Archive 24

Turn 116 - 120.

### **NPC Events:**

* **Bastard turned Conqueror - IV:** So, we have three very powerful men all who believe they will be the next King of England. There's William the Bastard the Duke of Normandy, Harold Godwinson the Earl of Wessex and Harald III Hardrada the King of Norway. William was promised by Edward the Confessor himself, Harold Godwinson has a possibility to become the next king since Edward doesn't have an heir and Harald Hardrada believes in some Viking law established decades ago. The first 5 years of the 1060s remain calm, but by the end of 1065 and the start of 1066 Edward the Confessor is on his deathbed. He dies on January 5 and Harold Godwinson swoops down and has himself crowned on the day of Edward's funeral. The news of Edward's death didn't take very long to reach the ears of William who was not happy when he found out that the Earl had nabbed the crown and throne for himself. So he sent and envoy who basically said "filthy thief, give me my throne back". Which obviously Harold didn't. So William immediately prepared to invade England, yeet Harold and get the throne, but killing him would be risky considering diplomacy with the rest of Europe so he went to Pope Alexander II who basically said "sure you can invade England and kill Harold Godwinson". PROBLEM. The wind was blowing the wrong way and sailing anyway could lead to disaster. So William was forced to wait. In the meanwhile, Harald Hardrada also now knows that Edward is dead and that he himself is not the king, which he wants to be. So he started assembling an army and ships. So did Harold Godwinson, knowing that William would invade to try and take the throne. But since no one arrived, Godwinson disbanded his army. But just that September Harald Hardrada landed in the north and took York at the Battle of Fulford. Now Godwinson was forced to reassemble his army and march all the way from the southern coast of England to the north. Nevertheless he made an exhausting journey in 4 days and caught the Norwegians off-guard at the Stamford Bridge, with either army on either side of the Derwent river. Since they were caught off-guard many of the Vikings did not have armor and had to move quickly. Harold's forces went across the only bridge, but were stopped by a single Berserker Viking who fended off and killed attackers at the same time as dodging arrows until some enemies eventually went in a barrel from underneath and killed him. The Berserker gave the others time to form a shield wall but it was weak due to the lack of armor on many of the soldiers. Harold's army cleaved through and Harald Hardrada took an arrow to the throat and died. The Norwegians were defeated and the Viking Age came to an end, having lasted approximately 400 years (666-1066). But Harold Godwinson couldn't celebrate for long, for now the wind was in the right direction for William who invaded. Harold was forced to march all the way back to the coast, exhausting his army further. William and his army set up camp by Hastings and Harold tried to make William come to him in London rather than continue marching due to his army's exhaustion. William did not however and pissed Harold off further by burning down villages. Thus on October 14th 1066, the two armies met for the Battle of Hastings. The English had a good defensive position on a hill and thus stood there with a shield wall. The Normans fired volleys of arrows and then sent infantry up the hill but couldn't break the English defense. Next came William's cavalry but they couldn't break through the shield wall either. Waves upon waves of infantry and cavalry were sent but it went nowhere. Godwinson knew if the Normans exhausted themselves he could win. But then something strange happened. Either the Norman soldiers believed William had been killed, or they got tired of trying to break the shield wall or it was intentional tactic but the Normans turned around and headed down the hill and so Harold sent his forces to attack. But then the Normans suddenly turned again and encircled the English. The English were destroyed and Harold Godwinson took an arrow in the eye, killing him. The Triple Threat Match was won by William. He managed to convince the English nobles to crown him as king by burning down villages and such and went on to quell rebellions to hold onto the throne. He was no longer just William the Bastard, he was now William the Conqueror. Now England and Normandy were united as one (practically) which pissed off the king of France but that's a story for another day (wouldn't it be funny if this leads to like a huge rivalry lasting for centuries?). William replaced Anglo-Saxon nobles with Normans and this conquest would have a future huge impact upon England, he even moved the capital from Winchester to London.
* **Saljuqs - the Levant, Armenia, Manzikert:** If the world believed that the death of Tughril I would spell danger for the Saljuqs it couldn't be further from the truth. Chaghri I is one strong bastard and now that he has initiated the Turkic migration and settling throughout Persia and Mesopotamia as well as being Turco-Persian himself he hold a lot of power. Which he will unleash upon his enemies. First he looked upon the declining Sarranid Sultanate and decided that he needed to be on their good side to an extent. He approached with various proposals in which the Saljuqs would gain power in the Levant but the Sarranids didn't trust them because they want to hold the Levant, the Saljuqs killed their friend the Akhtaribs and also the Saljuqs are Shi'a. So the Sultanate said no and Chaghri I responded by invading and raiding in 1064. The unprepared Sarranids tried their hardest but Kasbar fell, followed by Aleppo and then Antioch, Damascus and finally Jerusalem. The Sarranid Sultan Ayyam was forced to surrender the Levant and Hejaz to the Saljuqs as well as being forced to "be on their side". Now that they hold Makkah and Madinah they can utilise religion for their own will but there's still Sunni rebellions to take care of. Chaghri had always looked upon the fine lands of the Byzantine Empire for a long while with great interest and ambition and in August of 1068 he would enter those lands with an invasion. This surprised the Byzantines somewhat and they geared up and fought back quite well, but the strength of the Saljuqs was strong leading to the big Battle of Manzikert in 1069, a close call but a loss to the Byzantines allowing Chaghri to take Kars rather fast and move further west. The Caucasus was not spared as in late 1068 the Saljuqs also invaded Armenia and the Sajid Emirate. Even with Vagharshapat taken the Armenians have not surrendered just yet. But now, a deadly foe is ready to sweep across Anatolia and even captured the holy land itself. Sure it has been under the Arabs since the 7th century but now a new uninvited people has taken it for themselves pissing off the christians of the world even more. Romanos II has a lot on his hands. Also yes the Hamdanids were annexed.
* **Japan - the Anime, Episode 16 - Bullying the Ainu even more:** Do I need to say much? You're not beating China in porcelain. Just no. But otherwise the Gacatayar have had very minimal contact with Japan and are a bit suspicious but accept some of the trade, only some though and not a continuous flow since it's too awkward to do. The Ainu are sick and tired of Japan and thus bam war. Ezo sees a few revolts but they're put down and Sakkarin falls after a few years. Though these lands are cold and remote and the Japanese are unable to strike much control over it due to difficulty in planting different foods such as rice which is very important to the Japanese and thus those northern lands fall to Ainu tribes. And Tungning is like "there is trade already so shut up".
* **Other Byzantine and Khazar Byzness:** The Khazars are successful in their invasion, but mostly because the Oghuz are already attacked by the Kazakhs for like a decade. The Oghuz Yabgu are squeezed slowly and slowly but Yaikyrau still stands well. The Kazakhs know a bit of the Khazar invasion and are not too pleased about it. Obviously the Sajids come and ask their ~~boyfriend~~ ally for help against the Saljuqs, putting the Khazars in an interesting situation. As for Byzantium, they manage to repair relations to an extent and once the Saljuqs invade and take out their most major settlement in eastern Anatolia, leaving a lot vulnerable, a lot of Europe does sympathize with them against the muslims. Genoa says they will do their best in Sardinia to keep merchants in check. Influence is still pretty big there but Sardinia is still definitely you know, Byzantine.
* **Chela Empire:** Well the Chelas use their influence and interactions with Srivijaya not only to establish a big old sphere of influence in Sumatra but also to start asserting dominance upon their neighbours. Sinhal is vassalized by an Indian state once more and Telugur is defeated and vassalized as well. The Chelas continue looking along the Bay of Bengal, especially little peaceful Odisha and the Chelas also discover the Sentinelese people on the Andaman Islands. Some contact is made but ended in hostilities so they leave the Sentinelese alone for now and decide to instead focus on other matters.
* **Bashirids and the Qurtuban Collapse:** Decline followed by defeat in war and a famineand now the death of the Caliph lead to the entire state falling apart into smaller Taifas. They immediately find themselves at war with the christians but due to still having access to armies they are practically successful. The Bashirid Emirate has been focusing on gaining more lands in the trans-saharan trade routes but now see that "shit, Al-Andalus is falling apart." So they decide to support the weakened Zubayrids of Qurtuba itself and from there invade and establish a foothold. With their new vassal they invade the other states, hoping to save Eslamic Iberia. They also now control the entrance to the Mediterranean, meaning they decide what ships within the sea can leave for the Atlantic. The Taifa of Valentia is also still at war with Barcelona.
* **West Africa:** The realms there continue selling various products ~~and slaves~~ to the arabs in the north and they are doing pretty damn well, but Moroccan influence is big especially on Wagadou and they look to extort more moneys from those non-eslamic peoples. Although regarding just that, Eslam becomes pretty popular and the first ever mosque in this region is built in Jenné who, along with Gao are some of the most acceptant of the new faiths brought forth.
* **Zheng:** Zheng China is generally still chilling. Cai Xiang produces the work Cha Lu in 1060, which is basically him flexing about how good China is at making tea. Two other important books are produced, the New Book of Xiao in 1060, a history book about the Xiao dynasty written by Ouyang Xiu and other scholars and the other book, in 1065 is the Zhizhi Tongjian, which is also a history book but it covers all of China's history to that point. Pretty neat even if Hua Mulan passes in 1063 from natural causes, remembered as a hero for all of the Chinese people, especially the women.
* **Fall of the Second Zoroastrian League:** The weakening Barigaza drags the alliance down further and also everyone practically hates eachother. After a brief civil war, Barigaza splits into three: Gujarat, the Paramara Kingdom and Odaipur. These still squabble over the former united realm's moneys gathered from trade with the arabs in Oman and such but otherwise the region remains generally peaceful.
* **Scandinavian Kingdoms:** Other than Norway, nothing really big happens up in the north. The House of Hardrada lives on with king Magnus II and in Sweden Emund the Old does die and the House of Munsö is dead but a man known as Stenkil becomes the new king establishing the House of Stenkil. Danesmark is just kinda there and Hrímland is practically unknown to all of Europe by now due to the end of the Viking Age and almost no contact between the two.
* **Deyak:** This happened like 2 turns ago but yeah the Pulau develop into the Deyak culture.
* **Madagascar:** Yeah some minor stuff goes down here but it's late and it's not interesting anyway so yeah.

### **Japanese Empire:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana-ne Yamashengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, art, porcelain.
	+ **Capital: Tōga**
		- **Demographics:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 96.5%, 0.5% Machurian, 0,5% Okinawan, 2.5% Chinese
				+ **Tōga:** 291.000
				+ **Edo:** 254.000
				+ **Yamato:** 203.000
				+ **Fukuoka:** 188.000
				+ **Hiroshima:** 163.000
				+ **Komatsu:** 147.000
				+ **Nagasaki:** 138.000
				+ **Toyama:** 135.000
				+ **Other Cities:** 1.722.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 9.974.000
			* **Total population:** 13.205.000
			* **Religion:** 100% Shinto-Buddhism.
		- **Demographics of Subjects:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 20%, Ainu 80%
				+ **Otomari:** 9.000
				+ **Sunõdorangon:** 9.000
				+ **Fuyu:** 20.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 189.000
			* **Total population:** 225.000
			* **Religion:** 65% Shinto-Buddhism, 35% Ainu paganism.
		- **Wars and Conflicts:**
		- **Military:**
			* **Deployed units:** total of 1% (Japan + puppets/vassals) 134.300
				+ 42.000 Archers. (42.000)
				+ 25.000 Spear men (25.000)
				+ 25.000 Swordsmen (25.000)
				+ 25.500 Cavalry (25.500)
				+ 2.600 Tawābasutā (7.800)
				+ 4.000 Heavy Infantry (4.000)
				+ 5.000 Winter infantry (5.000)
		- **Navy:**
			* 190 Galleys
			* 150 Transport ships
			* 90 Light warship
			* 50 Medium warships
			* 20 Heavy warships
			* 1 Ni~Tsu-ryū (58% done)
		- **Diplomacy:**
		- **Lusong:** We improve relations and do more research about their culture.
		- **Gacatayar:** We slow down trade since we noticed the relations Tejano Malawang had with Gacatayar where bad and we like Lusong more than Gacatayar.
		- **Ezo:** Good job with the war, your soldiers performed well in the climate. Now we will give you a goal which you should continually strive towards, try making the people in our new territory like us more. Then start trading with the Ainu to slowly make them a part of Ezo.
		- **Liao:** I know you and I do not stand on the same side, but both of us would benefit through knowing the secret of their alien weaponry. We should work together to not have them be the only ones with that sort of power and if you already have it then we would be happy to negotiate for it
		- **Events:**
			* **Military:** We start using Lusong as a training ground for soldiers to improve their endurance as we believe that the hot climate will dry them up quicker and thus force them to go beyond what the climate in Japan allowed them to.
			* **Ainu Samurai:** Becomes a thing from soldiers that used to be winter infantry.
			* **Gunpowder:** We continue on our research as well as start considering other opptions for gaining the powder.
			* **Ezoan Mountains:** We now own parts of the mountains in Sakhalin as the territory we annexed uses them as a natural border. We know that mountains can contain iron and coal and thus we start searching for it.
			* **Explore south:** We search for islands south of Edo as we haven't explored that too much.
			* **The Third Great Ship:** We start construction on the largest ship yet, the Ni~Tsu-ryū (sun dragon) a ~~fucking~~ huge vessel that is supposed to resemble a dragon, a ship that will spew fire of dominance with the legacy of Japan. it is estimated to be completed in approximately 17 years.

### **Lusong:**

* **Government:** Tribal Monarchy
	+ **King** Tejano Malawang, Hisk-Hisk Malawang
	+ **Economy:** Based on fishing, agriculture and trading products such as sugar.
	+ **Capital:** Ganguyin
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 47.674**
		- **Ganguyin:** 4.379
		- **Rural Areas:** 43.295
		- **Ethnicities:** 98% Visayan, 2% Japanese
		- **Religion:** 97% Anitism, 3% Shinto-buddhsim
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:** Total of 476, 1%
	+ **Standing Army:**
		- Spearmen: 211
		- Bowmen: 165
		- Slingers: 40
		- Torchmen: 60
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 1904, 4%
		- Spearmen: 844
		- Bowmen: 660
		- Slingers: 160
		- Torchmen: 240
* **Navy:**
	+ 8 transport ships
	+ Nankai Fune
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Ifugao & Tundo:** Eyy broski, wanna improve with me technologically? + Gacatayar = cringe
	+ **Japan:** We improve trade + we want tactical frink fronk for alliance. (I told her lol)
* **Events:**
	+ **Death of Tejano :( :** He ate a bat lol
	+ **Hisk-Hisk Elected Leader:** He was elected from the royal tree
	+ **Gacatayar = Cringe:** We tell the people that they suck. XDDXD

### **Byzantine Empire:**

* **Government: Absolute Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Romanos II
	+ **Dynasty:** Domninian Dynasty
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving. Our most valuable and prized goods are silk and purple
	+ **Capital:** Constantinople
	+ **Demographics:**
		- Population, religion and ethnicity is a bitch so im not even going to attempt
		- **Constantinople:** 835,000
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Standing army:** Total of 2% (~215,000)
	+ 82,000 Cavalry
		- 25,000 Cataphracts
			* 8,000 Cataphract archers
	+ 133,000 Infantry
		- 85,000 Akritai
	+ **Troop placement:**
	+ Infantry supported cataphracts are to hit hard around the Kars and Tarsos area, while other large forces are to counterattack along the general border.
	+ We must utilize our strengths, with the might of our navy they will preemptively deny the Saljuqs naval dominance by heavily raiding ports and docks to destroy and capture any ships they attempt to build.
* **Navy:**
	+ 53 Galleys
	+ 165 Transport ships
	+ 189 Dromons
	+ 89 Triremes
	+ 6 Venetian ships
	+ Aftokráteira tis Mesogeíou
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Georgia&Kartli:** You may not be a part of this war, but i highly suggest you gear up and fortify your southern border as these are the new Persians, and will show just as much mercy as the last...also they be attacking Armenia and the sajids so i think they dont care
	+ **Khazar Khaganate:** Although you are in your own war, we plead that after it is over that you honor that old treaty of ours and aid us in the fight against the Muslim Empire
* **Events:**
	+ **Levies:** Levies are raised to help fight the Persian menace
	+ **Fortify:** The cities and garrisons of Ipsus, Trebizond, Sinop, Antalya and Leukotheon are reinforced extensively
	+ **Strategic relocation+guerrilla tactics:** seeing their fast advance and the doubt of peace on the table we quickly try to relocate and move stuff like tools, people, food and expensive possessions west of Anatolia, while smaller forces not around the coastline or with larger armies are to commit hit-and-run tactics, hide in difficult terrain aswell as while wind is blowing in the right direction to burn dry yet plentiful things like leaves to blind advancing soldiers

### **Khazar Khaganate:**

* **Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)**
	+ **Khagan:** Benel
	+ **Dynasty:** Bulanid
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade with the Byzantium Empire, the Saljuq Empire, the Sajid Emirate and some other smaller nations. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently doin great.
	+ **Capital: Akashar**
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 74,7%** **Khazar, 12,6% Slavic, 9,4% Aabkhaz, 1.9% greek 1,4% Georgian.**
		- **Total population: ~2,231k**
		- **Cities: 533k 8**
			* **Akashar: 146.6k**
			* **Galgan: 113.91k**
			* **Karcha: 100.92k**
			* **Korstyam: 92.91k**
			* **Chersonesus: 29.92k**
			* **Kabalaska:** **21.91k**
			* **Thyaps: 14.92k**
			* **Mykolev: 12.91k**
		- **Rural Areas:** **~1,677k**
		- **Religion:** **83.5% Judaism, 12.8% Christianity, 3.7% Tengri.**
	+ **Demographics of Aabkhaziya:**
		- **Total population: 54k**
		- **Cities:**
			* **Aqwa: 13k**
		- **Rural Areas: 41k**
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **Border control (Volgas):** We have 50% (11 055) of our Border patrol on the Volgan border in case they try something during our invasion. **(Yellow)**
	+ **Invasion of Oghuz Yabgu:** We continue pushing into Oghuz Yabgu. 85% (37 925) of our standing army will push into their territory and grab as much land as possible before their forces arrive.
		- **Northern Front:** 50% (18 963) of the soldiers sent will push to the east capturing as much land as they can.
		- **Southern Front:** 50% (18 964) of the soldiers sent will push to the east towards their capital Yaikyrau and beyond trying to capture as much land as they can.
	+ **Help in the south:** 80% (17 848) of our Second army will go under cover as a byzantine army to help our allies in the south.
* **Military:**
	+ **First army: Total of 2% 44 620**
		- 28 047 Cavalry
			* 12 923 with Spears
			* 15 124 with Swords
		- 13 731 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 2 842 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Second army:** **Total of 1% 22 310**
		- 13 992 Cavalry
			* 6 445 with Spears
			* 7 547 with Swords
		- 6 715 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 1 603 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Border Control: 1% 22 310**
		- 18 292 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 1 653 Infantry with Spears and Shields
		- 2 365 Cavalry with Spears.
* **Navy**
	+ **For traversing the Caspian sea:​**
		- **24 Transport ships (trade/negotiations wit the Saljuqs)**
		- **49 fishing ships** **(for fishing...)**
	+ **For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​**
		- **3 B-Galleys (For Larger Cargo and for more people to fit while traveling)**
		- **20 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire)**
		- **18 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)**
		- **59 fishing ships (for fishing...)**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Byzantine Empire:** We will support you as much as we can. (as much as we can without it affecting our own war) **(SECRET)** We will help after our war is finished.
* **Production:**
* **Events:**
	+ **Border crossing illegal:** Normal patrols will continue to keep any travelers/merchants, people in general. Those insisting being sent to prison for 20 years, if they continue they'll be seen as Rus spies.

### **NPC Events:**

* **Bastard turned Conqueror - V:** He may have conquered England, but William still has more warfare to deal with. First, some earls in northern England tried revolting in late 1070 but were defeated in 1072. Then France invaded to wrestle back Normandy under their control, but William was strong enough to defend and together with a revolting Brittany the French were defeated in 1073. AND THEN ANOTHER THING. Edward the Confessor's nephew Edgar Ætheling, who was elected king after his father's death but never crowned, tried to depose William from the English throne and yes you guessed correctly he failed and was put in jail. The rest of 1070-1080 is spent dealing with revolts here and there and otherwise just kinda chilling literally because from 1076 to 1077 there was a frost in England which made growing crops difficult and all that, also whilst being King of England, William resides in Normandy, his home..
* **Saljuqs - Anatolia:** Further the Saljuq menace pushes, yeeting the Byzantines left to right haha empire my ass. Okay sorry that was mean. Byzantium does manage to slow down the invasion somewhat and the important Black Sea ports of Trebizond and Sinope simply do not fall no matter how hard the Saljuqs siege them. Still, they are isolated from the rest of the Byzantine lands. The Saljuq invasion pushes to almost the west coast of Anatolia. Meanwhile in the other front, the Caucasus region, the Sajids and Armenians fall and the "Byzantine" Khazar force is defeated, with several of their soldiers captured. Suspicious and also because the Khazars have very good relations with Byzantium, Chaghri I has all Khazar diplomats expelled from their lands, effectively severing all diplomatic ties. Later in 1078 Chaghri attempts to invade Cyipri and later Rhodos but both fail and he just gave up on those territories. Now both Kartli and Georgia do listen to Byzantine advice and are indeed invaded in 1078. Kartli had not prepared enough and fell rather quickly but Georgia holds on for dear life as the years pass by.
* **Moroccan Empire:** The ultrabadass Emir of Bashirid Morocco, Yusuf ibn Tashfin Bashir successfully leads expeditions through Iberia, managing to preserve Al-Andalus for the muslims and also spreading the Dihyafi denomination through there, as well as forcing Mayurka to become their vassal. In the south the Moroccans grab a ton of land, practically establishing a monopoly on the western Trans-Saharan trade. This pisses off some of the West African states as the Moroccans sit there forcing trade agreements, influence and Eslam upon them. When they then refuse and boycott Moroccos products and all that, the Bashirids decide to convince them to learn of their peaceful ways, *by force*. An invasion is lead in late 1075 and by 1076 Koumbi Saleh is besieged and taken, forcing Wagadou to surrender. A few months later Gambia is forced to surrender as well to not get absolutely destroyed. Two vassal states are formed from the invaded parties and in 1077 Yusuf declares himself sultan, thus beginning the Bashirid Sultanate also known as the Moroccan Empire who definitely doesn't continue to fund pirates throughout the mediterranean or anything. Those pirates target places such as Qartajira, Carails, Narbonne, Marseille, Jarija, Ajaccia and Palermo.
* **Japan - the Anime, Episode 17 - Tawalisan Shenaningans:** Fak you. I don't know why I just said that for some reason. Well I didn't say it I typed it whatever not relevant to this event. Let's begin with diplomacy because why not. The relations between Japan and Lusong (or as the Japanese would say: Ruzon-gu) continue and there is no tactical little bang session but the two sign an agreement over continued co-operation and such. Japanese business in Tawalisi has modernized the islands somewhat, with technology and knowledge spreading to the different states and tribes, although the northernmost lands are the most prosperous due to being closest to Japan. Liao refuses to work together with the Japanese and may or may not have secretly relayed the info of the proposal to the Zheng. Ezo remains reluctantly loyal while the Japanese-influenced lands up there are consistently battling with resistance and raids from the angry Ainu who are sick of being discriminated and bullied around by the big meaniehead Nihon. Due to this the Ainu Samurai order basically fails to work, as several of them desert or otherwise lead mutinies against the Japanese army. Gunpowder experiments don't go very far but some new islands and islets are discovered (not the ones on the map tho haha), mostly being uninhabited. And also in 1079 Goryeo sends a proposal to purchase Japan's territories in the Korean peninsula.
* **Fall of the Oghuz Yabgu - Yaikyrau Dispute:** The Oghuz Yabgu Turks are impressive to have survived for this long but the two steppe empires crashing down on them is too much and in 1073 they surrender after the Khazars capture Yaikyrau. On the borders of the Khazar and Kazakh areas of occupation there are minor skirmishes and border conflicts between the two sides but the big thing here is that the Kazakh Khanate claim Yaikyrau as theirs and demands the Khazars hand it over to them before a proper border can be drawn and established. Awkward.
* **Zheng:** Zheng China is still seeing that long era of science and prosperity and all that. In 1072 two pretty major things happen. First, Shen Kuo and Wei Pu are appointed as head officials of the Bureau of Astronomy and begin work on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, the planets and the moon three times a day for a continuum of five years, DAMN that's dedication. And yes, this accurate astronomy in the 11th century. That's China for you. Second of all Shen Kuo again is sent to supervise another dude named Wang Anshi who is building deposits of silt in the Bian Canal near Luoyang. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredges the canal and demonstrates the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer. NEAT. Wang Anshi then later in 1073 creates a new bureau within the government. It is known as the Directorate of Weapons and supervises the manufacturing of military armaments and other weaponry and such holy shit this guy is badass. In 1075 Shen also solves a border dispute with the Jin dynasty diplomatically, cool shit. Zheng then later in late 1079 receives this mysterious information about Japanese ambition to get a hold of gunpowder from them, which at first is very much doubted on by the Chinese since they got it from a random source and they are on generally good terms with Japan. Still Shen Kuo and Wang Anshi both see it as necessary to respond to this somehow and prepare a response for the next year, 1080.
* **Chela Empire:** Sumatra becomes practically completely influenced and almost a vassal of the Chela Empire, who leads an invasion of Odisha and vassalizes them as well. Vijayalaya then proceeds to force Malatti into vassalization and starts planning an invasion of the Andaman Islands. However, Rashtrakutas sick of these South Indian empires and decides to declare war on the Chelas in 1075 and thus a war has begun between the two.
* **Liao:** Aside from what happened in Japan's event over there Liao goes through some other stuff. Some political shenaningans involving the death of the emperor at one point leads to the chancellor position gaining more power than the position used to have.
* **Scandinavian Kingdoms and also Vinland:** In Scandinavia nothing much happens, Stenkil of Sweden dies in 1072 and thus is succeeded by Eric II. Vinlanders continue their expansion in the Americas, forming alliances with smaller tribes to strike against others and interacting in that way. They connect their lands on the sides of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, known as the Gulf of Kjelkja for the Vinlanders and Blárlanders, and they continue expanding down the river of the same name.
* **Gacatayar:** Noticing the decline in relations with Lusong and consequently Japan, they turn to Ifugao and Tundo for friendship and co-operation. Ifugao is pretty fine with it but is still sticking more to Lusong, Tundo however is all for it.
* **Benin and Nri:** They both create capitals. Nri has Ukwu and Benin has Edo, but we'll refer to it as Edo-bini so it's not confused with Edo in Japan.
* **Brunei:** They make an alliance with Banjar to protect against further conflicts with their archnemesis the fuckin' Srivijayans.
* **Native Americans:** Envoys are sent between the Caddo and the Anhaica to try and formulate better relations considering they've been rivals for a while and had that whole skirmish some years back.
* **Tuareg:** Just fixing up where they live so it actually makes sense.

### **Japanese Empire:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana-ne Yamashengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, art, porcelain.
	+ **Capital: Tōga**
		- **Demographics:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 98%, 2% Chinese, Ainu, Manchu & Okinawan.
				+ **Tōga:** 295.000
				+ **Edo:** 270.000
				+ **Yamato:** 203.000
				+ **Fukuoka:** 189.000
				+ **Hiroshima:** 169.000
				+ **Komatsu:** 149.000
				+ **Nagasaki:** 144.000
				+ **Toyama:** 136.000
				+ **Other Cities:** 1.762.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 10.248.000
			* **Total population:** 13.565.000
			* **Religion:** 100% Shinto-Buddhism.
		- **Demographics of Subjects:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 20%, Ainu 80%
				+ **Otomari:** 9.000
				+ **Sunõdorangon:** 9.000
				+ **Fuyu:** 20.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 199.000
			* **Total population:** 235.000
			* **Religion:** 70% Shinto-Buddhism, 30% Ainu paganism.
		- **Wars and Conflicts:**
		- **Garrison and Control:** We garrison Ezo with 7.000 Winter infantry, 10.000 archers, 3.000 swordsmen and 5.000 spearmen. mostly guarding our new territory but also Ezo (all these troops are from mainland Japan) A law is put in place and told to the Ainu that we will capture any tribe that stand against us and we have the right to kill anyone that rebel against us. If a tribes rises against us we will send additional troops for every tribe, attacking the tribe with high speed and numbers, if too many tribes rise up it will be seen as warfare and we will start the conquest again with as many troops that can be supported in the territory (40% archers, 30% swordmen, 30% spearmen is the normal troop percentage. But all winter infantry will be there)
		- **Gacatayar:** If they decline Lusongs demands then we will join the war, we have troops ready in Lusong and nearby islands as the demand is sent. We send 8.000 troops total (2.000 archers, 1.000 spearmen, 2.000 swordmen, 1.000 heavy infantry and 2.000 cavalry) 3.000 on the Lusong border with Gacatayar, 1.000 on the border with Tundo, the rest will be focusing on naval stuff. We will also send supplies through Lusong to aid our soldiers.
		- **Naval:** Time to flex on the scrubs, we send 65 galleys to Invade Gacatayar navally, we will land in the north and south of the capital, spread to grab a holding of the land, and spread them thin with a large amount of smaller naval invasions to capture villages.
		- **Military:**
			* **Deployed units:** total of 1% (Japan + puppets/vassals) 138.000
				+ 42.000 Archers. (42.000)
				+ 25.000 Spear men (25.000)
				+ 25.000 Swordsmen (25.000)
				+ 26.000 Cavalry (25.500)
				+ 3.000 Tawābasutā (9.000)
				+ 4.000 Heavy Infantry (4.000)
				+ 7.000 Winter infantry (7.000)
		- **Navy:**
			* 190 Galleys
			* 150 Transport ships
			* 90 Light warship
			* 50 Medium warships
			* 20 Heavy warships
			* 1 Ni~Tsu-ryū (fireless :( )
		- **Diplomacy:**
		- **Ainu Tribes:** Remember why this started, you where bullying us in the beginning, but then we became powerful and pushed you out as we saw you as a threat. We want to mend things but no Ainu leader has cooperated, and when they did they backstabbed us. Now we are the influence here, we will listen to the people, we want to mend things. We want to collaborate with Ainu tribes to stop our people from hating each other. If any tribe stand against us we will have to annex you with force, so please don't do that.
		- **Lusong:** Your relations with Gacatayar are fierce and we are interested in a place to trade more with you, we see Tudar as a great spot and thus would like to propose that we get to vassalize a small portion of Gacatayar including the city of Tudar which will be renamed to Yasō (wildflower) with the vassals name being Tudar. We would like you to garrison it however in exchange for some of its taxes. In return for this we will send the mighty Japanese Army to defeat them with you when you two inevitably enters warfare.
		- **Goryeo:** The lands have a grand Japanese majority and thus are our cores, thus it would be mean to force them to resettle or change nationality. We can however find some deal with you to make our borders more open and have industry within each others borders.
		- **Lusong Reply:** K lol, we will send 8.000.
		- **Events:**
			* **Ezo:** We send ALL Ezoan troops to do stuff in Korea.
			* **Ni~Tsu-ryū:** The boat is completed, but it's weapons are still worked on as they are using a mixture of oil to spew fire, progress is being made but we still need to improve the range and control of the fire.
			* **ISLANDS:** We found islands and thus we claim islands.
			* **Taxation:** We reorganize the system a bit to effectivize taxation.
			* **No Samurai for the Ainu:** So let's not have Ainu Samurai and let's hire Japanese Samurai to hunt the deserters down.
			* **Hire a Samurai:** The Emperor has merchants spread the word to the rest of Asia that you can hire Japanese Samurai for wars and such in exchange for coin.
			* **My Rice is Better Than Yours:** We effectivize rice fields through organizing water pathways and patches of land in a way to plant more and make it grow more. This makes rice even cheaper and we use that to sell it to China to combat Vietnam in rice sales with a lot of rice selling through Tungning to reach southern China.

### **Byzantine Empire:**

* **Government: Absolute Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Constantine VIII
	+ **Dynasty:** Domninian Dynasty
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving. Our most valuable and prized goods are silk and purple
	+ **Capital:** Constantinople
	+ **Demographics:**
		- Population, religion and ethnicity is a bitch so im not even going to attempt
		- **Constantinople:** 850,000
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Standing army:** Total of 2% (~200,000)
	+ 70,000 Cavalry
		- 25,000 Cataphracts
			* 8,000 Cataphract archers
	+ 130,000 Infantry
		- 85,000 Akritai
	+ **Troop placement:**
	+ Garrisons in Trebizond and Sinope are regularly refreshed and supplied, while extra fortifications and garrisons are set up near east of Constantinople, Nicea and Troy.
* **Navy:**
	+ 53 Galleys
	+ 165 Transport ships
	+ 189 Dromons
	+ 89 Triremes
	+ 6 Venetian ships
	+ Aftokráteira tis Mesogeíou
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Georgia:** we attempt to send spare equipment to help in your struggle
* **Events:**
	+ **Move move move:** More valuables are hurried back to Greece while its garrisons are on high alert, and the previous scorched-earth-like tactics are continued to be used.
	+ **A Dragovit appears:** Romanos II dies in 1081 where he is then succeeded by Constantine VIII "The Dragovit", Who starts trying to find a way to beat back the Saljuqs, and is creating a long and thorough counterattack plan, going as far as taking the Levant and Nineveh. Quite ambitious but his highest hopes are that at least a quarter of it will come to fruition, but only time will tell. He also continues to fix relations with the catholic world and as he is half Dragovit, plans on uniting the nearby Duchy among a multitude of other reasons...

### **Lusong:**

* **Government:** Tribal Monarchy
	+ **King** Hisk-Hisk Malawang
	+ **Economy:** Based on fishing, agriculture and trading products such as sugar.
	+ **Capital:** Ganguyin
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 50.674**
		- **Ganguyin:** 4.879
		- **Rural Areas:** 45.795
		- **Ethnicities:** 96% Visayan, 4% Japanese
		- **Religion:** 94% Anitism, 6% Shinto-buddhsim
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **War With Gacatayar:** Spearmen in the front, bowmen behind them, torchmen spread out and slingers with the spearmen. We will just kinda push when we can and defend when we can't. 80% of the army (and reserves) is used
* **Tundo Border:** We garrison the border with 20% of our army (and reserves)
* **Military:** Total of 506, 1%
	+ **Standing Army:**
		- Spearmen: 241
		- Bowmen: 165
		- Slingers: 40
		- Torchmen: 60
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 2024, 4% (in use)
		- Spearmen: 964
		- Bowmen: 660
		- Slingers: 160
		- Torchmen: 240
* **Navy:**
	+ 10 transport ships
	+ Nankai Fune
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Ifugao:** War is imminent and we want you to at least remain neutral and trade with us.
	+ **Japan:** Let's do the big yeet on Gacatayar
	+ **Gacatayar:** Cede or cease. Accept and live peacefully or decline and die.
* **Events:**
	+ **Day off:** A day is chosen where all workers are free to not work. This is inspired by the Japanese national celebration day as Japanese ethnicities told Hisk-Hisk about it and he thought it was kinda epic.
	+ **Reserves Ready:** We ready the reserves

### **Khazar Khaganate:**

* **Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)**
	+ **Khagan:** Benel
	+ **Dynasty:** Bulanid
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade with the Byzantium Empire, the Saljuq Empire, the Sajid Emirate and some other smaller nations. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently doin great.
	+ **Capital: Akashar**
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 74,7%** **Khazar, 12,6% Slavic, 9,4% Aabkhaz, 1.9% greek 1,4% Georgian.**
		- **Total population: ~2,251k**
		- **Cities: 537.83k**
			* **Akashar: 147.48k**
			* **Galgan: 114.76k**
			* **Karcha: 101.77k**
			* **Korstyam: 93.76k**
			* **Chersonesus: 30.77k**
			* **Kabalaska:** **21.76k**
			* **Thyaps: 14.77k**
			* **Mykolev: 12.76k**
		- **Rural Areas:** **~1,713.17k**
		- **Religion:** **83.5% Judaism, 12.8% Christianity, 3.7% Tengri.**
	+ **Demographics of Aabkhaziya:**
		- **Total population: 62k**
		- **Cities:**
			* **Aqwa: 16k**
		- **Rural Areas: 46k**
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **Border control (Volgas):** We have 50% (11 055) of our Border patrol on the Volgan border in case they try something during our invasion. **(Yellow)**
	+ **War against Kazakh kahanate:** If the Kazakhs still insist on having the city of Yaikyrau, we will fight them and keep going towards the east. 85% (37 925) of our standing army will push into their territory and grab as much land as possible before their forces arrive.
		- **Northern Front:** 50% (18 963) of the soldiers sent will push to the east capturing as much land as they can.
		- **Southern Front:** 50% (18 964) of the soldiers sent will push to the east trying to capture as much land as they can.
	+ **Help in the south:** 80% (17 848) of our Second army will go under cover as a byzantine army to help our allies in the south.
* **Military:**
	+ **First army: Total of 2% 44 620 45 020**
		- 28 180 Cavalry
			* 12 990 with Spears
			* 15 190 with Swords
		- 13 865 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 2 975 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Second army:** **Total of 1% 22 510 ‬**
		- 14 059 Cavalry
			* 6 479 with Spears
			* 7 580 with Swords
		- 6 782 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 1 669 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Border Control: 1% 22 510**
		- 18 359 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 1 720 Infantry with Spears and Shields
		- 2 431 Cavalry with Spears.
* **Navy**
	+ **For traversing the Caspian sea:​**
		- **24 Transport ships (trade/negotiations)**
		- **55 fishing ships** **(for fishing...)**
	+ **For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​**
		- **4 B-Galleys (For Larger Cargo and for more people to fit while traveling)**
		- **22 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire)**
		- **20 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)**
		- **65 fishing ships (for fishing...)**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Saljuq Empire:** We are sad to hear that you cut the ties between us...
	+ **Aabkhaziya:** I suggest we become one nation as the Saljuq's might continue their invasion into you.
	+ **Kazakh Kahanate:** You may have it if you invade the Saljuqs. Otherwise you'll have to either accept that it's ours or we continue fighting.
* **Production:**
* **Events:**
	+ **Border crossing illegal:** Normal patrols will continue to keep any travelers/merchants, people in general. Those insisting being sent to prison for 20 years, if they continue they'll be seen as Rus spies.

### **NPC Events:**

* **Saljuqs - Victory:** Well these last 20 years have consisted of a shitton of war, atleast in the Middle East. But Chaghri I the Great has done something that the Sassanid Persians couldn't do and that the Sahelimid and Omayyad Arabs couldn't do either and that is conquer Anatolia by 1082. Well technically Sinope, Trebizond and Eastern Constantinople is still controlled by Byzantium, but the two former territories are acting pseudo-independently now that they're separated from the rest of the Empire, still part of it though. But anyways Asia Minor is basically controlled by them now and here continues the migration of Turkic peoples. Circa the area where the Saljuq Empire originated, that being around Asjkhabad, Bactria, Zarad and the Garabogazköl becomes the home of the Turkoman people (ancestors of the future Turkmen people of Turkmenistan). One more attempt at conquering Rhodos occurs and is another failure. At this point a white peace is secured between the Byzantines and the Saljuqs, who also nab all that Caucasus land for themselves. The great general Qutalmish is given most of Anatolia as his own domain and from that an important vassal sultanate of great status and Saljuq symbolism is formed. This is the Sultanate of Rûm. No not Rum as in the drink that Alestorm loves and that Jack Sparrow is wondering why it is gone no, Rum as in the Turkic synonym for Roman. They're basically calling themselves the Sultanate of Rome, you know that important city that is not just the hub for the Papal States, where the bloody pope lives, but the city that was also for long the capital of the empire that has shaped the entire world's future and one that gives europeans (especially the germans and italians in the HRE) a huge erection. Bit of an insult to christianity you see? Anyway from then on, there are more rebellions in Hejaz to quell and some diplomacy to do with the Sarranid Sultanate but otherwise peace stretches from the Indus river to Troy.
* **Bastard turned Conqueror - VI - Final:** William's final years approach. The man who was a vassal and now is the king of England himself faces some more troubles but handles them like the badass tough guy that he is. William's son Robert tried to rebel with support from the French king to deal with the whole situation surrounding Normandy but to no avail as William defeated him and removed him from being a claimant to the throne of England oh and he also removed him from England. He exiled him to the Faroe islands. After fixing up some diplomatic stuff with the French, at least as much as possible William then completed the Domesday Book in 1086, a manuscript detailing a great survey over all of England. It consists of the Little Domesday, which describes a lot of things in great detail such as the number of livestock in the realm, and the Great Domesday which isn't as detailed perhaps because that could be a pain in the ass to have such a great level of detail over a bunch of shit in the kingdom. Also according to this book, 10% of England's population in 1086 were slaves, lmao. Then in 1087 William the Conqueror passes away. His body is moved from Rouen to Caen where William had stated he wanted to be buried. There in the church the body was to be lowered into the tomb but William was very fat so attendants had to push the corpse into the tomb, causing it to burst and spreading a disgusting smell throughout the church, LOVELY! Anyway in September of 1087 William's son William becomes the new king and the second king named William. He is William II. William I's other son Richard becomes the new duke of Normandy although the land remains within the Kingdom of England. Robert is also still mad about losing and being exiled and all that.
* **Japan - the Anime, Episode 18 - Revolt:** Japan joins a random ass war with a ton of soldiers for no reason but ok, that shit is described in a different event. In Ezo they do indeed face a rebellion in 1086, sorry I meant several rebellions. Many villages rise up against the Japanese together with troops who desert to assist the Ainu instead. This is exacerbated by the Japanese law of killing any tribes who rebel against them. The northern lands successfully grab the cold and more remote regions of the island of Ezo, but aren't as successful in the south where the Japanese manage to fight off most of the rebels with their garrison. The rebels partially sack Fuyu at one point, burning down some buildings but it didn't succeed that well but still most of the Ainu people protest and resist against the Japanese who they see as tyrannical, demanding better rights and better autonomy for Ezo. In 1089 most of Otomari is grabbed by mutineering troops and rebels in Ezo, who from there attempt to disrupt Japanese control over Ezo as much as possible. A clan known as the Fujiwara clan, a quite powerful aristocratic military family, approach the Japanese empress and request that if they intermarry then they will assist the Japanese in this situation with their Samurai, some of the most disciplined and loyal Samurai warriors in all of Japan. Oh and yeah Zheng sent a letter. Which I'll detail in their event.
* **Khazar Khaos:** The elephant in the room is of course the Yaikyrau Dispute. Now following the fall of the Oghuz Yabgu the Kazakhs established greater relations with the Fergana Khanate, such as starting a proper trade route from Tosjkent to Tulga and by that gained generally good relations with the Saljuq Empire as well so the Kazakhs find the Khazar proposal ridiculous and thus war has to be the catalyst. In 1085 the Kazakhs capture Yaikyrau and request peace, while the Khazars see military success in the north. The Khazar efforts in the south are in vain, not much success is found in the harsh Caucasus mountains and the armies are defeated, though only a few are captured, the others either just die or retreat. The Saljuqs have a feeling the "Byzantine" troops are actually Khazar and thus send a letter to the Khazars accusing them of fighting against them while not technically at war, they demand they stop sending armies or they will invade and take all of Khazar territory south of the main Caucasus mountain range. Aabkhaziya does reluctantly agree to be annexed and in the last piece of news we have skirmishes appearing by the border of the Volga Magyars due to several of the soldiers of Volgas being provoked by Khazar military units being placed on their border. They demand that the Khazars remove the soldiers immediately to avoid war.
* **Birth of Khabul Khan:** Агуу тал нутагт бос, Өөрчлөлтийн хурц, Монгол удирдагч, Хабул хан. In Narra, a Mongol-majority area of the Liao dynasty there is the birth of a certain Khabul, son of Tumbinai Setsen. He is destined to become the next head of the long-living Mongol clan Borjigin and he is going to be an important one at that. Also, remember the Borjigin, for another Borjigin, Khabul's great-grandson will be of even bigger importance...
* **Moroccan Empire:** It is quite the feat that the Bashirid Moroccans even managed to gain all this Saharan territory and defeat the West Africans. But it's something else to really keep a hold of them. The vassal territories they established remain rather unstable and such due to anger between the two peoples. But Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin is still a badass and ruling Morocco very well, he establishes good relations with the Saljuq Empire and holds onto the good relations with the Sarranids so everything is quite cool and such. I mean Al-Andalus is fine and he is controlling the Strait of Qibartas and has a good hold on the Trans-Saharan trade routes so he's one pimping Sultan. He makes expeditions to the otl Canary Islands but doesn't bother in colonizing them, he isn't interested. In 1088 the resistance in Wagadou and Gambia erupt into wars of independence which the Moroccans aren't really capable of fighting back so those vassals end up being rather shortlived. But it was cool while it lasted I guess. Much of the inhospitable Saharan lands fall back into tribal rule and such. Wagadou, Gambia and the other West African states (aside from Mossi, Benin, Dahomey and Nri) form a defense pact against any invading forces, being known as the Coalition of the River Cities.
* **Zheng:** Who asked for more sciency shit? No one? Well fuck you Zheng has it anyway. You see the output of copper currency in the Zheng dynasty has reached a number that isn't that big it's just ***6 billion coins a bloody year***. This might have some stuff to do with paper currency later or something be patient every turn is only 10 years right now you know. Shen Kuo, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang (chancellor and historian) and a new person, Hua Tsautao (named after ancient warlord Cao Cao and also yes, son of Hua Mulan) complete the Zizhi Tongjian, which chronicles all of Chinese history. Wang Anshi continues to be an influence in the Chinese court as he introduced several reforms. But that's in like 1081-1083 we have something else to talk about. That is the letter to Japan. This letter, written by Shen Kuo, Wang Anshi and Hua Tsautao tells the Japanese to basically fuck off in regards to gunpowder and also (they don't know that this is the case but are assuming it) to not do deals with the Jurchens of Liao and/or Jin as it is very insulting to the Chinese who have spent the last several decades dealing with their existance. Otherwise the Chinese still want to be on good terms with the Japanese. Lastly, those four wise people (Kuo, Anshi, Guang and Tsautao) all work together with Emperor Zhezong on a long-awaited reconquest of Gansu, which while it has a lot of Uighur people there, also has a lot of Han people and also has before been a "core" region of China. Zheng allies Amdo and together they go to war.
* **Shewa:** The Shewas under Queen Baditi see a pretty big conflict against Kushite armies who were definitely not paid or helped by Mogadishu. Continuous raids and such plague the Shewas so they build a fortress known as Gey (haha very funny so funny extremely hilarious laughing my ass off it's like the word gay get it so funny you got the entire squad laughing my man hah it's funny because it's a different language and it sounds like a funny word in english omg comedy platinum you're funnier than Robert Gustafsson he doesn't have shit on you omg it is called Gey that's the funniest thing I've ever seen I'm gonna die of laughter jesus christ on a bicycle so funny hahaha lmao get it cause it's like gay haha comedy platinum you should get nobel prize for that joke omg funny) to defend their borders. The next assault in 1084 thus ends with the Shewas chasing those Kushites off and building up Gey (which is today's Harar btw) into a city.
* **War of Vieng Chan:** Decades of tension has plagued Southeast Asia and in 1086 a skirmish breaks out near Vieng Chan from some conflict that arose over military units being there and the two sides arguing over the other side allegedly crossing the border and thus "invading". Due to Dai Viet's alliance with Pagan they join in and they see gradual success against the Khmer. Pagan is also supported by the Chela Empire, giving them more influence across the Bay of Bengal. Pagan's goal is basically just to grab more coastal lands in the Malay peninsula and Dai Viet wants to keep Vieng Chan but also potentially nab Kauthara.
* **Dano-Swedish War of 1087-1094:** Danes and Swedes aren't exactly friends. Before we jump into the war we'll talk stuff regarding Scandinavia and also Vinland. Vinland is just doing Vinlander stuff. The End. And Scandinavia is not doing much other than the fact that Canute IV builds the first ever proper school in Scandinavia. That is Katedralskolan (the Cathedral School) located in otl Lund. The in 1087 Canute declares war on Eric II's Sweden to recapture Gotland. So far things are going pretty well and they also occupy Lödöse.
* **Tawalisi:** We all know that the big thing here is that we have a new polity known as Boholanon. The End. The End. I said the end oh wait there's another thing. The Lusong invasion of Gacatayar is successful and Ifugao decides to join in and assist Lusong in it. It doesn't take long for Lusong and Ifugao (with random Yappaneez help) to defeat Gacatayar and split it.
* **Liao:** Aside from Khabul Khan, Japan stuff and Zheng stuff they face a bit of a decline. Disagreements and violence between Jurchens and Khitans (and also other people such as the Tanguts and Mongols) escalate, causing instability. Additional conflict between Liao and Jin also appear from this.
* **Chela Empire:** Even more powah for the Chelas. Vijayalaya may have died in 1084 but they still doing fine. They defeat Rashtrakuta, weakening them further and also colonize the Andaman islands under a vassal government and they have the most influence over the Bay of Bengal, having spheres of influence over Madhyos, Pala, Pagan and Kamarupa. Also they found a coastal city known as Sindapur, which is intended to be a big part in the trade across the Indian Ocean.
* **Native Americans:** Caddo and Anhaica establish trade stations on neutral ground along the Mississippi, where both people can profit off of one another and such. From the previous skirmish a few decades ago the two "empires" also build up their militaries and the discipline of their warriors.
* **Korea:** The Korean printing of the entire Buddhism Tripitaka is completed.
* **Urban II:** Urban II is the pope since 1088 and he enters talks with Byzantine Emperor Constantine VIII over reconquering Anatolia (and also maybe the holy land) for christianity.

### **Japanese Empire:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana-ne Yamashengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, art, porcelain.
	+ **Capital: Tōga**
		- **Demographics:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 98%, 2% Chinese, Ainu, Manchu & Okinawan.
				+ **Tōga:** 300.000
				+ **Edo:** 280.000
				+ **Yamato:** 199.000
				+ **Fukuoka:** 184.000
				+ **Hiroshima:** 171.000
				+ **Komatsu:** 147.000
				+ **Nagasaki:** 147.000
				+ **Toyama:** 138.000
				+ **Other Cities:** 1.796.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 10.593.000
			* **Total population:** 13.955.000
			* **Religion:** 100% Shinto-Buddhism.
		- **Demographics of Ezo:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 20%, Ainu 80%
				+ **Otomari:** 7.000
				+ **Sunõdorangon:** 9.000
				+ **Fuyu:** 20.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 204.000
			* **Total population:** 238.000
			* **Religion:** 70% Shinto-Buddhism, 30% Ainu paganism.
		- **Demographics of Tudar:**
		- Population: Japanese 14% Visayan 86%
		- **Tudar:** 3.112
		- **Rural Areas:** 4.002
		- **Total population:** 7.114
		- Religion: 14% Shinto-Buddhism, 86% Anitism
		- **Wars and Conflicts:**
		- **So Basically Just Die:** Our troops are ready and we contain a light garrison in the cities and villages with the soldiers having orders to be really friendly with villagers even going so far as bringing balls with them so that they can play ball with the children. They are also informed to refer to not using helmets to show that they are human. Now, the war. Basically we put a nice even front with the rebellion with a larger armies surrounding the encirclement to the west. After they have dealt with that they will charge in the middle where there is a valley to split the tribes in 2 and capture the most populated territory. We are then to split all armies to smaller ones and use quick movements to encircle enemies and traverse difficult terrain. We shall not stop until all tribes are under our control and all rebels are hung.
		- **Military:**
			* **Deployed units:** total of 1% (Japan + puppets/vassals) 142.000
				+ 42.000 Archers. (42.000)
				+ 26.000 Spear men (26.000)
				+ 26.000 Swordsmen (26.000)
				+ 28.000 Cavalry (26.000)
				+ 3.000 Tawābasutā (9.000)
				+ 4.000 Heavy Infantry (4.000)
				+ 7.000 Winter infantry (7.000)
		- **Navy:**
			* 200 Galleys
			* 155 Transport ships
			* 100 Light warship
			* 55 Medium warships
			* 23 Heavy warships
			* 1 Ni~Tsu-ryū
		- **Diplomacy:**
		- **Ainu Tribes:** Either you are with us or against us. Trade or die is the rule now, just look at the rebellion and you can see that you are better of with us as we grant all citizens equal rights.
		- **Lusong:** Good job, you have fierce warriors, but if you need someone more proficient then you can hire a samurai.
		- **Zheng:** We find it slightly offensive that you would rather believe Liao than us. They stole our territory, why would we help them? We are always going to want gunpowder and some day we'll get it but we would NEVER help some filthy sods like them. We would rather ally you.
		- **Events:**
			* **Ezo Adjustments:** We disallow them to have troops because they might desert. We Also propose that the Fujiwara clan could marry them instead since the Empress have other plans for her children.
			* **Tudar:** We give the new vassal the name of Tudar and design a flag for them. We also start sending Japanese settlers from Okinawa there.
			* **Explore More to the South:** We do that
			* **Dai Viet & Zheng & Pagan:** Wanna hire samurai?
			* **FIRE!:** we have the solvent and the cannon, we now have a dragon boat, coolsies.

### **Byzantine Empire:**

* **Government: Absolute Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Constantine VIII
	+ **Dynasty:** Domninian Dynasty
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving. Our most valuable and prized goods are silk and purple
	+ **Capital:** Constantinople
	+ **Demographics:**
		- Population, religion and ethnicity is a bitch so im not even going to attempt
		- **Constantinople:** 885,000
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Standing army:** Total of 1% (~70,000)
	+ 27,000 Cavalry
		- 16,000 Cataphracts
			* 5,000 Cataphract archers
	+ 43,000 Infantry
		- 30,000 Akritai
	+ **Troop placement:**
* **Navy:**
	+ 53 Galleys
	+ 180 Transport ships
	+ 189 Dromons
	+ 89 Triremes
	+ 6 Venetian ships
	+ Aftokráteira tis Mesogeíou
* **Diplomacy:**
* **Events:**
	+ **Transports:** Additional transport ships are built so that naval invasions can have more troops carried at a time
	+ **Springboard:** Cyprus is built up, while its supply stocks are expanded as we plan to have it be one of the main sources of supply for an upcoming event...
	+ **Σταυροφορία!:** After having some talks with Pope Urban II, it is put down that for centuries the Byzantine empire has defended the Balkans and perhaps almost the rest of Europe with it from the Eslamic forces nearly alone. Now that ~~Persia~~ the Saljuqs have broken into Anatolia and are on the border of the Balkans, it is finally time for the rest of Christianity to come in, push the Muslims back to the line, and reclaim the holy land!

### **Khazar Khaganate:**

* **Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)**
	+ **Khagan:** Benel
	+ **Dynasty:** Bulanid
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade with the Byzantium Empire, the Saljuq Empire, the Sajid Emirate and some other smaller nations. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently doin great.
	+ **Capital: Akashar**
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 74,7%** **Khazar, 12,6% Slavic, 9,4% Aabkhaz, 1.9% greek 1,4% Georgian.**
		- **Total population: ~2,356k**
		- **Cities: 555.83k**
			* **Akashar: 147.48k**
			* **Galgan: 114.76k**
			* **Karcha: 101.77k**
			* **Korstyam: 93.76k**
			* **Chersonesus: 30.77k**
			* **Kabalaska:** **21.76k**
			* **Aqwa: 18k**
			* **Thyaps: 14.77k**
			* **Mykolev: 12.76k**
		- **Rural Areas:** **~1,800.17k**
		- **Religion:** **83.5% Judaism, 12.8% Christianity, 3.7% Tengri.**
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
	+ **War against Kazakh kahanate:** If the Kazakhs still insist on having the city of Yaikyrau, we will fight them and keep going towards the east. 85% (37 925) of our standing army will push into their territory and grab as much land as possible before their forces arrive. **(if peace is denied)**
		- **Northern Front:** 50% (18 963) of the soldiers sent will push to the east capturing as much land as they can. **(if peace is denied)**
		- **Southern Front:** 50% (18 964) of the soldiers sent will push to the east trying to capture as much land as they can. **(if peace is denied)**
* **Military:**
	+ **First army: Total of 2% 44 620 45 020**
		- 28 180 Cavalry
			* 12 990 with Spears
			* 15 190 with Swords
		- 13 865 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 2 975 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Second army:** **Total of 1% 22 510 ‬**
		- 14 059 Cavalry
			* 6 479 with Spears
			* 7 580 with Swords
		- 6 782 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 1 669 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Border Control: 1% 22 510**
		- 18 359 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 1 720 Infantry with Spears and Shields
		- 2 431 Cavalry with Spears.
* **Navy**
	+ **For traversing the Caspian sea:​**
		- **24 Transport ships (trade/negotiations)**
		- **55 fishing ships** **(for fishing...)**
	+ **For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​**
		- **4 B-Galleys (For Larger Cargo and for more people to fit while traveling)**
		- **22 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire)**
		- **20 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)**
		- **65 fishing ships (for fishing...)**
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Saljuq Empire:** We are honestly very sorry, we were so occupied with the war in the north that we actually forgot to give them the order to return.
	+ **Kazakh Kahanate:** We accept peace...
* **Production:**
* **Events:**
	+ **Border crossing illegal:** Normal patrols will continue to keep any travelers/merchants, people in general. Those insisting being sent to prison for 20 years, if they continue they'll be seen as Rus spies.
	+ **For now:** We remove our army from the Volgan border for the time being.

### **Lusong:**

* **Government:** Tribal Monarchy
	+ **King** Hisk-Hisk Malawang
	+ **Economy:** Based on fishing, agriculture and trading products such as sugar.
	+ **Capital:** Ganguyin
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 70.343**
		- **Ganguyin:** 5.079
		- **Rural Areas:** 65.264
		- **Ethnicities:** 64% Visayan, 5% Japanese 31% Gacatayar
		- **Religion:** 93% Anitism, 7% Shinto-buddhsim
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:** Total of 703, 1%
	+ **Standing Army:**
		- Spearmen: 438
		- Bowmen: 165
		- Slingers: 40
		- Torchmen: 60
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 2812, 4%
		- Spearmen: 1754
		- Bowmen: 660
		- Slingers: 160
		- Torchmen: 240
* **Navy:**
	+ 10 transport ships
	+ Nankai Fune
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Ifugao:** We start improving relations a lot and with that spread Shinto-buddhism.
	+ **Tundo:** We send spies.
* **Events:**
	+ **National Celebration Day:** The day where we united Gacatayar with Lusong is turned into our national celebration day.
	+ **City To The South:** A village is growing immensely there and thus becomes a new city. It is called Pyngou.
	+ **Writing:** we start to experiment with new techniques and things to draw with. Often using coal.

### **NPC Events:**

* **The First Crusade:** After several talks between Pope Urban II and Emperor Constantine VIII, it was decided that Europe would work together to reclaim Byzantium's lost lands, as well as the Holy Land itself. In 1093, the Pope declared the crusade against the Muslims. The main european forces consisted of Raymond of Toulousa, Borivoj of Moravia, Bohemond of Taranto, Laszlo of Hungaria and Otto of Saxony. Some others were from Luxembourg, Hulm, Sweden, the Kievan Rus' and also the People's Crusade led by Peter the Hermit. The Saljuqs and Sarranids stood as the main enemy of the crusaders and this conflict lasted from 1093 to 1097. Many lives were lost on both sides, but the crusaders were capable of reclaiming most of western Anatolia to Byzantium and the coast of the Levant was conquered, including Jerusalem itself, where Saljuq Sultan Qutalmish and privileged Sarranid courtier warrior Arwa the Pearled One attempted to stop the siege but failed. Still, both survived. Due to lack of Byzantine power (and also the crusaders just kinda not giving a fuck what the emperor thinks), the Levant was not "reclaimed" for Byzantium but instead, the crusaders divided it up between eachother as crusader states, in the name of their respective state. Borivoj, the Duke of Moravia, got the big apple itself Jerusalem, where he had himself declared king in service of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Bohemond of Naples grabbed Antioch, instilling a lot of pride in the Neapolitan people, although Bohemond only sees his new principality as in service of Naples and not Byzantium of which Naples is a vassal. Also the crusader Gottfried of Hulm established himself as ruler of a small town called Alanya where he declared himself prince. While Byzantium enjoys retaking cities like Nicaea, Ipsus and Antalya, they lose Trebizond in a strange incident. In an attempt of distraction, Rûm general Yagisiyan and Daryoush the Persian of the Saljuq Empire besieged Trebizond, a city that was practically already independent anyways since it got separated from Byzantium. They brought forth a large army and group of Armenians, both soldiers and civilians, as a plan to have them defend the city after they take it, however the crusaders of Sweden and Kievan Rus', Harald Brandr and Dima Bagrov respectively, arrived shortly after the beginning of the siege. Chaos erupted, the siegers got over the walls and a fair bit in but they lost too many soldiers, the siege was stopped and the armies retreated, with the revolting Armenians taking refuge in a city that was absolutely ransacked. With there almost being no leadership, a high-ranking soldier in the Armenian army that deserted, Haik Kasabian, took matters into his own hands and took control of the city, which now had. After Jerusalem was conquered and the crusaders who still lived returned home, Haik was crowned count by the other citizens in Trebizond, basically declaring independence from the Byzantine Empire. Still, that distraction was actually kind of successful, it forced crusaders to head and defend it just after the capture of Konya (the new capital of Rûm after the fall of Nicaea), which allowed Konya to later be recaptured in a large siege which saw the death of Peter the Hermit. The muslims were defeated, for now, but the Byzantines did not get everything they wanted. The crusade was bloody and even saw the first forms of patient transport and field hospitals, set up by the Knights Hospitaller, but it's over and another religious war won't happen again. Right? Oh and also Sweden and the Kievan Rus' get some taxes paid from Trebizond due to the help of Harald Brandr and Dima Bagrov.
* **Japan - the Anime, Episode 19: Separation?:** Japan successfully establishes a loose vassal on the very northern tip of Tawalisi, but other stuff is happening right now. We go from the southernmost part of Japanese influence to the northernmost. In Ezo, the biggest revolt yet is a bloody battle between the Japanese and Ainu loyalists against the rebels who seek peace, quiet and independence from the government located south of their lands. Japan and its Samurai ensure the brutal defeat of the revolters in 1093, only for more, but smaller, peasant uprising to occur. During this time however, an old rugged man known as Yusuke Kamuy, a philosopher and spiritualist monk living just north of the "border" between Ezo the state and Ezo the tribal, unclaimed lands spends the years of the war seeking a solution and peace that ensures happiness between both sides. He believed the war and hatred between Japanese people and Ainu people was pointless and purely destructive. Thus he spent many months gathering support for his cause and not long after the main army in the north collapsed he visited the border villages and rallied people to his cause. This cause being that a proper border be established between the state of Ezo and the tribes. Each side will respect the other's privacy and the Ainu people in Ezo may decide if they wish to live under Japanese influence or not and promptly move to whatever lord they wish to be under. The war brought famine and instability to Ezo due to the constant violence, difficult terrain and rugged weather and many flocked to what Yusuke was saying. The movement gets so big it reaches the Governor of Ezo, which causes that to eventually end up in the hands of the Japanese government. In other news, Japan doesn't have much information on any of the wars that they proposed to send Samurai to but fine. Zheng accepts them and quite a few of the Samurai end up staying in Zheng, starting their own families.
* **Zheng:** In China, the war against the Uighurs (boi that is a bit weird to type considering what is happening in real life) is successful and Gansu is reclaimed. That big group of statesmen, chancellors, scientists and philosophers and all that are still doing very well and bam here's two other big people. We have Qin Guan and Su Shi (surprisingly not related to Japan in any way), both grand poets and writers, although the latter gets imprisoned for criticizing some of the reforms made by Wang Anshi. Zheng starts to distance themselves slightly from Japan after their response where they claimed they would get a hold of the secret of gunpowder at some point. Diplomats from the two sides argued and Zheng sent back some of the newest migrants from Japan back to where they came from, still the Chinese appreciate having the Japanese just by their side. Right now they also see that the Jurchens of Liao and Jin are starting to separate and getting at eachother's throats, which means the Chinese need to ready themselves for what is to come from this.
* **Liao:** Speaking of, relations worsen and the realm starts to lose control of some lands inhabited by other people that are not Jurchens. The Khitans, Mongols and Tanguts are the main three, whose tribal clan leaders start to reject paying taxes to their foreign lords, finding them way too high compared to previous rulers of Liao and those groups of people start to intertwine and speak with eachother, they seek the independence of their lands and that their restricted freedoms return to them, they want to be able to ride on their own steppe. One incident, a skirmish between the Mongol Borjigin clan and Liao forces lead to the death of the clan's leader: Tumbinai. His son that we covered earlier, Khabul, becomes the new leader at a young age of 17. He and his mother Berude are now in charge to take care of the tribe. Khabul will never forget how enraged and saddened he was at his father's death at the hands of the Jurchens. Things start to boil as relations between Liao and Jin collapse by 1097. What shall happen now?
* **War of Vieng Chan:** With the assistance of the Chelas and Srivijaya, the War of Vieng Chan ends in 1095 with the victory being in the hands of the Burmese and Vietnamese. Luckily the Khmer were not facing any form of conquest and can move on with life after they concede some lands, including Kauthara to Dai Viet.
* **The Albionite Isles:** Let's see what is going on over here, shall we? In England, things remain mostly the same. The first ever lectures are held at Oxford University, you know just a school nothing special at all, while in Cymra the Caerdydd Castle is constructed, along with several other fortifications for the purposes of protection against potential English expansion. The three Gaelic kingdoms of Eire, Scotland and Cymra become closer in relations to protect themselves from any outside threat, although no official alliance or defense pact is signed. The biggest event is that Robert, the guy who got exiled, attempts to dethrone William II and take the throne for himself. He strikes in 1094 and fights as hard as possible, bringing help from Scotland but ultimately fails and is imprisoned in a dungeon.
* **Dano-Swedish War of 1087-1094:** War rages on until the Danes secure Lödöse and Gotland for themselves. They do however agree to give a few borderlands to the Swedish. Still the Swedes are very unhappy about this and eager for revenge against those bastards speaking with potatoes in their mouths.
* **The Mediterranean:** In the mediterranean, many pirates and other sea-faring raiders profit off of the first crusade, as many of the Moroccan pirates worked together with the anti-crusaders. The pirates right now are on a roll along the coasts of the western and central mediterranean sea. Sardinia, Corsica and Malta are often targets. Sardinia otherwise sees more Genoan influence, from the merchants specifically.
* **Khazar Khaos:** The Kazakhs are very glad to make peace. Only a few lands west of Yaikyrau is taken in the peace treaty. Volgas is also glad that the situation between them and the Khazars ended without too much bloodshed.
* **Chela Empire:** Not much goes on here other than them still being the powerhouse of India. They do build a city on the Andaman Islands, specifically North Sentinel Island, the largest one. The city is Nakkavaram.

### **Japanese Empire:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Hana-ne Yamashengu, Zoronshi Yamashengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, art, porcelain.
	+ **Capital: Tōga**
		- **Demographics:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 98%, 2% Chinese, Ainu, Manchu & Okinawan.
				+ **Tōga:** 309.000
				+ **Edo:** 291.000
				+ **Yamato:** 205.000
				+ **Fukuoka:** 181.000
				+ **Hiroshima:** 180.000
				+ **Nagasaki:** 151.000
				+ **Komatsu:** 150.000
				+ **Toyama:** 142.000
				+ **Other Cities:** 2.183.000
				+ **All cities:** 3.210.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 11.275.000
			* **Total population:** 14.485.000
			* **Religion:** 100% Shinto-Buddhism.
		- **Demographics of Ezo:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 25%, Ainu 75%
				+ **Otomari:** 8.000
				+ **Sunõdorangon:** 9.000
				+ **Fuyu:** 21.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 240.000
			* **Total population:** 276.000
			* **Religion:** 80% Shinto-Buddhism, 30% Ainu paganism.
		- **Demographics of Tudar:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 30% Visayan 70%
				+ **Tudar:** 3.512
				+ **Rural Areas:** 6.412
			* **Total population:** 9.924
			* Religion: 40% Shinto-Buddhism, 60% Anitism
		- **Wars and Conflicts:**
		- **Garrison:** We garrison Ezo and crack down the last rebels, their punishment is quite loose as they get 2 years of prison where they work 10 hours every day and get paid half.
		- **Military:**
			* **Deployed units:** total of 1% (Japan + puppets/vassals) 147.710 147.710
				+ 44.000 Archers. (44.000)
				+ 27.500 Spear men (26.000)
				+ 27.500 Swordsmen (26.000)
				+ 28.500 Cavalry (28.500)
				+ 3.070 Tawābasutā (9.210)
				+ 4.000 Heavy Infantry (4.000)
				+ 7.000 Winter infantry (7.000)
		- **Navy:**
			* 210 Galleys
			* 175 Transport ships
			* 120 Light warship
			* 60 Medium warships
			* 23 Heavy warships
			* 1 Ni~Tsu-ryū
		- **Diplomacy:**
		- **Ezoan Chieftains and That old Man:** negotiation in place over how to love each other and not do the die.
		- **Zheng:** Wanna feast in Edo?
		- **Events:**
			* **Napalm Death:** We continue researching our medieval bootleg flamethrowers. One thing we find that could help the cannons now dubbed as Sōrādoragon no iki (solar dragon's breath) is small vents at the sides of the barrel so that it can cool down quicker and so that the fire has access to more air so that it grows more powerful.
			* **Sōrādoragon no iki:** We start production of these napalm cannons in Sendai, Kihon, Ishi and Haiwa since we want to keep it a secret. We store the weapons around the country in a second hidden underground storage.
			* **Hana-ne:** She has lived for many years and decides to abdicate after the negotiations, she gains the nickname Hana-ne the wise.

### **Byzantine Empire:**

* **Government: Absolute Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Constantine VIII
	+ **Dynasty:** Domninian Dynasty
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving. Our most valuable and prized goods are silk and purple
	+ **Capital:** Constantinople
	+ **Cities:**
	+ **Constantinople: 895,000**
	+ Adrianople: 104,000
	+ Thessaloniki: 97,000
	+ Syracuse: 76,000
	+ Athens: 72,000
	+ Cities: ~2,000,000
	+ Rural Areas: ~8,000,000
	+ Total population: ~10,000,000
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Greek 72%, Minorities: Italian 11%, Bulgar 7% Slavic 6%, Other: Khazar, Arabic 3%
	+ **Religion:** Eastern Patriarchy ~94%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism 6%
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Standing army:** Total of 1% (~100,000)
	+ 40,000 Cavalry
		- 16,000 Cataphracts
			* 5,000 Cataphract archers
	+ 60,000 Infantry
		- 15,000 Akritai
	+ **Troop placement:**
* **Navy:**
	+ 53 Galleys
	+ 180 Transport ships
	+ 189 Dromons
	+ 89 Triremes
	+ 6 Venetian ships
	+ Aftokráteira tis Mesogeíou
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Hungarian Empire:** Oi

	get out of my Tarsos
* **Events:**
	+ **Crusader states:** Some of these states are separate from us and pay taxes to others, despite being rightful territory of Byzantium. pressure and power is slowly exerted onto those in Anatolia, and revanchism is encouraged around the border.
	+ **Piracy problem:** Now that the crusade is done our navies attention is now focused on the pirates of the Mediterranean. We also want at least one ship captured and have their crew questioned who they're working for.
		- **Western authority:** To add on to the above, great investments are made in Sardinia, now with a permanent garrison, the seat of a loyal high aristocracy, the building heavy industry and the cultivation of the island is made, along with experienced merchants put into here, but also in Corsica and Genoa, all in the name of friendly competition with Genoa
	+ **Greek migration:** With the aftermath of the first crusade and the previous order given, many Greeks have moved from Anatolia, and while some stay in the other mainland cities, other are given the opportunity to move elsewhere, most notably into lower Italy, Sardinia, Macedonia and the Dragovits.

### **Lusong:**

* **Government:** Tribal Monarchy
	+ **King** Hisk-Hisk Malawang
	+ **Economy:** Based on fishing, agriculture and trading products such as sugar.
	+ **Capital:** Ganguyin
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 73.860**
		- **Ganguyin:** 6.079
		- **Rural Areas:** 67.781
		- **Ethnicities:** 92% Visayan, 8% Japanese
		- **Religion:** 89% Anitism, 11% Shinto-buddhsim
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:** Total of 738, 1%
	+ **Standing Army:**
		- Spearmen: 475
		- Bowmen: 165
		- Slingers: 40
		- Torchmen: 60
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 2952, 4%
		- Spearmen: 1900
		- Bowmen: 660
		- Slingers: 160
		- Torchmen: 240
* **Navy:**
	+ 15 transport ships
	+ Nankai Fune
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Ifugao:** We want to trade more.
	+ **Tundo:** We send more spies to gather information about their military.
	+ **Japan:** Our leader wants the sexi sex
* **Events:**
	+ **Båt:** We heavily focus on building båt.
	+ **Infrastructure:** We start building better infrastructure to allow for quicker traveling of goods.

### **NPC Events:**

* **First Crusade Aftermath:** With the establishment of crusader states, paying taxes to their own "overlords" as well as the large costs of war and the efforts of stabilizing certain areas, Byzantium's economy is put further on pressure although with the regaining of westernmost Anatolia, it isn't the end of the world (just the beginning hahahaha or something idk ominous messages). In Sardinia the further enforced effort along with that navy stuff becomes pretty darn expensive which makes the stabilization of Sardinia difficult and the Count of Sardinia, a certain Tommaso de Stefani isn't really that loyal to the Emperor and spends his time giving privileges to the Genoan merchants to rake in cash and using some of that cash to purchase mercenaries to deal with those pirates. Speaking of pirates they are able to take advantage of getting a shit ton of wonga from all that raiding during the first crusade (kinda like how many italian states like Venice got some sweet trade deals for loaning ships and whatnot) and prove quite a challenge for a few Byzantine ships but there are several of these rascal crews who are captured. Questioning brings forth one of two responses. 1. They're just pirates who do what pirates do. 2. They work for a superior, that just being some pirate lord living on the North African coast (who is totally not working with Moroccan rulers or anything, def not). With moneys being secured, the piracy rate decreases and it's mostly now just pirates who don't work for anyone higher up or just pirates who said fuck you to the ones paying them and went off on their own. Meanwhile the crusader states are doing crusader state things (yes even teeny tiny little irrelevant Alanya) and they are quite successful since now, Jerusalem is back under Christian hands and also the Saljuqs, both Rûm and the actual empire have been blocked from the Mediterranean completely. Qutalmish eventually dies and Yagisiyan replaces him as Sultan of Rûm in 1105. In the Sarranid Sultanate, the anti-crusader Arwa, nicknamed "the Pearled One", goes througha decade long campaign of overthrowing the current Sultan because of a claim to the throne that she has through some complicated High Medieval marriage shit. She becomes the first Sultana of Sarranid, which is disputed by various groups not just because she's a woman but also because they believe her to just be a pretender.
* **The Fall of Liao and Subsequent Chaos:** With further decline, the Jin dynasty revolts against its master and strikes hard and in the meanwhile Khabul Khan wants revenge for his father being killed and attacks as well with allied Mongol tribes as they revolt against the Jurchens that once had them under their hand or whatever that's supposed to mean. Khabul Khan would also now in his 20s have two sons, Ohinbarhag and Bartan. And to add insult to injury, the Khitans and Tanguts also go for their own independence. The Tanguts quickly establish a hold around Xingqing to form the Xixia state that also strikes in the Gansu region where quite a few Tangut tribes have migrated. This is happening towards the end of the 1100s decade and so the Liao still stand, but not for very long.
* **The Albionite Isles:** Quite suddenly and unexpectedly, the second ever Norman king of England mister William II, uh well, dies mysteriously in 1100 while out hunting. Sad moments and all that as his brother Henry becomes Henry I, the new king. People don't know if it was a hunting accident that William was a part of or if something more fishy was going on but it doesn't really matter too much now because bam new king. What Henry does do however is he directly makes Robert, who tried to overthrow William, by holy relics to recognize Henry as the new king. He definitely didn't torture Robert to get that out of him, I mean never. BUT! Robert actually did have a son, also named William FOR FUCKCAJHG=JAPGTUJPG. Let's just call him Bill. Bill managed to become the Count of Flanders and set a claim on the Duchy of Normandy, currently a part of England and the duke of it is the same as the king of England, motherfucking Henry. Henry obviously thinks this is a load of bullshit but France does not, increasing tensions on the two sides. But yeah Henry is a strict but effective ruler so far.
* **Japan - the Anime, Episode 20: Shoot Me in the Face:** Not really too much to say about Japan. An agreement is made on Ezo island which establishes proper peace that hopefully will improve the lives of the people on both sides. First of all Zheng really doesn't give a shit about what an Ezo is so no they're not feasting in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. They're fine with Japan though. Japan specifically while powerful and rich, is starting to see some of the consequences of that. While Samurai are stately, the rank becomes very prestigious and the more of them there are the more power they gain and at the same time there is an increase of the Japanese nobility or administration or whatever you wanna call it becoming corrupt or otherwise doing shady deals between each other, which is easier to do with them having Samurai or other forces to help them with such, resulting in growing vassal power as well. This isn't inherently negative as there are vassals gaining power whose fortune also benefits more than just themselves. Still Japan is in an alright state and I'm practically done with the Anime series because Jesus Christ or Allah or Buddha or whatever there's 20 parts and I'm running out of titles and the area isn't in such interesting state anymore okay byyyyyyyyyyyyyyye.
* **West African Gold:** Around this point in time, the states in West Africa would discover a new mineral, that was oh so very precious. Gold. Obviously this shit was high fashion as soon as it was first discovered and quickly it b became the luxury of the lands along the Niger (I swear to Allah if you make jokes) River and such. They also realized that you know, the Trans-Saharan trade routes exist and thus started to trade gold up to the Berbers and Arabs of North Africa, which they are all for and suddenly, gold is being shipped up north and down south like a freaking conveyor belt. The Moroccans are happy over this and now do not need to conquer any of the West African states since now they could just trade their gold because gold is cool.
* **The Rus' Successfully Settle Finland (sort of):** The Kievan Rus' has been on a bit of a decline as a state for a while now. The individual princes have gained more power which of course has made the general state itself weaker. Most notably is Novgorod. That city and Principality is the one racking up the most cash from taxes and all that right now and speaking of Novgorod, they have a claim to the throne but there are of course rivals. The Novgorod-ian? claimant is Viacheslav but because bigger army diplomacy he doesn't get the throne and after some of the claimants ally one another a civil war would break out for about 5 years. Viacheslav lost, but didn't face death. Vsevolod, who became the new Grand Prince of Kiev, had noticed that Viacheslav was one damn good fighter and decided he could help restore the power of the Grand Principality by working for him. He saw Vsevolod saw potential in the northern lands they had failed to conquer before. Perhaps if a manner of control was established there, the Rus' could gain more power there. The idea started to stick, a vassal state there would ensure a bit more taxation to the crown which could strengthen the Grand Prince more than his vassals. Speaking of the vassals, everyone who tried to revolt was basically just killed off. Viacheslav had a lot of reasons to not listen and not comply with what Vsevolod said but he did want the Rus' to get back on track and he might have been threatened with days of torture if he didn't so yeah. A fair amount of land north of the Kievan Rus' was conquered and united through settlement which became Kymenliya, a vassal principality ruled by Viacheslav in service of the Grand Prince of Kiev.
* **Poland:** Poland sees some violence during this decade. They fight off both Pomeranians and Germans attempting to expand eastwards. After defeating them, the will to expand eastward has kind of died down for the Germans since Poland has established quite the strong slavic hold on the lands they control.
* **Salah ad-Din, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques:** 1101 saw the birth of Salah ad-Din, son of Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb, a soldier of the Sarranid army of Kurdish ethnicity (his family originating from the Akhtarib Caliphate) who had served in the first crusade against the crusaders. Najm was an injured man who wouldn't live for much longer but due to his servitude he was able to secure his son a better future than becoming a soldier by getting his son Yusuf (his actual name, it'll be explained later) the privilege of learning and school and hopefully he would go on to improve Eslamic society in his future. Well, Najm, you shall see...
* **Crossing the Baltic:** The first signs of Swedish settlement and colonization of what is in real life Finland are seen in this period.
* **Rumenia:** A Hungarian count who no one cares about so I'm not really gonna mention his name, establishes a fair bit of good relations with the Vlandians of both Vlandia and Moldavia. However due to the difference in names the name Vlandian becomes only used for those who actually are from Vlandia. The two states' peoples' are very similar which is what this count notes on a trip to both places, accompanied by historians and a few priests. After crossing the Carpathians twice and returning to Hungaria with the second time he would write down a text for the King himself, about Vlandia and Moldavia, which come to be known to the world together as being inhabited by the Rumenians and thus the two places become collectively known as Rumenia. Also Moldavia builds a city on the coast called Valcov.
* **Chela Empire:** A campaign of basically getting the entire Bay of Bengal under Chelan influence has been largely successful, Chelan merchants in Sumatra are having a field day and so are the ones on the west coast of Pagan. Through sheer influence and power the Pala state is forced under Chelas foot as another vassal but as they get more powerful, other Indian powers see a movement against the power of Chela.
* **The Georgians Fight Back:** The largest revolting movement within the Saljuq Empire are the Georgians who start to try and regain their independence from the turks. The man who claims to be of the right to rule as king, Demetrius, asks for help from the Khazars.
* **Migrants:** More Kirghiz and Tatar people migrate. Some of the Kirghiz like before migrate down to the Pamir mountains to places near Bisjgek and Almaty where the Kazakhs gladly welcome them as they can work for them and pay tribute to them. The other Kirghiz and the vast majority of Tatars migrate westwards into the northern parts of the Khazar Khaganate and while the Tatars slowly start to gather towards Crimea, the Kirghiz mostly stay in the north once more near the "border" with the Magyar confederation of Volgas.
* **Yeniseians:** The Siberian Yeniseian peoples develop by the Yenisei river. Which is where the name comes from, obviously.

### **Japanese Empire:**

* **Government: Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Zoronshi Yamashengu
	+ **Economy:** spice, food, dye, art, porcelain.
	+ **Capital: Tōga**
		- **Demographics:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 98%, 2% Chinese, Ainu, Manchu & Okinawan.
				+ **Tōga:** 315.000
				+ **Edo:** 300.000
				+ **Yamato:** 200.000
				+ **Fukuoka:** 186.000
				+ **Hiroshima:** 187.000
				+ **Nagasaki:** 154.000
				+ **Komatsu:** 148.000
				+ **Ishi:** 145.000
				+ **Other Cities:** 2.264.000
				+ **All cities:** 3.320.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 11.679.000
			* **Total population:** 14.990.000
			* **Religion:** 100% Shinto-Buddhism.
		- **Demographics of Ezo:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 25%, Ainu 75%
				+ **Otomari:** 8.000
				+ **Sunõdorangon:** 9.000
				+ **Fuyu:** 21.000
				+ **Rural Areas:** 248.000
			* **Total population:** 284.000
			* **Religion:** 80% Shinto-Buddhism, 20% Ainu paganism.
		- **Demographics of Tudar:**
			* **Population:** Japanese 32% Visayan 68%
				+ **Tudar:** 3.612
				+ **Rural Areas:** 6.748
			* **Total population:**10 370
			* Religion: 40% Shinto-Buddhism, 60% Anitism
		- **Wars and Conflicts:**
		- **Garrison:** We garrison Ezo and crack down the last rebels, their punishment is quite loose as they get 2 years of prison where they work 10 hours every day and get paid half.
		- **Military:**
			* **Deployed units:** total of 1% (Japan + puppets/vassals) 152.840
				+ 45.000 Archers. (45.000)
				+ 28.500 Spear men (28.500)
				+ 28.500 Swordsmen (28.500)
				+ 30.000 Cavalry (30.000)
				+ 3.380 Tawābasutā (9.840)
				+ 4.000 Heavy Infantry (4.000)
				+ 7.000 Winter infantry (7.000)
		- **Navy:**
			* 220 Galleys
			* 175 Transport ships
			* 130 Light warship
			* 60 Medium warships
			* 23 Heavy warships
			* 1 Ni~Tsu-ryū
		- **Diplomacy:**
		- **Lusong:** Sure, we have a princess for one of your sons.
		- **Tungning:** We improve relations.
		- **Goryeo:** Liao is collapsing, want to retake some lands? we can lend you some power if that is what you wish.
		- **Events:**
			* **Off With Their Heads:** in secrecy the black lotus (our assassination organization) is fired up with more funding and their first missions is to murder certain corrupt nobles, after investigation the Emperor "finds" proof for corruption and thus the state is given to a loyal royal.
			* **Samurai:** The samurai are getting bigger, and thus we need to control it more, a rule is set in place that Samurai needs a permit from the government to be a Samurai, if you do not have the permit you are not allowed to wield anything else than low tier swords (more on that later) to gain the permit you must prove yourself as every year will hold a samurai test which is a tournament in Edo or Toga. The best contestants are given the title of Samurai and enter the ranks of the Samurai, the higher your rank, the more jobs you will be granted and to gain ranking you need to complete jobs. This allows the Samurai to both be more controlled but also let them organize and improve the quality of their services.
			* **To Hire a Samurai:** A rule is put in place that in order to hire a samurai you have to talk to a messenger of samurai in your area, they are put in place around Japan and Samurai can find jobs from them and locals can give jobs to them. This is to avoid misuse of samurai.
			* **Weaponry:** Weapons are sorted in 4 tiers, low tier, medium tier, high tier and deadly tier. Low to medium is quality of swords, bows and arrows while deadly tier is straight up the strongest military weapons which can only be wielded by specialists.
			* **Zoronshi the Strict:** The new emperor has proven to be quite formal, strict but caring. He was quickly given the name Zoronshi the strict.

### **Lusong:**

* **Government:** Tribal Monarchy
	+ **King** Hisk-Hisk Malawang
	+ **Economy:** Based on fishing, agriculture and trading products such as sugar.
	+ **Capital:** Ganguyin
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 78.200**
		- **Ganguyin:** 6.579
		- **Rural Areas:** 71.621
		- **Ethnicities:** 89% Visayan, 11% Japanese
		- **Religion:** 79% Anitism, 21% Shinto-buddhsim
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:** Total of 782, 1%
	+ **Standing Army:**
		- Spearmen: 519
		- Bowmen: 165
		- Slingers: 40
		- Torchmen: 60
	+ **Reserves:** Total of 3128, 4%
		- Spearmen: 2076
		- Bowmen: 660
		- Slingers: 160
		- Torchmen: 240
* **Navy:**
	+ 15 transport ships
	+ Nankai Fune
* **Diplomacy:**
	+ **Ifugao:** We want to enter a royal marriage and merge to further our power together.
	+ **Tundo:** We send even more spies to gather information about their military.
* **Events:**
	+ **Prepare For War:** We start building supply lines to our southern border and fortify Pyngou further.
	+ **Big Village:** A sugar village turns a big profit due to the Japanese trade which makes it prosper making more people survive childhood and more people move there. It is called Amaiwou (sweet rock in Japanese but misspelled), it also becomes the main base of a small gang that sells drugs.
	+ **Leaf Gang:** Some dude discovered that smoking a leaf from a tree makes you high, tastes sweet, and so a drug is slowly being spread having its rots in the center of Lusong.

### **Byzantine Empire:**

* **Government: Absolute Monarchy**
	+ **Ruler:** Constantine VIII
	+ **Dynasty:** Domninian Dynasty
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade mainly through Constantinople where a variety of things are traded. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently thriving. Our most valuable and prized goods are silk and purple
	+ **Capital:** Constantinople
	+ **Cities:**
	+ **Constantinople: 910,000**
	+ Adrianople: 106,000
	+ Thessaloniki: 100,000
	+ Syracuse: 78,000
	+ Athens: 75,000
	+ Cities: ~2,000,000
	+ Rural Areas: ~8,000,000
	+ Total population: ~10,000,000
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population:** Greek 68.5%, Minorities: Italian 10%, Bulgar 6.5% Turks 6% Slavic 5%, Other: Khazar, Arabic 3%
	+ **Religion:** Eastern Patriarchy ~94%, Other: Judaism, Eslam, Zoroastrianism 6%
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **Standing army:** Total of 1% (~100,000)
	+ 40,000 Cavalry
		- 16,000 Cataphracts
			* 5,000 Cataphract archers
	+ 60,000 Infantry
		- 15,000 Akritai
	+ **Troop placement:**
* **Navy:**
	+ 53 Galleys
	+ 180 Transport ships
	+ 189 Dromons
	+ 89 Triremes
	+ 6 Venetian ships
	+ Aftokráteira tis Mesogeíou
* **Diplomacy:**
* **Events:**
	+ **Alanya:** After an administer noticed that 0.03% of taxes are missing then what we should be getting he noticed that a small piece of southern Anatolia was instead paying taxes to Hulm for whatever reason, perhaps we forgot something in the treaty of the crusade. Regardless we march in with a platoon of cataphracts proclaiming that they will no longer be paying taxes to some HRE minor and instead will rightfully go to the empire
	+ **Birth of Carail:** Having some thought into it the island of Sardinia is renamed to Carail, mostly after the regions capital. Plus, a new city, Asyra is founded to the north of the island. onto something else, although he has done some good things for us over there, the duke seems to think he is above the authority of the emperor, acting out on his own, and not wanting to take it hastily, we decide to secretly and slowly limit his ability to act independently while also getting his son to be more loyal to the central government.
	+ **Last thought for the pirates:** So they are working for some master somewhere, but without any really direct directions (heh) the information is noted and put on hold, while the captured pirates are turned into slaves.
	+ **Religious enticement of plutocrats and merchants:** While there are many opportunities of trade within Byzantium, converting to Eastern Patriarchy will give you a few benefits than those of other religions do not.

### **Khazar Khaganate:**

* **Government: Monarchy (Khaganate)**
	+ **Khagan:** Kanel
	+ **Dynasty:** Bulanid
	+ **Economy:** Most of the economy comes from trade with the Byzantium Empire, the Saljuq Empire, the Sajid Emirate and some other smaller nations. We also possess the ability to intervene in important sectors within the economy to make sure nothing goes off balance and are currently doin great.
	+ **Capital: Akashar**
	+ **Demographics:**
		- **Population: 74,7%** **Khazar, 12,6% Slavic, 9,4% Aabkhaz, 1.9% greek 1,4% Georgian.**
		- **Total population: ~2,373k**
		- **Cities: 555.83k**
			* **Akashar: 147.88k**
			* **Galgan: 115.36k**
			* **Karcha: 102.37k**
			* **Korstyam: 94.36k**
			* **Chersonesus: 31.37k**
			* **Kabalaska:** **22.36k**
			* **Aqwa: 18.6k**
			* **Thyaps: 17.37k**
			* **Mykolev: 13.36k**
		- **Rural Areas:** **~1,821.77k**
		- **Religion:** **83.5% Judaism, 12.8% Christianity, 3.7% Tengri.**
* **Wars and Conflicts:**
* **Military:**
	+ **First army: Total of 2% 47 460**
		- 28 993 Cavalry
			* 13 397 with Spears
			* 15 596 with Swords
		- 14 679 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 3 788 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Second army:** **Total of 1% 23 730**
		- 14 465 Cavalry
			* 6 682 with Spears
			* 7 783 with Swords
		- 7 188 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 2 077 Infantry with Spears and Shields.
	+ **Border Control: 1% 22 510 23 730**
		- 18 766 Infantry with Swords and Shields.
		- 2 126 Infantry with Spears and Shields
		- 2 838 Cavalry with Spears.
* **Navy**
	+ **For traversing the Caspian sea:​**
		- **29 Transport ships (trade/negotiations)**
		- **59 fishing ships** **(for fishing...)**
	+ **For traversing the black sea:​​​​​​**
		- **5 B-Galleys (For Larger Cargo and for more people to fit while traveling)**
		- **25 Transport ships (trade/negotiations with the Byzantine Empire)**
		- **24 traveling ships (travel between the Karcha strait)**
		- **76 fishing ships (for fishing...)**
* **Diplomacy:**
* **Production:**
* **Events:**
	+ **Border crossing illegal:** Normal patrols will continue to keep any travelers/merchants, people in general. Those insisting being sent to prison for 20 years, if they continue they'll be seen as Rus spies.
	+ **Plans of the South:** A plan is set up for an invasion of **Armenian county of Trebizond** so that we can have a closer port to eastern Byzantine ports.
	+ **Plans of the North:** A plan is built up for a future invasion of Volgas, the plan is to invade them and make split them into multiple vassals for each region.