Land, Law and a Kingdom in ruins - A House Rurikrovich AAR

[SirNiven]

This is the tale of House Rurikrovich, my house, my family and the tale of how i and my sons set out to rule over these lands as one. For many long years has my father and their fathers ruled over these lands i call home, a land united by culture, a land ruled by kin.​

Notes:
- The AAR will be written as 'Memoirs' or a personal diary of character that i play.
- Often the character will side track off topic with personal thoughts at the time that will be written down using Italics and the font Comic Sans like so: ' The Night sky is looking rather beautiful '
- Also, The story will start of rather slow as i believe it is good to cover the basic grounds first before really jumping into anything major.

Table of Contents:
- January 1st -1067 - The Year of Change.
- January 2nd -1067 - The Move to Moskva.


OOC - The Story: I will be playing House Rurikrovich, More specifically Duke Vsevolod of Rostov. The AAR is my first and will perhaps span over several generations as it will become much more interesting, the goals including will require me to do so. My aim(s) will be as follows;
- Aim to Unite all the Russian states
- Aim to change the law from Gavelkind to ensure that the lands aren't broken up
- Simply To Survive
- More will follow as the Story unfolds.

[Edit - Literally, Several minutes after writing and posting this, I realise that there is already an AAR based upon the same dynasty and at a later date. I'm unsure wether or not to continue with this despite having spent the last few days drawing up a story and gathering a few pictures to start myself off]

 

[Tarnor]

Just post away. There cannot be enough medieval AARs.

 

[SirNiven]

Upon my fathers death, All he had worked hard for had gone to ruins, amongst his sons his land was divided. I his fourth and favourite Son took too the lands we called Rostov​

' Terrible Castle i much do not like it here, Perhaps i shall move later? '​

Whilst my brothers greedily took whatever they could get their hands on.
Vladimir the First Son took the great lands of Novgorod.
Iziaslav the Second Son took the large lands of Turov and snatched Smolensk.
Sviatoslav the Third Son took the lands of Ryazan.
Then there was me The Fourth and Favourite Son of My Father, The one he wanted to have the largest and greatest of his lands for if it were not for this terrible law that the greedy sons and brothers force upon themselves. I took Rostov but it was all about to change ' If only i had the money for these things, Perhaps i will have to look elsewhere too gather money, it shames me that i must perform such activities, but, what else can i do?, I must make sacrifices to restore the honour of my father. '
The change in the way my life will be, in the way all our lives shall be - for on the day January 1st 1067, The Year of Change.

This here is me, Duke Vsevolod Yaroslavovich Of Rostov but that is all about to change.
I decided that upon this year; I shall have to sacrifice a lot, I shall have to dispose of any who wish to stand in the way of my plans. I am not a tyrant, I am not a despot for i must drop the blood of kin, of wife, of son to ensure the greater good of my realm.

I am much too tired to write on for today as i must attend the feast later on, today has been certainly a life changing one. ' Hm, Perhaps i shall go speak with the cooks about the feast '

 

[LordTempest]

Naturally, you must continue. There have been plenty of German AARs for HoI for instance, doesn't mean that the next German AAR is any less worth telling.

 

[SirNiven]

Thank you for the support here people, I'll continue this AAR.

 

[loki100]

aye, I wouldn't worry about it. Not least it seems as if CK goes in such a variety of directiond depending on what choices you pick

 

[SirNiven]

January 2nd 1067 - The Move to Moskva​

This land holds the key to the new title i have been eying for some time, Duke of Moskva.
The lands are spacious and the castle is the largest in the realm, I shall enjoy my time here and so shall my sons for the Capital shall be Moskva!, I shall be the Duke of Moskva. ' It is rather unfortunate that i haven't enough money for such a thing, I'll look to my brothers to help me with such a thing! '

[[ A few hours later, Our Duke returns to write on in his diary ]]

I have word returned from my brothers that i shall be given a sum of 5000 gold. The smile of which i had on my face was incredible, It does however come with a warning, I ask so much of my brothers that perhaps in due time they shall want this gold back. My plans have drawn much, much closer and i feel that i am already on the first step of many to achieving my goals.
The court shall be having a busy time setting everything up, Its going to be a rather long week as i settle down into my new home.

 

[SirNiven]

This will start of slow and will gradually improve and get more interesting, for time being i'm going to speak of the beginning and how this will all end up playing out.