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| - Vernazza was a rich mining community until it was taken over by the Montuchio Condottieri. The Montuchio Condottieri receive fees for mining rights in this Timonium-rich land. The inhabitants have grown tired of seeing their lands stripped bare and the profits shipped to the vaults of the Great Castle. Minana has few small mining operations going on in Vernazza and the people of Vernazza more than happy to work for Minana than for the cheating Montuchio. During one of the mining operations, workers uncovered mysterious artifact that made few workers that worked to close to the artifact became sick. Lord Petruzzo Giamba with his Giacomo Giamba traveled to Vernazza to take the artifact back to Minana for further study. However, the Doge of Venucci who has learned about this discovery was first at the site, stole the artifact and murdered Petruzzo before he can claim the artifact. Condottiere is a province that lay in the centre of Vinci and was once the capital of the former Vinci Empire, its people were slow and too reluctant to embrace the technological changes sweeping the lands. Transformed into loosely-joined bands of Condottieri mercenaries, they are powerful, but their infighting keeps them occupied and disorganized, preventing them from regaining their former glory. The fighting between two of the most powerful Condottieri fractions, the Forzi and the Montuchio, has reached a stalemate. Forzi wants to restore peace and order to Condottiere and they are eager to embrace the technological advancements that have been made, but Montuchio wants to reinstate the rule of the Vinci Empire, restoring its former glory and band all technologies form the land. Montuchio exploits any nearby states, forcing them to pay outrages fees and protection money so that they can to keep their war going. Montuchio controls the Great Castle, the cornerstone of all the fighting in Condottiere, if the Forzi can take over the Great Castle the Montuchio rule will be broken and people of Condottiere can finale build a new future for themselves. The Condottieri are the last remnants of the Vinci imperial family, since the fall of the Vinci Empire and destruction of the Condottieri Imperial Royal House all-remaining Houses of Condottieri have been fight one and other for the throne of the empire. While their empire long has crumbles into dust and the rest of the people of Vinci have all moved on to the future, but the Condottieri are still stuck in the past, fighting meaningless blood feuds and their lands scared by their civil wars. If there are two things that all of Vinci can agree on is this they will say; “Condottieri good fighters, bad rulers” and “If one of the Condottieri Houses ever win those fights and thinks that they have the divine right to rule over us, then they have other thing coming.” Umberto is a contested region in the southland still recovering from the Condottieri War. New settlements have sprung up here, composed of citizens seeking escape from the conflicts to north. Recently a splinter group of Pirata has broken away from the Houses of Pirata and claimed a large portion of Umberto for them-selves. The people of Umberto are able of holding out against the onslaught of this group of rogue Sky Pirates. However, the attackers are heavily entrenched along the road to the city and its matter of time before the city’s supplies runs out.
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