Factions and power

Towns and territory

Fifteen towns may each be held by a faction. The holder takes a toll on what is sold there, and its colours fly over the town on the live map.

1. Claim a free town

   A faction's leader stands at the town's heart - its town hall, else its market, moneylender or tavern - and claims it (F2 > My faction > Towns and territory, or /claim). The price comes from the coffers. The whole realm hears of it.

2. Hold it

   The town pays its holder 5% of every sale made in it: the markets and the businesses - 8% while the holder also leads the town's influence, 3 more while the town's walls are newly strengthened. Players riding in see whose town it is. A holder whose influence fades under 15 while a rival passes 40 loses the town.

3. Challenge for it

   A rival faction's leader starts a challenge at the heart (half the claim price), with at least two of its people in the town - and at least as much influence in the town as its holder (see Influence and renown). The holders are warned at once. Ten minutes in the town, with none of the holders there, and it changes hands. While any holder stands in the town the challenge does not move; if all the challengers leave, it fails.

4. A town that just changed hands

   cannot be challenged again for two hours.

5. Or besiege it

   War at a fixed hour: see Sieges.

6. Its gates

   The faction holding Suchdol works the fortress portcullis, and the holders of Maleshov its drawbridge: any member standing by opens or shuts it (F2, or /citygate open / close). A town nobody holds keeps its gate as it stands.