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Overview

Over the past three months, several events have occurred which are of significance to the Empire and may require a response from her champions. You can also read about the progress of the Empire's military campaigns here.

In each case, we've tried to tag the Winds of Fortune entry with the nations, or political bodies, to which it is most relevant. We've done this to help people who are interested only in events that are especially relevant to them. In no way are these tags intended to be exhaustive; the Empire is a complex place and very little happens in isolation.

As always, how much or how little of this information you choose to know in character is up to you. Part of the purpose of Winds of Fortune is to maintain the illusion of the Empire as a living, breathing place where things happen - and to make players aware of things their characters 'should' know based on what their roleplaying says they have been doing for the past three months.

Many winds of fortune open with a short section of in-character text. In all cases, these pieces are intended to help create an atmosphere and provide a little entertainment. Where they contain opinions, those are the opinions of the fictional people depicted - and where they contain information or rumours the assumption is that the reader will create their own context for that information or gossip. They're mostly just a bit of fun and they tend not to contain anything vital to the understanding of the wind of Fortune.

Winds of Fortune

Nothing Great Without Cost

  • Imperial Citizens

The Imperatrix has used her power to address the Empire - to send a personal message to every Imperial citizen. You can read it here.

Mandates

Sixteen mandates were successfully upheld in the Imperial Synod. You can find the details of all the mandates, along with the rest of the Synod judgements, here. As always, these mandates only have an effect if the named priest provides the appropriate amount of liao and emails Profound Decisions.

Some of these mandates will have an effect this downtime; we'll update this page and adjust the Facebook and forum posts to reflect this once we have confirmation a mandate is happening.

Assembly Mandate Priest Outcome WoF
Wintermark The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Rane Sherarding with 50 liao to urge every Wintermark citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
50 liao provided by Rane Sherarding after the Autumn Equinox.
Rane Sherarding Spreads Highborn burden to Wintermark. here.
General The cruelty of slavery has brought the Asavean Archipelago to the brink of open rebellion. We send Franco i Erigo with 25 liao to call on all slaves to break their chains and take up weapons to fight with the people of Maracoss and Empheor to achieve freedom.
Franco i Erigo has chosen not to enact this mandate.
Franco i Erigo With 25 liao, would have encouraged slaves to join rebellion in Asavea. here.
Navarr The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Corey Wayfarer with 25 liao to urge every Navarri citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
25 liao provided by Corey Wayfarer after the Autumn Equinox.
Corey Wayfarer With 25 liao, spreads Highborn burden to Navarr. here.
League The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Astrid Fjellrevening Rezia di Tassato with 50 liao to urge every League citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
50 liao provided by Astrid Fjellrevening Rezia di Tassato after the Autumn Equinox
Astrid Fjellrevening Rezia di Tassato With 50 liao, Spreads Highborn burden to League. here.
Dawn The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Romande Remys with 50 liao to urge every League citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
50 liao provided by Lord Roman Remys after the Autumn Equinox.
Romande Remys Spreads Highborn burden to Dawn. here.
Dawn We, the Troubadours of Dawn, recognise that True Love and True Glory arise from the paths of virtue. Only the truly virtuous can know love, or achieve glory. Where we find a noble who truly embodies Love or Glory we shall name them alongside the champions of the Seven Virtues, and they shall be pre-eminent in their company as inspirations to all who follow Pilgrim's Path. We send the Earl of Fools with 50 doses of liao to spread these words, and the names of Ser Isidore Ossienne and Lord Colwyn de Rondel to all the people of Dawn.
The Earl of Fools provided 50 liao after the Autumn Equinox.
The Earl of Fools Urges the people of Dawn to embrace the champions of Love and Glory. here.
Brass Coast The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Immeldar i Ezmara i Erigo with 50 liao to urge every Freeborn citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
50 liao provided by Immeldar i Ezmara i Erigo after the Autumn Equinox.
Immeldar i Ezmara i Erigo Spreads Highborn burden to Brass Coast. here.
Vigilance The Assembly of Nine have made the only virtuous response to Asavea abundantly clear. We send Sepharad with 50 liao to urge every vigilant Pilgrim to take notice of those citizens whose virtue is lacking let us provide the Cardinal of Vigilance and the Imperatrix with the names of every citizen who chose to turn aside from the Way.
50 liao provided by Sepharad after Autumn Equinox.
Sepharad With 50 liao, vigilant citizens begin to compile lists of everyone who goes to fight in Asavea. here.
Imperial Orcs The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Skywise Tulva with 50 liao to urge every Imperial Orc citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
Skywise Tulva provided 50 liao after the Autumn Equinox.
Skywise Tulva Spreads Highborn burden to Imperial Orcs. here.
Wintermark The heroes of Wintermark do not seek to make war more brutal than it already is. Slaying healers and poisoning their blood steals from our foes the opportunity for a good death, inflicting cruelty more fitting of the Druj than any Imperial hero or their ally. The Wintermark assembly condemns such tactics as strongly as they condemn looting, wholesale slaughter, and cruel torture. We send Gunnbrand Ironwill with 25 liao to remind our people that we do not strike against any opponent but vallorn with envenomed blades.
25 liao provided by Gunnbrand Ironwill after the Autumn Equinox.
Gunnbrand Ironwill With 25 liao Wintermark armies will oppose cunning and venomous tactics by their allies. here
Varushka The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Father Drakov with 50 liao to urge every Varushkan citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
50 liao provided by Father Drakov after the Autumn Equinox.
Father Drakov Spreads Highborn burden to Varushka. here.
Marches The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Hrodin with 50 liao to urge every Marchere citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
50 liao provided by Hrodin after the Autumn Equinox.
Sister Meredith With 50 liao, spreads Highborn burden to Marches. here.
Dawn The people of Dawn applaud the great triumphs that our generals and our armies have wrought. Now let us embrace glory, claim victory, and seize the prize. We send Pelleas Thorne with 50 doses of liao to urge every Dawnish soldier to commit themselves body and soul to glory in the service of Dawn.
50 liao provided by Pelleas Thorne after the Autumn Equinox 382YE
Pelleas Thorne Dawnish armies will look to their heritage for opportunities to refine their strategies. here
Navarr The Navarr nation has a great wealth of herbs that we should share with our friends in other nations. We send Brat Umbral Path with 50 doses of liao to urge every Navarr striding and steading to send what seeds and cuttings they can spare to the new constructed wayhouse in Upwold.
50 liao provided by Brat Umbral Path after the Autumn Equinox.
Brat Umbral Path Navarr herbalists will support the newly commissioned Upwold Wayhouse. here
Marches We are Marchers. Our blood and bone are in the soil, and we neither forget nor forgive. We are not murderers, but we will fight to defend what is our, and we will fight to protect our friends. We send Friar John of the Mourn with 50 doses of liao to remind our people of the Marches of their deep roots, and to urge our yeoman to find new ways to fight that neither scorn our history nor threaten our future.
50 liao provided by Friar John of the Mourn after the Autman Equinox 382YE.
Friar John of the Mourn With 50 liao, Marcher yeomen will look for ways to adapt the strategies of the Marcher armies to reflect their heritage. here
Urizen The war against the Vallorn demands all the support of all of us. We send Amulius Medea Ruth with 25 liao to urge every Urizen citizen to offer food, shelter, and protection to the pilgrims as they travel through our lands and beyond. We will shoulder this burden together.
Medea Ruth provide 25 doses of liao after the Autumn Equinox.
Medea Ruth Spreads Highborn burden to Urizen. here.

Inspirational Tomb

With the approval of the Synod, Gilah, Daughter of the Chantry used a dose of True Liao to perform a true consecration of the Kraken's Bane, the remains of the exemplar Zemress' ship in Calvos Sound. The site now functions as an inspirational tomb.

Imperial Lore

Rituals

Three rituals are being entered into Imperial lore.

Potions

Three new sets of potions have been made available to Imperial apothecaries, translated from a captured Druj herbal.

There is also a new potion available as part of the Legacy of Thorns: the Legionnaire's Stare. Anyone who has mastered the Legacy of Thorns can now make Legionnaire's Stare.