Journal of Reverend Thomas Hampthon, Gloucestershire, England, 6th June 1857.
"As surprising as it may seem to you, whoever may read this, it also seems to me. I have returned home from my travel into the far east. Successful. I will here in these journals, attempt to describe as detailed as possible, what I have learned from my travels in Asia Major.
On the 30th of May, Christian Europe was in a state of mourning.
On the 30th of May, the Middle East was in a state of celebration.
This we know and have all agreed upon. But we in Europe, know very little about the world outside our own borders. And from all which we have learned through exploration and colonization, we still know very little of what actually happened during these troubled and turbulent times. Of what I have learned, it was as turbulent all over the world during the mid 16th century as in our own lands.
As a foreigner, I travelled through the lands of the Ottoman Empire and Persia, and was looked upon with supiciousness. The Shiite Persians especially, despise christians and all what we stand for, very much the same way we despise them. But when you get further eastward, when you reach the lands were the Eastern and Muslim religions clash. Where Asia Major and its different cultures, ideologies and beliefs start. When you reach these regions, you are met with a far more positive attitude. These are people who have, much like the native americans when we first came to them, never seen a white man, and know not about our foreign standards and religion, and therefore have nothing to fear from me. I had nothing to expect nor fear from them either, and I spent much time trying my best to get a grasp of the way they practiced their native culture.
But this was not the reason of my long travel. I had come to Asia Major, to the Indian Peninsula, to learn more about how Asia itself looked during the turbulent times surrounding the fall of Constantinople. And I was in luck, for who did I find if not a man who claimed - and now afterwards I truly do believe him - the only living member of the Ala ud-Din family, direct descendant to Ala ud-Din Ahmad Shah himself, who was the ruler of the once-powerful Kingdom of Deccan, at the time.
Ala-ud Din Shallah, as was the name of the man, told be a truly amazing story, that had been passed down to him through generations, and he told me that he had no children, and he was too old to have any on later days - about 75 years, would have been my best guess - he needed to pass the story on or else it would die. I agreed to that if it had been successfully passed down through generations for almost 300 years, it would be a shame if the story would pass away into the shadows, forever dust..."
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This is my first AAR for... Any game, actually!
Hope you like it.
I will be playing version 1.3 for Standard EU3 with no mods.
Trying with a different approach, rather than being a "first-person" citizen of the country played, I am going to write as a man from a faraway country, 300 years after the story takes place.
I do not play EU3 that often, so I will probably update as little as 1-2 times per week, or even less, starting with the first actual gameplay post tomorrow.
"As surprising as it may seem to you, whoever may read this, it also seems to me. I have returned home from my travel into the far east. Successful. I will here in these journals, attempt to describe as detailed as possible, what I have learned from my travels in Asia Major.
On the 30th of May, Christian Europe was in a state of mourning.
On the 30th of May, the Middle East was in a state of celebration.
This we know and have all agreed upon. But we in Europe, know very little about the world outside our own borders. And from all which we have learned through exploration and colonization, we still know very little of what actually happened during these troubled and turbulent times. Of what I have learned, it was as turbulent all over the world during the mid 16th century as in our own lands.
As a foreigner, I travelled through the lands of the Ottoman Empire and Persia, and was looked upon with supiciousness. The Shiite Persians especially, despise christians and all what we stand for, very much the same way we despise them. But when you get further eastward, when you reach the lands were the Eastern and Muslim religions clash. Where Asia Major and its different cultures, ideologies and beliefs start. When you reach these regions, you are met with a far more positive attitude. These are people who have, much like the native americans when we first came to them, never seen a white man, and know not about our foreign standards and religion, and therefore have nothing to fear from me. I had nothing to expect nor fear from them either, and I spent much time trying my best to get a grasp of the way they practiced their native culture.
But this was not the reason of my long travel. I had come to Asia Major, to the Indian Peninsula, to learn more about how Asia itself looked during the turbulent times surrounding the fall of Constantinople. And I was in luck, for who did I find if not a man who claimed - and now afterwards I truly do believe him - the only living member of the Ala ud-Din family, direct descendant to Ala ud-Din Ahmad Shah himself, who was the ruler of the once-powerful Kingdom of Deccan, at the time.
Ala-ud Din Shallah, as was the name of the man, told be a truly amazing story, that had been passed down to him through generations, and he told me that he had no children, and he was too old to have any on later days - about 75 years, would have been my best guess - he needed to pass the story on or else it would die. I agreed to that if it had been successfully passed down through generations for almost 300 years, it would be a shame if the story would pass away into the shadows, forever dust..."
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This is my first AAR for... Any game, actually!
Hope you like it.
I will be playing version 1.3 for Standard EU3 with no mods.
Trying with a different approach, rather than being a "first-person" citizen of the country played, I am going to write as a man from a faraway country, 300 years after the story takes place.
I do not play EU3 that often, so I will probably update as little as 1-2 times per week, or even less, starting with the first actual gameplay post tomorrow.
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