The World Rumor Mill:
Suliman:
D100 => 91
The Fate of Hungary:
Austria:
D100 => 6
The Ottomans:
D100 => 50
"This is your chance for immortality. The East of the Christian World is all but ripe for the taking, and you sit and wait for what? For them to stop killing each other?" His grand-vizir was getting awfully close to being killed by the great Sultan, but he stayed his hand. He would show them what he was waiting for.
"Hungary." He said calmly, the Sultan looking at the maps that were going to be used for everything. "Christendom is divided, and Austria's forces are going to be nothing but paper thin, and scattered. That is our chance." He smiled.
He had sent his forces weeks ago, but he told them only one thing. Do not cross the Danube towards Austria. Do not go towards the heart of Christendom, and Italia. Hungary is the Prize, and only Hungry. They could take far more later when they forced their boot onto them.
"Now tell me, has my message to Luciano been sent? About the demands?"
"Yes, sultan. But I don't think he will agree."
"He will have to. He cannot fight a two-front war with a scattered navy. His grand military orders are all to the west fighting the heretic, rather than the heathen. He is overstretched, and without many resources that I have. I will avenge our defeat to them, but only if he is foolish enough to refuse."
Reward: Suliman's grand ambitions and the conquest of Hungary have been completed. He controls Hungry and the Balkins totally. The Austrian and pro-Christian forces in the region flee back to Vienna, and King Louis is dead, and while Suliman will not be able to continue further, due to the Poles, he has what he wants.
A Legacy of Conquest. Now he will make it a Legacy of Greatness.
Now his final option is simple. Avenge the Losses from Italy. And get Greece back under his command.
And if not… He would rethink his tactics.
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England:
D100 => 92+
D100 => 75
Scotland
D100 => 66
The Two catholic kingdoms of the Iles both understand their roles to play in the coming world, though one has taken advantage of the choices of the continent to cement something quite clear…
The Last Irish Petty Kings:
D100 => 1
There would be no independent Irish lands.
But their resistance would continue forever.
Reward: England has finished the military conquest of Ireland. But Resistance would continue forever.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, the Scottish crown begins making plans for a new world expedition.
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The HRE (due to massive HOLY Fuck! It's balkanized)
France:
D100 => 96=5=91+
D100 => 97-5=92+
D100 => 99-5=94+
D100 => 66-5=61
Unintended consequences:
D100 - 5 => 1
Utter Destruction. That was what the French Army wrought on the German people when they crossed the Rhine.
Princedom armies, free city militias, and garrisons, all were nothing to the might of the French Army, filled with Zeal and brutality that had not been seen in European Warfare, not for a long time.
Frankfurt was standing in the way. The Lone City is still loyal to Christendom, the pope, and the Emperor even if there was none.
Their new Pope King, Louis had proclaimed several things, that he was reforming the Empire of his great Ancestor Charlemagne, and that the title of the Emperor of the Romans was his by right of Birth, by God's grace…
And by right of conquest, and any city that stands in the way, would be destroyed.
The first time, the city fathers said no, that they would be saved by the True Emperor, and by God's grace.
Louis then placed the City under siege. And for three months, starved them. But the city was prepared.
The Second Time: The City's commanders came out, and proclaimed that they were not going to give in to the terror or the starvation, that his titles were meaningless, and his forces were going to die at the walls.
Louis then bombarded the city for 14 days straight, turning much of the great city to rubble.
On the Third attempt, the city's fathers, and an old Bishop, proclaim that Louis was going against all laws of man and warfare, and they would not surrender if he continued.
The Pope King then… in a moment of anger and fury said. "If you do not surrender. I will erase this city from existence, like Rome to Carthage. There will be nothing from this city, ever again."
"We will be remembered." The Bishop said. "And the people will be ready to be martyred for their homes, and for their faith."
The Pope King then killed the bishop with a swift stroke of his sword, and then… ordered a bombardment. 21 days later…
The City of Frankfurt was naught but rubble. But the King was true to his word. He had his engineers poison the wells. Dam the river, and take every stone and brick from the bridges, to the churches, to the homes that were destroyed.
Its citizens… The men were killed, all by beheading hangings, or drowning.
The woman was raped and violated, many being left or taken as camp followers…
And the children…
Louis only ordered them to march East, to spread the news of his wake and the news that nothing would be left.
Many would not survive the week. Most not even the month.
But little mattered to the King, for he had work to do to make due for his promise.
It took a month, but he erased Frankfurt from the Map… the only thing that symbolized its existence was the bridges that remained…
Nature would take the city over, in time.
But the proud city, once a beacon of Europe, and the German people would be naught but a distant memory.
And the rest of Europe was horrified.
But there was nothing they could do.
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In an event to prevent the French King from gaining even a sliver of legitimacy to his claim, the Elector of the HRE did what was thought to be unthinkable.
The empire would be destroyed, its final act, granting independence to every single principality and city and lordship in the Empire. The empire could not protect itself. Could no longer protect its subjects.
Could no longer exist, least it provided a man consumed by his own lust for power, to
It was every man for himself.
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The North:
D100 => 35
Martin Luthors Desperation Gambit:
D100 => 13
French Influence:
D100 => 99+
D100 => 84
Meanwhile in the North, Martin Luthor Tried his best to stop what he had created.
To try and put the genie back in the bottle, to save what dream that he had from being so perverted, and made into perversion by power-hungry men.
But he failed.
Too many promises broken, and too many promises made. He couldn't save his dream.
The French King had made other promises… promises that men on Earth could enjoy… a new world to be shaped.
And he ran…
But he couldn't get away.
They locked him in a tower…
But he would escape. Eventually. If they didn't kill him first.
Reward: In the North: Maritn Luthor is captured, and the French begin to worm their way into reforming an Empire in their own image.
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The South (Bavaria/Austria):
D100 => 53
Chaos, and struggle. The former electors in the south, in Austria, and in Bavaria struggle to deal with many fates that will be them.
They had just abandoned millions of their subjects to their fate… and all they could do is gather their strength and hope they would have the strength to create an army to stop the French… and the political will to survive what is to come.
And Pray to God, they did not just make a horrible mistake.
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The False Emperor (Hesse, and Westphalia):
D100 => 78
In the West, near France, a low-born commander, a mercenary has not given up hope for his people. He had stolen the imperial crown and crowned himself Emperor. He, like many of his people, is lutheran, but he does not follow the Pope King's Example of becoming a god on earth. Merely a servant for Heven.
And he gathers an Army to do battle with his mortal enemy.
Reward: There is a False Emperor clinging to the HRE's Mantle, unelected, but his dream and his wish to expel the French.
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Gotz the Ironhand:
D100 => 91+
D100 => 86
Meanwhile in Germany, Gotz the Ironhanded, by the wishes of every single German Prince and Free City, has been named supreme commander of all forces of the Former Empire in Germany. And has by any means necessary, been given a single goal.
Expel the French…
And Gotz has gathered quite an Army…
And he is speaking to many of the principalities and free cities… He seeks something more.
He seeks to bring all Armies in Germany together. So that they may be free.
Maybe then, he could focus on another plan. His neighbors to the south might be able to help with such a thing.
Reward: Gotz has become the de facto head of Every German army in Germany… and he has his work cut out for him.
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Spain:
D100 => 73
Meanwhile, in Spain, there is only one mood at work.
When the War will truly begin. Grain is being prepared, and all wonder if something… anything will happen.
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New Spain (Carribian):
D100 => 73
In the Spanish New World, there is nothing but incredible work to be done.
All the freed Indians and enslaved Africans, who had been enslaved had to be compensated… Christianized, and made into loyal Spanish subjects.
But there would be freedom. There would be order…
And there would never be slavery on this continent ever again. Bartolemo would make sure of that.
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Charles the V:
D100 => 90+
D100 => 90+
D100 => 95+
D100 => 31
He smiled and watched with glee the French Navy. "They will come, and they will die. But we wait for our Allies in Italy… than we do what we must."
"And… the other thing sire?" His idiot minister did not understand.
"Of course. Can't be a hero if we show up early, now do we."
Reward: Spain is ready to help you, and their plans are about to come into fruition.
