Archive 17

Turn 81 - 85.

### **NPC Events:**

* **Western Roman Empire:** With Hunnic raids and invasions plaguing Europe, thousands upon thousands of Germanic tribes migrate through Western Roman lands. The weaker half is unable to take all the war and sackings and conflict arises. Several kingdoms are capable of being formed in former Roman territory. These include the Suebi, Alans and Vandals in Iberia as well as the Visigothic Kingdom, the Franks and Burgundy. A Roman state has never been in a worse position than this in centuries, with Rome even being sacked by the Visigothic King Alaric. Emperor Honorius dies in 425 and is succeeded by Valentinian III who watches as Rome crashes and burns.
* **Eastern Roman Empire:** Theodosius II manages to keep most things in check in his Roman Empire. He leads armies to face off against the raiding Huns and assists the Dacians in their battle with them. The ERE also takes some southern Dacian lands for the purposes of protecting the people there as the Dacian soldiers slowly go down as Tarjuncea is captured and sacked and Sarmisegutsa is attacked.
* **Anglo-Saxons:** The Anglo-Saxons are a Germanic tribe that have for a while migrated to Britannia. Now the migration is starting to cause trouble similar to the WRE. Britannia starts to lose control as major revolts occur in Dubrae, Cornwall and Wales. The Anglo-Saxons start to drive away the pseudo-Roman culture of Brittania.
* **Kofun War:** Yamato is unable to accept the demands of Osozaki and thus war rages on. Yamato retreats from Sendai and Miyagi, avoiding encirclement. They are pushed further back but manage to organize enough to stall the forces of Doho Domei by establishing a line as well as seizing control of all Kagan soldiers to be under Yamato command. In the meanwhile, 4 major factions of Deserter Clans are formed. The Oyame lead by Kigun Hayato (Yellow), the Katura lead by Sasuke Ayano (Green), the Yutzune lead by Tugoku Takazaki (Muted Purple) and the Sabubuki, lead by Keiko Ganame (Pink). These would end up in conflict regularly but then in 411, Keiko Ganame proposes that instead of fighting eachother over land which wouldn't be recognized as independent anyway, they should take territory from the overlords to show themselves as powerful and carve out their own lands to rule. Thus the Oyame clan start to revolt and take over Southern Miyagi, fighting both Doho Domei and Matsuyama Pact forces. The Katura clan attack in Southern Kaga, attempting to take Gero and Toyama. The Yutzune would attempt to take Suzu but fail, however successfully escape and take over Sado Island. Finally the Sabubuki clan establish themselves in Ataki. These pose a threat to the Japanese powers and inflict even more damage and destruction.
* **Yamato:** Emperor Ingyo sends Osozaki a message in 424 which reads: "Adversary of ours, these traitorous so-called 'clans' are destroying our lands and worsening the status of this once beautiful island. This war has gone on for eternity, 84 years to be exact. We must put our differences aside and end this before we destroy the island and our realms with it. We may negotiate the aftermath of this tragic war afterwards, but fighting between us must end and we must stop these radicals. Also the town of Edo outgrows Chiba. Edo is modern-day Tokyo.
* **Hunnic Empire:** Sacking occurs practically everywhere. The Varsa are mostly conquered and many are displaced as the Hunnic Empire plunges further into Europe, now also attacking the Romans and other nearby civilizations. Following Balamber, Uldin, Octar, Charaton and Rugila would follow as King of the Huns. Rugila is the current leader, leading charges in the invasion of Dacia.
* **Sassanid Empire:** They spend most of the time just building up their empire and surviving, occasionally ending up in conflict with Hunnic raiders.
* **Rouran Khaganate:** Hwangha is conquered and the Rourans head further west, conquering the Ikhkhüre culture completely. They start to raid border villages as well, causing trouble for realms like Urgench, Dao and Jin.
* **Gupta Empire:** They are successful in conquering Bengal and Kalinga. Currently they are fighting the Andhrakans and Pratisthanans. The Gupta Empire also vassalizes Arakan.
* **Karasuk:** The Karasuk grab territory from the Tolonrans who are rapidly collapsing and the Khergits, whom are starting to migrate east slightly due to invasions and raids that they are unable to stop.
* **Khitans:** Khitani tribes conquer the last independent Korean tribes and migrate slightly further west before their migration period ends.
* **Malays:** Further migration into the Malay Peninsula, forcing Mon tribes out of their way. Meanwhile in the Philippines the Malay culture slowly but surely falls to the Visayan culture as those tribes capture more and more lands.
* **Trivandrum:** They make contact with Malatti for the first time in centuries. Instead of attempting to conquer them however they provide them with inventions and religion, leaving Malatti alone to develop.
* **Dao:** The Dao dynasty attempt to take advantage of the smaller state of Urgench and thus invade them. Dao didn't know of the Tunggao-Qiuda-Urgench alliance though and has to fight all three. They do quite well but then both sides struggle due to pressure from the Rouran Khaganate as regular bands of raiders show up at their borders to pillage and plunder.
* **Mon and Khmer:** A few tribes join Van Xuan.
* **Tumasik:** After the king of Pahang dies, they inherit the lands as the two realms had a royal marriage decades ago.
* **Liang:** They accept Van Xuan's proposals.
* **Kuri:** Shana, the largest city, becomes an official capital.
* **Kamchadals:** The Kamchatkans develop into the Kamchadals.
* **Brunei:** They conquer Miri.
* **Virisha:** To get back at Andhraka, they declare war on them to take advantage of the Gupta invasion. It goes pretty well.

### **Osozaki:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hirotio III Shengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, sake ( rice wine ).
	+ **Capital:** Kihon
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Osozakian 100%
		- **Kihon:** ~ 34.000
		- **Hakodate:** 25.000
		- **Ishi:** 23.000
		- **Kaigan:** 16.000
		- **Haiwa:** 15.000
		- **Fuyu:** 15.000
		- **Rural Areas:** ~ 317.000
		- **Total population:** 445.000
		- **Religion:** 100% Elementalist, 30% Shinto.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Anti Deserter Armies:** conscription is slightly increased to combat the deserters, a large amount of these new troops are from territories where the deserters ravage. We put our navy outside Ataki to block the deserters from escaping or resupplying. 15% of our army is going to push them, then we are to do the same thing against the Miyagian ones.
* **Main Front:** our armies at the front will try to break Yamatoan lines, 85% of our army is at the front (including the deserter fronts, we will focus forces to the deserters in Miyagi while the yamatoans push from the other side, another army is then to flank the Yamatoans with the help of the focus forces in Miyagi against Yamato, our goal is to take as much territory possible and break their fronts to disorganize them.
* **Military:**
	+ **Deployed units:** total of 3% (13.350)
	+ 3.000 Archers. (3.000) A
	+ 3.000 spearswordsmen (3.000) SP
	+ 1.500 cavalry (1.500) C
	+ 150 Tawābasutā (450) T
	+ 1.000 mountaineers (1.000) M
	+ 1.150 Swordsmen (1.150) SW
	+ 4 Women Armies (250 A, 200 SP, 150 C, 150 SW each to a **total of 3.000**)
	+ **Undeployed units:** total of 0% (0)
* **Navy:**
	+ 40 Galleys
	+ 20 Transport ships
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Yamato:** These deserters are not from Osozakian origins, for this we need more for peace, give us all of Kaga and 20% of the land your population reside in, from Kyushu we want the island Tsushima. In return you shall recieve influence over Hiroshima, we shall then create a momentary alliance where we rebuild japan and kick out the deserters, this alliance would last for 100 years and would work in a defensive and economic way.
	+ **Yamato II:** You need to stop having people desert.
* **Events:**
	+ **Help Ataki:** we build in Ataki, giving us more control over the territory and to organize our pushes their generals and troops are to listen to our generals.
	+ **Trust of the People:** we repair stuff in the newly gained territories.

### **Van Xuan:**

* **Government:** Absolute Monarchy.
* **King:** Dinh Tran
* **Dynatsy:** Lý
* **Economy:** Agriculture, fishing, trading.
* **Trade partners:** Liang.
* **Capital:** Longbian.
* **Demographics:**
	+ **Population: 1.150k**
	+ **Longbian:** 87.5k
	+ **Duen vinh:** 54k
	+ **Haikou:** 46.5k
	+ **Tram Giang:** 26k
	+ **Rural areas:** 901.8k
	+ **Ethnicities: Vietnamese 83.2%, Minorities: Chinese 13.97%, Mo 1.4%, Khmer 1.43%.**
	+ **Religion:** buddhism 98.71%, other 1.29%.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **Southern Expansion:** we send 50% (5 750) of our army to expand to the south and south-west mainly focusing on the caostal expanshion, and a bit on the south-western expansion.
* **Military:** Total of 1% (11 500)
	+ Swordsmen with Shields: 5 647
	+ Spearmen: 3 166
	+ Bowmen: 2 666
	+ Mangonel: 13
* **Navy: Transport ships 14, Galleys 16, fishing ships 127**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Champa:** Vanian efforts are made to improve the relationship between Van Xuan and Champa
* **Events:**
	+ **Infrastructure:** We start constructing roads between all the villages and in our country (will last for many turns)
	+ **Southern expansion:** we send 50% (5 750) of our army to expand to the south and south-east. along the coast.
	+ **Western Assimilation:** Mon tribes on the Van Xuan border are offered to join Van Xuan, promising better living conditions and safety.
	+ **Navy:** We start working on making our navy larger.

### **NPC Events:**

* **Western Roman Empire:** This place is one big hot mess of chaos. They're fighting wars against Burgundy, the Franks, the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths and of course, the Huns. Emperor after emperor come around and die, either of assassination in the hypercorrupt Roman society, or dying in battle or something else.
* **Eastern Roman Empire:** Fairing better than their western brother, though not by very much. They retreat as Dacia falls to the Huns and are fiercely fighting off the Hunnic invasions. They manage to hold them mostly by the border, but Singidunum does fall to the enemy. Through diplomacy, they manage to make a temporary alliance with the Sassanids to fight the greater threat that is the Hunnic Empire. In this agreement the ERE is also allowed to annex Lazica (tributary of the Sassanids), to protect them, enforce the border by the Caucasus mountains and also because the similar Roman/Greek cultures of the two. The current emperor is Marcian, crowned in 450.
* **Hunnic Empire:** ~~DAMN BOI, HE THICC.~~ Some time goes by with the usual raids and invasions before the king of the Huns ends up being Attila (and also his brother and co-king Bleda). He has the idea of conquering everything in his bloody sight and goes on a complete rampage. Germania is absolutely ravaged with invasions and both the Roman Empires and the Sassanids are assaulted with quick skirmishes and sackings. Attila even sends a group of Goths come to be known as the Ostrogoths, to the Western Roman lands in the Balkans to establish their own kingdom to distract the WRE, on the condition that the Huns leave the Ostrogoths alone afterwards, which they agree to. While Attila is murdalizing Roman legions while suffering minor losses, Bleda is off going far west and northwest, taking out Germanic tribes. He reaches as far as Sjaelland and sacks Kobnhavn. Bleda would write about these lands as a a people similar but different to the other people of Germania. He never knew that he had invaded Jylland. Bleda would then return to the Hunnic "heartlands" for unknown reasons. He'd never make it to Panticapaeum as he was found dead in a forest. Some believe that Attila killed him because he feared Bleda would try to take the throne for himself after returning from battle.
* **Sassanid Empire:** Aside from the whole fighting the Huns thing, they mostly focus on internal issues. Yazdegerd II, the current Shahanshah, also annexes several Khergit tribes, but not just for land, but to help them in the current situation regarding mass raids by Huns and also for those Khergit masters of cavalry to serve as mercenaries in the Sassanid army.
* **Kofun War:** Fighting would continue before Yamato agrees to the harsh terms in 430, bringing an end to the nearly 100 years of constant war on the Japanese islands. With the end of the war and the end of Yamato's center of power on the islands, the Kofun period ends. All is not completely well however...
* **Japanese Deserter War:** Three of the Deserter Clans would eventually be defeated. The Sabubuki end up dissolved, but several of their warriors manage to go into hiding and eventually end up serving as mercenaries for powerful farmers that have the coin to hire them to protect their lands, as the war had been so decimating. The Yutzune clan is still around, managing to use small ships filled with burning reeds to prevent Yamato ships from arriving on the shores of Sado Island. They are by no means very powerful however.
* **What's New, Japan? (1):** Osozaki has claimed all of Kaga as well as much of Yamato's southern lands. Calculating a census to be able to provide information on where 20% of Yamato's population lives, especially after a destructive war, was practically impossible and so Osozaki was basically just given Edo and nearby lands. Hiroshima would be reformed as a temporary vassal of Yamato, who also claims the Oki islands. Kyushu refuses to give Tsushima Island and writes a letter to Osozaki explaining that it is their territory, but that they do want peace and are opening the trade route again. They tell Osozaki that sending their navy to go to war would be a bad idea because of several reasons. 1. The Kofun War was tiring enough. 2. The distance would make put the naval battle at a disadvantage for Osozaki. 3. It's not worth it to waste more resources and precious lives to fight over a bloody island. And finally 4. They should focus on rebuilding Japan as Kyushu are wary that Goguryeo might use the weakened state of Japan as an oppurtunity to take advantage of Japan and threaten its sovereignty.
* **What's New, Japan? (2):** Miyagi (and Ataki to a small extent) express slight confusion and anger from not gaining any lands from the previous war, although they remain loyal to Osozaki and still honor the Doho Domei alliance. Speaking of the territories taken, the Kazuku followers of Kaga aren't happy with just having all of their lands handed from being a generous vassal to just being territory of Osozaki and thus they revolt. Komatsu is quickly taken and they move on to Gero and also push into Yamato to stop troops from there. They push towards Toyama, but fail and are pushed back a bit. This would become known as the Kagan Uprising. BUT WAIT! There's more! Edo also revolts against Osozaki, but they do not have as much power as the Kagan rebels. They do however have help from some conspicuous mercenaries that totally aren't related to the Sabubuki. BUT WAIT! (again) There's more! (Part 2) The Ryuka family of Hiroshima are wicked mad at being a vassal of Yamato and are also very very angry at being put in this position by Osozaki, who they saw as their ally. They revolt and take over the capital fairly easy. Japan isn't fully at peace yet...
* **Rouran Khaganate:** They sign an agreement with Dao to stop raiding their lands and in exchange they can join in on invading Tunggao, Qiuda and Urgench, which they do. The three small kingdoms are divided between the two. The Rourans also conquer all Ulstörin tribes and move into Khergit lands. They also build a capital which they name Ötüken.
* **Gupta Empire:** Gupta wins. Andhraka loses Noltoka to the Gupta, as well as southern lands to Virisha and are turned into the Empire's second vassal state. Some territory is also taken from Pratisthana, but they are otherwise left in peace. Kumaragupta is celebrated as a grand emperor by his fellow nobles and the peasants of the Gupta Empire.
* **Anglo-Saxons:** Well, goodbye Britannia. A kingdom that was quite reliant on outside help, when the Germanic Anglo-Saxons came and said "this is ours now", they couldn't really do anything about it and promptly collapsed. Decades of war and shiz end with a total of 11 Anglo-Saxon kingdoms being formed on the island of Great Britain, with the ones in Wales being very much influenced by the Gaelic culture there.
* **Suebi:** They conquer the Alans and work together with the Romans temporarily to fight off the Vandals.
* **Vandal Kingdom:** The fleeing Vandals make it to North Africa where they establish completely new borders and famously defeat the Romans at Carthago. The previous battles in Carteia and Garofe saw the Vandals destroy a lot of property. This would in the long future end up making the destruction of private property be named "Vandalism" after the fierceness of the Vandals.
* **Visayans:** And as such, the Visayan culture has completely misplaced the Malays to mainland Asia, the only territory left to be taken being Palawan Island.
* **Mon and Khmer:** Some agree to join Van Xuan, but they are wary and reluctant to join as large armies are the ones coming to expand Vietnamese borders.
* **Goguryeo, Buyeo and Yilou:** They form a defensive pact to protect themselves from the chaos of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period of China in the west and the brutal aftermath of post-war Japan in the east.
* **Funan:** The Kingdom of Funan makes further expansions to the south before stopping upon meeting several Malay tribes, some of them quite powerful for being independent tribes.
* **Slavs:** A people group known as the Slavs arrive from the east. The last of the scattered Varsa would end up being absorbed into this people group as they settle north of the Huns, sometimes dealing with having to fight them off. The Slavs invent heavy plows for agriculture.
* **Pointed Arch Bridge:** The Pointed Arch Bridge is invented in Cappadocia, in the ERE.
* **Champa:** Good relations between Van Xuan and the Champa Kingdom are established.
* **Tolonra:** Once a massively spread out culture and once the king of raiding civilizations, the Tolonrans left are so scattered and so weak that their culture completely collapses and their lands are taken by the nearby Ugrians, Karasuk and Slavs.
* **Malatti:** They establish the city of Malé, which becomes their capital.
* **Uighurs and Xiang Jing:** Many of these tribes migrate away from the harsh conditions of the Himalayas. Those lands are filled in by Alai tribes, who are used to this sort of climate and way of living.
* **Samoyeds:** Samoyedic tribes migrate east and southeast.
* **Mauri:** A Berber Kingdom, calling itself Mauri (after the Roman province of Mauritania, not to be confused with the IRL country of Mauretania) is formed from the ongoing collapse of the Western Roman Empire. They initially have conflicts with the Vandals, but eventually make peace.
* **Second War of the Malacca Strait:** Some conflicting ideas over fishing borders in the Malacca Strait lead to another war in Sumatra. It's the long-time allies of Malacca, Tumasik and Pahang, versus their long-time adversaries of Aceh and Utara. However, Singingi and Selatan ally with the two latter kingdoms as they want to stop the Malaccan alliance from getting much stronger. Malacca and Tumasik are still winning right now however, looking powerful as ever.
* **Bangkat:** They colonize some small lands north of their Borneo colony, gaining power around a little bay where they start to tax the Pulau natives fishing there. This angers the natives, who didn't sign up ~~for this shit~~ for something like this when they accepted the Bangkat arriving on their shores to trade and such.
* **Teotihuacan:** A chiefdom is formed from the populous city in modern-day Mexico.

### **Seigi No Hana:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana I Shengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, sake ( rice wine ).
	+ **Capital:** Kihon
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Osozakian 55%, Yamato 25%, 20% Kagan
		- **Kihon:** ~ 32.000
		- **Hakodate:** 25.000
		- **Ishi:** 25.000
		- **Komatsu:** 18.000
		- **Kaigan:** 16.000
		- **Haiwa:** 15.000
		- **Fuyu:** 15.000
		- **Suzu:** 10.000
		- **Toyama:** 14.000
		- **Gero:** 9.000
		- **Edo:** 7.000
		- **Rural Areas:** ~ 604.000
		- **Total population:** 790.000
		- **Religion:** 50% Elementalist, 15% Kazuku, 35% Shinto.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Revolts:** We use our deployed forces to deal with the revolts and to guard our newly acquired territory, a couple of peasants with pitchforks is no match to the combined efforts of the Yamato and our trained forces.
* **Military:**
	+ **Deployed units:** total of 0.5% (3.950)
	+ 1.000 Archers. (1.000)
	+ 750 spearswordsmen (750)
	+ 500 cavalry (500)
	+ 50 Tawābasutā (150)
	+ 550 mountaineers (550)
	+ 1.000 Swordsmen (1.000)
	+ **Undeployed units:** total of 1.5% (0)
* **Navy:**
	+ 40 Galleys
	+ 20 Transport ships
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Yamato I:** We need to stop these revolts, gather some troops and make this quick, we don't want unnecessary causalities.
	+ **Yamato II:** May Miyagi attain some lands? the closest lands are of my area of influence and since Miyagi is aswell I would not have any problems with it.
	+ **Ataki:** Here have some of Kaga.
	+ **Kyushu:** We understand, may we have just a smaller part of the island? this way we can make sure that no part of us break the trade again, we are not saying this with hostility just with the intent of stability.
	+ **Hiroshiman Royal Family:** It was an unfortunate sacrifice, not to worry, it is only temporary, otherwise we will make sure it is.
	+ **Goguryeo:** "Let's fire up the trade and prosper!" - Hana I Shengu
* **Events:**
	+ **United States:** because of the diversity of people a new State system is ignited, all of Osozaki is divided into states that are ruled by royals and people of power, however they are all under the rule of the emperor, the emperor can grant and revert titles if needed. These nobles and people of power have to pay a part of the tax income to the empress. There are also certain main legislations that the people of power and nobles have to ask the emperor about to change such as tax, penalties and other really important societal building blocks. They need to pay a certain amount back to the people and not following rules may result in losing your position of power. (I will send a chart of the states over at discord)
	+ **Namechange:** we are now to be known as Seigi no hana, referring to how it all started and the fairness that we have to keep with our new role in Japan.
	+ **Osozakan Support:** food and materials are sent to the new territories to lessen famine and to rebuild society, focusing on their own production, saving the seeds of the food to use at the farms.
	+ **Integration of Peoples:** We introduce our laws of higher equality and religious freedom which increase our popularity amongst females and lowers religious tensions.
	+ **The Great Road:** A great road is being constructed between Haiwa and Suzu, ment to quicken resource flow.
	+ **Ishi:** due to the city being in the centre it experience a population growth.
	+ **Disband the Womens Army:** The womens aremy showed how women could fight, now they fight beside the men.

### **NPC Events:**

* **Western Roman Empire:** Well this isn't good. The Visigoths have grabbed lots of land following their victory, the Burgundians took Massalia and Lugdunum, the Vandals invade and take islands and some other lands too and the empire loses more land to the Franks, Ostrogoths and Britons from IRL Wales flee and invade to form the Kingdom of Brittany in Armorica. Several emperors come and go, many not even recognized by the Eastern Empire and in 475 Romulus Augustus becomes emperor. He looks upon a once great empire, now without a dynasty, grand power or good future...
* **The Last Years of the Huns:** Western Rome can enjoy some good news, however. Attila the Hun invades Italia, but the invasion is a failure. He dies and the invasion is repelled by the Triad. The Hunnic Empire split in three between his sons. The two empires slowly crumbled and when Dengizich, the strongest of the three died, things went down the shitter. Assaults on the Roman Empires didn't work, they were being sacked by invaders from the newer "barbarian" kingdoms, such as the Franks, Burgundians and Ostrogoths, the Germanic people in their borders started to revolt and eventually everything fell apart. From this, the city of Sarmisegutsa was destroyed and the Huns scattered. Slavs would migrate and take most of the east, with the North Caucasus and Crimea becoming lands of the Bulgars. A Germanic people, the Gepids, created a kingdom just next to the Ostrogoths and in Germania, the Rhine, Hermionics and East Germanics take back their lands, along with two new groups being formed, the Alemanni and the Lombards.
* **Eastern Roman Empire:** After defeating the Huns, they have regained strength, but at a cost. The Theodosian dynasty is dead, replaced by the House of Leo under Leo I. Their second half is collapsing and the Sassanids have flipped the switch, the temporary alliance was just that, temporary.
* **Sassanid Empire:** Speaking of, they are also strong. Under Peroz I they take Albania and Iberia as vassals and start to reinforce after hearing of the rapid rise of a strong power in India (the Gupta Empire).
* **Visigothic Kingdom:** The Visigoths become the most powerful "post-Roman" kingdom, controlling most of Iberia after taking lots of lands from the Suebi and also holding onto southern France.
* **Japanese Deserter War:** Edo's rebels are rather easily deposed of, but a group of those "totally-not-inspired-by-the-Sabubuki" mercenaries manage to form a secret council of warriors, unbeknownst of anyone else. Meanwhile in Kaga, the revolters aren't just "peasants with pitchforks" as assumed by Hana, sure there are several of those, but there are Kagan soldiers that have joined in as well as peasants that have armed themselves better. Now they manage to create paths connecting to different villages part of the rebellion. They are pushed back by Yamato slightly, and manage to spread to almost all of Kaga before the Hanan army arrives. While the revolt is still bigger than in the beginning, the Kagans start losing territory rapidly. Shinji Tabuse, a Kagan general and secretly part of the Sabubuki council, realizes things look bad and decides to betray the rebellion. He sends a proposal to Hana: upon the end of this, Hana will have the northern lands of Kaga and the rest will be a dependency (vassal-ish). He recommends that Hana does this if they want to control Kaga without a bunch of revolting. Meanwhile the Yutzune form their own realm on Sado.
* **Vandal Kingdom:** In 455 they sack Rome, which makes them rich. They do indeed conquer several mediterranean islands, as well as parts of Roman Libya and Mauri, which they vassalize.
* **Rouran Khaganate:** Dao and Jin make a temporary alliance and invade the Rourans to push them further away and to protect the borders of China. The Rourans lose and cede southern lands, but don't give that much of a muppet since they continue their expansion west.
* **A Bastard Son Creates the Seventh Kingdom:** Emperor Shenzang of Wei has a son born out of wedlock that he then disowns. However this backfires later. Towards the end of Shenzang's life, that son, named Jiang, is recognized that he has some sort of royal blood. He challenges the throne of Wei, which leads to some internal strife. Upon Shenzang's death, his heir becomes Emperor Guizhou. The dispute between the two sort-of brothers lead to Jiang eventually getting control of western Wei and breaking free to form the Shang dynasty. Six "kingdoms" have become seven.
* **Hiroshima:** They pose a threat to Yamato, taking more territory. In terms of Hana, they send Hana I a personal letter reading: "Anata no o shiri o katana o tsukidasu, anata wa uragirimono o kuso!"
* **Algonquain:** They migrate into Canada and the remaining tribes become the Amai'qac.
* **Nuuktik:** It splinters into the Cree and the Athabasken.
* **Gupta Empire:** Rajmekh's east is annexed and the rest is turned into a vassal named Rajik, its main purpose is to protect the border with Barigaza. Gupta also invades and conquers Majpet.
* **Ampara:** They conquer Galmatara.
* **Bangkat:** They come into conflict with the Pulau natives over them taxing them, which leads to a lot of fighting. The Bangkat send several ships, which got burned down by the Pulau. Unable to provide supplies to their colony as well as dealing with regular attacks lead to the colony collapsing (again).
* **Kyushu:** Kyushu declines the Hanan offer, but allow Hana to place troops on Tsushima Island (but only that). They intend that the Kyushan and Hanan troops will work together.
* **Visayans:** Visayan tribes conquer Palawan
* **Central America:** The Mayans found Tikal, which becomes their new capital. In other news we also have the Tlapanec Chiefdom form, as well as Teoithuacan expanding rapidly.
* **Alai:** Alai tribes weaken the Xiang Jing and take some more territory slightly outside of the Himalayas. The Xiang Jing become the Yuezhi.
* **Charkha:** In Oroborus, as in the city, a primitive version and predecessor of the Charkha is developed.
* **Second War of the Malaccan Strait:** There's some stalemate-ing, going on. Aceh and Utara manage to use Singingi and Selatan as distractions to counter the forces of the Malaccan alliance. The war is still not going in their favor, but they have gained a slight upper hand that may come in handy haha get it??
* **Jylland:** They are severely weakened, even decades later, by the Hunnic invasion and sacking of Kopnhavn.

### **Hana:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana I Shengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, sake ( rice wine ).
	+ **Capital:** Ishi
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Hanan 60%, Yamato 22%, 18% Kagan
		- **Kihon:** ~ 32.000
		- **Ishi:** 31.000
		- **Hakodate:** 25.000
		- **Komatsu:** 18.000
		- **Kaigan:** 16.000
		- **Haiwa:** 16.000
		- **Fuyu:** 15.000
		- **Toyama:** 15.000
		- **Suzu:** 10.000
		- **Gero:** 9.000
		- **Edo:** 9.000
		- **Rural Areas:** ~ 638.000
		- **Total population:** 834.000
		- **Religion:** 20% Kazuku, 80% Shinto.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Revolts:** We try to crush down the opposition and if we succeed the soldiers are to patrol our new territories.
* **Military:**
	+ **Deployed units:** total of 0.5% (4.200)
	+ 1.000 Archers. (1.000)
	+ 1.000 spearswordsmen (1.000)
	+ 500 cavalry (500)
	+ 50 Tawābasutā (150)
	+ 550 mountaineers (550)
	+ 1.000 Swordsmen (1.000)
	+ **Undeployed units:** total of 1.5% (0)
* **Navy:**
	+ 40 Galleys
	+ 20 Transport ships
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Miyagi:** We heavily improve relations.
	+ **Kagan Revolters:** Your demands are unnecessary, with the new state system many of your requirements are already met, if you truly wish for peace, why would you start a revolt? your previous leaders put more that a quarter of all men on the front, we are willing to ease your suffer as we already are, our intent is to unite the nation and rebuild after the war, tell you what? if you give up we can drop the Kagan states military requirement for 50 years allowing you to focus on economy, we may also change the name of the state with your old capital to Kaga. There is no reason to rumble
	+ **Hiroshima:** you have assaulted a ruler of great power verbally, you are to be punished for this behaviour. We asked Hana I to respond but she told us "I don't have time to respond to a loser who looks like their own cousin."
	+ **Yamato:** we wish to inform you about this letter that we received from the hiroshiman leader, it is rather unpleasant and aimed at our empress, when you win this conflict we wish to relieve you of their royal family in a nice jail cell in Fuyu.
* **Events:**
	+ **Uprising of Ishi:** Ishi has always been a rich town, but since the supply to Kaga flows through there it's population increase a lot. Due to the rebellion in the south it increase even further, but then atlast when the Empress moved there it quickly became the new center of all of Hana.
	+ **Hana:** The nations name is changed.
	+ **Order of the Sakura:** The legendary family tree of the "northern dragons" relocate to Ishi with the other part of the royal family, there they establish the Order of the Sakura, which is named after the cherry tree, the order is all about martial arts, and there are 5 stages of the order: Grand Master, Sakura, Tako, Tetsu and Buranchi. There is only 1 grand master, the most respected in the order and the one that controls it. There are only 9 Sakuras and thus they are often treated as super heroes by the people, they usually pick up work from only the Grand master or the government as those two are close friends. Tako is high position, they work in smaller teams and are often recruited to deal with bandits and outlaws. Tetsu is the middle ground, still capable however as they are often hired to protect farms. Buranchi are students that seems promising that are under training by higherups.
	+ **Rebuilding:** we rebuild farms in conquered territories and create different job opportunities for poor people. We also rebuild the trade in the Kagan city Toyama to let them use the flow of dye to get richer.
	+ **Fade of the Elements:** Elementalism crash from a religious viewpoint due to the spread of different ideas within it, it is still present within other religions however in the martial arts and the spiritual aspect.

### **Van Xuan:**

* **Government:** Absolute Monarchy.
* **King:** Nguyen Sang Lý
* **Dynatsy:** Lý
* **Economy:** Agriculture, fishing, trading.
* **Trade partners:** Liang.
* **Capital:** Longbian.
* **Demographics:**
	+ **Population: 1 178.6k**
	+ **Longbian:** 88k
	+ **Duen vinh:** 55k
	+ **Haikou:** 47k
	+ **Tram Giang:** 27k
	+ **Rural areas:** 961.6k
	+ **Ethnicities: Vietnamese 83.3%, Minorities: Chinese 13.77%, Mon 1.5%, Khmer 1.43%.**
	+ **Religion:** buddhism 98.76%, other 1.24%.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **Southern Expansion:** we send 50% (5 893) of our army to expand to the south and south-west trying to get more coast and more inland land.
* **Military:** Total of: 2% (23 572)
	+ **Stading army:** Total of 1% (11 786)
		- Swordsmen with Shields: 5 741
		- Spearmen: 3 264
		- Bowmen: 2 765
		- Mangonel: 16
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 1% (11 786)
		- Swordsmen with Shields: 5 741
		- Spearmen: 3 264
		- Bowmen: 2 765
		- Mangonel: 16
* **Navy: Transport ships 16, Galleys 18, fishing ships 135**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Liang:** We would like a royal marriage to secure good relations and maybe even start an alliance.
	+ **Champa:** We improve relations.
	+ **Nanzhou:** We improve relations.
	+ **Mon:** We want to have good relations with you guys, the reason we are using force against Khmer is cause some northern and eastern tribes trash talked our King.
	+ **Mon:** We ask tribes near and far if they want to trade with us, at the same time trying to raise their opinion of us.
* **Events:**
	+ **Infrastructure:** We start constructing roads between all the villages and in our country (will last for many turns)
	+ **Western Assimilation:** Mon tribes on the Van Xuan border are offered to join Van Xuan, promising better living conditions and safety.
	+ **Army reserves:** We conscript a new army that will be in the reserves in case we need more than what we have, the consription will be 1%.
	+ **Port of Longbian:** We build a large port that will be the largest port in all of Van Xuan.
	+ **Navy:** We start working on making our navy larger.
	+ **Navy ship strenghtening:** we make the ships of a stronger wood so that it gets harder to sink.
	+ **Agriculture:** We start focusing a lot on agriculture like farms and Livestock farms, this will make the people less Hungry. And it will make them happier, healthier and will let the people worry less about their childrens future.
	+ **Naval Search of the east:** We send some men on ships to the east to try to find an Island we've heard about, seeing if we can try to get some good relations with them.
	+ **Bamboo bows:** We try to use Bamboo as the material in our Bows making the bow harder and more sturdier, This will also make the bows range longer. Before we start making more of it we make a few to test and see if they live up to our expectations.
	+ **Military Training of Tactics and armed training:** Both the Main army and the Reserveists will do this training.
		- **Tactics:** We start coming up with tactics and different moves we can use in wartime (like using the hills to our advantage by putting the Mangonel's there making wich makes their range longer.), having the best in each army-group become the General of the Group they're part of.
		- **Armed Training (including Mangonel cause why not):** They will be training in the **art of the sword, Shield, spear, Bow and Mangonel.**
			* **sword art** (those with swords will practice the best ways to attack, stab and block the enemies)
			* **Shield art** **(**The Swords men will also train their shield blocking/parrying (<-Make them lose their balance or make the enemy attack hit the ground or smth)**)**
			* **Spear art** (Those with Spears will practice different ways in using the spears length to the best of it's capabilites)
			* **Bow art** (Those with bows will be training their accuracy and range)
			* **Mangonel art** (The soldiers that are manovering the Mangonel's are going to train their range and accuracy).

### **NPC Events:**

* **Western Roman Empire:** Romulus Augustus, suffering from depression, commits suicide in 481, which is very bad considering there are way too many candidates for the emperor. At the same time, a man of Germanic origin, Odoacer, studies Roman history in Mediolanon. He reads some particular information that leads him to believe that he is destined to be Rome's next emperor. Using this information he rallies large armies, including some mercenaries from Germanic lands. The death of Romulus Augustus plunged the "empire" into civil war. Odoacer was powerful enough to end it and became emperor. He made reforms that helped the empire and saved it from collapse. He ended the war with the Ostrogoths, which made the Romans lose all Balkan territory, but it was necessary. He also sold off Libyan territory to the ERE for quite a large price, which the ERE was willing to pay for as they wanted a front with the dangerously powerful Vandal Kingdom. This provided Rome with wealth that was desperately needed. Although bad things would happen once more when Odoacer was killed when attempting to enter Rome, shot by a guard. Why this happened is unknown, some believe he mistook Odoacer for a trespasser and some others believe he was part of some plot. Point is that Rome is in a terrible state once more as the Vandals and Ostrogoths take this oppurtunity to invade once more.
* **Eastern Roman Empire:** A few emperors pass by after Leo I and Anastasius I is the current one. He sees that Western Rome is a lost cause and that the eastern half must clean this up eventually and thus first buys the Libyan territory from the WRE and plans to attack the Vandals to secure important cities like Tripoli, Carthago and Syracuse. He also has to deal with the slow but sure deterioration of Eastern Roman-Sassanid relations as well as Bulgars raiding the borders of the empire. Those raids are not too hard to take care of though, as the Eastern Romans are now experienced in this (shades of Huns).
* **Japanese Deserter War:** Eventually Hanan forces were coming in so quick and were able to reinforce the region of Kaga. The deserters were defeated in the Battle of Toyama in 481. In Hiroshima the rebellion is put down, with remnants existing in western Hiroshima. The royal house of Ryuka however, has been captured and is now at the mercy of Hana. While deserters are defeated, there is still resistance and unrest in Kaga due to its very different culture and majority of Kazuku followers. Shinji Tabuse sends a message to Hana I, requesting a position of governor of Kaga (the Kagan people don't know that he betrayed the Kagan Uprising) as he is native and may be capable of handling it and also because he has military knowledge. Meanwhile during that, he and a few other high-ranking members of the secret Sabubuki Council overthrow the anti-Hanan majority and reforms the council. The members are to follow a code called bushido. They also change the name Sabubuki Council to the Order of the Tsamu-rei. While the council is secret, the title of Tsamu-rei still exists, as a servant of those who can pay for their protective, mercenary duties.
* **Sassanid Empire:** Under Kavadh I the empire slightly expands its trade post on the Somali coast, as well as establishing another small one on Cape Hafun. The Sassanids also fend off Bulgar ransackings in Iberia and Albania.
* **Frankish Kingdom:** Clovis I is the first king of the Franks and he starts to use the power the Franks have to his advantage, conquering the remains of Gaul (Roman France) and going to expand into Germania, defeating Alemanni and Thuringian tribes. He also sets his sights to expand northwards into the Frisians territory. Lutetia is also renamed Paris and Clovis I plans on building it up to become the kingdom's new capital as it has a better positioning by the Seine river.
* **Gupta Empire:** They vassalize Kesmi and go on to invade Uvkas, bringing them closer to have closer contact with the Persians of the Sassanid Empire.
* **Germania:** Two new groups spawn, the Saxons and the Thuringians. Several Saxons are still migrating to Britannia, where the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms lie.
* **Rouran Khaganate:** Victory after victory, Khagan Yujiulü Nagai increases his wealth and power. He consolidates with the Khergits he is defeating to draw the border by Lake Balkhash and they accept. With "they", that means those particular Khergit tribes. While Yujiulü Nagai believes himself all powerful as he is slowly conquering large swathes of the grand steppe, Khergit influence is building within their borders.
* **Yamato:** They ask Hana that they should merge their alliance (that also includes Hiroshima) with Doho Domei as there is not much of a point in them being separate.
* **Wagadou:** A state known as Wagadou, with their leader known as the Ghana, is founded in West Africa, its capital is Koumbi Saleh and a trade route leading to the Gambia is already established and flourishing.
* **Lakota and Penuti:** Two new Native American cultures are developed.
* **Rise of Van Xuan:** The Vietnamese kingdom of Van Xuan is gradually becoming stronger, improving its military tactics and expanding its territories gradually. A few Mon tribes accept joining Van Xuan, but many do not as they see the military way the Vietnamese are expanding in to the south. Also practically none of them believes the explanation given to them by Nguyen Sang. Liang declines the royal marriage proposal as they do not want Vietnamese influence in mainland China, especially during the current era of fragmentation. Nanzhou, feeling threatened by the recent expansion, expands slightly on their own, convincing a few tribes to join them to protect them from eventual Vietnamese hostility. They do accept to improve relations but are wary. At the same time, Funan is very displeased with how their Khmer bretheren are being treated by Van Xuan and thus give several tribes a promise of protecting them from the Vietnamese. Also the voyage to find the rumored island is a failure.
* **Mahlukya:** The southern indian dynasty invades both Nadu and Trivandrum.
* **Buddhism:** Buddhism is spread from the Gupta Empire into Southeast Asia, covering mot of Beikthano, the Pyu, several western Mon tribes and practically all of the Malay Peninsula. It also spreads a little bit into Sumatra, but only gradually due to the ongoing war.
* **Slavs:** They develop the proto-heavy plow into a definitive one, becoming incredibly useful for agriculture.
* **Bali:** A new Javan kingdom, isolated from other kingdoms in the region. It is located on the island of the same name.
* **Second War of the Malaccan Strait:** Utara attempts to convince Solok, a personal ally, to attack their enemies so that Aceh and Utara has more time to counterattack, but they refuse. Thus upon the fall of Singingi and Selatan, the northern kingdoms are kinda screwed. Fighting intensifies as the Malaccans get closer and closer to Medan.
* **Maya:** They found Chichen Itza and influence the Miskito to the east.
* **Tlapanec:** The Tlapanec conquer the remaining Xicasnans and expand west, founding the grand city of Acapulco.
* **Goguryeo:** A vassal of the king inherits much of Buyeo and the kingdom is strong enough to vassalize it. Also they are no longer a kingdom as ruler Munjamyeong declares himself Emperor, thus Goguryeo becomes the Empire of Goguryeo.
* **Goths:** Norse sailors discover the Faroe Islands and settle them.
* **Shoshone:** They migrate away from the east.
* **Papar:** The culture moves along the eastern coast of Iceland.
* **Gepid Kingdom:** They expand.
* **Lombards:** Lombards defeat several Alemanni tribes and conquer their territory.
* **Kyushu:** The king of Kyushu becomes very wary of the powerful Korean kingdom of Goguryeo after it declares itself an Empire. The Kyushans start to secretly support some people in the south of the peninsula to rebel, but nothing of note has happened just yet.
* **Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms:** An alphabet composed of runes is developed in several places, becoming the way to transcribe words and information in just a few years following its completion.
* **Burgundy:** They lose lands to the invading Alemanni.

### **Hana:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana I Shengu, Hana II Shengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, sake ( rice wine ).
	+ **Capital:** Ishi
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Hanan 65%, Yamato 19%, 16% Kagan
		- **Ishi:** 34.000
		- **Kihon:** ~ 32.000
		- **Hakodate:** 26.000
		- **Komatsu:** 20.000
		- **Kaigan:** 17.000
		- **Haiwa:** 16.000
		- **Fuyu:** 15.000
		- **Toyama:** 15.000
		- **Suzu:** 11.000
		- **Gero:** 10.000
		- **Edo:** 9.000
		- **Rural Areas:** ~ 671.000
		- **Total population:** 876.000
		- **Religion:** 20% Kazuku, 80% Shinto.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Deployed units:** total of 0.5% (4.200)
	+ 1.180 Archers. (1.180)
	+ 1.000 spearswordsmen (1.000)
	+ 500 cavalry (500)
	+ 50 Tawābasutā (150)
	+ 550 mountaineers (550)
	+ 1.000 Swordsmen (1.000)
	+ **Undeployed units:** total of 1.5% (0)
* **Navy:**
	+ 42 Galleys
	+ 21 Transport ships
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Sado (Hanzo Akisane):** "we propsose that Sado will join Hana as a state, but in return you will merge with Ataki and keep you as a leader, and as a bonus, I was thinking we could get to know eachother better" ~~Wink wink~~
	+ **Yamato:** very well, if we are the faction leader due to being the most rooted in both alliances, let it be called Nihon and unite the island with peace!
	+ **Shikoku:** We are aware of your neutrality, thus we ask you to join our alliance as a dafacto member, to help eachother economically and secure all of Nihon.
	+ **Yamato II:** I assume that Hiroshima will continue to be a temporary vassal, or have I missed something.
	+ **Miyagi:** We spread our culture to them and improve relations
* **Events:**
	+ **Unmarried Queen:** as the Empress Hana II dies early, Hana II is yet not married. She never wanted to marry any of the royals and thus started a hunt to seek the right person, she and some ships travled to Sado to "talk about trade" when in reality they were going to scout the place for a takeover. But insted she meet their leader called Hanzo Akisane (~~who is kinda hot~~). She lusts for him and thus during the negotiations which is to take place in private, she tries to flirt a bit.
	+ **Secure Territories:** We agree to allow Shinji to governor the state of Kaga to increase stability, their armies are to be kept small to decrease the chance of revolt, we continue building different industries in the captured territories and start to rid of unemployment and increase economic growth.
	+ **Hiroshiman Royal Familiy:** we split them up a bit, the king is put into a prison far north in Fuyu. The wife is forced into heavy mine labour. Most everybody else is imprissoned and eventually hung in secret, except the youngest child. Which is to be adopted by the Hanan royal family and go through alot of brainwashing to see Hana as the best place on earth and to think that his old family betrayed the world and was horrible. He is then to be (if the brainwashing succed) married down with other royals to let the hirohiman genes flow withing Hana without touching our royal family until we need it.
	+ **Improved ships:** we improve our ships range.

### **Van Xuan:**

* **Government:** Absolute Monarchy.
* **King:** Hung-Dao Lý
* **Dynatsy:** Lý
* **Economy:** Agriculture, fishing, trading.
* **Trade partners:** Liang and some Mon tribes.
* **Capital:** Longbian.
* **Demographics:**
	+ **Population: 1 192.9k**
	+ **Longbian:** 89k
	+ **Duen vinh:** 56k
	+ **Haikou:** 48k
	+ **Tram Giang:** 28.3k
	+ **Rural areas:** 971.6k
	+ **Ethnicities: Vietnamese 83.1%, Minorities: Chinese 13.75%, Mon 1.5%, Khmer 1.47%.**
	+ **Religion:** buddhism 98.77%, other 1.23%.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **Southern Expansion:** we send 60% (7 157) of our army to expand to the south and south-west trying to get more coast and more inland land.
* **Military:** Total of: 3% (35 787)
	+ **Stading army:** Total of 1% (11 929)
		- **First army:**
			* Swordsmen with Shields: 5 788
			* Spearmen: 3 311
			* Bowmen: 2 811
			* Mangonel: 19
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 2% (23 858)
		- **Second army:**
			* Swordsmen with Shields: 11 576
			* Spearmen: 6 622
			* Bowmen: 5 622
			* Mangonel: 38
* **Navy: Transport ships 17, Galleys 19, fishing ships 142**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Liang:** That's understandable.
	+ **Champa:** We improve relations.
	+ **Nanzhou:** We improve relations.
	+ **Mon:** We ask tribes near and far if they want to trade with us, at the same time trying to raise their opinion of us.
* **Events:**
	+ **Infrastructure:** We start constructing roads between all the villages and in our country (will last for many turns)
	+ **New city:** We create a new city in the south that we will call Da Nang.
	+ **Western Assimilation:** Mon tribes on the Van Xuan border are offered to join Van Xuan, promising better living conditions, safety and equal rights as any Xuanian citizen.
	+ **Army reserves:** The Reserve army consription will be changed to 2%.
	+ **Navy:** We keep on making our navy larger.
	+ **Navy ship strenghtening:** we make the ships of a stronger wood so that it gets harder to sink.
	+ **Agriculture:** We start focusing a lot on agriculture like farms and Livestock farms, this will make the people less Hungry. And it will make them happier, healthier and will let the people worry less about their childrens future.
	+ **Bamboo bows:** We try to mix in some normal wood in order to make it's durability better.
	+ **Military Training of Tactics and armed training:** Both the Main army and the Reserveists will do this training.
		- **Tactics:** We continue coming up with tactics and different moves we can use in wartime, having the best in each army-group become the General of the Group they're part of.
		- **Armed Training (including Mangonel cause why not):** They will continue training in the **art of the sword, Shield, spear, Bow and Mangonel.**
			* **sword art** (those with swords will practice the best ways to attack, stab, **use the enemies momentum against them** and block the enemies)
			* **Shield art** **(**The Swords men will also train their shield blocking/parrying (<-Make them lose their balance or make the enemy attack hit the ground or smth)**)**
			* **Spear art** (Those with Spears will practice different ways in using the spears length to the best of it's capabilites)
			* **Bow art** (Those with bows will be training their accuracy and range, hitting smaller and smaller objects to perfect their aim)
			* **Mangonel art** (The soldiers that are manovering the Mangonel's are going to train their range and accuracy).

### **NPC Events:**

* **Western Roman Empire:** Remus Superbius is elected emperor and is most likely Western Rome's final emperor as the empire crumbles from the ongoing war. While peace with the Vandals is made in 502 AD, the Ostrogoths make massive gains and pushes the empire all the way to its final stronghold, Rome itself...
* **Rouran Khaganate:** Under Yujiulü Futu and later Yujiulü Chounu, the Khaganate takes over all of the Khergit lands and reaches the Aral Sea. Khergit influence builds a large amount as the Khagans are unaware of the amount of power they have compared to the different ethnic groups such as the Khergits, Khitans and Uighurs.
* **Reform in Japan:** With the slow stabilization of Japan, many things start to change. First of all those few Hiroshiman rebels are ~~yeeted to the sun~~ defeated. With the first contact between the island of Sado and mainland Japan in decades, Hana II makes diplomacy with the militaristic people of Sado island. Through such diplomacy a deal is struck with Warlord Hanzo Akisane. Hana II also ended up seducing Hanzo using her beauty, proposals of lands and political power and personality ~~(and also those sweet tiddies)~~. So the two ended up doing... what two consenting adults do (they had sexual intercourse) and a romance would spark from this that would lead to a marriage. A rather controversial marriage considering Hanzo was a foreigner and wasn't arranged by parents as was the norm, although an arrangement hadn't been possible due to Hana I dying before it could be done. The Tsamu-rei would also become more influential in Hana following Shinji Tabase's governance over Kaga as one province of Hana.
* **Did I say Seven Kingdoms? I meant Eight Kingdoms:** An outbreak of measles affects southeastern China for a few years, which kills the emperor of Wei and of course he doesn't have an heir. However he writes in a testament before his death that the lands be co-ruled between his two strongest generals Li Feng and Shun Lanzhi. These two end up disagreeing very much on how things should be ruled, with Li Feng wanting to focus on protecting the west, as he sees Shang and Van Xuan as the biggest threats, while Shun Lanzhi wants the realm to prepare for war with the northern Liang dynasty, whom he sees as the larger threat. Cue further disagreements that lead to civil war. Li Feng managed to secure most of the west for himself and eventually the two sides decided to split. Thus Wei is now very *smol* under Shun Lanzhi and an eighth "kingdom" (actually dynasty lel) is formed, the Xiao dynasty, lead by Li Feng.
* **Eastern Roman Empire:** So Emperor Anastasius dies, killing off the House of Leo. Justin I becomes the new emperor, starting the Justinian dynasty and he introduces a concept that basically boils down to "Western Rome is fucked so we need to prepare to reconquer the territory of Western Rome and basically re-unite the Roman Empire." Starting with the long-time enemy the Vandals, who Eastern Rome invades in 518, literally the same year that Justin I ascends to the throne in the Vandalic War. A notable thing that happens is that near the start of this war, Justin I manages to secure several Bulgar raiders as mercenaries for the Eastern Roman army. Some may be like "wait that's like what caused Rome to fall apart wtf are you doing retard", but he has them convert to Christianity and they are much more loyal to the Romans.
* **Francia:** Clovis I, the first Frankish king and an important one as he converted to Catholicism years ago, succeeds in switching the capital to the more prosperous city of Paris, conquering more lands, even going to war with the Visigoths and conquering lands as far as to parts of the Pyrenees mountains after the Battle of Vouillé in 507, but he ends up dying like everyone else does, in 512. This Merovingian dynasty follows with his four sons dividing the empire between each other. But Childebert I, the one who got lands centered around Paris, was all like "fuck that system" and uses his superior army to subdue his brothers to become simple vassals of him. He also makes a deal with Brittany, the Franks will defend them from possible invasion from across the channel and also not invade them, in return for Brittany becoming a vassal kingdom of Francia. They accept the deal.
* **Ostrogothic Kingdom:** The Ostrogoths have a field day (or rather, several field years) as they obliterate the Romans. Theodoric the Great, their king, also invades Burgundy to secure mountainous lands for the Ostrogoths and he also starts building up the settlement of Ravenna to become the new capital, to replace Tergeste.
* **Bulgars:** Bulgars invade and take over much of the Volga region, flourishing there after defeating many of the Slavs and Karasuk living there before.
* **Southeast Asia Shenanigans:** With the aggressive expansion of Van Xuan, the Mon break contact with the Vietnamese, while the Khmer resist the reckless colonization of their righteous land and start attacking Van Xuan as revenge. King Fahn Shiman of Funan sees this happening and sends a letter to Hung-Dao Lý of Van Xuan. It reads: ~~"Kindly cease attacking our bros or we will fuck your shit up bitch"~~ "It has come to our attention of your violent expansionist ideals. Cease this violence and we will do our best to stop the tribes from attacking you. If you refuse, consider us at WAR." Meanwhile Nanzhou gains some more Mon lands and also invades several Pyu City-States to gain power while Van Xuan is distracted. This does however send them into war with Beikthano.
* **Second War of the Malaccan Strait:** The massively century-long destructive rivalry between the kingdoms of the Malay Peninsula and those of northern and central Sumatra finally comes to an end as the Malaccan alliance defeats the others. Utara ends up divided between Malacca and Tumasik and so does the remainder of the Malay Peninsula, claimed by Malacca, Tumasik and a new kingdom known as Langkasuka. Aceh is claimed as a Malaccan vassal and Tumasik pressures Solok into becoming their vassal after finding out about the former personal alliance between Solok and Utara.
* **Sassanid Empire:** They're just kinda chilling, sure there's a few Bulgar raids to deal with and they do start to look twice at the Eastern Roman Empire, but otherwise things are quite fine. They very tiny-ly expand their colony on Ras Hafun and also do double-takes when it comes to the Gupta Empire. Right now they're just taking some decades off. Oh and they also vassalize Arabat.
* **Jolof:** A new African culture is developed, splintering from the Nabouo.
* **Inuits:** They do some more migration up north there in North America.
* **Yamato:** They inform Hana that that was the intention at first but that recent developments have made them think that Hiroshima is to be integrated in a way similar to how Ataki functions together with Hana as Yamato is planning on creating a province system just like them. This Hiroshima situation might change however depending on what the future of Japan is.
* **Luwu:** A kingdom is formed on the ~~funky-shaped~~ island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. ~~It's name is almost like UwU lol.~~
* **The Unifying Power of Scandinavian Cities:** The cold north is still too, well, cold, for people to prosper too much up there, but the still remaining cities from the past of Sveija, Blekinge and Angermannia has made people move there. While not independent kingdoms per se these lands inhabited by smaller tribes are generally ruled by a person called a jarl. I wonder what this might lead to in the future??? \*thinking emoji\*
* **Gupta Empire:** They conquer Uvkas, bringing further unification to the Indian subcontinent.
* **Virishan Change (also known as the return of Hisk-Hisk):** In Virisha, a growing fascination and appreciation for the ancient precursor to their state, Ymiri, becomes strong to the point of large amounts of change in the kingdom. The Neo-Indazi dynasty emphasises the kingdoms roots by bringing back old traditions (that they know of) and the title of king is changed to Hisk-Hisk, which the Virishans believe was Ymirian for something along the lines of "King King" or "a King's King" (similar to the Persian Shahanshah, "King of Kings"). This is wrong, but the Virishans don't know that lol.
* **Papar:** They expand further.
* **Backgammon:** An early form of the board game Backgammon is invented in Sassanid Persia.
* **Jin and Qi:** Some conflicts over envoys and trade lead to a war being started, this could escalate the situation in China.
* **Mahlukya:** The Mahlukya dynasty conquers its enemies Trivandrum and Nadu. It now looks to the north, can it become even more powerful?
* **Bangkat:** Convinced that they can succeed they try to establish a colony on Borneo (again) but it is an utter failure. The natives defeat them and those natives understand that if this happens even more they need to work together to fight off the Bangkat. Thus the small chiefdom of Menpeweh is established.
* **Oroborus:** Oroborus invades the declining state of Karnataka.
* **Three Major Clans of Ceylon:** Wardenapura and two other Ceylonic clans that I can't be bothered to name invade and split Kurtalam. In response to this, Pandyas conquers Mertuk. Three states are starting to slowly unify the island that has been split for centuries and they are big rivals: Ampara, Wardenapura and Pandyas.
* **Anno Domini:** The Anno Domini system (BC/AD), inspired by the birth of Jesus, is invented in 520 by Dyonisus Exiguus in the Eastern Roman Empire.

### **Hana:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana II Shengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, sake ( rice wine ).
	+ **Capital:** Ishi
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Hanan 68%, Yamato 17%, 15% Kagan
		- **Ishi:** 36.000
		- **Kihon:** ~ 33.000
		- **Hakodate:** 26.000
		- **Komatsu:** 21.000
		- **Kaigan:** 18.000
		- **Haiwa:** 17.000
		- **Fuyu:** 16.000
		- **Toyama:** 15.000
		- **Suzu:** 11.000
		- **Edo:** 11.000
		- **Gero:** 10.000
		- **Rural Areas:** ~ 726.000
		- **Total population:** 940.000
		- **Religion:** 17% Kazuku, 83% Shinto.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Deployed units:** total of 0.5% (4.700)
	+ 1.180 Archers. (1.180)
	+ 1.300 spearswordsmen (1.300)
	+ 500 cavalry (500)
	+ 50 Tawābasutā (150)
	+ 550 mountaineers (550)
	+ 1.200 Swordsmen (1.200)
	+ **Undeployed units:** total of 1.5% (0)
* **Navy:**
	+ 42 Galleys
	+ 21 Transport ships
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Miyagi & Shizamaki:** we spread our culture and improve relations.
	+ **Yamato:** we don't want to lit any tension, but we wish to ask that Hiroshima should not be your vassal forever. If that does not fit you maybe we could work up a deal.
* **Events:**
	+ **Explore the Seas:** we explore the seas to the south
	+ **Integration of Edo:** we start integrating them with our culture and improve their economic situation with building workplaces and having lighter rules for starting businesses to encourage companies to expand their businesses into the region.
	+ **Friend of the Tsamu Rei:** with the ~~totally not samurai~~ tsamu rei roaming our areas and being employed by farmers the state starts to support the tsamu rei, improving relations by introducing a sort of passport to them, giving them certain rights such as entrance in special Hana organized tsamu rei meetings where they and some high up nobles can discus jobs and protection of the people. They can also use the passport to collect jobs from guard posts. A festival is also placed in their honour each 5 years whey tsamu rei are celebrated.
	+ **Sado & Kaga:** with the marriage Sado now owns Ataki and Sado is a part of Hana, meaning that both are integrated into our country.
	+ **Savage army:** a lot of the deserters on Sado is recruited into the army, this is to slowly change them into more formal folk.
	+ **Mining:** our mining industry grows heavily due to companies investing in Kaga
	+ **Dye of the South:** the dye industry in Edo is growing.

### **Van Xuan:**

* **Government:** Absolute Monarchy.
* **King:** Hung-Dao Lý
* **Dynatsy:** Lý
* **Economy:** Agriculture, fishing, trading.
* **Trade partners:** Liang.
* **Capital:** Longbian.
* **Demographics:**
	+ **Population: 1 207.2k**
	+ **Longbian:** 89 .9k
	+ **Duen vinh:** 56.5k
	+ **Haikou:** 48.6k
	+ **Tram Giang:** 28.8k
	+ **Da Nang:** 14.4k
	+ **Rural areas:** 983k
	+ **Ethnicities: Vietnamese 83.1%, Minorities: Chinese 13.7%, Mon 1.6%, Khmer 1.42%.**
	+ **Religion:** buddhism 98.78%, other 1.22%.
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **Southern Conflict:** we send 65% (15 694) of our first army to counter attack the enemy force and push them back to the border and hold them there till Funan does their thing
* **Military:** Total of: 3% (35 787)
	+ **Stading army:** Total of 2% (24 144)
		- **First army:**
			* Swordsmen with Shields: 11 670
			* Spearmen: 6 716
			* Bowmen: 5 716
			* Mangonel: 42
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 1% (12 076)
		- **Second army:**
			* Swordsmen with Shields: 5 835
			* Spearmen: 3 358
			* Bowmen: 2 858
			* Mangonel: 21
* **Navy: Transport ships 19, Galleys 21, fishing ships 149**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Funan:** We Agree on the condition that we get to keep what we had before they started pushing into our lands. Just so you know, we will keep fighting them back until you get them off of us though.
* **Events:**
	+ **Infrastructure:** We start constructing roads between all the villages and in our country (will last for many turns)
	+ **Navy:** We keep on making our navy larger.
	+ **Agriculture:** We start focusing a lot on agriculture like farms and Livestock farms, this will make the people less Hungry. And it will make them happier, healthier and will let the people worry less about their childrens future.
	+ **Bamboo bows:** We try to mix in some **Stronger** wood in order to make it's durability better.
	+ **Military Training of Tactics and armed training:** Both the Main army and the Reserveists will do this training.
		- **Armed Training (including Mangonel cause why not):** They will continue training in the **art of the sword, Shield, spear, Bow and Mangonel.**
			* **sword art** (those with swords will practice the best ways to attack, stab, **use the enemies momentum against them** and block the enemies)
			* **Shield art** **(**The Swords men will also train their shield blocking/parrying (<-Make them lose their balance or make the enemy attack hit the ground or smth)**)**
			* **Spear art** (Those with Spears will practice different ways in using the spears length to the best of it's capabilites)
			* **Bow art** (Those with bows will be training their accuracy and range, hitting smaller and smaller objects to perfect their aim)
			* **Mangonel art** (The soldiers that are manovering the Mangonel's are going to train their range and accuracy).
		- **Tactics:** We continue coming up with tactics and different moves we can use in wartime, having the best in each army-group become the General of the Group they're part of.