>>5935614>>5935616>Also as a question, what are the casualties on our side?We lost about 14,000 troops; scouts, warriors, warrior-priests, royal guard, etc.
>How much of the Royal Guard is left?389
>>5935641>>5935700>>5935716>>5935744>>5935886>>5936334The Rex-Imperator, having completed his tour of the lands, returns with his army, leaving enough trusted soldiers behind to maintain the region in the interim. Though casualties were suffered on the campaign, the bulk of the army survived. Along with the eggs of wyverns, he returns to his homeland.
Upon the triumphant return to Anguia and informing them of what has occurred, he now wishes to see his supposed cousin. Within the palace, he meets with the cousin, and notes their similarities; indeed he looks as though the son of his father's brother. The man himself comes across as humble, seemingly one who never desired for greatness or expected to belong to such a prominent bloodline.
Here, the Rex-Imperator meets the family of the great mage, including his eldest daughter, a lovely young woman of great magical aptitude. She expresses her absolute gratitude towards him for saving her family and keeping her father safe, and liberating her people from the Emperor, and is very much willing to enter into talks regarding the relationship between the west and the east.
It is here also that the Rex-Imperator's betrothed wife reunites with him, clinging closely to him at all times so as to keep the sorceress and the mage's daughter at bay.
While he means his cousin no offense, the Rex-Imperator asks to have his blood tested using the methods developed to discover the demonic infiltrators in ages past. The cousin agrees, and submits his blood to the test. It burns true; he is not a demon, nor has demonic influence within his blood.
The people celebrate in the streets, but in council chambers there are rumblings of discontent. Some are upset at the Rex taking the opportunity to build a cult of personality around himself due to the conquest, particularly in solidifying his power with the new Imperator title. Management of this newly-conquered west presents several challenges to offset the potential gains. The west was already on the verge of a ruinous situation in regards to its overpopulation, and some worry that we have only inherited a significant problem.
We have established that there shall be oversight from our civilization on the western settlements in the form of a new Dux badge of office, but what aid shall we send them during this time? Shall we send food to keep the population temporarily fed until new settlements can be made (possibly with a player action) later in the age? What of military concerns, or supply line safety? The west is far from the east, about as far away from our four settlements as Sylvia is from Taurica, our most northern and southern settlements in the east.
What further reactions do we have, or what else would we like to establish in regards to the west?
