"We the Sivarja family was one of many seeking fame and fortune in the New World as opposed to merely being a mere slave of king and country in their Vespanola homeland; the failed invasion of Bristia had cost Vespanola her high seas fleet. Without it she is unable to project power internationally and many foreign holdings have been lost to lesser European nations who once appeared to be good neighbours content to live under the Vespanolan example.
10 years later the Vespanolan Navy is once again strong, but the rapid rearmament had placed great stress on the nation's economy. Huge naval shipbuilding guilds were created to more rapidly produce the massive lineships; lesser families were simply absorbed into the corporations and forced to lend their labour to the project, or face scorn from both king and their own neighbours who had abandoned tradition without a thought to become barons of considerable wealth; upon gaining the chance to enslave and destroy had done so willingly for mere royal gold.
Unlike many, we stuck to making an honest living as the owner of their humble hometown's blacksmithery. The whole premise of our toil revolved around maintaining the town's standard of living and industrial capability by the provision of metal goods and tools, so when royal couriers "persuaded" us to lend our hand to produce weapons for the King we steadfastly protested for who else would forge shoes for our horses? They told us to expand the smithy by employing labourers from other families, "putting loafers to good use", what uncouth louts.
Such "persuasive" arguments did little to change our ways, and those in power resorted to force to try and get our economy to produce arms for them. Merely asking for the right to coexist with our community as opposed to exploiting it for ambitions we would never understand yielded naught but hostility and jealousy in the successive waves of "diplomats" who first imposed taxes for our "disobedience" and when we sent those unethical bastardos home with tails between their legs they returned the favour by imposing martial law on the town, which did nothing but just continue life as normal - we had no issue with them blaming us for being in their way but to brand innocents for crimes that did not exist was just blasphemy!
This was when the name of Sivarja became known for its skill at arms for a time but to cut a long story short we were able to hold off the lesser barons - most other communities were subdued more easily than us - with our sheer tenacity but against royal troops we stood no chance against their musketeers.
Our town was sacked, enslaved, and today had none of the heritage it possessed. It isn't even on any map today, the massive industrial base that had occupied the spot simply moved on to destroy some other ecology when it had exhausted the resources of wood and iron there.
Of the noble family of 28 who selflessly defended their community from the King's exploitation, only 3 remain, having been secreted away before hostilities began as our last hope if anything happened to us. The other 25 simply "disappeared"...
First daughter Adelina along with siblings Jose and Florence fled to the New World as part of Queen Esparanza's Reconquista efforts. There was no where else to go but start a new life in a new world."
10 years later the Vespanolan Navy is once again strong, but the rapid rearmament had placed great stress on the nation's economy. Huge naval shipbuilding guilds were created to more rapidly produce the massive lineships; lesser families were simply absorbed into the corporations and forced to lend their labour to the project, or face scorn from both king and their own neighbours who had abandoned tradition without a thought to become barons of considerable wealth; upon gaining the chance to enslave and destroy had done so willingly for mere royal gold.
Unlike many, we stuck to making an honest living as the owner of their humble hometown's blacksmithery. The whole premise of our toil revolved around maintaining the town's standard of living and industrial capability by the provision of metal goods and tools, so when royal couriers "persuaded" us to lend our hand to produce weapons for the King we steadfastly protested for who else would forge shoes for our horses? They told us to expand the smithy by employing labourers from other families, "putting loafers to good use", what uncouth louts.
Such "persuasive" arguments did little to change our ways, and those in power resorted to force to try and get our economy to produce arms for them. Merely asking for the right to coexist with our community as opposed to exploiting it for ambitions we would never understand yielded naught but hostility and jealousy in the successive waves of "diplomats" who first imposed taxes for our "disobedience" and when we sent those unethical bastardos home with tails between their legs they returned the favour by imposing martial law on the town, which did nothing but just continue life as normal - we had no issue with them blaming us for being in their way but to brand innocents for crimes that did not exist was just blasphemy!
This was when the name of Sivarja became known for its skill at arms for a time but to cut a long story short we were able to hold off the lesser barons - most other communities were subdued more easily than us - with our sheer tenacity but against royal troops we stood no chance against their musketeers.
Our town was sacked, enslaved, and today had none of the heritage it possessed. It isn't even on any map today, the massive industrial base that had occupied the spot simply moved on to destroy some other ecology when it had exhausted the resources of wood and iron there.
Of the noble family of 28 who selflessly defended their community from the King's exploitation, only 3 remain, having been secreted away before hostilities began as our last hope if anything happened to us. The other 25 simply "disappeared"...
First daughter Adelina along with siblings Jose and Florence fled to the New World as part of Queen Esparanza's Reconquista efforts. There was no where else to go but start a new life in a new world."
From left to right: Musketeer Jose, Elementalist Adelina and Florence the fencer in Reboldeux-Cesario under the employ of the Office of Pioneering Support
- Rosa Sivarja
excerpt from The History of Los Condenados
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