Thank you very much Warspite! I'm glad you enjoyed the ride! Same goes for your Tufto! I'm curious to hear both your thoughts on the questions I asked everyone else--what was your favorite scene, and why did it work, and what was yoru
least favorite scene, and why do you think it didn't work?
Leviathan, I doubt there will be much writing on the forum from me for a while. I'll be too busy playing.
(And, to answer many people's questions, finishing some short stories I hope to finish and, one day publish).
loki, keeping track of the wider narrative was perhaps the hardest part of this story. There are so many instances where I really wanted to run off and write oodles about a side topic (Mali or Persia for example), and I had to restrain myself.
No, BT, this is a history of the Komnenoi, in Konstantinopolis. Focus, my boy, focus...
Taiisatai64, the story up to the coronation of Thomas I is in a single word document, and I know BraidsMAmma was working on putting the entire story in .pdf format (He had finished the first book, IIRC). If people are interested in these I'll post them online at fileden, and give the link here...
As for Thomas II's wife, RedRoman, she was another casualty of the character generation process... I'd originally envisioned her death as being the thing that made him go insane for good (I had music picked out and everything. In game she died in the 1220s), but Neapolis demanded
something go bad for the Romans, and it made sense, I guess, that Thomas' madness would strike at the worst possible point in his career. So it did, and once that took place, there wasn't really a plot-based need for his wife. Completely unintentionally (she would've made a fascinating character, completely the opposite of most Roman empresses) she faded into the background, even during his madness...
I trust that off screen she tried to do her best to soothe him and calm his troubled mind whenever she was around. She did love him until the very end... I remember a post soon after his death where it was mentioned that she was wandering the halls of the palace aimlessly after he was gone.
Aetios Silvagentios, Panjer, was a cameo thrown in for my friend English Patriot borrowing a character from his Rome AAR of almost the same name.
I don't think I ever planned out a future for Silvagentios after his little escapade. We all would like to think he sat back and got rich and fat being a bodyguard to Thomas III, after all, he was guarding him mostly from inadequate foundations and horrible architectural design...
JacktheRipper, I am actually working on side writing I hope to publish one day. If that should happen, rest assured I will post about it on here so all of you will know!
Baldor, there's going to be a whole series of maps over the next few weeks showing the world in EU3 terms as it stood in 1399. In fact, I've included the main map below!
Speaking of which...
This is a map of the
known changes this alternate history would have had on the Old World--new empires, kingdoms, their vassals, etc. There are many places that are left blank. Partly this is because I lost access to my CK1 save files, so I can't tell you how Germany ended up beyond my memory of the more major players, for example, and partially this is because I personally never worked out how some of the changes would have fully affected parts of the world (such as southern India or southern China/southeast Asia). Those types of things would be something to discuss in a mod thread (one that, if people are certain they are willing to contribute, I can create in the EU3 forum as quickly as you ask). I'll be posting more focused maps on Spain/France, Africa, Northern Europe, Central Europe/Italy, the Rus, the Middle Med, Eastern Med/Near East, and the Far East as well, detailing what these new countries are, and what their various allegiances are to one another.
And for the fans of the Steppe Danes, they are on the map, the large swathe of olivish green one row of provinces above the Black Sea...