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I really like the catamaran philosophy to host the ballista! Nice ship!

Indeed welcome Saladus al Juhtiv, I Lord Damaximus of the South-Eastern city of Mpya Stedor am already looking forward to the moment we meet and where u can tell the stories of u and your glorious men. Also if you and your man are travelling the lands of Kaliphlin in search for a nice city, you are more than welcome to stay in my city! --------------------------- My dear fellow Kaliphlin friends, as you can see, our honourable member SkaForHire has a little problem with the location of his town Al'Derak. The problem of the fact that it is 100 miles away from the mythical city of Lost Vega where our grand-grand-grand-(and a few more grand's)-fathers once lived when Kaliphlin was nothing more than this city and the surrounding deserts. Every little child of our beloved Guild knows the myths and sagas of this city and knows that one day the city vanished in the desert and our grand-grand-grand-(and a few more grand's, but some less than previous one)-fathers had to flee away to start new cities. Even we all know that there must be such a big treasure in the remainings of the city deep in the sands of the desert, we never really did an effort to discover the city simply due the fact that we, as tradesmen, are realistic and we know we'll never will find it remains. But many optimistic Avalonians, Mitgaridians and even Nocturnians already risced their live in search for the lost city. So I propose to all of u: let Mother Desert have the city at an unknown place to all of us Kaliphlins as we don't want to upset her. If that's good for all of you, we can make profit from this and make small explorersagencies in our cities where brave adventurers can prepare themself for a journey through the desert in search for the city. So according to this, every city may claim to be 100 miles from Lost Vega as nobody exactly know where it lays And SkaForHire can choose himself where his city will been placed :) (the thing I got a bit in mind is like Atlantis (disappeared suddenly) and the lost pyramids in the deserts which many explorers tried to find in the past)

I think Lost Vega is something mythically :D There is no one Kaliphlin idiot who is looking after it (as far as I know). It's only to tease adventurers of other Guild to come and search for it in the desert (very good for our tourism and travellingagencies) So if I was you, just pick a place at the map and let the location of Lost Vega to be unknown :) Of course you may hold the roadsigne as it is really good for attracting tourists to your town I think I'll make a small house in Mpya Stedor where adventurers can prepare their journeys ($$$)

I am still waiting to see the pictures Konugard updated in the list To solve the Albion problem, I split Albion up in innercity and outercity, so your embassy is placed now in the Outercity of Albion (same for Angeli) Updated as well I also restyled Kaliphlinlist by introducing areas to make it more clear to see. When I do Avalonia, I'll do the same as their areas are known. But for Mitgardia and Nocturnus, my Ninjascouts are still confused about the names (even they are masterminds) so help is welcome

The signbord of Lost Vega is funny ^^

Yup, but some people are using brickshelf (like myself), for them I only can think of Word&Paint

Well, it will only be seen at some places. Like the palace and the walls. for all other places, the Red & Blue flags will do it I know it's colourfull, but I wanted to put some history as well as some traits of Mpya Stedor in it

Nice!!! Thx to your template (and finished in paint) I made this as banner for Mpya Stedor: Red & Dark Blue as main colours => The Guild of Kaliphlin Black & Red as upper colours => The Guild of Ximus where I am born Weaponshield => Shield of the Guild of Ximus (with the colours Black & Red...) Tan: Sand - Gold: Trade - Grey: Mountains - Blue - the Sea => to picture Mpya Stedor as it lays next to the mountains, the desert and the sea and it is a trade city Thx!!!

And make a law like the law in Mpya Stedor that says traders may have a maximum of 2 soldiers with them in the cityarea

Really great MOC! Nice and pretty to watch detailing! But if the counting of my Ninjascout is right, at this moment there are more Avalonian soldiers then Kaliphlin Guards in Al'Derak? I just sent some Desert Guards to the small oasis to help guarding it until reinforcements arrives!!

Empty post (will be filled with a very nice story somewhere in the future)

I don't know how to do it too, but you always can use word and paint for it :) Copy-paste the image into Word. Normally the seize is reduiced now while the quality is still the same. Now copypaste that picture into paint. Most times there is now a big white L around the picture, to make that disappear, go to the lowest right corner, select it and now you can make the white L disappear. Now save it as JPEG and upload it on the web :). It sounds far more difficult then it is :D I don't gonna welcome you because I am of another Guild, but I just want to point you on the fact that your characters details and appearance make him more suitable for almighty Kaliphlin then for Mitgardia. (the armour, merchant, mining, thieves, ...). But ofcourse it's your choice! And to everybody else here: I am sorry that I visit your Guild's topic so frequently and post here, but I only help your people here or to show respect for their skills

Nice map! I am looking forward to see it build in bricks :) I'll edit your city in the next City Guide update (this evening probably)!

Great MOC! I love how it is so peacefull but still with action in it! I am sure my merchants will pass by regulary on their ways through the desert!

The Laws of Mpya Stedor (ST:) As Mpya Stedor is a part of Kaliphlin, Lord Damaximus decided to adapt his calendar to that of our mighty Guild. But he likes to party, so the old celebration days are marked too on the new calendar. I can give you examples of those days, but the reason why I tell you this part of the story of Mpya Stedor is because 1 January was the day everybody in Kaliphlin celebrated the God of the New Chance and before my grand-grand-grand-(and some more grand's)-father was born, they decided that the period between those celebrations would be called a year with specific months. Days were named as well, what was much easier because before that event, days were just numbers. But where was I? Ow yeah, on Sunday 1 January, the first day of the new year. Mpya Stedor was still one big constructionsite, but the first merchants started already with trading, making Mpya Stedor a real busy place with a lot of people. I am telling you this for a reason, but I can't remember at this moment what it was... So back to January the first, a Sunday. All people, even the slaves had a day off to celebrate, but before the celebration started, Lord Damaximus published the Laws Of Mpya Stedor somewhere against a tree, as there are not so many important walls already built. And this are them: X -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X [pid] LAWS OF MPYA STEDOR[/pid] 1. Only the Knights Of Mpya Stedor, the City Guards and persons who have the permission may wear a weapon inside the citywalls. Breaking this rule will result in slavery for 25 months! 2. Official Traders may have only 2 guards of their own. To defend themself, they got the permission to be equipped with a sword or a dagger. Adding an extra guard will been seen as provocation and will result in diplomatic trouble and bannishment and replacement. 3. Not-Official Traders may have NO guards with them in the city walls. Also they may only trade with inhabitants of Mpya Stedor and the Official Trader of their Guild or Faction. If they are caught trading with a trader of another Guild or Faction, it will result in a fine of 1000 gold coins. This is to prevent diplomatic trouble between 2 Guilds or Factions due some some dangerous traders (NOT's). 4. Trading with inhabitants of Mpya Stedor is only allowed at the market. Everybody may trade with them (townsmen, NOT's and OT's). Trading outside those areas will be considered illegal and if caught, see rule #3 . 5. In the bay of Mpya Stedor are only rowboats allowed. Tradingvessels will be parked outside the small bay in the big bay. As this bay is defended by our navy, those tradingvessels are safe here. Breaking this rule will result in nothing as it is impossible for vessels to enter the undeep waters of the small bay. 6. Tradingvessels may only be equipped by a maximum of 4 guards who are not allowed to disembark. When there are more quards discovered by the control, the vessel will have not the right to enter the greater bay of Ghuba-ya Biashara. 7. Robbery of othermans property (or property of Mpya Stedor) will result in slavery for a period linear to the value of the robbed items. 8. Fights are only allowed in Inn's or outside the citywalls. When a discussion is happening, ask the cityguards to be the diplomat. Fighting at public places will result in 5 months slavery. 9. Insulting the Guild of Kaliphlin or one of it's vassals will result in slavery for 60 months. 10. Rebellion, or planning of rebellion will result in 120 months slavery and lifelong slavery for the leader. 11. Visiting the Warrior Guild or Assassins Guild without permission will result in 20 months slavery. Signed, Lord Damaximus, Lord of Mpya Stedor, Vassal of Kaliphlin. Note: new rules can be added without warning so check always this official paper latest addition: - January 2: rules 3, 4, 5 and 11 edited - January 11: rules 1, 2, 9 and 11 edited X -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BOW FOR ALMIGHTY KALIPHLIN ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (PD:) In other news: - Mpya Stedor's Embassy of Kaliphlin for Claw Breakers Area is almost finished, only the tentsail has to be added. - The Palace of Mpya Stedor will look like this. Bricks ordered, but due exams will the Palace finished in 3 or 4 weeks probably. Also Warriors Guild, Westgate and 2 Marketbuildings will be finished by then. - Tomorrow, I'll put my army in pictures and will upload them in this thread

Nice monsters already! But same remark, pictures are maximum 800x600 pixels. If you don't know how to change seize, do like me: Paint and Word. You copy your picture, paste it in Word, select the picture again and normally it's now already below the 800x600 seize. So select copy again, go to Paint, select paste and save it as JPEG

I would say "Join the club", but then again, your from another guild

As Kaliphlin Guildsman you have to know that my ninja scouts have explored most of Historica allready and they have made a City Guide with almost all MOC's of Historica (not the army and siegeweapons) ;) Only Avalonia and Nocturnus aren't fully accurate yet, but in the next days I'll do them as well

Lord *Hik* Damaximus wishes the *Hik* same for everybody of *Hik* Kaliphlin! I hate hiccups after partying ...

Indeed! but that makes the problem almost all my tan and brown plates are used for the ground I made a small quickview using some black plates as tentsaills and its not so bad, the only problem is it will be really dark inside

My embassador told me too he wants a roof. Nowadays it's very rainy My supplies are quite low atm considering how much work and bricks I still need to have for Mpya Stedor. I firstly thought of brown tent sails, but considering black will fit too in Nocturnus, I am going to start with trying black tentsails. I'll first will try with black plates and take a look on how much it looks like a real tent. If it's a negative result, I will look around for black or brown clothes (probably nylon) and use needle and thread and lego taps...

Avalonia was supposed to be updated completely in 5 minutes, but I was distracted because I was talking and well, somehow my tab disappeared and so I lost all my work I had done... My ninja's are investigating the case, but we think some Avalonian casted a spell in the hope to keep their cities secret... and now follows a big ***************************************************************************************** (short translation: megabloks)

Oh dear God, thx that that monster is somewhere in Mitgardia! Please specify where so I know my traders won't go to there! :D If the body and wings will be as nice detailed as the head, all dragons allover Historica will bow for this one! It's really looking promising!

I have ordered almost all materials! Hope to have them next week (I only buy stuff in Belgium). Firstly I planned to make the windowspaces empty, but for one order I had to reach 10€, so while looking for other bricks to reach that amount, I found exactly 36 golden windows for 0.05 Euro each (woooohoo...oooow!!). As I am not planning to demolish afterwards, I think I'll make the next 3 months only basicbuildings with the bricks I got ^^. @Zcerbus, it's possible I do some small changes while I am building, but that will depend on the conditions of the bricks

Just ordered all materials required for my palace (and a loading not necessary bricks (mostly minifigs) ). There goes my legomoney for the next 3 months I am glad LOTR comes out this summer and not now:D