I am another unmitigated failure with no completed agenda's
Major agenda
* Assume the responsibility for protection the entirety of Anuire’s northern borders against the Shadow.]
[Be recognized as the state faith of at least four (three is enough for a partial objective) of the following realms: Tuornen, Alamie, Mhoried, Elinie and Coeranys.]
I was moving with Elinie (mainly helped by the near suicidal nature of the LPA) but as the LPA finally pulled back from civil war pretty much lost my chance to remove it and what was left of the 2 remaining Khinasi houses and restore the realm to the Anuirean culture, my attempt to help LPA and offer them protection was scuppered by Jon's decision to have LPA aggressive and dominant after their failed excommunication rather than supportive and submissive, that LPA then crawled off to IHH was vastly amusing. I was even less successful in Coeranys (LPA pumped THB and kept HA from expanding to the sort of size that would permit an attempt at state faith-dom, my own fault for leaving it too late to get going). Tuornen and Alamie were non-starters for several reasons.
Minor agendas
* Restore the martial arm of the Aegis.
[Muster and maintain at least 3 knight units (minimum elite experience), 3 armsmen units (minimum elite experience), and 4 other units (minimum veteran experience).
I was well on the way here but the time needed to train meant that my army was fairly green - of the 20 or so troop units I had less than half were elite or better.
* Establish a forward line of defense in Markazor, both physically and spiritually.
[Build and maintain at least 3 fortifications (forts or castles) of at least level 3 in ex-Makazor. AND Rule at least 3 level 3 temples in ex-Makazor.]
Bleh, the Marquis wasn't interested in the early game and ignored HAs offers of support so HA had to tiptoe along - I spent more effort stopping people from starting a war there than building up the land or clearing goblins. Sutren Hills was about to become a smouldering pyre of goblin flesh and get rebuilt along more HA lines, Osoerde's war left Mhoried far freer to de-scum Morcosoer and HA would have had a fairly free hand - the nobles didn't have the funds to really drive forwards so it was us or no-one, I wouldn't have made it by turn 80, or probably 90, but the path was finally clear at the end.
*Reestablish the freedom and integrity of Mhoried and the Aegis.
[Neither Mhoried nor the HA may enter into vassalage (but may enter into alliances or treaties), but may become liege lords freely.]
I used this one more as a spring board for attitudes, other than helping to drive off the invading hordes of evil (osoerdean for a change this time).
I used the individuality/freedom mindset mainly to have Robhan fail to capitalise on the LPA's woes by being slow to seek to dominate them, not so good for the Patriarch of Elinie but he was better off distracted anyway; I also used it to have HA reluctant to ally with MOC, although they would likely have fallen out over the Swordmage's demand that Haelyn's worship be outlawed until the god himself knelt before her - HA had lost patience with her prevarications over penance and the next few turns would have been interesting (and likely bloody) as the two went to war (with sundry and diverse others joining in on various sides).
Agenda's that I decided to go with but were never formally on the books were:
1. Restore the Empire. HA worked to try and support the Pontiff with the long term aim of rebuilding the faith of Haelyn (and the lesser churches) and thereby encourage the nobility to likewise look to re-unify, one day the empire will be restored! Given what I had to work with and the scale of the task I think this went about as well as could be expected.
2. Exterminate the goblin vermin in Elinie. HA played a subtle game at the start to avoid pushing Elinie into opposition - I knew that the vermin would betray the Patriarch some day and positioned HA to be ready when they did - or simply be owed so much by the Patriarch that HA could slaughter the Sutren Hills goblins and get away with it. I didn't get my DO back but this one was just about there.
3. Keep Osoerde in Morcosoer so that the north is better defended. This one was a mixed bag, the Marquis varied between indifferent, paranoid, and outright bonkers - Robhan almost lost his temper and conquered the realm at one point when the Marquis abruptly ordered the HA troops defending his lands to leave in the dead of winter after Elinie made a pass at the Marquis that wasn't taken well. The decision of the Marquis to con Osoerde into attacking Mhoried left this one in the air, officially Osoerde was still interested in the area, but it could then easily wash its hands of the place. Wee mad Wullie's decision to defend his turf won him many brownie points with Robhan and this agenda was going fairly well at the end - the war could easily have gone otherwise as Osoerde basically got let off scot-free by Mhoried due to the Mhor's death and the new Mhor's ambitions.
4. Get the Patriarch to accept HA as the "militant faith" and defender of Elinie. This one was going fine, the LPA's "Osoerde first" agenda left it completely opposed to the Patriarch over and over again and HA moved from "barely tolerated" by the Patriarch to being the one faith he could count on and turned to in his time of need (repeatedly). I'd got permission to move troops in Elinie (I think) but not yet to muster there.
5. Help Wallac to become a more able diplomat and leave a good example of how a Pontiff can be a unifying force for good. Oh lordy, fumble, critical fumble, Senor Vorpal Kickasso on a bad day epic fumble. In pitiful fig-leaf of defence the task was harder than it seemed in turn 70/71 when I decided to try this one...
6. Encourage the Swordmage to become a proper Anuirean noble. Yeah, this one failed, badly. HA hadn't quite got to the point of burning her at the stake but a poor response to the final turns diplomacy would have done it easily.
7. Encourage and assist Ghiere to be a proper noble. HA didn't actually do anything here but was ecstatic (and completely taken in) by the Duke's progress, if the Swordmage and HA had gone to war HA would have happily given Tornilen to Ghiere, in fact HA would have given it to Ghiere in preference to all other locals; Mhoried would have been distracted from building Morocoser up if given land to the south, Elinie needed to repair itself after the LPA's rampage, Osoerde was off crusading, and Roesone was a complete unknown. In practice events would have driven that one, the SM's attack on HA and denial of Haelyn's godliness obviously having all sorts of clusterf*ck implications once a few thousand Aegis templars stomped over the border, were likely opposed by MOC, called in Mhoried, Elenie, the Conclave Haelynites, etc as support, the SM/MOC would then call in their allies, etc. I suspect that Ghiere would have profited handsomely from this one whichever side he went in on given Osoerde's distraction on crusade.
8. Support House Khaiaren and expand its influence in Anuire. I managed to keep the LPA from crippling the house in Elenie despite Gerad's treason, heck Robhan even got Gerad let off with quasi-exile - the LPA continuing to be suicidal under Jon's brief stewardship helped let Gerad off the hook though. I was less successful in Coeranys after the families holdings were expropriated after Robhan's nephew was lured into a trap and murdered by
the Duke random goblins, Robhan planned to be very loud if the "stewardship" of Khaiaren lands looked like becoming permanent to at least extract some concessions for the family if the lands were lost, Robhan was hampered here by the lack of a suitable Khaiaren heir and weakness of HA in Coeranys.
