There have been a
number of interesting reviews of things Hill Cantons popping up here
and there as I finish up the last pages of the last installment in
the SUD series, What Ho Frog Demons. John Bell of Retired
Adventurer blog fame did a rather nice (and first) overview of all of the published products and the context of the Hill Cantons as a setting. Needles of Swords & Stitchery ran through some
interesting usages of the recently released Misty Isles of theEld. And here's a nice, long video review of the Dunes themselves.
And Now the News from the Hill
Cantons...
The ritual words have been intoned this
most dolorous of days:
“Cover the sun dials, cut off the
herald, prevent the pelgranes from hooting with a juicy bone. Silence
the balalaika and with muffled drum, bring out the golden coffin,
let the mourners come.”
Our dear Overking, Raginmud LVII
“the Effervescent”, alas has been called to the all-consuming
fiery orgasm of the Sun Lord. For the next month all residents of our
realm – on pain of spoken poetry and mutilation – are required to
follow the sumptuary dictates of the Orichalcum Bull: the dyeing of
all exposed skin black, the donning of mustard-yellow sackcloth robes
and the wearing of the four-cornered hat of mourning (tassels
optional).
And so the great political succession
game of the Bull begins. Leading heirs to be considered by the 27
Elector-Lords Temporal, Spiritual and Arcane are reported to be:
1. Uberduke Heimlic of Popradu,
the Ragimund's 11th (legtimized) son and leader of the
Steeplejacker royal party whose program includes aggressive expansion
of the corelands, heavy regulation/taxation of the casting of spells
greater than that of the second rank, returning to the platinum
standard and a moderately liberal social policy on inter-species
amorous activity (with a sub-plank recognizing dirt-gnome
life-partnership).
2. Wildgraf Bodegast the Teal,
Ragimund's youngest brother and now presumptive head of the
Grimbibber party whose program is ostensibly secret but said to
include strict fiscal discipline and an ambitious program entitled An
End to All Things.
3. Under-Prince
Yohann-Pavol Legitimus, the sole issue of Ragimund and his
Queen-Consort. The decadent and quite aged prince has been reportedly
press-ganged into service as head of the of the ad hoc Lisping Norker
noble coalition whose stated policy seeks to change “nothing about
the world but the sheets on the royal bed.”
4. Koza the Regimental Goat of
the Great Nemec Company of the Black Army. It is unclear what this
seemingly immortal goat's political positions are—and which group
of Elector-Lords sponsored him. A clear favorite among the common
class.
Meanwhile in lesser news, 49,000
residents of eastern Maarb were said to have been killed in a
earthquake in that Southlands country yesterday.
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