Section 238 Winter Castle (II)
When Rand and Solomon and others visited Sodra Lord, the lord of Wintercastle, the situation on the Azure Continent of the Kaos plane was fermenting and on the verge of war.
For those border lords, the Church of Light pressured the Saxons to declare them a rebellion.
Under pressure from the Church of Light, the Saxons succumbed and declared them a rebellion, demanding immediate surrender.
Surprisingly, the border lords did not buy it, claiming that the royal family had been manipulated by the Church.
At this time, Titania, Asturias, and Aurora completed the preliminary formation of the rock crystal and metal community at a very fast speed, and formed a community committee, including Rand's grandfather Jimenez.
At the same time, the three countries sent envoys to Saxons to jointly condemn the Saxons for succumbing to the pressure of the Church of Light, and to stop the behavior of Arcane Skynet from being backward, barbaric, uncivilized, and against the tide of history, and suggested that the Saxons abandon the **** system and follow the example of the Three Kingdoms to establish an imperial parliament to decentralize power.
Annoyed by the "persuasion" of the Three Kingdoms, the Saxons decided to send a group of kingdom troops to join forces with the Church of Light to suppress the rebellious lords, and responded to the Three Kingdoms, saying that this was their own internal affair and did not need the Three Kingdoms to dictate.
However, at the beginning of the war, the Saxons did not go well, and their army attacked the lord of one of the lords, but could not be captured, and then was forced back by reinforcements from several other lords.
The reason for this is that the Arcane Skynet can already be used in the territories of these lords to a limited extent, through the Arcane Skynet, not only are there dozens of times more mages under the lords, but with the assistance of the Skynet Management Company, any of them can use the Arcane Skynet to contact other lords in time.
Of course this assists. Later, Skynet Management Company found out that it was not necessary at all. Because it is only necessary to open up a special section for a few lords in the spiritual space of the Arcane Skynet. Any lord is attacked, as long as you leave a message on it, other lords can react in time when they see it on it.
This information asymmetry makes it basically impossible for Saxons to hide their targets.
And the armies of several lords were inexplicably inflated and well-armed, with a large number of new muskets, and some troops claiming to be volunteers or mercenary regiments mixed in with their armies.
The outcome of the battle was infuriating, but the Saxons became ambiguous. Because they have already seen that these lords definitely did not only receive verbal solidarity from the Three Kingdoms, but received a lot of material help, and there was an arcane Skynet, unless the war was escalated, but the war escalated, they didn't know what the result would be.
After the victory of these lords in the first battle, their confidence was greatly boosted, and they shouted the slogan of eliminating the Church of Light and realizing democracy and freedom.
Asturias and other countries also again "suggested" to the Saxons to stop religious interference in politics and convene an imperial parliament. Stop the war with the border lords and make peace.
The Saxon royal family suddenly became a rat in the bellows. Dilemma, in fact, as a royal family, although they don't like the imperial parliament proposed by the Three Kingdoms, this is also weakening the power of the royal family, but starting from Asturias, Titania and Aurora have embarked on this path in the past few decades. Titania since the death of the first king Sauron, after the succession of the eldest prince Tristan, the political ability is quite strong, but in terms of authority and strength is not comparable with Sauron, and his succession was also challenged by the second prince, and finally had to turn the rudder in the Ambergris War to sit on, it needs the support of many people, so it had to agree to convene the Imperial Assembly and grant the parliament legislative power, but the legacy left by Sauron is still there, and Tristan's royal power is actually more concentrated than the power of the current Asturian royal family; , and finally forced the emergence of a parliament in the country, but the composition of the aristocratic parliament is larger, because the traditional nobles in the north still occupy nearly half of the entire parliament, and the southern aristocracy accounts for nearly half of the remaining half of the parliamentarians, so the members of the traditional aristocracy account for two-thirds of the entire parliament, and only one-third are representatives of the emerging classes in the north and south, this ratio makes it impossible to establish the upper and lower councils, and those traditional nobles want to stay in the upper parliament, thinking that they are taller, and the lower parliament will face insufficient numbers, but the nobles and the royal family do not agree to expand the proportion of the emerging class in the parliament, so that such a strange parliament was formed, and in the end it had to distinguish between the upper and lower parliaments without following the example of Asturias.
But all this did not prevent the three countries from jointly making proposals to the Saxons and pushing them towards democracy and freedom.
In the face of the pressure of the Three Kingdoms, the Saxon royal family resolutely threw the charcoal round to the Church of Light, they were angry at the disguised interference in the internal affairs of the Three Kingdoms, but the Saxon nobles did not like the control of the Church of Light, but no matter how they resisted for many years, they had not succeeded, and any king who wanted to sit firmly on the throne must cooperate with the Church of Light.
Seeing that the situation had become like this, the Church of Light also issued a holy war order, asking believers in all nations to gather to help the church.
As a result, fanatical believers in the countries rushed to the Holy See to participate in the apologetic movement, and the countries also pointed the finger at the Church of Light, demanding that the Church give up its interference in politics and obey secular laws.
When the Home War was on the verge of breaking out, Rand and Solomon lived a leisurely life in Bethesda.
The Jimenez family has decided to trade with Wintercastle as a starting point, with the first goal being to target the entire Skyrim Province.
In addition to Winterholder, Skyrim Province also includes Hafengar, Yar's Border, White Land, East, Rift, The eight city lords of the Snow Man, the Phocles and the Ruichi Empire used to have their own lords during the Elven Empire, and they were once sent by the empire to a big lord during the First Empire, and they had the power to manage the entire Skyrim Province, but later during the Septine Empire, the big lord system was abolished, and it became the sole management of each lord again, including the famous Wolfheart Queen family, who even in the First Empire had a firm grasp of the most important city in the Skyrim Province, and they could also be called the power of the lonely city with the status of the capital.
This is the case in Skyrim Province. If it is extended to the mainland. Most of the continent of Tamriel is still under the rule of the Maid Empire. At least nominally, with the exception of the Summer Twilight Islands and Morrowind, Morrowind has fallen due to the rebellion of the combined forces of the wild elves and the dark elves, and not only has the rule of the Terrans been nullified, but even the forest elves have been driven out of the forest there and returned to the dark elves.
However, in addition to these two places and Skyrim Province, there are also the provinces of Sailodil, High Rock, Falling Hammer, Ilsvi, and Valensen.
Among them, the province of Cellotil has been the center of the entire continent since the time of the First Empire. Perhaps history can even go back to the heyday of the elves.
Ilsvi Province is the place where the orcs live the most, and there are orcs in this plane, but the characteristics of the orcs in this plane are closer to beasts, and sometimes it looks like a beast walking upright in the past, and wearing clothes, compared to the Orcs of Keos, the degree of beast is deeper, and there are not too many types of orcs, Ilsvi Province is the area with the most orcs in the empire, and more than half of them are tiger tribes.
This tribe is similar to Taggo, but it is two circles smaller in appearance, and their strength is not as strong as Taggo. The monomer is only about the same as Wolfe.
There are snake people similar to the Srek in the Black Marsh Province, but there are not too many of them. The character is not brutal. But according to the books, there are more snake tribes on another continent of Akavir, and they have united with other alien races to overthrow the rule of the Terrans on that continent and regard the Terrans as food, which is terrifying, but there is only so much information about Akavir, after all, it is far away, and the alien races there have obviously rejected the Terrans, so there is nothing to hear.
Valensen Province is the home of the forest elves who were driven away by the wild elves, and the Valen forest is very famous there, and after the forest elves were driven out in Morrowind, a large number of forest elves had to return home.
There are dwarven tribes in High Rock Province, and Sodra had advised Rand to sell iron products to High Rock Province, which was not an easy task, because the iron products there were occupied by the dwarven tribes for both domestic and military purposes.
This is the general geography of the continent, as well as the historical situation.
Rand and Solomon sent back the information obtained by the Jimenez family through trade expansion every day in various forms, sometimes in the form of special reports, sometimes in the form of diaries.
In addition to this, it is also important to organize information about the history of this continent, and fortunately the books I got from Sodra are very helpful, although there are not necessarily very detailed things on them, but even a rough one can guide the way.
Solomon faithfully carried out his role as a travel writer and scholar, and showed great willingness to help organize the material that he said would help him write his next work.
A month later, Tamriel's general historical clues were compiled into a special report and sent back to Asturias.
In addition to the distant reign of the elves, the First Empire, also known as the Alician Dynasty, began with the establishment of an empire by the Terrans, whose emperors always claimed to be descendants of the dragons, and they established a belief in the eight gods and a senate system, the latter being an important auxiliary to the king, and when the royal power was not visible, the senate was very likely to control the government.
The period of the Second Empire was the period of the Septine Empire, and legend has it that it was an era of heroes, and in the eyes of outsiders like Solomon, some of their legendary heroes in this era are roughly equivalent to quasi-legends and legends.
Strictly speaking, most of the strength of these legendary heroes is quasi-legendary level, and some are new to the realm of legends.
And one thing Solomon noticed was that these so-called legendary heroes died relatively early, and most of them didn't even have time to pass on their skills.
This has led to the formation of a strange phenomenon in this world, that is, in terms of the number of legends and quasi-legends, this plane does not seem to be many, of course, this does not mean that the strength of this plane does not make people jealous and vigilant.
Because judging from the books provided by Sodra and the observation opportunity that began with trade, although the orcs here are weaker than the orcs of Keos, the human race here is generally stronger than the quality of Keos in terms of physical fitness, and ordinary adults have the level equivalent to first-order creatures, and the human race of the Keos plane is not guaranteed to reach their physical fitness after decades of development, and the Nords among them are also the human races of Skyrim Province, their physical fitness is even stronger, and they generally reach the conditions of second-order creatures, which is also one of the reasons why the current Third Reich Meide Empire can establish rule after the fall of the Saiptin Empire, Because the first king of the Maid Empire was from Skyrim Province, and the troops he started with were all Nords, it is conceivable that this army was not inferior to other tribes in terms of hard power, coupled with excellent command and militarized organization, it is natural to achieve victory.
However, after Maider's death, the empire also tended to be weak and compromised, and the senate quarreled all day long, and no one took the little emperor seriously. There was also an incident in which a certain patriarch was assassinated before, and it is conceivable that the internal contradictions of this empire are also extremely serious.
The internal unity is not consistent, so it is also powerless externally, so that the province of Morrowind was jointly attacked by the wild elves and the black elves, and now the empire is urgently responding, because if it can't stop the attack of the elven united army, maybe other places will follow the same.
From the point of view of the power structure, it is quite common for this continent to form a low-level warrior, but it lacks the strange situation of legendary powerhouses, of course, not that there is absolutely none, but compared to the Kaos plane, the number is small.
Such a situation seems very strange, and Rand is both conflicted and strange in his heart.
The contradiction is that he knows that if this information is correct, it will only make the local area more interested here.
Because the information obtained here shows that the resources are very abundant, which meets the standards of the gold-level plane, if the strength is not strong enough, the local land will definitely not mind using force to bring better conditions for itself in addition to trade.
Oddly enough, in terms of resources, this is more than any plane that has been explored before, but why is there an imbalance in power, which should not be.
Because as a gold-level plane, the resources are abundant to a certain extent, and it will naturally breed a strong enough or civilization, which is the inevitable of the plane order, just like the natural defense mechanism of living beings, the strong and the rich coexist, otherwise there is no way to protect the plane itself.
Like the Kaos plane, in history and now, there are many strong people.
And now, due to the development of magic research, in the scale battle of middle and low-level creatures, the invention of muskets and source guns has changed the contrast between the strength of middle and low-level creatures, but they are still very important in the field of the strong, even if it has now developed to the extent that the source force gun can threaten the life of the legendary powerhouse, but the number of legendary powerhouses in a plane can also see the power of this plane.
Of course, there is another extreme case, which is the lack of abnormally powerful creatures, but the proportion of mid- and high-level creatures is flattened.
Generally, the plane power structure is pyramid-shaped, and the higher you go, the less it is, and if it is flattened, it is a more extreme situation. However, this situation is not uncommon, like the black rock plane, it is very strange that only dwarves are there, of course, it is only a black iron level plane, which is extremely backward.
It is puzzling that this is the case in this plane, but after Solomon took the book of myths and legends and read it carefully, he may have found the answer. (To be continued.) )