NationStates Jolt Archive

1000 - The Twenty Five Tribes of The Spizani migrate from the north onto the plains of in the north of modern Spizania, they meet with the Kings of the south and purchase from them the northern plains, they had been poorly populated before hand but were perfect for the Horsemen of Spizani. In return the King of the Greatest Tribe of the Spizani, Eorl swears to come to the aid of the cities of the south should they be attacked. A system of mountaintop beacons is created to carry word to the north.

1050 - King Eorl falls in combat, King Eomer rises to the thrown, his reign will be one of peace in which the Great Hall is added to the palace in Edorian, Eorls body is buried outside Edorian

1130 - King Eomer dies peacefully and is buried outside Edorian in the second mound of the kings. The boy king Eorl II ascends to the thrown, he will reign for almost sixty years

1189 - King Eorl falls in combat at the fords on the eastern edge of the Steppe, battling raiders who had raped the easternmost tribes almost since they had arrived, the second burial mound of the Kings is raised outside the walls of the Spizani city of Edorian. His son Eorl III rises to the throne.

1207 - King Eorl II leads a force of two score thousands across the ford where his father fell in combat and annihalates the Raiders driving them further east.

1235 - King Eorl II answers the call of the south, annihalting an army of raiders who had besieged the greatest city of the South, allthough the enemy is defeated the cities are destroyed and the King is slain. The cities are rebuilt by the surviving peoples. However they are a broken kingdom and they join the Spizani Confederacy as the 25th through 32nd Members. The Current King Theoden Ascends to the throne.


ARMY OF THE SPIZANI CONFEDERACY

Standing Army
100,000 Knights - Lance, Scale Mail armour, Shield Sword
1,000,000 Hoplites - Spear, Hoplon, Short Sword, Leather Cuirass (Southern Cities)
1,000,000 Horseman - Spear, Mail Armour, Javelins or Bows, Swords
100,000 Axmen - Shields and Axes, Mail Armour
100,000 Archers - Swords and Bows, Leather Cuirass

MUSTERABLE ARMY
10,000,000 Horseman
1,000,000 Axemen
500,000 Archers
1,500,000 Hoplites

The Toopish Raider group moved quickly over the Fjords, they had just come from a hefty raid upon a small forest based dwelling, it had been to little avail as all they had picked up from the Hobbits had been a few pointed sticks and a full set of bamboo armour built for a two foot midget, now they had come across somthing tangable, the possibility of an advanced culture, if these peoples were friendly to the Greenskins then they might be able to trade the junk for some actual weapons to use on the battlefield.

The group stopped in the thicket outside a town, the Orc leader did not want to set these people off to unleashing an army upon the Raiders so he sent out a small Grobble with a note written in the little Latin that they had been taught by the Toopish Linguists, if the note was translated it would read;

"We are the Toop of the Golden lands, we would like to trade supplies and weapons with you, what say you?"

With little more the little green midget was booted out of the thicket and towards the town.

(OOC: ten points if you can get the link to my puppet master)

"We accept your offer, what have you to trade? We have several hundred spears and sets of armour"

With the response the Raiders moved out of cover and joined the Grobble, four more Grobbles loaded with sacks of weapons, silk and other junk also came forward.

"We have Items from all over the White Lands, the finest in weapons, silks and the occasional fine object, we would be interested in looking over your weapons and armour, do you happen to have the mythical Gunpowder?"

From the first account of the pistols in the lands of Kirisubo word of the substance gunpowder had become legend amongst the Toop, they now believed that it had the power to wipe out civilisations in the swift strike of a finger.

"We do have some gunpowder, we could trade you a cartload of it, we do not use it ourselves as our army is to mobile to use it properly and we use high quality bows which offer similar performance. Along with that we could offer you five hundred spears and a similar number of high quality steel mail shirts and helmets." As he spoke a few men with samples of the merchandise came out of the blacksmiths "For that we would take all of your silk and some of the weapons, what do you think?"

"That is an excellent deal, we will throw in a few bottles of Toopish Ale to sweeten the deal, we thank you wholly for your great business and we look forward to any future ventures we may have with you."

the Orc handed over the bottles and the Grobbles dropped off their sacks.

"We thank you for teh deal, and look forward to doing further business with you"
The Cartload of Gunpowder arrived and the weapons were loaded onto another two carts.