The Kingdom



























Background Information
===''' Characters === ==== Main Characters '''====  Richard Cannonwalker – One of the last remaining pirates and the King of Nepal. He is friends with many, including Jeremiah Garland, Cannonskull, and Jack Swordmenace, showing that he exudes a friendly disposition.

 Jeremiah Garland – Also known as “Vladimir I,” he is the Tsar of Russia. He is friendly with everybody within the IAKN and URK, and has notably good negotiation skills.

 Jack Swordmenace – A retired politician and soldier, previously serving for various militaries. He is now a Co-Chairman and Founder of the Underground Rebellion against the Kingdom (URK). He’s noted as being an excellent negotiator with a charismatic personality. Though he’s friendly with most, he speaks with Richard Cannonwalker the most.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Johnny Sea Slasher – One of the last remaining pirates and a Co-Chairman of the Underground Rebellion against the Kingdom (URK). Unlike Jack Swordmenace, many URK members relate to him in the fact that he’s been a pirate nearly his entire life.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> John Breasly – Also known as “George II” and commonly referred to only as “The King,” he is the Monarch of “The Kingdom.” ====''' Minor Characters '''==== <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Cyrus Shah – The Emperor of Persia and brother of Richard Goldvane. He’s very protective of his land and defends it from “The Kingdom,” but he is also unfriendly, so Persia is originally not included in IAKN.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Parax/Mahmud I – The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Although Parax is supposed to be immortal and have various divine powers, they’ve been severely weakened after voodoo magic experiments by Great Britain mooted many of his magic sources.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Cannonskull – Also known (uncommonly) by his real name, Mathias Mortemer Mick, he is a member of the URK and close friend of Richard Cannonwalker.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Jim Logan – One of the last remaining pirates and a leader of the URK. He is a close friend of Richard Cannonwalker & Jack Swordmenace.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Johnny Goldtimbers – The Prime Minister of Great Britain. Although John Breasly is the King, Johnny Goldtimbers handles most of the day-to-day operations (such as handling rebellions).

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Richard Venables – Leader of the Kingdom’s Military Force. It is his job to help conquer any countries that are not part of “The Kingdom”.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> Richard Goldvane – One of the last remaining pirates and brother of Cyrus Shah. He convinces his brother to include Persia in the IAKN, strengthening their forces. ===''' Factions '''=== <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> The Kingdom – One of the two dominant world powers following the Great Upheaval, which weakened various other countries to be taken. The leader is “The King,” uncommonly referred to as “John Breasly” or “George II.” The Prime Minister is Johnathan Goldtimbers.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> IAKN – Standing for “The Independency of Anti-Kingdom Nations,” and is sometimes referred to as “The Independency.” It is an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the Nepalese Kingdom, and later, the Persian Empire. They united themselves after the Great Upheaval, in which Great Britain conquered most of the world.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> URK – Standing for “The Underground Rebellion against the Kingdom.” It is a group mostly composed of Pirates and former British citizens whose goal is to overthrow “The Kingdom” and severely weaken their power. Theirs leaders are Jack Swordmenace and Johnny Sea Slasher. ===''' Plot Summary '''=== <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> The story takes place sometime in the near future, where two political powers have managed to rule most of the entire known world. These groups are The Kingdom, also known as Great Britain, and the IAKN, an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Nepal against The Kingdom. It is believed to be in the mid-late 1750s, though since the tracking of years has become obsolete to “The Kingdom” and proclaimed by them to be “dangerous to the majority” to know, it is not certain this is correct.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> There is also URK, a group composed mostly of Pirates and former British citizens whose goal is to weaken The Kingdom and re-instate independence among the territories conquered by Great Britain. They have difficulty protesting The Kingdom; this is because they are forced to retreat by The Kingdom’s military every time they publicly revolt.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> The Kingdom seeks to invade and conquer all of IAKN, thus instating themselves as the rulers of the entire known world. The IAKN and the URK have teamed up in hopes of defending themselves from, as Jack Swordmenace puts it, “the tyranny of King John.” == Part I == <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">'' “Over the duration of the war against the tyranny portrayed by The Kingdom, I feel as though our forces aren’t strong enough to overcome the strength held together by the glue of the fear exuding from the citizens of The Kingdom. Though it seems most of them do not like The Kingdom, most of them are also afraid of what The King would do to them if they were to ever revolt against him. Perhaps it will not be our forces that ultimately conquer The Kingdom, but an absence of ignorance from the citizens of The Kingdom. Though I’m not sure if most hate The Kingdom or that they believe that they are living a relatively free life in The Kingdom, we can only hope fate has the former in store for our future.” '' === Chapter I === <p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> It wasn’t a particularly bright and shiny day for most in London, but not a particularly bad day either. Considering that most in London were living in a sad, dirty city dictated by a tyrant, it was only normal that bad days were a daily custom. Although most days were bad days, the unsuspecting citizens had been tricked into believing that these bad days brought upon them after the start of the Great War were simply a small sacrifice on their part for the protection of the Kingdom’s soldiers fighting in enemy nations. A particularly bad day would be the day of an invasion upon The Kingdom, most of which would continue for a few days without stop. There was once even an invasion that lasted for an entire week, reducing the population of coastal areas by thousands. Although the fatalities caused by the Independency of Anti-Kingdom Nations does not quite meet the fatalities caused upon them by The Kingdom, The Kingdom does not cease to exaggerate the numbers in order to make their citizens more excited for the war.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> The legitimate fatalities caused by the Independency are around 10,000, while the legitimate fatalities The Kingdom has caused sits around 16,000. The Kingdom exaggerates these numbers by telling their ignorant fear-induced citizens that The Independency has only caused around 1,000 fatalities, while The Kingdom claims they’ve killed off around 30,000 of the enemy’s soldiers. These are the kinds of statistics that The Independency fights The Kingdom for; the constant droning of falsehoods ringing all across The Kingdom’s borders.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> All across The Kingdom were large posters with the same painting of The King on them; one of him glaring at those below him. The posters read:

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">  THE KING IS PROTECTION

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> THE KING IS KINDNESS

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> THE KING IS HONESTY

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> THE KING IS WATCHFUL

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> No matter what angle you looked at these posters from, The King’s eyes always seemed to be following you; they seemed to follow you as though… they truly WERE watching you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"> There was once an incident in London where somebody tore down a poster in protest, and they were taken away by the Police. To this day, only a couple of months later, his fate is still unknown. The Kingdom would typically take traitors away and wipe their existence from history. Anybody who asked where they had gone to would be reported to the Police and taken away as well. This process is commonly referred to as “evanescence.” However, there have been rare occasions where the person would return about a year or two later. Whenever this happened, they would confess to their crimes, apologize whole-heartedly, and return to their normal life. These people also all had something in common; they all had a large brand of the letter “C” on their right cheek. These people were often avoided and became societal outcasts.