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Episode: One Equal Temper

Posted by Story on 06/14/20
And with that expansion into the formerly unclaimed Saffron Chain came the danger of a new war. House Pravus attacked holdings by slavers from the Dune Kingdom of Skal'daja, a powerful city-state in Eurus. In turn, a powerful fleet was dispatched by Skal'daja to 'chasten' the Arvani, sailing towards the duchy of Sungreet in the Mourning Isles, the holding of House Helianthus. Helianthus, staunch traditionalists that had long been critical of the changes in the Compact and sought to slow and undermine those changes, offered safe passage and welcome to the Eurusi as fleets of the Compact led by the Faith's templars went to meet them, with a hope for peace but ready for war.

Peace was not to be, with the Battle of Sungreet seeing a thrall rebellion encouraged by the Faith's Liberators, House Helianthus suffering a schism as the Duke's son allied with the Faith, and the Eurusi landing and inflicting catastrophic losses upon the templars' forces only to be driven off in turn by other Eurusi swayed to support the Compact.

Duke Ivan Helianthus fled along with two thirds of the Eurusi fleet, presumably to attack House Pravus' holdings in the Saffron Chain, and leaving a bloodied and battered army of the Faith in control of Sungreet. A proclamation written by Duke Ivan arrived in Arx, denouncing the Compact's changes and challenging the noble houses over their acceptance of prodigals, neo-nobles, changes to the Faith, addition of a great house and abolishment of thralldom. He called upon the houses of the Compact to rise up and reject all those who embrace change, and spoke of rallying to a new banner. He wrote that the king of two decades ago, King Alaric Grayson III, was still alive and in Eurus as its Dune Emperor- and that warlord was now coming to Arvum to reclaim his throne from his son.

It will be a time of change and choices, and one that will test the temper of the Compact itself.