Unlike many decadent Merchant Princes, Borgio was a man of many skills and traits. 2503 - Borgio is murdered in his bath with a toasting fork.2497 - Battle of Vittoria Viccia, Miragliano defeats Trantio.2495 - Battle of Via Veddia, Miragliano defeats Verezzo.2489 - Battle of Villa Vennia, Miragliano defeats Remas.2485 - Borgio makes himself Prince of Miragliano.His motives is more likely to seek out those behind Borgio's demise to get posthumous revenge as a final act of loyalty to his former protector. Although he was in no way implicated as being the person who killed him for he has been paid well and so was presumably as loyal as expected. After the assassination of his patron, he took advantage of the fighting in the streets of Miragliano which followed to disappeared. Īnother mercenary company was marked by his death, Vespero, master of the Vespero's Vendetta, was at the time in Miragliano, where Borgio gave him the opportunity to get even with his pursuers as part of the great Prince's political intrigues. Borgio's excellent army fragmented and many illustrious regiments went their own ways under their captains, to become notorious Regiments of Renown, available for hire to the highest bidder. īorgio's demise resulted in street fighting in Miragliano as various factions vied for power. Many say that his marriage to Dolchellata, the rather bad-tempered older sister of Lucrezzia Belladonna, was his undoing. The circumstances are mysterious, but this was probably the only occasion that a man such as Borgio could be taken by surprise. This was one of several deaths which he suffered, but it was the only one that he did not survive.
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It is said that he finally met his end, after a long and distinguished reign, when he was stabbed with a poisoned toasting fork in his bath. After this unexpected turn of the events Borgio decided to richly reward the city of Pavona.īut Borgio excels even in defensive battles, during the besiege of Miragliano, he managed to repel the army of Remas leaded by the mercenary general, Mandalari the Magnificent, even if the latter proclaims that if it wasen't for his teerible wounds he could have farsee the strategy of Borgio during the battle. With his death she managed to marry the mercenary captain Ranuccio who drove the troops of Pavona against those of their former allies from Trantio. Probably during the Battle of Vittoria Viccia Borgio was aided by the intricate schemes of the princess of the city-state of Pavona, Lucrezzia Belladonna, she poisoned her husband Donato after his decision to make an alliance between Pavona and Trantio against Miragliano. If this ever happened it must have been early in his career. Then he returned with a mercenary fleet, captured the princess and would not let her go until the pirates had paid him an enormous tribute gathered from their far-flung stashes of plunder. Īnother apocryphal tale says that he was once taken prisoner by the Pirate Princess of Sartosa and escaped by diving into the sea from the dungeon tower, which was conveniently leaning over a high cliff and swam the Pirates' Current across to Tilea. It is also said that Borgio could ride a horse, go to sleep and read a book at the same time. Opinion is divided as to whether this refers to the horde or the individual Orcs. It is said that Borgio once defeated an Orc horde by splitting them into three parts. Indeed, there were so many failed attempts to assassinate Borgio, some of which came very close to success, that he gained a reputation as a man who had to be killed more than once to be sure. During his career, Borgio fought against every other principality and republic in Tilea for one reason or another, from wars over trading rights to pure vendettas against rival Princes who had tried to have him assassinated.