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shadowsworn

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Trenchcoat and Bayonet takes place in a time and era very much like Europe in the early 1800s (although it is also influenced in part by Europe in the early 1900s, pre-WWI).

background (you don't necessarily have to read this, really)

It is a time of great political upheaval. For many centuries, the Empire has ruled Western Telshar (the name of the continent). Many years ago, the Empire fell into civil war, and was divided into East and West. The Western Empire was further fragmented by raids from northern barbarians, whose tribes gradually formed the lands of Mir, Brecht, and Andal.

The southern part of the Western Empire existed for a while as a number of small kingdoms, ruled by powerful city states. But they were mostly conquered by an invasion of religious crusaders from the southlands, across the sea. They tried to expand their lands further north, but despite a number of victories, the cost of conquering the north proved too high, and the crusaders retreated to the coastal city states they had conquered.

The Eastern Empire has not been without its troubles as well. Its long wars with the Etrurii, a collection of peoples who formerly ruled most of Eastern Telshar, left the Empire weak, and unable to expand and colonize, as its neighbours to the west did. Worse, the Emperor has become weak, and the Empire has for some time mostly been ruled by the many nobles who control the many fiefdoms of the Empire.

Direct Background to the RP

You are a soldier in the service of Prince Andrei, last male heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Mellany (one of a group of states that seized independence from the Eastern Empire many years ago, during a major war between Marokovia to the east and a coalition of the lords of the Empire.)

You and the rest of the Prince's army have seized control of Mellany from the revolutionary forces that had taken it over and slain the last King, the prince's grandfather. The counter-revolution was largely a result of a war with the neighbouring Kingdom of Arak, which weakened the ruling powers enough for Prince Andrei to be able to rouse the countryside, storm the capital, and retake control of his ancestral throne.

the Rp begins on the day before the prince's coronation, as King of Mellany.

Character Template

Name

Age

Description

Biography (you are a soldier who served in the Mellanian Restoration, other than that, it's up to you)

Weapons, Items of Note (keep it reasonable. Also remember that this is based on the early 1800s in Europe. there are no knights in full plate or wandering ronin or whatever other such period inappropriate things you can think of ;]

You begin in the capital city of Mellany, Kiril. It is three days after the Restoration succeeded. Descrive in yr intro what you're doing on the day before the coronation.

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Foxysister

((The early 1800s is about the time of the French Revolution so all equipment would be like muskets and bad working revolvers. That's not a lot of equipment to work with. Was there something else that people could use that is relevent to the place rather then the time.))

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shadowsworn

(idunno, knives? muskets and old-*** revolvers pwn face )

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Foxysister

((hm okay that's fair enough. I was just curious.))

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TheSkald

Name: Gregor Henderson.

Age: 21.

Description: 6'1", lean. Scraggly brown hair that almost reaches shoulders. Wears an old trenchcoat (of course) with a few holes in it, but clean. Tends to wear unremarkable grey shirts and pants. Black boots with all kinds of dirt and grime.

Biography: Henderson comes from an extremely poor family. His father was killed by a drunken soldier when Henderson was only six. Because of this, he grew up hating the military and everything associated with it. He lived with his mother and younger sister until he was seventeen, when he joined the very military he despised for the sole purpose of supporting his family. His mother had grown frail and he had no choice. He didn't see much combat until the end of the war with the Arak Kingdom. He managed to fight through this almost unscathed, though it left a lasting scar in his young mind.

Weapons, Items of Note: Basic weapons assigned to all soldiers. One musket w/ bayonet, one pistol, and one large combat knife. He also carries a rapier that had flown threw the air and impaled the ground mere inches from where he had been crouched during a battle. He wears at all times a locket with a folded up drawing of a knight on horseback that his father drew for him before he died.

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Gregor sat on the floor between aisles in a musky library in the center of Kiril. He was staring intensely at a book, though he had been on the same page for nearly a half hour. His mind was far from the story of a sailor on an abandoned island that he held in his hands, his mind was on his mother and sister back home. He wanted nothing more than to visit them, but they lived far away, on the outskirts of the Kingdom, and he was under military orders not to leave Kiril.

He gave up on sailor's attempt to gather coconuts, got up, stretched and headed for the door. The library was almost empty when he came in, and it was empty when he left. He stopped in the middle of the road, enjoying the cool air. He had nowhere to go and nothing to do at the moment, so he picked a direction and starting walking aimlessly to clear his head.

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