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== Ameroe ==

===Brief===

====A Country That Was====

The only surviving legacy of the one-time kingdom of Ameroe is a name, emblazoned upon the crumbling edifies of its ruined capital and in the alabaster keeps that have yet to be swallowed by the wilds. Little survives of its history, as its people are gone; perhaps consumed in the catastrophy that wrought their country from greatness or simply left for parts unknown. What is known was that even before the catacylsmic Necromancer Wars it was a troubled state, its farmlands were being slowly reclaimed by a zealously advancing forest. Choked rivers and canals became stagnant and life-giving water ceased to flow Eastward, where crops withered and died. Despite hardship, Ameroe survived to see the beginning of the wars where it was utterly destroyed by a terrific weapon of sorcery.

After being abandoned for a century, refugees from other parts of the world began to repopulate the few useful pastoral lands that had survived the fall. The dry Eastern lands reverted entirely to desert, but the abandoned works attracted creatures of the wastes that had been pushed out ages before.

====The Westmen====

Twenty years ago, a skycraft crashed in the cursed lands around old Ameroe. The lingering effects of the weapon that had leveled the city had long since made it impassable to any manner of levistone craft. None knew of the ship until some weeks later a party of strangers came in search of it by way of the Great Wilds, heading East. They were of a mighty race, embodying the perfect features and impossible strength of storied heroes. They showed little interest in the scattered farmers or their hamlets and villages, rushing through the countryside as if they were on a mission of some urgency. They quickly learned of the mysterious properties of the ruins and despite the warnings braved the wretched journey to Ameroe. A number of them emerged a week later, bringing many wounded to the healers in the township of Echart.

They were a distant although honorable people and said little to their hosts concerning the ship or its purpose. Several more expeditions into the bleak lands yeilded a few more survivors and a handful of mysterious artifacts, which the visitors said they had found in the lands surrounding the city. As days turned into weeks though, the sense of interest and welcome had worn thin and the local farmers and townspeople began asking uncomfortable questions that went without reply.

All questions were answered when a column of shining armour a mile long marched out around the Great Wilds towards the end of summer and plowed straight on through the countryside towards Ameroe, dispatching companies into the surrouding wilds as they went. After a few days, eight hundred men descended on the town of Echart. With the militia finally mustered, there was a spirited but depressingly conclusive battle in the fields beyond the wall. Echart and the surrounding countryside were quickly subdued and forced to give up arms. The reason for the abrupt conquest became apparent when hundreds of local villagers were rounded up and abruptly marched to the ruins to begin constructing camps and earthworks. Evidently the Westerners were planning to stay.

In the intervening years these foreigners, dubbed Westmen, solidified their grasp on Ameroe and expanded into the bordering lands in order to support their numbers, including the slow and methodical conquest of the pockets of lizardfolk living in the East. A newly rediscovered fortress deep in the wilds that were once the kingdom's old lands now serves as their seat of power, while the original camps near the ruins now house hundreds of workers, slaves and criminals who are tasked with looting artifacts from the ruins. While the original denizens of the countryside have never been permitted to take up arms again, their situation has greatly improved in recent years as their new lords have pushed the lizardfolk and beasts back off the arable lands and back into the wastes. The saurians, on the other hand, have not fared particularly well. Scattered and disorganized they were all too easily subdued piece by piece without much bloodshed and possibly because of that they are held in poor regard by their new lords and have for the most part taken the place of the farmers and villagers in the most dangerous and miserable roles. Strangely they are allowed to bear arms and tend to garrison the most forlorn and dangerous posts where the Westmen deign not to do so themselves.

====Today====

If one were to call this new regime a kingdom, it would be a fragmented one. The hardships and indignities of the past decades have not been borne happily by the common people and resentment simmers below the surface, even in the face of newfound prosperity. While commoners are forbidden from bearing arms, the Westmen have been slowly making concessions to appease them. It did not come without cost, however. Ameroe's more pleasant lands have always been contested and for every new plot cleared for the farmers and villagers, someone else was pushed out. That particular burden has fallen upon the denizens of the barrens, who have been pushed deeper and deeper into harsher land to make way. While the lizardfolk don't suffer so terribly there as the commoners would, life is not easy and they are immensely embittered to both the Westmen and the commoners that took their place. The Westmen despise the scorching heat and venture only to a few places in the desert to collect their tithings. Perhaps they are even aware that new arms and armour are finding their ways into the dusty garrisons from sources beyond their control, but they hold such disdain for the wastelanders that they don't seem to care.

The Westmen's aims in Ameroe have not become any clearer over these past twenty years save that they are searching. For what few can say, and many doubt the Westmen themselves even know. Further away from scrutiny rumors are building that something has stirred deep in the Ebon Wood and the Westmen no longer venture far from their vine-covered keep.

===Lands===
Total Domains: 250 Points

Old Ameroe 
Cursed Chaotic Wilds - 5 
:Ruined City - 25 
:Dead Skies - 5 
:Wizard Tower - 10 

Ebon Wood 
Chaotic Wilds - 10 
:Keep - 30 
:Stockades - 10 
:Node: Wood - 50 
Wilds - 5 
:Stockades - 10 

The Heartlands 
Countryside - 10 
:Echart (Town) - 10 
Countryside - 10 
Countryside - 10 
Countryside - 10 

The Arid Wastes 
Lizard Wastes - 5 
:The Wreck (Stockades) - 10 
Lizard Wastes - 5 
Lizard Wastes - 5 
:Kaast (Town) - 10 
Lizard Wastes - 5 

===Inhabitants===
Total Races: 40 Points 
Asgar - 25 
Lizardmen - 15 
Peasants 

===Military===
Total Military: 110 Points = 27 500 Gold

====Infantry====
Total Cost: 12070

100 - The War God's Own (800) 
God-Blooded Paragons 
Asgar 
: Resilience 
: Level of Badass 
: Great Swords - 75G 
:: Alfar Blade - 75G + 50M 
: Superheavy Plate - 100G 
:: Embodied - 100M 
Training and Equipment Cost: 100G + 300M + 200G +150M = 800 
Upkeep Cost: 20G + 20M 
Limit: 1 per Keep/City/Node 

100 - Paragon of Law (900) 
Asgar 
: Etheric Metabolism 
: Why Won't You Die?! 
: Maul - 20G 
:: Adamantium - 20A 
:: Brute Force - 50M 
: Long Sword - 50G 
:: Alfar Blade - 50G + 50M 
: Full Plate - 60G 
:: Adamantium - 60A 
:: Embodied - 100M 
: Noble Magic - 20Bk 
Training and Equipment Cost: 100G + 300M + 80A + 120G + 200M + 20Bk = 900 
Upkeep Cost: 20M + 20M 
Limit: 1 per Keep/City/Node 

200 Lords of Ameroe (860) 
Asgar 
Knights 
: Battleaxe - 50G 
:: Brute Force - 50M 
: Full Plate - 100G 
:: Enchanted - 30M 
Training and Equipment Cost: 200G + 150G + 80M = 430 
Upkeep Cost: 16G + 3M (War) / 8G (Peace) 

2000 Westmen (2600) 
Asgar 
Men-At-Arms 
: Bearded Axe - 35G 
: Full Shield - 10G 
:: Charged - 10M 
: Plated Mail - 25G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 50G + 70G + 10M = 130 
Upkeep Cost: 5G 

800 Westmen Archers (880) 
Asgar 
Men-At-Arms 
: Alfar Longbow - 30G 
: Sidesword - 15G 
: Lamellar Armour - 15G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 50G + 60G = 110 
Upkeep Cost: 5G 

400 Seasoned Warriors (1200) 
Lizardman Saurs 
: Great Sword - 75G 
:: Brute Force - 50M 
: Superheavy Plate - 100G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 100 Gold + 175G + 50M = 325G 
Upkeep Cost: 5 Gold 
May not use ranged weapons or magic 
Limit: 1 per Lizard Waste 

1800 Desert Soldiers (2610) 
Lizardfolk 
Men-At-Arms 
: Halberd - 35G 
: Partial Plate - 35 
: Common Magic - 5Bk 
Training and Equipment Cost: 50G + 70G + 5 Bk = 145 
Upkeep Cost: 5G 

3000 Serious Business Militia (1260) 
Lizardfolk 
Militia 
: Arbalest - 20G 
: Axe - 12G 
: Skirmisher Armour - 10G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 42G 
Upkeep Cost: 3G 

5000 Militia (960) 
Lizardfolk 
Militia 
: Crossbow - 10G 
: Axe - 12G 
: Skirmisher Armour - 10G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 32G 
Upkeep Cost: 3G 

====Beasts====
Total Cost: 8930 
Upkeep: 
: Gold: 448G (Peace & War) 
: Mana: 430M (Peace & War) 

'''Cavalry''': 

300 Wyvern 
Exotic Creature 
: Flight 
: Skirmish Plate - 50G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 160B + 50G = 210 
Upkeep: 16 Gold 

500 Plated Allox 
Exotic Creature 
: Absurdly Lethal 
: Armour 
: Skirmish Plate - 50G 
: Artisan Weapons - 8G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 160B + 58G = 218 
Upkeep: 16 Gold 

500 Desert Allox 
Exotic Creature 
: Resistance 
: Armour 
: Skirmish Plate - 50G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 160B + 50G = 210 
Upkeep: 16 Gold 

200 High Archaeopteryx 
Rare Creature 
: Absurdly Lethal 
: Celerity 
: Flight 
: Buffer - 50M 
Training and Equipment Cost: 400B + 50M = 450 
Upkeep: 40 Mana 

'''Giant''': 

20 High Wyvern 
Exotic Giant Creature 
: Flight 
: Battle Plate - 50G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 400B + 50G = 450 
Upkeep: 40 Gold 

30 High Allox 
Exotic Giant Creature 
: Absurdly Lethal 
: Armour 
: Battle Plate - 50G 
: Artisan Weapons - 80G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 400B + 130G = 530 
Upkeep: 40 Gold 

30 Desert Takh 
Exotic Giant Creature 
: Resistance 
: Absurdly Lethal 
: Battle Plate - 50G 
: Artisan Weapons - 80G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 400B + 130G = 530 
Upkeep: 40 Gold 

10 Hydra 
Rare Giant Creature 
: Vitriolic Breath 
: Regeneration 
: Ginormous 
: Intelligence 
: Siege Plate - 100G 
Training and Equipment Cost: 1000B + 100G = 1100 
Upkeep: 100 Mana 

'''Legendary''':

Dragons Kronth & Talanaxes (3000) 
Giant Legendary Creature 
: Intelligence 
: Etheric Metabolism 
: Conflagration 
: Flight (2) 
: Ginormous 
: Resilience 
: Resistance 
: Armour (2) 
Archmage - Life 
Training and Equipment Cost: 750B + 750G 
Upkeep: 125M 

====Mages ====
Total Cost: 3450 

Upkeep: 
: Gold: 130G (Peace & War) 
: Mana: 260M (Peace & War) 

4 Master (1200) 
Training and Equipment Cost: 30Bk + 150M = 300 
Upkeep: 10G + 20M 

30 Adept (2250) 
Training and Equipment Cost: 5Bk + 50M = 75 
Upkeep: 3G + 6M

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