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| <font color="#003300">Meanwhile, Walter Miriel juniour, named after his great-great-grandfather, had become the mayor of Springdale. He sent out a scouting party to find out exactly how big the island was. They returned with shocking news: They weren't alone, and far from it. Judging from the stories they had heard, the others werent friendly either. They had to get their act together and unify the people, be it friendly or the brutal way. Walter knew the danger of it, and immediately set out to put a stop to the bickering between the families in the neighbouring villages. Using the powers that the priests of Atinism bestowed upon him, he marched with his best unit into the midst of all the fighting. Upon seeing Walter, clad in his full battle armour, everyone seemed to falter. | | <font color="#003300">Meanwhile, Walter Miriel juniour, named after his great-great-grandfather, had become the mayor of Springdale. He sent out a scouting party to find out exactly how big the island was. They returned with shocking news: They weren't alone, and far from it. Judging from the stories they had heard, the others werent friendly either. They had to get their act together and unify the people, be it friendly or the brutal way. Walter knew the danger of it, and immediately set out to put a stop to the bickering between the families in the neighbouring villages. Using the powers that the priests of Atinism bestowed upon him, he marched with his best unit into the midst of all the fighting. Upon seeing Walter, clad in his full battle armour, everyone seemed to falter. | ||
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The Springdale founders
and thus every founder of Springdale.
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Summerdale: War, Religion and Fleeing Families
Springdale. A few hundred years ago, Springdale was nothing. This is the story of how Springdale came to be:
The three of them were good friends of the son of their late friend Estore Miriel. They held out their warm hands to Walter and his mother and took them in under their care. Soon after the death of her husband, Walter's mother passed away through grief - leaving Walter to be brought up by Roger Clifton, his wife, and the priest. | http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG |
The citie's reknowned artist, Beatrix Figg was put out of business after her studio was ransacked and all her canvases, brushes and paints were taken and used to pollute the rivers. She after became bankrupt, and married Oliver Chorter sooner than she planned. Oliver was the cities Physician who worked hard for his living, earning a good deal of pay. However, because he earned a lot, he also also had the highest taxes of anyone in the town (which were then subsequently stolen like every other tax around). By now, the teachings of Atinism had spread to others within the small community of friends in Summerdale. The belief that something better was out there if they just made the right choices in life was easily persuading people to believe somebody was watching over them. Beatrix's sister Alice soon joined the religion after seeing how happy it had made the former artist. As a Candlemaker, Alice had a steady business making new candles as most people were now moving about at night, and needed the light to see/work by. With a little persuasion from his brother, her husband Frederick Dwyer, the cities' only Armorer was swayed over to the belief. The religion was quickly growing, and it was hard to keep their enthusiasm away from others in the dark times of the wars. The maid of the Loper house (the former owner) overheard the new priest discussing some finer points of the beliefs with Roger and his wife, while she was tending to young Walter. Helena Worswick liked the idea, and after meeting the young carpenter, William Holmes on his way to his first meeting, she decided to tag along. They later married. | http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG |
http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG | As more people joined, stories of the religion began to spread. The members were keen to express the happiness they felt from believing and from the sermons that Peter gave them each day. Walter had been trying to persuade a young lady: Arabella Savagne, for a while. She was a Clothier from a wealthy family, who owned and outfitters. Her brother Martin took care of the business, while her sister Gloriana had the role of Seamstress. As Walter came to visit Arabella more often, her brother got wary, and decided to listen in on one of their conversations. Stories had started to spread, and he immediately understood what was going on. He did not want any part of this new religion, and attempted to persuade Arabella not to join what he believed to be some "weird happy cult". Little did he know how much Arabella loved Walter Miriel. He couldn't stand to see his sister "tainted" and left the business, putting his sisters in the lurch. Walter came to the rescue however, and looked after the business for the two sisters. Moving in with Arabella and wedding her. |
However, this was not the last heard of the brother. It soon became known to the small group of Atinists that Martin's stories now really started to spread, and the Atinites began to fear for their survival. It seemed that Martin had spread some malicious rumours about a small group of people, lead by a local priest were brainwashing people into their way of thinking, even punishing people until they gave in. None of this was true of course, but as Atinism was still "illegal", the believers had to remain silent.
The government finally heard about a crazed and broken man wandering around the outskirts of the city and had heard the stories and whispers surrounding some sort of religion. They put out a ransom stating "New Religions are a waste of Gold and resources that should be put into keeping our city safe from thieves. Therefore, anyone found to belong to any other religion than the state religion will be tried and if found guilty will be hung by their necks the next morning". |
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http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG | The believers in Atinism understood that they had to flee. Arabella's sister, Gloriana and her husband, Francis Bolbec, a farmer, while not really followers of Atinism, joined the fleeing group to help support them. Francis owned one of the few farms still left standing despite the plundering and he decided to sell it for a nice bag full of gold coins. This would go towards a boat to escape the city. |
Right before the journey, Margaret Clifton, a dyer, joined up after being persuaded by her brother. She dragged with her, the cities finest stonemason Arthur Worswick whom she had been courting for some time. | http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG |
14 families, fleeing from their own lands, then started a journey to where no one knew.
Springdale: The Founding
As they had been in a rush, they didn't get the best boat, and far from the best sailor. Even so, there was no turning back. Behind them, all that was waiting were some angry politicians, and even worse an angry town since they had disappeared with some of the most important professionals the town needed during the hardship of the various wars. As they pushed on, the sea got rougher, and the boat got smaller and smaller in the vast ocean. Without a clue of where they were aiming for, or where they were at all, the friends sailed on.
As the fighters quietened, eventually you could hear the pigs squeal from miles away. Without raising his voice, Walter told the people:
"I have sent scouts far and wide in this island. We are not alone, and the people already here are far more civilized than ourselves. Why are we fighting amongst ourselves? We do not wish to become what Summerdale was. We are Springdale. Let us not dishonour our families who worked so hard to get us here and start out our new and happy lives. We should be working together to continue to expand our people and discover the other people of this island which we thought was so small, but is in fact vast." |
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http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG | The people listened intently, and as his speech continued, they began to put down their weapons and began to agree with his way of thinking. After some time Walter's men had rounded up a few people who continued to cause trouble and brought matters under hand. |
"From now on, all the families in this part of the land will be united. You will stand under the flag of Springdale, and we will be as one. Springdale is your city, and you will be the first outlying region. In memory of one of the first settlers here, we will call this region Cold Spring." | http://www.home.no/profet/images/Medieval_banner-Springdale3.JPG |
And so, a Kingdom was born.