Yeah, yeah. The Grand Hormuzi Merchant Empire would like to place an order for several Indian trading ports.
Do you take cheque?
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Yeah, yeah. The Grand Hormuzi Merchant Empire would like to place an order for several Indian trading ports.
Do you take cheque?
Court of Mandu - The City of Joy & Pleasure - Home of the Khalji Sultans
One day it would be said that If there is one thing the Khalji sultans of Malwa enjoyed it was food and the good things in life. While this was true for Mahmud Khalji himself, the founder of the dynasty, it drove his ambition rather than leading to the complacency that his successor would be accused of.
At times he would spend hours in the higher parts of the mountain fortress of Mandu, just watching the surrounding countryside, and all the land he desired to own. From the hills of Rewa Kantha, with the infamous fortress of Pavagadh above Champaner to the Tapti river valley and the Deccan upland beyond it.
As a self made man Mahmud had spent most of his time setting up his kingdom for success. In the wake of the Delhi Sultanate's fall, and the sack of its capital by Amir Timur, India had been up for the taking. To the north, east and south a myriad of minor Rajas and Sultans had realized that this was their time. Mahmud and the other Malwa Sultans had been the men to extinguish many such dreams and now their influence extended from Kalpi on the border of the northern Jaunpuri plain to the Gond hills of Garha-Mandla and even further south Kherla.
Of course the Malwa Sultanate was not without rivals. To the west the maritime kingdom of Gujarat was a potential rival, and further south the Bahmani sultans were said to be rich beyond the wildest dreams of any man. In the far north the Sultan of Jaunpur had usurped much of what was once the Delhi heartland, right at the doorstep of Malwa's vassal kings in Kalpi and Mahoba.
Today Mahmud Shah's thoughts were not on Gonds or other Sultans however. Today he was looking north at the hated state of Mewar, the Rajput kingdom that had recently and humiliatingly defeated him, and which had now just gone through a bloody internal struggle.
All this made Mahmud Shah hungry...
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I may or may not have taken some liberties with how far the view of Mandu actually takes you - perhaps the power hungry sultan has powers of perception, or ambitious fantasies, beyond what physics would lead us to assume)
@omfgBlondie is back from being sick and is now working hard on the player profiles. Though now I'll let the full player list be a secret until we reveal the player profiles, as a testament of the sweat, blood and tears he put into it.
つ ◕_◕ ༽つ BLONDIE TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
つ ◕_◕ ༽つ BLONDIE TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Scotland has no time for fancy words and long speeches. Suffice to say; no longer will we suffer the oppression of the English tyrants. Our independence was hard won and we will not surrender it, we shall repel them time and time again and when Scottish soil has drunk enough English blood to be satisfied we shall march south and show them the true meaning of Scottish freedom!
Scotland has no time for fancy words and long speeches. Suffice to say; no longer will we suffer the oppression of the English tyrants. Our independence was hard won and we will not surrender it, we shall repel them time and time again and when Scottish soil has drunk enough English blood to be satisfied we shall march south and show them the true meaning of Scottish freedom!
What about the North?....
"Most of the ducal soldiers were not killed by enemy arms, but drowned."
Well now, that just seems excessive.
I see your Battle of Hemmingstedt and, somewhat anachronistically, raise you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs*
*Not -technically- without nobles on the Flemish side, but extremely few
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I still say Battle of Hemmingstedt still cooler, plus the 50 years of continuous defeat afterwards as Denmark tries to subdue them. And that's coming from being on the losing side.
Who cares about peasants and knights in far away swamps?
What can you bring to the actual (dinner) table?
The sultans of Malwa are not impressed.
What can you bring to the actual (dinner) table?
The sultans of Malwa are not impressed.
Just watched an early draft of the Devclash PP. It is glorious beyond comprehension...!
Think I'm pretty much guaranteed to survive this time.I just hope Groogy will survive his first session this time
You should be impressed if I manage to die this time