed overseers and went berserk. Within a few second the first of the levies began to break.
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When the overseers arrived they were far too late to save most of the levies. However they were merciesly surrounded and cut down. The only bright spot of that disaster was that many of the free Ligurians that joined the Germans were cut down. However the idiotic Illryians coundnt finish them off and wound up breaking and losing ten times as many of their own as the free Ligurians did. It was a total defeat for our PROUD army.
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That autumn a TRUE Roman army, the Legio V, was dispatched to the mountains to try and hold the filthy pigs back. Two of the sons of Cotta lead this army. They met the Germans within a pass leading into the Po valley. Their Legion was made of many maniples of Hastati, Princpaes, many levy units and several Pedites Extrodinarii.
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The Germans formed up upon a mountain top and wouldnt budge.
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So the Elder son of Cotta desided to march up there and bring them down.
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However the march up the mountain left the soldiers tried and disorganized. However the Elder son of Cotta didnt think the Germans had much in them with so little air at that height. He was dead wrong, for as soon as they got close enough and began to reorganize the Germans EXPLODED down from their postions.
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They flatly annihilated the flanks and surrounded nealy half the army. The younger son of Cotta charged at them trying to open up the trap some. However three full bands of Germans surrounded his bodyguard. The younger son of Cotta was torn from his horse and thrown down the mountain. His cavalry were all killed. At this the Elder son of Cotta whom was under heavy attack broke and fled taking his much diminished bodyguard with him. At this all of the levies broke. A little while later all but the Pedites Extrodinarii had fled or died.
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Those men fought to the death, for EVERY last one of them were annihilated.
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It was an unbeivable defeat for our army.
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However a true bright spot for our forces was the fact that the enemy high king himself was killed by an ambush while chasing down the routers. At least they managed to get THAT done well even if it was a freak accident.
Ah speaking of freaks the feathered bitch gave birth a few years ago. How i forgot to write this is far beyond me. She had two perfectly normal human children. A boy she called, Jurgowulfaz, and a daughter she named, Methenalasa. The High Thurmagures council has been trying to make me turn her over for study for quite some time now. However as i have become rich i think ill keep her as a trophy.

(From the runic book:)
Summer 241BC
As i write these words my son marches south with a depleted army. However he recruits mercenaries like theres no tommorow. So he may succeed in freeing the Homelands of the Ligurians. My brother made three promises upon his death. He promised the Ligurians that we would aid them in their struggle against the Romani, that he would vouch for this war within the Halls of the Heavens, and that he would love our lands forever on high. We made his departing spirit one promise. We would get her back, no MATTER THE COST, The White Lady would be returned to us. I am preparing to move out as soon as i can and destroy whatever awaits me in the southlands.

Chapter Eleven:Bloodstorm
(From the runic book:)
Winter 240BC
After all of the battles within the Alps our armies have taken the Po COMPLETELY. Let me explain.
My sons army marched south of the passes and began to lay waste to the area our a town called Mediolandium. The Romani gathered a whole bunch of levies just to the west and attempted to stop us before we got there. It was a complete rout for the Romani.
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What was left fled for the town itself. We did not stop and the town was nearly annihilted. Most of the blood fell into the Po. At almost the same time my army overwhelmed a defenseless city called Patavium, we gave them the same treatment. ((And no im not messing with u the city had 0 soldiers. TY AI.:laugh4::laugh4:)) The next battle was on a field south of the Po, in the middle of winter. They were another Legion, as the Romani call their armies.
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There eagle standard said Legio III, these fools had apperently fought in many battles for there were many tropies upon the standard. However they had a bad commander who was unfamiliar with battle. On our side my nephew-in-law commanded almost a full third of our Po forces, many warriors of Germanlandam proper, several thousand free Ligurians, nearly ten thousand elves, and 900 of the Hand. The lines formed, the Skutjonez and elven archers began by firing nearly half of their arrows into the unprepared army killing thousands right there. Then the main army advanced into the unstable enemy line. The foolsih commander was lured away by some very EXCELLENT mercenary cavalry. He was then routed from the field.
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((BTW Campainia Cavalry RULES!!!!!!))
With the order thrown off and their commander fled, the enemy fell into total chaos. However when we hit them they didnt break. This was due to the Pedites Extrodinarii, whom once again frustrated our efforts.
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However when some of the elven hammermen and Skutjonez surged around the back of their lines nearly all of the filth broke. The ones whom stood were yet again Pedites Extrodinarii.
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It took nearly a third of our army to just weaken these men. After nealry an hour of blood and death they STILL didnt break desprite there being only 50 of them left.
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However a little after that they broke out of our lines and withdrew from the field. The rest of the fools were killed before they could escape.
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Soon after we took Bonoia from the remains of the Romani forces in the area. But all i can say is this. We havent found the White Lady yet. The Ligurians cant tell us anything for they know nothing of her whereabouts. However they have told us of the great city of the Romani, a place called Roma. These Romani are an unimagintive lot, thats for sure. However if we cannotfind her we will crush this Roma and trade it for her. If thats what it takes to get her back we WILL do it. We asked the Romani ambassadors if they would return her to us. They claim not to know of her, i fear they may have killed her. However if they have we WILL OBLIERATE EVERY SINLGE PERSON WITHIN THE WHOLE OF ITALIA just to satisfy the High Gods need for revenge. The mists within the Po valley have turned red with the blood of our foes. This is a sign from the High Gods. This is a Bloodstorm. The slain foe have been sent to the afterlife screaming and more will be soon.

(From the Latin book:)
Spirng 239BC
By the Gods i will be ruined if this keeps up. The German pigs have taken most of my northern estates. While the ones far to the south are still productive, the Germans have destroyed 2/3s of my income. Ive had to sell my lagre villa for a smaller one in Roma itself. I also sold that feathered bitch to the Thurmagures. The masked magicians came for her yesterday. However i have kept her children to be my body slaves. As i write this i prepare to go north with my Three legions and put an end to this. My Fortuna smile upon me.

Im sorry but due to a complete corruption of ALL of my W#$#@%!@ save files:furious3::furious3::furious3::furious3::furious3: i must end this AAR

I'll interpret that as an admission of Rome's utter triumph over the Sweboz invaders and the death of the "White Lady". :birthday2: :beam: :smash:

Edit: Out of curiosity, what other saves did you have?

It seems like all the AARs die too early due to some kind of game error. :wall:

@ desert i had three in game save files the autosave, one at 255BC and one at 245BC ALL of them were corrupted

I have GOOD news i will be starting this AAR up again from the point were i left off for i have found a way around the constant campain problems. It is called
CUSTOM BATTLES
i will have to custom battle/RP it onto the campain map so as soon as i can work out some battles i will get back to posting :2thumbsup::beam::beam::beam:

Btw does this sound like a good idea to anyone?

Chapter Twelve: Freedom
(From the Runic book:)
Summer 239BC
As i write these word i sit in a hall within Segesta, the capital of the Lugurian Tribe. The new king of the Ligurians is a man named Colnum. His family have been nobles here since before the Romani invasion. We have formed a pact of "True Alliance" with the Ligurians. It was a hard fight to get here. As it turns out the Romani had a FULL legion waiting for uswithin the walls. As we formed up the Romani chose to defend the side where the Free Ligurians were going to march over. So we formed up.
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As the battle started we formed our lines at the south and marched VERY quickly towards the walls, the Ligurians were forced to move slower due to INTENSE fire from several groups of skirmishers, slingers and a unit of Princepes. However they made it to the walls and began to climb, even as both of our rams burned. Our ladders had reached the walls far sooner and we flew onto them. As we did we killed many archers within the towers. However there were very few real wall defenders. All that we encoutered was a unit of poor Greek slave soldiers. They were incredibly afraid. However they stood in our war so none of them survived. However upon the north wall the Ligurians were having far more blood, and death than we were.
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We rushed down and formed up while stationing elven archers within the captured towers. As we got to the ground unapposed i found that these Romani must be idiots.
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We would make them pay DEARLY for their mistakes. As we marched up the hill we encountered some Ligurian levies that served Roma. We put them down, with great contest. After them farther up we hit two units of Hastati. These fools broke after only a few minutes of combat. We left a trail of blood and gore in our wake. I gave orders to my men NOT to hurt any innocents. We were here to free these people not to destroy them. My men followed my orders to the letter. However the Ligurian levies could not be spared for the foul Romani had told them lies of us, they were told that we would eat them and their children, that we were demons and that we deserved naught but to be wipped like dogs. As a result they fought us to the last man. We spared them having to fight their bretheren at least, for we killed all before us. The Ligurians however had been battered, cracked, throw and tossed about so badly that some refused to come down from the north wall. But they had SHATTERED nearly half the enemy army so we didnt press it. But when we got to the top of the hill and prepared to march upon the center i decided to split the army in half. I took many good warriors left and began to circle around the back of the square. However the Romani commander took that moment to charge his cavalry into the rest of my men. This almost broke the army. However due to the EXTREME sacrifice of the Runic-Hand swordsmen, i got back to the main body in time to rally them. However many of my best seers were lost that day. But before they finally broke they also killed the enemy general. This broke most of the remaining enemy soldiers and they fell back to prepare to fight and die to the last. However they bunched up far tighter than i could have expected. And even though for a while it looked like we would win, the remaining enemy forces returned.
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Then the Triarii arrived and shifted the whole battle out of our favor. I quickly ordered our forces out of that death trap. Most of the men and elves fled to the walls to catch their breath. However our heavy swordsmen pulled right with some elven archers and a whole maniple of Princepes followed them. The foolish dogs followed them far out of range of their breatheren, and at a signal the bands split in half. the Princepesfollowed the heavy swordsmen. When this happened the swordsmen turned and qucilky formed up and took the first attack from the Romani. Meanwhile the archers grabbed their hunting spears, and plunged into the back of the stupid dogs. They broke almost instanly and the slaughter was complete. Meanwhile the rest of the infantry formed up by the wall and crippled several units of Romani and the remaining Ligurian levies. However when we chaced them upthe hill we saw to our amazment that an archer unit of Free Ligurians fought the Trarii HEAD-ON!!!! I thought that they must REALLY want freedom or death. However i must say they may have been braver than the men of my army.
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However we used the distraction to form up again. We charged into their back and the Trarii turned their spears upon us once again.
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The fight turned into a brutal slugfest at that point. We fought for the better part of six hours trying to kill the bastard Romani. The blood that soaked that square that day was enough to drown the world, or so i thought at the time. This part took so long that the weaker men began to break from my army. They rallied at the wall and stayed their trying to rest. I lost half of my army to those bastards. In the end though the conclusion was forgone.
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After the brutal fight we helped get the newly freed Ligurians back on their feet. It has been two months since the brutal battle for Segesta. However i am confident that we WILL succeed in this war. However i prepare to march out and face a new threat. I hear tell of three full Legions on their way up here to face us.

(From the Latin Journal:)
Summer 239BC
A CURSE ON THESE VILE PIGS!!!! The foul Germans have beaten the Legio IV UTTERLY. They freed Segesta and declared the Ligurians a part of their nation. HA!!! When my armies arrive i WILL show them personally what it means to mess with the might of Roma. Under my command are the Legio III, IX, and VI. These men have killed Carthagians, Gauls and Greeks. Now they will crush German pigs as well. I am very busy tonite as i had to leave my body slaves behind due to the little girls treachery. When she went through my battle plans and i found out about it i became furious. However i didnt want to kill her for i couldnt eaisly replace her. So i had BOTH of her eyes put out. (Insert PURE EVIL face here.) That should teach the little bicth to behave until i can return to deal with her personally. I must go now for i am needed by the men.

Chapter Thirteen: Broken (Part One)
(From the runic book:)
Spring 238BC
My name is Aragisalaz. As i write these word my uncle-in-law, Athawulfaz, lies dieing before me. He has three HUGE gashes to his head and his leg is so rotten it cant be saved. He keeps screaming "Im Sorry!" to the air around him. He was brought here by a Ligurian horsemen after a defeat down in an area called Etruria. He magaged to bring down two full legions by himself. However a new type of Romani army composed the third legion. It brought down my uncles WHOLE army and many of the Ligurians too. However that was in the second battle. The first one went far better.
Both armies formed up on a foggy morning in the hills above a place called Arretium.
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The elven hammermen stood at the center with the Runic-Hand swordsmen. While to the left and right our brave spearmen stood. However behind those units was a group of Lugians, a people from the alps whom are FAMOUS for their iron working abilities. When we took their land from the Romani, they agreed to serve us with their weaponcrafting abilities. However these certain men came down out of the mountains with greatswords a few weeks ago. I have never seen such weapons. They are six hands tall, they are intrecantly groved and they are lightwieght for something so big its surprising. They are just as able to stab as to slice up opponents and you cannot wield them with only one hand. As such the Lugians dont have shields which makes them vernurable to arrows and slingestones. As the battle began both our cavalry and the enemy cavalry went into the woods to our right. There a firece battle ensued. Then the infantry joined up.
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It was a hard contest for these Romani were far more experienced than many of the ones we had faced up to this point. And these were REAL Romani, not their slave levies. So it was a hard fight indeed. However as soon as the Lugians got around to the flanks of one unit their swords ripped nearly a whole maniple of Romani apart. Their swords always tore through armor as if it were butter when they hit. These poor fools broke and fled. In the wood our cavalry had barly manage to beat the enemy cavalry and were returning to the battle. We surrounded their left flank and beat it mercilessly.
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Their flank began to roll up. However in the center the elven hammermen were in trouble. The Runic-Hand swordsmen had been called away to reinforce the left flank of our army so they were getting hit by the enemy generals personal cavalry guard. So the Lugians caught the Romani fool unawares. The result was horrific. The general was killed when a Lugian sword went THROUGH him AND his horse, into the ground.
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Those swordsmen are DEADLY when used well. However towards the end of the fight they were getting hit HARD by enemy slingers so had to pull out. In the end though it didnt matter, for we broke them utterly.
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One of the scouts saw the Eagle-man running. He told us it was once again the Legio III. These poor fools do not know WHEN to give up.
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I must go for now, my uncle has started screaming again.

Chapter Thirteen: Broken (Part Two)
(From the runic book:)
Spring 238BC
I am sorry for the short delay but my uncle has just died and before he did he revealed news that shakes me to the bone. He met the man that took the White Lady from us. Since that story is intertwined with the battle that has finally killed him ill start there. It was in the foothills of the Appenines. There were two legions of Romani formed up before our brave army. Our forces had been joined by a Ligurian army.
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The army that came before ours was a Roman army. It depolyed in the usual style and was armed as we were used to. However the army before the Ligurians looked to be armed a bit differently.
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This of course fightened the Ligurians but they went forward as they would. The Liguirans had among their ranks a whole band of very heavy Ligurian spearmen, their usual militia, as well as several bands of Gallic mercenary swordsmen. Both of our armies marched towards each of our respective foes.
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My uncle marched his forces forward, straight towards the enemy. A roar upon their lips and a determination to find my beautiful wife and our peoples savior within their hearts, as all the Free Men should be. I love her so much, and i miss her everyday. I hope she was able to have our child with ease, especially with the Romani filth around. But i digress, The battle upon our end was very easy for it took little time to surround the formation of foolish Romani and crush them. And once their commander fell they broke.
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However, on the Ligurians end there was a lot of trouble. The new formation that the Romani had deployed, as well as the new armor and weapons they were using had hit the Ligurians hard. They became surrounded within some woods.
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However their idiotic general had gotten himself trapped behind enemy lines. His prsonal bodyguards were killed to a man. However they broke free. Then the cowardly fool fled.
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My uncle saw upon his standard that there was a banner attached that belonged to my wife's company of troops before they had been killed. My uncle finished off the Romani on his end then raced across the field to aid the Ligurians and capture the Romani general to find out what had happened to her. However the man had fled before he mad it half way. And within the woods the Liguirans were getting torn apart.
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So my uncle did the only thing he could. He attacked the rest of the Romani army, hoping to break them without their commander. Ahead of them the Romani dogs were crushing what was left of the Ligurians.
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We began by attacking an isolated unit of the Romani. These men were FAR better armed than my uncles men were. The fact that it took half the army to break this one unit of Romani did not bode well. However when we began our attack upon the rest of the army, many of the surviving Ligurians rallied and began to charge the rear of the Romani that now faced us.
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However my uncle decided to try the same strategy as he had just done with the other army, to surround them and crush them utterly so he could find the Romani general and figure out what had happened to my precious one. However he miscalculated as when he took a third of the army around the Romani, they cut the rest of his men up before he could get into position, then hit his men hard.
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It was at this moment that our army was in trouble. Most were fleeing. However my uncle bodyguards and the remaning heavy Ligurian spearmen had become trapped. He tried his best to rally his men. However he eventualy saw that it was over and vowed to hold the Romani dogs here for as long as he could so the rest of his men could get away. He fought like a madman however, and took at least 50 of the foe with him. However he was eventually wounded badly in his right leg and was felled and captured. And with that it was ended.
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The next day he was brought before the cowardly general of the Romani army. The general and my uncle had a long talk, i will record what i could get out of my uncle about the conversation here.

"I trust you have been treated well.", the Romani said, in good German. My uncle laughed and said,"As well as any man that is forced to sleep with ravenous dogs." At this the Romani got angry and yelled for my uncle to respect his betters. At this my uncle laughed once again. Then the Romani said to my uncle,"Why is it your people want to kill us so badly?" "Because your people have stolen something incredibly vauable to us and we want it back. We WILL NOT stop until we get it back.", my uncle said. The Romani frowned and said,"Whatever it is you will never have it for if you cannot keep what is yours then you are too weak to deserve it." My uncle became angry at this. But he held his tounge. The Romani questioned him for several more hours. All the while he was drinking an expensive wine that he looked as if he enjoyed. After it was over my uncle asked one thing of the Romani. "That German banner upon your standard, where did you get it?" The Romani looked at my uncle, and said "Why would you ask such a thing?" "Because it looks like the one of a family member that was killed a long time ago by the Romani. I was just thinking that you might have been the one to do it." At this the Romani became very thoughtful and then said, "Well i found it within a camp of dead Germans that i had ambushed up in the Alps, this was quite a few years back. This raid was so sucessful that the Senate gave me the title of Germanivs. I also found several other interesting things, including this winged bitch that i took with me." At this my uncle realsied that this man had been the one to cature the White Lady. Now my uncle was a SMART man and this Romani had been drinking heavily for quite a few hours now. So he began to press the fool. "A winged woman?" "Yes its the damnest thing. She had large wings with the purest white feathers, eyes that were like a hawks and yet DEEP blue, and a tail covered in white feathers.",the Romani said. "That does sound interesting, what did you do to her?", my uncle said. The Romani said to him," And why would i do ANYTHING to a freak like that, especially when i have a wife at home? I did take her back to Roma with me, and i made her my house slave." He looked up for a moment. Then he said, "After about two months it became clear she was with child, probably from one of your pig filth. I couldnt believe it at first but it was true." My uncle continued to milk this gold mine of information. "What happened to the woman?", he said. The Romani looked at him drunkenly confused but continued, "About 7 months after i brought her back to Roma she gave birth to twins, one boy and one girl. She gave them the strangest names ive ever heard. However it was about this time that your men began to raid my northern estatses and i lost a lot of money in the next five years so i sold the winged bitch to the Thurmagures Council. They are probably still trying to decifer WHAT the hell she is. I kept the children as my personal body slaves." He took another gulp of wine at this point. Then he started laughing. After he calmed down he said,"Those little whelps make good body slaves for sure, however they are both rebellious. the little girl especially. Once she even looked thorugh my war files. At this i became enraged and nearly had he killed. But i decide it would be too much of a pain in the ass to try and find another body slave. So i had both of her eyes put out." He began laughing again at this point. At this my uncle lost it broke his bonds and attacked the man. However the guards came rushing in and my uncle fled out the back of the tent.
He escaped the Romani camp that night and wandered north for many days before a Ligurian scout found him and brought him back here to us. I WILL find this bastard of a Romani general, this Germanicvs and i WILL KILL HIM for what he has done to my wife and little daughter. As i wirte these words i prepare my army for another bloodstorm. I must leave off for now.

Chapter Thriteen: Broken (Part Three)
(From the Latin book:)
Summer 238BC
Ugh, my head hurts so bad right now. I guess i need to cut back on the wine. Anyways, there have been many interesting events since i beat back the Germans once again. There has been another army trying with all of its might to get past my army and deeper within Italia. However at every turn they have been turned back. In fact all of this has convinced the Senate to give me full emergency powers to remove this blight from our lands. It have rebuilt the Legio IX to its full potential but i fear that i dont have much time for as i write these words im getting reports on another German army on its way back from Illyria, which has fallen to the Germans, to plague us further. There are Germans along the coast at Arminium rampaging through Umbria and trying to get behind my armies that way. AND im dealing with more Ligurian attempts at expansion. Apperently they are fulling becoming one with the German filth. I have so far halted any attempts at more Romani blood being lost. I am also trying to find this artifact that we apperently stole from them, for as the German chief said they WONT STOP until they recover it. So if i give it back to them they may cease being so agressive and then i can turn the tide and retake the Po. In the South the news is far better. We have finished off the Carthigians in all but North Africa. So Roma no longer needs to starve due to the loss of the Po. We have also launched ourselves fully into Grecce, just recently we took the Territories of the remnants of Makeidonia and wiped out the Konion Hellenon. Currently we are besieging the city of Byzanton. That force is commanded by a man named Constantine Corvos. He has also taken the liberty of tearing all of Greece apart, killing thousands. He burned Sparte to the ground because it defied him. So our troops defend a mostly empty country. However a Epoirote princess named Alexandra is contiuosly frustrating our efforts at taking all of Greece as she hold the Aoitolians and the whole of Epiros firmly in her grip. She is the granddaughter of Phyros Aikaides, and has a large amount of talent. What is it with all of the powerful WOMEN all of a sudden? Pah you will never see that sort of thing happen in Roma. No the women here know their place and so do the riff-raff. However i must go now for there are reports of Germans that need my attentions.

Summer 238BC
Once again i have a spare moment and there is much happeneing in the world. To the west on the Iberian peninsula the Lusotannan tribe has finally succeded in pushing the remaining Carthaginians out of Iberia and has begun reorganizing the whole of the peninsula into a large kingdom. In Gaul the Averni have finally crushed the Aedui and are begining to overwhelm the defenses at Massaila. To the east in Greece, Constantine finally broke Byzanton and gave that city his "Treatment" too. However Alexandra has been gathering her warriors together and looks to retake Greece "For the Greeks" as she puts it. Well i can only hope that Constantine doesnt get TOO drunk to function, especially when we cannot reinforce him, due to the situation with the Germans to the north. To the Far East, the Seleukids have retaken Anitoch and have finally negotiated peace with the Ptolomies due to the Parthian invasion and the loss of almost all their terriories beyond Media, including Persepolis. The Pontos have taken much of Asia Mikra and the Armenians are becoming powerful to their north. They have infact become more of a Babylonia kingdom than remained a Greek state, as the Ptolomies have taken up many Egyptian practices, however they lost their Judean territories and the Phonecian territories at the same time due to Babylonia agents. However as i wirte this more reports of Germans are coming in so i must go.

and now THE CLIMAX!!!!

Chapter Thirteen:Broken (Part Four)
(From the Latin book:)
Summer 238BC
A CURSE ON THESE GERMAN PIGS!!!!!!!!! What ever Gods spawned them deserve to be beaten to death!!!!! Just last week i recieved reports of Germans in the south of Umbria. So i sent a full legion down there to halt them. Whne they got there there was no sign of Germans in the area. So they began to march north into Umbria to root them out, and relieve Arminium. However as they left more Germans began to mass on the borders. So i set up my defenses till my other legion could get back. However three nights ago many Germans attacked under the cover of darkness. It was well timed for the watch was changing and the alarm was not sounded until a the Germans were upon the high ground shooting arrows into the camp. I cursed and BARLEY managed to get my men formed up. We began our fight upon a plain with trees off to the right. After i halted the first charge the Germans pulled back to the plain and i ordered my men after them. As my men made it over the hill we were blinded by a bright light to our front. The Germans had apperently built a HUGE bonfire, and made several sacrifices in it. So i though, "At least i can see what i am doing." However as we charged into the first of the Germans, another large force of Germans apperaed to the right out of the trees. It looked to be a trap. However i called upon my Triarii reserves and they chased the Germans into the woods. To the front the other Germans fell back into those woods. I ordered my men after them. We wentinto the woods but the Germans pulled back too fast for us to catch them. There were many skirmishes within those woods and it took nearly four hours to rout the Germans from them. However, in the end it was done. But i still couldnt catch the main body of the German army. The commander of it is a VERY skilled leader. But the next morning i recieved horrific news. Roma had been placed under siege by a HUGE German force. It seemed to the scout that it appeared out of NOWHERE in the morning fog. I am hurrying south to relieve the siege.

At this point the handwriting in the runic book changes back to the soft, litling form of its original owner
(From the runic book:)
Summer 238BC
Ah!! But it feels good tobe writing again. As i write these words i watch a great fire before me, with my two children at my side. Let me begin. It was almost two days ago that my husband besieged this foul city. I could hear the screams of the people outside of my cell that the masked bastards provided for me. I only hoped that they would not kill my children in the chaos. So i continued to try and cut a bar off to free myself. The cell was warded against the magics that i possess. So i had to use a file that i had stolen to cut out one of the bars. After a day i had it worked out. But as soon as i was free the assault began.
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I heard screams and yelling from the Romani on the walls. Apperently the attack was not going well for them. That was at least at the western wall.
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However i heard cries in German from the north wall.
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I knew i had to hurry and find my children before the chaos around me did. So i rushed to the center of town. When i turned a corner about three blocks from the wall i saw a whole unit of Roarii before me with their backs turned. I knew that if they got half the chance they would kill me or recapture me. However, it had beenmany years since i was able to call upon my magics, due the masked bastards having chained my soul down. So i began to break their tired chains. After a few minutes i did so successfully. And immedietly i heard cries from father up the north wall. And i heard the SLAM!! of a siege tower gate dropping upon the Romani's heads.
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I also began to hear Romani cries of terror. It seemed to me that the fools had trapped themselves upon their walls. It sounded brutal.
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All the more reason for me to charge my powers faster. After another minute i came close to what i needed to restore my powers fully. But even father up the north wall i felt German magics begin to pierce the Romani shield bubble. I realised that members of the Runic-Hand were upon the wall and FIGHTING. At that moment i knew that we could win this battle. However the romani masked seers were still far too powerful for me to take on directly. However i finished charing the power i needed. I pointed a finger at the Roarii in front of me. They exploded into flames. Several Romani units on the groud fled screaming for the center of the city. And upon the wall there were cries of "She alive!!" from the Hand warriors. The Germans screamed their joy and fought three times as hard to destroy their enemy.
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At this point i heard the sounds of hooves upon cobblestone. A battle of horses as well as men was taking place at this moment. I ran for Germanicvs's villa in the hopes of finding my children alive. As i bashed the door open several servants ran screaming. As i searched the house i found my son, Jurowulfaz, in the hands of several servants, one of whom had a knife to the boys neck. They were yelling at him to die for bringing this foulness upon them. Then then knife came up. I screamed and the men were set on fire. As he got away from the burning men he saw me and came running up to me. I hugged him tightly to me. Then i asked him were his sister, Methenalasa was. He told me that she was in the closet behind him, and she was crying. When i opened the door i horrified at what i saw. She was in the corner with cut all over her body. None of them looked too serious. However she had a bandage across her eyes. When i took it off i almost threw up. Her eyes were horribly mutilated. I asked her brother who had done this. He told me that the men with the knife had cut her but Germanicvs had had her eyes put out due to some crime she had commited against him. I hugged her tight and told her it would be alright. She cried and said that it was good to hear my voice again. I brought them both under my wings and hugged them again, as i had many times before when they were very little. However, we heard the sound of chaos outside after a while so i told them that we must flee back to the German camp before the city is consumed. As we got out the door however we heard the sounds of marching men. I thought that it was some of the German forces within the city. However as we rounded the coner we ran headfirst into the masked bastards, and some mercenary Greeks. They swiftly recaptured us, for the masked bastards knew that i could ruin what little chances they had. However they also knew i was important to the Germans for some reason so they hoped to trade me for their safety. They dragged me to the central plaza and tied me and my children down. They tried to rechain my soul as well however i was prepare for them this time and all they could manage was to deter my magics from affecting them.
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After a few minutes the Romani commander showed up with his bodyguards.
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The masked bastards told him what they were planning and he agreed to try and make it work. However as they prepared to fight and negotiate, my little girl started to weep again. One of the merciniares began to beat her. As this happened some of the Germans rounded the corner. One look at what was happeneing to my little girl, (whom i later found out they knew about), sent them into a rage once again. All thoughts of bargaining went out the window at that moment. The commander charged his cavalry into the mass of men trying anything he could to stop them. However all it did was get him killed.
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At this point the Romani went into a frenzy of thier own desperate to fight their way out out the bloodstorm they knew was coming.
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However it did them no good. They became stuck, even the Greek fools could'nt get free to flee.
Then suddenly around the southern corner of the plaza came a WHOLE maniple of Roarii.
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They charged into the side of our line and began to push the Germans back. The fighting became desperate. I saw my husband amongst the fighting warriors and called out to him. He couldnt hear me over the din of battle. However to the Northern end of the plaza i saw some elven hammermen running towards the fray. Several of them saw me and nearly the whole band of them came for me. I yelled at them to go help my husband, and that i would be fine. The main masked bastard beat me over the head. However the hammermen obeyed. I prayed that they would reach my husband in time. Then as if a miracle had come of my wish, three band of Skutjonez and elven archers rounded the same corner as the Roarii had a few minutes earlier. Theytook up their bows and bled the Roarii dry. With this the advantaged turned back to us. All the while the magical duel between me and the masked bastards continued. Then i saw warriors with the markings of Runic-Hand upon their faces. They saw me too and immedielty attacked the masked idiots with everything they had. This set the Romani seers off for just a second. That was all that i needed. Most of them burst into flame immedietly, the rest keeled over as their magics were crushed from them. However the amount of magics that i had unleashed upon the shields also reflected toward the great temple of Mars, the Romani war-god. It exploded, and many of the surrounding buildings burst into flames. A great fire began to burn. I knew that this had too hurry. So i began to set the remaning enemy on fire, with help from the Runic-Hand. However the shiled that the Romani had put upon the city collapsed at this point and strewed the magic within the whole area. As a result all i managed to do was set the rest of the city on fire. However my husband had things well in hand.
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Soon after we won for good. The last of the Romani were dead. Roma had fallen to our forces.
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However the city was highly aflame at this point and men began to flee outside before they were engulfed. In the chaos i lost sight of my hushand. However the Runic-Hand seers told me he was fine and that we should leave before we died. We managed to flee out of the western gate. Most of the remaning army fled out of the north gate. We met up by the shore for the Hand told me that we need to wait here for rescue. That afternoon with the sunset to our left i met up with my husband. It was a wonderful reunion. As i saw him i called to him. He turned and saw me, and then we started running towards each other, crying.
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He also met his children for the first time. Even though he was covered in gore, he stooped down and as they tackled him, he hugged them tight. Several of the men around us began to applaud. It was a wonderful moment. Then i looked out to see and i saw several ships sailing towards us. My husband told me they were the ships of a newly accepted people called the Ligurians. I asked him what had happened while i was away, he told me of the deaths of my father and my uncle. I started to cry, but he told me that they had not died in vain for i was saved from the vile Romani clutches. He also wispered to me that later we could become reunited in bed as well. I blushed at this point but i think of that moment with pleasure. Now as i sit here and look upon the buring city form the shore i think that it could just as easily have gone the other way. I hope that noone of Germanlandam....no of GERMANIA, should have to experience this. For our tiny tribe has finally grown into an empire, and with that comes power and RESPECT. However i must go now for i think THAT moment is upon us. :knuddel::2thumbsup:

And now for a treat
Chapter Thirteen:Broken (Part Five)
(From the Latin book:)
Spring 237BC
As i write these words i can feel the life being slowly sucked out of me by recent events. My wife has died, killed by the bastard Germans at Roma. As for Roma herself.....it has been nearly obliterated. When i arrived nearly four days after the battle in the woods, i saw fire and death all over the place. What survivors we found were badly shocked by what had happened during the fall. During the latter stages of the fight the Temple of Mars, where nearly half of the people within the city had taken refuge, EXPLODED and set half the city on fire. This outright killed 70000 people, and then fire began to rain from the sky. Many of the senators have died and what is left of the Senate is trying to et me to sue for peace. I WILL NOT GIVE IN TO FEARS OF SUCH STUPID THINGS!!!!! Not after what happened to my wife and family. This was all done by that feathered whore, I KNOW IT! I WILL KILL her one day. The Germans fled before our grave wrath but the damage had been done. Roma burned for ten weeks. All in all 190000 good Romans died in the aftermath. We were forced to recall all the Romans in Greece. However things were complcated by the Eporoite bitch Alexandra. She chose that moment to attack our retreatinf forces by cutting the Legio XXXI off from the rest of the army and civilians. The battle took place on a snow-swept plain in the middle of winter. Both armies formed up but she put all of her cavalry and herself on the right, while on the left she put those copycat Liegonaires, the Theruopmkai. In the center were her planagitais. The battle began with her marching her whole army forward. Our army, under a juinor leader, was ready for battle but the commander was an imbeclie. The fist to meet were the copycats and two maniples of Hastatii.
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She met our next set of forces. The Campainian Cavarly we sent along.
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They didnt last more than a few seconds.
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However our commander made a large mistake here. Instead of holding down her long-spears and THEN trying to flank the enemy, he surged a groups of slingers with several maniples of his best troops. This made the bitch turn nearly all of her army as i think our commander had hoped. But it backfired upon him. Her cavalry made short work of several maniples right there.
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And the bitch tied down almost HALF the Legion with her lightest troops. This made the men easy target for the turning spearmen. Our young fool decided to tr and halt them before they could surrond our forces. She saw this and attacked him head on. His cavalry was destroyed and he was killed within minutes. This gave her free reign over nearly all of the battlefield. And her spearmen kept turning our flanks and breaking them.
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She did this so much that it took her no time at all to break much of our army.
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In the end it was an utter disaster.
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However the rest of our forces, under Constantine, manage to escape Greece on the fleet at the port of Athens. They returned and everyday we rebuild Roma back to her former glory. After they left it took the bitch no time at all to reclaim all of Greece under her banners. But then she showed nearly everyone around he how much of a genius she is. She charged her forces north and in a seiers of stunning victories beat several tribal armies all the way up to the Danube River which she claimed as her northern border. This took her 2 months to do. What the Eporoites are up to now i have no clue. But we have been unable to secure a peace with them. In fact along our entire border there is no peace. Up in the north the Germans are staring at us with hate filled eyes but are far too busy on other fronts to attack us. We are currently trying to negotiate a peace with them. I can only hope it is successful. For even if i wish all Germans dead i cannot have that with so many other much more pressing isssues to deal with. However i will still have my revenge one day. I SWEAR IT!!!!!

Rome had 300,000 citizens by that point, though. Oh well.
What about the senate? Or is Germanicus PIP or something?

I know for a fact that at it HEIGHT Rome had 1 million ppl. also with all the destruction going on around them the fact that i have butchered like 10 of their armies and sacked 7 or 8 cities as well as having that set of disasters in Greece i think that Roma in my timeline would be pretty depopulated however ill look at it again cuz i think u may have a point there.

EDIT: i have adjusted the numbers the population of Roma in my time before the sacking was 250000. so that -190000 should = about 60000-70000 :)

Alot of story here.
Chapter Fourteen: Peace in disaster
(From the runic book:)
Spring 231BC
Peace is such a wonderful feeling. I has been a long and bloody road getting here and we have suffered many, MANY reversals. Even when we lost the Po and the Ligurians were wiped from this earth, even when we were forced back into the passes, even when the war finally turned into a brutal stalemate in those passes, we did NOT give up. However it has at long last ended in truce. I hope real peace can follow. This war has lasted to many winters seen too many sons not come home, daughters raped and murdered and familis ripped to shreds.
I still am VERY concerned about Romani activies though. For while they have been pushing us back under Germanicvs, they have also managed to destabalize and conquer most of Iberia. By use of several VERY good agents and some murdering as i believe, (Most dont think it was murder, at least in Iberia), the nation that was forming in Iberia collapsed. The Romani leader named Constantine landed three legions to "restore order" as he put it. It only took him 6 years to conquer much of the poor fools' lands. By the time they began to unite it was too late. Even though they are not yet fully conquered they will never again be a force to be reconed with. An soon it will end for them.
Even worse to the west a failed invasion of Gaul by an army from Britian killed the "Verrix" of the Averni, the man whom brought a small measure of unity and peace to Gaul. So soon after he united Gaul, upon his death it all fell apart.
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Even though the invasion failed, many tribes of Gaul have declared their freedom, and we are once again trying to stop the many tribes of raiders from attacking our lands. And the Romani have turned their greedy eyes upon Gaul as well. A few armies from their provence at Massalia, have begun to subdue the surrounding tribes. The peace that comes over the conquered tribes makes other "free" tribes wonder if they would not be better of under Romani rule. I simply do not under stand WHERE all these Romani keep coming from. Our spies tell us that there are ten times the number of Romani in the south of Italia as there were in the north and that number grows daily. They have managed to fully rebuilt Roma itself as well. Our spies in Iberia also tell us that the Romani settlers outnumber the remaining Iberians. I do NOT like what all of these portends mean one little bit. Even after we burned Roma, even after all of the killing and destruction. Even after what they did to me and my little ones, it was all a drop in the bucket to them. All of this was meaningless ((there are tearstains here)),a waste, pointless. Ive tried my hardest to secure a place for my people.But i cannot stop such a juggernaught that a "Roman Empire" like that would entail. I mean Germania is a powerful state in its own right. But the combined resourses of ALL of Western Europe against us would probably overwhelm us. So peace is our only hope.
The only real good news within this time is that a winter ago, we subdued the Goth pirates that had been raiding our coasts since before we were united. The last of the German rebel tribes has been brought into our empire, and we are all better for it. Also the amber trade has been flourishing as of late. Our people grow wealthy as the Gauls, Romani, Britons, and even people as far away as the Eporoite Empire and Akkadia are order our amber-glass works.
Oh that reminds me. The Eporoites, under their greatest Heroine, Alexandra, have conquered much of Mikra Asia and made it into their own lands by virtue of the MANY Greek settlers that have migrated there over the centuries. Their conquests stopped just short of Antiouchus, due to the fact that she had to deal with the Haidisan people as well at that point. Pontos has not survived, unfortunatley. But such is the way of the world i suppose. She has turned out to be a very capable administrator and has done her best to unify the Greek peoples. On that front she has had much success. The only bad spot is the area know as Galatia. This area is populated by celts the migrated there over 70 winters ago. I hope she can handle them. We also sent her envoys of congradulations for she will soon have her first child. We hope that there will be peace between our peoples.
To the east of Germania our armies have finally begun to subdued the Eastern Celts and the Balts. In fact we recieved a report last week here, at the palace, that told us the great city of Brandoum surrendered after a three year siege by my uncle, the high king. This has given us a border with the long standing Getian Confederation, within the Iron Sky Mountains and the plains that surround them. A result of many of these conquests has had many Celts migrating towards Galatia. They are being peaceful at the moment, for they are submitting to the Eporoite authorities, but it could turn violent any day before they get there. I hope that it does not.
Meanwhile much closer to home, i have had the joy of watching my two little ones grow up. Jurgowulfaz will become a great warrior someday if his training keeps going so well. He is a strong young man with skill any bit as good as that of his father. However my little jewel, Methenalasa will never be able to see, no matter how much healing i try to give her she just cant get her eyes to work. However she i a powerful seer and will make a wonderful addition to the Runic-Hand one day. And i will soon celebrate my 40th winter of life. I cant feel myself starting to slow down. However i am assured that i do not look any older than 20 winters due to the large amounts of magics within me. My husband and i are very happy together even if we have not had anymore children, though not for lack of trying. But i still hope. However i must go for now, a Hand seer needs my help with some students.

btw im having a little trouble deciding what to do next with this AAR. the choices im stuck on are:
1. EPIC world war (Roman Empire vs Germania vs Eporoite Empire)
2. British wars (Roman Empire vs United Britain)
3. Roman Civil war (Details here are secret)

Plz tell me which ones u think is good

Chapter Fifteen:Anger
(From the Latin book:)
Summer 231BC
Well news is in from the north. We are at peace with the German monsters, at least for now. In the meanwhile Constantine has put down the last organized Iberian resistance to Roman rule. So the rich resources of the Peninsula will be ours to use. All the minerals and metals of their mines will come to Roman foundries, to be turned into weapons, armor and other such nessacery implements. I would wish to use this newfound wealth and power to continue the war. I turned the tide against the German at the Auline pass, again at the Selecine Bridge on the River Po, and again at Segesta. In spite of ALL of these victories, the Germans survive as a people. I WANT THEM DEAD!!!! I want to see their swamps and forests turn red with their own blood. I want them to drown in it. But no the Senate says do not anger them for we need more man power and time, as well as more resources to fuel such a war.I DO NOT CARE WHAT SUCH OLD FOOLS WANT!!!! Even Constantine says to wait on it. Pah! What does he care, none of HIS family were butchered at Roma, none of his family were killed. In fact he has been far too successful as of late for my tastes. I must deal with him at some point, but now is not that time, for i dont have enough support from the Plebian mob to take him down. Right now we are both vying for whom gets to take command of the Gaulish conquests. I think the Senate is leaning towards Constantine. He has always been the old mens' lapdog, doing as they ask, giving them what they want. I guarantee you that if they said "Give your daughters to us to use." he would do it. Well one day i will become greater than all of these idiots. And once they are out of the way i WILL deal with the German filth, PERSONALLY!!!! And when i find that feathered whore.....OH what i will do to her!! She WILL pay, PAY for what she has done to the Roman people, done to my family, DONE TO ME!!!!!!
Well on a happy note my only surviving daughter, Julia, has reached the age where i can marry her to someone important. If i manage that well enough i can move up SIGNIFICANTLY within the power structure of Roma. I also have adopted two sons, Gaius Marius and Terrorus Hailis. Both of these young men are a fine addition to the Gens Germanicvs. I am having Gaius sent on a punitive expedtion to North Africa, Carthago has become vernurable due to serveral revolts within it Numidian allies and protectors. This may allow us to finally finish them off. Maybe then i can get the approval and funding i need for war. I have under my direct command at this point three legions, Legio III, Legio VI, and Legio IX. To take on Germania i would need 20 more legions and tons of money, PERIOD.
These Germans think our peoples at peace. HA!! They will NEVER see peace so long as i draw breath. All this is is an interlude, a calm before the storm. When the storm breaks, hell will open its doors upon them!!!

Autumn 231BC
Its official. I am not to be in charge of the Gaulish conquest. That honor has been given to the Gens Corvos. That fool Constantine had better do a good job for if he fails i will have to deal with them myself, a task i would rather save for the Germans. Meanwhile in the south young Gauis has done well. He has taken Atiqa, the last of the allied Carthagoian states. He has also begun in earnest the conquest of the Numidian states. Most of the African coast is in our hands. However we still have to take Carthago itself. I am sending the Legio III to do that. After two wars over Sicily with them we will FINALY put an end to the Carthagoian threat. This is wonderful news for the populace of Roma. As i ride the streets everyday in my chariot, i can hear the Plebs say my name with awe and wonder. I am getting closer everyday, closer to my goals. Germania will burn one day, i promise.

Note to self: Elephants+City battle=Death
Chapter Sixteen: Endgame
(From the Latin book:)
Spring 230BC
Ah victory is sweet. Just last week Gaius sent me news that he had taken Carthago. It was a hard fight but for his forst true command he did admirably. After we took the place we burned it down to get revenge for the first two wars, and their terrible losses. There will be a Roman city built upon its place. Here is the report of the battle.
After a nearly year long siege he finally got the man power to storm the walls. The armies formed up upon a lovely summers day.
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The army commanded by Gaius was one that had faced death and adversity many, many times. The Carthagoains were mainly militia and other troops that were worthless. However there were two exceptions. First was a unit of Superb Elite African phalanx infantry.
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Secondly was a unit of Elephants, a staple of all Carthagoain armies by this time.
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As the battle got under way, we began with a sneak attack. The only siege tower we had was pushed to a point far from any enemy troops to facilitate the climb of our Triarii. This was so that we could sneak our elites up and over before the enemy could react.
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At about the same time several ladder units came under heavy fire from the few Numidain slingers still loyal to the Carthagoains. However all of them made it to the walls without too many casualties. At the same time the ram made it to the gates.
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((This is the first time in my EB gameplay that a ram has made it up to a stone wall. I was AMAZED.:jawdrop:))
While the ram was breaking down the gates, another unit of Hastati began to dig under their walls. However up on the wall two maniples of Hastati and a maniple of Princepes were having a firece fight with the Numidain slingers.
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It was tough but they were winning so it wasnt a big concern of mine. However it did take them longer to kill some slingers than i thought it would. However as i watched the fight up top the walls to the left of the gatehouse collapsed. The miners did their work well.
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After the walls collapsed and the gates broke. I ordered my men into the settlement. Right off the bat we faced off against a few units of militia. We also faced down the Elite Africans. It was a short but hard fight.
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This fight i got into myself, as my legionaires held their attention, i charged home into THEM. I took a few times but in the end they broke and were butchered.
In the meanwhile my Trarii and several mainples of heavy infantry snuck around the main fight to the center of the city and began a fight at the town square. It was harder due to the fact that the militia units would not surrender before our obvious victory.
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Our next true test were the Elephants, though. These big creatures are fearsome to behold. However i ordered my Velites to start lobbing their javelins at the fools. It didnt take very long for some to go down. Then i saw a man in rich armor order his elephant to feel. The rest followed suit.
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I realsied that this man was their Sophet or leader. I was estatic. If i could capture or kill this man it would end any Carthagoain nation and all resistance to Roman rule. I ordered my troops in pursuit.
When the few remaining Elephants went to the center of town they were greeted by a wall of spears. Most walked right into them. And of course the one with the Sophet aboard went down and fell on top of the poor fool. He died instanly.
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The heart drained from his men instantly, i could tell. Soon only one elephant was left. I knew it was only a matter of minutes before it too fell, for it was full of holes and it was bleeding. So i order my men to ignore the poor thing and finish off the remaining militia, while the slingers killed the elephant. However when they tried to do so, something horrible happened. The elephant apperently went berserk.
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((Time for oh crap!))
It began to charge through my men like butter kill EVERYTHING it could see.

((OK time for an
INTERMISSION
I once read that if u ever had a group of elephants in a city you should avoid them. I think it was in Chureigon's Lusotannan AAR. Let me tell you folk he was right! I mean the one remaining elephant in this part of the battle went berserk and went on a killing rampage. ONE elephant = 1/3 of a legion dead. I shit you not! In fact when i saw what was going on i almost shit myself. One elephant killed 400+ men. I watched amazed and only managed to get one screenshot of the carnage (Ty fraps for chosing that moment to @$@! up on me).
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It was EXACTLY like Churiegon described it to be, some kind of sick bowling match. Human pins flying everywhere.
And heres the aftermath.
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And before you ask NO this is NOWHERE NEAR THE WORST PART!! This was the only clean part of the battlfield though. In fact i can guarntee you that if i removed the building to the left it would double the number of bodies, and including a third of my Triarii. Truely the worst part was the area where most of the men were fighting right behind the dead elephant cuz it went through ten ranks of my own men before it died. So to anyone who says elephants suck, YOUR WRONG. ONE elephant= 400+ men. Thank you for your time.
END OF TRANSMISSION (Chaotic static sounds) ))

It went left then right then left then right again. My horse paincked and fled carrying me with it till i fell off The worst part of the leftover carnage was the area just behind its body. It went through ten full ranks of Samite Hastati and Pricepes and THEN thorugh a rank of Carthagoain militia before one of the militia spears pierced its heat killing it instantly.
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The battlefield had turned into utter chaos. However too many of the enemy where dead to take advantage of it. In the end it was bloody but a victory no the less.
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And so Carthago fell. I am ordering its complete plundering and desruction as i write this. I will rebuild a Roman city here. and it will be a great city.
From my junior's notes it appears to be a hard fight. However he still won an important victory. So he will be rewarded. Also i must learn how to make elephant go on a killing spree like that for future use. But for now i must leave off, there are reports that need to be filed and work that needs to be done.

Does anyone know how to make a poll?

Wow, you're updating this a lot.

(Polls are made by scrolling down from the text portion of starting a new thread and it will have a poll option box.)

Yeah, posts can't keep up with you

What can i say i got lots of time on my hands :help::2thumbsup::laugh4::laugh4:

EDIT btw i really do need help decideing between those options from above. ill implement one once teh Romans kill Gaul

So, to make a poll, you would need to create a new thread. Just scroll down until you see "Additional Options", and you'll see the poll options.


Ehehe, I hope you don't get upset, but I sort of made the poll for you. :embarassed: :hide:

Aw thanks desert ~:cheers::bow:~D~D~:thumb:

OK TIME FOR AN
INTERMISSION
I think it is time i gave a full explanation of how magics work due to their increasing influence upon the course of battles, as well as a full list of magics within the world itself.

The Rules for magic
1.The magic a person uses is only as good or bad as the person using it. It is a tool nothing more. To be perfectly honest the flows of magic would rather be left alone than changed in any way.
2.If a person become powerful enough with magic it will manifest itself as new physical traits (Horns, wings, tails and in extreme cases new bodies entirley). This is a rare occurence to be said truthfully due to the vast amounts of power that need to gather within a person for it to take control of their cellular sturcture and modify it so that the magics are far more efficient and cannot harm the body as easily.
3.Magic must either be granted by a god or demon, or be learned from someone whom has done the above. This is due to the fact that human cannot normally see the flows of magic around them unless inspired to do so.
4.Mortals cannot raise the dead with magics, for looking into the Abyss will be enough to take ANY mortal soul into it as well.
5.There is a difference between the types of fighting you can use magic for. Magic vs magic duel can be fought from far away, even so far as the other side of the world. This is why magicians have Shields. To protect them from the machinations of other magicians unless in VERY close proximity. Then it is possible to see through the shield and lauch a direct assault upon your foe. The other type of fighting with magic is magic vs non-magical objects, people, ect. When a person using magic tries to influence a non-magical object or force or person it takes MUCH more energy to make the flows of magic harden and affect the physical world in the way the the magician wants. So say you see a group of enemies and you want to burn them alive. You must use you will as a seer to take some of the magic flows and Harden them into a raw material for fire. Then create and dispence the fires over said target. How much control over the magic you have depends on how "Hard" you make the flows you are using.
Flows of magic.
These are energy sources that under normal circumstances are NOT avalible to normal mortal beings. They usually have no effect upon the physical world. Only in the presence of a skilled magic user can they be influnced to do things like lift heavy objects, cause transformations, burn stuff, make ppl explode, and other such amazing things. It can take a normal mortal many years to get the proper training so its usually a life long commitment. And most mortals cannot use them to their full potential for if they did the magics would destroy their bodies. So they usually also have a weapon at their sides, this is usually a sword due to their lightweight and and close combat only needs, for any magician at long range uses magics not weapons. Even when fighting up close and personal, they streghten thier attack with minor magics that take less time and energy to use than the longer-ranged attacks.
The types of magic.
1. Runic magics: This breed of magic is specific to Germans only due to the language barriers of non-Germans. It uses small stone called RuneStones. These RuneStones are filled with magic, and engraved with a word of runic. So if the word for fire is engraved upon a stone all that a seer has to do is project their will as a seer, Or soul as Aluruno has already stated. This type of magic is unquine in that it is TRULEY safe. With other types of magic you cannot tell that you are using far too much until it is too late, the runic magics cannot harm you directly. For the magic is within the RuneStone and not the person. So if you take too much magic it will simply break the RuneStone rather than the person. This makes RuneStones a great training tool for young maigicians. However this limits the person ablilty to use magic EXACTLY as they wish it. For RuneStone cannot think. They are purpose built for ONE specific task. So if you wanted to make fire you would inscribe a Runestone with the word for fire and place your seers will upon the object to burn. Fire will then fall over said object. That is all that will happen. You cannot make the fire twist and turn. You cannot make the fire spin or target certain individuals. All the RuneStone will do is create fire around the area you specify. There are way to make the magic more advanced. One way is to create RuneStones that let you see the flows of magic directly. This allows for much for freedom with the magics. However it is more dangerous as this adds the person back into the magical balance. So only expert seers of the Empire of Germania are given these types of RuneStones. There can be other forms of this type of magic if a culture has a written word that has the ability carry flows of magic.
2.Shamanic/Animistic magics: This is the most primitive form of magic. It has been in use since before the days of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, and the Babylonian Empire of Sargon. This is usually divided into elemental forms of power, Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. These are usually directly given to a follower of a god with control over said elements. For the Egyptians it the godess Nile whom gave them these magics. For the Babylonians it was he gods Tigris and Euphrates. The actual process of using the magic boils down to using your will as a seer to influence the power of nature that is within your domain. Ie. creating wind gusts and tornadoes from air, burning a city from a bonfire, creating a flood with a river, breaking the earth under a city wall to bring it down. This type of magic while powerful is easy to counter by more modern methods. As such it has mostly been abandoned by the "Civilized" powers of the world. However many tribal cultures still use this type of magic to great effect.
3.Arcanioi: This is an INCREDIBLY powerful form of magic that can take YEARS of study just to comprehend. These flow make up the base for almost all other types of magics. They are raw energy, impossible to counter or deflect with any kind of shielding spells. You use the actual energy by gathering the power within your hand using your will. When enough power is gathered point a finger at a person and let go. The power travels through air and hits the target HARD, usually vaporizing it near instantly. It creates very flashy effects when you do this. It also causes large amounts of damage to the surrounding area. It can also be used to power large requirements of energy, you just have to gather it a LOT slower. You can then syenthisize it into fuels and pure energy for all of your daily needs. Many devices within the "Civilized" world use this magic as their powers source. From the lights within city walls to cooking ovens to even the humble processes of cleaning.
4.Violur: This is the process of Hardening magics to do your biding. This and Shamanism are the two most common magic types in the world, for they are both easy to understand and simple to use. It works much the same way as Shamanism except you dont influence magics, you take control of them, forcing them to do your bidding. This allows for far more control at the expense of far more energy expenditure. So instead of just mastering one element you can use them all.
5.Demonicaia: This type of magic is evil. It feeds off of lost souls and bad thoughts and deeds. When you use it it turns you slowly from a good person into a neutral person and finally an evil person. It is possible to gain massive amounts of power with these methods. You must sacrfice the souls of other in order to gain power over the flows of magic. And it will always turn you into a demon. This type of power also mainfests itself when you grows scales and demonic features upon your body, as well as having power over blackfire, body transformation and the thoughts and minds of weaker people around you. As this outcasts ALL people with said affliction upon them apart from their native people, the wielders of this magic usually expend magic to look like all the other humans or whatever spieces they were originally.

This concludes my wall of text on magics. I hope you all enjoy the read.
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Ever play KOTOR or Fable? :laugh4:

Thanks for the balloon, btw. I thought you would get pissed off!

:laugh4: NP at al dude i wont get pissed off cuz that acutally helps me out so its cool
also no ive never played Fable but i have read about it on wikipedia
and what game is KOTOR?

Knights of the Old Republic. It's just that your magic system seemed somewhat familiar.

Ok Time for an

INTERMISSION
A history of Earth (Part One)
10000BC
Humans in the areas of the Fertile Cresent and the Nile Delta settle into small villages due to the rich amounts of food their, unlike previous generations that were completely nomadic hunter-gatherers, these human have a small but steady source of food.
8000BC
Humans settle in the southern areas of Asia Mikra, at a place called Catal Huyuk. The humans of the Fertile Cresent develop the first types of cultivated plants and domesticate animals, to supplement the sources of food that have run out over the centuires. This quickly spreads to the Nile Delta as well, for pretty much the same reasons.
5000BC
A Great Flood devastates much of the world. The lower sections of the Fertile Cresent dissappear under the tides of death becoming what is today the Persian Gulf. This forces the humans in the regions to migrates northwards along the river, where they come in contact with humans fleeing south from the Anti-Taurus mountains due to the Flood as well. Catal Huyuk, once a great center of culture and knowledge is completely destroyed. The flood does inundate parts of the Nile Delta, but nowhere nearly as bad as the Fertile Cresent disaster. However this still convinces many of those on the Delta to move southwards.
4000BC
Within the Fertile Cresent the two previous cultures combine peacefully to from a new culture, Sumer.
These Sumerians found the first true cities of humanity. They are Ur, Uruk, and Lagash. To the southwest the peoples of the Nile begin to coalese into a new culture. This is due to their discoverey of magic at its most primitive. The story goes that one day a little boy was playing along the riverbanks when he fell in. Even though the people of this village looked and looked fpr him he was never found. He has been saved however by the godess Nile for she had fallen in love with the boy. He grew up within her palace at the base of the great river. When he finally became a man she slept in lust with him. They sired two children together. Upon these children were the gifts of the river as well as humanity. However in time the man grew homesick. The godess understood and sent him back to his village with their two children. When he returned he was greeted with surprise and joy, for his family had thought him dead. However when he told them his story he was not believed at first. Then he summonded his two children. When the children showed their prowess to the villagers all disbelief vanished. The river was declared sacred and the godess Nile was worshiped by all of the villagers. She rewarded them for their beliefs with many children, much food, and powers over the magics of water. In time the village grew into a city, called Memphis. From this city many of the other people of the Lower Nile were conquered into a kingdom. The Upper Nile formed along similar lines except they had no magics for they did not believe the Nile was a godess. However soon they begin to do so, for magic spreads across the world at an unbalievable pace.
3500BC
The humans along the Indus River in India and the Yellow River in China form their first cultures and cities. Farming also spreads to them as well. Along the Nile the Great king Scorpion, unties the Lower Nile and Upper Nile together to form a single kingdom, Egypt. In the Fertile Cresent the city-states of Sumer clash constantly over border disputes. They also discover magics with the help of an Egyptian sorcerer whos name is unknown to us. The two gods Tigris and Euphrates, whom are brother gods, give to the Sumerians children, food, and the magics of water and air. The Sumerians use this prosperity to invent the wheel, more advance farming techniques, simple math, the concept of barter and wealth, writing and reading, and discover metal working in the form of copper weapons and armor. This spreads to much of humanity through the trade routes along the Levant. They also build great monuments to their gods and build mighty walls of mud-brick to protect themselves. However their two gods are very young and foolish. One day they spy the godess Nile bathing naked within the great ocean. They fall in lust for her and kidnap her to their palace at the deepest part of the rivers, where they both meet underground. They then proceed to rape the godess for ten days each. Of this union is born the godess Ishtar. The two brother take Ishtar as theirs and leave Nile upon the shores of her own river. She curses the two brothers for their arrogance. She makes sure that so long as their rivers' flow, the lands they flow through shall never know peace. And thus it is, for Ishtar being born of such a violent union becomes a godess of sex and war. She encourages the mortals to kill each other, and beds with the strongest of mortals to fullfill her sickening sexual desires. The city of Ur become her holy site, and she can often be seen at her ziggurat-temple, struting about with nothing on at all, and taking men to her chambers whenever she pleases.
3000BC
The area of the Levant becomes populated with cities of a people called Cannanites, due to the trade routes that pass through it. The cuture of Sumer falls to its own violent ways and the encouragements of Ishtar. To the north of Sumeria, along the River Tigris a people called the Akkadians found the city of Akkad. Their king is a man named Sargon I. Seeing the weakness of his southern neighbors he invades their city-states and conquers them with ease, creating the first empire in human history, the Akkaidian Empire. Having conquered the Sumerians they then adopt many aspect of the more advanced civilazation and proceed to conquer the rest of the Fertile Cresent. They add their god, Marduk of the Sun, to the expanding Pantheon of the Fertile Cresent. This adds fire to the arsenal of the Akkadian/Sumerian magic. Also they conquer a group of migrating barbarians to the east and take them into the Fertile Cresent area. These powerful warriors serve the Empire as shock troopers.
2500BC
One of the greats kings ever know to Egypt dies and a great monument, called a pyramid, upon the Giza plateau is built to be his tomb. This becomes the site of several other pyramids to other kings of Egypt. Within the Empire the death of Sargon I was the end of all the good times, as royal struggles for power over the centuries, have weakened the Empire. However none of the other minor powers within the region dare cross the Empire's might. To the far east, the Chinese built a large kingdom and develop many different types of technologies that the rest of the world wont see for a millinium, due to China's isolation. The Indus peoples Also found a large kingom however they dont develop many new types of anything due to their extreme wealth and extensive trade routes.
2102BC
The gods Tigris becomes angry with the people of the city of Akkad for not worshiping him enough over his brother Euphrates. In a fit of rage he sinks the city beneath the ground. However a great heor called Gilamesh manages to fit off the gods minions and save most of the citizenry. The citizens move south and with the help of Marduk and Euphrates found a new great capital of the Empire, the city of Babylon. A great ziggurat-temple to Marduk is built within the city, and life begins as normal again. Meanwhile in the Levant a people called the Urgurites invade Caanan. After many years of death the barbarians flee the lands back into the desert.
1903BC
The worst set of winters ever seen by humans causes much death and starvation among the peoples of the world. For almost 20 years there is no summer. Ice makes its way into the Nile and even into the deserts of Arabia. So as the world recovers barbarians begin to move south En Masse. A light-skinned people of barbarians called Indo-Europeans migrates from the steppes of Asia, and splits into five tribes while moving in three different directions. The tribe called Arians attacks the people of the Indus valley, and conquers the weakened kingdom with ease. They then conquer the people of the Ganges river as well forming many new peoples of India. They also move father south down the subcontient destroying all of the old peoples in the way. Soon they conquer everything on the subcontient. But they divided futher into other tribes as they go. They also establish a religion called Hinduism, where there are many gods in one. Another Indo-european tribe called the Iranians move into the plateaus and mountains east of the Tarus Mountains and split into serveral more tribes as well. Another group of Indo-europeans called the Hitties attack the Empire directly. However the current King of Akkadia barely manages to ward them off. As a result they invade the Mikra Asia. They found a kingdom of their own that remains united. They also invent many things, like chariots but most importantly they invent Bronzeworking. This technology spreads like wildfire among the peoples of the trade routes. The last two tribes of Indo-europeans invades a sparsely populated Europe and begin to settle everywhere, destroy what few cultures that they find there.
1844BC
The Hitties become and empire by conquering many of the tribes around their city of Hattsua. They then use the new resources to conquer all the way to the Aegean Sea int the west and all the way to the Medditerainian Sea in the south. However they also discover another way of performing magics. Due to the lack of a Great River within Mikra Asia there is no god/godess avaible to get their magics from. So one day a sorcerer, whose name has been struck from history due to his evil, is expirimenting with what minor magics are at his command, at a camp for criminals to be put to work for the empire. The man is trying to make his magic stronger. He then stumbles upon a dying criminal. The man knew that the power within a person left them when they died. So he wondered if he could harness that power. He chanted a spell that inadvertently sucked the mans soul out. It increase his power tenfold. This man became the first demon right then and there. He soon discovered the side effects of using this magic and how to use it properly. He soon became far more powerful than the court magicians and supplanted first them and then the king, delcaring himself king using his magical prowess to enslave the people of the Hittite Empire to his will. He then began to expand the empire once again spreading these foul magics to many parts of his empire that were already conquered.

A history of Earth (Part Two)
1549BC
The Hittite Empire controls 2/3 of Mikra Asia and all of Syria. This brings them into direct contact with the Levant and the Akkadian Empire as well. Due to long standing rivalries and the differences in culture, war is a near constant thing between the two empires, the most common site being the west bank of the River Euphrates. The Hittites also attempt to conquer the Levant. However the Egyptians, whom also have interest in this area, beat them to the punch. War here is more on and off than it is near the western Euphrates. Also a people called ther Phonecians split off from the Caanaites. They built several city-stats along the coast of Caanan. They are Tyre, Biblos, Ascalon, and Durigos. They develop a STRONG seafaring tradition, and spread across the Mediteranian Sea founding trade colonies. They also invent the modern method of ship building. However they are soon caught up in the wars in the region. Their cities are mostly conqured by Egypt.
1302BC
Within the confines of Modern Greece and Krete, two cultures developed. They were the Minoans and the Myceneans. They were experts in the use of bronze and the throwing spear. Also the Minoans were great ship builders, controling most of the Aegean Sea and the trade and culture of the Myceneans. In Egypt a new writing material, parchment, has been invented. And within the Levant and the western Euphrates bank there is still more war and death.
1274BC
There is a great battle, the first recorded in history as being a battle so great. Outside the walls of an important city called Kadesh-on-the-Orotes, the army of the Hittie Empire faces off against the armies of Egypt. The battle was hard and in the end both armies were destroyed. The battle began with the Egyptian king Ramses II attempting to take the walls of what he though an unprepared town, with barely a fourth of his army with him. The Hittite King Mutawalli III burtally ambushed the second division of the Egyptian army then pinned the first against the walls of Kadesh. However Ramses II manages to escape with the help of some mercinaires from Caanan. As he fled the Hittite charoits followed him. It was then that the third Egyptian division came upon the scene. They attacked the Hittite chariots and drove them to the river Orotes. Many of the chariots were destroyed in the flight or abandoned at the river. The next day the infantry got into the fight for the Hittites. Theybroke most of the outmanned thrid division, however the last divisionarrived at that moment and drove the wear Hittite infantry back. The battle ended after that for niether king want to commit his last reserves due to the fact that if they lost they had no support for their kingdoms. So a peace was signed. In Greece the Minoans are thrown off of the mainland by the Myceneans.
1103BC
The invasion of the Sea Peoples begins. The weakened kingdoms of the Hitties and Egyptians come under attack. While the Egyptians are able to beat them out to sea, their kingdom becomes so weak it collapses from within into city-states. The evil Hittite Empire is obliterated, its name wiped from the histories, and its magics destroyed or scatered to the four winds. The Minoans and Myceneans are overun by the Sea Peoples as well.
800BC
A full blown Dark Age has ensued over most of the known world. The only surviving center for sanity and knowledge is the Akkadian Empire. However they are under constant attack, whether its by barbarians, the remnants of former nations, or some combination of the two. In Europe many tribes are beinging to form. A culture of people called Celts, forms and spreads all over the contienent. In the far north a people called the Nords begin to form thier cultures. In Phoniciea Princess Dido flees Tyre after her brother the king tries to kill her and kills her husband, the High Priest of Baal. They go west and found a town they call Kart-Hadast. And on the shores of an Italian river, a city is being built that will one day rule much of everything.
567BC
The Dark age comes to any end as the Akkadian Empire soares to new heights. They conqured Egypt, the Levant, Syria, and even Mikra Asia. All of this is done by one person, their high king Sargon VIII. He magages to pull most of the world out of the darkness. In Greece new cities rise from the dust. They are Athenai, Sparte, Corinthos, Thebias, and Delphia. It is a culture divided by tribal and city-state loyalties. However noone else wants their lands so it is allowed to go on. In Italy the Romans work hard to unity Latium under their banners. In the rest of Europe the early celtic culture has imploded and become tribal once again. And in Skandia the Nords begin their migrations south, due to climate change.
400BC
By this point Greece as become a major player on the world stage. They beat back 2 Akkadian invasions and brought the studies of math, science and art to a height not ever seen among humanity. As theor culture grew they established colonies in Italy, Gaul, and the Black Sea shores. They also established cities throughout Mikra Asia. They also discovered the Arcanioi form of magic flows. And using it they developed many new forms of technology. However their infighting has gotten far worse, and now other seek to take over their lands and knowledge.
340BC
Makedonia, to the north of Greece, is united by Phillip II. He then goes on to conquer Greece and bring the whole area under his control. He has plans to conquers Akkadia as well. Meanwhile in Italy, Rome has conquered many of their opponents for regional supremeacy and are currently fighting a people called the Samnites for dominance. And in the Fertile Cresent portens of yet more death precede the people everywhere.
322BC
Megas Alexandros III, becomes king of Makedon after the murder of his father. He restablishes control of Greece, then in a huge upset invades the Akkadian Empire. His first real battle is at the river Granicus just on the other side of the Bosphourus. It was a shattering victory. He then marched through Mikra Asia with no opposition. He met his next battle at the River Issus. This time it was against the King of Akkadia, Mistrophes XXVIII. After a full day of battle, the Akkadians are crushed like bugs. He then proceedes to take the Levant and Egypt. While in Egypt he is declared a god. He then Marches upon Akkadia itself. It takes him five YEARS of horrific fighting to just supress the Akkadian people, and a three year siege of Babylon to end it all. The Akkaidan Empire which had stood unconquered for thre mellinia finally fell, to the armies of a god. He then moves on to conqurer the Iranians and the peoples of outer Asia and Baktria. However when he get to the Indus river his army revolts refusing to go any farther. With a sigh he marches for home. However on the march home he comes down with a fever. As he slowly fades his army makes it to Media, just east of Akkad. He then proceedes to make a speech for his troops before he passes on. However before he can begin a GREAT light appear around him. His body then disappears, leaving behind only his clothes and armor. His new empire implodes as his generals, now called Successors, fight each other for control. The Akkadians take this chance to revolt and nearly succeeeded. However the general Seleucios Nikator puts the rebels down. He then conqueres half of Alexandros's empire from Syria to Aria. Ptolomey takes Egypt as his own and Antingos Agredes takes much of Makedon as his own.
272BC
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:inquisitive: Interesting alternate timeline for the world. Especially that "Akkadian" Empire.