Novumque Fatum 1921

Novumque Fatum was an RP round created by Kuril and Acerbus (DFC) and held by the NRPU between May and July 2022. Talks for the development of the round began in March, with the intentions *to create a ‘spiritual successor’ to Imperialis Dominationis, an RP round that was created by DFC (Acerbus) back in 2015, and had a similar lore.*

*This round saw the introduction of a series of innovative characters for an RP round: new tech sheet that stood out from the others, transparency to the most the admin team could in the server, new mechanics like false flag, concessions, etc.*

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*"We were filled with enthusiasm, and commited to create a ‘quality’ RP that could permit the newest players to experience a round which was created by people who have seen this community being created. Sadly, there were a series of -aforementioned- factors that prevented us from delivering to the community the experience we had been planning".*

*-Kuril in the last announcement of the round.*

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*Despite all the good elements, and mostly during the last weeks, the absence of various Great Powers and the overall feel that the RP had come to an end made the admin team decide to end it on July 10th, 2022.*

## **Lore**

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**Backstory**

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*In the Year of 1921, the hard-fought peace of the Great War was lost. The World was a much different place, as empires of centuries long had been uprooted to make way for new nations born in the flames of revolution. As one British statesman would say, “When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.” True to his words, as the Great War came to a closure, the fighting did not stop as national aspirations, territorial disputes, ethnic clashes, and old grudges continue in the void left behind the decay of the great powers. The War to End All Wars that so many had fought and sought to end, was just the beginning for a new decade. From the gilded halls of the victors in Versailles to the vanquished on the fields of battle, peace was only temporary as each tend to their wounds and seek to establish their legacy in this new decade.* ***A New Fate awaits all.***

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**General Lore**

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*The Dawn of the 1920s brought about a new age over the world. The War to End All Wars had not ended conflict in of itself, but brought about the greatest redrawing of the world never before seen by mankind. Empires fall, whilst new nations rise from their ashes. A great void has rippled across the globe as each nation seeks to claim their new fate in these times.* *The End of the War to End All Wars only brought about a multitude of conflicts that rages across the globe, fought on land, at the sea, and in the air. War never ended, it simply changed, as humanity braces itself to enter a new chapter that is forged by total conflict.* *The Peace of Versailles was only a brief reprieve to humanity’s sin of conflict, as the Great Powers temporarily lay down their arms after four years of devastating conflict – only for a vacuum of power to be left waiting for those with the ambition to grasp it. It is in this great absence of power, that the Peace was Lost…* *A New World Order built upon the foundations of the Treaty of Versailles, fragile as it is – was shattered as revolutions and civil war torn the world asunder. The October Revolution in Russia and subsequent Civil War brought about a wave of revolutions as 1918 dawned. Red and White, whether seeking forth international revolution or national independence, emerged from the ashes of the Great War. The Revolutions of 1918 as it was called, rocked both the victors and the vanquished of the Great War. From Communists to Nationalists, chaos and destruction was brought by them to an already wounded world.*

*In the East, the Russian Civil War raged for four bloody years until its conclusion in 1921, with the pyrrhic success of the Whites against the Bolsheviks. A loose coalition of anti-Communists, ranging from Monarchists, Republicans, and other political affiliations, the Whites were able to be unified under the central authority of Admiral Kolchak and in a general offensive towards Moscow was able to surround and crush the Bolsheviks, liberating Russia. Only with a desperate Southward Offensive led by the infamous Leon Trotsky was the Bolsheviks able to escape southwards into Caucasia where it provides a natural refuge for the Bolshevik exiles.* *From the chaos of the Russian Civil War and corpse of the Russian Empire came forth many new independent states. Long oppressed nationalities and ethnic groups, suffering under the boot of centuries of Russification rose up in unison and proclaimed independence for their nation-states. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, such groups would obtain success with the Russians embroiled in their own conflict, with the Whites unfortunately having to make concessions to the ethnic nationalists for cooperation against the Bolsheviks. For the first time in centuries, an independent Finland, Poland, and Ukraine exists on the European continent.* *But as they successfully obtained their national independence, would civil wars break out as ideology divided the newly freed peoples. In Finland, the Whites would crush the Reds in their attempt to turn Finland into a communist state. In Poland, the Poles took advantage of the Russian Civil War to obtain vast swaths of territory to the Russians’ despair. In Ukraine, the Nationalists were able to repulse the Bolshevik offensives back to Russia and the Caucasus. So it would be that these new nations, raised from the cradle of war, would form a natural barrier between the Russian successor and the rest of Europe.*

*In the West, revolution or civil strife swept across the lands. For the defeated, Communist Revolutions erupted in Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Only through the speedy intervention of military strongmen were the revolutions crushed. The German Empire, once a leading power in Central Europe was dissolved and, in its place, the Weimar Republic became a successor as the Kaiser abdicated. Uneasy politics to the left and right shake the young republic in its early years. In Austria, the Republic of German Austria was proclaimed and through Wilsonian doctrine, would vote to join their brethren in the Weimar Republic – for the first-time uniting Germany and Austria into one, greater, Germany. In Hungary, the timely arrival of Horthy and his Whites crushed Bela Kun’s Hungarian Soviet Republic and brought forth a White Terror of purging the state of communists. Yet, there is great resentment over the loss of historic Transylvania to the Romanians and their occupation of Budapest. For the victors, general labor strikes and colonial revolts occurred as a result of the Bolshevik’s proclamation of international revolution. The Czechoslovak Legions returned home to an independent Czechoslovakia. Britain and France, exhausted by the Great War, were bled too much to enforce order in their colonies. Whilst at home the public was divided between Left and Right in the midst of the Lost Peace, the colonies in the Far East would break their chains after decades of colonial rule. Burma, Vietnam, and India would leave their overlords as chaos engulfed the world. South Africa would take a more passive approach and vote to leave the British Empire due to its history of Anglo-Boer tensions. For the victors, it was a humiliating defeat in the peak of victory – unable to tame their colonies.*

*In the Balkans that started it all, peace was not so welcomed. For there, as what began the war – territorial disputes continue to keep the region as a powder keg for Europe, and perhaps – the world. The Kingdoms of Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Tsardom of Bulgaria – all having fought together on the side of the Entente after being promised so much, find that they had been lied to. What was promised to them, was often not enough, or instead given to another power. It is through this Entente mismanagement and over-promising of concessions in the Balkans that leads to its precarious state of tensions. Especially so for Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Greece who now have overlapping claims on each other thanks to the false promises of the Entente leading to their desired territories being shared or given to their neighbor. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire has led to the Greco-Turkish War as the Greeks attempt to assert their Megali Idea – with only the Turkish National Government standing in their way of total realization.* *In Southern Europe, the Kingdom of Italy feels nothing but betrayal by the Entente after its participation in the so-called mutilated victory. Having bled so much, only to gain so little that was instead granted to the new Yugoslav state, the Italians feel resentment towards the Entente for their lies that brought nothing save for a few colonial concessions. The neutral Kingdom of Spain and Kingdom of Portugal buckle under economic downturn as Spain faces great difficulty in the Rif War against the Berbers. Meanwhile, Portugal is on a shaky situation as the Republican Revolution of 1910 failed but its legacy still lives on to rise against the monarchy someday.*

*Along the coast of North Africa, the Rif Republic wages a hard war of independence against Spanish interventionism. The Libyan tribes unite under the Senussi Order to fight against Italian imperialism as they seek to liberate their homeland. In Egypt, the British influence still remains albeit is weakened from the strain of the Great War. The Suez Canal still firmly within British hands.* *In the Near East, the sands of history prepare for yet another conflict as the Hashemite and Saud dynasties prepare for a conflict that will determine the true rulers of the region – all under the watchful eye of the Western powers. The Empire of Iran took advantage of European instability to seize forth swaths of territory from the former Russian Empire and Afghanistan.* *In Africa, the legendary General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck refused to lay down his arms after the proclamation of the Weimar Republic, denying its legitimacy as the successor to the German Empire. The Lion of Africa and his Askaris therefore continued to fight on, forming the German East African Empire – claiming to be the true successors of the German Empire and awaiting one day an Imperial Restoration in Berlin whilst securing vast swaths of territory in East Africa. Abyssinia faces encroachment by the Italians following the end of the Great War and many wonder if the independence of such an African nation is possible in the coming decades.* *On the subcontinent of South Asia, the largest revolt against British rule took place, breaking the chains of British Imperialism but at a great cost. Following the defeat of a common foe, the Hindu and Muslim populations of the subcontinent would clash over territorial disputes and religious differences. South Asia would be a new battleground as the independent states of India and Pakistan prepare for their own great war…*

*In Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Siam, having participated briefly in the Great War would be promised the return of its historic lands lost to the British and French in the 19th Century. With the weakening of the Entente Powers however, the Siamese would take advantage of the Age of Revolutions by retaking their lost territories from the British and the French, whilst being wary of a resurrected Burma and Vietnam, the traditional enemies of Siam.* *In Oceania, the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand question their loyalties to Mother Britain while remaining a part of the Empire. These two paid a bloody price in the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottomans that failed to seize Constantinople until the end of the war and Ottoman capitulation. An entire generation lost these nations have a greater threat so close to their shores as Japanese Imperialism reaches the South Pacific…* *In the Far East, China is embroiled into an Era of Warlords as central authority is lost. The Beiyang Government seizes control of the north, whilst the Republic of China under the Kuomintang rules from Guangdong in the south. Elsewhere, warlords rise and fall as they stake our their own territorial claims in the competition for the true successor of the Qing Dynasty and to become the internationally recognized government. The Empire of Japan brings forth a new Rising Sun to Asia and the Pacific, with its Empire of the Sun stretching from the Arctic to the South Pacific. Through opportunistic expansion at the expense of the Russians in their Civil War, the exploitation of Korea, and the seizure of German Pacific colonies under their guise of mandates – the Japanese have become a feared power in the Far East that even the Western Powers are wary of. Now they turn their sights onto a broken China with hungering opportunism… In Mongolia, an oddity rises from its ongoing civil war as a Baron seeks to create his own fiefdom in the Orient.*

*While the North American continent was spared from the destruction of the Great War, it however was not immune to the social and political upheaval that followed it. In Canada, the French-Canadian population of Quebec gained independence after protests over Canadian conscription to fight in the Western Front – backed by their mother country of France, much to the ire of Britain. The Dominion of Canada vows one day to restore order to the province of Quebec, straining Anglo-French tensions across the globe. The United States of America emerges as an economic giant, having participated in the victory of the Great War and the chief financier of the Entente powers. Its vast resource wealth and industrial potential is legendary. Yet, it faces many pressing issues with its neighbors such as the Anglo-French standoff in Canada, or the bloody and ongoing Cristero war in Mexico. Only through the strong leadership of a wise President will the United States of America be able to return to an age of normalcy. Mexico suffers from over a decade of civil strife as the Mexican Revolution only brought about a new stage to its civil conflict in the Cristero War as devout Catholics rebel against an increasingly authoritarian Federal government that tramples on the rights of the Church. The Caribbean islands, under an agreement between Cuba and Haiti, form a Federation to further American interests.* (editado)

*In Latin America, much of the sins of the father carry over to the son as the past century’s grievances affect the political landscape of today. The Central American nations unite under one banner to combine their economies under the influence of Washington DC. Gran Colombia is reformed with the union of Colombia and Venezuela into a larger state to better combat their rivals. Ecuador stands alone between the giants of Gran Colombia and the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation, with the later state having remained united despite their defeat in the War of the Pacific in the past century. The Republic of Greater Paraguay stands despised by nearly all of its neighbors – having against all odds, won the War of the Triple Alliance in the past century. At great cost to its population, it has acquired much lands from Brazil and Argentina for the lives it sacrificed. Civil war grips Brazil as what remains of the Federal government of the United States of Brazil fights against a secessionist movement in the south known as the Contestado War. Chile faces economic downturn as the nitrate market has effectively collapsed with the invention of artificial fertilizers. Meanwhile, Argentina one day desires revenge against Paraguay to regain lost territory…*

### **Nations List**

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**Western Europe**

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British Empire -

Irish Free State -

Third French Republic -

Kingdom of the Netherlands -

Kingdom of Spain -

Kingdom of Portugal –

Kingdom of Belgium -

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**Central Europe**

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Weimar Republic -

Kingdom of Hungary -

Czechoslovakia –

Kingdom of Italy –

Switzerland -

Kingdom of Denmark -

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**Northern & Eastern Europe**

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Second Russian Empire -

Ukrainian National Republic -

Second Polish Republic –

Transcaucasian Soviet Republic –

Republic of Greater Finland -

Kingdom of Sweden -

Kingdom of Norway -

Balkans Kingdom of Greece -

Kingdom of Romania -

Tsardom of Bulgaria -

Kingdom of Yugoslavia -

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**North America**

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United States of America -

Republic of Quebec -

Dominion of Canada -

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**South & Central America**

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Cristero Mexico -

Federal Mexico -

Caribbean Federation -

Central American Federation -

Gran Columbia -

Ecuador -

Confederation of Peru-Bolivia -

Greater Paraguay -

United States of Brazil -

Contestado Brazil -

Chile -

Argentina -

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**Middle East & Africa**

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Turkish National Government -

Hashemite Dynasty -

Saud Dynasty -

Kingdom of Egypt -

Rif Republic -

Abyssinia -

German East African Empire –

Union of South Africa -

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**Central Asia & India**

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Empire of Iran –

Islamic Republic of Pakistan -

Republic of India –

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 **East Asia**

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Empire of Japan -

Japanese Korea -

Beiyang Government -

Republic of China -

Fengtian Clique -

Baron's Mongolia -

Warlord #1 -

Warlord #2 -

Warlord #3 -

Tibet -

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**Southeast Asia & Australasia**

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Commonwealth of Australia -

British New Zealand -

Kingdom of Siam -

Kingdom of Burma -

Kingdom of Vietnam -

American Philippines -

Dutch East Indies -

British Malaysia -

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