After reading a couple other AAR's I thought it was fun and wanted to do my own. This is my after action report with my custom civilization, the Lordaeron Empire (which I'd came up with long BEFORE playing any WoW games back in Civ2), my custom sovereign, a number of community mods, and my mods.

Part One: Founding an Empire

Vren Vilius began his career unlike most Kings, he wasn't born into his position as King. As far as he was concerned, he'd earned it and worked damn hard to obtain it. He started as a lowly Congressan for "the people" of Lordaeron, the capital city. Vren was regarded as an attractive man with his thick beard and overflowing. He was also very organized, was usually good with money, and found little trouble getting re-elected due to his charismatic flair. He was born for politics, some would say.

When the cataclysm hit, the world changed, his nation fell apart, and few were left to rebuild the pieces. Nobody expected that Vren would be the man to complete this task. He started with only a few people and his personal bodyguard rebuilding the, once metropolis and capital, city of Lordaeron. There were reports of creatures and monsters being spotted on the horizon so Vren organized a small group to gather refugees and survivors into the perimeter of the city walls (which were no more then light fencing to keep cattle inside the ranch).

Once the town was secured Vren appointed his bodyguard to act as the city guard, patrol the walls, and begin organizing a city "militia" made up of Peasants. He knew that he and his guard could not alone keep out all the wolves and spiders. He knew it'd take more then he could offer. Thankfully, he ran into an old researcher who used to work at what was once the city's University.

The man's name was Viy and he enjoyed "experimenting". Vren remembered hearing about this Viy character before everything went to hell. He'd remembered that Viy was a very skilled tinkerer and love to take things apart and putting them back together. Unfortunately, much of the time he couldn't get whatever it was to work properly. Nonetheless, Vren took him in for a measly sum of 14 gildar, a mere pittance of Vren's remaining wealth... which was quickly being drained.

Vren had to do something to make up his losses. It was standard economics, you need more coming in then going out. He'd begun to reconstruct a farm to the south so everyone could eat and a few people were drawing up plans to head to the north to make a logging camp in the woods. He'd also been recruiting townspeople to join the "Militia" and was now paying Viy a small salary. All that cost money and he didn't have enough of it. He'd be poor before he knew it! At the time, life was hard for Vren, he was unaccustomed to it.

One day, tired of all the noise and commotion and everyone asking HIM what to do and what was ok, Vren decided to go on a walk away from everyone and everything. He hadn't even taken his trusty bodyguard, who'd been nicknamed Sentinel by the village people. He followed the mountains south of the city into an area of desert and there he came across something he hadn't expected.

He'd come across three men. He didn't immediately know if they were friendly, bandits, or scouts from another town or civilization. He was unarmed and approached them carefully. They represented a man by the name of Resyri, who Vren hadn't known, and the people of the Redguard. They hadn't meant Vren any harm but didn't help him either. They could be friend or foe, he'd better keep an eye on the south.

By the time he'd returned to the town the farm had been complete and more people were slowly but steadily moving in. He'd imagined that they gained one or two people a day. After a few weeks a young woman, dressed in all purple arrived from the south. She was formerly a student and a mentor of an old and wise man who passed all of the knowledge he'd accumulated down to this young woman. She'd taken all of it to heart and was regarded as very wise, mature, but somewhat boring. While she'd gained years of knowledge from being mentored she neglected he social skills almost completely. She found it difficult to relate to the other townspeople and, especially, Vren. It wasn't that he didn't care for her knowledge, because he did! He'd hired her immediately to work alongside Viy. He just didn't have the patience to work with her in any social settings. She was just to precise and academic when he needed dynamic and practical.

Over the months building this small hamlet into a town so it could, one day, become a city they'd heard reports of an unknown creature to the west. Many of the townspeople were frightened by what they'd heard and some people even refused to work at the lumberyard. Vren needed the lumberyard at 100% so they could continue with their construction schedule. Winter was coming and they needed everything complete before it hit hardest. Vren wanted to send out a scouting party but there just were not enough reliable people. The last scout, a young man named Turk, had been mauled by wolves to the north-east. It hadn't helped morale and people were concerned about their safety. Vren knew he had to put their minds at ease.

He'd saved up enough money and purchased a dagger from the one you could call a blacksmith, if there was one. They certainly had no iron. He joined his faithful bodyguard at the west entrance, put Viy in charge during his absence, and left the city to search for this "creature to the west".

Part Two: Enter the Dr....- TOMORROW