Human Organizations (Teoryran World Setting)

Human Organizations

We have spoken much of the older ages my student, especially the forbidden knowledge of what have happened and that most powerfull men keep a secret. Before these old bag of bones before you turn to dust I must tell you about our Kindom today and correct you about the things everyone think they already know. Speaking of the current age, Kored is a Kindom yes?, have it always been so? Perhaps I state the obvious when I say it has not always been so. Now you are saying something funny, don't worry I am certain that the King is appointed by Devine Grace of some diety and that family have ruled since before the fall of Aeoryran. Kored on the Isles of Teoryran and the spots of in-land we have is a mere Kingdom, the Kored that was on the huge coasts and plains of Aeoryran was an Empire. So you think we had an Empire now?, it's a pale imitation without effort more of a brag or deception to gain respect. The Second Empire was united by one church, one army and one commander. It was only in the collonisation when goverment moved from Aeoryran to Teoryran that we had all these traitorious fractions, shattered regions, rebellion and the shattered heretics and witches. I remember the splendor of the cities, the wonderous libraries and the glorious public executions! The nobility we have today are not inheriting power from families in Aeoryran despite what they say. The nobility in the empire only had titles and private possessions. Here they made their children to become born to status. The Church is not the same as in the fatherland either. We have many churches fighting over the right to be the one church and there are heretics and witches everywhere. Go away, I need to sleep. The inquistor will arrive in the nightfall to burn me, I think I want a few hours of good sleep before being tortured and burned as a heretic and I have a feeling I will pass away peacefully in my dreams knowing I passed . I forgot I was supposed to tell you about how the realm is today,how it really is faring. There are many fractions you have underestimated in your daily life or perhaps you never heard of them in that isolated home regions of yours.

Organisation In Kored

Korad's Crown

Despite what you think, the King is lot the perfected Saint you expected.'

He is not the one that build everything, he doesn't need us and he doesn't care about us'

If he does care he must be utterly insane, I have diary of royal scribes that few know about, and it is

filled with stories charactizing him as benevolent and devout tyrant, who slaugher

cities,families,children

because 'he believes perfect control is what is good for the people

I refuse to believe that a human being can be inspired by the ideals of good

to do evil. No I think he must be a greedy, impulsive being who doesn't care about us'

The King is a descendant of the Ledgendary King Kored in the Empire

, all royal males have the same Name which is meant to allow each new King

to claim to have done the same things, so history is constantly rewritten.

Do not trust the dates in the scrolls, the year of favourable events such as

Korad winning a war is always have always some years added to while

loosing a war or rival building something usefull for the public always

have some years subtracted to make them easier to forget.

The King is first of all mortal, second the King is por, third the King

ethnicity and the colour of his skin is dark with a tint of pale grey yellow

and his hair blond as 'snow 'melting in a summer sun.

The royality have no blood common with the "nation".

They have no langage, costums or references in common with us,

the church have made all believe that the King is just like us, only better

and if the King is not perfect the ministers send from the church will guide him.

The King is loyal to the Church and the Church hide behind the King.

The King is a filthy, foreigner and heathen and just as all different ethnicites

he is evil becouse he does not have the pure white skinned,gold blond and blue eyed blood.

No his unique features are certaintly signs of evil

The Korad Royal House is an populous extended family with many members in the Church

all share their own alien and filthy culture.

The Goverment is called the Crown, which is defined as either where The King lives,

or wherever anyone bearing the Sign of Royal Power is.

The Royality is a state within the state that dominates other rouge states within the state,

the only thing that empowers the crown is religion, feudalism'

and reverence for the Royal Family.

The canditates for entering the Royal Family are rival royal families,

bastards who are married or adopted to hide the shame,elite noble allies and nobles families

who seem to share the alien ethnicity of the royal house.

The other Royal houses predate the Teoryan Kingdom of Kored but

have all either held royal 'power the past or owned fallen Kingdoms.

The Crown is organized around single region and its loyal supporters..

without any standing army. without any economic system

such private ownership,coins or other infernal modern practices.

Royal Honor

The royals have their own version of the code of honour that all humans have,

but they do not have to trust nobles word and do not have to pay respect to honorable nobles.

a royality have to recognice the honour of a lesser noble in direct servive to the Crown or

who visit the Royality as guest but they alone can ignore honour.

Royality can ignore honour of any stranger, or of any noble in an non-official meeting

'A royality can never be honoured by the presence of noble

and have no duty to associate themselves with honourable nobles

or keep good relations with them.'

They can execute,rob and mutilate any nobleman but they can not take back titles

or declear family rights null and void.'

It is honourable for a royality but not for a noble to sneak attack, decieve, assissinate

or make impossible demands'

a royal honour measures strenght and power but he has no obligations to his lessers

Personality

The royality are slightly less diverse in their spirits than others so

most royality fits the general steriotype

They are dominant, death-loving, insane, tyrants in the greater good

who kill you becouse they love you but can't control you

The average royality is stoic,cold hearted, simple minded ,

somewhat irrational and extremely fanatic

Royality have a great deal of hatred for anyone who is happy,easy going

or have any sort of wealth except the basis of survival.

They want everyone to just have the basics enought to survive and be serious and grown up.

While they as the elite, require all the rescourses, wealth and luxery

melancholic temparement, they are usually feeling mix of joy and sadness simulaniously but

have a great deal of energi, strong will and fierce motivation despite their lack of feeling

and deep thoughts.

when needed they seem to rouse themselves and become vitalized"

royals rarely think deeply about anything except religion, morality and law

They have a compassion strong in drive but weak in "feeling", that drives them to

kill becouse it is helping and only help those they control becouse that is helping.

They feel know what is better for others and keep the weak weak and the poor poor

becouse its for their own good

Political Power

The Royal as a group have power over other groups of equal military power

with the help of the Church who spy and assassine across border and without restraint.

They have the support of countless empoverish and desperate epidimies of fantatics

that volunter from rural areas or just randomly appear from previously content populance.

In their small region they have an small and unorganized but powerfull army of high leveled

Royal Knights, Noble knights Warrior Priests and suicidial peasant fanatic-mobs.

Their territory that the Royal Groups control, they control by totally destroying

it and killing untill they contol it and live on conquests.

They rule becouse the esteem of their blood and becouse their rivals are afraid of a

civil war.

The Royality also have great deal of control over the Church, most Royality

become Archbishops.

The greatest ally they have is those that they oppress so much

becouse the peasants are more afraid of anarchy than thyrant of equal worth.

They use forced labour and the feudal system, even if they dont have money

they can still promise and distribute lands and titles to the nobles

and the nobles are manipulated by their desire for the lands of others.

But really, There are no realized centralized goverment and the Crown

is not the most powerfull fraction.

The Royal Religion

The Crown empowered by a powerfull and popular religious ideology.

but only the members of the royality embrace this religion to its fullest and

actually the Royality have their own priests and their own religion within the religion.

They believe that what is good for most people is evil and what is evil for most people is good

Evil things are sex,happiness.confidence,own will, individual identity becouse they are egoistic

Pain,misery and torture and slavery is good becouse this is altruistic and leads to cooperation

thus compassion and enforce self-sacrifice and exterminate selfishness and identity.

In general their ideology is based on admiring death becouse it represents the end of life

and the virginity, stoicism and pure altruism without any selfish living desires.

also the royal culture adhor many of the traits commoners assoicate with living

such as vitality, impulsivity, extroversion, sexuality, and health and wealth.

for a royal person these things will lead to death,weakness and desease

and he believes that imitating deathlike features of death will promote "life" and

lead to strenght and win in the end''

Royality do not believe in the pragmatic benefits of procreation,welfare,prosperity or health.

They believe that possessing the soul means that everyone have to forced to obey the duty

to sustain themselves only of the spiritual and believe that what most people

consisted natural such as animals and plants are natural, instead the surrounding "life"

and'universe is accepted as an abomination.'

Death and faith is the way back to what they believe is natural and "true life".

'This belief is motivated by caring for the weaker, those who have no place in life

and the worship of weakness in order to justify compassion for the weak and those who will die.

The need to care for the weak who must die leads to the extermination of life

and the preservation of those who would naturally dies means that

dying becomes being alive and becouse the constant weakness is sustained

the constant presence of death is also sustained.

The royality understands this but also understands the opposite.

Might makes Rights becouse Might communicates with the God,

Compassion is for those you despice and for the weak so they can be'

protected from the evils of life and tested untill its time for them to be blessed with death

Its also important to be strong, to persue the rightious dominance that strenght of life gives

so the royality can destroy and conquer their enemies and conquer life itself.

only the royality is pure enought and blessed with the capacity enjoy some of life

and to think and to lead.

Sample Preaching

The King is By Grace of God which means he is the Avatar of God,

who unites all mankind in his church throught death and life and absorbation

into the flesh and blood of God.

All cultures and tribes are united speaking all tongues and worshipping the God Of Humanity.

The good are those true believer and all other have chosen evil and chosen to die'

becouse its impossible to live without God.

Death is the final reward, the souce of all life' and evil are punnished by death

and the good are rewarded with death

The purpose of life is to be tested untill rewarded with Death

Death is true life and life true death, the faithfull understand and the evil are confused.

life of the soul and of good without the evils of both individual and collective existence.

Abilites and Levels

Royals are never spell casters, they have class levels and feats

that reflect mixed carriers as soldiers and clergy.

The typical young Prince is a Knight with levels in Knight and Assassin

and maybe fighter and the Marshial Prestige class.

Ministers who are spared from Knighthood becouse of their importance

can have a level on knight and four or more of Inquisitor.

Most should take leadership at 6th level,

and Quest feats should be available as background feats.

They often have background feats that imply either cold or very charismatic personalites or :religious and mental devoution.

Those Royality who stay in court as Archbishopic Councelors

often have any levels in rouge,Priest, scribe or schoolar and at least one level in any kind of martial :class.

The King Himself usually have high total character level.

Appearance

They live in a barbarian and fanatic Kindom populated by mad and ascentic por people

so the Royals are appearing as spoon fed and spoiled brats.

They wear silk, and gold-coppar weapons and half-plate-half-chain armour

that basically is a studded armour becouse it is ceremonial.

Skin is white,olive or grey. Their hair is black, red with purple spots, or snow blond

and their eyes are yellow, ice blue or dark blue.

They are muscular,tal and have fine features but rough and hairy skin with birthmarks

and they are have gaunt faces with deep bown and large noses.

Korad-Zekus Baronies

There are six Great Baronies in Korad, each the equal of the Land of the Crown

and a state within a state.

Four of them are Hunter(green), Kraka(Back),Leaf(Red),Walker(white).

The Hunter and Roseleaf are both Lokated in the land Zekus the other are spread out.

The other two are Greyhound and Seig-Seevifel who have grey shield and are less powerfull.

All the Great Baronies often unite and present their demands to the King

or use the King as a go-between or final arbitor.

They often unite war against the King or fight against themselves, and feel less bound by religion than lesser nobles or than soldiers more loyal to the Crown.

The Barons are often excomunicated and eventually taken back to the church

or assassinated and suffers many revolts incited by agitators send by the Church.

Barons care only about their power, and use raw strenght and power to crush

the people who rebel or critize them.

They encourage wealth, prosperity and allow slavery with some rights but no freedrom.

The Baronies constists of collossal manours with farms and small forests walled in in citadels,

reworked mountains or just fortressed. They have equivalents of small cities in them

and do not need any support from remote villages to support these fortresses.

The Barons records and measure debts, mathematically in a way similar to primitive market economy and maintain and rent equipment and houses.

The industies are small scale, and produce very little surplus of any kind

and more lands are required by these settlement to produce less food than for normal farms.

The sole benefit is immuniti to all kinds of sieges and even if the food is expensive they

never have shortages.

After few decates all these farmable lands within these fortressess are depleted

and the settlement becomes dependent on outside import and they can support a lesser population.

This means that the fully effective citadels and fortressess are rare.

The more wars there are while the citadels have farmland left the more wars the Barons win and they get return for their investments.

Festival are paid for by the Baron.

Otherwise the law is strict and deadly, but enjoying what little you have is encouraged

and allowed. Peasants have the right to relax and enjoythemselves

as long as they do resort to public promisculity, disrespect of authorities, vandalisation, use drugs

or piss in public. All of which are punnishable with death.

Failing to pay your debt or perform your duties are punnished depending

on circumstance and usually involves beating with the whip.

Personality

Most of the Baron family members are energic,rescourseful and active

and very careful personalities

but in an raw natural way, Barons are at best moderate intellectuals

and thought by war and shaped by war.

Religion

It's rare for Barons to be fanatically religious. most are either not religious

or simple religious without drawing any logical conclusions from it.

Barons are both heretical enought to be scorned by society and

heretical enought to still be so religious that they are not completly rational

and wise and they are to moderate be inspired from faith

Most of the lot love war and take what they want with force whenever they want it.

All surviving to adulthood are ruthless killers who trusts nobody

even then each individual is as unique as his ways of rulership.

A strange minority can even read and write, why would anyone want to?

Baron Honor

Barons have much the same ideas of honor as Knights and nobles

but they also accept some the peasants ideas of honor as a worthy member

in the community instead of just being a warrior.

This usually doesn't make them more popular becouse he is not a equal member of the community

but it allows most Barons to command their lessers with greater efficiency.

Power

In addition to their near-invulnerable fortressess.

Barons have small but personal organised regiments of full time soldiers

who are rightless,poor or disgraced knights serving as retainers of war, sergéants of arms and soldiers. They apply all the population as part time soldiers for tax cuts

and are well trained.

In addition they have scores of allied and sworn dukes and knights visiting

and each Baron have a group of Dukes and an army of Knights with their peasant armies

who will come to their Barons aid.

Treason is high in the feudal army due to multiple and conflicting contracts and widespread religions fanaticism that can cause anyone to turn to any side.

Anyone who is good figher is usually pot in the front line to shield the usefull troops,

sick ones are used as ammuntion for catapults, the rest can craft spears,arrows or

run and put out fire or digg ditches.

Everyone else is thrown to the mob part of the army.

Women,weaklings, children, old men are thrown in with the undiscipline mobs and other rabble

for distraction who throw rocks or use sticks and spear.

They use huge amounts of free peasants militia working as constaples and nightwatch

or assassines who hunt spies and traitors.

Lands

All the baronies controls huge regions where they have their citadels or fortressed manors and have long since conquered all the less protected regions around them. In addition they have huge networks vassal states usually Dukes and Knights who are at least cooperative or friendly and at best very loyal. and each barony have at least two citadels even if the others are just fortressed manors and cites. Sadly contol wax and weave becouse of in-fighting, attack from the King, fanaticism rebellion and collapsing economics.

Abilities and Levels

Most Barons are the ultimate knight, others are sinister manipulators. Good classes are Knight, Fighter, huntsman and rouge. Most Barons don't rely on alien minded tactics as the royality and most have many levels in marschal.

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