Council of Rhuvael
At A Glance
The current leadership of Rhuvael consisting of a representative from each of the Eorls, the Church, the mercantile community, the guilds and the constabulary.Structure
Since the Treaty of Widowhall the Council of Rhuvael has functioned sufficient to ward off further deterioration of the capital and its commercial importance. The Treaty decreed that there would be
History
In 22 ET, a cabal of nobles conspired to fill the vacuum left by the death of the Regent who had also administered the city. These conspirators, known as the Presumptuous Lords due to their ambitions, utilized their own forces as well as mercenary troops to seize the capital. The Lords only held the capital for just over a year and, in that time, they stooped readily to the task of looting and defrauding everything of value from the palace and the city itself. Only a few of the Lords had any interest in administration once it was clear that the other kingdom nobles would not stand for their occupation.
In 23 ET, after the violent removal of the Presumptuous Lords from the city, the four Eorls who had worked together to liberate the city met in the grand hall of the PALACE after enlisting the City Patriarch, Culain Orivon, for their deliberations. With the Struggles continuing in all of their lands, the Eorls were at a loss as to how to maintain the city. Between them it was agreed that the first step towards usurpation likely ran through Rhuvael so they worried over those absent and those at the table with them.
As the Eorls spoke there was a steady stream of merchants, commercialists farmers and more that lined the streets in lines to seek redress for the actions of the Presumptuous Lords. After interminable waiting, the various shopkeepers, mercantilists and others who made their through life with commerce chose representatives to speak with the Eorls and the Patriarch. The six men and two women were eventually brought into the presence of the high nobles and Patriarch. Within the hall, the table was strewn with reports and notices of shortages, requests for direction and other matters of many hundreds of details.
As the urban cohort listened to the discussion, the men and women eventually began to voice their ideas about some of the problems. Unused to the management of so many people and interests, the Eorls had grown weary of resolving the issue. But, as they listened to the representatives, they learned that much of these problems had solutions but they were too unfamiliar with the heartbeat of the capital to be aware of them. In time, the representatives were pointing out that having shopkeepers be responsible for their leftover foodstuff or be fined, or that Constabulary had enough personnel that arming them and setting them about in areas known, at least to residents, to be plagued by low crime and violence should quell the concerns of the citizenry.
This was at the height of the Struggles and the fighting near Aenar had begun to intensify while raiders and mercenaries-turned-brigands had begun desperation antics for food and income. The security of each of the Eorldoms was the preeminent concern of these high nobles and they could delay their departure no longer. After a day and night of wrangling, the Eorls turned to the Patriarch and indicated that the city’s administration belonged to the Church as it provided too much influence and prestige were another noble to be placed to administer it.
As such, they continued, the representatives here would form a council for the management of the city. To ensure that disagreements were handled, the Eorls told Patriarch Culain that he would remain as the final word on the actions of this council. With the problem seemingly settled, the high nobles turned around, threw open the doors of the hall and walked out. Each of them had great desire to return to their own lands and their own conflicts.
It goes without saying that Patriarch Culain Orivon was highly regarded as a great leader in the church and well-respected amongst the citizenry of the capital. But the Patriarch had little interest in spending his days administering to a city instead of his own duties and worship. This failing would eventually result in the slow erosion of responsible voices in the hall speaking on behalf of the capital’s needs.
By the late-30’s, the capital of Rhuvael had grown dirty and dangerous. The original representatives had moved on and their place had been taken by opportunists and greed. The Patriarch had grown weary of the duties of the council several years hence and had stopped attending the council meetings regularly. As the years went on, the Patriarch’s health also began to ail and he was soon absent from all gatherings of the council. This allowed the rotating cast of greedy burghers to line their own pockets at the expense of the capital and its people. With the return of the Swanlords in the north, there were few nobles powerful enough or interested enough to look into the management of Rhuvael. Each year, things became a little worse.
The Patriarch passed away in the Winter of 41 at the grand and blessed age of seventy-three years old. With his death, the floodgates of corruption almost seemed to burst and spill out onto the city’s streets such that those same streets became too dangerous for anyone.
In 42ET, a contingent of nobles and their retinues were forced to enter the capital and use main force against a small group of mercantilists that had been raising wagon rates and providing substandard goods. Several nobles along the south-east of Vael Lake had received similar stacked shipments and their demands for remuneration were met with silence from the capital. Approximately two hundred fighting men slipped into the city and wrested control of an entire district where the mercantilists lived and worked. Once the neighborhood was under their control, the nobles forced them into negotiations. They departed two days later much more satisfied and the city’s populace, at least in one area, had a couple nights of peace and security.
In 45ET, the Eorls and numbers of other nobles descended on the Widowhold to engage in peace discussions. The fighting had been swirling over the kingdom for over two decades and the entire kingdom was spent emotionally and resource-wise. The Widows Bargain was primarily focused upon the various conflicts that made up the Struggles but they were eventually brought around to the plight of Rhuvael by the late-arriving delegation from the capital including the new Patriarch.
Amongst the delegation was a nervous, chubby minor noble named Aloth Valberos who spoke to the Eorls about real issues with the neglect of the city and detailed forecasts for its continuing economic spiral. Aloth Valberos spoke for much of that afternoon and was able to provide good information in regards to the questions asked of him.
It was decided that the Council should be returned to its original effectiveness. Seeing that leaving the commoners and commercialists in charge of their own affairs was a mistake; a new structure for the Council was drawn up and approved by the Eorls present. The Eorls determined that each of them would send a vassal to sit on the Council in place of the commons and other individuals who had come to assume places at the table in the vacuum left by the wars inattention and the death of the Patriarch. The Eorls agreed that their representative would only be temporary to keep any one person from amassing influence and support within the capital to the detriment of the other Eorls.
With this in mind, the Eorls came up with the structure that has been in place for the past eight years. To counteract any incompetence or further deterioration of the capital it was deemed that a knowledgeable individual be placed in the Council to ensure that information is being used properly.
The Council today functions largely under the broad statements established for its authority at the Widowhold.
In 23 ET, after the violent removal of the Presumptuous Lords from the city, the four Eorls who had worked together to liberate the city met in the grand hall of the PALACE after enlisting the City Patriarch, Culain Orivon, for their deliberations. With the Struggles continuing in all of their lands, the Eorls were at a loss as to how to maintain the city. Between them it was agreed that the first step towards usurpation likely ran through Rhuvael so they worried over those absent and those at the table with them.
As the Eorls spoke there was a steady stream of merchants, commercialists farmers and more that lined the streets in lines to seek redress for the actions of the Presumptuous Lords. After interminable waiting, the various shopkeepers, mercantilists and others who made their through life with commerce chose representatives to speak with the Eorls and the Patriarch. The six men and two women were eventually brought into the presence of the high nobles and Patriarch. Within the hall, the table was strewn with reports and notices of shortages, requests for direction and other matters of many hundreds of details.
As the urban cohort listened to the discussion, the men and women eventually began to voice their ideas about some of the problems. Unused to the management of so many people and interests, the Eorls had grown weary of resolving the issue. But, as they listened to the representatives, they learned that much of these problems had solutions but they were too unfamiliar with the heartbeat of the capital to be aware of them. In time, the representatives were pointing out that having shopkeepers be responsible for their leftover foodstuff or be fined, or that Constabulary had enough personnel that arming them and setting them about in areas known, at least to residents, to be plagued by low crime and violence should quell the concerns of the citizenry.
This was at the height of the Struggles and the fighting near Aenar had begun to intensify while raiders and mercenaries-turned-brigands had begun desperation antics for food and income. The security of each of the Eorldoms was the preeminent concern of these high nobles and they could delay their departure no longer. After a day and night of wrangling, the Eorls turned to the Patriarch and indicated that the city’s administration belonged to the Church as it provided too much influence and prestige were another noble to be placed to administer it.
As such, they continued, the representatives here would form a council for the management of the city. To ensure that disagreements were handled, the Eorls told Patriarch Culain that he would remain as the final word on the actions of this council. With the problem seemingly settled, the high nobles turned around, threw open the doors of the hall and walked out. Each of them had great desire to return to their own lands and their own conflicts.
It goes without saying that Patriarch Culain Orivon was highly regarded as a great leader in the church and well-respected amongst the citizenry of the capital. But the Patriarch had little interest in spending his days administering to a city instead of his own duties and worship. This failing would eventually result in the slow erosion of responsible voices in the hall speaking on behalf of the capital’s needs.
By the late-30’s, the capital of Rhuvael had grown dirty and dangerous. The original representatives had moved on and their place had been taken by opportunists and greed. The Patriarch had grown weary of the duties of the council several years hence and had stopped attending the council meetings regularly. As the years went on, the Patriarch’s health also began to ail and he was soon absent from all gatherings of the council. This allowed the rotating cast of greedy burghers to line their own pockets at the expense of the capital and its people. With the return of the Swanlords in the north, there were few nobles powerful enough or interested enough to look into the management of Rhuvael. Each year, things became a little worse.
The Patriarch passed away in the Winter of 41 at the grand and blessed age of seventy-three years old. With his death, the floodgates of corruption almost seemed to burst and spill out onto the city’s streets such that those same streets became too dangerous for anyone.
In 42ET, a contingent of nobles and their retinues were forced to enter the capital and use main force against a small group of mercantilists that had been raising wagon rates and providing substandard goods. Several nobles along the south-east of Vael Lake had received similar stacked shipments and their demands for remuneration were met with silence from the capital. Approximately two hundred fighting men slipped into the city and wrested control of an entire district where the mercantilists lived and worked. Once the neighborhood was under their control, the nobles forced them into negotiations. They departed two days later much more satisfied and the city’s populace, at least in one area, had a couple nights of peace and security.
The Widows Bargain
In 45ET, the Eorls and numbers of other nobles descended on the Widowhold to engage in peace discussions. The fighting had been swirling over the kingdom for over two decades and the entire kingdom was spent emotionally and resource-wise. The Widows Bargain was primarily focused upon the various conflicts that made up the Struggles but they were eventually brought around to the plight of Rhuvael by the late-arriving delegation from the capital including the new Patriarch.
Amongst the delegation was a nervous, chubby minor noble named Aloth Valberos who spoke to the Eorls about real issues with the neglect of the city and detailed forecasts for its continuing economic spiral. Aloth Valberos spoke for much of that afternoon and was able to provide good information in regards to the questions asked of him.
It was decided that the Council should be returned to its original effectiveness. Seeing that leaving the commoners and commercialists in charge of their own affairs was a mistake; a new structure for the Council was drawn up and approved by the Eorls present. The Eorls determined that each of them would send a vassal to sit on the Council in place of the commons and other individuals who had come to assume places at the table in the vacuum left by the wars inattention and the death of the Patriarch. The Eorls agreed that their representative would only be temporary to keep any one person from amassing influence and support within the capital to the detriment of the other Eorls.
With this in mind, the Eorls came up with the structure that has been in place for the past eight years. To counteract any incompetence or further deterioration of the capital it was deemed that a knowledgeable individual be placed in the Council to ensure that information is being used properly.
The Council today functions largely under the broad statements established for its authority at the Widowhold.
Type
Geopolitical, City council
Alternative Names
The Old Men of the City
Controlled Territories
Notable Members
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