The Sultan of all Sand Castles - History of Khorasan

As it is, we must punish "Persia" for their cruel act. We immediately declare war on them while they are also at war with Genoa, no matter the stability cost. Of course all of our allies join the war also.





Our men just raided through their lands capturing every province possible in the central Persia while waiting for reinforcements from the Timurid and Mamluk empires.

Persian troops stormed the unfortified Khurasan but were soon driven away by massive Timurid armies pushing west.
They drove us northward from the central Persia, just for our occupation to be replaced by Timurid armies.



Our northern invaders seize the defendless provinces of Ak Koyunlu, they had no choice but to accept our peace terms.




Armenia was, however, soon occupied by the northernmost army of "Persia". Our men were being pushed further south towards Timurid's occupation zone, who had almost occupied majority of Persia already. We would have to ask for a peace soon as relatively large Persian army was heading towards our colonies in the south where Najd defense had failed, but we didn't except them to offer peace first.





It is very reasonable offer, but lets see if they accept our terms first.



Good. Very good. This will leave us as the single most powerful Empire in the east. Actually, we don't even know the northern and easternmost borders of ours.


Empire of Khorasan 21st November 1478.​

You know what they say, all roads lead to Khurasan or similar.​

As we now have Christians in our empire we decided to release Armenia as a vassal, they were causing too much trouble. Immediately they start building workshop in their one and only province, this is outrageous. We start investing to get workshops now instead of stability. Screw the people!

As it is now, Ethiopia is our biggest threat now with their 15 000 men running across Yemen and their provinces near my colonies. Well, lets hope they are of peaceful kind.
We also started improving our relations with Hedjaz so we could finally annex them and gain ownership of Mecca. In the backforest Europe, kingdom of Castille inherits Portugal making them the most powerful colonial Empire. Not that we care though.

While I was sitting under a palm tree eating some grapes, a messenger brings me very interesting news. The Ottomans have somehow managed to harass us and our people seem to think it's time to teach them a lesson.



This seems like a great idea, considering the situation where those mongrels are.



It's time to fight for once more!



Looks good. They are... incapable so to say.



Our battle plan is simple. We let the Mamluks do most of the job naturally while taking the easternmost provinces of Ottoman Empire, taking over Candar and Crimea to the north. Persia can handle Kaffa and our borders in a case where the Ottomans somehow manage to brake through.
We fought many tough battles with Candar until they finally gave up, lost both of their province and ceded one of them to us while also submitting to be our vassal. Good.
In Crimea we let Persia do most of the job while we rush for their only unfortified province and peace out taking that and forcing them to become our vassals - naturally.



After these events Austria decided to peace out with the Ottomans. We immediately sign a white peace with Wallachia, who are free now.

And that is when I inherited the throne of Korasan.



The war is going well, but as the Ottomans have gotten their full armies to guard the provinces in western parts of Anatolia, we cannot advance any longer. So we have to sign a peace with them, but it's at least a very profitable peace.



Soon after this peace our masterminds invent workshops and we immediately build one in Khurasan, our capitol. From now on, we will strictly stay out of wars and peacefully annex our vassals.



Damn right we are. The world is finally starting to realise that the east is controlled by the mightiest of them all.​

After nearly 40 years of relative peace, the bastards of Moscow decided it would be fun to own some Mongol land. Of course we join in to help our allies, not to mention that we have some chances as they are also in war with Kazan and Venice.



The Russians managed to fully invade Golden Horde and Astrakhan without much resistance, while we were desperately trying to siege their Black Sea holdings.



Even though we gained advancement in technology and re-equipped and trained our men, there wasn't much we could do.

We were advancing northward, but couldn't reach Moscow as there was a swamp or something between us and them, until our brave men decided to retrea... explore the unknown area.




Soon we were at the gates of Moscow but had to retreat from there as the Russians outnumbered us by far.




We had no other chance but to give them some land. Of course, all the land we gave belonged to Kazan, but what do we care?
Soon after that the provinces of Alimuly, Chuy and Ferghana became fully assimilated to our glorious nation.



Soon after the state of Hedjaz decided to give up their autonomy and our Empire grew once again.
Now we must just hope that Lithuania is mre interested of Muscowy than us as lately they have been gathering thousands of men on our border. Austria has been doing the same, but they seem to have a mission to wipe Ottoman Empire from the surface once and for all.​

Back in the East, our cartographers found some defects in the maps concerning our border with the Persians and thus, we claimed that Azerbaijan was really ours.



We hear a rumour that Muscowy has gone t war with Novgorod and Venice. This could be great in case Novgorod will manage to hold their ground, which we doubt as hey are also in a long war with the Polish Alliance.



We get curious and decide to find out why on earth is Venice always involved in a war with Muscowy? The answer was simple:



It seems that the Russians annexed Genoa which fell under their rule as a vassal, later revolted free from Venetian owned Corsica. Even lesser would anger them.

Venice does a successful landing to the Russian Crimea, but in the end they sign a white peace and Novgorod is now led from Moscow.



We have started building our first navy, consisting 3 transport ships and a galley. We also gained cores to on the three provinces we conquered from "Persia".

We have also finally managed to improve our yearly income from 3 ducats to 38. We also gain 1.50 ducats every month while losing 0.1 inflation, thanks to our national banks, if we reduce our military spendings.



Quite shockingly it seems like the Bedouins of Hedjaz do not like our presence there. Multiple revolts rise up and all of them head to siege Mecca. We chase them around Arabia with the "Persians" until they finally died to lack of water and food. All in all it took nearly 2 years.



Our relations were worsened with the Timurids as they laid claim on our Indian holdings. It doesn't matter as our relations are still excellent.



Finally.​

The Southern parts of North America, Central America and the Caribbeans are almost untouched, but there's some fierce competition going on over the glaciers of Canada.



France and Castille have also recently landed to Brazil, but anything can still happen there.