Avalonian Task I, II, III. The county of Benoic

[de Gothia]

Benoic is a county of Avalonia that lies south east of the great capital city Albion. The County has no larger city only five villages, scattered across the beautiful country side. The river Avonmora runs through Benoic and gives the possibilty for water mills, fishing and transports.

Benoic produces mostly grain, milk, meat and lumber but also have a small quarry.

The civilans of Benoic are a happy and warm people. After a hard day at work they love to sit down and have a beer and talk to the neighbours. The best days are when there is a big party. People from the different villages come to celebrate with eachother.

Map of Benoic

Countryside

History

This small county of Avalonia was once settled by peasants who farmed the rich soils. They lived in peace and harmony with nature.

One peasant named John de Gothia became leader of the county and built a small fort near the great Oil Road to Kaliphlin. His son, Stenius, then inherretaded the Lordship of the county. He fortified the small fort to a great stone castle. When the Dark Age of Avalonia came Stenius and his wife and son were all slaughtred on the fields near the Village of Sionach. The only surviving from the family of de Gothia was a young lad and his niece who saw the whole battle from a nearby forest. He swore to revenge the death of his family and bring justice upon those who took his family from him. As the county now was lawless the young lad fled to Albion and started his training to become a knight.

When Artorious Rex came to Avalonia de Gothia joined him and became one of the warriors in the "Flight of the Dragons".During the battles to rid Avalonia of evil and unite the land again, Artorious was able to take back de Gothias captured land, and so de Gothia once again ruled the his family´s ancient estate. He choosed to name the County to Benoic.

Leadership

Leader of the County of Benoic is de Gothia. Nobody knows his first name and it will be a secret to his death. He is married to Lena, daughter of the mighty Elon Chorian. They have to sons, Albion (named after the Capital city of Avalonia) and Elijah.

When de Gothia´s family was slaughtred he promised his dying brother to look after Quinn, de Gothia´s niece. She loved de Gothia and was to become the general of his army. During the search for the earth elemental in Book 1 she died.

When going on travels in Historica there are three persons who always follow de Gothia. The old Grand Maester, the ambassador and de Gothias oldest friend.

Military

The army of Benoic is rather small and have several women. All ready to serve and die for Benoic. There are no heavy cavalry in the army, de Gothia works more on a swift and deadly group of soldiers. The Light Cavalry can easily disturb larger armies with smaller attacks.

The Ballistas of the army are also easy to handle and are deadly addition to this army.

When de Gothia and Lena married, an elite group of soldiers was created. A combination of both Avalonia and Mitgardia in their armour. Only the best from the army can apply to become one of these great warriros. The bagpipers always follow the army when they are marching. The sound of Benoic!

Knights

Elite soldiers

Swordsmen

Archers and Bagpipers

Pikemen

Ballista

Benoic soldiers on the march

Edited December 19, 2013 by de Gothia

[IenjoyLego89]

Wow! you've done a class job in describing Benoic , I can actually picture what it would look like if it was real

[soccerkid6]

Great description of Benoic and its inhabitants It's great to see a bunch of your Benoic builds all in one thread

[Tomsche]

Very great builds, a nice rustic feel to them.

And I really seem to have missed some awesome torso designs in my lego `dark age`... to the toy store!

[Gunman]

Wow great story telling..... And beautiful mocs! ;)

[Gideon]

Nice recap of many of your great builds and a couple of new (?) ones I had not seen before!

Benoic must be one of the best described regions of all of Historica (this makes me even more want to have time to build MOCs to flesh out Barqa )

Edited December 19, 2013 by Gideon

[Lord Vladivus]

This is amazing. I think you've set the bar for describing and depicting lands you rule over!

[Jason Cicchini]

Wow, dG!

Like everyone else has said: Benoic is the most fleshed out, thought through province in Avalonia, and possibly all of Historica!

Though much time has passed since this all started, your style and the look/feel of Benoic has stayed faithful, while still growing and getting better with each post.

I think it's high time the first royal family of Benoic came to visit its prosperous cousin to the north!

[Ecclesiastes]

Great work, you get a great impression of Benioc. It makes me want to make something simular of Onydylion, altough that's destroyed...

The posing in front of the same building of the different kinds of people works great btw!

[Alfadas]

Amazing! Just amazing! Great story, magnificent builds! Good work on the soldiers and other characters.

[TheLegoDr]

Very nicely done. I am inspired to write out my post like this (if I ever get it done). I'm fervently working on my backstory and village and will need to find time to actually build (that's the hard part).

But this is really well thought out and helps look into the lives of these people. You've done a great job explaining things.

Thanks for sharing.

[ZCerberus]

Nice summary. Those soldiers look great m'man!

[Kayne]

Very cool! I had forgotten just how much you've developed Benoic. I love the new 'portraits' as well

[Wedge09]

Great story and MOCs, you depicted your County very well :thumbup:

[Infernum]

So thorough! Great description! Nice job dG!

[MikeyB]

great summary and I think I will work one up for Circardia. Hope you don't mind me using the same format!

mikey