Grand Duke of the East

[Aelis]

On Day 95, Year 15, at Sage's Keep,  @Chewett was made Grand Duke of the Lands of the East and King of Marind Bell. This is the first time someone in the realm is elected to rule two lands at the same time. An official minute of the event is located at the following topic:

 

Following the unprecedented ceremony, the Demon of the East has recognized Chewett's rulership over the Tribunal part of the Lands of the East as seen in Announcement 4963. This also marks the first time kingship tools are made available for the Lands of the East.

Prior to this election, the East had seen a couple of (somewhat unsuccessful) claims to power from Granos to Eon and Shadowseeker, then Sunfire and finally Pipstickz. Chewett went a different route, though: he met directly with all interested parties and managed to gather their support. It was a very clever move in terms of strategy and timing. Interestingly enough, the concept of a Dukedom in the East was proposed before by Pipstickz, but his idea did not gain enough traction at the time.

With all this happening only a few days prior to the very anticipated 15th Anniversary, it almost looks as if the birthday is already happening. I look forward to seeing (and documenting) the changes that this new dual rulership shall bring to our realm.

 

Spoiler

I realize that, due to the recency of the event, there isn't much to write about and one can easily find all information about it. However, experience tells me that soon enough other things will happen and it'll be scattered all over different forum sections, announcements, and whatnot. Therefore, I have decided to start this historic document at our forum section and keep chronicling it in some sort of Archivist of the East fashion.

I have wanted to start centralizing and documenting East-related events for a while now and writing about the Dominion Journey for Steno's quest kinda reactivated this idea in my mind. I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to start thing off

I intend to work retroactively on past events as well. My goal is to have every major event in our land's history properly documented so that, in the future, current and future players can easily access everything. This marks the first step towards that goal.

Anyone is welcome to join me in this endeavor, just drop me a message if you're interested!