@All: Sorry for the late and imperfect post this round. Got through almost all of it only to have Photoshop glitch and had to redo most of it, yadda yadda. Anyway, I'll finish up the history scroll & make a note when I add it in above.
@RGB: He asked.
@Nick2: Yeah, that was the only time that's ever happened to me before, either. Considering both the number of multiple marriages that already cropped up this game and the historical context (the Khazar khagans traditionally had a wife from each of their 30 tributory states,) though, I think I'd start editing in an extra wife or two if G-d hadn't expressed some divine disfavor* with this dynasty in a bit
*(y'know, other than by making Tarkhan so much less cool than his dad).
@Murm: Polygamy always seems like great idea until you actually think about the level of sniping, snarking and out-and-out bitching that would go on among the household. Even strict patriarchies that keep the women technically subservient and obedient just move all the political manoeuvering under the patriarch's radar.
Plus, that second wife in there was an in-dynastic cousin. Of their seven children (all daughters!), six were inbred and other was a depressed, overstressed schizophrenic. On the bright side, they're the daughters of the King of Isra'el and neices of the Messiah, so there were no lack of suitors.
@Confusion: As you can tell from the map, in this timeline, Poland and the Ukraine are the new Balkans. I was trying to get by without labelling each outpost, but here's the breakdown:
@Nick: Irony was not unbeknownst to the scribes, additionally it describes the way doves legendarily lose themselves among their mates so much they're kissed to death. Let's just say this Tarkhan didn't get a death by old age event.
@RGB: He asked.
@Nick2: Yeah, that was the only time that's ever happened to me before, either. Considering both the number of multiple marriages that already cropped up this game and the historical context (the Khazar khagans traditionally had a wife from each of their 30 tributory states,) though, I think I'd start editing in an extra wife or two if G-d hadn't expressed some divine disfavor* with this dynasty in a bit
*(y'know, other than by making Tarkhan so much less cool than his dad).
@Murm: Polygamy always seems like great idea until you actually think about the level of sniping, snarking and out-and-out bitching that would go on among the household. Even strict patriarchies that keep the women technically subservient and obedient just move all the political manoeuvering under the patriarch's radar.
Plus, that second wife in there was an in-dynastic cousin. Of their seven children (all daughters!), six were inbred and other was a depressed, overstressed schizophrenic. On the bright side, they're the daughters of the King of Isra'el and neices of the Messiah, so there were no lack of suitors.
@Confusion: As you can tell from the map, in this timeline, Poland and the Ukraine are the new Balkans. I was trying to get by without labelling each outpost, but here's the breakdown:
- Anything colored similarly to Fatimia is a part of it - including the FitzGerald caliphate of Slesvig
- Ditto the von Trapps (or whoever
) representing the HRE's interests in Lithuania, Herakleia, and Chechnia. - Ditto Poland, which has utterly shattered and includes holdings around Ansbach, Danzig, and fake Novgorod.
- Catalan Poland belongs to the former (& Catalan) king of Poland, who was overthrown by a vassal but left with his counties in Chernigov & Mordva
- The gold thing next to it is Kiev, which is locked in an eternal and incredibly dull war with its cousin Polotsk (in gray), during which they cycle around each other's kingdoms, besieging and taking and losing and retaking the same provinces over and over, signing a peace for some insignificant amount of gold in time for harvest, and then reDOWing each other the instant the snow thaws.
- The rest of the gold spread like a diaper rash across the thoroughly spanked principalities of northern Germany is, of course, Seljuk Turkey.
- Praha is held by the Knudlingas of Skane, who objected to their obnoxious kinslayer being ruled by another obnoxious kinslayer in Copenhagen. Their neighbors are shaded brown since they're outposts from Barbaria, which had done its part in the war against Zenatan Bohemia.
- Incidentially, just for grins, the two lime provinces near St Petersburg and Tver. . . yeah, that's where Bohemia relocated after Venice knocked her out of Morocco.
- & you were right: Foglia is English; London and Kent and Maine, Khazar.
@Nick: Irony was not unbeknownst to the scribes, additionally it describes the way doves legendarily lose themselves among their mates so much they're kissed to death. Let's just say this Tarkhan didn't get a death by old age event.
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