- A hive of scum and villainy
The Mansion of House Mauro - Republic of Amalfi 867
Patrician Sico Mauro have a big problem. He is 42 and still not married. Despite this somehow he managed to secure two children, their mother is not a subject Sico is whiling to speak about so she will never be mentioned, Sico is a shy man that spend most of his time locked away in the Mauro family mansion’s great library.
It was a morning like any other in the library but on this fateful day something happen, something that would change the Mauro family forever. Sico was sitting in his favorite chair with a good book, he was drinking a strange exotic drink made of beans from Africa, the captain of his latest shipment from Egypt brought them along.
“No future in this stuff, people will never drink it” he though to him self and continued to read his book.
Sico’s trail of thought was interrupted by a large bump in the other end of the library, he quickly rushed to see what coursed the noise, a large bookshelf had collapsed as spilled it’s bounty of books all over the floor. “worthless piece of crap” Sico cursed loudly when a strange book caught his eye, there was no title on the cover but the book’s silver binding and occult patterns was strangely inviting to Sico, completely mesmerized Sico grabbed the book and started reading.
On the first page the book’s title became all to clear, “The secret word of Zoroaster. The joy of intermarriage” , after spending the night reading Sico called his children in to see him the very next day.
Kids, we are converting to Zoroastrisme!
- The Hero of our story *cough* dirty old man *cough*.
Neither of Sico’s children where particular religious and Sico was known far and wise as a big cynic him self. “We would be the laughing stock of the republic if we did that” objected Sico’s son Adelferio, “The doge would run us out of town” he continued on clearly upset.
- Christianity, the foolishness of youth, no wonder he is stressed.
“You let me worry about the doge and do as I say boy” Sico was a patrician of well rounded skills but suffered from a horrible people skills, in fact he rarely had any social interactions except with his two children and the had always done what he wanted, and yet now his own son thinks to question him, what had the world come to.
Adelferio’s arguments continued on but Sico dismissed them all, Adelferio’s arguments kept getting more and more heated. If a regular courtlier had dared to speak to Sico this way that person would ether have to spend a undisclosed amount to time in prison or suffer a flogging, but Sico restrained him self when it came to his son, he did after all love his children.
In fact he “really” loved his children, or more precisely he loved his 18 year daughter Marotta, she was the most beautiful women in all of Amalfi and many young bachelors dreamed of marrying her, yes Marotta was a delicate flower and Sico had some forbidden desires about her, some VERY un-Christian desires, actually this whole Zoroastrisme thing really stemmed from Sico’s secret wish to merry his own daughter, he could care less if his son was onboard or not, aslong as he could get Marotta converted.
- So beautiful, so forbidden.
“What do you think about Zoroastrisme darling?” Asked Sico longingly.
“I trust you father. I don’t know anything about Zoroastrisme, but if you say we must convert, I will convert.” Marotta responded in a submissive voice.
“You are both crazy and I will have no part in this” objected Adelferio and stormed out of the room, Sico didn’t care, all he could think off was how he was going to explain the finer details of Zoroastrisme to his daughter.
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And so ends the introduction to my Zoroastrian Republic AAR, hopefully my horrible spelling skillz didn’t let to many errors slip though. As you might have noticed from the title, this AAR will be a bit on the humorous side.
My apologies to anyone that feel offended by how creepy Sico is, but its pretty much what you can expect from a AAR called “How inbred can you get?”.
There is no particular goal in this AAR except to survive and prosper, which of course isn’t as easy as it sounds when you are a Zoroastrian Republic, I will be trying to role-play it a bit based on my character’s traits and I will keep it interesting by not cheesing to much, a few preset rules, I won’t be buying the elections by putting loads of gold in the election fund and I’ll limit my self to just one concubines and it have to fit the story.
You have probably noticed that I did some save game hacking to turn Sico and Marotta Zoroastrian and also to set up the Mauro family’s traits for the introduction, I don’t consider it any different then using the ruler creator and I tried to keep their stats/traits pretty fair. The rest of the game will be done cheat free, the only exception will be if I get some event that magically turning me none-Zoroastrian (like a liege placing his court chaplain in my county) in that case I’ll switch back if I can't switch naturally. If I get wiped out horrible as a Zoroastrian republic the AAR ends, hopefully no matter what happens it will end with one messed up family tree.
I hope you will keep reading as we find out just how inbred the Mauro family can get.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 - The marriage of Sico Mauro & Marotta Mauro
Chapter 2 - Life as a Zoroastrian
Chapter 3 - War and family
Chapter 4 - Giuseppa Mauro
Chapter 5 - The year of 869 Part I: Neapolis
Chapter 6 - The year of 869 Part II: Salerno
Chapter 7 - One less threat to the establishment
Chapter 8 - Ones you go Zoroastrian, you never go back
Chapter 9 - The Stratagem
Chapter 10 - War never changes
Chapter 11 - Innocence lost
Chapter 12 - The Sardinian vacation
Chapter 13 - A hidden plot
Chapter 14 - The gambit
Chapter 15 - Niphon Mauro
Chapter 16 - Sico become Doge
Chapter 17 - A friend in faith
Chapter 18 - A night to remember
Chapter 19 - Sico’s burial
Chapter 20 - The feast
Chapter 21 - Morning after
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