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Once upon a time in Finland was a man named Erkki, he was the last surviving member of Juvaka family and leader of Savolaks.
He married a girl named Aili who gave birth to three healthy boy and a girl.
Nobody knew back then that these boys would become the key members of Juvaka bloodline, in their own special way.
This AAR is about youngest brother of Juvaka family and it is placed in Finland. Unification is second AAR in my Dynasty serries and all AAR in Dynasty serrie are apart from each other so nothing that happened in exsamaple in Duchy of Madness wont be in this, hopefully :wacko:
This AAR is going to star from 1066 and will continue all the way to the end of DD.
So this all starts from Finland, county of Savo(laks) and from the bane you can think about what is going to happen.
So first part of Dynasty: Unification part 1 is going to start tonight.
It was march 21 in the year 1067 when dark times arrived to Savolaks, Great mother Aili passed away and whole land mourned her.
Last of the people of Lauritsa were gone leaving behind a dream of an unified Finland. Not much time had passed from Ailis death when news came that Aimo High Chief of Karelia had died, he had been a very good friend of Erkki and also a liege of Jari.
People of Savolaks and Karelia didn´t mourn for long as now they had a new ruler from Savolaks, son of Erkki Juvaka, Jari Juvaka.
Imiedtly after Jari had been named as the high chief he began to complete the dream of Lauritsa, dream to unify Finnish people under one ruler. Jari made an alliance with Mielus of Tavast, husband of his daughter Hannele. Jari sent messengers to every known place where finnish people were known to be, messengers carried letters where Jari offered vasalization and better future.
In february 1068 answer came from Åland, Olaf Chief of Åland had accepted Jari offer to become his vassal, Jari was very happy finally the dream of Lauritsa could be true.
April 1068 Botulf Chief of Västerbotten agreed to become Jaris vassal and in May 1068 Thord Chief of Ängermanland also accepted Jaris offer.
Now that three tribes were under Jaris rule he could concentrate to help his people, he granted title of Chief to his son Tapani who would rule Karelen and later Onega.
Jari made a deal with Jukka high chief of Finland and father of his wife, that if Jukka dies without heirs Jari would inherit the throne. These deals were also made with Voitto High Chief of Kajanaborg, Ihala of Satakunta, Ikäpäivä of Kexholm and Mielus of Viborg.
With these deals future of Juvaka and finnish people was secured, for now. Jari knew that Russians in the east could be a threath and ordered his inventors to search new ways of fighting tactis and weapons, also fortification were build in the borders.
In year 1072 sorrow visited Finland again, Jukka High chief of Finland passed away leaving the throne to Jari.
Jari was certain that he would acomplish the dream of his father.
Year after Voitto of Kajanaborg died mysteriously and again Jari had gained more land.
June 1073 Ihala of Satakunta died in a hunting trip with Tapani Juvaka, more people came under the rule of Juvaka family and Jari decided to name his wife as the chief of Finland.
In december 1073 news came from east, Russians had attacked against Vodi and against finnish people but Jari couldn´t help people in Vodi, Russians had more man than Jari and their equimpments were better.
In year 1074 Ikäpäivä of Kexholm went to help Chief of Vodi but was killed during the fight that ended in defeat, Jari inherited the throne but losing Vodi to russians was a bad omen and months later Typhoid fever arrived from russia to Kexholm.
Year later last of the Old High Chiefs passed away and Viborg was added to Jaris rule, Finland was almost under the rule of Jari but stille there were High Chiefs in Tavast, Kemi and Kola, these three were young and all of them wanted to rule by themself.
In June 23, 1075 Sarak High Chief of Sames and Jari High Chief of Karelen met in Samoyed, there they made a deal that if Jari would help Sarak in war against Khazaria, Jari would inherit title of High Chief of Sames when Sarak would pass away. Jari agreeded in this and went back to Savolaks to prepare his army to this trip to east, armies from Västerbotten, Åland and the western parts of Finland arrived to Savolaks where Jari explained the situation, also High Chief of Kemi and High Chief of Kola came to Savolaks to plege themself under Jaris command. Jari was suprised that they had come but he needed every man he could get and in november 1075 Jari and his grand armies started their trip to east, to help their allies.
In June 1076 Jaris armies arrived to Zyrinne, that was controlled by Khazaria. Khazarians were taken by suprise when over three thousand finnish soldiers marched towards them.
Khazarians tried to stop them but soon they had to flee.
Few days later Zyrinne was in control of Jari, they build an camp thre and in June 7 messenger came from Samoyed, whit him was a letter which said that Sarak was died during the fight of Bulgar and Jari was now in charge.
Jari didn´t expect Sarak to die so soon but this was an excelent thing to raise up the morale of his people and he began his campaing to avenge Saraks death.
In August 1076 Jaris army laid a siege against Votyaki, Khazarians surrended after two days of fighting.
In September he won battle in Kama and liberated it.
Next target was Bulgar, capital of Khazar and in December 1076 Bulgar was in Jaris control.
Sultan Kol´n retreated to Bilyar where Jari pursuited him and engaged him in battle May 1077.
Battle was bloody but in June it ended in victory for Jari.
Few more provinces were liberated until in November 1077 Jari made a peace with Khazar leaving them with few provinces and a promise that Juvaka family would never attack them anymore.
Jari made his son Tapani to the ruler of the east provinces of Jaris rule, taking away Tapanis titles in Finland.
Jari was severly injured during the war and went back to Savolaks where he thought that he could live rest of his live in peace but soon he was betrayed by his own vassal in Satakunta.
Betrayal and Greater-Finland of Great Leader Jari
In February, 1078 news came to Jari that one of his vassals in Satakunta had rebelled against him and was now marching to proper-finland. Jari immidietly sent his best commander to take care of this problem, army of thousand men marched to Satakunta and by end of the month rebellion in Satakunta was defeated. Jari´s spymaster had learned that Mielus of Tavast had helped forming the rebellion and was behind the betrayal. When Jari heard about this he could´t bealive it, his daughters husband had turned against him but still Jari mobilized his armies and in April 1080 Jari marched with his armies to Nyland and seized it.
Mielus realized that only way out of this alive was to become vassal of Jari and so Mielus surrendered and gave the title of High Chief of Tavast to Jari.
Chiefs of Västerbotten and Ängermanland had taken lappland and it was put under Jaris rule.
Finnish people all over his realm started to call him as the Great Leader and started to celebrate his day every year in January the fifth. Jari was happy that his people were happy but disturping news came from chiefdom of Bjamiria, russians had attacked and they had seized almost all of its provinces.
Still Jari couldn´t afford to go war against russians but Jari had lost important trade route to his eastern provinces.
In year 1082 Jari declared that they would now be called as the tribe of Finland and that the capital would be moved Satakunta.
War against Russians
Greater-Finland was formed but its peace didn´t last long and in year 1084 russians launched an attack against them, russians marched to siege Oneiga but Oneigas defence held thans to Mielus of Kola.
Now that russian attack was defeated Jari could went straight to Novgorod and seize it, in May 1084 over six thousand men led by Tapani Juvaka attacked Novgrod.
The battle ended in May 28th in victory of Tapani, Novgorod was liberated in September 1084.
Tapani also liberated Psokov, Torzhok, Vodi, Velikiye Luki, Starya Russa, Chud, Beznetsky Vern, Znozerye.
In November 1086 Prince Rostilav sent a peace offer to Jari where he offered that they Rostilav will pay 500 gold pieaces if Jari accepts the peace, Jari accepted it and now he had opened a safe route to Sames. Jari began to be a little too old for this waring.
The former counts of Novgorod weren´t happy about the peace treaty with pagans. Counts of Trans-portage and Romny declared a war against finnish pagans in hope of that Novgorod would come to their help but Novgorod had lost Volodga and was forced to move in Bjarmia.
Russians were on the move to Novgorod but they were defeated once again by Tapani Juvaka who pursuited them back to Romny.
In April 1087 Romny was liberated and russians fled to Trans-portage but in July 1087 Trans-portages defence fell and last remaining russians fled to Bjarmia.
Tapani couldn´t pursuit them because of the peace between them and Novgorod but in december Jari gave a premission to attack Bjarmia and liberate it.
In february 1088 Bjarmia was liberated and russians were driven out of northen parts of russia.
Well actually there is one province that is under russian control if i remember right but ye finno-ugric people are under one ruler yes. And what come to the religion, yes christianity will come to Finland and it will come as the same time it did in real life so lets say 1150-1155 catholic religion will come to finland, maeby .
In July 1088 an old war wound started to bother Jari and soon he couldn´t come out of his chambres without help. Few years later in 1090 Jari wife Marit passed away and the land was mourning her days and night, in 1091 Curonians declared war upon Finland and tried to attack Chud from Vologda.
Thanks to commanders of finnish army Curonian attack was defeated and Vologda was liberated.
Armies led by Tapani Juvaka marched to Kurs and Memel to finish the war and by end of the year 1091 Memel and Kurs were under Jaris control but news came to Tapani in february 1092 to Kurs that Jari had killed himself when he had heard that his brother Seppo had died in war between Uppland and Poland, the war had ended 20 years ago but news had came now.
Tapani had lost both of his parents in such short time but that didn´t stop him to go war against Lettigallians.
Tapani went war against Lettigallians who had taken Narva from estonian people and were using them as slaves.
Tapanis armies crossed the gulf of Finland and took Narva with one single attack, after they had took Narva Tapani advanced towards Dorpat and Reval. Both provinces were taken in few weeks and some of Lettigallian people surrendered themself before Tapani had attacked.
These provinces were Livs, Lettigalian, West Divina, Orsha, Polotsk and Ösel. Tapanis armies marched to Zemigalians in June 1093 and it was taken month after. Army led by Mielus of Nyland landed Sambia in October 1093, they were to take it and wait for rest of Tapanis armies to come. Tapani decided that he would go straight to Checmiskie without going trough Marienburg, when Mielus hear about this he had now choice than attack Marienburg, Marienburg fell in December 1093 and Checmiskie month after. Tapanis campaing to avenge his father death was complete. Some said that Tapani blamed Poland for his fathers death and that he had thought that Lettigallia was Poland.
