Chapter 3.29 The Great Hunnic War III , 535-538
Chapter 3.29 The Great Hunnic War III , 535-538 CE
The Hunnic Empire dominates the east and the Ugekid is the most powerful Khanate in the West.
After the Hunnic Empire the most powerful Khanate was the Ugekid Horde, they had been the ones who had managed to turn off the light of the Etruscan civilization after centuries of glory (and decadence) and had expanded their domain to a large part of the Balkans and Germany, some even called them the "Hunnic Empire of the West " and they enjoyed a great prestige amongst their kin after their brutal conquest of Ravenna, the former capital of the Etruscan Empire. For the Mayan Empire, the Ugekid represented the barrier between peace and war in the long term which is why it was essential to continue the Great Hunnic War to the north and by doing that free more Christian territories from the nomadic yoke. The state of war was declared but the Mayan armies had to deal with a lesser threat before marching to the old Etruscan lands.
The Traditionalist revolt in North Africa had been happening in the background for the past six years without any advance on both sides aside from the liberation of some minor settlements in the Atlas mountains, because of it the Kuhul Ahau ordered the Imperial troops to hunt them down and put an end to that small rebellious fire before they could get support from the enemies of the Empire, For six years the Traditionalists fought to restore the old order in the Empire after the fall into heresy of the Kuhul Ahau, who not only consorted with heretics and was waging war against the Huns sacrificing the lives of the Mayan people in a conflict nobody wants and in the name of foreign interests but also was following the council of an Etruscan religious leader, the Pope. The Traditionalists did not revolt only to support the claim of Ixbalanque Q’uk’umatz, cousin of the Kuhul Ahau, but also to prevent the death of the old ways and the wrath of the Gods who were already being forgotten by the new generations of urban Maya in favor of the so called “Etruscan Faith” and alliances with foreigners, the same who in the past were enemies of the Empire, like the Germanic tribes who for almost a century used to raid and attack Mayan cities and villages.
Something that surprised the Traditionalists when they were restoring the old order in the Atlas Mountains was the discovery that the Maya-Berber who followed the Maya-Christian faith had not forgotten the ancient rituals and traditions of old and were pretty much supportive of the Traditionalist movement because the Kuhul Ahau was also forsaken his religious duties to them and was backing a foreign religious leader (the Pope). The Traditionalists in turn took the idea of the figure of Christ prohibiting human sacrifice and added it as an aspect of Q’uk’umatz, the feathered God serpent that was the patron of the royal house for generations, they could not accept a foreign deity into their pantheon like the Maya-Christians but this arrangement facilitated peace and the alliance between the two groups.
But the revolt, even if successful in a small scale was doomed to fail, and when the Imperial troops appeared in the horizon, both Maya-Christians and Traditionalist took up arms and fought in the Battle of Arebi.
The defeat of the Traditionalist movement was not the end of the old ways and when the Kuhul Ahau Balam-Quitze showed mercy towards the rebels, exiling all the survivors to the Blessed Islands (OTL Madeira) many traveled to the distant island to continue with the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Ixbalanqué Q’uk’umatz became the religious leader of the Traditionalists on the islands and they came to increase the number of people living there and made the small settlement around the Temple of Itzamna grow into a small city.
At the same time, the sun was shining less strongly and the temperature had dropped a few degrees, at the beginning, from the poorest Maya to the very Kuhul Ahau they thought that this was a punishment from the ancient gods for betraying them and abandoning the ancient tradition. of his people, but later it was learned that this was happening at the same time in many places at the same time because the crops would have had difficulties even in Egypt, interrupting the trade in the Mediterranean.
After that several plagues followed one after another with great rapidity, killing millions throughout the known world, in the Empire the mortality was concentrated in the coastal cities where they began to throw the corpses into the sea when they did not have space in the cemeteries to leave the bodies of the dead. In New Tikal the slaughter affected both the slaves and the nobles, dying thousands of Mayans, including the heir to the Imperial throne.
For the Traditionalists this was a sign that the sins of the Kuhul Ahau had drawn the fury of the Gods and that they had been right to rebel against their authority. Meanwhile, for the converts to the "Etruscan Religion" this was a sign that the Kuhul Ahau had been too soft on the pagans and that the delay in recovering the Christian territories from the Huns had enraged God.
Meanwhile, The Ugekid Horde retook all the Mayan lands conquered from the Hunnic Empire in 535 and were advancing towards Sicily, the Christian armies disembarked in Melfi not expecting the Huns to be awaiting for them.
Seeing that the battle was lost, the Maya troops fled to the south, where a contingent of mercenaries recently hired by the Kuhul Ahau were awaiting for them. Not all was lost and despite the great crisis that was being experienced throughout the world, the Maya and their allies still believed in their victory against the heathens.
The Hunnic Empire dominates the east and the Ugekid is the most powerful Khanate in the West.
After the Hunnic Empire the most powerful Khanate was the Ugekid Horde, they had been the ones who had managed to turn off the light of the Etruscan civilization after centuries of glory (and decadence) and had expanded their domain to a large part of the Balkans and Germany, some even called them the "Hunnic Empire of the West " and they enjoyed a great prestige amongst their kin after their brutal conquest of Ravenna, the former capital of the Etruscan Empire. For the Mayan Empire, the Ugekid represented the barrier between peace and war in the long term which is why it was essential to continue the Great Hunnic War to the north and by doing that free more Christian territories from the nomadic yoke. The state of war was declared but the Mayan armies had to deal with a lesser threat before marching to the old Etruscan lands.
The Traditionalist revolt in North Africa had been happening in the background for the past six years without any advance on both sides aside from the liberation of some minor settlements in the Atlas mountains, because of it the Kuhul Ahau ordered the Imperial troops to hunt them down and put an end to that small rebellious fire before they could get support from the enemies of the Empire, For six years the Traditionalists fought to restore the old order in the Empire after the fall into heresy of the Kuhul Ahau, who not only consorted with heretics and was waging war against the Huns sacrificing the lives of the Mayan people in a conflict nobody wants and in the name of foreign interests but also was following the council of an Etruscan religious leader, the Pope. The Traditionalists did not revolt only to support the claim of Ixbalanque Q’uk’umatz, cousin of the Kuhul Ahau, but also to prevent the death of the old ways and the wrath of the Gods who were already being forgotten by the new generations of urban Maya in favor of the so called “Etruscan Faith” and alliances with foreigners, the same who in the past were enemies of the Empire, like the Germanic tribes who for almost a century used to raid and attack Mayan cities and villages.
Something that surprised the Traditionalists when they were restoring the old order in the Atlas Mountains was the discovery that the Maya-Berber who followed the Maya-Christian faith had not forgotten the ancient rituals and traditions of old and were pretty much supportive of the Traditionalist movement because the Kuhul Ahau was also forsaken his religious duties to them and was backing a foreign religious leader (the Pope). The Traditionalists in turn took the idea of the figure of Christ prohibiting human sacrifice and added it as an aspect of Q’uk’umatz, the feathered God serpent that was the patron of the royal house for generations, they could not accept a foreign deity into their pantheon like the Maya-Christians but this arrangement facilitated peace and the alliance between the two groups.
But the revolt, even if successful in a small scale was doomed to fail, and when the Imperial troops appeared in the horizon, both Maya-Christians and Traditionalist took up arms and fought in the Battle of Arebi.
The defeat of the Traditionalist movement was not the end of the old ways and when the Kuhul Ahau Balam-Quitze showed mercy towards the rebels, exiling all the survivors to the Blessed Islands (OTL Madeira) many traveled to the distant island to continue with the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Ixbalanqué Q’uk’umatz became the religious leader of the Traditionalists on the islands and they came to increase the number of people living there and made the small settlement around the Temple of Itzamna grow into a small city.
At the same time, the sun was shining less strongly and the temperature had dropped a few degrees, at the beginning, from the poorest Maya to the very Kuhul Ahau they thought that this was a punishment from the ancient gods for betraying them and abandoning the ancient tradition. of his people, but later it was learned that this was happening at the same time in many places at the same time because the crops would have had difficulties even in Egypt, interrupting the trade in the Mediterranean.
After that several plagues followed one after another with great rapidity, killing millions throughout the known world, in the Empire the mortality was concentrated in the coastal cities where they began to throw the corpses into the sea when they did not have space in the cemeteries to leave the bodies of the dead. In New Tikal the slaughter affected both the slaves and the nobles, dying thousands of Mayans, including the heir to the Imperial throne.
For the Traditionalists this was a sign that the sins of the Kuhul Ahau had drawn the fury of the Gods and that they had been right to rebel against their authority. Meanwhile, for the converts to the "Etruscan Religion" this was a sign that the Kuhul Ahau had been too soft on the pagans and that the delay in recovering the Christian territories from the Huns had enraged God.
Meanwhile, The Ugekid Horde retook all the Mayan lands conquered from the Hunnic Empire in 535 and were advancing towards Sicily, the Christian armies disembarked in Melfi not expecting the Huns to be awaiting for them.
Seeing that the battle was lost, the Maya troops fled to the south, where a contingent of mercenaries recently hired by the Kuhul Ahau were awaiting for them. Not all was lost and despite the great crisis that was being experienced throughout the world, the Maya and their allies still believed in their victory against the heathens.
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