1396 A.D
The prophecies of Chiliasts and Kabalists have not come true. Anno Domini 1392 had not brought the punishing sword of God. The dancing death with it's legion of undead. Nor did it bring the Messiah and the Antichrist, or the prophesized battle between good and evil. There was no end of the world in 1392, nor was it coming in the next year or finally next 4 years. How cheated, must have the occultists felt, when their holy prophecies betrayed them. One might claim Tacitisque senescimus annis, but no my friends non of these. During the years when the common folk awaited the coming of the Messiah, the cruel Medieval reality lived on, with it's deaths, wars, violence. Adultery, murder, theft were common in the age, when moral values dissapeared, and only very few wished to face this reality. Oh these foolish very few...
1396 Annus horribilis, has saw many disasters for both the Empire and the Christendom. The increasing autonomy of Italian city-states, and in particular the Visconti of Milan has brought nothing but confusion to the much decayed Empire. On the East, the terrible hordes of nomads are battling over the control of the world. Timur called the Lame has defeated his enemies in the Golden horde reasserting his power. The Ottoman turks, the scurge of Christendom, are encroaching on noble Sigismund's domains. The two forces prepare for the ultimate struggle, in which the fate of Hungary should be determined. In the west meanwhile, are struggle between the Plantagenets and Valois continue, as the counterattack of French forces succesfully drove the English from most French lands, yet a new disaster grows in the French plan, as the succession of Charles VI, proves to be a disastrous one. In the Empire, a civil war seems inevitable as the Ghibelline block consisting of imperial princes of Staufen dynasty, oppose the continuation of the corrupt rule of Weneclaus the Drunkard. Facing them are the Guelphen block led by the King of Germany himself, with his numerous petty aristocracy. Who with Frederick von Staufen, Kuno von Anhalt, Frederick von Brunswick, wore the three Swabian lions on his right chest, who with Weneclaus Luxembourg, Sigismund Luxembourg, Gian Galleazzo Visconti wore the bohemian lion.
Yet this tale is neither on the Absent Four Riders of the Apocalypse who feed on tears on children, nor on great Kings and Emperors...
Hey!
This is my second attempt to CK AAR. This AAR is a tribute to Alzhazen's Sins of the Father(btw is there any info on what's with Alzhazen?). In this world, nothing has basically changed when compared to the real 1396, apart from the continuation of Staufen dynasty which managed during the time to [/SIZE] become titular princes of the empire, dukes of Brabant, Dukes of Lorraine counts of Holland, and rulers of Franconia, Swabia, Cologne, Mainz.
Abandoned
The prophecies of Chiliasts and Kabalists have not come true. Anno Domini 1392 had not brought the punishing sword of God. The dancing death with it's legion of undead. Nor did it bring the Messiah and the Antichrist, or the prophesized battle between good and evil. There was no end of the world in 1392, nor was it coming in the next year or finally next 4 years. How cheated, must have the occultists felt, when their holy prophecies betrayed them. One might claim Tacitisque senescimus annis, but no my friends non of these. During the years when the common folk awaited the coming of the Messiah, the cruel Medieval reality lived on, with it's deaths, wars, violence. Adultery, murder, theft were common in the age, when moral values dissapeared, and only very few wished to face this reality. Oh these foolish very few...
1396 Annus horribilis, has saw many disasters for both the Empire and the Christendom. The increasing autonomy of Italian city-states, and in particular the Visconti of Milan has brought nothing but confusion to the much decayed Empire. On the East, the terrible hordes of nomads are battling over the control of the world. Timur called the Lame has defeated his enemies in the Golden horde reasserting his power. The Ottoman turks, the scurge of Christendom, are encroaching on noble Sigismund's domains. The two forces prepare for the ultimate struggle, in which the fate of Hungary should be determined. In the west meanwhile, are struggle between the Plantagenets and Valois continue, as the counterattack of French forces succesfully drove the English from most French lands, yet a new disaster grows in the French plan, as the succession of Charles VI, proves to be a disastrous one. In the Empire, a civil war seems inevitable as the Ghibelline block consisting of imperial princes of Staufen dynasty, oppose the continuation of the corrupt rule of Weneclaus the Drunkard. Facing them are the Guelphen block led by the King of Germany himself, with his numerous petty aristocracy. Who with Frederick von Staufen, Kuno von Anhalt, Frederick von Brunswick, wore the three Swabian lions on his right chest, who with Weneclaus Luxembourg, Sigismund Luxembourg, Gian Galleazzo Visconti wore the bohemian lion.
Yet this tale is neither on the Absent Four Riders of the Apocalypse who feed on tears on children, nor on great Kings and Emperors...
Hey!
This is my second attempt to CK AAR. This AAR is a tribute to Alzhazen's Sins of the Father(btw is there any info on what's with Alzhazen?). In this world, nothing has basically changed when compared to the real 1396, apart from the continuation of Staufen dynasty which managed during the time to [/SIZE] become titular princes of the empire, dukes of Brabant, Dukes of Lorraine counts of Holland, and rulers of Franconia, Swabia, Cologne, Mainz.
Abandoned
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