>>5935024>>5935059>>5935062>>5935082>>5935085>>5935111>>5935226>>5935242The Rex, his army having taken control of the capital, forces an unconditional surrender from the remainder of the now-dead Emperor's troops. With sufficient proof, he sends out a contingent of soldiers and scouts to head southeast to Chullum in order to force them to stand down with the news of the Emperor's death. The Rex plans on visiting them soon enough, as well as the great old mage's home settlement of Eseryx. The Rex makes it clear to his soldiers that they are not to harm the people of this city, nor intrude upon any of their homes or take a single belonging. The enemy was the Emperor, who is now dead, and the people will not suffer under the Rex's rule as they did under his.
Firstly, however, the Rex calls for a grand assembly of the most prominent families of the city, as well as anyone else who can fit into the largest open center, and stands upon a collapsed statue of the Emperor. Here, with the great dragon Avitus behind him, he delivers a grand and rousing speech proclaiming the holdings of the west now under the control of the east and its peoples. The people here are not to be slaves, for that was the way of the Emperor. Now, they will be equals, subject to the same rights and privileges as any citizen of Anguia, Sylvia or Taurica.
The Rex takes this moment to proclaim himself as Rex-Imperator, and all who shall follow in his office shall be known as such; a symbolic gesture of the repurposing of both the Emperor's former lands and title.
A new governorship shall be established over these territories, with each ruled by a new badge of office: the Dux. Collaboration between the west and the east will be significant; advisors, mages, and sages will be send from the east to learn from the west, and from the west to learn from the east. Our knowledge will become their knowledge, and their knowledge will become ours. The best and brightest of both will experience a new age of prosperous growth in matters both physical and intellectual.
The newly-christened Rex-Imperator plans on installing the old mage as the temporary Dux of the west, and his family is to be given a prominent place in the western society due to his loyalty and assistance in ending this conflict as well as he did.
There are more details to be ironed out; religion, culture, and other things, but for the time being he leaves the speech on the hopeful note of looking forward to the future; now, the east and the west will become one, and our children shall not know war between brothers.
