Dawn of Colonization

[Red_Spy]

To: The Union of Flanders
From: The High Kingdom of Mide

Our great King and Pope has decided to protect your independence in case of outside attack, and hopes that friendly relations may exist forever more in our two countries.

To: Celtic Kingdom of Wales
From: High Kingdom of Mide

To protect our Celtic brothers, our King offers your king a defensive pact, so we may protect our culture and people from outside threats, and not squabble among each others.

 

[Mosher]

Our rock is the shiniest - it can grant wishes. Plus it has a physical manifestation so people can actually scientifically prove it exists!

 

[Sonereal]

Our rock is the shiniest - it can grant wishes.

Supposedly.

 

[Mosher]

Naysayer! KILL the Strelok THE BLASPHEMER!

 

[Omega124]

To: Our equals in Mongolia
From: The Elnlightened in Tibet

As a religion of peace, we do not understand exactly what your accusations towards us are about. We do not raise armies except in our defence, and we do not attack others but instead spread our messages across the lands. We do not force them to follow our ways, because everyone achieves Nirvana in their own uniquie way. However, if missionary work is considered so intolerable by you, then you are denying others the chance to learn and enlighten themselves, which is against the teachings of the Buddha.

Plus, we don't really care that you "excommunicate" us, for we were never part of your version of Buddhism anyways. This religion is about peace, and no Buddha would ever support such blantant imperialism that you employ. But while we do not agree with the path you are taking, we still respect the beliefs of our fellow brethen for that is what the Buddha would want. Due to that, we do not say those Shadow Buddhists who live in Tibet should do anything but to continue practicing their faith.

To: Japan
From: Tibet

While we appreciate the help you are giving us, we do ask if you would stop being so abrasivie in your dealings with Mongolia. By trying to pick a fight with Mongolia, you are actually increasing the chances of a war to break out, which is not in the interest of any party involved.

Also, we do not understand how Tibet or Mongolia is even part of China. We must have missed that memo.

OOC: Sorry, Ravus, for the delay. I didn't have a good connection at all for about a day, so this is the first time I was able to get on in a while. The problem is fixed now.

 

[Celticfury]

Diplomacy:

To the Celtic Kingdom of Wales:

While these new portable clocks that you have devised are certainly ingenious, they are too much of a novelty and far too expensive to be considered a proper basis for trade. However, the Welsh lands do contain a resource that the Union would find most useful; wool. Flanders has always had a strong cloth industry, though it has yet to fully recover. With free trade between Wales and Flanders, both our nations will prosper greatly!

To the High Kingdom of Mide:

We graciously thank you for this kind offer. In their gratitude, the Five Members wish to send you a majestic tapestry, commemorating our friendship.

To the Grand Duchy of Milan:

Once, a great trade network extended from Flanders to northern Italy, along the great River Rhine. Now that relative stability has returned to Europe, we seek to reestablish this great trade route. There is much to be gained, in both material goods and new ideas. Before the Red Death, both Flanders and northern Italy were great centers of art and learning. Hopefully, both our nations can achieve greatness once more.

To the Kingdom of France:

The merger of the two churches is a great day. We support it fully. Althought we believe that there will be local disadent in other countries, we are overjoyed for this new day in church relationships. Any person who dose not like their countries religious laws, come to France. Ours are less harsh and are considered liberal by most people in the world.

France was not affected by the death. It stayed strong and acquired 4 more territories by peaceful expansion. France is a militaristic population. Everyone must server ten years in the military and twenty in the Militia. Religion is state runned and anyone not following it dies or is converted to the true faith. The economy is strong and France will rule the world! Also we have General Napoleon Bonaparte and General Sir Duke Arthur Wesley so we win AUTOMATICALLY!

I think there are very few people who would consider forced conversion by the end of a blade to be liberal. Either this is a blatant lie, or your king has habit of changing his mind on a whim. Neither option seems preferable.

 

[FPSlover]

PRESS RELEASE
From; France
To;World
France has seen no dissent as part of the Christen merger.

 

[Kinich-Ahau]

Diplomacy:

To the Grand Duchy of Milan:

Once, a great trade network extended from Flanders to northern Italy, along the great River Rhine. Now that relative stability has returned to Europe, we seek to reestablish this great trade route. There is much to be gained, in both material goods and new ideas. Before the Red Death, both Flanders and northern Italy were great centers of art and learning. Hopefully, both our nations can achieve greatness once more.

We accept; may this new trade route bring prosperity to us all.

 

[BSmith1068]

The Kingdom of Zimbabwe would like it to be known that its mosques are forever open to one and all, regardless of their religion, and welcome them to the ways of Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.

 

[Double A]

24
12 - spam infra
10+10 pop - build 10 armies, invade Trebizond or whatever that coastal Anatolian province to the east is and province to the direct west of Constantinople (5 each)

I honestly don't see the point of doing a map for two easily defined provinces.

 

[Sonereal]

24
12 - spam infra
10+10 pop - build 10 armies, invade Trebizond or whatever that coastal Angolan province to the east is and province to the direct west of Constantinople (5 each)

I honestly don't see the point of doing a map for two easily defined provinces.

*cue me at update*

WHERE IS TREBIZOND ZOMG?

 

[Double A]

or whatever that coastal Anatolian province to the east is

That.

 

[Kinich-Ahau]

I assume you mean Anatolian, not Angolan?

 

[Double A]

Confound you, spellcheck!

 

[Mosher]

Trebizond is to Angola as Poland is to North Africa.

 

[hoplitejoe]

Silly Mosher! Trebizond isn't in Angola!

 

[Mosher]

It is now.

 

[Jehoshua]

I think there are very few people who would consider forced conversion by the end of a blade to be liberal. Either this is a blatant lie, or your king has habit of changing his mind on a whim. Neither option seems preferable.

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To: Flanders
From: Jerusalem

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France currently exists in a maelstrom of ideology in these years post-red death and as such there was some confusion on the part of the King of France as to the precise doctrine of the Holy Catholic faith to which he recently converted.

He was misinformed by one of his non-Catholic advisors that the Holy Religion taught that the faith ordained its spread by the sword, and that the faith tolerated being controlled by the state. Fortunately the stern words of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the promptings of the Catholic Monarchs of Europe have led him to comprehend his error and recant.

However as you may be aware the Patriarchate is still seeking clarification from the King of France as to his precise position so that all error remaining in the Kings thought can be cleared, and so that he can be properly inducted into the christian peace of Europe.

To this end the Kingdom of Jerusalem congratulates the Kingdoms of the Isles and Flanders on their NAP with eachother, this pre-empts a plan in development by the Orthodox Catholic Kingdoms at the promptings of the Church (especially after the Aragonese incident) which should be ironed out and proclaimed in short order if nothing radically changes in order to ensure that such incidents can be avoided in the future.

- King Baldwin of Jerusalem

 

[kiwitt]

Media Release: Open Letter from the Bishop of Gibraltar to the Patriarch of Jerusalem

To: His Holiness, The Patriarch of Jerusalem
From: The Bishop of Gibraltar.

We humbly apologise to the Patriarch, for allowing the Caliph of Gibraltar to interpret our concerns and pass them on to you as if it comes from him and use it as an opportunity to strengthen Islam. However, as this issue has now become public we are obliged to continue this in public.

On the issue of primacy of the Patriarch, our Bible scholars have researched this matter for centuries and have used the teachings of the Bible to pass on to our flocks the authority of the one Patriarch to ensure that we remain true to our faith. We humbly direct your holiness to the verse - Matthew 16:17-19, where our saviour Jesus Christ talks to our Saint Peter and says;

Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.​

If this authority given by Jesus Christ, is no longer in place and we now have two or more authorities on which to seek council on issue of faith we are now without a leader. Our flocks (and we are sure many other flocks in other parts of the world) will not be able to absorb this shocking change to their fundamental beliefs.

We therefore now seek your holiness renounce this dualism union with the Russian heretics, for the sake of our faith or else we will surely face the wrath of God. If you do not do this, we can only assume you have fallen to worldly ways and are being led by leaders of the world as opposed to being led by God, which will cause even more distress to our flocks

On the issue of the Russian heretics. The Russian heretics (including their own Patriarch), would have to convert to the one true faith and authority of His Holiness the Patriarch of Jerusalem, before we could accept them. If the Russians are as strong as we are in our faith, we can not see this happening easily, as they also will see the authority of their Patriarch being usurped.

If these two matters outlined above, do not come to pass, we can only assume that you truly have fallen to the ways of the world and are no longer divine, which makes our faith no different to the Celt-Catholics, and the wrath of God will befall us.

These Wrath of God concerns, as outlined by the Caliph in his media release, are still valid. Namely we see plagues, earthquakes, floods, famines or any other miseries and also schism of the faith into three-ways, whereby the two old faiths break away as they once were and the supporters of the Dualism of Patriarchs form another new faith.

Please take our concerns seriously for the sake of our faith.

Signed

The Bishop of Gibraltar for the Orthodox-Catholics

 

[kiwitt]

Media Release: Open Letter from the Priest of Gibraltar to the Patriarch of Moscow

To: His Holiness, The Patriarch of Moscow
From: The Priest of Gibraltar

We urgently seek your council on the matters of faith concerning your announcement of joining with the heretics from Jerusalem. This will severely undermine centuries of teachings we have given to our small flock here. Some parishioners have come to me privately asking what are they to do now as their faith has been severely shaken by these events.

Signed

The Priest of Gibraltar for the Orthodox-Christians.