[Bologna Prime]

Twenty seven years ago, in the 441st year since the founding of the Realm of Delphina, the nation was splintered. The Greathive of Formica, originally bound by pact at the turn of the millennium to protect the realm, had seized control of the capital, Dal'Thala. Fourteen years ago, Formica burned, and the Hive was expelled from Dal'Thala. In the time since, the former capital had sent various envoys of strict ettiqquete and meticulously worded and calligraphed letters in the attempt to reconnect with its wayward subjects. Unfathomable amounts of tea, polite greetings and farewells have been shared by diplomats, and yet the Realm of Delphina remains in pieces.

In pieces, but still existent, in a sense. The myriad duchies, baronies, and principalities all gathering, squabbling, and insisting upon their own claims to Delphina on varying grounds of academic, technological, cultural, religious and military virtues. There are a few political definitions of Delphina in the modern day, all contentious and none near as strong and stable as the once famed nation was. As Meranthe runs awash with the great evils of demons and undead, a conclusion has been reached by the royalty of Dal'Thala.

A more direct and urgent approach must be taken. A grand summit is called, of all those who once and still do espouse themselves to be Delphinan nobility, bearing the hope to secure the right to rule the realm by all necessary means of diplomacy and force, over all other claimants. To unify the realm once more, and let it stand as one true form in the face of coming darkness, lest it suffer multiple farcical deaths in its fractured state.

Attendees: Dal'Thala
Risk: Expedition?

Themes: Fractured nation, legitimacy disputes, reclaiming the Mandate of Heaven.
Reward: Reunification of the Realm of Delphina under the Dal'Thalan Diarchy.
DM: Searching, for whoever may be qualified to run something like this. Admittedly I don't know terribly much about how events of broader stakes and volume such as this work in practice.

Message Bologna#2126 if you'd like to discuss running this. If you've a Dal'Thalan PC interested in attending, seek out Camino de Caewynn IC or message me if that fails.

[Lammy]

The council of the realm has come to a unanimous decision. After years of constant deliberation and endless bickering, a letter of notice directed to the state of Dal'thala was to be heard loud and clear by them all.

"King-Consort Camino, we have reviewed your notes and went through the history of your city-state, and to our surprise, the endless amounts of sins that have manifested within your walls throughout the generations have been nothing less of appalling and, without better term of phrase, disgusting.

From having the creatures of the shadowlands take control of its army, to allowing Her finest creatures to manipulate the occult and use it for their own agendas, to even Her finest creatures using the art of Necromancy, to having the same creatures of the Shadowlands even be a king in your former two-king days turn rogue and harm innocents...

If we, Faeborne, were to judge your stake in the claim, it would have been disregarded. But you may just be in luck yet.

In the year 2037 of Spring, you will undergo a trial ordained by the Huntress Nemea, but during that period, we will be watching your city, making sure that it has been rid thoroughly of the taint of the shadowlands, the dark arts, and of the occult.

Then, only then, will Nemea decide your fate.

And may she be merciful."

 

HCOD.
15 Max!!