A long time ago....a race of barbaric people arrived on the shores of this land. They were led by a War Chief named Zaetelle, it was called their promised Land and also called a frozen waste. They were in fact called The frozen wastes of Alanthriux. These wastes were large. Easily larger than the other kingdoms on the continent. The lands of Alanthriux were cold, dangerous and very harsh. The terrible lands were only inhabited by the largest of beasts, only the strongest that could survive the frozen hell. It was such a horrible place, none but the Mandarian people dared to settle there when landing on this continent of Alencia. They chose to settle there, around the largest mountain on the world. It had no name until the Mandarians arrived. They named it Bardock Torune. Which meant Warrior Mountain. For 100 years tribes of Mandarians would travel the wastes, both to test their strength and mettle against the terrain and monsters; and also to map all of the frozen wastes for their War Chief.
They never left the wastes, however, so the Kingdoms outside the border of the wastes made up of mountain ranges, never took an interest in them. When their War Chief died, battling Ice Drakes, he killed a dozen before they finished him off at the age of 133. He lived a long honorable life.
But it was his son, Zaruxelle, who led the Mandarians into a time of enlightenment. In his 100 years of service he fully united all Mandarians into a single clan serving under him as War Chief. He fully developed the maps and announced to the other Kingdoms that the frozen wastes of Alanthriux was now the Kingdom of Alanthriux of the Mandarian people.
This was the first part of discomfort between Zaruxelle and the rulers of the other kingdoms. He also discovered that some of his mountains held gold, silver, precious gems and Iron as well as copper. He used all of these resources to increase his influence as well as improve the overall quality and strength of this new kingdom. A golden age for them had emerged.
This of course angered the other Kingdoms because they had given up on those mountains and frozen wastes as useless and a waste of time. They began to make claims on the mountains which were clearing within the borders of the Mandarian people. When those Kingdoms began sending mining crews illegally into Mandarian territory for the mountains, the Mandarian warriors slaughtered and raped all of the workers. The other nations were obviously appalled and almost declared war. But the Mandarian people were warriors from birth and had spent almost 200 years adapting to the snow and the terrain and now had steel for their weapons and armor. They had to face it, the Mandarians were no longer mindless unorganized barbarians. It was the second time tensions rose between nations.
Then War Chief Zaruxelle officially named them a kingdom and named himself King. The other nations were worried about this and didn't agree. Even his own people were nervous about losing their roots and traditions. To calm their fears not only did he approve of them continuing their traditions, but also introduced a new war machine. It was called a Cannon.
Secret technology stolen from the most technically efficient Kingdom of Itesru. When the other kingdoms realized that they were producing cannons they had no choice but to invade. But the King was too old to lead his new kingdom into war and instead charged his eldest son, Prince Behrn with the defense of their lands.
When the war began, the Mandarians were against three other kingdoms from all sides, but Prince Behrn and the other Mandarian people were strong. For ever Mandarian death, at least six enemy soldiers went down with them. And the Mandarians had also stationed their new cannons on top of mountain cliffs to fire down at the enemy marching formations. The Mandarians were organized at guerilla style fighting and hit and run techniques. The enemy soldiers couldn't face the cold of their land or the monsters that resided within them and after a few short years they surrendered to the Mandarians.
The Mandarian people cheered and their morale sky rocketed. They refused to leave their frozen stronghold lands of Alanthriux but threatened to take their cannons into the enemy kingdoms unless their demands were met. The demands were that each kingdom would issue gold and silver as apology for trying to take the mountains from them. Each Kingdom would also pull any troops or scouts or anyone out of their borders forever. And the final demand, was that for every new King of Mandaria (renamed by Prince Behrn when he became King) the kingdoms would send three princess's to court and marry the next heir of the throne, or king if he was not married and that king or prince would choose which one he wanted. As this was their first tribute, King Behrn took all three princess's as his three wives and had six different children.
King Behrn became very sadistic as he grew older and without any war between his people and an outlet he turned inwards. He raped his first wife before beating her to death for the blood lust. Then he would force his six children to fight to the death until there was a champion, that champion would be the next King. Then he would make that kid kill his own mother.
That one kid was named Marcus...a lame name in his people for the youngest and lamest kid that was existed in the King's family. But this kid had a demon inside him, he was a ferocious fighter with strength far beyond what a small kid of his size should have. He fought and killed his brothers and then with tears in his eyes killed his mother. But...he also killed his father. Marcus killed King Behrn still a middle aged King at the age of 70. He killed his father as a 15 year old boy.
King Marcus of Mandaria was now king and for the next 5 years he erased everything that his father had done, banished the queen who had supported his father and executed anyone possibly loyal to his father. He reset the entire government, and its demands and anything else his father did.
He was planning on subduing a civil war rumor in the northern part of his kingdom when a messenger arrived. "My lord! The three princess's from the three kingdoms will be here within the week. You must be ready to choose one."
(I know its long and rough, but its serious, very dramatic, with some action and some romance. It is mostly a prince/princess role play, or king/princess, or queen/king or whatever you want.)
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