Post by Captain Obvious on Mar 7, 2021 20:14:36 GMT
Development Blog 3
Hello all, and welcome to our third development blog. There is not too much for us to discuss with you this week, rather than to show you instead! Unlike previously, throughout this week we will be trickling lore onto the forums, detailing various different area of lore. Today, we will be showing a short overview of our clan - which we can announce is called Clan Osric! This piece of text will give a teaser to what you can expect throughout the week - including pieces on The Realm of the Kingdom of Balion, An Overview of Calradia and the Balish Culture, Traditions and Beliefs! I hope you enjoy it, and we hope to see you throughout the week.
An Overview of Clan Osric
Once an influential and significant clan within Baelish politics, the death of their chieftain and an amalgam of other unfortunate events have seen the Osric Clan descend into decadence. During the Civil War, their ancestral homeland of Caersburrow fell victim to several small raiding parties made up of Sceaftic Beadurs and Gormagaigh mercenaries, who led a series of raids into the Earldom of Morling during the conflict. Their home was completely destroyed, and they were forced to flee from their homeland South towards the protection of their Baron. Seeing as they were vassals of the Baron of Cumbla, they pleaded for support in reclaiming their homeland, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. This Baron cared little for such small clans, even viewing them as antiquated, a thorn in his side which he ought to be rid of. He would much rather install a loyal subject of his in such abandoned lands, and that he did. He made a loyal courtier of his Baron there, and now the Osric were homeless wanderers.
Osric were of course outraged, but had nought that they could do to change it. After the razing of their village, heartbroken they fled Southward. To the West of Cumbla, the hills of the Earldom of Morling give way to a small cluster of high rock escarpments. These escarpments isolate a small opening which faces the sea of Marn. In this opening can be found a small beach and woods, which is all loomed over by great rock formations. This opening is known as Aranley, and it is here that the Clan of Osric sought refuge. Once the site of an old monastery which is now abandoned, they were alone in this place. They erected a small village, and prayed daily that they would not again see the green sails of the Gormagaigh on the horizon.
The war ended, and although they could hardly bear to realise the fact that they had been stripped of everything, they were thankful for peace. They added to this small village, and named it Faering. In this village they now have a cluster of houses and a small jetty built and although the morale of these disgraced clansmen was low, they yearned to be respected again. They sought to do this through developing this settlement to a level significant enough for the Earl to realise them, at which point they might become vassals. This was their plan until mother nature decided otherwise, with the once arable lands of Morling being hit hard by multiple floods and severe storms, leaving the clan barely scraping starvation the past few years. With their chieftain having also succumbed to illness the past few months, leaving his young child as their head, many in the clan will wonder if the rising tensions between north and south may cause even more hardship on their ever-increasing dire situation.
Osric were of course outraged, but had nought that they could do to change it. After the razing of their village, heartbroken they fled Southward. To the West of Cumbla, the hills of the Earldom of Morling give way to a small cluster of high rock escarpments. These escarpments isolate a small opening which faces the sea of Marn. In this opening can be found a small beach and woods, which is all loomed over by great rock formations. This opening is known as Aranley, and it is here that the Clan of Osric sought refuge. Once the site of an old monastery which is now abandoned, they were alone in this place. They erected a small village, and prayed daily that they would not again see the green sails of the Gormagaigh on the horizon.
The war ended, and although they could hardly bear to realise the fact that they had been stripped of everything, they were thankful for peace. They added to this small village, and named it Faering. In this village they now have a cluster of houses and a small jetty built and although the morale of these disgraced clansmen was low, they yearned to be respected again. They sought to do this through developing this settlement to a level significant enough for the Earl to realise them, at which point they might become vassals. This was their plan until mother nature decided otherwise, with the once arable lands of Morling being hit hard by multiple floods and severe storms, leaving the clan barely scraping starvation the past few years. With their chieftain having also succumbed to illness the past few months, leaving his young child as their head, many in the clan will wonder if the rising tensions between north and south may cause even more hardship on their ever-increasing dire situation.
Map of the Kingdom of Balion - 1290
Credit to keg for the map.
