Really just a Constructed World formed to indulge in Whoa 15's love of Worldbuilding and an attempt to tie various peoples and places together into one coherent world. It begins with The Duke and spans hundred of years of war, trade, succession crisis, people Not Speaking To Each Other Because of What The Crown Prince Said About Our Sharon, arguments and more war.
A Complete History Of Albery provides examples of:
- Action Girl: The Maiden conquered quite a bit of land in her time. There are others as well.
- Author Appeal: musicals and songs in general, badasses, succession crisis, history and politics.
- Bastard Bastard: in the form of Teila, the second to youngest and illegitimate daughter to the Duke. Her daughter, Juile, was a thorn in the side of the royals for years and instrumental in trying to get her descendants to take the throne from their elders.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: the royal family of Albery. Especially after The Duke's death and for several generations after Richard was crowned.
- Continuity Snarl: some stories vary from region to region. For example, The Maiden might have followed her beloved into the army (Ydiaska), never married (the most common assumption) or married long after she was done conquering (Brsioakia, justified in that they claimed to be descendants of hers through a daughter)
- The Dutiful Son: Duke Richard's second son who ends up taking the ducal throne after his brother married an unsuitable girl.
- Fictional Document: their "sacred scroll" which was written down more than 5000 years ago yet it followed to the letter by thousands today, as interpreted by a select number of Elders.
- The Fundamentalist: the Elders interpret the sacred scrolls for everyone else and to break any rule they laid down could be considered treason by the theological Kalzin government.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: the war among the dukes' daughters anyway.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: true in-verse. The gods are constantly at war with each other and always trying to keep up, defend or add to the number of followers they have. Loose too many and they'll notice that they can't throw lightning quite as well as before...
- Heir Club for Men: the Duke set up the succession that any of his children could inherit the throne. The "women don't count" part comes from other countries who might be backing a male heir or don't want their enemies (who are backing one of the daughter's husbands) to get the throne. And don't get everyone started on the heirs who are illegitimate.
- The Lad-ette: The Maiden (who probably wasn't a maiden but she was unmarried till after she was done conquering and people tended to believe in Virgin Power so she was considered The Tomboy to them.)
- The Musical: once upon a time, there was a couple of guys who gathered some followers and tried to overthrow the gods. They failed and a few centuries later, someone wrote a play about them.
- Mystical Pregnancy: Hannah's pregnancy attracts the attention of the old gods.
- The Napoleon: The Duke. People in Dyrea call every duke and duchess after him, Duke Asshole the Nth with the nth being the number of rulers from the Duke.
- Obfuscating Insanity: The Duke. Maybe.
- Parental Marriage Veto: Duke Richard tries this on his second son's marriage to the granddaughter of one of his most persistent enemies. It failed and he disowned him.
- Spell My Name with a "The": The Duke. The Maiden.
- Succession Crisis: The duke had actually started one of these by dividing all his lands among his thirteen children.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: in some versions, The Maiden was one of these. In others, she enlisted openly as a woman and ignored attempts to get rid of her.
- The Theocracy: the Kalzin government is this, basing their laws on the Sacred Scroll, as interpreted through a group of 6 men and women. They're the only ones allowed to actually read the Sacred Scrolls and the only ones allowed to interpret them.
- The Trickster: once a peasant who pissed off the gods. He was made a minor god after death and spends much of his time trying to getting stories known about him so he won't die for good.
- Unreliable Narrators: crossed over with Written by the Winners in regards to the fates of The Company and Dacy after The Battle of Pigshead. The epic cuts off with them charging the Evil Empires' Mooks. Both sides have an agenda in how they treat The Company with one side treating them as misguided fools for a traitorous outside group trying to overthrow the kingdom For the Evulz. The other side laud them as brave heroes fighting to take down The Evil Overlord and the founders of the revolution.
