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Nation Card

Name(If an existing city, use its name): Falkreath Hold

Location(Be very specific if custom): Essentially it holds the same land as in Skyrim, however, it extends only to Helgen in the East, and claims both Throat of the World and Bleak Falls Mountain (and Riverwood inbetween.)

Flag: Deep crimson with a white deer similar to that of the Falkreath flag, surronded by a black outline of a snake eating itself.

Ruler: Jarl Luciun

Type of Rule(Republic, Monarchy, Theocracy, Oligarchy, etc.): Controlled by a council of nobles called The Five, which in turn elects a Jarl from them, who enacts decisions. The four other nobles can veto actions by the Jarl if it is a unanimous decision. The Five are elected by major landholders, who must be male and over sixteen. Only one member of each family can be in The Five. Merchants, craftsmen and peasants have no vote. Individual members of The Five will appoint subordinates (usually family members) to help with administration. Subordinates have to be elegible to vote to be appointed.

Predominant Religion: The Nine Divines

Predominant Race: Nords, although there are significant Imperial and Redguard populations.

Resource(2 max): Timber, and hides.

Special Unit(Only one, unique to your nation): Forest Skrimishers: Essentially peasants who turned to hunting in feed themselves. They are proficient with a bow, mainly in accuracy, although due to the strong military tradition of Falkreath and general hunting, they are strong enough to wield longbows effectively. They serve as excellent light infranty and ambushers, having to catch deer and the like, and carry a handaxe for close quarters. They are well suited to rough terrain and generally aren't affected badly by disorder, however, they are not as effective in an open battle and aren't disciplined.

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Character Card

Name: Jarl Luciun

Race: Nord

Gender: Male

Age: 38

Appearance: Five foot eleven, of average build. He has long black hair which comes to his shoulders, kept neat, and a goatee. His eyes are brown, and his face is thin with pronounced cheekbones and a small, pointy nose. He generally wears the following: purple wool clock lined with wolf fur; a tunic embroidered with so many swirly patterns of gold red and orange that the black cotton beneath is scarcely visible; and white tights.

Equipment: A finely honed elven longsword, and a steel plated buckler made of pine. In battle, he wears a thick coat of welded steel mail, and a somewhat thin ebony cuirass and pauldrons, the cuirass with a small skirt-like feature protecting his groin and upper leg. Over the armour he wears a crimson quilted cotton suit displaying the coat of arms of Falkreath.

Skills(1 Master, 2 Expert, 3 Adept):

Master: Blade/One-Handed

Expert: Heavy armour, Battle Tactics

Adept: Block, Speech, Hunting

Spells(Max 8): None. He believes magic is below him.

Powers(Racial + 1 more max): Charge. When charging upon an enemy, he gains strength and power, enabling him to chage into the line and keep going, breaking up formation. He also delivers a very powerful initial swing and seems to remain in a frenzy for a few minutes after charging.

Personality/Traits(at most 6 traits, must have 2 bad traits):

1. Pride. Luciun firmly believes that those not born to a noble family are below him, and although he doesn't hold contempt for them, he thinks they are like children; they could not, and should not, be trusted with complex decisions. Though he thinks it is unfortunate when a commoner dies, it is merely "unfortunate", and nothing more.

2. Stubbornness. Though he is flexible on the battlefield, and spends a great deal of time deciding his next move, on a strategic level he refuses to change his mind once it's made. He doesn't care if it's virtually impossible to obtain, and will only give it up in extreme circumstances. Even when he does, it is only temporary, and he will go about preparing to seize his objective.

3. Respects the dead. When a noble dies, he insists they be given a heroic send-off, with a great ceremony and the like. Even when a peasant dies, he believes they should be given a proper grave and a decent funeral. He keeps graveyards well-ordered, and is harsh to those who disrespect graves.

4. Generally competent. He understands the needs of the commoners, and tries to supply them, though he views it as being similar to feeding cows. He selects his goals well, even if he sticks to them like a madman, and when he does make a compromise (or is forced into one), he is very shrewd at negotiating terms so as to help him attain his goal. He understands the political machinations of Falkreath well, which is how he became leader in the first place.

Bio: He was born to the House of Ilinalta, which controls much of the fertile farmland around the Lake Ilinalta. This made his family among the most powerful, though due to the requirement that each family has only one member of The Five, it limited its power. Luciun himself was the result of a marriage from a Breton family, and as a result from an early age was exposed to both the politics of Bretons and the warfare of Skyrim. This put him in a unique position, although he was looked down upon by other noble families, and it seemed his younger cousin would become a member of The Five simply because Luciun couldn't get voted in. As a result, Luciun was allowed to explore hunting and other activities that he might not have been able to.

Despite this, Luciun was keenly interested in politics, and when his cousin was elected into the the Five, he was appointed as the Officer of Mercantile. This enabled him to finally take an active role in politics, and because he had spent years studying and at times subtly nudging people into doing what he wanted, he was very good at it. Lucuin made a makeshift alliance with one of the more junior officers in the military in which they would support each other into The Five. The officer would launch various raids blocking caravans entering Riften from Cyrodiil, whilst Luciun decreased the ruinious taxes on merchants and established free trade. This boosted trade massively and as a result the people became richer and government revenue increased. Whilst this was not enough to gain the support of the landowners who would vote for him, because Luciun could take large sums out of the merchant revenue and put it into his pocket, he was able to fund various patrols which ended the plague of bandits on farms and the roads.Luciun made sure everyone knew this, and it increased trade further and enabled him to get elected at the next election when he was thirty.

Since then, Luciun has been keen to control all the trade entering Skyrim through the Jeralls, and is working to control routes from Hammerfell and also control Riften, the other main route into Skyrim from the south.

(TL;DR - You should totally accept this.)