Peon of turn 14: James Matheson, Nan Han

1) Again I am sorry about the long lag, next turn will be back to the normal 3 week turn around, a lot of things have gotten back into order for me.

2) Maps were updated and sent out this turn, free of cost to you all.

3) Also the credit amount on your turn sheets should now be up to date and correct.

4) Check out the Lords of the Earth homepage… http://gumby.spa.umn.edu/cscdir/lotedie/homepage.html

5) Musical titles for this turn were

Alabama - Greatest Hits III

Travis Tritt - Greatest Hits

Covered in Black - Various Industrial Artists

They Might be Giants - Flood

I will be home to answer question on Tuesday and Thursday, between 7:00 and 10:30

Eddie Hartwell

E-Mail: Allanon@Iceworld.org

$0.50 - Additional Maps

Players will be dropped if they are delinquent in paying for two turns, unless OK’d by me, I am reasonable.

Infantry, Cavalry, Siege, Bowmen: 500 Men

Warship: 5 Boats with 100 Men

Transports: 10 Boats with 50 Men

Field forts: 5 Forts 100 men garrisons

Citadels and Wall points: 20 feet of Stone and 500 men

LORDS ONE: Thomas Harlan, 4858 East Second Street, Tucson, Arizona. 85711-1207. (520)323-8570. Call between 7pm and 10pm MST. INTERNET: tharlan@pima.gov.

LORDS TWO: Sean Harding, 13224 Highview Drive, Burnsville, MN. 55337 (612)377-8440. INTERNET: sharding@mva.com.

LORDS THREE - THE OLD WORLD: Colin Dunnigan, 5042 East Julia, Tucson, Arizona. 85711. (520)881-1402. INTERNET: cdunnigan@pima.gov.

LORDS THREE - THE NEW WORLD: Richard Ketcham, 5223 Karenbeth, Houston, TX. 77084. (713)345-8246. INTERNET: 102667.2505@Compuserve.com.

LORDS FOUR: Dave Salter, 7338 Rolling Oak Lane, Springfield, VA. 22153. (703)912-6076. INTERNET: 102417.3444 @CompuServe.Com.

LORDS FIVE: Scott Chatham, 11030 SW Wilsonville Road, #117. Wilsonville, OR. 97070-9505. INTERNET: huntsman@teleport.com.

LORDS SEVEN - THE DARK AGES: Eddie Hartwell

LORDS EIGHT - THE DIADOCHI: Neil Stokes, 1674 Juliet Avenue, St.Paul, MN. 55105. (612) 698-9270. INTERNET: nstokes@iceworld.org.

 PLATE GAMES SUBEMPIRE: Thad Plate, 5333 East Thomas Road, #215, Phoenix, AZ. 85018. (602)952-8929. INTERNET: thadplate@aol.com.

 LORDS NINE: Turn #109 latest.

LORDS TEN: Turn #69 latest.

LORDS ELEVEN: Turn #28 latest.

BLACK EMPIRE - SEA OF FEAR: Turn #15.

LORDS THIRTEEN: Rich Sorensen, PO Box 779, Columbia Falls, MT. 59912. (406) 892-3752. INTERNET: khan@netrix.com

LORDS SEVENTEEN: Bob Gurley, (713)852-8866 or yuppyputze@aol.com

CRUENTI DEI: Thom & Beverly Ryng, 3815 North Pearl Street, Apt. C-1, Tacoma, WA. 98407. (206)752-3923 - No calls before 10am PST or after 9pm PST. INTERNET: darkpenguin @eworld.com.:

Some people has asked who is what religion, so, as Thomas Harlan, oh great creator of this game, has done, I will mark the religions with little pictures.

Ok, there seems to be more then just a little confusion as to the cost of PW. See the chart below.

Terrain C/C2/I/City W/J/S D/T/M

NFP / GP 5/10 8/15 10/20

On the Eastern tip of Northern Africa there are 2 regions, both named Zeila, now one is named Zelia and the other is Zelial.

After talking with a player, I agreed that it would make sense to have LT have 3 MSP’s of cargo, as opposed to the normal Transport’s 2 MSP’s. The rational was that the Light Transports have less armament and thussly (I like that word) has more room to move things.

Things in Italic’s are either submitted text, or something away from prying eyes.

DIPLOMACY: Flanders (A), Vermandois (FA)

King Harrold passed away in 925AD, leaving his son in command. Henrick ordered that the region of Burgundy, which if rumors are true is the spawning ground of Satan himself, removed of people and Dijon to be burned in the cleansing fire of truth. In order to do this, he met with the King of the North and together the truth spread like wild.

"I have met with the others, my liege, and the treaties are signed by all involved." Said Olaf, handing the scroll to King Henrik. "This is a great day, Olaf. For today is the beginning of the Joms Vikings Alliance. Inform the people that the Norse and Rus shall henceforth be welcome in our lands. The first order of business is to rectify the souls of the heretic coven known as the Eastern Franks, and to this bold new king that is foolish enough to lead them: Your death shall come swiftly and then you will know of the true God that rules the plane above Asgard. ", "But what of the Wudan, Milord?", "This Easterner’s wisdom surprised me. Italy is a rich and fertile land. Time will tell if his wisdom is true or just chance."

DIPLOMACY :None

Gunnbjorn was thrilled. He had just received word that both the Rus and the Danes agreed that the Joms Agreement was accepted. With sails white, and raven prints black, the navy moved the massive army to Normandy.

DIPLOMACY: None

King Mohammed took a cruise on a boat to Cornwall to meet the Loki and hammer out a trade route, when he returned he found that his son, and heir, was dead. Before he died though, he at least produced 3 children to continue the royal family.

Princess Sereem was sent to Rome with 9,000 swordsmen to help defend the bloody city of Rome. The regions of Orleans was pacified and Prince Abbas convinced the Eastern Orthodox people of Asturuias to convert.

DIPLOMACY : Thuringia (EA), Meissen (T)

DIPLOMACY: Lazica (FA), Campania (F), Vaspurakan (FA)

Cartiphilus was about 3 years too late proclaiming this to the now debunked nation of Bulgar. The few who escaped the bloodshed brought to that one time nation from the Hoard formerly known as Wudan were happy that they fled to someplace that was going to absorbed them anyway.

DIPLOMACY: Thrace (AB), Lombardy (AB), Liguria (AB), Spoleto (AB), Calabria (AB), Bithnia (AB), Thessaly (AB), Romagnia (AB), Attica (MN), Naples (MN), Epirus (CA)

Father John and his ministers spent a lot of time building churches in Italy, and were received by the war torn areas with open arms, except in Apulia. There the local peasants, who still hold to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, chased out the minister and his men, and destroyed the foundation of the Abby they were working on.

DIPLOMACY: None

Ivar sent is son Viga Brand out on his normal looting and enslaving route. The region of Volgoda was colonized to 1 GPV, and there they found many animals for trapping.

DIPLOMACY: Provence (F)

After the tribesman settled down there was much work to be done. King Sid II went to the task of setting up the defenses of his mighty nation. His son, Sid III tried to count the people loyal to his father, but ran out of fingers and toes. Dispite that he managed to get a good count of his people. Lt. Pao was sent to Provence for diplomatic reasons. A diplomat from the Byzantine Empire arrived and was treated warmly, he was slow roasted over an open flame. He suggested changing the national religion, and no one really cared either way, so it was done, and almost sent his young nation into a bloody civil war. Lt. Chuen lead a tiny navy into the seas, of course they were leaky and not seaworthy. The Byzantine Empire and the Ligurian Confedercy entered into a peace treaty, to be known as "Fortress Europa", never trust them Byzantine boys, look what they did to our country.

(Non Italics above were comments from a one time member of the Bulgar nation)

DIPLOMACY: None

Fatima finally got around to the true business of being a queen, making babies. She bore 3 children, including 2 healthy boys. Hassen was sent out to see what was going on in Italy, he returned with rumors of death and destruction.

DIPLOMACY: Corsica (F), Gefora (F)

Hassen ordered the strengthening of his hold in Italy by ordering that field forts be built, and all able bodied men be trained to use a sword. Elsewhere his men talked and pleaded to get more support from his other holdings.

DIPLOMACY: None

The nation continued its silent growth, the citys of Erivan, Ermenic, and Erzinjan all grown by 1 GPV. There was much excitement in Thebes when everyone heard that the Faya Maunders were coming to the north. Old men, and those that have heard the stories of war and combat raced to the boarder for some action. The groans of disappointment when Faya turned east were heard in Jordan, so they say.

DIPLOMACY: Mahabo (F), Merintha (F), Hova Merina (A), Betismarske (F), Sakalava (A)

Phil, lead a charge into battle in April of 921 into Zeilal, with 15,000 horsemen, 6,500 Bowmen. The Aden army was starting to move into Shoa, but the King of Aden would not listen to his advisor and her turned to attack, thinking he would have move men, and far better to end the war quickly. King Khalil charged forward with 26,500 well trained Cavalry, just before the two mounted armies collided the Bowmen from Axum let loose arrows that struck more men and horses then the ground, making the armies almost exactly the same size. King Khalil and his men were starting to gain the upper hand when in the distance he saw another army entering the fray. "Did we hire any mercenaries?" Khalil asked his advisors, "No we didn’t, why?", Khalil, seeing 6,500 fresh cavalry, and 7,000 spear men coming ordered an retreat, but by then it was too late and not even the King of Aden escaped from that battle field.

DIPLOMACY: None

The Islands of Cape Verde were colonized by people from the Ghana Empire. People wondered from one end of the nation to the other, for no apparent reason.

DIPLOMACY: Soro (EA), Kano (AW)

Simba died in 923AD peacefully in his sleep. Mustafas, now finally able to run the country, granted the regions of Kurfie, Niete, and Bomi their independence. A city was built on the beaches of Akan, named Dahomey, which got about the same comments that the Ghana City of Drakar has received. The ally from Yoruba died in a botched slave raid in Burkina, but the people of Yoruba didn’t like him much and became friendly to the Mali Government.

DIPLOMACY: Ennedi (NT), Danfur (NT), Kordofan (NT), Alwa (NT), Nubia (A), Suakin (NA), Kassala (NT)

The unnamed horsemen lead his band of not-so-merry men into the center of Axum, watching the puny ‘civilized’ men run and cower in fear. Rumors have it that Phil doesn’t sleep anymore.

DIPLOMACY: None

(Also see Axum for the news in Africa)

When Kahlil his son Mohommid claimed the thrown, but his sister Hasumid also tried to claim it, the result was a bloody civil war, in the streets of Saka there was murder, pillage and complete chaos when the small army from Axum came. The city fell without any sort of organized attempt to fight them. Samid, once a young sailor in the days of the Abbasids organized an escape from the city and now is followed by what’s left of Aden.

DIPLOMACY: None

Looking for a new player to lead the faithful

DIPLOMACY: None

Juchi spent his time discovering the joys of the civilized world, clean food, clean women, bathing and the like.

DIPLOMACY: None

Shifobra, tired of being the lone Shi’a nation started spreading the word of Allah, converting Dasht Kavir from Sunni.

DIPLOMACY: Edrosia (F)

Whats Her Name grew weary of the name her mother cursed her with, and so proclaimed her name will now be Chandra, and with that new name she set about expanding her nation. Edrosia was courted and became friendly to Gurjara (for the third time in the last 50 years), and most cities saw added buildings built. Those cities were; Calutta, New Dheli, Bombay, Multan, Samantra, Dheli, Mansura, Bihar, and Kaunaj.

DIPLOMACY: None

Now open for a Hindu Primate

DIPLOMACY: None

Looking for a country? This one could be yours.

DIPLOMACY: Mison (F)

Palpatyn finally got his revenge upon Nan-Han, seiging their last remaining stronghold in Kwangsi in 923AD.

DIPLOMACY: None

Chosen ordered a massive city building project, namily cities. Ca-Bao in Bao-Ding, Fu Bai in Fukien, Zhou in Ganxhou, Waimei in Hwai, and Zi-Shen in Shentung.

Unnamed, War Lord of Southern China

DIPLOMACY: None

Oda and his band of merry men sat around the rice table in his dojo and plotted and schemed on ways to make his government work better.

DIPLOMACY: None

Ahar slept after his migration, his people fished.

DIPLOMACY: Anasazi (F), Salinan (T), Ipai (NT), Tipai (NT), Washo (NT), Gosiute (NT), Bohoague (NT)

Talagut tired of the death and destruction that war and plagues brought sent his extended family out to make friends with the people around their nation. The only problem was that there was far more land around them then people, and that land tended to be harsh and unfriendly. Shaman and women seem to be more and more active in Hopewell.

DIPLOMACY: None

Celeste took over when her father died. Nothing other then that happened.

DIPLOMACY: None

Open for a new player