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Miaphysite Tutorial
1100 Timestamp: Madness
It was rumored that greatness had gone to Emperor Athom?s head. Maybe the dynasty was always crazy. But until now it had been to the Empire?s benefit. Restoring Rome would?ve been considered insane centuries ago after all.
It was not until the Emperor attempted to ban pants and install a kilts-only dress code that the nobility had taken enough of it.
Luckily for the Empire, Athom found himself dead on the battle field against the King of Burgundy during one of his many conquests. It is said that his last words were ?damned pants?. It was assured that his son Boghos would be less erratic.
Emperor Athom the Glorious. The first returned Caesar and a tragic figure if there was one. He was the man credited with restoring Rome to its proper glory even if it was his ancestors who paved the way. The most prestigious man in Europe. And yet the strain of his office took its toll on his mind. Historians prefer to focus on the early part of his reign as a result though the play ?Athom of Rome? was quite popular through the realm.
His reign lasted to the start of the tenth century, and Europe was a far different place than it was a hundred years ago. Namely, the Pretty Borders faction is ready to kill themselves over the state of their borders.
There was of course, himself. While he had a much less? noble nickname than his mad father Boghos was a very capable Emperor. He largely delegated the various dukes and counties to his vassal kings. He had moved the capitol to Rome on a whim, opting to bring some of the technology that the empire had deployed in Damascus to the traditional capitol.
The Roman Empire gets a decision to immediately move its capital to Rome, much the same way Byzantines get it for Constantinople. It?s not a great location considering that the Pope filled it with churches but it?s a more central location than Damascus.
The legendary Robin ve Safed and his Merry Men were given all the gold that they wanted to give to the poor, the marriage of Robin and Marian half a charity to the poor. Towards the end of his life, Robin was named King of Africa ? a title usurped from the Muslims.
To weaken the Lotharingian royals, the ancestral title of Frisia was reestablished and handed to a branch of the Karlings who?d gone native. He?d surrendered to the Romans during one of their many wars since Rome was reborn... and was rewarded handsomely. He may be the only Karling to remain in power once the Romans are satiated.
Another Karling had retained the title ?King of Aragon? but it was in name only. True power rested with a Basque duke, the Duke of Aragon. Time will tell if he can restore his namesake.
The Queen of Asturias is the last independent Christian power of note in the Iberian Peninsula. As skilled and ambitious as she is Anderquina wonders who will ultimately conquer her lands once she?s gone.
The Umayyad Sultanate had once been the most stable Muslim power in the world, more so than the Caliphate. Now it is broken and in the midst of a civil war. Between Rome?s dedication to Christianity and their insistence on restoring the old borders, their days are just as numbered as Asturias.
Abyssinia, the only other historically Miaphysite power of the world. Kings of Nubia, Somalia, and guardians of the twin holy cities of Medina and Mecca. Though they have lost their Egyptian lands to the Romans they are still not to be trifled with.
How the Caliphate has fallen.
The Sunni faith has almost been extinguished from its ancestral lands, the Caliphate finally resettling into the Abbassid dynasty?s hands. But it is a shell of its former glory with no hope of recovery. It is rumored that the Romans have a special hell in mind for them, that they will leave Azerbaijan for last in honor of the land they lost to them as Armenia.
Through luck and marriage, the Georgians have remained independent. The Romans do not have an easy way to conquer the region, and are instead allies in case of attack. He remains the only Orthodox power of note, as Rome is now the bastion of a different sect.
The Lithuanians are nearly impenetrable. Through some miracle they have started expanding into Finland and are ready to usurp Ruthenia as their own. It may just be that they are ready to revitalize the Romuvan faith just as their Viking counterparts to the north had.
Whether they can be more successful in other areas remains to be seen.
The Bagrationi experiment in Poland has ended with the death of their Queen. The Arapads of Hungary have supplanted them through the same marriage shenanigans that the Bagrationis were infamous for. He is not a skilled king, but he has the backing of Hungary to keep him in power. But he looks at the rest of Europe and grins. At least he?s not German.
Germany has never recovered from its Norse rule. Even with the Babenbergers having a large power base they find themselves under constant revolt. Charlemagne?s dream of a Holy Roman Empire is for all intents and purposes, dead.
England, Scotland, and Ireland are stable and devout Catholics but the tiny Kingdom of Wales? The King has embraced the Fraticelli heresy and its people have too. Under attack from the Scots, time will tell if he can stand.
The Norse Empire has been cracked in half. With the Queen of Norway?s husband revolting for control of the Empire, the Fylkir prays that Finland does not betray him.
The Rurikids remain the last Slavic power in the world, though they have never adopted Russian customs. Refil is a smart man, but he doubts he can fight off the Lithuanians and the Norse forever.
The remaining Tengri of the world unite under Cumania?s banner. They are starting to run up against more advanced powers however; even the Rurikids might be able to survive their assaults let alone the Georgians and Persians.
Ah, the Shah. While the Shia have taken over Baluchistan the Saffarids remain firmly in control of Persia. With the Ummayids and the Caliph under attack they remain unmolested. But this too may come to change.
Catholicism and the Sunni faithful find themselves on the retreat, a symptom in the rapid return of Roman rule. But Roman rule will not go uncontested forever?.
To Be Concluded: Fight the Horde (Or, How to Win Defensive Wars in CK2)