Noble Progression Story Flashpoints Of The Archipelago V

• House Peirgarten successfully reveals that the letters incriminating Rodrigo are fakes, but this does not affect the fervor in the slightest. When Rodrigo is once again released, the people still continue to riot against the tyranny inflicted on them, citing: “It doesn’t matter if he skinned them, ate them, or tossed them in a grave, my son is still dead!”
• House Peirgarten’s diplomatic overtures with the Genevaud Cantons and the Hinterlands Duchy are fruitless, them having strongly favored House von Drachenburg’s politics. They do however open the door and say they are willing to accept a 40,000 Regals (each) payment for security investments, which is essentially just a fancier bribe.
• House Black instructs all its fabric producers to start producing non-colored cloth, which would have been an excellent way to reduce the impact of the dye embargo, were it not for two factors. First of all, the dye embargo ended when House Black issued this change, meaning they were now the only ones producing white cloth as opposed to colored cloth everywhere else. Secondly, given that the Girobalda shipyards were embargoed by the state, the price of sail cloth crashed also, meaning that House Black now had no way to deposit their excess white cloth. They are the only state still negatively affected by the Finance MInister’s Dye Tariff.
• House Delmotte tries to emulate House Typhonus in paying the difference of wages for their troops, but ends up making an oopsie miscalulation for the costs, and only ends up paying 6%, not 20%. They furthermore make an investment in their domestic stability, which pays off to a degree.
• House Drachenwald ends up raising the prices of timber and ships, but this is wholly ineffective in causing any outcome, given the embargo on House Anahera. House Anahera incidentally also produced these products themselves, so House Drachenwald achieves nothing.
• House Typhonus spends some time negotiating with the Calemberg Margraves, who have a pretty strong position: Give us more investments and we’ll see to forming a compact against the Velheimer aggressors. House Typhonus furthermore also pays for more troop wages.
• The Regalian State backs a statewide monopoly for Dyes in the Vicii Republic, thus banning the Coivra County of ever producing dye (and indeed any other nation in the Archipelago). The Tariff on dyes is also immediately revoked, and the Montania/Vultarin region falls in line with state taxation.
• House Yaotl makes a large expenditure for political stability, which succeeds moderately.
• The Aristocrats respond in a somewhat incohesive manner to the Finance Minister’s proclamations. A part of the more radical group take offense to the tone and legal threat issued by the Finance Minister against what they perceive as their free right to decide what to buy and what not to buy, reiterating that the State cannot force the merchants to buy merchandise if they do not want to support the bank accounts of morally corrupt politicians, and that choosing not to buy from a state which does not pay taxes on those commerce does not constitute sabotage of state. The Aristocrats then galvanize in feeling offended, and issue an embargo to the state’s commerce also, exercising their right to simply stop buying produce from the state’s stockpiles, which lowers state income by 10,000 Regals.
• Viduggla attempts to court the philosopher again but fails (because it was a random 1 turn event thing, the benefit has already been extracted, you cannot try a second or third time). House Viduggla then announces to the Faith Lost principle Old Gods worshipers that atheist is fine, as long as they do not propagandize their atheism. With that in mind, House Viduggla has essentially become the first nation in the Archipelago to legalize Atheism and Agnosticism of any degree.
• House Tyrannian attempts to bail out their merchants, but the money essentially just disappears into a rabbit hole, because there still is a lack of sales and stockpiles just keep increasing with businesses going into red. It does however provide a small gesture of political support.
• Hengest Harhold manages to get an insider, one of the Barons from Swinnigh who supports his war on the bonfires of vanity to agree to a bribe of 20,000 Regals worth of gems, to relieve the city’s siege by providing to Harhold’s strange demand of birds from the city. The city catches the birds and sends them to Harhold to try and break the siege under the promises of the Baron that the city could be spared from looting. Instead, Harhold ties sulphur bags to the birds and sets them alight, sending a blaze of fire birds to the city and setting it ablaze. By the time that the city opens its gates in an attempt to get help, the majority of the city is already ablaze, and carts upon carts of refugees flee south. The traitor Baron who supported Harhold’s cause returns to Harhold in great anger, throwing the gems back in his face, and berating him for being a cruel honorless dog. While the city obviously falls, the economic value of the region sinks to due its destruction, and fervor against the vileness of vanity increase military morale in the baronies, resulting in mass-recruitment of willing soldiers who now believe Harhold is willing to torch any settlement he comes across.
• The Finance Minister embargoes the entirety of the Anahera Cabal, banning all their products from being sold in the Archipelago. This has numerous outcomes:
  • It seems to not affect the Anahera bank all that much, since most of their money comes from a royally backed monopoly on opiates, which are shipped and produced in Daendroc under plantations run by local producers from which the Anaheras derive royalties.
  • With the Girobaldan shipyards, the largest in the Empire, being now blocked from production orders, the Regalian navy no longer produces stockpiles of maintenance goods, and all outstanding orders for new ships are cancelled, causing an outpouring of complaints from the admiralty to the state government.
  • The Anahera Cabal instead (after state enforcers of the embargo being military vessels, get testy by shooting their cannons of the sides of merchant vessels who try to break the embargo) starts mass-producing warships for itself, stockpiling the resources intended for the state.
  • The Coivra County starts descending into economic turmoil, with local riots calling for the return of the Sastra family that was ousted some years back.
  • As a result of the state enforcing its taxation standard with arms, numerous states start stockpiling weapons, most notably nearly all states who are not currently paying taxes, but also several states who are paying taxes too little, and some who border these nations.
  • The Anahera Cabal announces that the State has one chance to rescind on its hostile actions, as the Anahera Cabal is willing to pay 100,000 Regals as a one time sum for both itself and the Coivra County, and then start paying the legally required taxes, to get the embargo lifted. The Anahera Cabal threatens that if the state does not acquiesce, that it will see the state’s hostile actions to its sovereign citizens as a formal declaration of hostilities, and a violation of the state’s federal protection obligations, thus nullifying the validity of the state’s authority over the archipelago’s federal subjects. Essentially: The Anahera Cabal is claiming that if the State will not take the offered deal, that the State loses its mandate to rule, and that the Regalian State for all intents and purposes ceases to exist from a legal standpoint. This sentiment is not outwardly expressed by some of the Velheim states that aren’t paying taxes yet, but between the lines, their agreement with the concept galvanizes, because they feel the state still hasn’t compensated them for the burning of the north, and continues to flaunt disregard for Velheim rights and status in the Empire.
  • Similarly, the Counts of Thessaly and the Hellatian City States send a lot of whiny letters to the State and the Finance Ministry that the State was notified of their request weeks ago, and they have yet to be acquiesced, and that they are now essentially concerned that the state is just waiting to burn down the Anahera before they start demanding exorbitant tax fines from the smaller nations or use military arms to invade them and demand these sums.
  • All provinces producing weapons and coal experience an economic boom because of the rapid militarization of numerous states.
• Lutherstadt experiences an advancement of industries, developing a particular kind of weave that strongly reduces the manpower required to operate their cloth industries, greatly increasing their income.
• Independently in Velmark in the Northland Confederacy and in Adrinne in Vultaro, two different astronomers predict catastrophe to strike the Empire somewhere in the near distant future from the sky, observing strange patterns and habits of the celestial bodies.
• In the Genevaud Cantons, one of the local Canton nobles is gathering power in the councils, and clearly has some sort of motivation or ambition to establish a stronger aristiocratic rule in Genevaud, perhaps even try overthrowing the local Syndicates to establish a feudal County.
• An assassination occurs of a local Baron who serves under Leufred du Briërust in Tirgunn. The man is killed by being thrown from the balcony of his estate, while the other Barons turn very silent about the situation.
• A peasant riot occurs in Anglia, reducing the economic throughput of the region. For now, no immediate concern is raised, as long as these riots do not occur too often.