@Ananya @Assura Do you know whats the arc after this current one? And whats it about? Also how does duke loggins die?
Loggins wipes out wildnorth town, saving Locke headache, then locke wipes out the soldiers of loggins who invaded Nortons and then locke goes to rescue charade n his convoy. Loggins gets infuriated n plans to attack norton family, but norton family has solid defence, locke learns of this n at the same time one of the subordinates of loggins who was captured by locke n released on ransom rebels against loggins, so locke while returning with Charade n this baron together plunder loggins territory when loggins has left to attack Nortons, they completely plunder his territory, they don't just rob gold, food, etc they rob the population itself in his territory and finally do a pincer attack on loggins, loggins stuck between Norton walls n Locke, I think Loggins escapes to kenmays family, not clear in MTL. Later Kenmays declare that Loggins has died.
The ruins exploration in swamp got forgotten by author. The swamp was pretty much cleaned up ( a lot). The explanation for origins of swamp was it was a river which got swampy due to silt. While they were building road to the port which had another purpose of acting as fence against swamp fauna ('gators'n'stuff). Part (half) of the swamp is already supposed to be used for farming - so it is supposed to be explored. Or in awhile we'll get a chapter like - the farmers in swamp discovered stuff.
Yea, he clears out the blackmud swamps builds a wall around it to prevent the barbarians from crossing I think, pretty much like the Mongolians and the MTL is not very clear about what happens afterwards if Telesti ever explore ruins found there
He is always trying to do something despicable to Lorist! He is the emperor, he doesn't want the Norton Family's strength to increase beyond a point where he won't be able to control them, at the same time he can't let them get destroyed because Norton Family is the most powerful family under his empire.
At some point because Lorist is focusing on developing his territories has a much more powerful military force (including equipment, like winter gear or much more advanced siege/ ranged weaponry). The second highness is bent on reunification, so he's just bent on this. Because Lorist is the most powerful man on second highness side, he tries to get Lorist involved in all his wars in any means (like promising a lot of stuff to members of his alliance, so he goes to the war because of them, without him they will fail), etc. So I guess he tries very hard, but Lorist is hard man to touch. The only reason second highness is position is only because of Lorist. At the latest raws the empire is unified a lot more, however the business alliance (which was based on Morante and was fighting old empire and cause it to fall apart) wants to become a new empire or something, so they are no longer united and each member of alliance tries to carve up as much territory as possible, something like becoming a new royalty. So far Lorist and second highness are allied to fight against them (Lorist actually uprooted one member of alliance (which specialized in weapon/armor producing and now Lorist holds the monopoly of best weapons/armor) during winter (the few latest chapters),
Thanks for your reply A question does Lourist ever create an independent kingdom or is it limited to a Grand Dukedom
In the latest raw, still a Dukedom. As for the Second Highness, for his ambition, he broke up with the Norton cousin and married someone else to gain support. I think the best outcome for the Second Highness is for him to lose totally and admit he is not fit to be a king, then he could live normally with the cousin.
Keep in mind, the story is... well, at most in midway. It is far from over yet. Well, it is not clear how the business alliance will react after member of original top 7 business no longer exists after the current winter in novel. He's safely at north and war is imminent between empire and business alliance. The likely scenario is that second highness will be killed by business alliance and he'll be the new leader of the empire. Anyways, Lorist is not interested in this for now. Lorist does not have many interest at south now. Looks like he got another madman researcher so weapon/armor development will have another boost. And he's currently building railway across his Northern territories (should be close to finish). I guess he will now focus on north. Even though he's the North lord, but there's a lot more land further in the North. After latest war he's got more territory closer to northern barbarian planes, so there's ought to be some development in this.
Thanks a lot for your answers Could i please ask another question 1. As of now how many people are there in the Norton Family Domain as of ch 162 there are 160 k but now how many are there ? 2. Also i heard he attacks a pirate kingdom in the spoilers wondering does lourist use that country's lands after conquering it or does he just abandon it after taking everything 3.Also that Principality island that lourist received from the second hughness in ch 152 Does he use it like does he build a port on it
Does the second highness take a beating as of the latest chapter at the hands of the business alliance Also in which chapter does Garcia leave him
1. In recent raws above 5 million I guess, I'm not sure. 2. They are not pirates, they are slavers, he develops that fomer slavers island, he assigns this task to his half brothers who are illegitimate children of his father, he promises titles to them according to their performance and he also appoints a governor to the island. Later on in the story, he uses the island as a land of exile for people from his territory, who are scheming behind him, especially people from maplewood bastide. 3. Oh that island is of major strategic importance to Lorist, initially some other family people were illegally collecting taxes in that island, he clears them out, later on chichad chamber of commerce tries using various methods including assassination to snatch that island from him, in fact those ppl are the ones who instigate those slavers to kidnap Charade n others which ultimately leads to their destruction. That island is of importance because all the north sea routes to other places are accessible from that island. He also builds a huge navy and some of the fleets are stationed around that island.
Thanks you wow thats amazing 1.How big is his current army and navy 2.is it mentioned how much his yearly revenues are in gold fordes 3.Does Duke Flisbasen deal heavy damage to Lourist some spoilers say he was Lourists worst opponent Does lourist loose many troops
Sorry for asking so many questions the thing is i am really curious this series is amazing You Profile picture is pretty cool Baam