Interregnum · I
The world
Bohemia in 1403. A king in prison, a silver town, four lordships and an abbey.
“Wealth in the middle, danger at the edges.”
Behind: Silver mining at Kutná Hora. Kutná Hora Illumination, 1490s. GASK, Kutná Hora. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
1402 to 1403
A kingdom between kings
King Wenceslas IV spent 1402 and 1403 as the prisoner of his half-brother Sigismund. An interregnum is the time between two reigns, and that is where the server takes its name.
The king is still the source of every title, but he is not here, and nobody plays him.
The silver town
Kuttenberg and its silver
Kuttenberg, Kutná Hora in Czech, is the king's silver town. Its mines feed the mint, and the mint strikes the groschen that pays for everything else.
The Crown's man here is the Royal Urburer. He lives at the mint, governs the Crown's lands, the mines and the mint, judges in the Crown's court, and gives the lords their fiefs. One of the founders plays him, and in character he has the powers of his office and nothing more.
Sedletz
The town and the monastery
Sedletz stands just outside Kuttenberg. For decades the Cistercians and the town quarrelled over who judged whom, and around 1380 the burghers began building St Barbara's church outside the monastery's reach to make the point. That rivalry is still there to be played.
The Sedletz grounds come from the game's Mysteria Ecclesiae expansion. Players without it can't go inside the monastery walls; everything else is open to them.
Who holds the land
Four kinds of land
Every piece of land has one holder, and the holder decides much about how safe it is. Sigismund’s Camp, where his army lay, is held by nobody for now. Newcomers arrive in Suchdol, the settlers’ lordship.
The Crown's lands
Kuttenberg and the villages nearest it, kept by Crown guards.
- Held by
- The Royal Urburer
- Law
- The Crown's court
- Safety
- The safest on the map
The lordships
Maleshov, Pschitoky, Raborsch and Suchdol, each a castle or manor with its villages.
- Held by
- A lord, under sealed charter
- Law
- The lord's court
- Safety
- As safe as its lord keeps it
The abbey's lands
The Cistercian monastery and its grounds.
- Held by
- The Abbot of Sedletz
- Law
- The Church court, and sanctuary
- Safety
- Safe inside the walls
The wilds
Forests, back roads and camps between the villages.
- Held by
- Nobody
- Law
- Only what patrols enforce
- Safety
- The least safe
The map
The Kuttenberg region
Drawn from the server's own world data: every town and village, and the land of each holder. Choose a holder, or any village on the map.