silver 2039
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Orders sent, you didn't give me a final affirmative to my pm so I assumed yes and went ahead with it.
SheepNES: The Dragon is Awake: MAIN THREAD
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Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Oh good, sorry mate, was meaning to send that reply... All is good.
silver 2039
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Excellent. Allahu Akbar!
Flag of the Mughal Empire:
So much better than the real Mughal flag. Though maybe a bit gaudy. Think I should take out the building?
Ace of Gold
MAKE WAY FOR THE BAD GUY
the new Papal States Flag
silver 2039
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Whats it holding? It looks like a pile of crap. You might want to get rid of it. Otherwise its pretty good.
Stormbringer
The Brick and The Rose
"Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth. No one shall replace the Christian Ceasardom!"
For almost a century, since the rule of Metropolitan Jonas the Russian Orthodox Church has been independent of Constantinople and since the times of Filofei the Church has seen Rus' as the Third Rome. And yet the church has not given the Church of Rus' the same treatment and equality as the other four Orthodox churches enjoy.
In these troubling times for Orthodoxy and the church, in Russia and elsewhere, Daniel, the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' has gradually become an equal to his peers in Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Constantinople.
"Servants of our Lord in Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Constantinople!
The light and blessing of our Lord have shone on the Church of Rus' these years, just as such blessing has been absent from the Church of Greece. The Christian Ceasardom of Ivan IV has grown and Christianity once more has spread the lands of Rus' as it had under the Church of Kiev. It is through the guidance of our Lord that hundreds of disciples from Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra have taken to the road to spread Christianity to these and other lands and to bring glory to our Lord.
It is through His blessing that Ivan has decreed the construction of a Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed in the Third Rome, to show the glory and the blessing of our Lord that has befallen this land, and to commemorate the freedom of the lands that the Tatars have long ruled.
It is without the help or the guidance of the Ecumenical Patriarch that this has been achieved, for he would rather lead an army than the Church. He has passed from the spiritual to the worldly affairs and has chosen to abandon this Church to be a worldly ruler. We are not rulers of people in this world, but just servants of our Lord, and we would do well to remember that.
Our prayers are with the people suffering in Greece and elsewhere because of the wars and misfortunes brought about by the struggles of this world. These are trials that our Lord has chosen for us in this world, and we must overcome them and submit to His will to be with Him and stand alongside Him in Heaven. May we all have the strength and the wisdom to do so.
The Church of Rus' is now autocephalous in the Orthodox world, and I am its Patriarch. I ask for your help and your prayers in leading the people of Rus' down the path of salvation and in spreading the glory of our Lord to lands that were previously dark.
Ivan is the Caesar of the Third Rome, the Christian Ceasardom of Rus' and I ask for your prayers for him, as he also must lead these Christian people and must rule by example as would behold a Christian ruler.
My prayers are with you always,
Daniel, servant of our Lord and Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'"
It would take time for the four Patriarchs of the Orthodox Churches to recognize the Russian Church as equal, but as it led more people than the rest of the Churches combined the result was never in question. The growth of power of Russia and the Russian Church, and the chaos and disorder surrounding the Church in Constantinople assured the favorable outcome for Moscow. Daniel became the first Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
St. Basil's Cathedral was built in Moscow to commemorate the defeat of the Tatars, the unification of Russia, and the independence of the Russian Church. It was the largest Orthodox Church in the World, dominating the cityscape of Moscow and becoming the seat of power for the Russian Church for many years to come.
Ivan IV was the first ruler of Russia to be crowned Tsar (Caesar) of all Russia. It is with his coronation that the country of Russia and the notion of Rus' (the land that all Russians inhibit) became intertwined and connected. The first encompassed the second, and the second represented and legitimized the first. And it was the first time that the rulers of Russia have taken the notion of the Third Rome seriously.
Ace of Gold
MAKE WAY FOR THE BAD GUY
to be honest I do not know, It looks more like a heart or something though
Feel free to give me my land back!
DarthNader
Destroyer of Worlds
From: Poland-Lithuania
To: Friesland
We aren't showing how to grow tobacco, we are trading treated tobacco ready to smoke. What would you trade in exchange?
To: Friesland
We aren't showing how to grow tobacco, we are trading treated tobacco ready to smoke. What would you trade in exchange?
DarthNader
Destroyer of Worlds
Teh orderz...dey r cent!
Arian
No more ghostbusting!!
To: Persia
From: The Empire of the Great Ming
The Emperor is surprised that Persia has knowledge of the remote island of Australia.
As good friend I tell you this:
We have to warn you that in the past our colonists have tried to establish colonies on the western part of the island and they all have failed. The lands are inhospitable, harsh, dry and infertile and are infested by all sort of poisonous vermin. And on top of that the natives are useless and aggressive.
We advise you to invest in a colony somewhere else with better prospects.
About the student-exchange:
We regret to say that at the moment there is a student stop at the University of Nanking. We are constructing a new university in Guangzhou but it's far from finished. When it opens we might consider to allow foreign students again.
Arian
No more ghostbusting!!
Orders sent.
From: Scotland
To: Spain
Subject: NATO Involvement
NATO was established explicitly to deal with the threats of the New World but not threats of the old world spilling into the New, therefore Scotland feels no obligation and will not contribute to the the protection of Carribia from the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and/or Venice/South Italy. You may not be the aggressor in this war but it is a Old World war nonetheless.
OOC: Working on orders now
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
As the forum was down last night I shall accept orders for an extra 24 hours, although I will begin working on update tonight, so the sooner you get them in the better it will be.
Initial Deadline (when I start update) is in 10 hours
Extended Deadline (due to forum downtime) is in 34 hours.
Thanks
Sheep
Initial Deadline (when I start update) is in 10 hours
Extended Deadline (due to forum downtime) is in 34 hours.
Thanks
Sheep
