Post by Ladorak on Oct 15, 2008 23:12:59 GMT -5
Rosferia is a nation on a continent among many competitive and growing world powers. Each nation is commanded by a monarch, and each nation has maintained a sort of equilibrium with its neighbors, though wars are frequent over border disputes, rival claimants to a throne, or military alliances.
Rosferia has abundant natural resources and is the most populous nation in all of the continent. It's monarch for a time was thought to have been a beacon of hope for the people, but his involvement in a war cost the nation most of the royal treasury and without any recourse, he assembled together a group from all walks of life to determine the best course of action for the country.
Much to his surprise however, the enormously large lower class declared that they should be running the show from now on, and marched upon the King's palace outside the capital in spite of his call for them to disband. Calling in his soldiers to get them pinned down in the capital, the rebels stormed a prison to obtain weaponry (including artillery) and the King, knowing that the mob outnumbered his units, ordered his units on call to stand down.
Armed with confidence (and weapons!) the mob marched out of the city and once again headed for the King's palace. Rushing through a chance opening in the gate, the King's guards resisted the mob and several were killed, so in order to avoid pointless bloodshed, the King agreed to come with the mob back to the capital and take up residence there.
The mob immediately set about drafting up a constitution for their nation and creating a new form of government, in effect a constitutional monarchy, where the King would preside over their legislative body that they had created. After spending two years cementing things and getting domestic issues under control, the legislative body dissolved itself to give way for actual elections. A new governing body was created, the Legislative Assembly, and they currently preside over the nation with the King as their executive head. The King, for his part, is powerless to do much and agrees to go along with this new set up, and his military is forced in to defending the new government as well, having at it's head a commander who feels sympathy for the revolutionaries and yet is loyal to the King as well. With this balance, the new nation faces it's next greatest challenges......
Meanwhile, other nations watched this revolution unfold with nervous eyes. The Emperor of Kostritz, a neighboring nation, issued a declaration for the new government in Rosferia to disband and reinstate the King or risk military invasion. However, it has decided to not act on its own unless the rest of the continent agrees to support an invasion, and so far only the Kingdom of Gradvar has pledged it's support, and Kostritz knows that unless the powerful nation of Welkin gets involved, any chance of an invasion is hopeless. Kostritz was issuing the declaration mostly to please the Rosferian refugees who had fled the country and demanded their King be reinstated. Kostritz is busy with it's own war against the eastern hordes and cannot at present move against Rosferia.
Welkin, for it's part, is content to sit back and let Rosferia, it's greatest rival, tear itself apart from the inside, though Rosferia is persistent in trying to demonstrate to the rest of the continent that they can survive and will ride out these tumultuous times. The continent has it's eyes upon Rosferia as it's newer government, the Legislative Assembly, takes the field......
Admin's Notes: Yes this does draw from the French Revolution quite a bit. Basically it'll be a furry version of the Napoleonic/Revolutionary era. It's set in the late 18th century, and all existing technology at the time will be observed to be in effect for this RP. Have fun and good luck!
Rosferia has abundant natural resources and is the most populous nation in all of the continent. It's monarch for a time was thought to have been a beacon of hope for the people, but his involvement in a war cost the nation most of the royal treasury and without any recourse, he assembled together a group from all walks of life to determine the best course of action for the country.
Much to his surprise however, the enormously large lower class declared that they should be running the show from now on, and marched upon the King's palace outside the capital in spite of his call for them to disband. Calling in his soldiers to get them pinned down in the capital, the rebels stormed a prison to obtain weaponry (including artillery) and the King, knowing that the mob outnumbered his units, ordered his units on call to stand down.
Armed with confidence (and weapons!) the mob marched out of the city and once again headed for the King's palace. Rushing through a chance opening in the gate, the King's guards resisted the mob and several were killed, so in order to avoid pointless bloodshed, the King agreed to come with the mob back to the capital and take up residence there.
The mob immediately set about drafting up a constitution for their nation and creating a new form of government, in effect a constitutional monarchy, where the King would preside over their legislative body that they had created. After spending two years cementing things and getting domestic issues under control, the legislative body dissolved itself to give way for actual elections. A new governing body was created, the Legislative Assembly, and they currently preside over the nation with the King as their executive head. The King, for his part, is powerless to do much and agrees to go along with this new set up, and his military is forced in to defending the new government as well, having at it's head a commander who feels sympathy for the revolutionaries and yet is loyal to the King as well. With this balance, the new nation faces it's next greatest challenges......
Meanwhile, other nations watched this revolution unfold with nervous eyes. The Emperor of Kostritz, a neighboring nation, issued a declaration for the new government in Rosferia to disband and reinstate the King or risk military invasion. However, it has decided to not act on its own unless the rest of the continent agrees to support an invasion, and so far only the Kingdom of Gradvar has pledged it's support, and Kostritz knows that unless the powerful nation of Welkin gets involved, any chance of an invasion is hopeless. Kostritz was issuing the declaration mostly to please the Rosferian refugees who had fled the country and demanded their King be reinstated. Kostritz is busy with it's own war against the eastern hordes and cannot at present move against Rosferia.
Welkin, for it's part, is content to sit back and let Rosferia, it's greatest rival, tear itself apart from the inside, though Rosferia is persistent in trying to demonstrate to the rest of the continent that they can survive and will ride out these tumultuous times. The continent has it's eyes upon Rosferia as it's newer government, the Legislative Assembly, takes the field......
Admin's Notes: Yes this does draw from the French Revolution quite a bit. Basically it'll be a furry version of the Napoleonic/Revolutionary era. It's set in the late 18th century, and all existing technology at the time will be observed to be in effect for this RP. Have fun and good luck!
