Amidralem Selyn

Oleg (brother)

Mieszko (brother)

Esmeinichev (brother)

Guerrie Géan (brother)

Almanaz Selyn (son)

Holy Roman Empire

Mongolia (formerly)

Hungary (formerly)

Finland (formerly)

**Amidralem Selyn** is the 3rd son of Mansi and one of the biggest badasses of the Selynic Dynasty.

## **History**

### **936**

**Amidralem** was born 3 hours after an extremely vicious arguement between Mansi and Anastasia, whom was confused on why **Amidralem**'s name should be **Amidralem**. When he was born, the world shook, and multiple thunderstorms ravaged the near forests, as he was born in Kiev. It was extremely unclear on who would raise him and under what circumstances, however, after a gigantic amount of almost violent arguing, it was decided that **Amidralem** will be raised by Mansi, an odd choice, as he was already an extremely busy dealing with his mental problems and it broke a newly found family tradition of Anastasia being the one who would raise the children. After about 0.1 picoseconds of travelling to Mansi's Dimension, the news of his birth was announced and he was shown to everyone in front of a medium sized audience, whom considered the idea of Mansi having children a mildly extremely horrible idea, as Mansi was a good leader on his own and does not require a dynasty. What everyone was oblivious to is the fact that the Mansiite religion exists and it's influence is about to be expanded on Earth. Many fortune tellers and even Mansi himself have predicted that **Amidralem**'s future will be painful, however he will rise up from the pain and become a great conqueror, even after suffering severe brain damage. The rest of his extremely early part of childhood is shrouded in mythology, mysticism, uncertainty and confusion, especially the first six years, as historians over the years written down contradictive and sometimes too absurd events that would barely make any sense. Not many events are able to be confirmed or denied and even more were considered too mythological to be considered to be true. What was factual however, is that when only being 5 months old, **Amidralem** suffered a severe head and brain injury, unknown how, which would drastically alter his personality and world view. Many were confused on how can one persist after suffering a brutal injury like that. It was also rumored that **Amidralem** possessed the ability of telekinesis and telepathy and even being able to hold vaguely intelligible conversations between long gone and dead entities that surfaced not long after the Universe have formed, however the claim is dubiously accepted, because of the Mansiite mythology having the nature of not telling the exact truth about various events, and instead tells a tale loosely based on what actually happened. What people at the time have accepted is that **Amidralem** was able to telepathically message Sakhus Yegasey, the last seraph of the Godverse, whom have been dead for a really long time and shockingly enough, were able to respond to the messages. At first, even the most religiously inclined people disregarded it as false, however the claim later has been confirmed by Mansi himself, who at first were at disbelief too, yet once he realized that it was real, it made him feel both surprised and nostalgic at the same time and he was glad to see that a person who kickstarted his existence is still able to hold influence even after his death. The messages were not intelligible and it was increasingly looking like it was spoken in a language that went extinct 11 billion years ago.

### **955**

**Amidralem** was on his way to be transferred in a carriage to prison on the hungarian-bulgarian war, allegedly for theft, however untrustable sources state that he had unsuccessful attempts at escaping execution for the murder of an entire village. The carriage he was on have also held criminals that at the time, everyone hated and wanted them to die. However, an unexpected ambush occured on the transport, as a few mercenaries of unknown ethnicity presumably in the belief that money and rare metals were also transported. After the transport ended, they realized that they were wrong and the only thing they have done is to let a bunch of notorious criminals to escape. **Amidralem** then decided to track down and eliminate the mercenary group, as he believed that they have committed a great mistake that could potentially doom the Balkans for the next two decades. Not long after that he successfully eliminated the criminals that he was on the carriage with. Once he was done with that, he fell into the ranks of several monastic orders, with the reasoning of him wanting to live a pious life, but instead of doing as he said, he ended up stealing all of the codexes and books those monastic orders have held, alongside with an approximate amount of 32 thousand scrolls, due to his desire to gather as much knowledge in his mind as he can. In the meantime of him studying and learning, he made his way back to Mongolia based on the map that was given to him by an opium addict merchant, who developed a reputation for selling either useless junk or trinkets that have magical capabilities. Once he found his way back to his tribe, he boosted about the immense amount of knowledge he gained, but he was questioned by his fellow tribesmen on where he would be able to utilize his knowledge in tribal life. **Amidralem** stated that he will be the one who will conquer the world, before anyone else could take the opportunity from him within the tribe. He was ridiculed, as many members of the tribe was still in the belief that his journey might have been long, but he barely changed anything during the trip. To prove everyone wrong, he challenged Yerentai Zucha, one of the most talented dualists in the region for a duel to the death, and to everyone's shock, he won the duel. However, despite his obvious desire and ambition to conquer the world, people still doubted him for his leadership skills, due to no one witnessed him leading an army. Once again, to prove everyone wrong, he gathered his close friends and their close friends' close friends into battle against a tribe their tribe were rivals with and, despite being outnumbered five to one, he annihilated the entirety of the rival tribe without giving any mercy to non-combatants. Once he got home from the battle, he stated that anyone who would oppose him in his ambition to conquer the world, they would be mercilessly executed without a second thought, grieving and regret. Fortunate for everyone, no one in his tribe dared to oppose him anymore.

### **956**

**Amidralem**, wanting to get rid of both khitan raiders incoming from the east and ashmaelid plunderers marching from west, but having deep trust issues in others, he launched an invasion on both at the same time, by splitting his army in two, but at the last minute he changed his mind, as he realized that the tibeto-afghan Ashmaelid Empire is much more organized than the khitan people as a whole, he pulled out his army from khitan lands and merged his two armies into one, to get rid of the Ashmaelid Empire as soon as he can, before they have time to organize and fight back properly. However, what he had not anticipated in was that weeks into fighting, he would have to fight in the mountains, but he was quickly able to adapt to the change in terrain. And after a total amount of 3 weeks and 2.5 days of fighting, he made the Ashmaelid Empire cease to exist. After that, he was question by his men on why they carry out attacks with such high frequency and aggressiveness, to which he responded with that the one who is not always on the edge and gives enemy time to respond is a person destined to fail in warfare. He then as he wanted to do so before, have defeated the khitans within just a week. He also have conquered the entirety of his homeland, Mongolia. He also have set out to conquer the area north of Mongolia, however his unfamiliarity of the region and his maps being unclear of the exact details, he explored the region himself, and got severely mentally scarred in the process, due to him coming across the unnatural and magical nature of Siberia. When he returned home, he instantly set out to conquer Siberia for himself. For the first few months he had excessive success, up until he have met the uralic hungarians in the west, whom wrongfully recognized **Amidralem** as a person who wants to see the Avaric Realm Sphere to return, an entity that has been disbanded more than 50 years ago. Seeing as at the moment he would have extreme difficulty in conquering the uralic hungarians, he instead took his time to administer his newly founded empire, and have recognized the issue of not having a common language, good architecture and a standardized version of just about everything. He ordered that the roads the avars have built up to be rebuilt, he wrote a centralized law book, he brought back a dying language from the dead, which was unnamed, but evolved from the proto-indo-european language, and due to it being unnamed, he named it the selynic language, and declared it that in official matters, the selynic language shall be used and that the selynic language shall be taught across the lands he conquered, and within the regions, native languages are also allowed to be taught. He also declared that there shall be a standard army standing at all time, ready for defense. Due to his notorious reputation, everyone within the lands he conquered began to work, while he waited for a vaguely huge army to assemble so he can fight the uralic hungarians.

### **957**

**Amidralem**, now assembled his army, an army of what his closest advisors spoke, the "Great 140000". **Amidralem** and his army completely devastated the uralic hungarian army, and left Magna Hungaria Uralia defenseless. By the time the tribal leaders had the time to respond to the defeat of their forces, the selynic forces have already depopulated 13% of the region. Few weeks later, as **Amidralem** and his army was converging on the capital, the tribal leaders decided that they would call for unconditional surrender, but their cries for surrender were not heard, as the capital, Ummonföldhely was razed to the ground, and the lush forest covering it in three directions, cut out and replanted 7 kilometers away on a massive agricultural field. However, before all the destruction occured, **Amidralem** ordered to save all of those uralic hungarians whom felt sympathetic to his cause, and save all codexes, books and other texts, big or small, significant or unsignificant. Once all operations in the area stopped, it was ordered that the uralic hungarians whom have been saved are to be resettled across the land and their houses to be rebuilt. After that a scholar and explorer, Otto Tettenhauer have personally met **Amidralem**, however due to the language barrier, the two of them were not able to hold an intelligible conversation, but eventually, **Amidralem** finally had enough, and used hand gestures to tell the scholar that the news of this massive destruction shall be spread across the land he came from. After that, **Amidralem** shortly realized that the lack of a semi-centralized capital city is becoming an increasing problem in his ever expanding empire, alongside with the debt problem, as assembling an army of such huge proportions was really expensive, and left him with very little money to fund his project. He made the extremely risky move to launch a pillaging campaign across East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. He told his soldiers that he needed the 51%, the rest of the 49% would have to be shared evenly between everyone else. Despite having to overcome terrain rarely encountered before, the campaign was a huge success, which left both the soldiers, and **Amidralem** very wealthy. He used his recently acquired wealth to construct the capital city and the roads leading to it. It originally didn't have a name, later was named Tsulvaryaga. What his advisors were unable to understand is on how **Amidralem** was able to invent a way of housing, which at the time would be considered luxurious with a relatively cheap maintaining cost and a material which was very robust, but once again, very cheap to maintain. He stated that secrets like this is something that the world is not ready to hear.

### **962**

**Amidralem**, thanks to his efforts of building up Tsulvaryaga and introducing a very efficient, but fair taxation system, he was able to fund two invasions at once, which was the expansion beyond the Urals and the complete annexation of Central Asia. In Central Asia, the selynic forces had to clash with both persians and the local turkic tribes, but they were crushed with ease, and at the same time, the army led by **Amidralem** had even more ease at conquering the area, but came at a full stop once they realized they were heading into more civilized territory, making them not set a foot on the other side of the Volga river. Their arrival have tipped the balance of power in the region, resulting in muslim scholars travel across the lands of the Selynic Empire, with many of them wanting to see the capital city of Tsulvaryaga. It was concluded that the lands were very desolate, sprinkled with cities that matched the size of cities in Europe and surpassed them in technology. These scholars would spread the news of a possible return of the Avaric Realm Sphere, as an entity of such power and size has not been seen since that. **Amidralem**, himself being very knowledgeable in the general topic of late antiquity, despite not knowing exactly how advanced were the rest of Europe was, he used a small part of his fortune to build small villages along the Volga river with massive fortresses to hold back any invasion force. He also spent a lot of money to rebuilt abandoned avaric roads and extending them alongside with building upon dirt roads he found practical. To address a rising problem within his empire, he written the law of free religious practice, however he made the right of spreading religions forbidden, as he believed that it should be up to the individual to decide which religion shall be practiced. He also made it forbidden to bring religion or religious figures into political affairs. Unknown if inherited, but it was told that his foresights into the future began at this year, which further have ensured his confidence in becoming a powerful ruler for multiple human lifetimes. Him spending excessive money at improving ordinary people's lives have resulted in a massive immigration wave he was hoping for, where people across the world would settle down in his empire. A sudden increase in population have resulted in his armies increasing in size, alongside with his wealth also increasing, due to taxation, which would ensure him that he could take on the chinese kingdoms and potentially, the Indian Subcontinent and a good portion of Europe.

### **963**

**Amidralem** launched an invasion of the various chinese kingdoms, which turned out to be tedious, difficult and incredibly expensive, which meant that he had to make the invasion quick and decisive, but ultimately failed to do so, resulting having to fight a battle that he cannot finance. Despite the large amount of territory already conquered, none of the chinese kingdoms had any intentions of surrendering, which gave **Amidralem** a slight amount of fear, that he might have to fight an attritional war, a type of war that he has no intentions of fighting, as it is a really good way of wasting money. However, as he was no longer able to finance the invasion, the performance of his armies went down significantly, and it increasingly seemed like for everyone in the region that it will be a lost cause, up until **Amidralem** persuaded Vietnam to launch a pillaging war against the southern chinese kingdoms, which caused a two front war, a thing that have crippled the chinese kingdoms. 2 more months of fighting later, all of China was conquered by the Selynic Empire and due to the large amount of people living in the region, it brought immense amount of wealth to **Amidralem** later on, which he used to conquer all of Indochina and the Indian Subcontinent, alongside with taking Asia Minor away from the newly reestablished Eastern Roman Empire. During the conquests, he often visited the lands he conquered and wondered how people can life in such filth and under near poverty conditions. Once done with the conquests, there was a massive flow of ambassadors to his capital, as many european kingdoms have feared that the Selynic Empire might or might not take over Europe. What he was surprised by that his older brothers, Oleg and Mieszko and his younger brother, Esmeinichev have already took control of Kievan Rus, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. The four of them agreed on meeting in Warsaw to discuss the terms of what they can and cannot do. What was agreed on that the last piece of european **Amidralem** rightfully can take was Finland and any further expansion into Europe was forbidden, alongside with the four brothers may not interfere in each other's realms. The meeting left a bittersweet expression of the rest of his family for **Amidralem**, judging from the state of Warsaw, which he found technologically and culturally inferior to Tsulvaryaga, he believed that the rest of Europe can only be worse. He often thought about breaking the treaty, but couldn't, as at the time he decided to conquer the entirety of Finland, and to improve his newly conquered lands. Many historians within the Selynic Empire considered this as the start of a Golden Age. A few months later, while vacationing in Northeastern Siberia, on the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, during a very sunny day, he noticed landmass on the other side of the water, giving him the idea of sailing across the Pacific Ocean to conquer the newly found landmass, which would later be known as Alaska.

### **964**

**Amidralem** funded an expedition to Alaska, only for it to end up in a disaster, as first, an unnaturally massive thunderstorm struck the selynic fleet and after making an extremely difficult landing, they were attacked by equally unnaturally tall and thin humanoid beings. He was forced to retreat back to Northeastern Siberia and reconsider on how he wanted to conquer Alaska. He personally visited the survivors of the expedition, and asked them to describe the humanoids they have encountered in Alaska. It was explained to him that they prefer to ambush groups, big or small, and take individuals off one by one, until no one is left. They are also incredibly agile and dangerously good at blending in with the environment. It was also observed that these humanoids coordinate their attacks by unknown means and have a critical weakness for extremely loud noises and fire. Judging from what was explained to him, **Amidralem** believed in that the humanoids might communicate telepathically and may form a kingdom of sorts and now knowing their weaknesses, he launched a second, even more well-funded expedition to Alaska, however, this time a fleet was not needed as the winter was unusually cold and the Bering Strait was covered in an extremely thick ice sheet. Being inspired by chinese gunpowder technology, **Amidralem** equipped his army with what would be the predecessor of cannons, which at the time was called steelthrowers, named after the speed it shot balls made out of steel. He also ordered the use of scorched earth tactics, which effectively drove off, and set many of the humanoids on fire. The humans living in the area were understandably not pleased with what has been done, but after a week full of struggling, **Amidralem** was able to tell the alaskan tribes that they were here to improve their lives massively. Out of fear that the humanoids might return, **Amidralem** also ordered that the majority of his army is to be stationed in Alaska, out of fear that the humanoids might return, while at the same time ordered the creation of a massive river that is at least 230 meters wide, and is to cut Alaska off mainland North America. He also enlisted the help of natives, whom were extremely skilled with psychic powers, which have greatly reduced the time it took to create the river, and was finished just under 7 months. Once done with that, he ordered the extermination of the remaining humanoids that existed west of the river, make peace with the natives, expand the road system by building a ridiculously expensive bridge, made out of Element 200, that connects Asia and North America.

### **965**

**Amidralem**'s closest advisors came up to him with the idea of expanding beyond Alaska, but he decided against it, as he believed that his empire is not advanced enough yet to handle multiple continents. What he instead acknowledged is the lack of vassals and heirs, which was a problem for him if he would be absent for a longer period of time. He approached the kingdoms of Europe with the idea of marriage, however his empire was deemed too barbaric, which insulted him personally, but as he was bound by a treaty that he would not invade the rest of Europe, he was unable to do anything. He first thought of marrying local nobles, but he found the idea disgusting and had ambitious ideas, but was disturbed by a smaller attack by a few humanoids who managed to cross the newly built river, but the humanoids were put down with ease. It was after that battle where he reconsidered the idea of marrying a local noble, however he had too much to choose from, but he have decided to marry a syrian woman, whose name was not written down anywhere, unknown if due to it being forbidden to mention it, securing the problem of both heirs and vassals. However, a new issue popped up, originating from the Kievan Rus, that there were many attempts of raiding parties trying to loot the border regions of the Selynic Empire, which forced **Amidralem** to directly contact his brother Oleg about the issue, which he responded to with that the raiding parties are not breaking any points of the treaty, and after being done with the response, **Amidralem** told himself that treaty or not, it would be still decent of him to not let things like that happen, as it is a sign of a malfunctioning society or a weak ruler, or in worst case, both. Out of anger, he invaded the Kievan Rus, violating the treaty in the process, but argued that treaties should not come at the expense of overstepping morals. The Kievan Rus have fallen in a matter of weeks, but as opposed to a total execution of the ruling family and it's allies, **Amidralem** have let his brother and his family live as long as they do not oppose him as a ruler, which few months later was revealed to be a mistake, as Oleg, allied with his brother Mieszko, have formally declared war on him, which originally was planned out to be a short takedown on a rebellion, however evolved into a longer war of attrition, but even then, the war lasted for four months, which have resulted in the execution of Oleg and Mieszko and the occupation of Kievan Rus and Poland, however weirdly enough, their family was spared, and will continued to be spared as long as they remained loyal to **Amidralem**. A very large portion of Europe became concerned about the Selynic Empire as it might conquer the rest of Europe. Many calls for invasion against it have been called, but none were launched.

### **969**

After an extensive warfare and army reform was enacted within the Selynic Empire, the Holy Cross Alliance was formally formed, officially for the purpose of protecting christendom within Europe, unofficially for the purpose to have a slight chance against **Amidralem**, despite every member of the Holy Cross Alliance being extremely aware of the fact that such thing is impossible. Without **Amidralem** knowing, the Holy Cross Alliance looked forward to get assistance from the Godverse for their upcoming invasion against the Selynic Empire. And shortly enough, 2 Godverse Hordes spawned down with the purpose of assistance in the battlefield, and now with confidence, the current king of France, who is only known by the nickname Huge Carpet, presumably due to his lifelong addiction to have big carpets have sent a declaration of war directly to **Amidralem**, whom were able to immediately sense that something was incredibly wrong, as before this exact moment, no formal war declarations have been given to him by western european kings, leaving him wonder on what could possibly give them confidence. Wasting no time, he rallied the Selynic Army to march westwards, only for it to suffer heavy casualties due to the Godverse Hordes, which shocked him at first sight, but not wanting to waste any time on being surprised anymore, he decided to switch to guerilla warfare tactics, planning to take the hordes apart piece by piece when they weaken down to a critical point, however he did so with the assistance of a military leader of questionable skills, who was called Hannumu, allegedly a time traveler. Once the Selynic Army was able to switch to guerilla tactics, the tables have slightly tipped in the favour of the Selynic Empire, however it was not enough to turn it into a quick victory, rather than an attritional war, which would eventually end up in selynic victory, due to extremely slow advancing into Holy Cross Alliance territory. **Amidralem** feared that the longer the war goes, the higher the chances are of Godverse reinforcements appearing, therefore he decided to force more and more people to become soldiers, which sped up things a little bit, but came at the price of countless people dying in battles that on average have lasted for 3 weeks. In the meantime to avoid a shortage of manpower everywhere else in the foreseeable future, he made the law that if a family has more than 3 alive children in it, they are to pay only 65% of the taxes they were supposed to pay. The law have ensured a population explosion in even the most isolated areas of his empire, which he wrote off as a success, wishing he could say the same about the war he is fighting in. A few months later, he invited his two younger brothers, Esmeinichev and Guerrie Géan to tell them that if they under no circumstances avoid attacking the Selynic Empire, they are to become Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and King of France as long as selynic victory in the war is ensured, and as soon as possible the war ends.

### **972**

**Amidralem**, despite the extremely heavy amounts of reinforcements sent by both the Holy Cross Alliance and the Godverse, was finally able to get across the Rhine river, and begin the final assault, which, despite the obvious outcome of the war, would still take few more months. The more influential nobles back in the Selynic Empire were worried with the issue that countless men have died in the war, which might result in an economic and demographic crisis, being completely oblivious to the law **Amidralem** made 3 years ago. The final battle occured 43 kilometers away from France, where the Selynic Army was outnumbered 5 to 1, as 100000 selynic warriors had to face the combined force of 500000 Holy Cross Alliance soldiers and Godverse Knights, however, despite being heavily outnumbered, due to the genius of both **Amidralem** and Hannumu, the battle, after three and a half months of fighting, was won by the Selynic Empire, and as the Holy Cross Alliance had no men left to fight with, and the Godverse being less and less invested into the war, the Holy Cross Alliance unconditionally surrendered. Within the terms, **Amidralem** issued that the new Holy Roman Emperor is to be Esmeinichev and the King of France shall be Guerrie Géan, alongside with the Holy Roman Empire having to give up all territories beyond the Odera river, alongside with the entirety of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Selynic Empire having permission to conquer the entirety of Balkans and the Carpathian Mountains, alongside with the Archduchy of Austria and the Italian Peninsula. And once the purposeless treaty was signed, **Amidralem**, instead of taking a rest, he took his army to do as he wrote in the treaty, conquer the Carpathian Mountains, Austria and the Italian Peninsula, which would take him the rest of the year to do so. In the meantime, he asked the rest of the army he is not in control of, to quell the rebellions in his newly conquered territories, and once done with that, supervise the new construction projects that would improve the lives of the people in the territories, however the issue of manpower scarcity came up, which severely slowed down the constructions, with many of his advisors saying that he should recruit locals into contributing to it, however **Amidralem** insisted, as he found no pride in conquered people doing conqueror jobs. Once he was done with his current conquest, he immediately returned to Tsulvaryaga, just in time for his first and only son to be born, Almanaz Selyn, who **Amidralem** predicted to be an outstanding soldier, however a horrible leader. The birth of his son was celebrated across the entirety of his empire, with many people seeing it as a sign of prosper and growth, however no official meaning to the event was assumed by **Amidralem** himself. However, he himself recognizing the temporary problem of the lack of manpower, he stated that the remaining few must work hard so that the prosperous future does not have to work as hard. Construction projects around the empire were progressing slowly, but eventually they were completed.

### **973**

**Amidralem** had to face reality, and admit that despite his best efforts to keep the population away from stagnation or decline, his empire's population was declining, and soon he would publicly announce it, however he was interrupted by a messenger, who stated that he is needed for a religious ritual. He reluctantly accepted, however, on the spot, the regional shaman, Surradai have put an iron crown on his head, which was decorated with excessive amount of diamonds and obsidian, and he was named "Töügöün", which meant "Great Conqueror" in the selynic language. He then decided to take the opportunity to hold a speech before everyone, and tell that the empire is certainly heading towards a temporary doom, as all of the working age men have died in the mess that the war was against the Holy Cross Alliance. He also stated that this will not influence the quality of life by any ways, and life will continue as usual, however not many people would be born in the incoming years until the next generation comes of age. He then returned to Tsulvaryaga to see his son, and to his surprise, he already possessed magical abilities that were able to debilitate people around him, and he himself was attempted to be debilitated, but due to possessing a strong mind, he was unable to. Seeing as nothing was wrong, he went back to ruling his empire, and during more quieter nights, he took times to self reflect and look at his accomplishments, seeing as what he achieved will not be replicated with the same caliber for hundreds of years. However, to his demise, an ambassador from the Godverse wanted a talk with him, regarding the Selynic Empire's status on Earth, and he strongly advised that whatever expansions are planned, they shall be ceased, unless if the Selynic Empire is to be wanted to razed to the ground. **Amidralem** told the ambassador that he is not to be provoked, otherwise the old demons and rivals of Agartha will surface up once again. Due from the extremely disrespectful nature of the threat, the ambassador immediately attacked him, but to no avail, as he was extremely skilled in combat even without being armed. His advisors told him that it was a bad idea in the first place to mention Agartha, however he assured them, as it was a mild bluff, as he himself is not sure what exactly Agartha is, aside knowing that it is located hundreds of kilometers below sea level. To which his advisors responded that his unnatural obsession with Agartha may be one of his undoings, A few weeks later, several smaller groups of Godverse Knights appeared across the Selynic Empire. Not liking what he sees, **Amidralem** had the idea of getting rid of them by organizing his army, however he realized that he had very little men to fight with, leading him to bury himself in a lot of books that are related to the topic of Agartha, mainly due to the fact that he found the idea of a hyper advanced, but isolated society fascinating.

### **974**

**Amidralem**, being slightly intimidated by the increasing frequency of the Godverse activity within his empire, he devised a century long plan to cause the Godverse an unpleasant event, he devised the idea of a reconstruction of an agarthan person, relying on the knowledge he found from the 4000 books he read about Agartha. He would call the many assistance of shamans across his empire, gave them very clear and direct instructions on what to do, however the shamans were not approving of them, as it required sacrificing their soul and all of their psychic power. Once the shamans were done with the sacrifice, their bodies were given proper burial, and in the meantime, **Amidralem** converged the souls of the shamans and by using agarthan methods and adding the shamans' psychic power to the souls, he was able to reconstruct and resurrect an agarthan person, and out of respect of the slavic tribes undying loyalty in the battles again both the Godverse and the Holy Cross Alliance, he named him Nocherslav, who in return asked on what is happening, to which **Amidralem** responded with that he has been resurrected, and in charge of an insanely large amount of territory in Eastern Europe and his help is immediately needed. He also explained what the Godverse is on his way to do, to which Nocherslav responded with that by the time he learned the local way of life of his new lands, alongside with the history of this new world he is in, the Godverse will tremble before his yet to be proven might. Once securing his safety from the Godverse, he decided to focus furthermore on improving the religious aspects of his empire, as a way to improve everything else within his empire in an unorthodox and unpopular way. He also took time to improve his psychic powers, due to his newly found confidence in it, regarding the successful reconstruction and resurrection of an agarthan individual. However, as a result of his agarthan way of training, he soon realized that the newly rebuilt Iron Guard Tower, built originally by the avars, were now used as a psychic power pattern monitor device, and soon it hit him the realization, that his actions further accelarated Godverse paranoia, alongside with the fact that Godverse activity within his empire skyrocketed and became decreasingly harmful, as many Godverse Knights took their time to observe, rather than attack or raid. Few days later, he was visited by another ambassador from the Godverse, who stated that everyone up in the Godverse is extremely displeased by his ambitions to revive Agartha, to which **Amidralem** respectfully killed the ambassador, fully knowing that it could evolve into a huge conflict.

### **981**

**Amidralem**, while realizing that at one point during his training sessions, he acquired immortality, and while being busy improving his empire, he waited for the Godverse to respond to countless reckless actions he made, up until the Godverse launched a full invasion, however it was limited only to the heavily agarthan influenced region of Central Europe, as an attempt to wipe out an old rivalry now resurfacing. Nocherslav, not being amused by his lands getting invaded by not welcome visitors, he shut down the invasion as soon as it started, thanks to his exceptional psychic strength, ability to think with haste and him being a great tactician, strategist and logistician, completely being able to catch the Godverse off guard as many times as he desired to, as from time to time, especially in the past, the Godverse had a habit of underestimating Agartha. After that, **Amidralem** went to where the failed invasion were supposed to take place, and have confirmed his theory of the agarthan usage of psychic power leaves a pattern "scent" behind, however through that, he was able to learn more and more of the agarthan usage of psychic powers, resulting in him becoming more powerful in the process. He also took his time to have extremely lengthy conversations with Nocherslav, especially on the topic of Agartha. After the conversation, he was able to speak agarthan fluently, and if he were to scream in agarthan, the world would shake in a 32 kilometer radius. He also now was able to craft a new armor for himself, which at the time was considered the best, despite it's extremely heavy weight, due to it being made out of Element 200. Furthermore, he was able to put a lot of yet to be coming into existence rebellions, alongside with improving his empire to an outlandishly high level, which resulted in a demographic crisis within the neighbouring kingdoms, as live within the Selynic Empire was considered luxurious even for the poor people, from an outside perspective. Suddenly, news began spreading across the world, that the Selynic Empire is a luxurious environment, which has high social freedom, yet still strict laws, which was contradicting what many were thinking previously, especially in Western Europe. **Amidralem**, seeing potential in this situation, he started to fund extremely expensive expansion projects across his empire, as he had no intentions to leave all of the new people entering his empire homeless. He ordered that by the end of the year, 45 new cities and villages are to be constructed alongside with the extension of the already extensive road network. A few days later, he received a letter straight from the Papacy, specific individual unknown, that he needs to cease his paganistic sorcery, before God comes down to punish him, to which **Amidralem** responded to with that if God would find his activities wrongful, he would intervene as directly as possible. He then decided to go back to train his psychic powers, knowing that he might have to face opponents later on that at the moment he might not be strong enough.

### **985**

After a few years of relative peace within the empire, which alongside have brought inconsistent waves of prosperity, **Amidralem** was able to take minimal time off to relax between the times of managing his empire and training. One of the training sessions were disturbed by the news of a messenger from Rome, who claimed that he holds a letter from the pope, which has to be read urgently. **Amidralem**, being slightly suspicious, have read the letter, written in strange symbols, which he strangely was able to read, and have concluded that the pope wanted to cease all hostility between the Selynic Empire, as despite it being pagan, standing against it will result in nothing more than an exponentially growing losing of lives. He found the letter nonsensical as stupid, as he believed that it was not up for him to decide if others will or will not attack him. A few days later, his dreams were interrupted by visions of him getting dragged down into a volcanic place, where he will have to fight for his life against what was called "the other 50 thousand", without any armor or weapons. He quickly rushed to the shamans of his empire, and each of them gave the same response that he has been cursed, and his fate is uninevitable. Him not liking his fate to be toyed with by others, he set out to look for a way to get rid of his curse, but the same shamans have argued that fighting against his own fate is foolish, and he is not strong enough yet to defy it. After weeks of trying out way to get rid of his curse, he gives up, and accepts his faith, whatever it may be. He waited for something to happen, however to no avail. In the meantime, he decided to order the construction of another 74 villages and cities across his empire, both to even out the population density and to provide a new place for immigrants, as that crisis have lingered on for the neighboring kingdoms. After that, he set out to travel across an empire, a possible final look at what he created, as he was unsure how long the curse would last. As he travelled across the empire, he was hailed not as an emperor, a mythological figure, a god, but as a hero, who had the wealth, knowledge and the skills to provide a safe haven for the less fortunate. In his mind, he did not consider himself as a hero, however he had deep understanding on why people may consider him as one. However, as he did not want the future generations to see him as a future generation, despite knowing that the current one does not see him as one, he set out to interact with the people in ordinary ways, but most notably, drinking in taverns and having conversations. However, upon his returning to Tsulvaryaga, a hole opens 2 meters from him, from where chains drag him down to what was considered the entrance province of the Demonverse, where those who recently died and the Godverse have rejected them, are to fight up until there are 15 remaining, and the remaining 15 may roam the Demonverse freely.

### **986**

**Amidralem**, after falling through the hole for weeks, seeing as the curse have finally set in, he finally found himself in the volcanic environment that have from time to time have disturbed his dreams. However, what the dream had not shown was the arena he would fall in, which have stretched for many kilometers, assuming that this is the place where he has to fight the other 50 thousand. However, using his agarthan training, both physical and mental, he quickly was able to overwhelm every opponent of his, without even getting laid a finger on. Both his psychic skills and his combat abilities have impressed the two demons that have overlooked the huge fight taking place, making even a third one show up, wanting to take **Amidralem** with him, but the other two have argued that it is inappropriate and they are not the Godverse that they are to change up everything at the last moment to fit their sudden urge to create new plans that will benefit them every way imaginable. And as tradition holds within the Demonverse, **Amidralem** was set free alongside with the rest of the 14 ones that survive to roam the Demonverse, where as the rest have been send back to the Universe to roam it as a ghost. **Amidralem** looked around, disturbed by the stupidly high temperature, he asked around for directions towards the nearest place that has a lower average temperature, and as a response, it was told to him that he should look forwards for the bigger mountains. He scaled up one of the mountains, and have took a moment to collect his thoughts, as he had to confirm the fact multiple times to himself that he is, indeed, within the Demonverse. He built a house for himself, made out of stone mixed with volcanic ash, gravel, mud and pinches of demonic shards, possibly took from the side of a coffin, belonging to an ancient demon. During the middle of the night, he heard a knock on this door, and when he opened, he was greeted by the Chief Demoness of Lust, Scorei Cokimsoah, who stated that she was profoundly impressed with his performance within the entrance fight and she wanted to experiment on him. **Amidralem** said that he agrees to being experimented on, as long as his ability to fight isn't hindered and his mind remains intact. Considering the fairness of the bargain, Scorei agreed to do so, and have dragged **Amidralem** to the province of Abyssus Femur, where the experiment took place. **Amidralem** after the experiment have not able to recognize to any changes within himself, however when he had an attempt to leave, he was interrupted by Scorei, whom have insisted that he has to remain, arguing that no one before survived her experiments, and as a reward, she will tattoo anything he wishes in demonic runes. **Amidralem**, considering that he already have bargained for what he considered a lot, he asked her to tattoo his last name "Selyn" on his left arm. It was done, however not in the way he participated in, as the tattoo was burned on him by demonic fire, ensuring that it never fades away by any means, and cannot be made into disappearing. Once it was done, **Amidralem** finally left.

### **987**

**Amidralem** have found himself not far from the resting place of Tiberius Martin, former Chief Demon of War, prodigy of Sitbasyev, who was ultimately got murdered as a result of his own experiments ending up in his on detriment, as he tried to build many times a physical portal between the Universe and the Demonverse, using the already existing rock formation of the Archway, which bore the shape of a thin ring, a thing he came close to finishing, but was unable to do so under suspicious circumstances. Learning more of him, **Amidralem** realized that if he is to fix the problems and the flaws of the experiment, the idea could very well work, as he was capable to combine the experiment with his agarthan psychic powers. After months of perfecting the experiment, he sets out to the Archway, which he reaches after another few months of walking. After arriving, he immediately seeks to follow the new instructions of the experiment, which were out of his expertise when it came to preciseness, and due to that, the time it would take him to return to Earth, would be 13 years and in the meantime, he would be stuck in a place known what Tiberius Martin described as a place what the long dead primordial gods inhabit with their creations that also have been wiped out. Being fully aware of everything, **Amidralem** opens the portal in the Archway and goes through it, hoping it closes once he goes through it, and he came across the place Tiberius Martin described. He immediately was disturbed by a powerful sulphuric smell, but was immediately humbled, as he was able to visit small pieces of Agartha, alongside with the places of long dead gods, alongside with the mythological realm of the deities that have watched over the Pioneers of Sentient Life. He was incredibly satisfied, as he could study skills long forgotten that would still be able to help him in combat, especially in the pieces of Agartha. However, all of this joy came to an end when he came across an 11 meters tall individual, who he strangely enough was able to recognize, but have not met in decades. He was stunned for minutes due to being in disbelief, He encountered Sakhus Yegasey, who was unresponsive, and eventually, disappeared entirely, as what he knows, he used the last part of his soul to aid **Amidralem** in undetectable ways, and after that, it was up to time when his body would completely fade away. Saddened by the loss, however not letting himself to be completely phased by it, **Amidralem** decided not to visit any of the locations found within this realm with the sole exception of the agarthan ones, however, after a while he was left unsatisfied as after a while the things he came across were already known by him.

### **1000**

**Amidralem** have returned back to the living, and to his surprise, he seen the empire he built up, now consumed by a constant struggle for control, with various factions fighting for different ideals and ways of governing, however, despite that the conflict was going for a decade, no clear winner have been able to be concluded, as none was able to get a hold of all of the territory what once the Selynic Empire was. Once the news started to spread that **Amidralem** have returned to the lands of his former empire, everyone suddenly had an attempt to organize a huge army to finish their conquest as soon as possible, however, **Amidralem** himself was unable to put a large army for himself, but the very few he had, was of quality that has been thought was impossible. For him, it was a situation of having to fight against the odds, while having to keep in mind that what he is essentially doing is murdering the same people who once was part of his great empire that collapsed within less than a decade. First, he secured the rich trading cities, then the cities that were less lenient on doing agriculture, alongside with the complete annihilation of Kirill the Mad and several others whom were too insignificant to remember as they posed an equally insignificant threat. From then, he began recruiting people from the lands he reconquered, and at the end he managed to build an army that have consisted of approximately 300 thousand soldiers and was equipped with the old standard selynic armor. With that, **Amidralem** have set out for a short campaign, where he planned that victory for him is able to be reached within a span of few months without having to resort to diplomacy. Unexpectedly, Nocherslav got out of hiding, and immediately set out to assist **Amidralem**, alongside with himself building army to defeat the enemies they require to defeat in order to restore the Selynic Empire. With their combined might and genius, they were quickly able to overrun all of the opposition without any significant struggle. Once the reconquering was over, the both of them quickly resumed their roles and after a few months, the Selynic Empire was a functioning entity again, much to the demise of the entirety of the catholic world, whom were in the belief that getting rid of **Amidralem** was vaguely easy. People across the empire have welcomed back the peace after almost a decade filled with constant warfare and possible terror that have been unheard of for decades.

### **1071**

**Amidralem** woke up to the unpleasant sound of his advisors being in disarray, due to the fact on what they claim that everyone has been fooled, and the Selynic Empire's Age of Peace has came to an end. He demanded that his advisors are to calm down and that they should explain the situation. His advisors told him that apparently the empire is bigger than they thought, as the central european lands of the empire was blocked off by a mirage without any of them noticing. When **Amidralem** heard the words "central european lands" he became immediately concerned, as he was fully aware that Western Europe was ravaged by mysterious invaders, as at first he believe that they may have finally reached the borders of the Selynic Empire, however he immediately changed his mind when he considered all of the suspicious things that Nocherslav have done. And as he concluded everything, his advisors reported that all soldiers stationed in Central Europe have been pushed across the Volga river and they are still under attack. **Amidralem** immediately travelled to the current position of the soldiers, and immediately began drawing out plans to fortify positions along the river to bring the conflict into a stalemate, then the eventual pushing back. His plans were flawed, as the Selynic Army reached the point of almost breaking under the lack of manpower, a flaw he chose to ignore, which would come at the cost of losing even more lives, but in exchange the fortifications were done and the conflict came to a stalemate. From that point, he knew he had to push back eventually, but as seeing there weren't enough soldiers around, he decided that soldiers will be used to fortify the eastern side of the Volga river furthermore, hoping that the mysterious invaders are able to take care of the problem partially. In the meantime, mostly in his free time, he starts training more excessively, expecting that at one point if it comes to the moment where he needs to use his psychic powers to fight Nocherslav. Furthermore, he wrote a law concerning that all settlements within the Selynic Empire shall build a metal pillar, 4 meters tall, as agarthan training makes a person sensitive to metals. After that, he travelled to Alaska, to see if everything goes as intended and he was pleased to see that Alaska was the most unphased region out of all. He furthermore told Issumatar the local representative of the Selynic Army, that they are to fortify the western side of the river, to prevent an invasion done by the mysterious invaders if they were to venture that north. After that, he decided to travel across America, or rather how it was known as the Far West as it was named by the romans, to seek out the homeland of the mysterious invaders to learn how they function, however his attempts have hit a failure when he got severely lost in the extremely dense taiga.

### **1072**

**Amidralem** caught the news of the Empire of Chernobog being declared by Nocherslav and that the mysterious invaders were called "mayans". He also received the news of the Empire of Chernobog having an attempt to move across the Volga river, with the fiercest battle being increasingly probable to form in Kazan, and as such, he teleported there to oversee the battle and command the local selynic soldiers to defend the town. The battle, as predicted, became extremely tense, fierce, and taxing on manpower on both sides. At one point, a truce was called to bury the dead bodies to reduce the risk of a potential disease outbreak. The battle also have led to the destruction of wild life within the area, as the massive usage of cannons on both sides resulted in the ground being less solid, which increased the casualties furthermore, as it was not an uncommon sight at the time that soldiers on both sides sank into the ground due to their heavy armor. However, as the battle went on for months, the Empire of Chernobog became more reliant on using foreign mercenaries than it's own levies, and due to the massive usage of them, miscommunications became more frequent and the organization of the attacks carried out lowered, resulting in the Selynic Army being able to break out of defensive positions and have a charge including the crossing of the Volga river, but **Amidralem** halted the charge, as no matter how much he wanted to do the same, it would be foolish to invade the Empire of Chernobog with the Selynic Army being in a such weakened state after months of war in a small town. However, retreating across the river turned out to be a massive blunder, as many have drowned in the process and the retreating soldiers were under fire by trebuchets, as on the side of the Empire of Chernobog, cannons were expensive to make and they have ran out of it. Knowing fully that the town of Kazan can no longer be held, **Amidralem** ordered the Selynic Army to burn it to the ground and then retreat from the city, as defending it furthermore will result in a lot more soldiers dying, however it did not mean that a defensive line not far from the town is not to be established as fast and efficient as possible. The battle concluded with a pyrrhic victory for the Empire of Chernobog, with the battle ending in a total amount of casualties of 450 thousand lives, with 320 thousand of them being selynic casualties. The battle have taught **Amidralem** that attritional warfare can wear down his opponents, however it wears down his own empire just as much, meaning he has yet to find a suitable alternative tactic that would give him the upper hand. The Empire of Chernobog would have further attempts at attacking beyond Kazan, but all of them were ending up in failures, same as with the countless skirmishes affecting Yaroslavl, once again forcing the conflict between the two empires into a stalemate.

### **1074**

**Amidralem**, thanks to a new wave of immigration to the Selynic Empire, he was able to recover the losses that was made in the Battle of Kazan, alongside with additional fortifications made alongside the Volga river, as he was readying himself to fight with the mayans, as he was fully aware that they would reach Eastern Europe very soon, as at the time they were already mass sieging down the city of Kiev and they have occupied the baltic region, and with the increasement of the number of attacks conducted by the Empire of Chernobog on the highly fortified defensive line on the other side of the Volga, it looked like that they were having attempts to flee, as the mayans were posing an ever increasing threat towards them. **Amidralem** took this opportunity to send waves of raiding parties deep into the Empire of Chernobog, to both loot it and burn several settlements down, only to rebuild it later as they would capture it back. He furthermore noticed that the Holy Cross alliance named the entirety of the conflict "The War of the Devils", as all sides in the war were not followers of the abrahamic religions, and all sides are known for their brutality in warfare. Many months later, the attacks carried out by the Empire of Chernobog have severely decreased, seeing as they were not able to fight a two front war, and despite the opportunity **Amidralem** hesitated, as he was hugely unsure of his capabilities in defeating the mayans, furthermore with him being fully convinced that they were under the protection of a supernatural entity, which may or may not be divine. To learn more of the mayans, in secrecy he travelled across Western Europe, particularly in lands that are heavily under the occupation of the Chingantingan Empire, and have witnessed that the region was heavily depopulated, as a result of the mayan war effort, but the very few who were allowed to stay in their homes, were enjoying luxury, although from an european perspective, these luxurious peoples have been generally seen as powerful vassals, rather than rich inhabitants, as they were allowed to command up to 1000 "slave soldiers" and they received massive amounts of land to house said slave soldiers. He furthermore noted that mayan casualties were reaching 1.5 million with a very small portion of them being civilian casualties, and seeing as despite how much they have lost already, he concluded that the mayans are able to lose 10 million warriors before they will be forced to cease their reckless tactics of overwhelming their enemies with large numbers. By the time he returned back to the eastern side of the Volga, many generals in the Selynic Empire have reported that the mayans are very close to beating the Empire of Chernobog and they are rapidly reaching the Volga, which have led to him calling back all raiding parties, lest they might attack mayan armies. He also prepared the Selynic Empire for a second battle in Kazan, as the small town have seen an unusually high number of activities related to excessive summoning of demons to aid the Empire of Chernobog, as despite their odds, their morale never worn down during the course of the war. And not long before new year, the mayans have reached the Volga river, but were hesitant to attack, except on one occasion near what would be later Nizhny Novgorod, which have cost the mayans the complete annihilation of 5 of their bigger armies.

### **1075**

**Amidralem** have got the news of the emperor of the mayans going to personally visit him, mainly to discuss the fate of the Empire of Chernobog. The meeting took place in his own palace, where he gained the respect of many of the mayan warriors that were present, alongside with Chingantingan, just by speaking mayan, although in a heavy selynic accent. The two of them have discussed on what would happen, which have ended in Nocherslav getting executed, if he were not to die in battle, alongside with the Selynic Empire getting back all of its territories that it had before the war started, but the Chingantingan Empire is to keep the rest of the territories it have occupied. It was also formally requested that the two sides may exchange knowledge regarding the situation of the armies of the Empire of Chernobog, alongside with assistance in the planned battle in Kazan, as the assistance of the selynic cannons were needed. Regarding the upcoming battle in Kazan, **Amidralem** warned the mayan emperor Chingantingan of the increasement of demonic activities in the city, which bore the potential of an enormous lives getting lost, a thing that no mayan was bothered by, and as everything was concluded and agreed on, soon, the Second Battle of Kazan began, with the mayans crossing the Volga river, resulting in the loss of several hundred thousand lives, but as quickly mayans died, they were replaced as equally as fast. The mayans gave the Empire of Chernobog a very rough time, and with the combination of selynic cannons, catapults, ballistas and trebuchets attacking from all directions but west, the battle was increasingly looking like it would be a rather short one, but despite the odds, it have took several weeks to recapture the city, with Nocherslav dying in the process, and the battle resulting in a decisive mayan-selynic victory. And as it was agreed, the mayans pulled out of the territories that the Selynic Empire had before the war, allowing themselves to use their armies elsewhere, alongside with letting **Amidralem** rebuild the territories that have been previously occupied by the Empire of Chernobog. The war have also resulted in a demographic crisis across the entirety of Europe, as the war took away the lives of far too many people, an estimated amount of 47 million people, or 15% of the entire population of Earth at the time was wiped out, with only 40 thousand being dead as a result of diseases. However, death caused by diseases would dramatically increase, as the mayans have brought forth a various number of them that were previously unknown to the europeans, with the most notable disease being syphilis. Later on, **Amidralem** have learned, mainly thanks to travelling across the various parts of Europe that have been occupied by the mayans, that their invasion began with an even larger army that have been split into three. It was also revealed to him that the mayans were hugely assisted by Mansi, who was the sole reason on why agarthan civilization and Agartha itself collapsed.

### **1196**

**Amidralem** had to face a crusade against his empire and set up hundreds of miles of well prepared defense positions, and when the crusading forces showed up, he have sent hordes of people on the forces. This would make the crusaders struggle for a while before ending up in a big problem, as they seen no way to break the defensive lines, and soon, they have fallen into a retreat. **Amidralem** have led his personal armies to chase down the crusaders, which they did in the city of Vienna, a city that was sieged for months, before surrendering. This would mean **Amidralem** that Europe is a weakened place full of weakened kingdoms who cannot stand such threat like he posed. This gave himself an idea of conquering the entirety of Central Europe. The problem was that the power in Central Europe was split by Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. The good thing was, none of them stood a chance against **Amidralem** and the Selynic Empire. When the people near the borders of **Amidralem**'s empire have heard massive hordes of horses with heavily armored men are heading into their directions, they knew that their life would turn extremely bad, and they were correct, as the Selynic forces have burned down 480 settlements before reaching to the capitals of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire, eventually inserting them into the Selynic Empire.

### **1201**

**Amidralem** have started to look up to north, as the finnish tribes were plotting to unite and they had similar plans to conquer vast territories. Their plan failed as they will find themselves to be a part of the Selynic Empire. After this, **Amidralem** have focused on rebuilding the vast lands he have conquered before. But as the lands was so vast, he simply didn't had enough money to rebuild it all, as it would cost an insanely huge amount of money that he didn't have, despite being the richest ruler at the time. This meant for him that he needs to get even more money. He did so, by invading China, but he weren't expecting a big army, similar to the one he has, but it is less about cavalry and more about a little bit of everything, and the chinese had some weird looking weapons that were able to shoot some weird small steel projectiles that weren't effective, as they didn't time to reload before getting overwhelmed. When **Amidralem** and his forces were near the chinese capital, they simply burned it down as they didn't need it, and with this, China once again became a part of the Selynic Empire. The problem of **Amidralem** was still standing as he still was in need of money.

### **1207**

**Amidralem** have heard the news that the mongolian tribes in Mongolia became united under someone they call Genghis Khan, and they revolted. **Amidralem** did what he could, however, it was kind of late as the mongolian tribes have already took over China, Central Asia and Minor Asia, but fortunately, this didn't scare **Amidralem** as he have pooped scarier things than an extremely powerful revolt. The two sides have seen daily fights, even between the peasants and nobility, as the arguement about who was better. Unfortunately, a fatal loss for the mongolian tribes in the Battle of Xiangjing, when **Amidralem** had the idea of using spears against the incoming horde of cavalry. This made everyone shocked, as it was obvious that **Amidralem** would lose his power. They were wrong for a while, until the european powers have decided to invade the massive empire from the west. **Amidralem** had to deal first with the massive rebellion, then deal with the european forces invading. The mongolian tribes would hold out for another 4 months, before surrendering.

### **1208**

By the time **Amidralem** have suppressed the largest rebellion he have seen so far, the invading forces from the west, mostly french and bohemian, were already near Kiev. This is when he decided to use horse archers to remove the invaders from existence, with the side effect of a temperature drop of 2.3°C. It was not long after that the sides have met near Kiev, **Amidralem** have already predicted the enemies of his retreating. He was correct, due to soon as he thought that, the enemies have started to retreat, with his armies chasing after them, but chasing them himself. They ended up chasing them so far, that they have founded themselves in Paris, effectively conquering a large part of Europe. A treaty was signed in Rome that no one will attack them from Europe if they return the Holy Roman Empire into existence and return every territories they have conquered past Hungary. It was agreed, and now **Amidralem** could improve his empire, as the majority of the population is still homeless and many have been forced to live extremely primitive lives.

### **1215**

**Amidralem** have witnessed as his empire turns into a wonderful place, due to not waging expensive wars against expensive people who like to waste money on wars. Homelessness became extremely rare and the overall mood was happy. It made everyone kinda suspicious, as the Selynic Empire was never in such a good mood before. When some people went to investigate it, seen that nothing happened, just a slight side effect of a prospering peace, and calmness. However, this wouldn't last long, as the alaskan colony in the Far West have been kind of forgotten and they have declared independence. But as they were so insignificant, no one cared, due to Alaska being nothing more than trees and snow and more trees and more snow. However, **Amidralem** have read books about the atrocities of walls the avars have built hundreds of years ago, and he kinda wanted to do the same to keep Europeans away. But as the wall built by the avars got demolished, he had to build a new one, that would take 7 years, despite it is large size, it was easy to build for the time, as the advanced tactics the Selynic Empire have invented when it comes to architecture and building buildings.