1125-1128
That's right. Lykia, a Byzantine Duchy that has been rebelling against it for decades (and the Byzantines have occupied it for decades without demanding annexation yet because they're dumb or something) has been taken over by Muslims.
And as you can see Venice has taken it over quite nicely, along with Ephesos and Samos, while the rest of the Byzantine Empire continues to languish, weakened by the departure of its most richest provinces including Nikomedeia, Athenai, and, well, Abydos.
Ah, child abuse. Is there anything you can't solve?
And GREAT news for us, the king of the Seljuk Turks is Schizophrenic!
Meanwhile those St. John guys were pretty pissed with not getting to have Acre or whatever so they spread heresy there. Now to stamp them out.
I don't even know what an Estates General
is, much less care! And why should I as long as it keeps giving me free money?
Oh wow
Kinslayer? Man, that's just sweet.
Ah, child abuse. Is there anything you can't solve?
Now we can sit back and relax and watch the Seljuk Turks fall apart. Most importantly, the Abbasid part. Suh-weet!
And since Stefan's wife could not be content with the King of the Seljuk Turks getting all the attention from her husband, who is watching his every move in hopes of having the Abbasids break away, she decides to go crazy, too.