IC Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=133953.0)<br/><br/>World Map (http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/332/6/5/Codex_Alera_Map_by_priscellie.jpg)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">First Lord</span>(Honorary "Highness")<br/>Alera Imperia - First Lord Gaius Sextus & First Lady Caria<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">High Nobles</span>(Honorary "Grace")<br/>Attica<br/>- High Lord Allios & High Lady Julia<br/><br/>Antilla<br/>- High Lord Rawkus & High Lady Doratea<br/>***Passionate, abrasive, and steadfast in their duties.  Though they view Gaius with thinly veiled disdain, they are loyal to the crown regardless of their opinion to the man beneath it.<br/><br/>Aquatine<br/>- High Lord Attis & High Lady Invidia<br/>***Calculating and ambitious to where the value of a life is measured by how much use it is to them.  Those who impede their goals seem to be especially prone to "accidents".<br/><br/>Ceres<br/>- High Lord Makius<br/><br/>Forcia<br/>- High Lord Aelius & High Lady Tatiana<br/><br/>Kalare<br/>- High Lord Brencis<br/>***Violent, petulant, arrogant, and possibly mad with ambition.  He is the sort who values power over all and will do anything to claim more of it.<br/>+The slave capital of Alera, where the poor freeholders live in squalor while the citizenry live in the lap of luxury.<br/><br/>Parcia<br/>- High Lord Felix & High Lady Vita<br/><br/>Phrygia<br/>- High Lord Guntus & High Lady Lucia<br/><br/>Placida<br/>- High Lord Sandos & High Lady Placida Aria<br/><br/>Rhodes<br/>- High Lord Martinus & High Lady Cassia<br/>***Schemers with a dangerous amount of ambition.<br/><br/>Riva<br/>- High Lord Grantus & High Lady Cornelia<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z69/Neji121/725697.jpg)</div>Daemus, head of your faction of agents who serve First Lord Gaius Sextus, sits at his desk with his fingers steepled before him with an amused grin on his face.  The expression was typical whenever he had a new mission for the group based off a juicy rumor overheard in the bathhouse.  His runners have already been sent to summon his agents to the usual meeting place hidden within a secret room of Bakkheia, now it was just a matter of waiting for them to arrive.<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Characters</span><br/>Desh M'Ravirr (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=376671) (Incognito Cutter) - Loki Aesir<br/>Cecilia (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=10292) (Sundering Maiden) - NicciKotor<br/>Misha (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=376756) (Intellectual Summoner) - Latooni Subota<br/>Cerise d'Lahn (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=8852) (Squad Leader & Espionage Extraordinaire) - Ershin<br/>Jayde aka "Akasu, the Red Lotus" (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=10309) (Unsuspecting Entertainer) - Medical Miracle<br/>