week 01 - friday evening (lief)

[eisenundblut]

[Well that sure was an event. Can't say trial, because that hasn't happened yet, but it sure was trying. Prussia doesn't come back to their shared hut until Later because she has a whole flock of cute little birds to check in on, but she hasn't forgotten about the cute little bird who's actually her responsibility.

Uh. Lief, that is, not the abominable birdy over there.]

How you holding up, kid?

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[eisenundblut]

The Teutonic Knights! That's how I got started. I was founded back in uhh...

[Hang on. Let her think.]

1190 as a hospitalier order. But the Pope -- he was my religious leader, wore the biggest hat, called all the shots -- he pretty much let me do whatever I wanted. So I went north! Conquered the land that had been held by the Old Prussians, took their land for my own! That's how I started to be known as Prussia.

You know, they used to say that "most countries have an army. Prussia is an army that has a country."

[reidentify]

[He still can't fully wrap his head around Prussia being a country, and the nature of what she's talking isn't easy to visualize either. For hundreds of years, Deltora has been concerned with keeping invaders out; conquering other lands has never been a thought on Lief's mind.]

You must be very powerful, then, in terms of your army's might.