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`Apr. 19, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord
> [!custom-callout]- All mentions
> *Pulled from* [[3-Travels-in-Calradia-(DLC)]] — “Zorgan was a great admirer of Olek Kuloving. Olek, he said, was leading resistance in the Sturgian council of Boyars to a law that would allow Raganvad to hire one of the mercenary bands of the north, possibly 'the Shield Brothers' (Skolderbroda), and place them under royal protection. This would give him troops that would rally to his banner more quickly and readily than the Boyars, without needing to raise taxes. But Zorgan griped that this would mean that foreigners would go strutting around the realm as though they were Boyars. He said that some Boyars, who licked Raganvad's boots, would back the law, but men like Olek, who recognized that Sturgians had pride, would never stand for this.”
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> *Pulled from* [[3-heroes-(Bannerlord)]] — “Olek the Old was boyar of the Kuloving, the fiercest and most conservative of the Sturgian noble houses. He fell at the battle of Pendraic, leading from the front - as many say Raganvad should have done.” — “The current Grand Prince of Sturgia is Raganvad. Harsh and uncompromising, he believes that it is the right of the prince to command the boyars in all things, not just in making war. For the time being they obey him, not least for his ability to call on the kinsmen of his mother, a Nordic princess with ties to the fearsome Skolderbroda mercenary company.” — “Godun is lord of the Vagiroving, one of the younger houses of the Sturgians. His people have always been as interested in trade as they have been in war, although Godun himself is everything a prince might want: cooperative, prompt to pay his feudal dues, quick to respond to his liege's calls to arms. Yet Raganvad has never fully trusted him, because it is hard to imagine a Vagiroving without his own long-term plan for personal aggrandizement.”
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> *Pulled from* [[3-spclans-(Bannerlord)]] — <-- Ruling clan, centralizing. Patriarch: Raganvad, Ivan ‘the Terrible’ and/or Harald Hardrada type, minimal sense of humor. Heir: Simir, ambitious but treated coldly by father, wants to prove self. -->
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> *Pulled from* [[3-std_story_mode-(Bannerlord)]] — “Or perhaps it was just Raganvad. He was stewing in his anger when up comes the Battanian king, Caladog. The Battanians had taken their time stripping the bodies of the imperial vanguard and the Sturgians were angry at them, so Raganvad called him a coward. Caladog sneers at him and walks off.” — “My father took the imperial dragon banner from dead Neretzes' hands - it's a famous story - and but then the little prince Raganvad tried to claim it. My father broke it over his knee, threw it at him, and told him to get his own toys to play with. Hah! It was a good, good day.” — “A victory, won by my father, claimed by Raganvad.” — “They say Olek the Old had pried the dragon banner out of the Emperor's dead hands. But then Prince Raganvad, who had not so much as drawn his sword in the battle, claimed it as a trophy. Olek, who was covered in his enemies' blood, laughed at Raganvad and told him to go find his own toy to play with. Raganvad struck him, so Olek broke the banner staff over his knee and threw it in his prince's face.”
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> *Pulled from* [[3-world_lore_strings-(Bannerlord)]] — “You may know that there is a matter between Raganvad and myself. Well, someone else will have to tell you about it. In my family, when there is a matter like this, we let our swords do the talking.” — “Ah, yes. Raganvad, the glorious king, gave my little sister Pira to a Khuzait to seal an alliance. Well, my other sister - Siga - she wasn't having any of that. She rescued NAME, and left the Khuzait’s castle in flames behind her. Well, Raganvad couldn't have that - he had my sister taken by surprise, and sent her head to the Khuzaits. This is not something that our family can forget.” — “The boyars swore an oath to my grandfather to obey him as prince. They begged him to save them from the wrath of the Empire, which they had stirred up with their raids and their lawless ways.” — “My grandfather did save the boyars, and ever since, their thankless heirs have tried to weasel out of that oath. They like to quarrel, and take what they want, and care nothing for the realm.” — “I will break them. By the Heavens I will bring them to heel, or the knife will fall on them.”
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> *Pulled from* [[Blog_36_Sturgia]] — “As with other factions, we let history be our inspiration for Sturgia's politics. The chroniclers weren't shy about expressing their opinions about the different princes. Some rulers, like Vladimir the Great or Yaroslav the Wise, have come down to us as far-sighted rulers. Others, like Sviatopolk "the Accursed," accused of murdering his brothers, or Vseslav, the sorcerer-king of Pskov, were depicted as some of the more colourful tyrants in medieval Europe. Raganvad, the current Sturgian prince, is cut out of the latter mould: he knows how to punish but not how to reward, and he'll put to the test the old dictum that it is better to be feared than loved.”
> [!location]- Info from:
> [[3-lords-(Bannerlord)]]
```
<!-- Ragenvad, Hardrada type -->
<NPCCharacter
id="lord_2_1"
name="{=rNrq6QdU}Raganvad"
age="37"
voice="curt"
is_hero="true"
default_group="Infantry"
culture="Culture.sturgia"
occupation="Lord"
face_mesh_cache="true">
<face>
<!--face_key value="0000514140bc19029e3b66c84492388893a369b8b287576979538ac46b678b94000e28b50ec6b384000000000000000000000000000000000000000001585180" /-->
<BodyProperties
version="4"
weight="0.5"
build="0.7"
key="0000500140BC09429E895C86B34CA38993A369B8B287576979538AC46B678B940177781307C60384000000000000000000000000000000000000000000F05180" />
</face>
<skills></skills>
<Traits>
<Trait
id="HuscarlFightingSkills"
value="6" />
<Trait
id="Commander"
value="14" />
<Trait
id="Politician"
value="16" />
<Trait
id="Manager"
value="12" />
<Trait
id="Mercy"
value="-1" />
<Trait
id="Honor"
value="-1" />
<Trait
id="Valor"
value="1" />
<Trait
id="Generosity"
value="-1" />
<Trait
id="Calculating"
value="1" />
<Trait
id="Authoritarian"
value="1" />
</Traits>
<Equipments>
<EquipmentSet
id="stu_king_template_bat_m" />
<EquipmentSet
id="stu_king_template_civ_m"
civilian="true" />
</Equipments>
```
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