AFSNES I The New Dawn
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We'll be calling it "the creative relocation of the people of Eldsland" in Hibernia.
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OOC: At least my people are still around to bother with euphemisms. 
Chandrasekhar
Determined
All in all, Miletos had become a more friendly place for followers of Agade Dag over the past few years. Ek'Alek reflected on this as he walked down one of Kratopolis's main streets towards the high temple. Life had been difficult for the Miletean Agade Dag priest during the war, but he had fortunately been able to escape Kratopolis before the siege had begun.
That had been over 20 years ago. Now Kratopolis was a shadow of its former self, but signs of healing could be seen even now. A squad of Odrysan soldiers prowled past, and behind them Ek'Alek could see a construction crew rebuilding a structure that had burned down in the taking of the city.
The city's biggest temple was showing changes as well. Though some had advocated tearing down the Ashaist structure and scattering it stones to the sea, more practacal minds had prevailed, and so the structure itself would remain. The great bronze statue of Amon Ra was being torn down, however, and all of the Ashaist symbolism and ornaments would follow.
Construction had only barely begun, however, and at the moment only a small shrine in a back corner of the temple had been converted to Agade Dag. The High Priest of Odrysa himself, Ek'Orys, was praying there. Ek'Alek moved to the high priest's side to pray as well, glad of the opportunity to finally speak to the face of Odrysan Agade Dag - especially now that Miletos was a part of Odrysa.
The Odrysan commanders and nobles that he had met over the years seemed like a pack of hungry wolves to Ek'Alek, but the High Priest himself seemed satisfied at the moment. "Are we really going to stop fighting the Ashaists, Your Holiness?" Ek'Alek asked tentatively. The High Priest, kneeling in prayer with his eyes closed, seemed at first not to have heard the Miletean.
Yet a moment later Ek'Orys spoke. "Are we not fighting them now, my son? This fight is fought with hearts and minds instead of blades and arrows, but it is no less a fight. Ek'Enlil told us not to be mindless fanatics - Ashaism lies down such a path. No, servants of Enlil must be mindful of all aspects of the great struggle against evil." It seemed like an odd thing for a priest to say, but if Ek'Orys said it, it must be true. A peaceful battle... Such a concept suited the Odrysans well, Ek'Alek thought.
That had been over 20 years ago. Now Kratopolis was a shadow of its former self, but signs of healing could be seen even now. A squad of Odrysan soldiers prowled past, and behind them Ek'Alek could see a construction crew rebuilding a structure that had burned down in the taking of the city.
The city's biggest temple was showing changes as well. Though some had advocated tearing down the Ashaist structure and scattering it stones to the sea, more practacal minds had prevailed, and so the structure itself would remain. The great bronze statue of Amon Ra was being torn down, however, and all of the Ashaist symbolism and ornaments would follow.
Construction had only barely begun, however, and at the moment only a small shrine in a back corner of the temple had been converted to Agade Dag. The High Priest of Odrysa himself, Ek'Orys, was praying there. Ek'Alek moved to the high priest's side to pray as well, glad of the opportunity to finally speak to the face of Odrysan Agade Dag - especially now that Miletos was a part of Odrysa.
The Odrysan commanders and nobles that he had met over the years seemed like a pack of hungry wolves to Ek'Alek, but the High Priest himself seemed satisfied at the moment. "Are we really going to stop fighting the Ashaists, Your Holiness?" Ek'Alek asked tentatively. The High Priest, kneeling in prayer with his eyes closed, seemed at first not to have heard the Miletean.
Yet a moment later Ek'Orys spoke. "Are we not fighting them now, my son? This fight is fought with hearts and minds instead of blades and arrows, but it is no less a fight. Ek'Enlil told us not to be mindless fanatics - Ashaism lies down such a path. No, servants of Enlil must be mindful of all aspects of the great struggle against evil." It seemed like an odd thing for a priest to say, but if Ek'Orys said it, it must be true. A peaceful battle... Such a concept suited the Odrysans well, Ek'Alek thought.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
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das
Regeneration In Process
Update VII - Years 731-735 AD
Foreword:
After decades of war, the peace limited though it was seemed decidedly surreal. Nevertheless, it dawned over many parts of the world, truly setting in stone the new order of the world. Even as the past wars raged on, the most far-sighted of rulers and commanders began to prepare for the next; that said, there were many other great deeds and preparations in between as well.
Domestic Events:
Continued Chalchitlani attempts to establish trade ties came to nothing, for the lack of trade goods, infrastructure and mercantile interest.
With Antimaqtas capital finally moved to Sisa Llaqta, Intiamrus consolidation and integration policies entered full swing (+/-1 Bureaucracy). Apart from the political consolidation, there also followed a religious one presided over by Intiamrus son Chaqauta (appointed head of the Priests of the Sun in 733); the sun cult was established in all the key regions of the new empire, though various local cults persisted, especially in the north.
Soon after the death of Suessus V in 731, the Hibernians founded the Diauas Gaeilige, a fairly autonomous and locally-centralised national branch of the Neo-Tigranist Church. This was somewhat controversial, but inasmuch as it didnt really lead to any drastic changes yet it was let be by the Caerixians (in any case preoccupied by dynastic struggles (-1 Caerixian Confidence)) and eventually embraced by the Hibernians themselves (+religious revival).
The Belenist nobility supported by the Ligurian Priest-King constructed a grand Belenist temple in Godvala, cementing the Ligurian influence in that country (though not to the point of completely overwhelming the native beliefs).
Emperor Oshar of the New Nubian Empire went to great pains to ensure economic prosperity, speeding up the recovery in many newly-conquered territories as well as patronising the national craftsmanship.
Between his campaigns, King Elu of Nisa and his chief ministers finally arranged the creation of the Samarkandian Empire, unifying to one degree or another the greater part of Central Asia. While Elu continued to push the frontier north, his ministers carried out the reordering of the old and new lands of the House of Nisa, truly setting up the empire (+/-1 Bureaucracy).
The Tibetans initiated a two-fold policy to properly subjugate the newly-conquered lands, relying on fairly abundant Chinese collaborationists in Ba while establishing Tibetan, Mon and suchlike colonies in the more devastated regions. The reconstruction efforts likewise continued. In the meantime, neo-Mohism and various traditional religions alike were ruthlessly eliminated/driven into the underground in the conquered regions, though this only made it easier for the neo-Sunfucianists to emerge to greater prominence again.
The Priestess-Queen Miyako had officially declared a successor, Akira Miamoto, who became the ageing, but still immensely popular queens co-ruler.
International Events:
The war between the Tepehuani Empire and the Mayan-Zapotec coalition fully died down early in this decade. While the Tepehuani focused on salvaging what they could of their empire, the allies entered a new era of bickering, complicated by the death of Pacal of Dainzu. The death of such a key player alone would have been a problem, but his heir, Prince Vucub, commanded the loyalty (and, via lieutenants, not a few of the armies) of the southern Mayan city-states. Even more grievously, he had a legit claim to the Pumpkin Throne of Coba, the great northern Mayan city-state that was for long plagued by misrule and dynastic crises. Upon the extremely convenient death of yet another Coban king, Vucub was able to organize his mostly-bloodless ascension there, uniting two powerful thrones. This immediately rallied most of the Zapotec city-states against him and around their king, but while the early battles of the War of Coban Succession (see Military Events) commenced Vucub managed to half-persuade and half-coerce several southeastern Mayan polities into joining a league under the Dainzu-Coban hegemony, sometimes using his aforementioned popularity and contacts to remove uncooperative rulers. Thus he entered the war with quite an impressive empire already, as well as a bolstered army (+10 Dainzu-Coban regiments, +1 Dainzu-Coban Confidence).
With their homeland beset by Ashaist invaders, the Brukter clans and King Theodoric III had accepted, after some negotiation, the Teutonic proposal that they joined the Empire, in exchange for keeping some degree of political autonomy as well as religious freedom. This move was not wholly unopposed, but ultimately all the key clans swore allegiance to the Dominos, making the defiance of those who didnt all the more futile (Brukter military and area added to the Teutonic Empire). Needless to say, a fair amount of Teutonic noblemen questioned the wisdom of letting pagan barbarians into the empire, as well as assisting the Brukter defenses when the core Teutonic lands themselves were not safe (-1 Teutonic Confidence). Future events might or might not have proven Dominos Semburn II right after all
In the wake of the Nord-Frisian defeat at the Caerixian hands, the Danes were left in a potentially-hegemonic position amongst the remaining Scandic nations. Having signed a beneficial peace treaty with Latgallia (abandoning the long-lost Danish outposts and establishing new extraterritorial trade colonies instead, in addition to financial reparations (+1 Danish Confidence)), the Danes turned towards establishing their influence in the northern realms. While this was obviously a sublte process, by 735 it was impossible to ignore the growing Danish party at the Viksborg court, and elsewhere as well. Meanwhile, in the east, a new outpost was established at the head of the Gulf of Finland in 734; this paled when compared with other Danish endeavours (see military events).
Satisfied with their gains in Italy, the Ligurians achieved a surprisingly amiable agreement with His Eminence in Arecomos, recognising his gains in the south of the former Kingdom of Capua and suddenly adapting a policy of religious tolerance (-1 Ligurian Confidence). In any case, the Ligurians were understandably quite happy to focus on properly integrating their impressive gains.
Tired of fighting each other in an apparently-endless war over already devastated lands, the Guanglingese and Tibetan governments succeeded in negotiating the Treaty of Chengdu, the popular reaction being rather ambivalent on both sides despite efforts to the counterwise. Basically, the treaty recognized the gains made by both sides in the former Nanyang and Ba Empires; somewhat inexplicably, the chaotic, devastated Vietnam was handed over to the Tibetans as well, but the rest of Nanyang was instead transformed into a forcefully-neutral, militarily-crippled rump state. The Tibetans also received such concessions as freedom of Buddhist missionary activities and Nanyangese reparations in the form of assorted advanced technology (not that that amounted to much of anything, due to Tibetan incompetence and/or Nanyangese trickery).
Having fought each other to a standstill, the Prasannans and their enemies negotiated a compromise peace agreement. The conquests of the Coalition were all recognized, but the Prasannans were allowed to retain those of their colonies from which they were never evicted, and received a toll exemption for the Strait of Malacca.
The Jomonese and the Ayutamradvipans kicked off a new round of eastwards naval exploration in 732, coincidentally sending out two expeditions in the same year. The Ayutamradvipans merely charted some previously-discovered islands to the east, and established clear trade contact with the tribes there and on Papua. The Jomonese were somewhat more ambitious, despite past failures in such endeavours; they yet again sailed as far east in the Pacific Ocean as they could. The first such expedition in this decade failed, and the second one looked to be an even bigger failure for all the storms (-2 Jomonese ships), but had by chance discovered a new island chain, where a precarious trade outpost was eventually established. It seems likely, however, that the island chain in question is very much alone and isolated, and that further expeditions would not be worth the expenses.
Military Events:
The early efforts to thwart King Vucubs bid for local hegemony were poorly-coordinated and often poorly-planned. The Zapotec royal army, though coupled with local militias, was routed at Choloma in 732, allowing Vucub to occupy that key northern city and join his two realms; similarily, the Huijazooan fleet, despite carrying out a moderately successful early strike on the Dainzu fleet, was soon enough confronted by the joint Dainzu and Coban navies that landed a fairly thorough defeat before the Huijazooans could link up with the other Zapotec city-states pretty much ensuring naval dominance for Vucub. Still, King 8-Earthquake was able to get his act together just in time to save his precariously-positioned capital, using an assortment of cunning jungle warfare stratagems and a diversionary attack by a coalition of decidedly anti-Coban northern Mayan city-states to prevent Vucub from advancing into the central Zapotec territories for now. Still, in 735, Vucub scored a new series of victories, not only reinforcing his naval dominance but also subjugating the resistant Mayan city-states and fighting his way to the ocean in the south.
(-8 Dainzu-Coban regiments, -13 Dainzu-Coban ships, -7 Zapotec regiments, -7 Zapotec levy regiments, -23 Zapotec ships)
After a brief eruption of tribal infighting, the Bicudaani state already disintegrating and rife with regional and social tensions fully ceased its existence, the capital being sacked by the rebelling tribes and the port towns fully coming under the Zapotec sphere and swearing allegiance to the king in Quetzaltula.
(-Bicudaani as a coherent polity)
In a series of campaigns, the Antimaqtan Allillantaqmi forces managed to break up the resistance in the north, also making some (limited) progress into the territories of the eastern Chorrera barbarians (and generally along the eastern frontier in separate campaigns).
(-2 Antimaqtan Allillantaqmi regiments)
The Thuringians crushed several minor feudal uprisings in the process of Radulfs power consolidation.
(-1 Thuringian regiment)
For much of the first five years of this decade, the Teutonic War became separated into three distinct theatres. While the central area saw a stalemate and a stand-off with both sides preparing fortifications and moving in reinforcements, in the west the Picts and the Tarekids moved for the kill while in the east, the Teutons linked up with their new Brukter vassals, promptly defeated the few Brukter rebels and confronted the advancing Burgundian and Tarekid armies. The defeat of three early Teutonic offensives by the Tarekid military (reinforced by surviving Ankhade veterans as well as by new troops) ensured the central stalemate. The Brukter defenses to the east, reinforced by the Teutons, were able to draw out the fighting for a respectable amount of time, fighting off attack after attack; still, as the Tarekids went on a major offensive and deployed advanced siege equipment, they ultimately managed to overwhelm many of the eastern fortresses, moving on to besiege the Brukter capital of Logron. Though this ultimately ended in a Tarekid victory as well, the amount of time it took them to break the capital was more than enough for the Teutons and the Brukters to stabilise the situation and prepare truly formidable defenses to the west. The Tarekid advance was promptly halted, and concurrently with this they had to put down a series of Brukter uprisings behind their lines. In the west, the Tarekids too started out quite well; suddenly sallying forth their navy, they managed to destroy the Pictish and later devastate the Teutonic fleets. In 733, Prince Ithar, a son of the Amsur, successfully attacked the Pictish army on its suicidal southeast march and thoroughly wiped it out with a series of engagements and unending cavalry harassment in already hostile terrain. He then attempted to strike towards the Teutonic capital of Gristain itself; while it was partially exposed, the timely arrival of Caerixian reinforcements in 735 forced Ithars forces to stop half-way. All in all, the Tarekids made significant gians, but failed to score a decisive victory.
(-10 Pictish regiments, -12 Pictish ships, -9 Teutonic regiments, -11 Teutonic levy regiments, -7 Teutonic ships, -8 Tarekid regiments, -7 Tarekid levy regiments, -6 Tarekid Ankhed regiments, -7 Tarekid ships, -2 Caerixian regiments, -4 Burgundian regiments, -7 Burgundian levy regiments)
Corsica, still under leftover Agade Dag rulers, became a haven for Agade Dag pirates in the west, actually causing real damage to the Tarekid trade network (-1 Tarekid Trade) with well-aimed raids.
Despite being ignored by friend and foe, King Lucius of Populonia did not cease his struggle against the Ligurian invaders, sending the remnants of his navy on an inspired piracy campaign and instigating several local uprisings against the Ligurians, using the policy of turning lands over to Ligurian veterans as a pretext. These uprisings were crushed easily enough and his navy was unable to cause serious impact, but Lucius did secure for himself the status of a noteworthy nuisance.
(-1 Ligurian regiment, -2 Ligurian ships)
Having ended the war with Latgallia satisfactorily, the Danes turned to raiding elsewhere in the Baltic Sea basin, attacking coastalands and going up the Oder (as well as other rivers). Occasional complications aside, these raids aimed primarily against the Slavic chiefdoms and city-states went quite well, the key trade centre of Ostrava itself being sacked (+1 Danish banked eco.). Soemwhat tangentially, at the encouragement of the king many restless young Danish nobles now migrated to Finland (+10 Danish levy regiments), where they went on to wage a war of conquest against the local Finnish tribes, making considerable gains by the end of 735. Ground was secured along the previously-mentioned new colony as well.
(-1 Danish regiment, -4 Danish levy regiments, -3 Danish ships)
Despite the end of the war with Denmark, Latgallia remained in crisis. With central authority in chaos and cities and trade routes in ruin, the continued efforts on the behalf of Eduards to keep his ramshackle nation together by throwing armies in all directions could do little besides making things even worse. The aforementioned Sack of Ostrava and the resultant collapse of the already-damaged Amber Road was in many regards the last straw; while urban society collapsed, rural society rose up in rebellion, and several opportunistic power-grabs were made as well. Ultimately, even though none of the threats to Alytus were able to finish Latgallia from the outside, the famine combined with the long-awaited death of Eduards led to its somewhat anticlimactic collapse from within around the middle of this decade. In the centuries to come, Latgallia would become a classic example of both the perils of overstretchment and the inherent instability of tribal empires. Needless to say, both the Rzekans and the Danes were quick to begin seizing some of the fallen empires peripheral territories the Danes carving out enclaves around their assorted trade colonies, and the Rzekans seizing some of the Slavic southlands though soon running into the resistance of local tribes.
(-Latgallia as an unified empire, -7 Rzekan regiments, -4 Rzekan ships)
Prince Orbeospor, the aging ruler of Singidun, finally initiated the long-anticipated war against the pagan Thracian principality of Skupi to the south. Joined by rebelling Agade Dag nobles (+5 Singidunian levy regiments), he personally led his vast (though not always top-notch or well-supplied after the hasty military build-up) hosts to victory over Prince Byzas III at Moesia [1] in 732. Though slowed by inefficient logistics and enemy fortifications, Orbeospor managed to advance to the walls of Skupi itself by 734. He was only barely prevented from taking it by the new Prince, Byzas IV, who employed very adroit flexible defense tactics to drive the invaders out of the southernmost regions of his realm. Still, the Skupians have no strength to strike back beyond this area, and the defeat was more along the lines of a minor setback for the Old Man of the Round Fort.
(-11 Singidunian regiments, -3 Singidunian levy regiments, -7 Skupian regiments, -8 Skupian levy regiments)
In a somewhat pointless and much-criticised military adventure (as if the already-expensive campaign into Andanas inlands wasnt bad enough!) (-1 Mahapuran Confidence), the Mahapurans sent out a large force of mercenaries to conquer their way towards Lake Nyasa. Ultimately the mercenaries did brave the hostile terrain, the hostile natives and the widespread diseases alike, but not before taking considerable losses to sheer attrition.
(-4 Mahapuran regiments)
Having more or less consolidated their previous gains and supply routes in Arabia, the Akkadians, frustrated by the stalwart Arabian resistance, initiated a new series of attacks. While the efforts to establish a proper foothold on the Red Sea coast had all come to nothing in the end, in southern Arabia the Akkadians managed to seize the key city of Hajar [2], from then moving on to take over the entire southeastern region (-1 Khalidid Confidence). Constant tribal uprisings behind the Akkadian lines (+10 Khalidid levy regiments) complicated things, however, as the Akkadians were simply incapable of maintaining control over the entirety of the conquered countryside, allowing the Arabs to wage a campaign of hit-and-run attacks on their supply routes, preventing any new campaigns against Mecca.
(-4 Akkadian regiments, -5 Akkadian Turk Cavalry regiments, -2 Kipchak regiments, -3 Samarkandian regiments, -12 Khalidid regiments, -8 Khalidid levy regiments)
The Samarkandians, meanwhile, continued their own campaigns, putting tactics and strategies similar to those used in Arabia to use against the northern barbarian tribes. Over time, Elu managed to make some additional territorial gains, though these were limited by logistical difficulties and geography.
(-3 Samarkandian regiments)
In addition to remaining economic and communication woes, Tibet was hampered in its efforts to consolidate the gains from the grand recently-concluded war by ongoing popular resistance, often taking the form of major neo-Sunfucianist rebellions. Though in the end those were all quelled, they managed to seriously compromise Tibetan hold over the countryside on several occasions. On a sidenote, the Tibetans also moved to conquer Vietnam, awarded to them by treaty; strangely enough, this time the resistance they faced was tougher; the various local warlords, plausibly supported by an outside power, managed to make a good use of the terrain, slowly grinding away at the invading forces. Still, in the end the Tibetans succeeded in establishing control over the key areas.
(-7 Tibetan regiments, -5 Tibetan Tenzin regiments)
Random Events:
Grateful noblemen from the newly-acquired territories provided the Ayutamradvipan navy with additional ships and crews (+10 ships).
The Vendel oral tradition gradually deteriorated (-1 Education).
Special Bonuses:
Most Detailed Project: Vikland-Nord-Frisia (+1 project progress).
Best New Arrival: Guangling (+1 Confidence).
NPC Diplo:
From: The Khalidid Raisdom
To: The Akkadian Empire
I am willing to negotiate a peace treaty along the lines suggested previously, but with your troops retreating to the northern and northeastern regions of Arabia.
OOC:
[1] Moesia=in this case, OMD Pristina.
[2] Hajar=OMD Riyadh.
flyingchicken regarding the Guanglingese government, there is a bicameral parliament, with the upper Board of provincial representatives (usually the local political elites) and the lower Senate with popularly-elected officials. Anyway, it was all rather complicated and the recent events led to further political chaos and confusion, so your reforms wont make things significantly worse.
Sorry about the delay I thought I would be able to get it done much earlier, but unexpected complications happen.
Foreword:
After decades of war, the peace limited though it was seemed decidedly surreal. Nevertheless, it dawned over many parts of the world, truly setting in stone the new order of the world. Even as the past wars raged on, the most far-sighted of rulers and commanders began to prepare for the next; that said, there were many other great deeds and preparations in between as well.
Domestic Events:
Continued Chalchitlani attempts to establish trade ties came to nothing, for the lack of trade goods, infrastructure and mercantile interest.
With Antimaqtas capital finally moved to Sisa Llaqta, Intiamrus consolidation and integration policies entered full swing (+/-1 Bureaucracy). Apart from the political consolidation, there also followed a religious one presided over by Intiamrus son Chaqauta (appointed head of the Priests of the Sun in 733); the sun cult was established in all the key regions of the new empire, though various local cults persisted, especially in the north.
Soon after the death of Suessus V in 731, the Hibernians founded the Diauas Gaeilige, a fairly autonomous and locally-centralised national branch of the Neo-Tigranist Church. This was somewhat controversial, but inasmuch as it didnt really lead to any drastic changes yet it was let be by the Caerixians (in any case preoccupied by dynastic struggles (-1 Caerixian Confidence)) and eventually embraced by the Hibernians themselves (+religious revival).
The Belenist nobility supported by the Ligurian Priest-King constructed a grand Belenist temple in Godvala, cementing the Ligurian influence in that country (though not to the point of completely overwhelming the native beliefs).
Emperor Oshar of the New Nubian Empire went to great pains to ensure economic prosperity, speeding up the recovery in many newly-conquered territories as well as patronising the national craftsmanship.
Between his campaigns, King Elu of Nisa and his chief ministers finally arranged the creation of the Samarkandian Empire, unifying to one degree or another the greater part of Central Asia. While Elu continued to push the frontier north, his ministers carried out the reordering of the old and new lands of the House of Nisa, truly setting up the empire (+/-1 Bureaucracy).
The Tibetans initiated a two-fold policy to properly subjugate the newly-conquered lands, relying on fairly abundant Chinese collaborationists in Ba while establishing Tibetan, Mon and suchlike colonies in the more devastated regions. The reconstruction efforts likewise continued. In the meantime, neo-Mohism and various traditional religions alike were ruthlessly eliminated/driven into the underground in the conquered regions, though this only made it easier for the neo-Sunfucianists to emerge to greater prominence again.
The Priestess-Queen Miyako had officially declared a successor, Akira Miamoto, who became the ageing, but still immensely popular queens co-ruler.
International Events:
The war between the Tepehuani Empire and the Mayan-Zapotec coalition fully died down early in this decade. While the Tepehuani focused on salvaging what they could of their empire, the allies entered a new era of bickering, complicated by the death of Pacal of Dainzu. The death of such a key player alone would have been a problem, but his heir, Prince Vucub, commanded the loyalty (and, via lieutenants, not a few of the armies) of the southern Mayan city-states. Even more grievously, he had a legit claim to the Pumpkin Throne of Coba, the great northern Mayan city-state that was for long plagued by misrule and dynastic crises. Upon the extremely convenient death of yet another Coban king, Vucub was able to organize his mostly-bloodless ascension there, uniting two powerful thrones. This immediately rallied most of the Zapotec city-states against him and around their king, but while the early battles of the War of Coban Succession (see Military Events) commenced Vucub managed to half-persuade and half-coerce several southeastern Mayan polities into joining a league under the Dainzu-Coban hegemony, sometimes using his aforementioned popularity and contacts to remove uncooperative rulers. Thus he entered the war with quite an impressive empire already, as well as a bolstered army (+10 Dainzu-Coban regiments, +1 Dainzu-Coban Confidence).
With their homeland beset by Ashaist invaders, the Brukter clans and King Theodoric III had accepted, after some negotiation, the Teutonic proposal that they joined the Empire, in exchange for keeping some degree of political autonomy as well as religious freedom. This move was not wholly unopposed, but ultimately all the key clans swore allegiance to the Dominos, making the defiance of those who didnt all the more futile (Brukter military and area added to the Teutonic Empire). Needless to say, a fair amount of Teutonic noblemen questioned the wisdom of letting pagan barbarians into the empire, as well as assisting the Brukter defenses when the core Teutonic lands themselves were not safe (-1 Teutonic Confidence). Future events might or might not have proven Dominos Semburn II right after all
In the wake of the Nord-Frisian defeat at the Caerixian hands, the Danes were left in a potentially-hegemonic position amongst the remaining Scandic nations. Having signed a beneficial peace treaty with Latgallia (abandoning the long-lost Danish outposts and establishing new extraterritorial trade colonies instead, in addition to financial reparations (+1 Danish Confidence)), the Danes turned towards establishing their influence in the northern realms. While this was obviously a sublte process, by 735 it was impossible to ignore the growing Danish party at the Viksborg court, and elsewhere as well. Meanwhile, in the east, a new outpost was established at the head of the Gulf of Finland in 734; this paled when compared with other Danish endeavours (see military events).
Satisfied with their gains in Italy, the Ligurians achieved a surprisingly amiable agreement with His Eminence in Arecomos, recognising his gains in the south of the former Kingdom of Capua and suddenly adapting a policy of religious tolerance (-1 Ligurian Confidence). In any case, the Ligurians were understandably quite happy to focus on properly integrating their impressive gains.
Tired of fighting each other in an apparently-endless war over already devastated lands, the Guanglingese and Tibetan governments succeeded in negotiating the Treaty of Chengdu, the popular reaction being rather ambivalent on both sides despite efforts to the counterwise. Basically, the treaty recognized the gains made by both sides in the former Nanyang and Ba Empires; somewhat inexplicably, the chaotic, devastated Vietnam was handed over to the Tibetans as well, but the rest of Nanyang was instead transformed into a forcefully-neutral, militarily-crippled rump state. The Tibetans also received such concessions as freedom of Buddhist missionary activities and Nanyangese reparations in the form of assorted advanced technology (not that that amounted to much of anything, due to Tibetan incompetence and/or Nanyangese trickery).
Having fought each other to a standstill, the Prasannans and their enemies negotiated a compromise peace agreement. The conquests of the Coalition were all recognized, but the Prasannans were allowed to retain those of their colonies from which they were never evicted, and received a toll exemption for the Strait of Malacca.
The Jomonese and the Ayutamradvipans kicked off a new round of eastwards naval exploration in 732, coincidentally sending out two expeditions in the same year. The Ayutamradvipans merely charted some previously-discovered islands to the east, and established clear trade contact with the tribes there and on Papua. The Jomonese were somewhat more ambitious, despite past failures in such endeavours; they yet again sailed as far east in the Pacific Ocean as they could. The first such expedition in this decade failed, and the second one looked to be an even bigger failure for all the storms (-2 Jomonese ships), but had by chance discovered a new island chain, where a precarious trade outpost was eventually established. It seems likely, however, that the island chain in question is very much alone and isolated, and that further expeditions would not be worth the expenses.
Military Events:
The early efforts to thwart King Vucubs bid for local hegemony were poorly-coordinated and often poorly-planned. The Zapotec royal army, though coupled with local militias, was routed at Choloma in 732, allowing Vucub to occupy that key northern city and join his two realms; similarily, the Huijazooan fleet, despite carrying out a moderately successful early strike on the Dainzu fleet, was soon enough confronted by the joint Dainzu and Coban navies that landed a fairly thorough defeat before the Huijazooans could link up with the other Zapotec city-states pretty much ensuring naval dominance for Vucub. Still, King 8-Earthquake was able to get his act together just in time to save his precariously-positioned capital, using an assortment of cunning jungle warfare stratagems and a diversionary attack by a coalition of decidedly anti-Coban northern Mayan city-states to prevent Vucub from advancing into the central Zapotec territories for now. Still, in 735, Vucub scored a new series of victories, not only reinforcing his naval dominance but also subjugating the resistant Mayan city-states and fighting his way to the ocean in the south.
(-8 Dainzu-Coban regiments, -13 Dainzu-Coban ships, -7 Zapotec regiments, -7 Zapotec levy regiments, -23 Zapotec ships)
After a brief eruption of tribal infighting, the Bicudaani state already disintegrating and rife with regional and social tensions fully ceased its existence, the capital being sacked by the rebelling tribes and the port towns fully coming under the Zapotec sphere and swearing allegiance to the king in Quetzaltula.
(-Bicudaani as a coherent polity)
In a series of campaigns, the Antimaqtan Allillantaqmi forces managed to break up the resistance in the north, also making some (limited) progress into the territories of the eastern Chorrera barbarians (and generally along the eastern frontier in separate campaigns).
(-2 Antimaqtan Allillantaqmi regiments)
The Thuringians crushed several minor feudal uprisings in the process of Radulfs power consolidation.
(-1 Thuringian regiment)
For much of the first five years of this decade, the Teutonic War became separated into three distinct theatres. While the central area saw a stalemate and a stand-off with both sides preparing fortifications and moving in reinforcements, in the west the Picts and the Tarekids moved for the kill while in the east, the Teutons linked up with their new Brukter vassals, promptly defeated the few Brukter rebels and confronted the advancing Burgundian and Tarekid armies. The defeat of three early Teutonic offensives by the Tarekid military (reinforced by surviving Ankhade veterans as well as by new troops) ensured the central stalemate. The Brukter defenses to the east, reinforced by the Teutons, were able to draw out the fighting for a respectable amount of time, fighting off attack after attack; still, as the Tarekids went on a major offensive and deployed advanced siege equipment, they ultimately managed to overwhelm many of the eastern fortresses, moving on to besiege the Brukter capital of Logron. Though this ultimately ended in a Tarekid victory as well, the amount of time it took them to break the capital was more than enough for the Teutons and the Brukters to stabilise the situation and prepare truly formidable defenses to the west. The Tarekid advance was promptly halted, and concurrently with this they had to put down a series of Brukter uprisings behind their lines. In the west, the Tarekids too started out quite well; suddenly sallying forth their navy, they managed to destroy the Pictish and later devastate the Teutonic fleets. In 733, Prince Ithar, a son of the Amsur, successfully attacked the Pictish army on its suicidal southeast march and thoroughly wiped it out with a series of engagements and unending cavalry harassment in already hostile terrain. He then attempted to strike towards the Teutonic capital of Gristain itself; while it was partially exposed, the timely arrival of Caerixian reinforcements in 735 forced Ithars forces to stop half-way. All in all, the Tarekids made significant gians, but failed to score a decisive victory.
(-10 Pictish regiments, -12 Pictish ships, -9 Teutonic regiments, -11 Teutonic levy regiments, -7 Teutonic ships, -8 Tarekid regiments, -7 Tarekid levy regiments, -6 Tarekid Ankhed regiments, -7 Tarekid ships, -2 Caerixian regiments, -4 Burgundian regiments, -7 Burgundian levy regiments)
Corsica, still under leftover Agade Dag rulers, became a haven for Agade Dag pirates in the west, actually causing real damage to the Tarekid trade network (-1 Tarekid Trade) with well-aimed raids.
Despite being ignored by friend and foe, King Lucius of Populonia did not cease his struggle against the Ligurian invaders, sending the remnants of his navy on an inspired piracy campaign and instigating several local uprisings against the Ligurians, using the policy of turning lands over to Ligurian veterans as a pretext. These uprisings were crushed easily enough and his navy was unable to cause serious impact, but Lucius did secure for himself the status of a noteworthy nuisance.
(-1 Ligurian regiment, -2 Ligurian ships)
Having ended the war with Latgallia satisfactorily, the Danes turned to raiding elsewhere in the Baltic Sea basin, attacking coastalands and going up the Oder (as well as other rivers). Occasional complications aside, these raids aimed primarily against the Slavic chiefdoms and city-states went quite well, the key trade centre of Ostrava itself being sacked (+1 Danish banked eco.). Soemwhat tangentially, at the encouragement of the king many restless young Danish nobles now migrated to Finland (+10 Danish levy regiments), where they went on to wage a war of conquest against the local Finnish tribes, making considerable gains by the end of 735. Ground was secured along the previously-mentioned new colony as well.
(-1 Danish regiment, -4 Danish levy regiments, -3 Danish ships)
Despite the end of the war with Denmark, Latgallia remained in crisis. With central authority in chaos and cities and trade routes in ruin, the continued efforts on the behalf of Eduards to keep his ramshackle nation together by throwing armies in all directions could do little besides making things even worse. The aforementioned Sack of Ostrava and the resultant collapse of the already-damaged Amber Road was in many regards the last straw; while urban society collapsed, rural society rose up in rebellion, and several opportunistic power-grabs were made as well. Ultimately, even though none of the threats to Alytus were able to finish Latgallia from the outside, the famine combined with the long-awaited death of Eduards led to its somewhat anticlimactic collapse from within around the middle of this decade. In the centuries to come, Latgallia would become a classic example of both the perils of overstretchment and the inherent instability of tribal empires. Needless to say, both the Rzekans and the Danes were quick to begin seizing some of the fallen empires peripheral territories the Danes carving out enclaves around their assorted trade colonies, and the Rzekans seizing some of the Slavic southlands though soon running into the resistance of local tribes.
(-Latgallia as an unified empire, -7 Rzekan regiments, -4 Rzekan ships)
Prince Orbeospor, the aging ruler of Singidun, finally initiated the long-anticipated war against the pagan Thracian principality of Skupi to the south. Joined by rebelling Agade Dag nobles (+5 Singidunian levy regiments), he personally led his vast (though not always top-notch or well-supplied after the hasty military build-up) hosts to victory over Prince Byzas III at Moesia [1] in 732. Though slowed by inefficient logistics and enemy fortifications, Orbeospor managed to advance to the walls of Skupi itself by 734. He was only barely prevented from taking it by the new Prince, Byzas IV, who employed very adroit flexible defense tactics to drive the invaders out of the southernmost regions of his realm. Still, the Skupians have no strength to strike back beyond this area, and the defeat was more along the lines of a minor setback for the Old Man of the Round Fort.
(-11 Singidunian regiments, -3 Singidunian levy regiments, -7 Skupian regiments, -8 Skupian levy regiments)
In a somewhat pointless and much-criticised military adventure (as if the already-expensive campaign into Andanas inlands wasnt bad enough!) (-1 Mahapuran Confidence), the Mahapurans sent out a large force of mercenaries to conquer their way towards Lake Nyasa. Ultimately the mercenaries did brave the hostile terrain, the hostile natives and the widespread diseases alike, but not before taking considerable losses to sheer attrition.
(-4 Mahapuran regiments)
Having more or less consolidated their previous gains and supply routes in Arabia, the Akkadians, frustrated by the stalwart Arabian resistance, initiated a new series of attacks. While the efforts to establish a proper foothold on the Red Sea coast had all come to nothing in the end, in southern Arabia the Akkadians managed to seize the key city of Hajar [2], from then moving on to take over the entire southeastern region (-1 Khalidid Confidence). Constant tribal uprisings behind the Akkadian lines (+10 Khalidid levy regiments) complicated things, however, as the Akkadians were simply incapable of maintaining control over the entirety of the conquered countryside, allowing the Arabs to wage a campaign of hit-and-run attacks on their supply routes, preventing any new campaigns against Mecca.
(-4 Akkadian regiments, -5 Akkadian Turk Cavalry regiments, -2 Kipchak regiments, -3 Samarkandian regiments, -12 Khalidid regiments, -8 Khalidid levy regiments)
The Samarkandians, meanwhile, continued their own campaigns, putting tactics and strategies similar to those used in Arabia to use against the northern barbarian tribes. Over time, Elu managed to make some additional territorial gains, though these were limited by logistical difficulties and geography.
(-3 Samarkandian regiments)
In addition to remaining economic and communication woes, Tibet was hampered in its efforts to consolidate the gains from the grand recently-concluded war by ongoing popular resistance, often taking the form of major neo-Sunfucianist rebellions. Though in the end those were all quelled, they managed to seriously compromise Tibetan hold over the countryside on several occasions. On a sidenote, the Tibetans also moved to conquer Vietnam, awarded to them by treaty; strangely enough, this time the resistance they faced was tougher; the various local warlords, plausibly supported by an outside power, managed to make a good use of the terrain, slowly grinding away at the invading forces. Still, in the end the Tibetans succeeded in establishing control over the key areas.
(-7 Tibetan regiments, -5 Tibetan Tenzin regiments)
Random Events:
Grateful noblemen from the newly-acquired territories provided the Ayutamradvipan navy with additional ships and crews (+10 ships).
The Vendel oral tradition gradually deteriorated (-1 Education).
Special Bonuses:
Most Detailed Project: Vikland-Nord-Frisia (+1 project progress).
Best New Arrival: Guangling (+1 Confidence).
NPC Diplo:
From: The Khalidid Raisdom
To: The Akkadian Empire
I am willing to negotiate a peace treaty along the lines suggested previously, but with your troops retreating to the northern and northeastern regions of Arabia.
OOC:
[1] Moesia=in this case, OMD Pristina.
[2] Hajar=OMD Riyadh.
flyingchicken regarding the Guanglingese government, there is a bicameral parliament, with the upper Board of provincial representatives (usually the local political elites) and the lower Senate with popularly-elected officials. Anyway, it was all rather complicated and the recent events led to further political chaos and confusion, so your reforms wont make things significantly worse.
Sorry about the delay I thought I would be able to get it done much earlier, but unexpected complications happen.
das
Regeneration In Process
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Did you not get my orders?
EDIT: Cause I have proof I sent them.
EDIT: Cause I have proof I sent them.
das
Regeneration In Process
Apparently not.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Daniel Khan
Bail Baby Bail
Hmm, my new colony in Old Malaya isn't added to my stats.
Perfectionist
Angel of Verdun
Wonderful update!
~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
Nice update.
Can you specifiy who exactly is in control of the city/trading post to my north (I assume its a Zapotec/Mayan city-state, through I'm not even close to being sure.)
Can you specifiy who exactly is in control of the city/trading post to my north (I assume its a Zapotec/Mayan city-state, through I'm not even close to being sure.)
flyingchicken
Deity
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@das: So my political "reforms" were more or less redundant? And my military reforms, were they implemented?
ic:
To: All our neighboring countries' merchants (ooc: you know who you are!)
From: The Republic of Guangling
Now that the war is over, it is once again safe to normalize trade relations with your countries. Come on, don't be shy!
ic:
To: All our neighboring countries' merchants (ooc: you know who you are!)
From: The Republic of Guangling
Now that the war is over, it is once again safe to normalize trade relations with your countries. Come on, don't be shy!
Head Serf
Emperor
Caerix seems to have disappeared from the stat list...
Great update though!
Great update though!
From: Pictavia
To: Caerix, Tuetonia
We can ill afford anymore horrific blunders as we have been forced to incur. Your sad state of preparation and unwillingness to coordinate with our armies means we must withdraw from this war. Our dedication to the Neo-Tigranist Church remains at its highest peak as always, but we cannot sacrifice anymore men.
To: Caerix, Tuetonia
We can ill afford anymore horrific blunders as we have been forced to incur. Your sad state of preparation and unwillingness to coordinate with our armies means we must withdraw from this war. Our dedication to the Neo-Tigranist Church remains at its highest peak as always, but we cannot sacrifice anymore men.
das
Regeneration In Process
Something funny is going on with the stats. Will investigate.
You may assume so.
You may assume so.
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