The Nordmen
SeaRaiders
Who are we?
We started as a small band of SeaRaiders in the region of Fenada, but over time we evolved to the strongest Nord themed faction in Strategus, currently owning 9 villages, 2 towns and 2 castles spread over the map, the Sargoth area in the north and trough war spoils the area of Shariz in the far south. Our colour on the strategus map is teal.
Introduction (Chapter 1)
Some came as mercenaries and tried to earn some honest gold, just to be wronged by the Mad Kings of this Realm, just like myself. Others came to trade, but failed at earning enough to survive. But most of us came to do what our people did best. To raid the coast for its riches.
These Sea Raiders decided to build a small encampment east of Sargoth on a river a few metres upcountry, called Fenada, so they didn't have to sail the great journey over the sea back to their homelands after each raid. Time passed, Fenada grew and many other Nordmen joined them there, like myself. Trough raiding came slaves to Fenada. Way too many slaves.
One day, while most of the able men were gone viking, the inevitable happend. The slaves did rise, they killed the few men left behind, looted our armory and claimed the village as their own. Instead of jubilance we were greeted by volleys of arrows when we returned. They caught us off guard, we had to retreat back to the sea.
And here we were, out of supplies, our ships damaged and our homes taken by slaves. Some did expect us then to just vanish into thin air, without seagoing ships to return to our homelands or sufficient men to retake Fenada. But no, we did not give up our new home. We did disembark near Sargoth, slowly building up our numbers.
Nordmen gathered from all over Calradia to help their brothers in need. One warband after another arrived and formed one of the most formidable armies of nordmen assembled in Calradia for a long time, enabling us to crush the rebellion without much delay.
But even now, after Fenada is ours, Nordmen are coming to join up with us. As our numbers grow, so does the burden of administration of our village. It was decided that the leaders of the 4 strongest warbands to contribute to the reconquest of Fenada would share it, and the power that comes with it. We 4, Serfonz, Kengil, Fhear and me, Leiknir, are going to rule over Fenada together, with each of us retaining control over our own ships and warbands, but deciding the fate of our Fenada together.
The Nordmen did not even have a chance to clean the streets and repair the damage from the battle, when our scouts spotted another army marching towards Fenada, with the clear intend to start a fight. Well, maybe they did mistake us for someone else, but we Nordmen sleep with our armor on, you won't fight naked men here in the morning.
The enemy raiding party tried to set up camp on the hill just outside of Fenada. But you do not raid the Nordmen, the Nordmen raid you. We sallied out and had the gods decide their fates.
The raid on the Serfs (Chapter 2)
Leiknir the Conqueror began the original attacks on the Northern Caldarian Coast, he took Fenada then Kwynn and finnaly his conquest came to a final end at Sargoth as during the battle he was surrounded by the enemy and died as a true Nordmen at the front of the battle in combat, but he was not without an heir, Leifr Leiknirsson rose to take his fathers place defending the Nord lands from all attackers. Recently Leifr has lusted to follow in his Fathers footsteps and make his own Legacy leaving his Fathers Lands to the top trusted commanders. Kengil the Slayer and Serfonz the Cruel. After putting the new Leadership in order Leifr took his 30 top bodyguards and headed to Fenada to take his Fathers ship and raid the coast as his father did.
In the darkened Hall of Sargoth only a map could be seen in the middle of a large Circular table.. A map of Caldaria marked with the territories of friend and foe and of those still rebelling against old Kings passed, a large muscular man in heavy metal armour steps into the light and points to Curin Castle, and speaks "There, that is our next conquest."
The village bells of Kwynn and Fenada rung deep, all could hear, a Nordic warrior wearing a Byrnie and a helmet of the bodyguards stepped up. "Peasants, a new order has come from Sargoth, you are to begin mining operations immediately, all resources will be transported to Sargoth and yet another army shall be raised, our eyes are for Curin Castle now.
After weeks of discussion the Nordmen decided it was best to use their overflowing coffers to pay a band of heavy mercs to take the Castle and they saved their supplies for a true conquest, one not from Rebels. After much discussion they found their target, a land occupied by mere Serfs who had managed to build up a Kingdom for themselves, after much planning, the Nordmen unleashed a devastating invasion into the Serfs territory, Kengil was commanding the Nordic forces who assaulted the village of Aldelen and Serfonz forces headed to Kulum while their brave and trusted Allies the DenBitre launched a Northern assault on Buillin.
Kengils forces reached Aldelen and launched a devastating attack wiping the Serfs out and capturing the village. Serfonz on his march to Kulum was intercepted by a large army of the Serfs and was forced into battle outnumbered but after a long fight yet another victory, Serfonz then marched his troops to Aldelen to take refuge and rest.
DenBitres early morning raid on Buillin was also successful although outnumbered they fought hard and gained a heroic victory.
Upon Serfonz arrival Kengil marched his army out of Aldelen towards Kulum leaving it to Serfonz troops but when he arrived the Serfs had abandoned the village, Kengils forced disappointed marched in and took the village.
After much wine was drunk over their glorious victory over the Serfs a scout came bursting into the room, a Inquisition has formed and wants the heads of our Leaders for destroying these peasants! Serfonz the Cruel rushed back to Fenada where the Inquisition aimed their attack and arrived in time to secure the defences and get his troops in place, the Inquisition attacked the village with the thought of retribution burnt into their eyes but the Nordmen where far too strong, and they overcame and repelled each attack the Inquisition threw at them, until the word was called to charge out and attack their main force and after a lengthy battle, the Nordmen remained standing and the Inquisition destroyed.
We use the SeaRaider_ tag ingame and you see us using the nordic raven banner (or the nordic pigeon banner, if you miss the custom banner pack):
Nordic raven:
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Looking to join our Warband?If you want to join us, travel to Fenada on the strategus map(when it is back up!) and #Fenada on quakenet (IRC, you can use the "chat" button in strategus to open a webclient, then type "/join #fenada" to join our channel). Alternatively connect to our Teamspeak 3 Server: 85.236.100.27:11067 Password: fu
There is always space in our shieldwall for another Nord, just spend some time with us, and if you do not prove yourself to be a retard/spy, you are welcome.
You may use our banner while you are a youngling (and have to, so you get placed in our team thanks to the auto-banner balance), but to be considered a true SeaRaider and to gain the right to wear the tag you will need 3 SeaRaiders to give you approval, and no one to speak out against you. You can request a vote about your application after atleast 1 week of hanging around. We are no bunch of elitist people only looking for top skilled people, we are looking for people able to teamplay who fit into our group. Skill is more easy to train than the will to be a teamplayer, even a peasant with a pitchfork is useful in formation.
As we are involved in multiple wars, there will be plenty of strategus battles for all of us.
What we look like
Picture below will give you the basic idea, we use the overall Nordic look from native.
Memberlist, ranks and awards.
Ranks:
Jarl(Leader) -
SeaRaider_Serfonz Sverd & skjoldr, Kasta vàpn
SeaRaider_Leiknir_Leifrsson Sverd & skjoldr, Spjòt
Theign(Officer):
SeaRaider_Tor Spjòt øx & Mikill Spjòt
SeaRaider_Kengil Mikill sverd
SeaRaider_Tholgar Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Cooties
Huskarl(Veteran Warrior):
Runrrodins(Warrior):
SeaRaider_Redgar Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Kansuke Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Thran Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Chaeguro Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Griffin Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Chuck Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Anfield Sverd & skjoldr
SeaRaider_Rymnir Bogi
SeaRaider_Zufax Bogi
SeaRaider_Dom_Miguel Bogi
SeaRaider_Jihash Bogi
SeaRaider_Andswaru Bogi
SeaRaider_Ozin Spjòt øx & Mikill Spjòt
SeaRaider_OpiumDK Mikill sverd
SeaRaider_Furax Mikill sverd
SeaRaider_wRaa Ridarri
SeaRaider_Anfield
SeaRaider_Rufio
SeaRaider_JuliusEST
Trekiar(Fighting men):
Members in no particular order:
SeaRaider_Serfonz
SeaRaider_Leiknir_Leifrsson
SeaRaider_Kengil
SeaRaider_Chuck
SeaRaider_Tholgar
SeaRaider_Redgar
SeaRaider_Tor
SeaRaider_OpiumDK
SeaRaider_Anfield
SeaRaider_Rymnir
SeaRaider_Zufax
SeaRaider_Dom_Miguel
SeaRaider_Furax
SeaRaider_Thran
SeaRaider_Kansuke
SeaRaider_Jihash
SeaRaider_Andswaru
SeaRaider_Chaeguro
SeaRaider_Ozin
SeaRaider_wRaa
SeaRaider_Griffin
Awards:
Mord-runrr (Exceptional Warrior) awarded to - Tor
Berserkr awarded to - Tholgar
Kappi (Champion) awarded to -
Einherjar awarded to -
Ótrùligr Skjòtar awarded to -
Mord-runrr rank will be given to warriors of exceptional skill.
Berserkr will be given to those who go berserk on the battlefield destroying their enemies.
Kappi will be awarded to a champion decided through Holmganga (Ritual Duel Combat) who can be challenged once per week by each challenger to fight for the title.
Einherjar will only be given to those who show the mightiest and deadliest skills in combat and achieve 40 kills on one battlefield. (One map)
Ótrùligr Skjòtar will be awarded to an archer that can get 5 consecutive head shots in a row without dying.
Diplomacy
A new strat a new day!
Contact
If you need to contact us, either pm Serfonz or Leiknir, simply join our IRC channel on quakenet, #fenada or join us on our teamspeak3 server at 85.236.100.27:11067 (password: fu).
--- Kappi Tournament ---Will be elimination, melee only drew names from a box --
Tholgar vs Opium
Winner Tholgar
(Video soon)
Thran vs Furax
Feddy vs Andswaru
Winner Feddy
(Video soon)
Anfield vs Tor
Winner Tor
(Video soon)
Serfonz vs Wraa
Winner Wraa
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ9-WPdAD7Q)
Redgar vs Kansuke
Winner Kansuke
(Video soon)
You can chose to fight your match whenever as long as the other person is on and I am there to witness it. (I'm always there just use the Teamspeak poke thing.) All matches will be recorded.
Awards:
Mord-runrr (Exceptional Warrior) awarded to -
Berserkr awarded to -
Kappi (Champion) awarded to -
Einherjar awarded to -
Ótrùligr Skjòtar awarded to -
Mord-runrr rank will be given to warriors of exceptional skill.
Berserkr will be given to those who go berserk on the battlefield destroying their enemies.
Kappi will be awarded to a champion decided through Holmganga (Ritual Duel Combat) who can be challenged once per week by each challenger to fight for the title.
Einherjar will only be given to those who show the mightiest and deadliest skills in combat and achieve 40 kills on one battlefield. (One map)
Ótrùligr Skjòtar will be awarded to an archer that can get 5 consecutive head shots in a row without dying.
I really like your awards idea and hope you dont hate me if I steal some for my clan (especially the berserk one as I often go head-on in packs).
'Been looking to add some ideas to encourage prowess in battle without adding a rank system (too subjective and trololesque) and its right-on.
P.S.: my first son will be named Tor.
Tor can't make the decision to attack you in Strategus, I can, get them Risens to vote for me Thovex!
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You changed the poll, I was about to get everyone to vote for Serfonz.
(Only because your name is "SeaRaiders")
Yeah welcome Dildur :) Your aim is good don't worry about it, being an archer is definitely not easy at all, unlike using a crossbow.
No worries i am here to teach you!
JOKES i suck 2! And welcome