Archive 21

Turn 101 - 105.
=== Turn CI: 820 AD - 840 AD ===
=== NPC Events: ===
* Charlemagne, Father of Europe and his son Louis the Pious: Charlemagne's empire expands further through the sheer power and influence of the Frankish state, now it stretches as far as to the Baltic region. The new vassal regimes include Kimbrischen, Dantzig and Prusa. These areas are further urbanized and civilized as a result and Francia has never been this great. However Charlemagne be very old. And now also dead. His death came from natural causes in Aachen in 824, making him 82 years old. His funeral was grand, bordering on the level of a present-day state funeral. It was attended by representatives from all of the vassals as well as Pope Eugene II. Now Louis, Charlemagne's son is in charge. He is nearly 60 years old and the empire is already in turmoil. Charlemagne just had that something that held all the lands together like glue, but many vassal regents see oppurtunity in the long-awaited death of the mightiest man of Europe. Turmoil breaks out, as well as a few civil wars. By 840, peace is around, Louis the Pious holds the empire closely together to the best of his ability and his rule hasn't been terrible as of yet. He also says fuck off to the Avars, deporting them from Frankish lands and the lands of vassals, they end up in Byzantium, with several refugees making their way to Epidamnos. However, he has three sons: Lothair, Louis and Charles and the question of what happens once he himself dies does not have the clearest of answers and the potential answers are not very positive in terms of the empire's stability.
* The Sword of Eslam - Chapter 11: The Great Library of Nadir: Harun al-Rashid dies in 822, replaced by his son Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (or just Al-Mu'tasim for short and to make it easier to understand). Al-Mu'tasim continues Harun's legacy, the builds a fort on Malta come to be known as Jarija, he continues work on and practically finishes the Great Library of Nadir, come to be the second most important place of scholarship in the Arab world (the Baghdad House of Wisdom being number one) and generally does good things. The one thing he introduces that is important however, is an emphasis on diplomacy. In Al-Mu'tasim's eyes the Arabs will never reach such an expanse of land as during the Umayyad Caliphate and now that things have developed quite a bit, especially in Europe and the lands that separated from Umayyad rule during the Akhtarib Revolution means that a new approach must be taken. Diplomatic relations and negotiations are started between the Akhtaribs and most nearby states, more specifically: the Zubayrids of Qurtuba, the Berber states, the Byzantine Empire, the Khazar Khaganate, the states in the Horn of Africa and to a certain extent the Zoroastrians. Envoys are practically sent all over the place. Al-Mu'tasim becomes known for uttering one big saying: "Being an enemy of everyone will not bring the Caliphate to glory, it will eventually just destroy it."
* Japan - the Anime, Episode 2 - On Stranger Tides: Japanese influence has developed East Asia quite a bit and things are starting to change. The southern expeditions are still kind of like "ehh" and not much happens since not a lot of people want to sail down there. There is the Japanese discovery of Formosa (Taiwan) however. Too bad someone already got there earlier. But yes development, it has made areas such as Sakhalin and otl Russian Far East more developed and such than what you would think. When rumors and such of brutal enslavement of Kurian Ainu people spreads, it is enough for the Ainu-Japanese split to go all the way. Ezo refuses to pay the Japanese anymore, turning its attention to its Ainu brothers instead. Two other things as well: Okinawa agrees to collaborate on building a major functional settlement as long as they remain an independent entity from Japan. The other thing is Baekje offers to involve themselves in protecting the Japanese outposts in Korea, in exchange for Japan paying them for this. They see this as worth it as Japan will not need to house any of their army in these territories, allowing them to be used for other more important matters.
* Byzantine Resurgence AKA Balkan Trouble Spin-Off: The Byzantine state is doing just fine. They're met with Arabic envoys to ensure the two empires don't murder eachother and most of the latest technology and all that doesn't take long to grace the gates of Constantinople. Greek becomes a pretty big minority language in Sardinia, Syracuse and a bit in Calabria and Salento, however the start of a proper Italian language, being used in Frankish Italy and the Papal States prevents Greek from making a breakthrough in the rest of Italy (basically just Naples). Greek is however used quite a bit in scientific texts and the like. The relationship with Dragovits has also brought forth a Greco-Slav friendship which is kind of unbelievable if you told someone from about 100 years earlier about it.
* Xiao: Current emperor is Emperor Wenzong. Through docks, Lyaotong and similar things he establishes a strong control over the Bohai Sea, Korea Bay and parts of the Yellow Sea. He also engages in starting up larger relations with the Gaoshan people, most notably introducing Chinese agricultural techniques and also Buddhism. Both are quite damn popular. He then lets nobles around Zhangxiamen and Fujian take care of that while he ponders, he starts to ponder a ponderable ponder. That being that he wants to establish more direct relations with the Byzantine Empire (the Chinese know of it to an extent due to the Silk Road and such), however one big thing is in the way: the Khergit Khanate. Somehow he needs to get past them. Oh and yes something else. In 821 the first ever formula for gunpowder, yes gunpowder. It's not military use yet though, instead it is used by Taoists for medicinal purposes. But oh boy is this quite an invention.
* Viking Time: Europe starts to become a Viking's wet dream at this point. Raids GALORE. Minor, minor settlements also appear in otl Saaremaa and Hiumaa as well as other parts of the Baltic area. A raid also occurs in 827 on Shetland, but the Scots manage to chase the Vikings away, they escape to the Faroes and settle there. Also Vikings start to encroach on Mediterranean territory as well. After a very successful raid on Mayurka, raiding those lands becomes a bit of a fad. The Berber lands, the westernmost parts of the Akhtarib Caliphate as well as Corsica and Sardinia are subject to several raids.
* Serpent of Light: The Yuan-ti religion spreads like wildfire. Unfortunate choice of words for a nation in the Amazon oof. But yes Marájo becomes practically a theocracy and with this change permanent shrines for the Yuan-ti gods start popping up. One area near otl Belém because very populated and permanent settlements start building up. The Chieftain and the priests of the Yuan-ti plan to build the very first permanent major settlement of Marájo.
* Vietnamese Powah I: Mon lands start to be gobbled up by Van Xuan. A few tribes and such see this as inevitable and are in a way okay with it. Many others fear the Vietnamese however and it isn't uncommon for violent skirmishes to break out as Vietnamese troops come barging in claiming everything for themselves. Pagan is confused and shocked to be informed of Vietnamese expansion and they order this violent approach to end. Knowing Vietnam has a powerful ally in Xiao, Pagan and their dependency Pyu form an anti-Van Xuan coalition, it's not gonna be enough with just those two though so they need more friends. And boi do they get one in the THE Buddhist capital of the world (according to them atleast): the Alai Empire. The Alai ensure they will stand by the Mon and Pyu peoples and will protect them should Van Xuan be more hostile.
* Sanjar Khan's Khanate: Well, after 834 it's no longer Sanjar Khan's khanate. He passes away from natural causes and both himself, his closest and the Khergit people worried over what would happen after this. This is because Sanjar Khan only had one son, who pursued a different destiny rather than becoming Khan, instead becoming a diplomat for the Khergits, working in the nearby Khanates to the west. Sanjar allowed his son to pursue this but then he, you know kicked the bucket. The news arrived late to the son, Brula who was in the newly built settlement of Asjkhabad in Xhorasjm. Once he heard, he realized he needed to be crowned anyways and travelled to Samarqand, only to be captured and put in prison by the garrison. Why? Well Sanjar's cousin Dustum was the next in line to the throne aside from Brula and he was quite a powerful man and had advisors allow him to be the next Khan. Dustum Khan then realized that Brula would possibly come back to his homeland to succeed his father, but that would put Dustum out of power and cause chaos and Dustum believed he, as a mere diplomat, would not have the power and responsibility required for being Khan and ordered any soldiers to arrest Brula should he return to Khergit lands. One problem though. Similar to Charlemagne, Sanjar Khan had that little extra unexplainable thing that held the east lands together with the Khergit core, but Dustum does not and he's notoriously harsh and not very nice to the people of the eastern lands. Due to this, two major independence-seeking groups start to rise up. First you have the natives such as Mongols, Tuvans and Buryats and then you have a mix of Khergits and those natives led by a man named Alagur, who hates Dustum Khan and seeks to separate from his regency.
* The Invasions of Urodum: With lands long outspread, Urodum made many enemies, most notably the Slavs and themselves. Independent lords cause many civil wars and the Slavs start to invade and migrate (due to Viking invasions and such). The Khazars under Akashar Khagan (whose name becomes the new name for Asturikhan) seek to secure the Urodumite coast on the Black Sea to prevent the Bulgars from gaining it, so they invade and annex several swathes of land. Akashar later settles down by the Kerch strait, where the settlement of Karcha later is built up. The Bulgars also did invade, but mainly went north to grab lands such as otl Carpathian Ruthenia in order to secure better defendable borders. Bulgar raids also start to plague smaller borderlands of Dragovits.
* Zoroastrianism: It makes its way into cities like Bactra and Samarqand, starting potential for the Xhorasjm to convert to the religion. It continues to spread into Kashmir and even makes into Uighur lands. Skirmishes in Northwest India between Hindus and Zoroastrians do not stop at all and sometimes they get quite violent, but none of the states have decided to act upon the tensions between them just yet.
* The Rise of Xibalba: Xibalba is quite the fearsome power in Mayan lands, with the name of their state even being the same as the realm of death in Mayan religion. They refuse to see the Mayans be separated for much longer of a time and they will stop at nothing. They found Itzapa to serve as a capital and invade and conquer some Miskito tribes, revenge from what happened towards the end of the Mayan Empire.
* Indian Ocean Trade: The city-states in the Horn of Africa become important areas for the trade going across the Indian Ocean, which causes the start of the development of Somali people. The Obock while still loyal to the Aksumites, expand along the coast and start to develop better relations with them. Aksum has gone from practically the most poweful state in Africa, to the sick man of the continent in decline, falling further and further down the stairs of uhh... bad things I guess.
* Africa Around Lake Chad: The Sao culture was doing alright but start collapsing. The Cemorook culture also starts to fall apart a bit. Through some complicated stuff as well as the influence of Kanem the area is now inhabited by the Tchada, Kwerafra, Hausa and Igbos cultures.
* Just Mahlukya Things: Mahlukya is starting to have a bit of a shit time. Srivijaya managed to establish a good trade route from Sumatra to Sinhal to India. Great! Too bad that they also kinda brought over Smallpox... A lot of the people die and the Mahlukya dynasty itself is plagued with the disease. The epidemic goes away eventually but the dynasty has trouble with staying afloat. The Virishan branch of the Mahlukyans are doing fine but the "root", not so much. Incest and stuff leads to infertile or otherwise kinda useless rulers and bam things aren't looking good.
* Wari: An Incan kingdom is founded.
* Maori: The Maori culture develops from the Polynesians, they live on the islands of Te Ika-a-Māui and Te Waipounamu aka just the North and South islands of New Zealand. They are known for their canoes known as wakas, their mythology regarding the sea and their ceremonial dance known as the haka.
* Uru Development: The drainage basin of the Rio de la Plata flourishes a lot under a long period of time. This allows the Uru to develop and flourish further. Following Yaro the polities of Boháne, Chaná and Timbu are founded.
* Berber Universities: Influenced by the Arabs and their scholars and such, the first universites in Northwest Africa pop up in Tahert, Tangier and Fez.
* Nanticoke: The Nanticoke nation forms a polity by Chesapeake Bay.
* Inuits: Inuits have migrated to Iceland before being a minority there but now they start to overpower the weakend Papar culture. Westernmost Iceland falls to Inuits.
* Tagbanwa: They take about half of their island under their control.
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=== Byzantine Empire: ===
* Government: Absolute Monarchy
** Ruler: Romanos I
** Dynasty: Domninian Dynasty
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Constantinople
** Demographics:
*** Population: Greek 79%, Minorities: Italian 12%, Slavic 6%, Other: Khazar, Bulgar, Arabic 3%
*** Constantinople: 267,000
*** Adrianople: 72,500Rural areas: ~6.8M
*** Thessaloniki: 62,000
*** Syracuse: 61,000
*** Athens: 50,000
*** Cities: ~1,200,000
*** Rural Areas: ~6,800,000
*** Total population: ~8,000,000
*** Religion: Christianity ~95%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism 5%
* Wars and Conflicts:
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 1% (80,000)
** 35,000 Cavalry
*** 6,500 Cataphracts
** 45,000 Infantry
*** 12,000 Akritai 
** Troop placement:
*** Time and time again the Bulgars have been raiding the borderlands, never stopping to harrass our people. and now even under our garuntee they havent stopped attacking the dragovits so its time to put my foot down. A decently sized army is sent to the borders aswell as moving the belograt garrison to the border with our demand to the king: Get control over your people and cease the raiding, or it will be your people's turn to suffer. 
* Navy: 
** 50 Galleys
** 120 Transport ships
** 170 Dromons
** 80 Triremes
* Diplomacy:
** Neighbors We are frustrated at what the franks have put upon us, with a bunch of these poor bygone people now in our land who cant do anything for themselves, we ask other nations to take them as we cannot afford to have them in our lands.
** Akhtarib Caliphate: From this new caliph of the Arabs and the ascension of Romanos, We have, For the first in a long time, Had better than mortal enemy relations. And although we understand there are great underlying differences between us, Perhaps we could have an era of peace between us, At least for a while.
** Khazar Khaganate: We see that you are in the middle of a conquest against Urodum, and seeing as you are our ally we wonder if you would like to have additional soldiers to work with.
** Duchy of Dragovits: A long time ago people thought our people could never be friends, Yet where we are now shows that is not the case and i would like to bring it further than anyone could imagine, Where Slavs can live in perfect harmony with Byzantines. 
* Events:
** The new emperor: After about halfway of the turning decade emperor Domnius I died from natural causes. This left his only son to the throne, Romanos. unlike his father who was a tough hardline general, Romanos was a more friendly and diplomatic person.
** Greek strongarm: Latin is almost completely removed from education and texts, and the only ones that have it are to be older documents that either lose their original meaning when translated, havent been translated yet or just historic artifacts. It is also being encouraged to be spoken over other languages to make it easier for everyone We are also offering naples greek professors and texts to help the language get across italy.
** Stop the vikings: Angered by the viking raids on Sardinia, we have set up a small dromon fleet and a few soldiers there to deter and kill any would-be raiders.
** Approaching the Arabs: Romanos would like to meet Al-Mu'tasim to discuss the potential opportunities both our empires could have if we had even better relations and perhaps bring prosperity between us.
** (a little bit of)Science bitch!: The new tech we have recieved is quickly being applied to education but has been modified a bit to be more "byzantine friendly".
=== New Japanese Empire: ===
** Government: Monarchy
*** Ruler: Kariku-Ne Yamashengu
*** Economy: spice, food, dye, Iron tools.
*** Capital: Heian-Kyo
*** Demographics:
**** Population: Japanese 99.5%, Other 0.5%
**** Heian-Kyo: 140.000
**** Yamato: 90.000
**** Edo: 85.000
**** Fukuoka: 65.000
**** Komatsu: 60.000
**** Hiroshima: 55.000
**** Toyama: 55.000
**** Nagasaki: 40.000
**** Other Cities: 704.000
**** Rural Areas: 4.951.000
**** Total population: 6.240.000
**** Religion: 10% Buddhism, 10% Shinto, 80% Shinto-Buddhism
** Wars and Conflicts:
** Yeet the Ainu: they have disconnected themselves from Japan, we dislike that and device a plan to deal with that. First we will land multiple naval invasions in Karafu from our new military base. The invasions are smaller but multiple. This is so that the soldiers can gather food from the lands they conquer and to spread the Ainu thin. These soldiers are to march west to cut southern Sakhalin off from the rest. A few larger naval invasions will begin a day later in Ezo, one in the capital, one close to Japan and one on their west side. The one in the capital will try to capture the city before they can flee while the other two are to hinder the peoples escape. We will use our ships to prevent naval escape and to secure our transport ships that feed our soldiers. (war against Ezo, Karafu and Sakkarin)
** Military: 
** Deployed units: total of 1% 62.400
*** 20.000 Archers. (20.000)
*** 12.000 Spear men (12.000)
*** 7.500 Swordsmen (7.500)
*** 7.500 Cavalry (7.500)
*** 1.000 Tawābasutā (3.000)
*** 2.400 Heavy Infantry (2.400)
*** Deployed units: total of 0% 0
** Navy: 
*** 110 Galleys
*** 75 Transport ships
*** 25 light warship
*** Kogo Hana
** Diplomacy:
*** Okinawa: We start collaborating on building a new city. We also spread our religion to them.
*** Baekje: Good idea, we accept as long as long as your soldiers follow and enforce the Japanese law.
** Events:
*** Explore the Island: We have found a large island (Gaoshan) we must explore it and the waters close to it so that we may profit from it later.
*** The Okinawan city: We start building on the Okiawan city, we want it to contain temples to practice Shinto-Buddhism, a palace for their king/ queen and our noble for the area, we want school that teach upper class children and we want a center. We want guard posts and housing. We will build a grand city that we can share. A grand city that people from Kyushu will settle.
*** Kogo Hana: The ship is complete and just as mighty as the last kingly ship.
=== Van Xuan: ===
* Government: Absolute Monarchy.
* King: Dinh Duc Lý
* Dynatsy: Lý
* Economy: Agriculture, fishing, trading.
* Trade partners: Liang.
* Capital: Longbian.
* Demographics: 
** Population: 1 456.1k
** Cities: 310.8k
*** Longbian: 103k
*** Duen vinh: 67k
*** Haikou: 60k
*** Tram Giang: 39.8k
*** Da Nang: 30k
*** Nam Ninh: 11k
** Rural areas: 1 145.3k
** Ethnicities: Vietnamese 83.60%, Minorities: Chinese 13%, Mon 1%, Khmer 1.32%.
** Religion: buddhism 100%
* Demographics of Nanzhou:
** Capital: Kunming
** Population: 329k
** Cities:
*** Kunming: 40k
** Rural areas: 289k
** Ethnecities: Chinese 95% Minorities: Vietnamese 3% Mon 1% Pyu 1%. 
* Wars and Conflicts:
* Military:
** Stading army: Total of: 3% (43 683)
** First army: Total of 2% (29 122) 
*** Swordsmen with Shields: 13 289
*** Spearmen: 8 388
*** Bowmen: 7 369
*** Mangonel: 76
** Second army: Total of 1% (14 561)
*** Swordsmen with Shields: 6 645
*** Spearmen: 4 292
*** Bowmen: 3 586
*** Mangonel: 38
* Military of Nanzhou:
** Standing army: Total of 2% (6 580)
*** Swordmen with shields: 3 330
*** Spearmen: 1 707
*** Bowmen: 1 543
* Navy: Transport ships 44, Galleys 47, fishing ships 288
* Diplomacy:
* Events:
** Border control South: We have 40% of the second army on the Chenla'n and Champa'n border.
** Border Control North: We have 40% of the second army on the Pagan border, sending word that we don't mean any harm to them and ask for them to stay out of our expansion.
** Expansion into Mon: We send 50% of the first army to take land from the Mon tribes. 
** Expansion into Mon (Nanzhou): 40% of the Nanzhou army will go into Mon
** Farms: We expand our Farms and start thinking of ways to make the soil more fertile.
=== Turn CII: 840 AD - 860 AD ===
=== NPC Events: ===
* Fall of Francia: Already in a bad situation, Louis the Pious dies in 841. This would mark the end of the Frankish Empire, as the only thing keeping all of Francia together was now gone. Most territory was seized by the sons of Louis. Charles II "the Bald", claimed the West, Louis II gained the East and Lothair gained the rest. Bam, West Francia, Middle Francia and East Francia. A major Romance-German divide has occurred, starting the path of difference, as Romance languages are developing in the West and Middle while Old High German remains the majorlanguage in the East. However East Francia and Middle Francia don't last too long, sort of. The Slavic-majority vassals of Ostmark and Prusa, who did not last in the empire's clutches for very long, separate, thus becoming Posmark and Królwic respectively. Meanwhile the Frankish areas of the Jutland peninsula are mostly seized by Vikings while the rest is annexed into East Francia. Middle Francia dies like immediately. Not really it's more that it doesn't take long for the Italian regions to say fuck off to Lothair after his death. Lothair II however manages to hold onto the remains, naming it Lotharingia after his and his father's name. Italy under Louis II does however become a vassal kingdom, with Lothair II managing to convince his brother to not leave completely or whatever. Louis II is also the one to inherit the title of Holy Roman Emperor from Lothair I, who himself inherited it from Louis the Pious. Now the other East Francian vassals, that will be covered lejjjjj....törrrrrrr. 
* The Sword of Eslam - Chapter 12: Curtains Down: The Eslamic Golden Age is making the Akhtaribs as well as other majorly Eslamic monarchies thrive. The Akhtarib Caliphate establishes new autonomous communities to hold onto its lands. The Aghlabid dynasty is set up in the extreme west, capital in Qartajira AKA Carthage, the Imamates of Uman and Yemen are established in the south, capitals Muscat and Aden, respectively. Al-Mu'tasim's diplomatic missions come out mostly well, the only exceptions being with the Emirate of Qurtuba, as the Zubayrids still do not like the Akhtaribs and do not trust in them helping out with holding Eslamic Iberia together, instead looking to the Dihyafi entities for that. The other exception are the Zoroastrian states, as they insist on assisting the Zoroastrians in Xhorasjm, while the Akhtaribs look to try and convert the Khan of Xhorasjm to Eslam. The Xhorasjm Khanate is generally separated from the other Khanates of Central Asia and are more susceptible to leave their Tengri faith. Skirmishes and raids have occurred but nothing else. The last thing to mention is that the Akhtaribs take in about 90% of the Avar refugees, who start a large march from Anatolia towards Arabia. Thus the book of the grand rise of Eslam ends here, but it is not the complete end, it is but the beginning. 
* Rise of Bohemia: With the fall of the Frankish Kingdom, the East Franks attempted to keep their hold on Boihemien, however the Slavs are unhappy about the Germanic enforcement. Mojmir leads a successful rebellion, but he himself would die during it. Before his death he crowns Rastislav as king of the Bohemians. After the success, Rastislav went on to conquer and integrate Thuringia, Lusatien and Pannonia. In the meanwhile several other slavic regions were brought in. Moldaugen became Veligrad (it's Prague, k?!), Krakov was founded as a major town for trade and defense of the border. The Bohemian Empire then sets its sights to the south and that will be covered later because fuck you. 
* R.I.P. Urodum(b): The Magyar confederation of Urodum is fucken rekt, with the ethnic minorities fleeing, mostly into Pannonia, Slavic lands or to the Qipchaq Khanate, Khazar Khaganate and in a few occasions Volgas. The Khazars would claim Kyiv and set up a Magyar vassal to serve as a buffer and so they can get better moneys from that nice city of Kyiv (formerly Chijev). FAK U URODUMB FACK U. 
* A Khanate Divided: The revolters of Khergit origin manage to get many of the ethnic groups on their side, promising them great things should the rebellion be successful. And Alagur would certainly live up to what he said, because he was damn well successful, much from the help of many of the indigenous people such as the Mongols and Buryats. The Khergit Khanate split in two and the east united many Mongol tribes under Gazryn Mongol (practically meaning Lands of the Mongols), a vassal kingdom yet still important. It controls Karaban, a super important city in Tengri faith and it was in the hands of Alagur, sort of, which made him very likable amongst many other Nomadic cultures on the Great Steppe. Now Dustum was of course fucking furious over the separation and was technically at war with Alagur for a while, until suddenly... 
* The Bulgarian War: Provoked by the move of Byzantine troops, a panicked Boris-Michail (the emperor) ordered intervention that went bad and suddenly all of the Balkans is on fire. The Bulgars send forces to focus on attacking the Byzantines and moving towards Thrace. They capture Serdika and move closely towards Adrianople, but start losing near the Black Sea by the first responding units of the Byzantines. Attacks on Dragovits attempting to pass over the Danube succeed at first but later fall back. A weak but so far effective by Dragovits from Vojvodina is successful as of yet and the Khazars respond as well. they only make some gains however and their very newborn vassal takes the brunt of the attack. Things would change further when Rastislav shows up saying "AHOJ" and invading to secure lands with Slavic minorities (wherehaveiheardthisbeforedefinitelynotrussiaandcrimea). A massive war has sparked up. 
* Xiao: ...The Xiao invade, taking advantage to invade the Khergits at a well-placed time. They ally the Uighurs, who invade as well and quite large patches of land are grabbed. Meanwhile Xiao also does things in other places because it's fucking China. Emperor Wenzong be dead since 841, but Wuzong is now in power. He secures relations with the Eastern Khergits, promising to leave them and all the Mongols, Buryats etc. alone. Xiao spreads more Buddhism as well as some Taoism to the Gaoshanese and introduce them to many other things, landing most of the tribes semi-loyal to the emperor of China, yet still independent and allowed to do other things with their fancy new toys and worldview. Wuzong is also very angry over something but that is coming up in: 
* Vietnamese Powah II: Pagan is not happy with being ignored. The Mon start to build a massive resistance spanning most of the still standing tribes. Only a few bits of territory are claimed by Nanzhou and Van Xuan as large battles and skirmishes occur when the Vietnamese come into colonize and many people on both sides are slaughtered. When Pagan and Pyu are notified, they inform Alai who personally sends an envoy to Van Xuan with a message to Dinh Duc Lý. Paraphrased it basically says "Leave the Mon alone or we'll cut your head off and stick it on a pike in your own capital." Emperor Wuzong of Xiao is angered over how the Vietnamese has handled the situation, causing a dangerous situation between Xiao and Alai. Wuzong is angered enough that he ends the alliance with the Vietnamese. 
* V(arangian)iking Time: The Norse do many things. They raid Ireland, continue to raid other places and also continue to raid Sardinia, managing to outmaneuver the Byzantine navy. They also discover Iceland, but leave it alone for now, only writing about it and making some contact with the people. Finally we have the Varangians, a large group of Swedish Vikings, led by Jomsvikings (a title that came about after the Einherjar did all that crazy cool shit a while back) who start to raid the everlasting shit out of everything bordering the Baltic Sea. The gray areas on the map signify places regularly raided by the Varangians as well as where some settling occurs. Oh yeah there's also this guy called Rurik who definitely won't do anything of importance He He. FORESHADOWING. 
* Japan - the Anime, Episode 3: The Frozen North: Positive things that happen: the settlement of Yambura on the border of Okinawa and Japan is built. Contact between is settled between Gaoshan and Japan but someone else has established bigger influence there. End of positives. Negative things that happen: EVERYTHING ELSE. Okay sort of. A brutal invasion is launched by Japan. The invasion of Karafu is a complete failure as the trip is long and consumed many supplies, not to mention some sickness on the ships. Upon landing Karafu is able to easily ward off the invasion. However the Japanese do succeed in attacking Ezo. Japan... this. All of the Ainu are mad as fuck. Otomari is captured by Ezo is able to hold its rural population together. the Japanese get as far as about half of Ezo's territory, but the cold weather and the rough terrain prevent them from getting any farther, with the Ainu sending wave after wave of attacks to push them away and get them to retreat from their island. 
* Behold the Virishan Empire: So basically Mahlukya gets a king who is basically Indian Charles II of Spain, and he ain't even alive yet. He b DED and chaos in Mahlukya. Virishan Hisk-Hisk Indra II inherits the lands, forming a beeg old empire known as the Virishan Empire or also Mahlukya Virisha. The capital is moved to Mysore and Indra II establishes Hinduism as the official religion of Virisha. Also improves relations with the rival Rashtrakutas of Pratisthana and also Malatti and urges them to do the same, as they see the a danger in the spread of Zoroastrianism in India. They couldn't give a single shred of painis about the rivalry between Eslam and Zoroastrianism. 
* The Serpent of Light: Marájo finishes the grand construction Zehirkrel, the capital of their empire. They also further develop in terms of technology and all that to be able to hold all of these people living in the vast rainforest to stick together, many of these tribes are still practically independent, but under Zehir and the Yuan-ti they are loyal to the Chieftain. Yuan-ti religion is spreading further, touching the borders of the other small states in the north. 
* Khmer Empire: Jayavarman II of Chenla is sick of all this B U L L S H I T. With tensions rebuilding between Dvaravati and the Khmer, he gives them a big old middle finger and wanting revenge for losing the Vietnamese-Khmer war he invades and declares himself emperor of the Khmer, thus the beginning of the Khmer Empire has been established. Pattaya is taken quite quickly, but Dvaravati refuses to surrender as of right now. 
* Uru Development: The region builds up further. Ejhué becomes a major settlement and the Rio de la Plata is like spitting out new tribes and small communities. The Güenoa state is formed while others expand further, living in peace doing their agriculture and whatever minor tribal states like these do I don't fucking know this is padding to make this longer. 
* Inuits: Inuits further start to claim Iceland and with the Norse showing up, the Papar culture is dying out faster and faster.
=== Byzantine Empire: ===
* Government: Absolute Monarchy
** Ruler: Romanos I
** Dynasty: Domninian Dynasty
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Constantinople
** Demographics:
*** Population: Greek 79%, Minorities: Italian 12%, Slavic 6%, Other: Khazar, Bulgar, Arabic 3%
*** Constantinople: 277,000
*** Adrianople: 73,000Rural areas: ~6.8M
*** Thessaloniki: 62,000
*** Syracuse: 62,000
*** Athens: 50,000
*** Cities: ~1,200,000
*** Rural Areas: ~6,800,000
*** Total population: ~7,970,000
*** Religion: Christianity ~95%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism 5%
* Wars and Conflicts:
** We did not expect them to do that... but we should have, they are bulgars after all. The cataphract garrison in Tarsos is moved to the frontlines and as our relations have smoothened for the while and because of the need for troops some of the akritai have been switched to regular infantry duty to be moved to the fronts.
** A large fleet from Constantinople full of dromons and galleys are sent to blockade and harass Dobrezhk occasionally going in close to shoot fire at coastal buildings and ships.
** Byzantine infantry collect in a wall-like formation for a recapture of Serdika, then are ordered to move and attack Vratsha from the southwest.
** The cavalry garrison in Thessaloniki is to join up with a few others to move to Nis and attack Vratsha from the east.
** The soldiers at and around Adrianople are to recapture the occupied territory. They then will wait at the border to defend from future attacks.
** Cavalry are to gather between Sardika and Adrianople to then charge towards Vratsha to complete the pincer movement.
** An abosolutley massive cataphract movement is to charge near the black sea directly towards Dobrezhk and is going to be quickly followed by siege weapons and heavy infantry.
** A few other reserves are to be put at Nis and Belograt for additional safety.
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 1% (80,000)
** 35,000 Cavalry
*** 6,500 Cataphracts
** 45,000 Infantry
*** 8,000 Akritai 
** Troop placement:
* Navy: 
** 50 Galleys
** 120 Transport ships
** 170 Dromons
** 80 Triremes
* Diplomacy:
** Bohemian empire: We would like to open relations with you in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts with your nation and people.
* Events:
** In the hands of the military: As Romanos was more or less thrusted into this by the actions his father did before he died and how he isnt one for war, he has withdrawn from involvements from the war and has put it in the hands of his generals. And because the top general was quite close to Domnius I, and although he thinks the byzantines are refined romans above things such as barbarism and raids, he believes in keeping the promise of the initial warning message and has allowed the army to while keeping disciplined form to attack with brute force and pillage as their hearts desires.
** Ship building: We build more (and modern)ships to be able to dominate the sea better.
** Early napalm: Military experts, alchemists, and Former dromon commanders and veterans are called to make and design new ships and improve greek fire and the syphons used to shoot it.
=== New Japanese Empire: ===
* Government: Monarchy
** Ruler: Kariku-Ne Yamashengu, Kawa Yamashengu
** Economy: spice, food, dye, Iron tools.
** Capital: Heian-Kyo
** Demographics:
*** Population: Japanese 99.5%, Other 0.5%
*** Heian-Kyo: 150.000
*** Yamato: 95.000
*** Edo: 90.000
*** Fukuoka: 70.000
*** Komatsu: 65.000
*** Hiroshima: 60.000
*** Toyama: 55.000
*** Nagasaki: 45.000
*** Other Cities: 740.000
*** Rural Areas: 5.130.000
*** Total population: 6.500.000
*** Religion: 99% Shinto-Buddhism, other 1%
* Wars and Conflicts:
* Ainu War Strats: now that we have a solid hold of a chuck of Sakhalin we are able to organize better as an outpost in built on the southern parts of the lands, this out post will allow us to send more goods to feed our soldiers and allow for a faster reinforcement rate. Our units are organized in groups with their commanders working together with other commanders. We will use this wall of army groups to attack the enemy from two angles, between these army groups we have smaller scouting groups that scout for enemies. This plan is constructed to give commanders maximum information which would counter any guerrilla type warfare. We also try to navally invade northern Ezo. 
* Ainu War Movement: We want to cut the Ainu off at the top as our main armies destroy resistance, focusing on moving north until we meet Karafu where a third of the army will move down through Karafu. This should be more than enough for them to capitulate but if they don't we will just continue north until they don't have any lands left. 
* Military: 
* Deployed units: total of 1% 65.000
** 20.000 Archers. (20.000)
** 14.500 Spear men (14.500)
** 7.500 Swordsmen (7.500)
** 7.500 Cavalry (7.500)
** 1.000 Tawābasutā (3.000)
** 2.500 Heavy Infantry (2.500)
* Navy: 
** 120 Galleys
** 80 Transport ships
** 30 light warship
** Kogo Hana
* Diplomacy:
** Karafu, Ezo and Sakkarin: Capitulate and we can agree to these terms: You three become a puppet of Japan and in return we shall refrain from enslaving you.
** Gaoshan: We would like to trade and get to know you more.
** Okinawa: We use the city to improve relations, spread culture and religion.
* Events:
** Wooden Cities: The wood from Korea becomes THE most popular building material as more forrets are planted in Japan, starting a slow conversion from bamboo to a harder wood type. 
** The New Emperor: The old empress abdicates and puts her most capable son on the throne. She does this so that she and her husband can join the war effort, for glory!
** Japanify: we start Japanifying our colonies.
=== Khazar Khaganate: ===
* Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)
** Khagan: Manasseh I
** Dynasty: Bulanid
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Akashar
** Demographics:
*** Population: 80% Khazar, 10% Slavic, 8% Aabkhaz, 2% greek.
*** Cities: 387.2k
**** Akashar: 129k
**** Galgan: 98k
**** Karcha: 85k
**** Korstyam: 75.2k
*** Rural Areas: ~1,372.8k
*** Total population: ~1,760k
*** Religion: 83% Judaism, 13% Christianity, 4% Tengri.
** Demographics of Kyiv:
*** ​​​​​​​Population: 79% Slavs, 10% Khazars, 6% Magyars, 4% Bulgars.
*** Cities:
**** ​​​​​​​Kyiv: 5k
*** Rural Areas: 95k
*** Total population: 100k
*** Religion: 89% slavic paganism​, 7% Judaism, 4% Christian. ​​​​​​
* Wars and Conflicts:
** ​​​​​​​80% of our army will push the Bulgarian Army to the west across the border and beyond.
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 2% (35 200)
*** 24 000 Cavalry
**** 11 000 with Spears
**** 13 000 with Swords
*** 11 000 Infantry with Swords and Shields. 
** Reserves: Total of 4% 70 400
*** ​​​​​​​48 000 Cavalry
**** 22 000 With Spears
**** 26 000 With Swords
*** 22 000 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
* Navy
** For traversing the Caspian sea:​
*** ​​​​​​​5 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Khanates)
*** 16 fishing ships (for fishing...)
** For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​​​​​​​​
*** ​​​​​​​5 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire) 
*** 2 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)
*** 27 fishing ships (for fishing...)
* Diplomacy:
** Bohemian Empire: Khazaran efforts are made to improve relations with the Bohemian Empire.
* Events:
** ​​​​​​​New city: Chersonesus, a city created in southern Crimea. (you know where)
=== Turn CIII: 860 AD - 880 AD ===
=== NPC Events: ===
* The Start of a Schism: While there have always been disagreements, tensions lay between Pope Nicholas I and Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople, mainly due to the fact that the Pope claims jurisdiction across all of Christianity, including the east. So in a subtle way he basically says that Ignatius' position is obsolete.
* Carolingian Empire: The Carolingian Empire has technically existed since Charlemagne became king of the Franks, what this is is not an actual empire really but since the successors of the Frankish Empire are all from the dynasty, they are bound by blood and still work together... mostly. Other than being raided here and there, the Carolingian kingdoms are in relative peace, but still not in the best position (looking at you Lotharingia).
* The Bulgarian War: The end of the so-called "Last Barbarian War" (according to the Byzantines) has arrived. The Bulgars were simply unable to handle so many fronts and lost. The Byzantines gained a border along the Danube as they had had before, Dragovits claimed some minor lands and the other powers gained a fair share as well. The Byzantines now reclaimed two cities, Vratsa (Vratsha) and Tomis (Dobrezhk), forcing the Bulgars to move capital to the Geltush (Cluj-Napoca), which isn't that bad, being located behind the vast Carpathian Mountains.
* Viking Time - Mega Episode: Viking society has been developing and changing for long but now so major things happen. Sigfred, a major powerful man and king of Selund, would be involved in several smaller conflicts with the other Danish states. He defeated many of his rivals and would through consolidating Danish power from Jylland to Sjaelland make himself the most powerful man there. A war here and royal marriage there and in 862 the Kingdom of Danesmark is formed. Not long after raiding Great Britain becomes some serious business. Vikings had for long settled there but now, it was full on conquest. A massive campaign led by a buddy of Sigfred, Guthrum, led to the conquest of most of the north and east of the island, barring Scotland (mostly due to both sides disliking the Anglo-Saxons and just deciding to not bother eachother), becoming a confederation under Danesmark known as the Danelaw. Wessex (under Alfred, known as King of the English), Mercia and Kent end up being the main resistance force, being forced to let the invaders have the land (for now) but ready to strike at any moment. Meanwhile several settlements on the coast of Norway evolved into two rivaling kingdoms, Rogaland and Hordaland (creative names ik). These are led by Harald and Eirik respectively. These two men are great friends jk they both want to tear eachother's throats out, stick their heads on pikes and go off to pillage eachother's homes. Rogaland and Hordaland have existed for long but not become such powerhouses before now and that being because Harald and Eirik are such powerful men. But yeah whatever it do be war. Further minor settling by Norwegians in Iceland also occur. So we can check off the Danish and Norwegian vikings, finally it's time for the Swedes. The Varangians continue to ravage large parts of Eastern and Central Europe. One large raid is conducted on Kyiv, although it is successful to an extent the Vikings kinda got rekt, forcing the Vikings to only raid northern Slavic lands. Then we also have that chad Rurik, who takes part in many raids along the coast of the otl Baltic States and Finland before settling in Ingria. He is dummy powerful and yeah you know what's coming don't you...
* Rise of Bohemia: Following success in war, Bohemia went on to claim more Slavic lands and generally do really well. The Bohemians do be vibin, as Rastislav does officially convert to Christianity in 870, but he then kinda become very ill so the Duke of Moravia, Svatopluk, dethrones him and becomes the new king. He fights off Magyar raids on Pannonia, the influence of East Francia and even establishes a good relationship with Pope Adrian II (successor to Nicholas I in 867).
* First Zoroastrian War: Finally the conflicts between Zoroastrians and Muslims by the border of the Middle East and Central Asia explodes into war. The cause is that the Khan of Xhorasjm Qasim converts to Eslam, but his son Surat, who is Tengri but has good relations with Zoroastrians is having none of it, causing a civil war between Eslam and Zoroastrianism in the Khanate, starting in November 866. First it's mostly just a civil war but a massive sacking of Bactra (of course it's Bactra) occurs in January 867, in which Arabs attacked along with the Eslamic Xhorasjmites. Seeing this as a threat, the Shield of Kush and Pamir would join in and fight the Akhtaribs. Cue a huge war lasting several years. The more Persian-influenced Muslims fight a lot, obviously and many battles end up indecisive or a victory by a margin on either side. In 871, the Zoroastrians reached Asjkhabad and the most important and decisive battle of the war took place, with it being a Muslim victory. Despite the loss, the war would continue and the Zoroastrians still saw success. The instability in the region led to the already slowly collapsing Western Khergit Khanate to suffer revolts. Zoroastrians in Samarqand killed their lord, who was sympathizing with the Eslamic side of the war, during which they also then freed Brula, son of Sanjar Khan. He obviously wanted to take care of Dustum, but had to come to an agreement. He would help the Zoroastrians in the war and in return they'd assist him in taking his rightful throne back. During this Samarqand basically became a separate state from the Khergit Khanate who was too busy fighting the Chinese and Uighurs. Towards 874 things were slowing down a fuckton in the main front, but Brula went off to yeet Dustum. Unfortunately Dustum still had many on his side so the farthest he got was to take Tosjkent and other lands. In 876, almost 10 years in, a peace was established. Most of Xhorasjm became the Emirate of Khwarazm, while the Zoroastrian occupied regions become the states of Bukhara and Bactria. Brula would later pass away and having practically been king of the Ozbeks despite being a Khergit he did give Surat (after converting to Zoroastrianism) authority over Tosjkent while Brula's closest friend during all of this: a Tajik named Sougand the authority over Samarqand. Following Brula's death his dominions split in two. We get Samarqand and Surat (Khagan) names his realm the Ozbek Khaganate, as he absolutely does not recognize Khwarazm as the land of the Ozbeks. Afganistan, the Tajik Khaganate and Sindh would gain lands they occupied from the Akhtaribs as well.
* Japan - the Anime, Episode 4 - I couldn't come up with a subtitle: Fierce fighting occurs in Sakhalin (or rather, Ezo as the official name now is) and though the Ainu have the weather and such on their side the Japanese manage to advance and secure lands for themselves. They end up forcing the Ainu out by 857 and upon that set two friendly regimes up in what was Ezo and Karafu, with Sakkarin being too far into the frozen, difficult terrain to really be affected. Yeah that's like it. They b vibin. Other than the fact that an earthquake and tsunami strike the Sanriku Coast in 869 sad moment.
* What Happened to the Avars?: Large marching trains of Avars move throughout the Akhtarib lands. A lot of them thank the Akhtaribs for letting them live there by converting to Eslam. As muslims, they travel to Arabia, more specifically Hejaz, more more specifically Makkah and Madinah, the holiest cities of Eslam to truly cement themselves as an Eslamic people. After this pilgrimage the majority of the Avars end up in otl Yemen, which is perfect since the burns from the revolts during the Akhtarib Revolution still exist there and the Avars can now assist and get to work. Avars in Arabia, fuck you I don't care.
* Khergit Khanate: The eastern half stands quite fine and such, however the west, not so much. The Chinese invasion goes rather well, as in well for the Chinese and they do capture big amounts of territory that they claim for themselves. Thus a very beautiful panhandle (it'sabsolutelydisgustingiknowbutdon'tworryitwon'tlastverylong) is created that is technically directly annexed but still kind of independent under regional lords, especially in Yalen, yeah they captured Yalen. Dustum Khan is forced to let emissaries and envoys from Xiao and the Uighur Khaganate pass through his lands. So Dustum Khan has now lost a city. JK I meant two cities. Some migration between Oghuz Turks and Qipchaqs result in some conflict in the west, along the border with the Qipchaq Khanate. The trouble would cause some people of Qipchaq origin to leave and establish the Qaraqalpaq Khanate by the Aral Sea, claiming Aralya. Meanwhile the Oghuz Turks separate and form Yabgu (or Oghuz Yabgu) from Qipchaq lands.
* Rise of Xibalba: Xibalba grows to become the strongest Mayan state out there, they have many of the city-states under their sphere of influence and they also conquer more of the Miskito. The Cult of Death has become the authority of Xibalba and it reigns supreme over the realm.
* Vietnamese Powah III: They stop antagonizing the Mon people and instead focus on internal struggles rather than doing more war.
* Tahert: The Aghlabids, a dynasty ruling semi-independent lands in the western-most areas of the Caliphate, do a lot of diplomatic mammer jammer with Tahert and even do some marriage stuffs, creating a Berber branch of the Aghlabid bloodline.
* Khmer Empire: The Khmer Empire establishes itself as just that as it succeeds in conquering Dvaravati.
* Shewa: The people of Obock abandon the Aksumites and form the state of Shewa, embracing the Kushite culture and such and just being like "fak u Aksum, we be with the Somalis insted".
* Uru Developments: More expansion and more development. More inventions and more other word for development. The End.
* Yakuts: Yakuts are spread further in Siberia.
* Rotary Grindstone: The rotary grindstone is invented in Europe.
* Pechenegs: Several tribes of the Pecheneg people of Central Asia migrate into Khazar lands as far as the border of Kyiv and Bulgaria.
=== Byzantine Empire: ===
* Government: Absolute Monarchy
** Ruler: Constantine VII (B 831AD, D 890AD) (R 881AD - 890AD) Leo V (B 872 AD (alive)) (R 890-Present)
** Dynasty: Domninian Dynasty
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Constantinople
** Demographics:
*** Population: Greek 76%, Minorities: Italian 12%, Slavic 6%, Other: Khazar, Bulgar, Arabic 5%
*** Constantinople: 289,000
*** Adrianople: 74,000Rural areas: ~6.8M
*** Syracuse: 63,500
*** Thessaloniki: 62,500
*** Athens: 52,000
*** Cities: ~1,250,000
*** Rural Areas: ~6,900,000
*** Total population: ~8,000,000
*** Religion: Christianity ~94%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism, Bulgarian paganism 6%
* Wars and Conflicts:
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 1% (80,000)
** 35,000 Cavalry
*** 6,500 Cataphracts
** 45,000 Infantry
*** 8,000 Akritai 
** Troop placement:
*** We send a fleet and soldiers around the western mediterranean almost as much as a casual supply line can hold to protect those waters from vikings (and to spread our influence a little)
* Navy: 
** 55 Galleys
** 140 Transport ships
** 185 Dromons
** 87 Triremes
* Diplomacy:
** Khazar Khaganate: Leo V requests a royal marriage with your daughter to strengthen the bond between our nations
** Papal states: In reflection we believe your postition is irrelevant for not only did the popes before you abandon true rome in favor of a filthy frank you then now believe that you are the head of all christians when you are nothing more than an elected man in a fancy hat. The patriarch is to be a symbol of eastern christians and at the very least has just as much of an important role as you.
* Events:
** Monarchy news: Romanos returns after the last barbarian war and watches over the empire for just 1 more year before dying of natural causes. His son Constantine VII Takes the throne and begins to reform the newly acquired bulgarian lands into a more greek culture to fit in with the rest of the empire, modernizing them, putting new roads and greek schools down and converting the pagans to christianity aswell as sending missionaries to the rest of bulgaria. Sadly he dies just over a decade into his rule from a heart attack leaving his 28 year old son Leo to lead the empire.
** The luxury of silk: Some secretive silk farms are placed around the Constantinople aswell as silk manufactories while the first silk weaving college is set up in Adrianople and is closed off to non-Byzantines however it accepts anyone from any class, and is built to boost the economy while also attempting to project an image of luxury when thinking about Byzantium
=== New Japanese Empire: ===
* Government: Monarchy
** Ruler: Kariku-Ne Yamashengu, Kawa Yamashengu
** Economy: spice, food, dye, Iron tools.
** Capital: Heian-Kyo
** Demographics:
*** Population: Japanese 99.5%, Other 0.5%
*** Heian-Kyo: 170.000
*** Yamato: 110.000
*** Edo: 100.000
*** Fukuoka: 85.000
*** Komatsu: 75.000
*** Hiroshima: 65.000
*** Toyama: 60.000
*** Nagasaki: 55.000
*** Other Cities: 800.000
*** Rural Areas: 5.260.000
*** Total population: 6.760.000
*** Religion: 99% Shinto-Buddhism, other 1%
Demographics of Subjects:
* Population: Japanese 2%, Ainu 98%
* Otomari: 10.000
* Rural Areas: 70.000
* Total population: 80.000
* Religion: 50% Shinto-Buddhism, 50% Ainu Paganism
** Wars and Conflicts:
** Military: 
** Deployed units: total of 1% 67.600
*** 22.000 Archers. (22.000)
*** 14.500 Spear men (14.500)
*** 7.500 Swordsmen (7.500)
*** 7.500 Cavalry (7.500)
*** 1.200 Tawābasutā (3.600)
*** 2.500 Heavy Infantry (2.500)
** Navy: 
*** 125 Galleys
*** 85 Transport ships
*** 35 Light warship
*** 10 Medium warships
*** Kogo Hana
** Diplomacy:
*** Gaoshan: We would like to trade and get to know you more.
*** Okinawa: We want allowance to build roads between the cities and villages
** Events:
*** Medium Warships: we create a medium warship with decent speed, size, armour and carrying capacity. An average of military ships, great for fast decisions and powerful in the hands of experienced captains. 
*** North Build-up: We want to show the Ainu that we will improve their lives, we build infrastructure between cities, villages all up to the north. We start building a capital for Karafu called Sunõdorangon where 2.500 Japanese will live and 2.500 Ainu will live (from the start)
=== Khazar Khaganate: ===
* Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)
** Khagan: Manasseh I
** Dynasty: Bulanid
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Akashar
** Demographics:
*** Population: 80% Khazar, 10% Slavic, 8% Aabkhaz, 2% greek.
*** Cities: 409k
**** Akashar: 131k
**** Galgan: 100k
**** Karcha: 87k
**** Korstyam: 76k
**** Chersonesus: 15k
*** Rural Areas: ~1,380k
*** Total population: ~1,789k
*** Religion: 83% Judaism, 13% Christianity, 4% Tengri.
** Demographics of Kyiv:
*** Population: 79% Slavs, 10% Khazars, 6% Magyars, 4% Bulgars.
*** Cities:
**** Kyiv: 6k
*** Rural Areas: 100k
*** Total population: 106k
*** Religion: 91% slavic paganism​, 6% Judaism, 3% Christian. ​​​​​​
* Wars and Conflicts:
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 1% 17 890
*** 12 195 Cavalry
**** 5 598 with Spears
**** 6 596 with Swords
*** 5 695 Infantry with Swords and Shields. 
** Reserves: Total of 5% 87 500 89 450
*** 61 525 Cavalry
**** 31 263 With Spears
**** 30 262 With Swords
*** 27 925 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
* Navy
** For traversing the Caspian sea:​
*** 5 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Khanates)
*** 16 fishing ships (for fishing...)
** For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​​​​​​​​
*** ​​​​​​​5 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire) 
*** 2 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)
*** 27 fishing ships (for fishing...)
* Diplomacy:
** Byzantium Empire: We accept. 
** Aabkhaziya: We are very close and we both border the beast to our south, though we are safe at the moment, it may not last long. I think we both would benefit if we joined together as one nation. I know our Culture is different but that wont be a problem as you can keep your culture however you want around that area... (this last part makes sense yes? okay o.o).
* Events:​​​​​​​
** ​​​​​​​Integration of Slav Tribes: We send word to tribes north of us to ask if they want to join us.
* Events of Kyiv: 
** Integration of Slav Tribes: Word is sent out to villages around Kyiv territory that they're welcomed into the nation if they want to.
=== Turn CIV: 880 AD - 900 AD ===
=== NPC Events: ===
* Carolingian Empire: So this guy Charles III, more commonly known as Charles the Fat, got quite lucky. See after Charles the Bald of Lotharingia died, Lotharingia just kinda got divided up by the other Frankish successors. Through family ties and all that he (Charles the Fat) became king of Italy and then inherited both East and West Francia, reuniting the Frankish Kingdom in 884 and also even becoming Holy Roman Emperor (crowned by Pope John VIII). This did not last. His nephew Arnulf led a coup in 887, overthrowing Charles, becoming king of East Francia, disputed king of Italy and disputed Holy Roman Emperor. Thus the realm split. This time Lotharingia wasn't a thing since it was already a crumbling mess, although we do have Burgundy. Italy and East Francia remains in a weird personal union but still kind of united politically position but Arnulf then does the big die in 891. Two people named Louis (because of course) succeed him. Louis III, come to be known as "the Blind" became king of Italy and HR Emperor and Louis IV "the Child" (cause he's six years old at the end of this turn) becoming king of East Francia.
* The Continuing of the Start of a Schism: Pope John VIII is very happy with the comments made by the Byzantine Emperor. JK, relations deteriorate even further. He first of all basically says "No, fuck you, I have more power and clout than the Patriarch of Constantinople" and goes on to directly not recognize any Patriarch as the head of Christianity in any form. This is continued by like all the popes following him towards the end of the 9th century, which I'm too lazy to mention and also there's a lot so who cares. Although Pope Adrian III (R 884 - 885) worked hard to help the people of Italy (not just the kingdom but practically the entire peninsula) safe in a time of famine and internal conflict, NEAT. But he also condemned both the Christians living in Eslamic Iberia as well as Christian Iberia for being friendly with the Jews living there, NOT NEAT. Anyways relations between the Pope (who holds influence over Christianity in western Europe) and the Patriarch of Constantinople (the same but eastern Europe) has caused the different churches to slowly split.
* Akhtarib Decline: While obviously there are many positives to come out of the Eslamic Golden Age, for obvious reasons, the Akhtaribs start to suffer some burns from it as well. The costly Zoroastrian War combined with some inept rulers, growing autonomy of different regions and those regions themselves breeding brilliant intellectuals and leaders has caused a decline in the Caliphate as well as several new states separating from it. Sultans, basically a word for powerful governors of certain provinces, have now gone on to become actual ruling titles as the Sultan Marnid forms the Sarranid Sultanate out of most of Akhtarib territory in North Africa. They control the second-most important city when it comes to scholarship and knowledge and all of that: Nadir and they work on rebuilding the old Ancient Egyptian cities that still stand as well as renaming Ptolemais to Tolmeytah, Demieta to Durquba and Abydos to Ahmerrad. The other Sultan is Sultan Jamayyed, who secedes the Aghlabid dynasty's lands from the Akhtaribs, forming a greater relationship with the Berber kingdoms by also converting to the Dihyafi branch of Eslam. But that's not all. As the Akhtaribs struggle to maintain control, the Yemenis become independent, who then assist the Avars who had settled east of this new state prior to all this. These transformed people, known as the Ahfaris, speaking a language derivative of Arabic and Avar, form their own state as well, an Emirate. Emir (or Amir) Kargus I changes the name of Qana to Amirbyrg (practically meaning Fortress of the Emir) and Salalah to Bayanqur, referring to Bayan I and the word crown, basically meaning Bayan's Crown. And to top it all of since the Akhtarib Caliphate's center is in Baghdad, their whole influence on the rest of the sparsely populated regions of the Arabian Peninsula, laws simply aren't able to be forced upon the people there and lands start to fall to tribes once more, starting with the Rub' al Khali, the direst part of the Arabian desert. The rough mountains of the Caucasus also yields new seceding states, those being Georgia, Kartli and Kakheti.
* Viking Time: The Danelaw stands powerful in Britain, managing to hold on and resist invasions from the Anglo-Saxons. Kent absorbs Sussex and the Danes maintain strong control over most of the North Sea. Meanwhile Harald Fairhair is victorious and forms the Kingdom of Norway in 882. He also integrates Oslofjord into his new realm. While more urbanized, it's still a Viking realm and thus raiding still occurs. Scotland starts to be attacked more and the Gaelic people are no longer standing by as Vikings come yeeting them away just like they are doing with the English. Many of the isles along Scotland's mainland become basically Norway's version of the Danelaw, a confederation under Norway known as the Kingdom of the Isles. Sweden also sees some stuff happening as the realms of Gautland (Götaland) and Mælirvatn are formed. Then we also have Norwegian settling starting for real over in Inuit Iceland, with the formation of Hrímland on the western coast. The End.
* Viking Time - Rus' Time: Well actually not really. That Rurik guy basically makes himself king of the Varangians in Ingria, building a city come to be known as Rurikburg (I wOnDeR wHaT tHaT mEaNs). From there he builds a complex network of small practically independent principalities all adhering to the King of the Rus'. It starts over in Ingria but grows to stretch all the way down to the borders of Kyiv by the end of the century, saying HEJ DÄR to the Slavs living there. When it comes to the other Varangians, they aren't as relevant now that the Rus' exist. They still do their whole raiding and settling thing. A joint duchy of Slavs and Jomsvikings is established in Pomerania after decades of Viking influence there, becoming known as the Venetii or the Wends. They're still subject to some raids from other Varangians but otherwise they're chill.
* Huang Chao Rebellion: In Xiao China some bad things happen, natural disasters cause famines and poverty in several regions and Emperor Xizong is a bit of a corrupt fuck what a knob jockey so yeah people start to not like him. This dude known as Wang Xianzhi is a salt smuggler and gets tired of Xizong's bullshit so he rebelled in the east of China in 883, where the officials didn't really do shit so he got a lot of followers. It started with a thousand men, but grew much larger as he captured settlements and gained allies such as Shang Junzhang and later, Huang Chao, another salt bootlegger. The rebellion was quite successful at the start, as the rebels defeated governor after governor but Huang Chao became almost as powerful as Wang Xianzhi and things took a bit of a turn for the worse. Eventually Wang Xianzhi had to face Song Wei, Li Fu and Zeng Yuanyu and he was defeated, killed and had his head delivered to Emperor Xizong in Xin'an. Shang Junzhang was also killed in the battle, but his brother, Shang Rang, joined up with Huang Chao with the remainder of Wang's followers and they went on to go as far as to Luoyang. All this power got to Huang Chao's head though and he declared himself Emperor of a new state (Qi) after capturing it. His closest allies such as Shang Rang became subordinates and he bossed them around, holding his territory for months. He did at this point also start to ignore his general's advice on where to attack and defend and always went for his own strategies, which rarely worked. Eventually Shang Rang started to think "Better Xiao than Qi" and thus turned against Huang with many of the other followers of Huang. Teaming with their former enemies, Huang Chao's Qi was defeated and he shared Wang Xianzhi's fate. Shang Rang and his allies made good negotiations with Xiao when they first crossed Huang and were promised to only go through light punishments for their initial involvement. They were promptly slaughtered and dumped in the Bohai Sea. Even though the rebellion failed, small insurgent groups, both remainders of the followers of Wang and Huang as well as independent newly-formed rebel bands still roam throughout the Xiao dynasty and the state of China has started to decline once more. The Uighurs are also kinda pissed as the Chinese try to force Buddhism and other stuff onto them.
* Central Asia: The Ozbek Khaganate under Surat Khagan becomes the dominant Ozbek state in Central Asia (not counting that whole Emirate of Khwarazm thing). An Ozbek Confederation thing of sorts is formed, with Bukhara, Samarqand and Bactria adhering to the Khaganate as Free City Dependency things. Some Khergit lands are swept up as the rivalry between Zoroastrian Ozbeks and Eslamic Ozbeks grows. Dustum Khan dies, followed by Tonju Khan. Meanwhile the Qipchaq Khanate continues to collapse as practically all their neighbours gain chances to gobble some territory. The Kazakhs say bye and the Oghuz Yagbu Turks start to take more control over the region. Finally while not really Central Asia conflicts between Hindus and Zoroastrians in Kashmir leads to a war, the capture of Mazarum and the separation of that area from the rest. The Uighurs chase Zoroastrian missionaries out and use their geography to their advantage to do just that.
* Japan - the Anime, Episode 5 - I again couldn't come up with anything: Japan is kinda chilling right now. The Gaoshanese are willing to trade and such but are otherwise not trusting of the Japanese, instead preferring to stick with Xiao. Okinawa agrees to co-operate in building up a better infrastructure, if the Japanese respect their culture and independence. Building up in the north isn't that effective considering the weather and environment.
* Rise of Xibalba: Xibalba continues to become more powerful as they start to absorb several city-states. This angers Tikal and Togulci who don't want Xibalba to do that (even though Togulci is doing the exact same thing HYPOCRITE).
* Inca: Wari expands and a new Incan state is formed, Tiwanaku, who encapsules most of Lake Titicaca and *sigh* Lake Poopó (that's the actual name).
* Horn of Africa: Shewa goes to war against Aksum and quite easily defeats them. Otherwise the Indian Spice Trade across the Indian Ocean is doing great in the Somali city-states, with there even being a new one now, Mogadishu.
* Buyeo: Buyeo annexes Hsyngang after several decades of Jurcho-Koreanofying(?) them. They also invade the Khitan Khaganate.
* Rise(?) of Bohemia: So Svatopluk I expands Bohemia some more but then dies. Mojmir II followed and while Bohemia is a thicc boi, Magyaric raids and liberty desire is at an all-time high right now. Mojmir II tries his best but is that enough, that's unsure.
* Some More Stuff in Europe: Byzantine measures against Viking raids are semi-effective but the Aghlabids following their independence start to take matters into their own hands. With all that Arab treasure they pay the Vikings to not raid them and instead go after monasteries and such in Sardinia and Sicily, they will deliver the loot to the Aghlabids and will get to keep most of it. This measure is also kind of effective, raids start to stop around the Aghlabid coast but it's not always that the whole share of the treasure idea works out. Over in Iberia there's some more skirmishes leading to the christians regaining more lands, with West Francia assisting and even capturing Barcelona.
* Aabkhaziya (to Khazars): They think not, preferring to be a dependency and to handle most of their own things alone with some help and also they do not need as much protection now that the Caucasus has more states in it.
* Virishan Empire: They're mostly chilling, keeping an eye out on Pratisthana, doing deals with Srivijaya and vassalizing Sinhal.
* Another War Between Srivijaya and Brunei: Srivijaya does some exploration through the different seas around the islands that constitute irl Indonesia as well as expanding Banten and Mempawah. Brunei ain't okay with this, bam another war on Borneo.
* Anhaica, Oskosh and Narragansett: New Native American polities have been established. Anhaica is special since the capital of that, also called Anhaica, is a very popular place for trade for many of the eastern and southeastern natives.
* Khmer Empire: They vassalize Bukhtambas.
* Uru Developments: You already know about all that.
=== New Japanese Empire: ===
* Government: Monarchy
** Ruler: Kariku-Ne Yamashengu, Kawa Yamashengu
** Economy: spice, food, dye, Iron tools.
** Capital: Heian-Kyo
** Demographics:
*** Population: Japanese 99.5%, Other 0.5%
*** Heian-Kyo: 185.000
*** Edo: 125.000
*** Yamato: 120.000
*** Fukuoka: 90.000
*** Komatsu: 80.000
*** Hiroshima: 70.000
*** Toyama: 70.000
*** Nagasaki: 70.000
*** Other Cities: 850.000
*** Rural Areas: 5.360.000
*** Total population: 7.000.000
*** Religion: 99% Shinto-Buddhism, other 1%
Demographics of Subjects:
* Population: Japanese 4%, Ainu 96%
* Otomari: 13.000
* Sunõdorangon: 5.000
* Rural Areas: 75.000
* Total population: 93.000
* Religion: 55% Shinto-Buddhism, 45% Ainu Paganism
** Wars and Conflicts:
** Military: 
** Undeployed units: total of 1% 70.000
*** 22.000 Archers. (22.000)
*** 15.000 Spear men (15.000)
*** 9.000 Swordsmen (9.000)
*** 7.900 Cavalry (7.900)
*** 1.200 Tawābasutā (3.600)
*** 2.500 Heavy Infantry (2.500)
** Navy: 
*** 130 Galleys
*** 90 Transport ships
*** 40 Light warship
*** 15 Medium warships
*** Kogo Hana
** Diplomacy:
*** Gaoshan: We improve relations
*** Okinawa: We will respect your choice of being independent, we only seek to strengthen our bonds and see where destiny takes us. And to strengthen our bonds further we would like to present the idea of a royal marriage, not to annex you or anything just to show that we two are like brothers and to strengthen our connections.
** Events:
*** Okinawan Infrastructure: We construct roads between villages and the two cities on the island. The shared city and our colonial city.
*** Ezoan Movement: Some Japanese fishermen that enjoy the cold and daring life of Sakhalin move there to fish and hunt.
*** Study the Chinese: The fat man of China is dying from diabetes and will have to remove some fat. Therefore we should study what we can before they collapse, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu and whatever technologies we can.
*** Economic Improvement: We in Japan believes in balance, after a war we need some peace. And during that peace we should improve our posture against our older brother, we start to develop the speed of our trading vessels as well as the storage capacity. We don't have anything special to sell, so we should just try to sell more.
*** The Not So "New" Empire: We change our name back to the Japanese Empire, we also make a new flag, hooray.
*** Wooden Warfare: bamboo is entirely replaced by normal wood in our equipment.
=== Byzantine Empire: ===
* Government: Absolute Monarchy
** Ruler: Leo V
** Dynasty: Domninian Dynasty
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Constantinople
** Demographics:
*** Population: Greek 79%, Minorities: Italian 12%, Slavic 6%, Other: Khazar, Bulgar, Arabic 3%
*** Constantinople: 300,000
*** Adrianople: 74,000
*** Syracuse: 64,000
*** Thessaloniki: 63,000
*** Athens: 52,500
*** Cities: ~1,250,000
*** Rural Areas: ~6,900,000
*** Total population: ~8,000,000
*** Religion: Christianity ~94%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism, Bulgarian paganism 6%
* Wars and Conflicts:
** Akhtarib Caliphate: Seeing you in a weak position gives us the opportunity to weaken our eternal rival: YOU. (war is declared)
*** Akritai troops are not only returned, but have been expanded threefold for this war.
*** Infantry are to land on cyprus with the aid of ships and to then start conducting a siege on leukotheon
*** Massive naval raids akin to the ones conducted on us by the vikings is attempted on the coast, with the majority of the raiding being targeted on modern day lebanon however with much more plundering and brutal execution. By doing this we will destroy nearly all means of purple dye production and setting up a monopoly at home
*** A large amount of troops are gathered to near the top of the border and charge towards Kars and Vagharshapat, making seperate&quick encirclements with cavalry stopping at the start of the kakheit border while others are stopped at the latitude of lake Van
*** Other troops are set to push the line a bit, while cataphracts go out to surround Aleppo and Antioch.
*** If the initial offensive is successful, the troops will then reorginize and push the line further south, with more advances in the middle while the gap between Lake Van and Urmia is to be closed by rapid cavalry advancements potentially encircling more troops
*** If the previous plan is done, Supply lines are extended and secured, then the troops make a large advance going all the way to the then (hopefully)completely sacked city of Bayrut and then taking Sura.
*** If it comes to the point where the majority of the offense is too costly then fortifactions are to be set up at the point they are on and then hold the line until further orders given.
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 1% (80,000)
** 35,000 Cavalry
*** 6,500 Cataphracts
** 45,000 Infantry
*** 36,000 Akritai 
** Troop placement:
* Navy: 
** 55 Galleys
** 140 Transport ships
** 185 Dromons
** 90 Triremes
* Diplomacy:
** Papal states: Well seeing how you think you are above everyone else including the patriarch, again, you are nothing more than an elected man in a fancy hat, so from this point on we no longer recognize you as having any holy position. Now you are just seen as a man head of a freed frankish token state who occupies Rome from, well, true Rome.
** Emirate of Qurtuba: Vikings have been coming through the strait, which you control. We ask of you to block and commandeer any vessels that come from the north/have norsemen on them. You could get some nice equipment and ships from them. (and if that doesnt sound enough, we will also throw in a direct bribe. if they try to bribe you, continue to seize their things as it would just be more loot.)
* Events:
** Vikings stahp: Even though viking raids arent that common, we set up viking raid protocalls in case some are sighted and have dedicated hidden storage areas to hide valuables.
** The luxury: Purple dye: Bolinus brandaris snails are smuggled (and potentially, plundered)to Troy where secret snail farms are set up to not only make our own dye, but also to create a monopoly on the trade, projecting the image of byzantium further.
=== Khazar Khaganate: ===
* Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)
** Khagan: Manasseh I
** Dynasty: Bulanid
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Akashar
** Demographics:
*** Population: 80% Khazar, 10% Slavic, 8% Aabkhaz, 2% greek.
*** Cities: 411.6k
**** Akashar: 131.4k
**** Galgan: 100.6k
**** Karcha: 87.3k
**** Korstyam: 76.4k
**** Chersonesus: 15.9k
*** Rural Areas: ~1,390k
*** Total population: ~1,801.6k
*** Religion: 83% Judaism, 13% Christianity, 4% Tengri.
** Demographics of Kyiv:
*** Population: 79% Slavs, 10% Khazars, 6% Magyars, 4% Bulgars.
*** Cities:
**** Kyiv: 8k
*** Rural Areas: 108k
*** Total population: 116k
*** Religion: 91% slavic paganism​, 6% Judaism, 3% Christian. ​​​​​​
* Wars and Conflicts:
** Invasion of the Akhtarib Caliphate:
*** 80% of our army will push into their territory and capture as much land as they can.
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 2% 36 032 (war time)
*** 24 590 Cavalry
**** 11 296 with Spears
**** 13 292 with Swords
*** 11 442 Infantry with Swords and Shields. 
* Navy
** For traversing the Caspian sea:​
*** 5 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Khanates)
*** 16 fishing ships (for fishing...)
** For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​​​​​​​​
*** ​​​​​​​5 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire) 
*** 2 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)
*** 27 fishing ships (for fishing...)
* Diplomacy:
* Events:​​​​​​​
** ​​​​​​​Integration of Northern Tribes: We send word to tribes north of us to ask if they want to join us.
** Qipochaq Khanate:​​​​​​​ We gobble some land from them.
* Events of Kyiv: 
** Integration of Northern Tribes: Word is sent out to villages around Kyiv territory that they're welcomed into the nation if they want to.
=== Turn CV: 900 AD - 920 AD ===
=== NPC Events: ===
* Byzantine-Arabic War: Further down the line the Akhtaribs lose control of more of central Arabia along with Oman becoming independent. The sudden Byzantine invasion is not fun of course as several territories as swept up after a few battles (including Cyipri), so Caliph Al-Muqtadir desperately seeks contact with the Sarranids, begging them for help since they know that while the Byzantines could not theoretically conquer them, they could still get very strong from winning this war. Sultan Marnid is kinda like "eh, you're right, but what do we get?". Sultan Marnid agrees, if the Sultanate gains Hejaz and the Levant, which surprisingly worked. The initial successful Byzantine push which captured Antioch and Aleppo is then met with Sarranid forces, pushing them out and also gaining their own incursion into Byzantine territory going as far as seizing Tarsos. Meanwhile in the Caucasus the front stands still for quite a while due to the mountainous regions where it lays but the Khazars manage to get through and capture Absheron and Kabalaka. A Persian people under the Sajid dynasty approach the Khazars and offer to help them in their invasion, if they help the Sajids gain independence. Related to this whole war is Qurtuba, who is tempted by the Byzantines and tell them that if they give them Sardinia as a vassal and pay them in gold, they will do their best to rid the Vikings from entering the Mediterranean. The Aghlabids then show up out of nowhere as they weren't invited to the party, invading Sicily. After previous Viking raids the fortifications are weakened enough that the invasion is a success, however the sieges of both Syracuse and Palermo were bloody and difficult for the Aghlabids to secure victory in. They do however only want Sicily and do not attempt to invade any more of Byzantine lands. Back to Sultan Marnid, who already offers peace to Byzantium and her allies in 915, seeing the bloodshed and brutality that has come from the war. The Byzantines can have Cyipri, Kars and lands that are to have their border at Lake Van. The Khazar Khaganate can have occupied lands. The Sarranids will have their occupied lands and both sides of this conflict will pay war reparations.
* Rise Fall of Bohemia - courtesy of the Magyars: Mojmir II (even though Mojmir I never was actually king) is simply unable to hold the empire together. Magyar rebels and raiders turn the region of Pannonia into their own realm and other places just separate. Lusatia comes back, Krakov becomes ruled as a free city by the West Slavic Polans tribe and the easternmost region in today's Ukraine becomes the Principality of Lviv. Great Bohemia is over but the kingdom remains under King Borivoj I. During this point the Magyars also start raiding and pillaging more shit. Their incursions in Croatia actually spark a rebel movement there. From there we have a East Frankish-Magyar war. The East Franks lost, having suffered a grand defeat at the Battle of Poszony in 907 and Croatia became an independent kingdom. The Magyars kind of become friends with the Croatians and leave them alone, after some conflict with the Bulgars they also kind of stop there, after the Bulgarians, having produced the Cyrillic Script under Tsar Simeon I, the first Tsar of Bulgaria, introduce it to the Magyars. Not all tribes are on board with this though. East Francia now also annexes Saxony. And I don't know how to end this event so... salami.
* The Continuing of the Continuing of the Start of a Schism: After the most recent events, East-West Christian relations have gone down the dump. In this conflict practically everyone in Europe sides with the Pope, Rome and the Papal States, due to their relation with those entities. In response to what the Byzantines said, the Pope tells Leo V and the Patriarch of Constantinople that "Le tue madri succhiano il cazzo all'inferno." As the Byzantines are at war the Pope (specifically several popes, those being Benedict IV - John X) makes sure to establish contact with most European states and making sure they recognize the Pope as head of the Christian faith. So yeah basically everyone barring Posmark, Lusatia, Krakov, Lviv and Bulgaria are cool with him. Bulgaria also sets up its own Patriarchate. Finally Pope John X calls the Byzantine Empire the "old, senile and delusional sick man of Europe." The Future is Now Old Man.
* Viking Time - Subtitle Pending: Varangians are trying to stay relevant, the Loire Vikings (aka Vikings that interacted and settled in the Loire area in West Francia) are granted territory in Normandy, becoming the Duchy of Normandy and being known as the Normans in 911. Norway under Harald Fairhair continues his expansion northwards and grants the Shetland Islands to the administration of the Kingdom of the Isles. Hrímland gains more territory as well, driving away quite a lot of the Inuits and the Commonwealth starts to have larger questions of leader, as several powerful men become candidates to become Monarch. Two of them stand out. Stefán Karl and Magnus Scheving. In Sweden two new states show up. There's Járnberaland (meaning Land of the Iron Beares because a lot iron comes from there) and Svíþjóð, which is pronounced as "Svitjod". Danesmark also conquers Skåneland (today the provinces of Skåne, or Scania, Blekinge and Halland). Also stuffs in Britain but that comes later on.
* It Broke Again - 1: Xiao has turned into quite the mess after the Huang Chao Rebellion happened. After the death of Xizong Xiao gets Emperor Zhaozong. He tries salvaging the dynasty but well, didn't really work. Amongst rebellions, Buyeo invades Goguryeo and Lyaotong in order to hold onto some Korean lands. Xiao had guaranteed these lands long ago and Zhaozong, being quite the man of his word declared this unacceptable. A lot of Chinese people do not like the idea of going to war because the fucking place isn't doing well but nevertheless the Chinese intervene and it doesn't go good. Rebellions spark all across China and even with the Eastern Khergits, Mongols and Buryats on their side after Buyeo invades them too shit's not going to end well is it? In fact this period is when the Chinese first decide to use weapons with gunpowder, those being Fire Lances, the earliest known firearm. Also Buyeo speaks with Japan, basically saying "sell us the outpost and get something out of it, or we'll take it by force". Also the Anxi protectorate which was set up from the panhandle created after the invasion of the Western Khergits falls quite quickly back to its original holder and both the Alai and Uighurs invade to gain Qinghai and parts of Gansu respectively. These conflicts are over quite quickly, but the main one isn't.
* Central Asia: Not too much happens here, the Qipchaqs crash and burn, gobbled up by the Oghuz Yabgu Turks and the Khazars. In the Western Khergit lands Tonju Khan manages to handle things a bit better than Dustum, gaining back Yalen and those lands and the general core is okay. The Kazakhs are still encroaching on their territory however.
* Just Rus' Things: I think I actually may have used the "Just x things" name for an event before but idgaf. The Rus' are not really doing too many things of note other than well, Viking stuff. Some of that Viking stuff includes pillaging, which they do on most of their neighbours except the Khazars. Although they are raiding many of the Slavs in the Kyiv vassal. Rurik is dead but his successor Oleg and his successor as well Igor fancy the city of Kyiv. Igor sends an envoy to the Khazars that boils down to "Give us about a third of Kyiv (the state) including the city, you can have the rest and we'll leave you alone. If not, you know, get invaded."
* Japan - the Anime, Episode 6 - I'm out of subtitles: Japan is just chilling mate, doing alright. Oh and yes Okinawa did accept. The End, go away. No it's over. I don't have any more things to say alright. Go. Come on, go to the next event ya wanker. [............] According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get...
* Viking Invasion of England: When Britannia first fell 11 kingdoms spawned from it (9 of them being Anglo-Saxon). Now there is only one. The Anglo-Saxons strike back with Alfred the Great taking back London. He then dies in 901 and is succeeded by Edward "the Elder". He proceeds to recapture Essex and annexes Kent. He even extends the realm to just south of Jórvík, or as he and the English would call it: York. 
* Vietnamese Powah IV: Van Xuan eventually falls under a new regency. Still the Lý dynasty but Lý Thai To does things differently to say the least. Van Xuan becomes known as Dai Viet, the capital is moved to a different district of Longbian known as Thang Long which becomes the new name for the city itself. Thai To continues to chill with the whole aggressiveness thing that Van Xuan was known for in its later years. This leads to Alai leaving that whole alliance with Pagan and Pyu but those two still stick together.
* India: Tensions between the two explode into war between the Virishan Empire and Pratisthana. So far no one has really won and both Aiderabad and Nirgaá are in the crosshairs of the armies on both sides.
* Another War Between Srivijaya and Brunei: Srivijaya manages to defeat Brunei by 909, capturing their new city of Sebuyau. Srivijaya also grabs Madura Island for Banten.
* Uru Developments: Some more stuff occurs here and a few new states are formed.
* Philippines: The polities of Ifugao and Tundo are now things.
* Fuck Aksum: Shewa and Nubia take advantage of the dying state by invading them, pillaging them and just taking whatever they want.
* Kanem: The city of Njimi becomes their capital.
=== New Japanese Empire: ===
* Government: Monarchy
** Ruler: Kariku-Ne Yamashengu, Kawa Yamashengu
** Economy: spice, food, dye, Iron tools.
** Capital: Heian-Kyo
** Demographics:
*** Population: Japanese 99.5%, Other 0.5%
*** Heian-Kyo: 200.000
*** Edo: 145.000
*** Yamato: 130.000
*** Fukuoka: 100.000
*** Komatsu: 95.000
*** Hiroshima: 85.000
*** Toyama: 80.000
*** Nagasaki: 75.000
*** Other Cities: 950.000
*** Rural Areas: 5.640.000
*** Total population: 7.500.000
*** Religion: 99.5% Shinto-Buddhism, other 0.5%
*Demographics of Subjects:
** Population: Japanese 6%, Ainu 94%
** Otomari: 14.000
** Sunõdorangon: 6.000
** Rural Areas: 80.000
** Total population: 100.000
** Religion: 65% Shinto-Buddhism, 35% Ainu Paganism
*** Wars and Conflicts:
*** Buyeo: We will rush in to pick defensive positions in Goguryeo, securing supply bases. We will attack to the north east and north west to create a 90 degree border, then we will attack from the sides to encircle, this would leave a gap into their border and thus we would launch a heavy offensive in the middle, this spearhead will then widen to attack behind their front line, securing a wider border. We will then continue towards their capital for attention. While they are stressed about that we will send troops to liberate Lyaotong and try to cut some enemies off at the tip. then that offensive will push north to catch the capital defenders off-guard. Then we will launch a major offensive to the west, to try to snatch Van-teung. We will also launch naval invasions into their most western lands meaning that they will have to send troops far to do anything about it. The northern offensive will then as an army is approaching Van-teung split to attack to the west, defend the city or avoid encirclement. By then they should want to sue for peace, but if they don't we will swoop the west and push north. (hit me up GM, I have some plans)
*** Navy: what can they even do really, we will destroy any ships they have, and then harass settlements. land smaller invasions and sometimes retreating to confuse them and waste their troops.
*** Military: 
*** Deployed units: total of 1.25% 95.000
**** 35.000 Archers. (35.000)
**** 25.000 Spear men (25.000)
**** 17.500 Swordsmen (17.500)
**** 10.000 Cavalry (10.000)
**** 1.500 Tawābasutā (4.500)
**** 3.000 Heavy Infantry (3.000)
*** Navy: 
**** 140 Galleys
**** 100 Transport ships
**** 50 Light warship
**** 20 Medium warships
**** Kogo Hana
*** Diplomacy:
**** Gaoshan: We improve relations and trade more now that the Chinese is dying.
**** Okinawa: We spread our culture further and invite them to celebrate our new national day with us.
**** Buyeo: You have entered lands that we agreed to leave alone. Consider this war.
**** Baekje, Silla: We must join this war, if Buyeo wins they will go after us later, we must join now and make sure they sure for peace.
**** Goguryeo, Lyaotong: Want to join our Alliance?
**** Van Xuan: China is dying, what do you feel about that?
*** Events:
**** Ainu Conscription: Puppets and Vassals have to send a certain amount of people to the army just like our states.
**** Nationalize: We start to Nationalize, with the new flag our puppets has also gotten some new similar flags, a new national day is created and that day is whenever the Emperor was born, in the middle of day everybody is to sing the national anthem which is about the history of Japan and it's glory. At the end of the day everyone gather for a feast and the guards get paid extra for skipping the celebrations to protect the people. This raises nationality and love for the emperor.
**** Slight Conscription Increase: I wonder what this is, and it is with 0.25 percent units.
**** Samurai: the Samurai is employed by generals to give them an advantage in the eye of the emperor as it will seem like the did more with less troops and to show theirts incentive in the war. The nation also hire Samurai to destroy foes and give others permission to loot the enemy
=== Byzantine Empire: ===
* Government: Absolute Monarchy
** Ruler: Leo V
** Dynasty: Domninian Dynasty
** Economy: Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving.
** Capital: Constantinople
** Demographics:
*** Population: Greek 74%, Minorities: Italian 11%, Slavic 6%, Bulgar 4% Other: Khazar, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian 5%
*** Constantinople: 650,000
*** Adrianople: 76,000
*** Thessaloniki: 64,000
*** Athens: 53,000
*** Cities: ~1,700,000
*** Rural Areas: ~8,300,000
*** Total population: ~10,000,000
*** Religion: Christianity ~94%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism, Bulgarian paganism 6%
* Wars and Conflicts:
** Aghlabid counterattack: Now that the war with the Caliph is done, we turn our heads to those scumbags in the west. A naval invasion is launched from 2 sides at Syracuse where cavalry will surround their postition while infantry attack from the sides. Afterwords troops will move across Sicily and eventually attack Palermo the same way, however this time we would already be on land.
** Defenders at Malta are given an order of surrender and are to be harshly blockaded until they give up.
** Qartajira will be attacked from all fronts by making 2 naval invasions, one closer and one farther (the farther one is given a "head start" so the attack is joined) full of cataphracts and the new heavy archer ones while siege engines are to be landed at the shore supported by a large amount of heavy infantry. "It will be like all those years ago, then and now again, for and as Rome." -Leo V "The aggressive" Afterwords the troops will then do a general offensive throughout the rest of the Sultanate against the most likeley demoralized opposing troops while more reinforcements are sent. Algiers is also blockaded.
* Military: 
** Standing army: Total of 0.9% (90,000)
** 40,000 Cavalry
*** 14,000 Cataphracts
**** 4,000 Cataphract archers
** 50,000 Infantry
*** 12,000 Akritai 
** Troop placement:
* Navy: 
** 55 Galleys
** 140 Transport ships
** 185 Dromons
** 90 Triremes
* Diplomacy:
** Papal states: Oh please, not only are you immature, but you havent really done jack shit for anyone while Byzantium and the Patriarch have been defending the brunt of Eslam from the rest of Europe. The only time one of yall have done anything good is Adrian III but he was awful towards Jews so whenever you do one thing good its countered by you being shit. We have also decided to ban the trade of luxury goods with you so you will have to find things like silk and purple elsewhere at a much higher cost.
** Emirate of Qurtuba: Sardinia is too much to ask for, we counteroffer with just a large sum of gold and a steady small supply of silk and Tyrian purple
** Akhtarib Caliphate: We make peace with you, we agree to the terms of the Caliphate and take Cyprus, Kars and the lands around Lake Van while leaving Vagharshapat.
* Events:
** Religious propaganda: Missionaries are spammed basically throughout the entire eastern half of europe and their messages are a bit different than normal, with it condemning the Pope to hell (lol) and also trying to boost the Patriarch of Constantinople's position while still youknow, spreading Christianity
** Lessons of war: Learning what we did by fighting with the Akhtaribs and then the Sarranids have taught us a bit how to fight with them, and shown us how important heavy cavalry are. The Cataphractii branch is expanded a ton with a new type of Cataphracts being made, having somewhat lighter armor and sporting a heavy bow that has arrows tipped with the Greek fire solution. Alongside this we also encourage blacksmithing and opening of new iron mines aswell as the focused selective breeding of stronger and more hardy horses.
** General fixes|changes Population made more accurate (army will also be 1% next turn) and concerning the relationship between Christians and Jews in Byzantium its to be on a positive note.
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