Ottoman Empire

"The Ottoman threat will back off with enough muscle. They will soon realize the harsh reality of the situation, that they are losing thousands of men over mostly desert." ―Napoleon Bonaparte, The Osiris Contract - Chapter 3
The Ottoman Empire plays a key role in the Shrouded Piety series, specifically The Osiris Contract, where its protagonist, Selina Osiris, pledges loyalty to Napoleon Bonaparte and identifies the Ottoman Empire as holding Egypt hostage. The Ottoman Empire does not have any real presence in the story outside of it being a scapegoat Napoleon uses to keep Selina loyal to him. The country plays an insignificant role in F-Zero: Seppuku as the homeland of story antagonist, Black Shadow, as well as the origin for his cult of Dark Million. Like in Shrouded Piety, the Ottoman Empire has no real appearances but is frequently named in discussion. The successor state to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, also makes no appearances in either series, but is the country Black Shadow last lives in before Nazi Germany secures him for their own purposes.
==History==
===Shrouded Piety===
"The Sultan, too, has received word of our naval defeat to the British. The Ottomans believe that our defeat is assured and has the insane audacity to impose terms of surrender upon us.” ―Napoleon Bonaparte, The Osiris Contract - Chapter 4
Most prominent in Shrouded Piety, the Ottoman Empire is presented as the first enemy of Napoleon and Selina in The Osiris Contract as the story begins in Egypt. The Osiris Contract begins in 1798 when British Admiral Lord Nelson stranded Napoleon and his men in Egypt by winning the Battle of the Nile. Unsure of how to maintain a campaign without ships, Napoleon first develops the radical thought of staying in Egypt and becoming King of Egypt after freeing the ancient Egyptian Godcraft later known as Selina Osiris. Selina, only wishing to resume serving the pharaoh, cares little for anything else and erroneously attributes the fall of Pharaonic Egypt to the Ottoman Empire, a misconception Napoleon capitalizes on. Napoleon convinces Selina that he is the acting ruler of Egypt and is campaigning for the freedom of Egypt, therefore the closest thing to a modern pharaoh. Selina, reluctantly, swears fealty to the first non-pharaoh in her history, convinced that Napoleon will, if nothing else, liberate Egypt and the throne of pharaoh; once more, Napoleon makes no effort to correct her thinking. With the Godcraft servant by his side, Napoleon identifies a bright side to losing the Egyptian Campaign in that he can use the Ottoman Empire as a scapegoat and thus justify Selina's continued servitude. While Napoleon long stops caring about the Ottoman Empire after returning to France, Selina continues to obsess over the Ottomans, seeing them as the natural enemy of Egypt and the legitimate first and foremost concern of French politics. Napoleon, cautiously, embraces and encourages this anti-Ottoman animosity in Selina, but must also balance his deceit carefully, knowing he cannot actually liberate Egypt from the Ottoman Empire since victory will lead Selina to leave him, but also knowing that inaction will alienate her.
Selina's animosity toward the Ottoman Empire only becomes more ferocious as the years go on, her words coming to threaten the life of the Sultan and even the people of the Ottoman Empire, completely oblivious to Napoleon's scapegoating.
In Order of Yaktosh, minor attention is given to the Ottoman Empire due to Suri Yaktosh swearing fealty to the pope, and therefore aligning herself with the politics of the Papal States.
===F-Zero: Seppuku===
"So the rumor was true, Black Shadow is from the Ottoman Empire."―Excalibur, F-Zero: Seppuku - Part 2/3, Lap 66
The Ottoman Empire is referenced in F-Zero: Seppuku as being the homeland of Black Shadow, Emperor of Brutality. Coming from a cult known as Dark Million which originally concentrated on developing scientific and social miracles, Black Shadow would eventually take control of the cult and change its course to focus on immortality and the creation of an all-powerful Red Dove. The Ottoman Empire's place as a defeated nation of the Central Powers in World War I, mixed with the sheer destructive tendencies of the war, led directly to Dark Million's fall into dark science. Eventually, a secretive infiltration by Waffen SS specialists would destroy the cult save for Black Shadow, transferring him to Berlin to instead work for Nazi Germany, leaving the old Ottoman era cult center to crumble.