I love that Daoism is doing well in this game, since that basically never happens in any game where the player isn't Daoist.
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A Lyuban-Rurikid is a cadet branch of the Rurikids. Quite normal for both the AI and human player to make one, IIRC it gives them control over parts of the dynastic political machine. This was IIRC the AI's doing before Daniil won the civil war.
Well. At least he didn't ruin the country....any more than it was.
Perhaps he even kickstarted a comeback of sorts? Whl knows? He did give peace and prosperity. And he did a Hajj! I love it! As you can see parts of Persia, Mesopotamia and, importantly, Mecca itself is now Daoist.
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Radoslav was more a Rurikid than his successor. Daniil was troubled, but the realm seemed to do fine under him.
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Malik al-Muazzam Ingvar “the Cruel" and Malik al-Muazzam Daniil II
Malik al-Muazzam Ingvar “the Cruel” (1250-1299)
Russia is greatly enlarged during Ingvar's reign.
Daoism is spreading in the Muslim world, as is Hinduism in Central Asia.
Malik al-Muazzam Daniil II (1299-1302)
- Starts well, finishing his father’s wars in Finland with success.
- Then a year into his reign, a dissolution war hits him. These Russians really wanted to free themselves of central rule, it seems. As soon as the war is won, two years after, a claimant for the throne declares war, right after Ingvar declared war on Gardariki.
- The claimant war is over in 1257, but the Gardariki war lasts forever. Bad luck. Ingvar’s heir is captured when the capital falls, but the war continues, back and forth in a game of cat and mouse.
- During this war, two new claimants rise up for the Russian throne. In 1267, thirteen years after the war for Gardariki started, it is won, and in 1270 the realm finally sees peace again, as the last claimant is defeated.
- With most of Gardariki taken in the previous war, Ingvar usurps the throne in 1272, followed immediately by a war for the emirate of Holmgardr, the remains of the sultanate.
- Ingvar’s luck is rotten though, as while he does this war, several smaller wars by neighbors smelling blood is declared on him. In the end he wins them all, although barely.
- Still rotten and smelling in luck, the guy gets another claimant war to deal with in 1277, won in 1280. And then another claimant rises in 1281, who is defeated in 1283.
- With half the realm imprisoned due to all these claimant wars, Ingvar has his back cleared and he starts several smaller offensive wars, winning them all.
- The big prize happens in 1290 though, when the guy decides the sultanate of Ruthenia really should be his. Three years later, it is.
- He doesn’t stop there, continuing to gobble up smaller realms around him, all while his temper is beginning to show in ugly ways. People…die around him when he gets pissed off.
- In February 1299 the Ruthenian pox hits, an early warning about what is to come when the Black Death ruins the world half a century later.
- Finally, on July 21st, 1299 Ingvar dies in his sleep of old age. His son Daniil II inherits the throne. His is to be a mere speed bump of a reign.
Russia is greatly enlarged during Ingvar's reign.
Daoism is spreading in the Muslim world, as is Hinduism in Central Asia.
Malik al-Muazzam Daniil II (1299-1302)
- Daniil’s position is a weak one, his father’s many children meaning he inherits only one county as his power base. And this county is one of the poorer too, while his siblings get all the juicy, rich counties! Silly deal, I’d say. The capital even has to move to this dirt-poor county in the east.
- In any case, his suffering does not last long. While warring for larger domain against Mordvinia, Daniil II dies in his sleep, and his one-year-old son Ingvar II inherits. Surely that will end well.
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Surely that will end well. Why do I feel like this could be an epitaph for each ruler of the Rurikid dynasty!
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Long-reigned ruler leads to big Russia. I can't help but think that an infant in charge of such a large empire won't last for long.
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That's quite the description!
And...back to business as usual for the Rurikids! So many civil wars are about to happen.
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Having 17 siblings--that's great for succession. Too bad the Rurikids weren't still Christian; they could lavishly enrich their monasteries and seminaries and still have an heir, a spare, and a spare spare.
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...but accurate.That's quite the description!
*checks notes*
Nine, to be precise. Also another Crusade.
You know, when each ruler can have, what, four? queens, it becomes crowded in the palace.
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One of my favorite YouTubers, a naval historian named Drachinifel, has a running joke on his channel that the national motto of Russia/the USSR should be “And Then It Got Worse.”
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An infant who can claim only a single county under their direct rule is going to need to rule over a vast empire? Sounds like trouble afoot for sure.
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Hopefully after the Cruel proved to be far from a Rurikid, we can get back to basic Rurikid values. Short reigns, losing land, dying young and leaving an ugly memory. Thanks
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Apt.
All it requires is to survive one war. Then their titles can be stripped!
You will like a particular even in the late 1300s.
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I was worried Ingvar would get a low score, after all he massively expanded the Empire, his wife has a terrifying face but didn't hate him, and finally he died peacefully in his sleep after a long reign. But then! Completely cocking up the succession so badly is surely worth many Rurikid Points. To be in such a strong position but to presumably deliberately leave his son with such a weak one, that takes top grade Rurikid-ing.
The son himself, Daniill II "The nicknameless", is much more a traditional Rurikid and it is good to see the classic moves (short reign, leaving everything weaker, wife who hates him staring at him with naked contempt) so well executed.
As with everyone else I look forward to Ingvar II, he has much to live up to when he grows up. Assuming he even survives long enough to grow up.
The son himself, Daniill II "The nicknameless", is much more a traditional Rurikid and it is good to see the classic moves (short reign, leaving everything weaker, wife who hates him staring at him with naked contempt) so well executed.
As with everyone else I look forward to Ingvar II, he has much to live up to when he grows up. Assuming he even survives long enough to grow up.
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Indeed. But his father left him a half finished war, so there is that.
He knew you would like him if he did this, and he craves your approval, Pip.
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Malik al-Muazzam Ingvar II “the Mad”
Malik al-Muazzam Ingvar II “the Mad” (1302-1353)
Russia and the world as Ingvar II "the Mad" died.
- Surprisingly long reign on this one. Well, he was 1 years of age when he ascended after all.
- Right as he “takes power” (rather, his regent I guess), a dissolution war is declared on him. But two years later, the war is won, solely because his regent bethrothed him to the mighty power in Anatolikon, which basically won the war for them. He also won the legacy war of his father, and the regent in his name strips his beaten enemies of their titles and add them to his, thus greatly increasing his domain.
- In 1304 a claimant rises up to take the throne, but he is beaten and imprisoned by 1308.
- In 1310 Ingvar II is nine years old, and at this point people begin to notice things. Rumor has it he is, indeed, possessed. Thus the moniker.
- As soon as he reaches his majority, he begins to do smaller wars, slowly enlarging his realm.
- But, in 1326 disaster hits. A crusade for Ruthenia is initiated, a sultanate that encompasses much of southern Russia. At the same time, an independence war starts and soon Ingvar is on the back foot both in the independence war and the crusade.
- In 1328 the independence war is lost, and Ingvar is also forced to lower the crown’s authority to not be in another, hopeless war.
- Crusade lasts to 1335, when the crusaders after a long fight wins the day. Ruthenia was lost to Islam.
- But Ingvar was not deterred and the year after he invaded Mordvinia to expand east, and he won two years later. That very year, 1338, he invaded Ruthenia, who had got a new king and thus the peace treaty was no longer valid. The war for Ruthenia would last until 1343, when Ingvar and his Russian forces won. Ruthenia was, once more, Russian. But it would be a thorn in Ingvar’s and his successors’ sides, as most of the population had converted to Catholicism by this time.
- The realm was shocked in 1339, during this war, though. Ingvar II announced that his heir and successor when he died would not be one of his sons, but rather his daughter Darya by his third wife. Rumors has it she had something on him, but we will never know…
- In 1343 and 1346 claimants would rise to oppose this change and replace him with themselves, but Ingvar won both.
- But in 1346 the Black Death came to Russia, wreaking havoc on the lands, emptying towns and villages and ruining the by the time blossoming economy.
- Following the Black Death came several revolts, a huge Catholic one in Ruthenia, a Khazar one, a Norwegian revolt and then another Catholic revolt in Ruthenia. All were defeated, but this took a large toll on Ingvar II, and he would die of a seizure in 1353. His daughter Darya would inherit the throne and become the ruling Malika al-Muazzama.
Russia and the world as Ingvar II "the Mad" died.
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