Lungu Protectorate

Territory

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After the Age of Madness, humans devised ways to live together for protection, companionship, and all of the other things easier times brings. Some area were relatively friendly geographically, and towns and villages could evolve. One of these regions was in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, in an area led by the Lungu family. The region was well off, with lots of trade and agriculture , which also brought a strong military force with it to protect its goods and culture. There were Regions (Eastern), and Districts (Southern) in this area.

There were many villages in this area. The ones mentioned in the Knight's Creed were Argan, the main center of interest, Blue Creek, Torvina, Bellford, and one or two others. Each of these villages tithed to the Protectorate in the form of crops, animals, coin, whatever the Assessors demanded. The Assessors collected the goods, took them to the commissioner for counting and notations. The goods were then shipped to the Protectorate's facilities, to pay for the military funds, the roads, the commissioners, and to make the ruling family rich. Other protectorates were mentioned, those of Vasile, Petran, and Ungur. They had developed a formal system of trade and diplomacy, the Protectorate Charter, and agreed to abide by it. But then greed won out, and the Protectors got together and wrote extra rules on top of the charter, benefiting the Protectorates, instituting harsher systems. It was like that in all the different Protectorates.Now the Protectors were comfortably in charge of well-organized, little collection businesses.

Astrid's village, Nistiria, had been under this type of government. The problem was that the leaders of the Protectorates were finding that they could get rich at the expense of the villagers, so the Protectorate had changed the rules, and became a collection agency on its own. The Assessors went to the villages and decide how much and of what that village must contribute, and if the village could not do so, contractors, (collection forces), called Compliance Squads (with military forces), would come in to force the villages to conform. If the villages could or would not, the entire village would be dispossessed - the people rousted from their homes and lands, and the wealth shared between the Compliance Squad, the Assessors, and the Protectorate.A strid's village had suffered that fate. Another, Napur, had suffered as well, and many of the bandits in the Protectorates were from like villages.

Argan was about to be put in that position, with Assessor Pleth ready to starve the village out of existence, call in the Compliance Squad, then then take possession of it.

Search Lungu, Pleth, Krann, Jank, Compliance Squad, Assessor, Keep 52, as well as the proper names mentioned in these paragraphs.