The Great Divide
The years following the initial conflicts with both the Aztec and Inca Empire were speckled with embezzlement, revolts, loss of stability, finding gold and depleted gold mines and the occasional loss of thousands of brave but unfortunate warriors.
For two decades the treasury and most advisors concentrated on regaining stability and keeping patriotic movements under control.
In the northern continent the situation was fairly simple. All territory was claimed save a few rough patches of inhabitable land. Vinland controlled most of it, Markland ruled part of the northeast, Fljótland ruled the entire north and Vestmanna ruled the Midwest.
In the southern continent, things were a bit more complicated. Castille and Portugal (yes, and even the odd Frenchman) held territory on the east coast and on the southern tip of the continent. Inca claimed everything west of the mountains, but had lost almost everything to the aggressiveness of the Viking League. Tupi and Mapuche were skraeling tribes that had recently converted to Christianity, just like the Aztec and Inca, and others. They controlled parts south the Portuguese border.
Since the 1590’s, explorers from Vinland had taken smaller armies over the mountain range, downstream what turned out to be an endless river.
The main military advantage the Amazon tribes had over the Vinlandic invaders was the terrain. It almost took 10 years to take over most of the area. When, after another 10 years the entire supply of gold and valuables was drained from the amazon, the last tribe was incorporated.
Tupi and Mapuche were guaranteeing the independence of both the Inca Empire and the Amazon Tribes and more than once in the early decades of the 17th century Vinlandic armies carried out full out attacks on them, often with disastrous results for themselves.
In the end, by 1620, Vinland had annihilated the Inca empire, the Amazon and Tupi skræling tribes.
Attrocities were unfortunately quite common (beheading of a native Inca, 1617)
To govern all this, many princes encountered the same difficulties. Some conquered areas were too remote, underdeveloped or outright rebellious.
Olav Eriksson, Folke Sørensson and Magnus Alvik strived to keep Vinland manageable by extending the Viking league.
They conquered the remains of the Aztec and Inca Empire and sold the titles to high bidding nobles.
Vinlandic noble on the Inca throne
Also, the area conquered on the northern continent was continually being reallocated, to benefit the military and economical base of Fljótland and Vestmanna. The latter gained a few ports from Vinlandic conquest and colonisation by 1620.
Magnus Alvik also sold the throne of newly conquered Hawaii. The Viking league now consisted of 9 members: chairman/overlord Vinland, Grænland, Markland, Fljótland, Vestmanna, the Aztek Ríki, the Inka Ríki, and the Hawaii Ríki.
In 1624, Aksel Søren was elected Prince of Vinland and overlord of the Viking League, receiving a fairly slimmed down, but still enormous realm.