[Charlemagne] Bishop Giselbert's Four Vassals

[Damien Bosman]

Oh cool, this is awesome. Good idea to have a mailing list to track our
campaign progress :)

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Lev Lafayette <lev at rpgreview.net> wrote:

> Initial Scene
> -------------
>
> It's 772 AD, and a personage of no less than the Roman Catholic Bishop
> Giselbert gathers the young player-characters together at the Cathedral of
> Tournai to send them to Frisia. There has been stories of the dead walking
> at the nearby Frisian village of Kolven (which translates to "The Flask",
> on account on the fine beers).
>
> The PCs include:
> - Eric, an acolyte (1st level Cleric) of the Church.
> - Merd, a knecht (1st level Paladin) of the Church.
> - Rebecca, an astrologer (1st level Wizard) from Cordova who is allowed to
> travel because of his scholarship.
> - Rainer, a guide (1st level Rogue) from Hleri (Leer) who has knowledge of
> the Frisian lands.
>
>
> Charlemagne and the Franks
> --------------------------
>
> Your King!
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
>
> And this is the mighty Empire, and indeed what it will become (unless you
> break things)
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/
> Frankish_Empire_481_to_814-en.svg
>
> The heartland is Austrasia and the Charlemagne was coronated at Aachen.
>
> The most important legal code is Salic Law
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law
>
> Oh, and this is the Pope
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_I
>
> Languages
> ---------
>
> A character's language skills, both spoken and written, are a function of
> their intelligence.
>
> All the languages in the region are West Germanic. That means all
> character can understand each other with a -2 modifier to INT at worst.
>
> The Ingvaeonic languages (Old Frisian, Old English, Saxon) are related to
> each other with a -1 modifier.
>
> The Istvaeones language (Frankish) will eventually become Old Dutch (yes,
> arguably Charlemagne is Dutch or Belgian)
>
> Outside these groups there is:
>
> The Irminones language (Elbe) and Old Norse which is related to the West
> Germanic with a -4 modifier.
>
> Vulgar Latin (also known as Sermo Vulgaris, or "common speech"). This is
> the most common language of the people of western Europe. Among the
> western Franks however is already being significantly transformed by
> Frankish words and will become Old French. Even know the Franks understand
> Latin with a -4 modifier to INT, and vice-versa (unless of course, the
> speaker has Frankish)
>
> Religion
> --------
>
> The primary religion in Roman Catholic Christianity, although the degree
> that this followed is imperfect at best. In the countryside, as the name
> implies, many are "pagans", associating themselves with local
> superstitions. Germanic aboriginal polytheistic paganism is in direct
> conflict with the Christianisation of the area, and is pushing in an
> eastwards direction into the Saxon lands. In addition there are many
> monuments to Roman and Celtic polytheism.
>
> There are small populations of Jews in the region who do their very best
> to keep to themselves (and, indeed, they have to). They are barely
> tolerated at best and for any excuse the "Christ killers" will be
> targetted.
>
> Gender roles are designed and enforced by religious edict. Those who don't
> follow them will be treated with suspicion, at best, and heresy at worst.
> Broadly speaking, the pagans are somewhat more tolerant of women taking
> public roles.
>
>
>
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> Mngmnt) (Chifley)
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