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Shadow of the Empire

The Known World, Year 700

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Brief Summary

The last centuries have not been kind to the Imperial state. A once mighty and indomitable force that stretched from Mesopotamia to the northern shores of the Emerald Isle has been reduced far from its former glory. Decades of stagnation, mismanagement, invasion, corruption, and plague has taken its toll on the state.

The first of the dominoes fell in Italy. In 642, an amalgamation of Italian senators, natives, and generals orchestrated one of the first Imperial civil wars. In a matter of years, Imperial armies were dealt crushing defeats, and forced to largely abandon the province. Following the withdrawal, the unified coalition splintered, leaving the peninsula divided.

 

In the British Isles continuous pressure from both Highlanders and Seakings alike has slowly eroded Imperial authority. Weakening garrisons, destroying outposts, Imperial control of the region slowly slipped. By 653, British officials could no longer tolerate the stagnant Imperial rule, and cast off their rule.

 

Egypt, by far the most profitable Imperial province was thrown into a state of confusion by mid 660. A terrible defeat inflicted by invading Persians opened the door into the entirety of Imperial north africa. Persian armies penetrated deep into Egypt, leaving a large trail of death and destruction in their wake. The regional capital at Alexandria was even sacked towards the end of campaign. Following the humiliating defeats in Egypt and Judea, Imperial forces were unable to stop the separation of the provinces of Libya and Judea.

 

The most recent string of shortcomings to strike the Imperial realm have sprouted up in Iberia. Only four years ago, the rebellions in Iberia begun in full swing. Self proclaimed kingdoms and empires alike on the peninsula continue to wage war against Imperial forces, though no decisive confrontation has been made yet.

 

Now, with the assassination of the old Emperor Louis X. His son, the ambitious Charles III ascends to the Imperial throne, vowing to reclaim the lost territories and restore Imperial prestige. The future of the Empire, and the Mediterranean world as a whole hangs in the balance..

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OOC

The rules/mechanics can be found here [Click Me], Any questions can be brought up with me.
 

There will be a cap of 15 players this time around, more if I feel like it. Due to the limited player cap, it will come down to the quality of the application should the cap be met. So make sure your application is not bad...

 

Playable factions this time around have been somewhat reduced. Persia and the Empire are no longer playable. However, the following are:


Celtic States

-Highland Confederacy

-Clan Thomond 

-Clan O’Neil

 

British States

-Kingdom of Sumerset
-Kingdom of Mercia
-Kingdom of Wales

 

Sea Kingdoms

-Kingdom of Denmark

-Kingdom of Norway
-Kingdom of Sweden 

 

Iberian States

-Iberian Empire
-Kingdom of Leon
-Kingdom of Andalusia 

 

Italian States

-Republic of Venice
-Kingdom of the Lombards

-Roman Republic 
-Despotate of Syracuse
-Despotate of Tarentum

 

Greek States

-Byzantium
-Ionia
-Macedon
-Athens
-Epirus

 

North Africa & The Middle East
-Kingdom of Judea
-Kingdom of Libya
-Sultanate of Arabia 
-Imperial Province of Egypt


Tribes

-Khanate of Crimea
-Magyars
-Saxons
-Sicrii
-Vandals

 

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Application

 

Nation applying for:
BREIF History of your Nation:
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Leader(s):

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Nation applying for: Denmark
Leader(s): Hardeknud Sigurdsson

Brief History:

The Danes, Jutes, Angles, and numerous other tribes were once independent kingdoms of their own. However, 2 generations ago, the chieftain of the Danes, Haraldr, embarked on a great endeavour of uniting the peoples of Jutland and the Danish isles from his seat in Copenhagen. His success was unprecedented, and it was not long before a Kingdom of Denmark was created.

In the years since, the Danish have rapidly expanded their influence in the North Sea. A sizable fleet was constructed for the conquest of tribes in the Low Countries. After the Norwegians and Swedish embarked on their own conquests in England, the Danish attempted their own conquest, led by Hardeknud, son of King Sigurd. The English were still recovering, and so they were successful in claiming these lands.

However, the Norwegians has mounted an invasion of Denmark while their armies fought across the sea, capturing numerous holdings in the Low Countries. Worse still, Sjaelland was conquered, and King Sigurd slain.

Hardeknud and his court are now based in Aarhus, waiting to return to their true homeland.

Discord: you got it 

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Nation applying for: Egypt

 

BREIF History of your Nation: Centuries ago proud armies of the Empire have descended on a realm in the far corner of the known world. ‘Egypt’ was under the Ptolemaic dynasty, and had a proud Greco-Macedon heritage. That all changed as the Empire descended on them in droves. Over a few decades the war raged. Egypt was powerful, but terribly mismanaged. The Empire was in their peak power. Eventually, they won by way of pure numbers.

 

But now the Empire grows weak, and Egypt is cut off from it’s Rulers. Emilio Fauchex now rules as a reluctant Governor turned some form of King. Though he would not dare proclaim an actual Kingdom, that’s essentially what Egypt has become. Cut off from home, left to its own devices. Governor Fauchex was a former Parisian born solider for the Empire. He was one of the last Regiments to arrive in Egypt, barely sixteen. But throughout the turmoil of the Libyan and Jewish successions, he had earned serious acclaim as a commander of Heavy Infantry. Now almost seventy, he finds himself alone.

 

Leader(s): Governor Emilio Fauchex [Iberian mother, French father, born in Paris.]

Heinrich Von Steuben [German born Imperial General]

Maximillian ‘Storm’ [Egypt’s top ‘Quartermaster’]

[More to come in Rp!]

 

 

Egypt 

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Nation applying for: The Most Holy & Righteous Kingdom of Leon
BREIF History of your Nation:

 

holy knight

 

 

God was cruel when he saw fit to test my vows. He waited until I was old. What could I do when the messangers brought the news from the South? The ruin of my house. The death of my family. I was helpless, old, frail, but when I heard they had killed my brother's son, and his poor son, and the children. Even the little children!” – His Highness Bartolome, speaking to his court upon the celebration of the first year of their Independance.

 

 

The Kingdom of Lèon is born of the outrage of one man. A man of god, cloistered in a monestary in the heartlands of the Empire. He was once a lord in Iberia, a son of the family of Lèon, a noble family of the region. But he saw fit to rebel, to be a abble-rouser, to drink and ***** and kill. For this, he was brought to a monestary and shown the way of God. 

 

He swore to never lift a sword again, to never shed blood again. To never break his word, lie, steal or go against the letter of the Bible. To bear no crown, to have no riches. He grew old here, content, at peace with himself and with God. When the rebellion broke out in Lèon in 696, he was old. A man of sixty summers, worn by time. 

 

But the Empire struck down his family in a vengeful wrath. Killed the children of his brothers, slaughtered his sisters and their daughters. Raped and pillaged the estate and wiped out his family line, down to the last babe. Or so they thought. For one brave man, a knight of the House of Lèon, sworn to the death to fight in their name, bore a single babe into the heart of the Empire. With his dying breath he imparted the babe upon Bartolome at the gates of the Monastery. “Juan,” he whispered, his throat dry, his body withered. “Juan is his name. Heir to the Kingdom. Heir to our future.”

 

Every man faces his greatest trial, one day or the other. His greatest challenge, his deepest fear. Bartoleme feared but one thing. He feared failure. Failure in his vows to God. But it was God who guided him, he determined. It was God who made him take his few posessions and steal into the night. God who brought him across the Empire, through the War-torn mountains and into the strife-ridden lands of Lèon. God who put a crown of wood and thorns upon his brow. God who gave him the warhammer with which he felled his first man in half a century. God who guided his precious gift back to Lèon.

 

Now he stands at the head of a proud nation, his eyes burning with the passion of a zealot, his brow drapped with a crown of thorns and in his hands, a hammer. For he will shed no blood, wear no crown, steal no gold and lie to no man. 

 

He would burn away Satan’s corruption and give Juan, the true Chosen of God, his realm. A battle of heaven and hell for the sanctity of the entire christian world. And King Bartolome, God-Chosen, would lead it to his dying breath.

 


Leader(s): The God-Chosen King of Leon, Bartolome Cristoval Alonso de Lèon

 

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Nation applying for:

Senatus Populusque Romanus

 

Brief Summary/History: 

 

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It has been fifty eight years since the last Triumph paraded through the Capital. Fifty eight years since the shackles of a tyrannical Empire were casted off. But in the decades that followed, no great peace was brought along with the victory.

 

Following the vanquishing of Imperial Authority within the peninsula, the Republic fell into stagnant squabbling - Senators were more interested in the affairs of clandestine politics than they were in the ensuring of Roman prosperity. It was in this result that the Republic lost its great status as the forefront nation of all Italy. It’s sister Republic in the north, Venice, soon over taking the great city.

 

Fifty eight yearsThe People of Rome, plebeians and patricians alike lost faith in the capability of the Senate. The corruption made its way to the everyday living of the people, affecting the prices of basic amenities, fueling the growing discontent. From this cesspit arose Manius Valerius Maximus, a man with the backing of the plebeian, a Senator born from their ranks. As this Senator was made the Tribune of the Plebs, his hands were forced, the Optimates of Rome having attempted the assassination of his own person.

 

Few knew of the grand plans put into action as a result of these consequences - the Maximian Party would soon rise to supreme power within the Republic. Throughout the City of Rome, dozens of ranked politicians were found slaughtered, from all sides of the political spectrum - Legions were mobilized as the whispers of civil war were being spread. The Republic was on the brink of tearing itself asunder. 

 

But in this chaos, Senator Manius assumed supreme position - utilizing his own forces, he infiltrated hundreds of armed combatants into the Capital, breaking a taboo that only the Frankish Imperials had broken before. The Senate was put under arrest, and the Government was temporarily put out of commission. It was a decisive blow for the corrupted elements of the Republic.

 

In the following months, Senators were trialed, and their punishments based on the severity of their actions. It was a public affair, held in the forum between the Palatine and Capitoline hills, where all were invited to bear witness to a momentous event. And as expected, the people revelled in the displays of justice being issued out, for it brought about hope, the anticipation that the Republic was on the cusp of greatness.

 

From these actions, Manius was elevated to the position of a paragon, held responsible for looking after the needs of the people. With the unanimous backing of his newly installed Senate, he made himself the Dictator of Rome, supreme overseer of all politics within the Republic.

 

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Leader: Dictator Manius Valerius Maximus

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Nation applying for: Saxons
BREIF History of your Nation:

Saxony as it is had withstood the trials of time and repeated efforts by the Franks to subjugate and Christianize the peoples. Germania as it is, is a country still largely shrouded in mystery. Warriors, brutes, pagans, and the like dot the land. The civilized peoples of the the Mediterranean are right to fear them and their savage resolve. The Saxons grew across the Rhine, consolidating their power and their hold over the tribes. Meanwhile, the Franks weakened and decayed ever so slowly over the years. Perhaps the time was ripe to renew incursions into the Empire. Who knows what riches and glory they may find and return? Yet the King of the Saxons knows they cannot rely on warfare and raids... they must adapt and overcome, lest they become a footnote in history.
Leader(s): Chloderic, King of the Saxons

Discord: lichi

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Nation applying for: Kingdom of Mercia

BREIF History of your Nation: Yeah so, 700 AD Right? The Kingdom of Mercia is busy with some internal conflicts regarding some murders of the children of Aethelred, he is busy collecting his power. 

Must confine with stated above, you have some creative freedom
Leader(s): Aethelred I, Eormenred of Kent

Discord: LOL You got it.

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Nation Applying For: Kingdom of Epirus

 

BRIEF History: The Kingdom of Epirus has often been at odds with their neighbouring Kingdom, Macedon. Countless invasions into Epirus have been driven back, yet there is still fear that the Macedonians will return. Militarisation and alliances to protect the independance of Epirus will be crucial to ensure it’s survival.

 

Leader: Phyrrus VI

 

Discord: You got it

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Applying For: Unam, Sanctam, Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam.

 

Brief History: After Pentecost, and after God had invested Saint Peter with the power to bind and loose whatsoever he wilt, the Apostles and Church Fathers after them went in all directions. Saint Peter and Paul were martyred by the Roman Republic, where the former had established the See of Peter in order to be a ‘middle point’ toward the eastern churches of Egypt, Greece and Ionia, and the great Frankish church.

 

Over the next few hundred years the Christians received varying levels of acceptance, from toleration in some places, to intense persecution in others. But the church overcame, and converted much of Italy, Greece, most of Ionia, Francia, Iberia, Egypt, Libya, Africa and, recently, the peoples that are called ‘Anglici:’ the English. 

 

In the Year of Our Lord 700, Pope Urban II takes the throne, himself an Anglo Saxon, from a generation of priests converted by St. Augustine of Canterbury. His main goal is to spread and propagate the Faith at all costs. 

 

Leader: Pope Urban II

 

Discord: You have it

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Nation applying for: “REPUBLIC” OF VENICE

BREIF History of your Nation: THE VENETIAN “REPUBLIC” BEGAN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO BY AN ENGINEER NAMED “ARETHMETICE”. HE LEARNED FROM BOARDGAMES AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, AND MANAGED TO CREATE A BASIC ARITHMETIC MACHINE. EVENTUALLY, OUTCAST BY THE DECLINING EMPIRE AND DISGUSTED BY CONSTANT CIVIL WAR, HE FORMED A COMMUNE ON THE WATERS OF THE VENETIAN LAGOON. HE ATTRACTED OTHERS TO THE ISLANDS, CLAIMING THEY WERE A “REPUBLIC”, BUT ACTUALLY THE ISLANDS WERE A THEOCRATIC MERITOCRACY. THE VENETIAN “REPUBLIC” HAS GROWN IN THE BAY WITH IT’S EFFICIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT TO HAVE SLIGHTLY OVER A MILLION PEOPLE IN THE CITY ITSELF, WITH SHIPS COMING IN AND OUT THROUGH EVERYDAY, IT IS THE TRADING CAPITAL OF ALL HUMANOIDS. LASTLY, THE VENETIAN “REPUBLIC” HAS GONE TO WAR WITH NEIGHBOURING LANDS AND EXTERMINATED THE POPULATIONS, REPLACING THEM WITH ROBOTIC VENETIAN CITIZENS. TODAY THE CITY OF VENICE IS A SPRAWLING METROPOLIS CENTRED ON A GREATLY ENLARGED ARITHMETIC MACHINE, HELPING TO CONTROL AND REGULATE ALL VENETIANS.

Leader(s): HEAD MATHEMATICIAN, CALCULATROS IS THE LATEST ADDITION OF VENETIAN TO COME OUT. HIS BRAIN IS CAPABLE OF ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL ABILITY, NECESSARY TO RUN AN EMPIRE IN THIS AGE. PASING ALL STATE EXAMINATIONS WITH FLYING COLOURS, HE WILL BE EXPECTED TO REPLICATE HIMSELF TO INCREASE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF VENICE.

Discord: THIS IS WITHIN YOUR KNOWLEDGE, HUMAN.

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Nation applying for: “REPUBLIC” OF VENICE

BREIF History of your Nation: THE VENETIAN “REPUBLIC” BEGAN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO BY AN ENGINEER NAMED “ARETHMETICE”. HE LEARNED FROM BOARDGAMES AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, AND MANAGED TO CREATE A BASIC ARITHMETIC MACHINE. EVENTUALLY, OUTCAST BY THE DECLINING EMPIRE AND DISGUSTED BY CONSTANT CIVIL WAR, HE FORMED A COMMUNE ON THE WATERS OF THE VENETIAN LAGOON. HE ATTRACTED OTHERS TO THE ISLANDS, CLAIMING THEY WERE A “REPUBLIC”, BUT ACTUALLY THE ISLANDS WERE A THEOCRATIC MERITOCRACY. THE VENETIAN “REPUBLIC” HAS GROWN IN THE BAY WITH IT’S EFFICIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT TO HAVE SLIGHTLY OVER A MILLION PEOPLE IN THE CITY ITSELF, WITH SHIPS COMING IN AND OUT THROUGH EVERYDAY, IT IS THE TRADING CAPITAL OF ALL HUMANOIDS. LASTLY, THE VENETIAN “REPUBLIC” HAS GONE TO WAR WITH NEIGHBOURING LANDS AND EXTERMINATED THE POPULATIONS, REPLACING THEM WITH ROBOTIC VENETIAN CITIZENS. TODAY THE CITY OF VENICE IS A SPRAWLING METROPOLIS CENTRED ON A GREATLY ENLARGED ARITHMETIC MACHINE, HELPING TO CONTROL AND REGULATE ALL VENETIANS.

Leader(s): HEAD MATHEMATICIAN, CALCULATROS IS THE LATEST ADDITION OF VENETIAN TO COME OUT. HIS BRAIN IS CAPABLE OF ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL ABILITY, NECESSARY TO RUN AN EMPIRE IN THIS AGE. PASING ALL STATE EXAMINATIONS WITH FLYING COLOURS, HE WILL BE EXPECTED TO REPLICATE HIMSELF TO INCREASE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF VENICE.

Discord: THIS IS WITHIN YOUR KNOWLEDGE, HUMAN.

W E L C O M E T O C A L C U L A T O R L A N D

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    Nation applying for: Clan O’Neill 

BREIF History of your Nation: After the Island of Éire was subdued by the Empire for 300 years most Clans stopped fighting and swore fealty to the Empire. And there was ‘peace’ and prosperity as they ‘civilized’ the island building roads and building cities and teaching the native people their ways. Eventually Clan O’Neill headed by Aodh Mór Ó Néill together with a southern clan Tuamhain they struck the empire while it was weakened and busy elsewhere and now the only place on the island still under Imperial control is the city of Cork and its surrounding lands.

 

Must confine with stated above, you have some creative freedom

    Leader(s): Aodh Mór Ó Néill

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