I'm looking for every single Byzantine event in existence right now. Home made, EEP made, never seen before, realistic, unrealistic, historic, unhistoric. All of them. If you could satiate my appetite, I would be most pleased.
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Can't you make some for your self?
To get the EEP's you should install it to a file (e.g. C:\EEP) and take out the events (or the goodies you could call them ). "C:\" being your main hard drive.
EDIT: I personally have none.
To get the EEP's you should install it to a file (e.g. C:\EEP) and take out the events (or the goodies you could call them
). "C:\" being your main hard drive.EDIT: I personally have none.
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I'm not wanting to play the events I've made, I want to see some of the events other people have made. Alot of people have said in the past they have lots of self-made events they play with. I'd like to play with them. Thus I'm asking for them.
Pretty please?
I'm not wanting to play the events I've made, I want to see some of the events other people have made. Alot of people have said in the past they have lots of self-made events they play with. I'd like to play with them. Thus I'm asking for them.
Pretty please?
Come on.. please?
I know Shadowstrike has said he has lots of them he's made. Other people are always saying how they have events that make it harder for Byzantium or somesuch. I want to see/play with them!
I know Shadowstrike has said he has lots of them he's made. Other people are always saying how they have events that make it harder for Byzantium or somesuch. I want to see/play with them!
I don't have any to give you, I'm afraid, but I just thought I'd let you know your subject was funny.
I have some events from my postponed (or maybe just abandoned) Byzantium Scenario Trilogy plucked right from John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium:
(some tags do not really exist and are just to describe country)
###Byzantium Events by Chanda "Phillip V" Choun###
#Abdication of Romulus Augustulus#
event = {
id = 1
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Abdication of Romulus Augustulus"
desc = "In 476, a Gothic barbarian general named Odoacer deposed the boy-Emperor Romulus Augustulus, provided him with a generous pension and sent him off to live in peaceful obscurity with relatives in Campania. He sent ambassadors to Constantinople to inform Emperor Zeno of the new dispensation and to hand over to him the imperial insignia of the West as a sign that he, Odoacer, made no claim to soveriegnty for himself. All he asked was the title of Patrician, in which rank he proposed to take over the administration of Italy in the Emperor's name."
style = 1
date = { day = 16 month = september year = 477 }
action_a = {
name = "Grant the title."
command = { type = relations which = GOT value = 100 }
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
}
action_b = {
name = "We must remove the barbarian!"
command = { type = war which = GOT }
command = { type = stability value = -3 }
}
}
#Fall of the West; Rise of the Papacy#
event = {
id = 2
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Fall of the West; Rise of the Papacy"
desc = "Did the abdication of Romulus Augustus on September 4, 476 really mark the end of the Roman Empire in the West? The Empire, surely, was one and indivisible; whether it was ruled at any given moment by a single Augustus, or two, or even three or four, was purely a matter of administrative convenience. And was not Odoacer always at pains to emphasize the Emperor's continued soveriegnty over Italy? Was he, in fact, any different from any of those other barbarian generals at the seat of power - Arbogast, Stilicho and the rest? The answer is that he was - for he had refused to accept a Western Emperor. In the past those Emperors, puppets as they may have been, bore the title of Augustus, being thus both symbols and constant reminders of the imperial authority. Without them, that authority was soon forgotten. Odoacer had requested the rank of Patrician; but the title that he preffered to use was Rex. In less that sixty years, Italy would be so far lost as to need a full-scale reconquest by Justinian. It would be over three centuries before another Emperor appeared in the West; when he did, his capital would be in Germany rather than in Italy, and he would be a rival rather than a colleague - not a Roman, but a Frank. Odoacer's decision also created a political vacuum in the old capital. Instinctively, men looked for another father figure. And so they raised up the bishop of Rome, already Primate of Christendom, investing him with temporal authority as well as spiritual and surrounding him with much of the pomp and semi-mystical ceremonial formerly reserved for the Emperors. The age of the medieval Papacy had begun."
style = 1
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 478 }
action_a = {
name = "The Western Empire is gone."
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}
#Schism Between the Churches#
event = {
id = 3
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Schism Between the Churches"
desc = "The one major problem that Zeno failed to solve in his lifetime was the religious one: the monophysite heresy continued to gain ground. In 482 Zeno and Patriarch Acacius together had sought to paper over the differences by affirming that Christ was both God and man, avoiding the word 'nature' altogether; but had only aroused the hostility of both sides. Most outraged of all was Pope Felix III, especially after the appointment to the Patriarchate of Alexandria of Paul the Stammerer, a cleric whose utterances, when comprehensible at all, were violently monophysite in character. At a synod in 484, Pope Felix had actually excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople - a sentence which, in default of anyone courageous enough to pronounce it, had been transcribed on to a piece of parchment and pinned to the back of Acacius's cope during a service in St. Sophia. The Patriarch, discovering it later, instantly excommunicated him back, thereby confirming an open schism between the Churches that was to last for the next thirty-five years."
style = 1
date = { day = 16 month = january year = 484 }
action_a = {
name = "This is terrible!"
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}
#Rival Court at Antioch#
event = {
id = 4
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Rival Court at Antioch"
desc = " A serious insurrection broke out in 483, the central figure of which was the Isaurian General Illus, who had helped Emperor Zeno to power. He acted, admittedly, under considerable provocation. First, one of the imperial slaves had been found lying in wait for him, drawn sword in hand. Then, 478, the palace guards had discovered another would-be assassin who confessed that he had been acting for the Prefect Epinicus and the Empress Verina. Realizing that his life was now in serious danger, Illus retired for a while to his Isaurian homeland. In September 479 an earthquake severely weakened the city walls and Zeno, fearing that the Goths might sieze the opportunity to attack, recalled him to the capital; but the general refused to enter the city until Verina was surrendered in his charge. Zeno had no love for his mother-in-law and was only too happy to comply; the Dowager Empress was immured in an Isaurian fortress. After that, Illus was appointed Master of the Offices, a sign of high favor; but one day in 482, as he was entering the Hippodrome, he was attacked without warning by a member of the imperial guard. His armor-bearer managed to deflect the blow, but the blade sliced off his right ear. This time the instigator of the crime proved to be the Empress Ariadne herself, taking her revenge on Illus for his treatment of her mother.
At this point the Master of the Offices prudently retired again to Anatolia. Almost immediately, however, a revolt broke out in Syria, where a certain Leontius was attempting to restore the old pagan religion; and Illus was ordered to take command of the Eeastern armies and restore imperial rule. Probably grateful for this opportunity to prove himself once again in the eyes of his soveriegn, he hurried at once to Syria; only on his arrival did he discover the local commander to be the Emperor's incompetent and profligate brother Longinus, who deeply resented this usurpation of his authority. A violent quarrel ensued, and Illus had Longinus arrested and imprisoned.
It was a high-handed action to take against so powerful a rival; but the Emperor's reaction was still more ill-judged. He ordered his brother's immediate release, denouncing Illus as a public enemy and confiscated his property, thereby driving him into the opposing camp. Illus now made common cause with the rebel, and the two of them together released the old Empress Verina; she triumphantly crowned Leontius at Tarsus and accompanied him to Antioch, where on June 27, 484, he established a rival court."
style = 1
date = { day = 27 month = june year = 484 }
action_a = {
name = "Crush the rebels!"
command = { type = independence which = LEO }
command = { type = war which = LEO }
command = { type = stability value = -2 }
command = { type = trigger which = 5 }
}
action_b = {
name = "Let them be."
command = { type = independence which = LEO }
command = { type = stability value = -2 }
}
}
#New Ally#
event = {
id = 5
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "New Ally"
desc = "Leontius and Illus seem to have been content for the time to remain where they were - giving Zeno plenty of time to find new allies, among them a young barbarian named Theodoric, Prince of the Ostrogoths, who now agreed to lead an army of his subjects against the rebels."
style = 1
action_a = {
name = "I agree!"
command = { type = INF which = -2 value = 6000 }
command = { type = CAV which = -2 value = 2000 }
command = { type = wakeleader which = xxx (Thedoric) }
command = { type = treasury value = -100 }
}
action_b = {
name = "No, thank you."
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}
#End of the Rebellion#
event = {
id = 6
trigger = {
event = 10003
owned = { province = 483 data = -1 }
owned = { province = 485 data = -1 }
}
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "End of the Rebellion"
desc = "The rebels were soon driven back into their Isaurian heartland. Here Verina died, lamented by no one; and here Illus and Leontius were obliged to surrender. Their heads were cut off and sent to Constantinople. The rebellion was at an end."
style = 1
date = { day = 28 month = june year = 484 }
action_a = {
name = "Splendid!"
command = { type = stability value = 2 }
}
}
#Theodoric#
event = {
id = 7
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Theodoric"
desc = "Born around 454, Theodoric had spent ten years of his boyhood as a hostage in Constantinople; and though he may have gained little intellectually from the experience - all his life he signed his name by stencilling it through a perforated gold plate - he aquired an understanding of the Byzantines and their ways which served him in good stead when, in 471, he succeeded his father as the leader of the Eatern Goths. The main purpose of his early life was to secure a permanent home for his people. To this end he had spent the better part of twenty years fighting, sometimes for and sometimes against Zeno; and both must have welcomed the agreement, made in 487 or early 488, that Theodoric should lead his entire people into Italy, overthrow Odoacer and rule the land as an Ostrogothic Kingdom under imperial soveriegnty. Early in 488 the great exodus took place: men, women, and children, with horses and pack-animals, their cattle and sheep, lumbering slowly across the plains of central Europe in search of greener pastures."
style = 1
date = { day = 16 month = january year = 488 }
action_a = {
name = "A burden has been lifted."
command = { type = treasury value = -200 }
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
}
}
#Anastasius is Boring#
event = {
id = 8
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Anastasius is Boring"
desc = "'Reign Anastasius!' the people shouted when the Emperor first appeared before them in the imperial purple. 'Riegn as long as you have lived!' Anastasius did so; and if his subjects found life under his rule more irksome than they had expected, they had only themselves to blame. His chief defect was parsimoniousness - a failing which, combined with a strong puritanical streak, made Constantinople a duller place to live in than ever before. Contests with wild beasts were forbidden; citizens were no longer permitted to hold nocturnal feats, on the grounds that they led to unbridled licentiousness - which indeed they very often did. Meanwhile his campaign against unnecessary public expenditure was finally to leave the treasury richer by 320,000 pounds of gold."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = april year = 491 }
action_a = {
name = "What a bore!"
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 1 value = 312 }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
}
}
#Instability Within the Empire#
event = {
id = 9
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Instability Within the Empire"
desc = "In his religious policy, Anastasius was less successful. Genuinely pious, during the previous reign he had held regular theological seminars in St. Sophia. Later, however, he had gradually moved towards monophysitism, to the point where Patriarch Euphemius was obliged to refuse him coronation until he had signed a written declaration of orthodoxy. Anastasius, sincerely believing that he stood firmly in the Chalcedonian camp, signed without hesitation; but there were those who were quick to accuse him of sacrificing his principles on the altar of political expediency. They were led by Longinus, who had never forgiven Anastasius for occupying a throne which he considered his own. He soon gathered around him an unsavory mob of trouble-makers, largely Isaurian; and the consequent outbreaks of street fighting that ensued led to fires in which several more of the city's finest building were destroyed. The Emperor fought back. In 492 Longinus was arrested and exiled; but strife in the city soon escalated into civil war."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = june year = 492 }
action_a = {
name = "Too much fighting!"
command = { type = revolt which = -2 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = stability value = -4 }
}
}
#Odoacer Overthrown#
event = {
id = 10
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Odoacer Overthrown"
desc = "Predictably, Odoacer fought back against the Ostrogoths; but in February 493 an armistice was signed, Theodoric agreeing to remarkably generous terms: that Italy should be ruled by him and Odoacer jointly, both of them sharing the palace of Ravenna. Theodoric, however, had no intention of keeping his word. On March 15, only ten days after his formal entry into Ravenna, he invited Odoacer, his brother, his son, and his chief officers to a banquet in his wing of the palace. As Odoacer took his place in the seat of honor, Theodoric stepped forward and, with one tremendous stroke of his sword, sliced him down from the collar-bone to thigh. The effect surprised even him: 'The wretch cannot have had a bone in his body,' he is said to have laughed. Odoacer's followers were quickly dispatched by the guards, while his brother succumbed to an arrow as he tried to escape. His wife was thrown into prison, where she died of hunger; his son was executed. Theodoric the Ostrogoth laid aside the skins and furs of his race, robed himself in purple and settled down to rule Italy. He did not, however, forget his earlier agreement with the Byzantines. He remained a vassal, who like all his subjects owed allegiance to the Emperor. Though his coins carried his monogram, the only portrait they bore was that of the Emperor. Theodoric himself had no objection to this arrangement. The Roman citizens in Italy - easily outnumbering the Goths - were far happier with an imperial viceroy than with a foriegn oppressor. He allowed them to live just as they always had, with all their estates intact."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = march year = 493 }
action_a = {
name = "Splendid!"
command = { type = independence which = OST }
command = { type = vassal which = OST }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
}
}
#Anastasius Acts#
event = {
id = 11
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Anastasius Acts"
desc = "In November 512 still more serious rioting broke out, continuing for three full days. Then at last Anastasius acted. Presenting himself before some 20,000 of his furious subjects, he slowly removed his diadem. He was ready, he told them, to lay down the burden of the Empire; all he asked was that they should name his successor. Alternatively, if they preferred, he would continue in office, never again giving them cause for dissatisfaction. The tall, white-haired figure was still handsome, the voice firm and persuasive. Gradually, the clamor ceased; once more the situation had been saved. There had been plenty of other threats to the peace during the long reign of Anastasius; none, however, had important long-term effects. It has seemed worth describing the religios riots in some detail simply to emphasize that aspect of daily life in Byzantium the twenty-first century finds hardest to comprehend: the involvement by all classes of society in what appears today to be impossibly abstruse doctrinal niceties."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = november year = 512 }
action_a = {
name = "It is the will of the people!"
command = { type = stability value = 2 }
}
(some tags do not really exist and are just to describe country)
###Byzantium Events by Chanda "Phillip V" Choun###
#Abdication of Romulus Augustulus#
event = {
id = 1
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Abdication of Romulus Augustulus"
desc = "In 476, a Gothic barbarian general named Odoacer deposed the boy-Emperor Romulus Augustulus, provided him with a generous pension and sent him off to live in peaceful obscurity with relatives in Campania. He sent ambassadors to Constantinople to inform Emperor Zeno of the new dispensation and to hand over to him the imperial insignia of the West as a sign that he, Odoacer, made no claim to soveriegnty for himself. All he asked was the title of Patrician, in which rank he proposed to take over the administration of Italy in the Emperor's name."
style = 1
date = { day = 16 month = september year = 477 }
action_a = {
name = "Grant the title."
command = { type = relations which = GOT value = 100 }
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
}
action_b = {
name = "We must remove the barbarian!"
command = { type = war which = GOT }
command = { type = stability value = -3 }
}
}
#Fall of the West; Rise of the Papacy#
event = {
id = 2
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Fall of the West; Rise of the Papacy"
desc = "Did the abdication of Romulus Augustus on September 4, 476 really mark the end of the Roman Empire in the West? The Empire, surely, was one and indivisible; whether it was ruled at any given moment by a single Augustus, or two, or even three or four, was purely a matter of administrative convenience. And was not Odoacer always at pains to emphasize the Emperor's continued soveriegnty over Italy? Was he, in fact, any different from any of those other barbarian generals at the seat of power - Arbogast, Stilicho and the rest? The answer is that he was - for he had refused to accept a Western Emperor. In the past those Emperors, puppets as they may have been, bore the title of Augustus, being thus both symbols and constant reminders of the imperial authority. Without them, that authority was soon forgotten. Odoacer had requested the rank of Patrician; but the title that he preffered to use was Rex. In less that sixty years, Italy would be so far lost as to need a full-scale reconquest by Justinian. It would be over three centuries before another Emperor appeared in the West; when he did, his capital would be in Germany rather than in Italy, and he would be a rival rather than a colleague - not a Roman, but a Frank. Odoacer's decision also created a political vacuum in the old capital. Instinctively, men looked for another father figure. And so they raised up the bishop of Rome, already Primate of Christendom, investing him with temporal authority as well as spiritual and surrounding him with much of the pomp and semi-mystical ceremonial formerly reserved for the Emperors. The age of the medieval Papacy had begun."
style = 1
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 478 }
action_a = {
name = "The Western Empire is gone."
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}
#Schism Between the Churches#
event = {
id = 3
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Schism Between the Churches"
desc = "The one major problem that Zeno failed to solve in his lifetime was the religious one: the monophysite heresy continued to gain ground. In 482 Zeno and Patriarch Acacius together had sought to paper over the differences by affirming that Christ was both God and man, avoiding the word 'nature' altogether; but had only aroused the hostility of both sides. Most outraged of all was Pope Felix III, especially after the appointment to the Patriarchate of Alexandria of Paul the Stammerer, a cleric whose utterances, when comprehensible at all, were violently monophysite in character. At a synod in 484, Pope Felix had actually excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople - a sentence which, in default of anyone courageous enough to pronounce it, had been transcribed on to a piece of parchment and pinned to the back of Acacius's cope during a service in St. Sophia. The Patriarch, discovering it later, instantly excommunicated him back, thereby confirming an open schism between the Churches that was to last for the next thirty-five years."
style = 1
date = { day = 16 month = january year = 484 }
action_a = {
name = "This is terrible!"
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}
#Rival Court at Antioch#
event = {
id = 4
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Rival Court at Antioch"
desc = " A serious insurrection broke out in 483, the central figure of which was the Isaurian General Illus, who had helped Emperor Zeno to power. He acted, admittedly, under considerable provocation. First, one of the imperial slaves had been found lying in wait for him, drawn sword in hand. Then, 478, the palace guards had discovered another would-be assassin who confessed that he had been acting for the Prefect Epinicus and the Empress Verina. Realizing that his life was now in serious danger, Illus retired for a while to his Isaurian homeland. In September 479 an earthquake severely weakened the city walls and Zeno, fearing that the Goths might sieze the opportunity to attack, recalled him to the capital; but the general refused to enter the city until Verina was surrendered in his charge. Zeno had no love for his mother-in-law and was only too happy to comply; the Dowager Empress was immured in an Isaurian fortress. After that, Illus was appointed Master of the Offices, a sign of high favor; but one day in 482, as he was entering the Hippodrome, he was attacked without warning by a member of the imperial guard. His armor-bearer managed to deflect the blow, but the blade sliced off his right ear. This time the instigator of the crime proved to be the Empress Ariadne herself, taking her revenge on Illus for his treatment of her mother.
At this point the Master of the Offices prudently retired again to Anatolia. Almost immediately, however, a revolt broke out in Syria, where a certain Leontius was attempting to restore the old pagan religion; and Illus was ordered to take command of the Eeastern armies and restore imperial rule. Probably grateful for this opportunity to prove himself once again in the eyes of his soveriegn, he hurried at once to Syria; only on his arrival did he discover the local commander to be the Emperor's incompetent and profligate brother Longinus, who deeply resented this usurpation of his authority. A violent quarrel ensued, and Illus had Longinus arrested and imprisoned.
It was a high-handed action to take against so powerful a rival; but the Emperor's reaction was still more ill-judged. He ordered his brother's immediate release, denouncing Illus as a public enemy and confiscated his property, thereby driving him into the opposing camp. Illus now made common cause with the rebel, and the two of them together released the old Empress Verina; she triumphantly crowned Leontius at Tarsus and accompanied him to Antioch, where on June 27, 484, he established a rival court."
style = 1
date = { day = 27 month = june year = 484 }
action_a = {
name = "Crush the rebels!"
command = { type = independence which = LEO }
command = { type = war which = LEO }
command = { type = stability value = -2 }
command = { type = trigger which = 5 }
}
action_b = {
name = "Let them be."
command = { type = independence which = LEO }
command = { type = stability value = -2 }
}
}
#New Ally#
event = {
id = 5
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "New Ally"
desc = "Leontius and Illus seem to have been content for the time to remain where they were - giving Zeno plenty of time to find new allies, among them a young barbarian named Theodoric, Prince of the Ostrogoths, who now agreed to lead an army of his subjects against the rebels."
style = 1
action_a = {
name = "I agree!"
command = { type = INF which = -2 value = 6000 }
command = { type = CAV which = -2 value = 2000 }
command = { type = wakeleader which = xxx (Thedoric) }
command = { type = treasury value = -100 }
}
action_b = {
name = "No, thank you."
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
}
}
#End of the Rebellion#
event = {
id = 6
trigger = {
event = 10003
owned = { province = 483 data = -1 }
owned = { province = 485 data = -1 }
}
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "End of the Rebellion"
desc = "The rebels were soon driven back into their Isaurian heartland. Here Verina died, lamented by no one; and here Illus and Leontius were obliged to surrender. Their heads were cut off and sent to Constantinople. The rebellion was at an end."
style = 1
date = { day = 28 month = june year = 484 }
action_a = {
name = "Splendid!"
command = { type = stability value = 2 }
}
}
#Theodoric#
event = {
id = 7
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Theodoric"
desc = "Born around 454, Theodoric had spent ten years of his boyhood as a hostage in Constantinople; and though he may have gained little intellectually from the experience - all his life he signed his name by stencilling it through a perforated gold plate - he aquired an understanding of the Byzantines and their ways which served him in good stead when, in 471, he succeeded his father as the leader of the Eatern Goths. The main purpose of his early life was to secure a permanent home for his people. To this end he had spent the better part of twenty years fighting, sometimes for and sometimes against Zeno; and both must have welcomed the agreement, made in 487 or early 488, that Theodoric should lead his entire people into Italy, overthrow Odoacer and rule the land as an Ostrogothic Kingdom under imperial soveriegnty. Early in 488 the great exodus took place: men, women, and children, with horses and pack-animals, their cattle and sheep, lumbering slowly across the plains of central Europe in search of greener pastures."
style = 1
date = { day = 16 month = january year = 488 }
action_a = {
name = "A burden has been lifted."
command = { type = treasury value = -200 }
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
}
}
#Anastasius is Boring#
event = {
id = 8
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Anastasius is Boring"
desc = "'Reign Anastasius!' the people shouted when the Emperor first appeared before them in the imperial purple. 'Riegn as long as you have lived!' Anastasius did so; and if his subjects found life under his rule more irksome than they had expected, they had only themselves to blame. His chief defect was parsimoniousness - a failing which, combined with a strong puritanical streak, made Constantinople a duller place to live in than ever before. Contests with wild beasts were forbidden; citizens were no longer permitted to hold nocturnal feats, on the grounds that they led to unbridled licentiousness - which indeed they very often did. Meanwhile his campaign against unnecessary public expenditure was finally to leave the treasury richer by 320,000 pounds of gold."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = april year = 491 }
action_a = {
name = "What a bore!"
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 1 value = 312 }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
}
}
#Instability Within the Empire#
event = {
id = 9
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Instability Within the Empire"
desc = "In his religious policy, Anastasius was less successful. Genuinely pious, during the previous reign he had held regular theological seminars in St. Sophia. Later, however, he had gradually moved towards monophysitism, to the point where Patriarch Euphemius was obliged to refuse him coronation until he had signed a written declaration of orthodoxy. Anastasius, sincerely believing that he stood firmly in the Chalcedonian camp, signed without hesitation; but there were those who were quick to accuse him of sacrificing his principles on the altar of political expediency. They were led by Longinus, who had never forgiven Anastasius for occupying a throne which he considered his own. He soon gathered around him an unsavory mob of trouble-makers, largely Isaurian; and the consequent outbreaks of street fighting that ensued led to fires in which several more of the city's finest building were destroyed. The Emperor fought back. In 492 Longinus was arrested and exiled; but strife in the city soon escalated into civil war."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = june year = 492 }
action_a = {
name = "Too much fighting!"
command = { type = revolt which = -2 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = revolt which = -1 }
command = { type = stability value = -4 }
}
}
#Odoacer Overthrown#
event = {
id = 10
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Odoacer Overthrown"
desc = "Predictably, Odoacer fought back against the Ostrogoths; but in February 493 an armistice was signed, Theodoric agreeing to remarkably generous terms: that Italy should be ruled by him and Odoacer jointly, both of them sharing the palace of Ravenna. Theodoric, however, had no intention of keeping his word. On March 15, only ten days after his formal entry into Ravenna, he invited Odoacer, his brother, his son, and his chief officers to a banquet in his wing of the palace. As Odoacer took his place in the seat of honor, Theodoric stepped forward and, with one tremendous stroke of his sword, sliced him down from the collar-bone to thigh. The effect surprised even him: 'The wretch cannot have had a bone in his body,' he is said to have laughed. Odoacer's followers were quickly dispatched by the guards, while his brother succumbed to an arrow as he tried to escape. His wife was thrown into prison, where she died of hunger; his son was executed. Theodoric the Ostrogoth laid aside the skins and furs of his race, robed himself in purple and settled down to rule Italy. He did not, however, forget his earlier agreement with the Byzantines. He remained a vassal, who like all his subjects owed allegiance to the Emperor. Though his coins carried his monogram, the only portrait they bore was that of the Emperor. Theodoric himself had no objection to this arrangement. The Roman citizens in Italy - easily outnumbering the Goths - were far happier with an imperial viceroy than with a foriegn oppressor. He allowed them to live just as they always had, with all their estates intact."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = march year = 493 }
action_a = {
name = "Splendid!"
command = { type = independence which = OST }
command = { type = vassal which = OST }
command = { type = treasury value = 100 }
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
}
}
#Anastasius Acts#
event = {
id = 11
random = no
country = BYZ
name = "Anastasius Acts"
desc = "In November 512 still more serious rioting broke out, continuing for three full days. Then at last Anastasius acted. Presenting himself before some 20,000 of his furious subjects, he slowly removed his diadem. He was ready, he told them, to lay down the burden of the Empire; all he asked was that they should name his successor. Alternatively, if they preferred, he would continue in office, never again giving them cause for dissatisfaction. The tall, white-haired figure was still handsome, the voice firm and persuasive. Gradually, the clamor ceased; once more the situation had been saved. There had been plenty of other threats to the peace during the long reign of Anastasius; none, however, had important long-term effects. It has seemed worth describing the religios riots in some detail simply to emphasize that aspect of daily life in Byzantium the twenty-first century finds hardest to comprehend: the involvement by all classes of society in what appears today to be impossibly abstruse doctrinal niceties."
style = 1
date = { day = 15 month = november year = 512 }
action_a = {
name = "It is the will of the people!"
command = { type = stability value = 2 }
}