Seeking Hale Sailors, Soldiers, and Privateers

Mobius

Squire
Chicago Staff
Marshal
I am seeking hearty soldiers, sailors, and privateers for a peacekeeping mission through the Mists. The Kingdom of Eire is besieged by an invasion force of Necromantic and tyrannical origin. She is in need of ships, Captains to guide them, sailors to rig them, and soldiers to guard them. A second need for portage vessels, bulk carriers, salvage ships, tugs, reconnaissance vessels, and other campaign support vehicles and personnel is also needed.

I will pay steerage costs, partial wages, and stipend any Captain willing to make the voyage. The Country of Eire has given Right of Plunder to captains participating in the sortie so long as they act honorably in the field. I will be dismissing my proper tithe of Plunder in order to create further incentive. Per custom, battle wages and insurance will be upon the captain. Compensation shall be accorded half beforehand and half after, assuming proper validation from the Eire navy.

Seek my representative Barrister Enan Bluewater in Arbor for information.


Master Dramthin Hartsboon
Keeper of the Tainted Grove
 
Why are you willing to help pay for a war being waged in another land when we have going on in our own lands?

~Tets
 
Tets,

Many of the local issues revolve around landlocked groups many ships and boats could choose to assist in the destruction of necromatic forces without an undue loss in trade locally. The chance to take such large amounts through the mists is also rare, there might be a good opportunity for trade for those that participate.

For those interested in assisting, I will indeed be assisting with the logistics of this endeavor, if you are interested in participating please contact me directly.

Enan Bluewater.
 
Yes but Dramthin....Excuse me, Master Dramthin Hartsboon stated that he would pay for people to travel to this other land when the money is greatly needed in ours.

~Tets
 
How an adventurer decides to spend his money is far outside my control, or even something I would make a recommendation on, Master Dramthin has requested I help in this endeavor and so I shall, his personal reasons for wanting to lend aid are not under my purview.

-Enan Bluewater
 
Tets,

I understand your worry for this. Was a time I thought much the same way, but since then the mists have walked me many times into new lands. If they walk me so easily, how do you know they will not walk these Sadeen Mooreans that destroy all magic? That want all magical beings and creatures destroyed? That have the power to make magic stop existing just by their will?

Sometimes it is good to look over your fence, and maybe see if you should stop the avalanche sliding toward it. One enemy that cannot be defeated by a land alone is the enemy of all lands in Fortannis - this is why I ask for help from the lands I traveled before the mists took me away some year ago.

I hope to travel again to your land someday, where we can meet and fight together your own enemies. If you have the ability, I ask you to think hard about helping to fight this enemy that threatens so many innocent lives. Lives that cannot resurrect and will die forever if brave adventurers from around Fortannis do nothing.

Morganne
 
Tets of Briarpass,


Fortannis is constantly assailed by regional issues, there is always a local despot looking for personal power and glory. Most of the time, these tyrants are dealt with by local authorities with varying degrees of success. Most issues never spill beyond the Mists and are content to stay regionalized. This changed last year with the shattering of the Hourglass. Fortannis suddenly became much smaller.

At this point in time, in this place, the Mists have opened up and are allowing large-scale access to Eire in order to assist that kingdom repel invaders. Allow me to repeat: The Mists, the innate protection of Fortannis herself; the magical boundaries designed to protect the Earth; the wall which has stopped untold Lich Armies from swarming the world since time immemorial; this impenetrable wall has opened to allow armies to assist Eire. Think on that.

Besides, I would hold my Mastery cheap if I had the ability to aid others and I spurned their need for my own. I have assisted and continue to assist Terna whenever I am able. But, right now, I am unable to help her, but I am able to help Eire. As you said, I am a Master of Briarpass: that means I have a responsibility to not only Wayside but to civilization itself. The Balance is held by those who maintain it.


Master Dramthin Hartsboon
Keeper of the Tainted Grove
 
Fellow Adventurers,

I've tried to keep quiet on this matter, but I cannot any longer. Having watched as the wholesale slaughter of friends, comrades, and brothers in arms, happened around me... it's left me shaken. However, I feel I need to say my piece.


Tets,

You and I have not gotten along well. At best, we've had a begrudging respect. However, I understand what you're saying. We're besieged at our borders by Thargathian, and from within by corruption. However, while Thargathian is reeling from the latest blow by the adventurers, we can take this opportunity to push back at the darkness throughout all of Fortannis, and in doing so, gain allies and aid to bring back through the Mists to aid us in bringing the Light to all of Wayside.

Mr. Hartsboon,

I appreciate what you are trying to do, and will be speaking to Mr. Bluewater myself. However, I have to respectfully ask you to not use the title "Master of Wayside". A new Regent has been named, Regent Fallingstar, and she has not named her Masters yet. As such, invoking such a title without being named by the standing Regent is disrespectful to the Regent, as it assumes she will name you Master again. I do not know your credentials, nor you; however, I must ask you to show the respect our Regent commands by law, even in the Dream Realm.

Morganne,

Tets has raised one important point. If we aid your land in its time of need, when our day comes to be in need against the Darkness that has plagued Wayside for centuries, can we count on your blades and spells, of you and your bretheren? Is this to usher in a new era of cooperation against the blight that plagues our lands, or merely aid for a simple battle?

Thank you for taking the time to hear my words.

May you walk in the Light wherever you go,

Brother Eric Marsters
Brotherhood of the Light
Survivor of the Battle of Thargosia
 
To all,

It is my hope, that from this dark time a new dawn will emerge. One where all the good and just Kingdoms of Fortanis begin to talk to one another, and begin to form true bonds of fellowship. It is my dream to see a day were the Mists are no longer an excuse which prevents us from helping and assisting one another. To see a day when all of the good people of Fortanis stand united against evil, no matter where it chooses to attack.

It is a conversation and goal for another day. Right now, there are battles to be fought, in many lands. Some are managable by the people of their respective lands. Others, simply are not. Know that the aid that is given freely by so many from so many lands will not be forgotten by those who are saved. Learethan may be weakened, and tho she fights for her very survival, the day will come where those who are aided will one day be able to return the favor.

There are times when we must all stand united, as good people not of our lands, but of Fortanis. I did not send my call for aid to the Mists lightly. Laerethen is at a tipping point, with a quarter million lives, most of whom do not resurect due to the Whithering, in the ballance. We shall not fail them. Those who offer assistance, you honor us with your dedication to the cause of the good and just, and with your courage to sail to a part of the world you have never seen, to do battle with a foe you have never met, all in the name of protecting the weak, and to stand before tyrany and evil and say "enough, this shall continue no longer". My thanks will never be enough.

To battle. Let us show the world what a united Fortanis can do.

Lord Amaranthus Landcharmer
Lord of Stoneroost, Kingdom of Eire
 
Brother Eric,

I have fought for your land in the past. I have no home, the most I can do is protect others. Doing right is not a matter of lines drawn on maps by the fat rich with too much time to eat and bicker. Evil does not respect these fake lines - why should good?

If you call and ask for aid in your time of great need, I will surely come if the mists allow, just like now I travel to Laerthan to help the innocent that will die without aid. I cannot speak for others and what they will do, but I expect the same from those I call friend. I hope you to soon number you among them.

Morganne
 
Enan,
I did not mean to make it sound like i was against your involvement in the situation. I know you are doing what you do best and have put forth your best aid for Wayside.

Dramthin,
You on the other hand decided to abandon the land you once swore to protect and now decide to ask it's people for help? I am at a loss as to how you ever became a master of Wayside.

To the actual ask for help,
I did not mean to make it sound like people should not come to your aid. I personally would if i could afford the time away from our current fight.
I do implore people to help in your fight in any means they are able. I just felt highly insulted for a master of Wayside to ask the people to help in another lands fight when we have one of our own.
I meant no disrespect.

~Tets
 
Morganne,

I have already sent word to Barrister Bluewater to find out how I can add to the effort.

May you walk in the Light wherever you go,

Brother Eric Marsters
Brotherhood of the Light
Survivor of the Battle of Thargosia
 
None taken. I mearly wished to express my gratitute to those who can and are willing to help. I know all too well that all lands are beset by evils and that the battles of other lands can seem so very far away in those times. I wish the people of Wayside the best in their battles, and perhapes the day will come where I will get to aid you, as you are aiding us.

Lord Amaranthus Landcharmer
Lord of Stoneroost, Kingdom of Eire
 
Tets recently of Briarpass,

I have been in Wayside for six years, in Caladore for 15 years before that, in Dragonreach for 100 years before that, and throughout the Mists for the centuries preceding. I was on the battle of the line which liberated the territory you know as Briarpass from the Stonebiter rebellion. I fought in the dens of the Brood Queen when her legion was poised to destroy the world. I have met the scourge wrought by my fallen brother Renous more times than you have birthdays. I have watered the tree that is Briarpass with my blood and my death, and I have folded the bodies of my friends and lovers into her soil. My honour and commitment to her safety will not be questioned by the likes of you.

If I choose to spend six months, six years, or six centuries away from Briarpass that is my choice. I hold the Balance of Terna and Fortannis close to my heart and understand what forces are awake and threaten her.


Brother Marsters,

I appreciate your willingness to assist Eire in her plight as it shows the ability to think beyond the borders of your vision. Thank you also for showing respect to Regent FallingStar and her authority. I look forward to speaking with her regarding how she will interact with you in stewarding the land.


Master Dramthin Hartsboon
Keeper of the Tainted Grove
 
Good Men and Women of Foreign Lands,

I spend little time in The Dreaming, but have managed to find myself here this evening, perhaps because of the urgency and desperation my lands now find themselves in. I wish to clear up a few points of interest regarding the invasion of Sadeen Moor upon the magical city of Aolia. Sadeen Moorians, their knights and their ruler, are not necromancers, but they are genocidal murderers. The nation of Sadeen Moor is ruled entirely by my kind, mortal men, but these humans have come to reject all things magical due to the trauma of the great curse upon my land. This curse is called the Withering, it has made it so that roughly nine tenths of the population of my continent cannot resurrect. When their heart stops beating once, it does not start again. Their spirit does not find an Earth Circle. It goes on to the Clearing forever. Furthermore, this nine tenths of the population cannot travel the mists, they are trapped in these lands forever, for all we know. The land of Aolia is, in fact, a recently discovered magical city which floats in the skies above the Deadlands. We do not know entirely what has constituted Aolia, and what sustains it, but we know it is mystical. The ruler of Sadeen Moor is a mortal man called Good Father. His power to blind people to logic and drown them in fanaticism is second only to his ability to undo reality, specifically; this man is capable of negating even the greatest of magic our land has ever known. Sadeen Moor seeks to lead a fleet of two hundred warships so that Good Father can lay eyes upon Aolia, and in doing so, he will crash this miraculous city into a jungle infested with undead. When that happens, Fortannis will shake, and hundreds of thousands of innocent mortals will leave this world forever.

 

Were this simply a war between equals, between forces of good and forces of evil that stood a chance of defeating each other on equal ground, this call would not have been made. This is not war, this is the genocide of a magical race to fulfull the maddening vision of a maniacal despot. And we, the people of Eire, cannot stop them alone.

So we are forced to swallow our pride and accept that without the help of others, we cannot stop this tragic event from happening. If you can help, please do. If you have but one man, ship, sword, arrow to offer, please come to Authenrai and join us.

 

Thank you,

In Trust,

Lord Nathaniel Galloway
 
Mr. Hartsboon or Morganne,

I messaged Barrister Bluewater, but I know time is of the essence. Please contact me with how I can help.

Brother Eric Marsters
Brotherhood of the Light
Survivor of the Battle of Thargosia
 
I be sett'n out on a raft shortly, if any a ya has a ship dhat can get meh please do, neva traveled on wata before...but dha mo I hear of dhis struggle dha mo I pressed tah send mah aid.

I dream'd mo tah all dha folk of dhis place ya call Fortanis...

-Hengin
 
Brother Marsters,

I'll return your message shortly before the end of the evening, please understand this is not a small undertaking and certain arraignments must be made before I can know what role you can best fill.

Enan Bluewater.
 
Hengin,

You can meet up with me and my family and I will escort you to our destination. Look for Myself and the RVN Lifestorm, you are more than welcome to come aboard and help in our quest to aid those in another land. See you soon.

Eldandiril Zanabanath
Squire of Balance, Lightning Aligned, Bearer of the StormBringer
 
I will do mah best tah skirt dha mist dhat take meh near ya, pick meh up when ya see me on dha horizon, mah raft'll be load'd down whit dhing tah 'elp in dha fight.

-Hengin
 
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