<div dir="ltr">Oh cool, this is awesome. Good idea to have a mailing list to track our campaign progress :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Lev Lafayette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">lev@rpgreview.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Initial Scene<br>
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It's 772 AD, and a personage of no less than the Roman Catholic Bishop<br>
Giselbert gathers the young player-characters together at the Cathedral of<br>
Tournai to send them to Frisia. There has been stories of the dead walking<br>
at the nearby Frisian village of Kolven (which translates to "The Flask",<br>
on account on the fine beers).<br>
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The PCs include:<br>
- Eric, an acolyte (1st level Cleric) of the Church.<br>
- Merd, a knecht (1st level Paladin) of the Church.<br>
- Rebecca, an astrologer (1st level Wizard) from Cordova who is allowed to<br>
travel because of his scholarship.<br>
- Rainer, a guide (1st level Rogue) from Hleri (Leer) who has knowledge of<br>
the Frisian lands.<br>
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Charlemagne and the Franks<br>
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Your King!<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Charlemagne</a><br>
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And this is the mighty Empire, and indeed what it will become (unless you<br>
break things)<br>
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<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Frankish_Empire_481_to_814-en.svg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://upload.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wikipedia/commons/1/16/<wbr>Frankish_Empire_481_to_814-en.<wbr>svg</a><br>
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The heartland is Austrasia and the Charlemagne was coronated at Aachen.<br>
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The most important legal code is Salic Law<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Salic_law</a><br>
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Oh, and this is the Pope<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_I" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Pope_Adrian_I</a><br>
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Languages<br>
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A character's language skills, both spoken and written, are a function of<br>
their intelligence.<br>
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All the languages in the region are West Germanic. That means all<br>
character can understand each other with a -2 modifier to INT at worst.<br>
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The Ingvaeonic languages (Old Frisian, Old English, Saxon) are related to<br>
each other with a -1 modifier.<br>
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The Istvaeones language (Frankish) will eventually become Old Dutch (yes,<br>
arguably Charlemagne is Dutch or Belgian)<br>
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Outside these groups there is:<br>
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The Irminones language (Elbe) and Old Norse which is related to the West<br>
Germanic with a -4 modifier.<br>
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Vulgar Latin (also known as Sermo Vulgaris, or "common speech"). This is<br>
the most common language of the people of western Europe. Among the<br>
western Franks however is already being significantly transformed by<br>
Frankish words and will become Old French. Even know the Franks understand<br>
Latin with a -4 modifier to INT, and vice-versa (unless of course, the<br>
speaker has Frankish)<br>
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Religion<br>
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The primary religion in Roman Catholic Christianity, although the degree<br>
that this followed is imperfect at best. In the countryside, as the name<br>
implies, many are "pagans", associating themselves with local<br>
superstitions. Germanic aboriginal polytheistic paganism is in direct<br>
conflict with the Christianisation of the area, and is pushing in an<br>
eastwards direction into the Saxon lands. In addition there are many<br>
monuments to Roman and Celtic polytheism.<br>
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There are small populations of Jews in the region who do their very best<br>
to keep to themselves (and, indeed, they have to). They are barely<br>
tolerated at best and for any excuse the "Christ killers" will be<br>
targetted.<br>
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Gender roles are designed and enforced by religious edict. Those who don't<br>
follow them will be treated with suspicion, at best, and heresy at worst.<br>
Broadly speaking, the pagans are somewhat more tolerant of women taking<br>
public roles.<br>
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--<br>
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech<br>
Mngmnt) (Chifley)<br>
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