Name of the Civ: Alphanate of the Lycontines
Noun: Lycontines
Adjective: Lycontine
Title: Alpha Male
Name: Canidius
Bonuses: Expansionist Scientific Militaristic
Cultural Group: Mediterranian
Level of Aggression: 2
Favorite government: Republic
Shunned government: Fascism
AI strategies: Defense, Happiness, Culture
Favourite colours: White, Light Blue, Dark Red
Location: Either England or Thrace (where Byzantines start)
Fantasy location: Pine forested isolated area.
Unique Unit: Lycontine Cataphract (My sketch, based on
this image.)
Replaces knight. Also could be used as a king unit.
2nd Unique Unit: Lycontine Legionnaire (an older sketch):
Replaces swordsman/medieval infantry (upgrades like the Legions in the Rise of Rome conquest).
City list:
Lycontinople
Aquae Sulis
Wolfenport
Gran Lupus
Australupus
Canisarea
Porto Lupus
Trojanova
Howler's Cove
Lycopolis
Nealuponium
Lyconium
Luporacum
Canisaureliunorum
San Lupono
Liburnum
Nicaea
Smyrna
Heraclea
Naissus
Nicomedia
Sudtone
Clausentum
Durovernum Cantiacorum
Isca Dumnoniorum
Lindum
Castra Devana
Eboracum
Lupokuoka
Xianggang
Civilopaedia (change nation names and history if needed): Far to the north, while the human civilisations of Mesopotamia and Hellas were developing, an independant wolf civilisation appeared. Later known as the Lycontines, this race of intelligent wolves carved out an empire in Northerb Europe which, at maximum extent, stretched from Britain in the west to Thrace in the east. Although remotely mentioned by the Greeks, the greatest conflict came from the Romans. The Romans began copying both the Greeks and the wolves, from the wolves the Romans came up with Republic, which resembled the wolves' Alpha government (except the Alpha pair was both male and female).
The Romans proved to be superior in military strength, and conquered the wolves back to their homeland in Britain, which, in 43AD, became the province of Britannia. The period of Pax Romana was a time in Wolfen history that they became Romanized, including the adoption of the Latin language. This peace was broken once barbaric hordes the Steppes pushed human Germanic tribes into Rome. The Romans left the wolves to defend their province of Britannia. The Alphanate appeared again, and the wolves managed to hold off invasions to Britannia. The fate of Rome had been sealed, and Rome was sacked in 410 AD, and the western half fell soon afterwards. The eastern half lived on as the Byzantines.
The wolves started to reclaim it's position in Europe, conquering a realm that spread from Jutland in the north to the Alps. While the wolves were reconquering their empire, the Byzantines became weaker, first because of the Arabs, then the Turks. The christian kingdoms that appeared in northern Europe decided to fight against the new religion of Islam. First with the Spanish and the French. Later, in the 12th century, the city of Jerusalem fell to the Saracens, and the christian kingdoms sent crusaders there to reclaim the city. The wolves fought alongside the cruaders, with their empire spanning from Britain to Austria. The Byzantines, however, had a worse fate and their empire became Greece and the area around Constantinople. In 1204, the wolves, under
Canidius, sent an army to the struggling empire. With his army of
Lycontine Cataphracts, the greatest city in Europe, Constantinople, and the Byzantine empire, fell to the wolves. The victory earned the wolves the name of the the Lycontines (Lycos, from the Greek meaning wolf, combined with Byzantines) Constantinople was renaimed Lycontinople, and made capital of the Lycontine empire.
The next threat came from the Ottomans, which, under Mehmed II, laid an unsuccessful siege on the capital in 1453 AD. The kingdoms of the balkans were less successful, falling under the might of the Ottomans.
The Lycontine empire was crumbling in Europe, with the French, Germans and Austrians carving it up, leaving only Britain, Greece, Thrace and Northern Italy under control.
The Lycontines formed an overseas empire, opening trade with the eastern nations of China and Japan, and colonies in the Americas and the Pacific. The new wealth that flood into the empire in the 18th century began the industrial revolution. The Europeans were soon to follow, and the new nation of the Americans.
In the modern age, the Lycontine states (many parts of the empire became self governing, with the central capital at Lycontinople) were dragged into the great wars, but suffered less damage than the European nations. Surpassed in technology by the Americans, the Lycontine states take a second place in the modern world.