![[north 2.png]] # Epicrotea ## the "All-Conquering" - named after [[Sarapios]] who captured it from Battania some time ago # Backstory & History [[Epicrotea]], the 'All-Conquering' was named after the eccentric long-haired military genius [[Sarapios]], who crushed a [[Battanian]] ([[High-Kingdom-of-Battania]]) host and secured the lands west of Lake Laconis for the [[Calradian-Empire]]. Its towers, overlooking the Miron river, have frequently been a northerner's first glimpse of the awesome and terrible force to their south. This settlement is part of the [[Northern-Empire]]. Owned by [[Imperial]] house, [[Argoros]]. [[Asaios]]: (See page [[8]].) > After a few hours of marching through the meadows, I spotted the great octagonal keep of [[Epicrotea]] in the distance. **I had been here as a child**, and the town was almost as impressive as I remembered it - the gate, the basilica, the obelisk towering over a clean and orderly marketplace. The [[Argoros]] family, which holds the archonship of the town, takes its responsibility to guard the northern borders seriously, and **part of their task is to maintain their town in such a way that a foreigner's first glimpse of [[Imperial]] power is suitably overawing.** [[Istiana]]'s informant, [[Salion]], stays here with his constant companion [[Skioren]]. They work for a local gang leader. > [[Salion]] and [[Skioren]] met, if you can call it that, on a battlefield, where their respective mercenary companies had fought for opposite sides, and both had been badly wounded. They helped each other stagger to safety in a peasant's barn, and after a month's convalescence, decided they never wished to be parted. The Shield Brothers would not admit a Legionary, nor would the Legion admit a Brother, so they found their way to [[Epicrotea]] and accepted work as enforcers for the local gang leader. # Game Files / Developer Diaries !-- Volarias and Tricaea, Northern clan #2, marcher clan of patriarch faction, --> !-- The allconquering --> [settlements.XML]