Cultures of the Legions

Posted by Lonely Knight on Sept 9th 2022 in Lore-discussion

UNIQUE HONORS AND CULTURES OF THE LEGIONS OF THE EMPIRE OF MANKIND TRANSCRIBED BY JUNIOR SCRIBE AXIOS VEOS OF PISCARITA, UNDER THE GOOD COMMAND AND ORDERS OF LEGON KRESOX THE BRAVE OF THE KALATHIPSOMIAN ARCH-LEGION OF FRATERNAL BROTHERS, LONG MAY HE SERVE AND COMMAND BY THE GRACE OF AAUTOKRATIR ANESAMIOS, COIS, VALERIOX AND GOVERNOR-AAUTOKRATIR IN ACT OF OPAKHASIA IORDANES IN THE 1246TH YEAR OF EMPIRE AND MANKIND

STATE VIII - TOMANYRÓS (BOLD) Legionnaires of the 9th Legion never saw military campaign against a foreign foe after the legion's first battle during the Kartharaddi Wars ended with the legion without enough forces to sustain itself (along with six other legions destroyed at the stand of the Merelosian Heroes), the legion only reformed in the 10th century to serve as a border guard between the Governorates of Malcois and Katraddia. Legionnaire of the 4th Column, Ionde, would save Aautokratir Exaduis during a northern journey after a landslide destroyed his caravan and killed much of his court.

Thereafter, the Legion was granted the honor to fly the Imperial colors quartered on the Legion standard alongside their normal imagery, and the legionnaires were granted the right to wear Aautokratir Exaduis's dynastic colors beneath and on their armor. The legion would do so nearly until its end, and 'Ionde's Run' would become a bi-yearly event within the legion, all of the legionnaires carrying one another across the northern mountains with the best athlete distinguished with legion honors, allegedly to recreate and honor the feat of Legionnaire Ionde.

The legion would become battle-hardened after the Fire Night and would no longer perform Ionde's Run or wear their standardized colors due to attrition holding the Malcoisiac border against the barbarian Katraddian hordes.

STATUS: LEGION HORRIFICALLY MASSACRED AFTER CAPTURE BY THE WARLORD SILVER-SPEAKER AFTER REFUSING HIS DEMANDS TO SURRENDER AND LOSING THEIR FORTRESS TO SUBTERFUGE AND COWARDLY SCHEMES BETWEEN THE NON-HUMAN BARBARIANS AND TREACHEROUS LEGION SLAVES

XIX - MAVIA (PRIDE) Legionnaires of the 19th Legion each wear a flower in the cloth band of their helmet before battle. Veteran legionnaires will often have a metal rose forged and attached to their helmet to show pride in the Legion's 11th century commander the Agionist Saint Arch-Legan Sansia. The practice was banned in the 11th century, but officially allowed in the early 12th. Legionnaires can be heard cheering "For Saints we Rose!" into the 13th century, the Legion's unofficial motto despite the vast majority holding little understanding or belief in the Agionist Heresies.

STATUS: SERVING WITH DISTINCTION HONORABLY IN THE GOVERNORATE OF THE ETEPEZEAN AAUTOKRATA, IN THE NAME OF AAUTOKRATIR COIS OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE

STATE XXXV - DIYOTËSMAXOS (ENLIGHTENED) Legionnaires of the 35th Legion were awarded a gold sash to recognize their achievement in retaking Fort Isiocaxaran in Malcois and surrounding gold mines, claimed by Aautokratir Eramos to have 'secured the treasury of the righteous armies and humanity with it' in a letter penned to founding Legan Craccarias after the legion buried 9 to every 1 survivor in the aftermath. Legan Craccarias would famously fall to drink after the war and would become famous among the legions for her drunken antics upon entering the wastelands of Katraddia in the late war before being retired from station by Aautokratir Eramos to great controversy in the legion.

It was tradition for Half-Lieutenants to attach their sash with a keg-shaped clasp until the legions end in her honor. The legion is most frequently referred to in Aversarian folklore (and was by the Legionnaires who took great pride in its history) the 'Drunken Legion'.

STATUS: DISBANDED AND PUT TO TRIAL DURING THE IMPERIAL TAX CRISIS AFTER MUTINYING AGAINST IMPERIAL LAW IN SUPPORT OF THE AAUTOKRATIR

AIRONOIAN GOVERNORIAL XLVIII - THE THREE-SUN'S FURY Legionnaires of the 48th Legion served as border guards against the Kashiyrans upon their founding in the 11th century. The legion would become honor guard to the Deticannd Estates after the Dayandan Wars of 1012 IS and would remain with the Deticannds despite not renouncing their Imperial oath after their surrender to the Dayanda of Kashiyra.

The Legion would rejoin the aautokrata after the Second Dayandan Wars in 1034 IS after they and the Deticannd Estates were captured by forces belonging to the Aautokratir's Guard. Legionnaires of the 48th betrayed the Dayandan at the end of the conflict, and were rewarded with a leave of punishment for their original desertion. Legionnaires would continue to wear Kashiyran dress alongside their traditional legion armor, even more exotic and Kashiyran inspired than is known to be standard among the easternmost legions of Aironoi. The last reported register of the Legion showed that the legion nearly to a man is of Kashiyran or Human-Kashiyran heritage and they were reportedly famous among the Eastern Legions for their brazen fighting style and incredibly peppery rations which neighboring legions frequently exchanged many goods for.

STATUS: LEGION REPORTEDLY STILL UNDER ARMS AS SELLSWORDS IN EASTERN AIRONOI