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Post by ADHD_Seaweed on Sept 15, 2014 9:00:51 GMT -6
Endless fields of shirtless figures toiling day and night, some say that there are as many as 4000 slaves to every one Noble. This kingdom is build on, and relies purely on slavery. Noble wizards have cast a spell on the salves to make them more fertile, and this causes the slaves give birth to litters of babies, usually killing the mother in the process. All of them will spend their life in brutally hard work. Each slave is a nameless, faceless tool to be used by a noble in any way that he sees fit. Most slaves spend most of their lives working in various jobs, and many slaves die in those jobs daily. Only the lucky get to return to the crowded huts that the nobles call the slave housing. Their luck doesn't last long though for a slave will be lucky to receive 4 hours of sleep before being forced to work again. Once you are born a slave or taken as a slave you remain that way for life. However there is one "grace" that the nobles give their slaves. If a slave wins 100 battles in the name of his noble he will be set free. While this is a daunting task it is made even worse by the fact that a noble will happily send his slaves into battle unarmed and unarmored. Relying on mass of numbers to fell his opponent. Despite these overwhelming odds there has been one slave who achieved the task needed to earn his freedom. No one knows what happened to that slave when they got their freedom. Some people even doubt that they legend is real. However they keep working; they are either brainwashed into doing the work of their gods or are forced into labor by their brutal oppressors. The nobles care not what they think as long as they work. This is the way of Drugdela, the kingdom of the slaves.
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Post by ADHD_Seaweed on Sept 16, 2014 14:33:17 GMT -6
The Capital of Drudgela is Dredge. Dredge is separated in into two rings, the inter ring is a surrounded by a large wall to separate the nobles form the slaves. Inside the inter ring is elaborate, marble and gold buildings a place of plenty its people are fit and happy, acting as if there is not a care in the world.Some in other kingdoms joke that someone is mind controlling the nobles to make them that damn happy. But the outer ring is poorly assembled hovels were starving people are whipped mercilessly to work endlessly. plague and famine run wild, the smell of death and decay hang in the air, mass graves that are not covered in dirt, but instead are just left open to rot are full of dead slaves.
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Post by ADHD_Seaweed on Sept 30, 2014 14:05:56 GMT -6
Field slaves Hoves -Slaves live is small poorly assembled houses if they are lucky. These houses are called hoves. Hoves should house one or two people comfortably, but they often house 10-15 people. They sleep stacked ontop of each other, and often hoves will collapse killing a few of the occupants
Rathole- a rathole a hole in a hill, slaves with work together after a rain to dig these it is easy to tell when a slave had just dug a rathole, because often their fingers will have been worked down to the bone. These holes are used as another method of shelter for the slaves, often slave families who want to keep their babies away from the feral dogs that wonder the slave fields when it rains. These holes will often fill with water, I'm a heavy rainstorm, small children and babies have been known to drown in these holes.
Slave fields- large clearings were most slaves sleep. These fields are crowded with slaves (dead or alive) piled on top of each other to fit in the fields. They sleep in These fields in all weather, and often if a slave dies in These fields, the body is left to rot and be slept on by other slaves.
Feral dogs- at night feral dogs sneak into the slave fields to feed on the dead, or young. Most slaves seem oblivious to this. But some shoo off the dogs, which can sometimes lead to the space being attacked and overpowered by the dog. The dogs make their homes in old rat holes and have a large and growing population.
Slave graves- sometimes dead slaves are left to rot in the slave fields, and some times they are thrown in landfill type mass graves that are called slave graves. These graves are filled with countless dead or dyeing slaves, and is home to a species of large rat called skev, skevs are the size of German shepards are rule the slave graves, hundreds of other rats and maggots fill the area, and a cloud of flies is always above it.
Overseers- tall hooded figures that stand In The fields, dark leather whips in hand they are merciless. When an overseer barks orders, it is always in a deep voice that sounds like a rusty iron being rubbed against stone. An overseer is never seen without his large hood draped over his face. Overseers were iron gloves. And not a single inch of flesh is shown. Often overseers will take slaves away, never to be seen again. But somehow, the most of the slaves seem content, because they have known no other life.
Slave enhancements, Nobel wizards have done magical enhancements to the slaves making them incredibly fertile, and sexually active. It is common for when a slave woman gives birth, she gives birth to litters of 5-7 babies. The. With in the month, she will be pregnant again.
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Post by ADHD_Seaweed on Oct 2, 2014 9:54:49 GMT -6
House slaves- these are the personal slaves of the Nobles. They live I in the nobles houses and eat scraps for the nobles tables. These slaves are the best treated in he kingdom, charged with house work and running errands in town.
Nobles- each Nobel house rules a city named after it's house Important noble houses Igna- the Igna house is the oldest house save the dredge house. The city of Igna is thriving metropolis. A major center of trade, and this has made the Igna family very rich. Ellis the head of the family Often leaves his diamond studded robes at the manor, and he dresses in rags to go out to bargain and haggle with merchants for fun
Velik- the veliks are a proud house of warriors and scholars, they focus both on knowledge and biomancy. The head of the house is a woman named Sheri Velik, though she is old, you couldn't tell, her biomancy has kept her looking as if she was in her twenties. She loves all twelve of her children greatly, and would do anything for them, this has caused many of them to become pompous and lazy, but not her eldest Roger Velik. Roger used to spend much of his time In the library studying, but as of late, he has been spending an increasing amount of time in the slave fields, and traveling around. Many see him performing biomancy experiments on the slaves and taking them somewhere, but nobody knows were
Meti- the Meti house has a reputation for brutality, the city of Meti has the second most slave in all of the kingdom, supasses only by Dredge. The current head if the house is Jannet Meti. Jannet is a proud and head strong woman who has had many "accidents" that lead to her rise in power. The other members of the family are terrified of her. Since she rose to power, has had three of her relitives put to death. She is very adept in biomancy, like most nobels, but for her it is different, unlike most nobels she lover her power over flesh to much. She walks around with four horrible spikes legs, and tendrels for fingers
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Post by ADHD_Seaweed on Nov 11, 2014 11:42:25 GMT -6
History: In the wake of the Ork war there were hundreds of refugees left homeless to wander the land, Taurus Drudge the head of a large family told the refugees hey could live on his land and farm it, if they give his family the what was left of the harvest. The dredge family repelled Ork invaders with their powerful biomancy. Over time the refugees became citizens of a country ruled by the first born child of the dredge family, always named after Taurus. Other Nobel houses rose, and soon some of the nobles grew hungry with powerand rallied behind a Nobelman named Lord Jormand Velik The capital of the rebellion was the city of Velik. Jormand was in need of soldiers, so he turned to the cilivians of Velik and the other Cities that supported him Latvia, Meti, Hampton, Snetkel, Bakashaklaka, and Luni. With a lack of armor, the civilians fought with crude weapons and homemade armor. The peasant warriors were driven with promises that those who prove them selves in battle would be awarded with lordhood. Each of the four nobles raised armies, and the constant battles decimated the population. Janis Meti came up with a plan. She had heard about some cultures using magic to augment soldiers, so she hired the best biomages she could find, promising them nobility if they would follow her. She told them to augment the fertility of her female soldiers. Making them give birth to massive litters of children. She further had the biomages grow the babies to maturity. Without life experience, these new soldiers didn't know any better than to do what they were told. Her army dwarfed the other nobles and in a wave of unarmed, uneducated, un experienced soldiers, she had the nobles that opposed her executed, and was crowned queen of Drudgela. She further more declared the new born soldiers as well as the surviving soldiers of the opposing armies her slaves, who worked to make the city of Meti a great strong hold.Than six months into her reign, Janus Meti fell terribly ill and died overnight. She had named her successor, her brother, Jonas Meti, but Jonas didn't want the throne, so he sold it or Lee Bakashaklaka. Lee Bakashakalaka was a terrible ruler. He raised taxes severely on the Civilians, and used all of the tax money on feasts and tournaments for nobels. The Civilians hated him , and a Nobel named Hans Skell used this to his advantage and staged a rebellion, after the first few losses Lee Bakashakalaka surrender the throne to Hans Skell. Instead of helping the poor, like he has promised, Skell used the tax money to oppress he people. He hired a brutal police force that beat the insurgency out of any civilian who spoke out against him was executed. But then in court a hooded figure approached him, declared he was Taurus XCV Dredge, and struck Skell down and declared he was king. All other nobles bowed to Taurus and he was declared king. All peasants were declared Taurus's slaves and were put to work.
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