Author's note: This alternate history is finished, and had been for a couple months now. I'm just now moving it from my account on DeviantArt to here. I do apologize, but because of large sizes I have to post them as links to the actual images.
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600 AD
In 451, Attila and his Huns defeat the Coalition of Romans and Visigoths at Chalon, thus leading to the Huns conquering the entirety of Gaul. Only three years later, Attila died and his empire fell to pieces, but his son Ellac (or Allick) consolidates his lands in Gaul, and many of the Huns declare their loyalty to Ellac. The Hunnic Empire east of the Rhine dissipates into nothing, replaced by the Avars, Alans, and Khazars.
Continuing from Ellac's death, the Hunnic Empire grew smaller and smaller. The Franks, who had settled in Northern Gaul under Ellac's rule, asserted their independence. The Franks and Huns, though, do have an understanding and don't attack each other and are quite friendly.
But, the Eastern Hordes of the Avars, Alans, and Khazars, see Hunlu as a holy land of sorts, and continuously migrate there. The Kingdom of the Huns is generally divided into 12 territories: 4 Hunnic (Including the King's personal territory), 3 Alan, 2 Roman, and 1 each for the Khazars, Basques, and Avars.
The Kingdom of the Huns also serves as mercenaries, mostly for the Franks, but also notably for the Ostrogoth (Ostgotar) and Suebi. The Huns and the 4 Hordes are also known for consistently raiding Visigoth (Westgotar) land, as they still hold grudges against each other.
1000 AD
In 712 AD, the quickly growing Arabian Caliphate crossed the Pillars of Hercules, and were heading north to the Hunnic Kingdom. The Hunnic King Rugas II quickly went to the Franks for help. King Clovis II of the Franks declared he would help the Huns if they became his vassals. They would of course, have large freedoms and would be mostly independent, only doing some duties for their new High King. Rugas Akitillid agreed and became Petty King under the Franks. In 714, the Franco-Hunnic army met the Arabian Army and defeated them, thanks due to the great horsemanship of the Huns and the professional infantry of the Franks. From there, the Huns and Franks went on to conquer much of Iberia from the Arabs, although they were eventually pushed back out by the Muslims. But the Franco-Hunnic alliance had just begun, and the High and Petty Kings saw potential and their relationship.
Together, they went on to conquer much of Central Europe. The Huns themselves would often decide the next High King indirectly, because whoever the Huns declared their allegiance to often won the war of succession. In this way, the Frankish Empire grew large, at it's height stretching from Iberia and Naples to Jutland and Bohemia.
But unfortunately, in 872, the Huns had settled into a more peaceful life, or at least refused to war in the newest war of succession. And so, the Frankish Empire divided into three: Francia, Italia, and Alimania (Germany)
On the other side of the Continent, two different Empires are emerging: The Bulgars and Pannonians
1400
Another 400 years have gone along. The Franco-Hunnic Empire is the greatest of them all, holding a firm grip on the rest of Western and Central Europe. No one dares mock or insult the King of France, as doing so would be the equivalent of mocking God and his Knights of Christ, the Huns. But we're about to witness an event that would tumble that French dominated world down, down, down, and will rock the world for hundreds of years....
We start by seeing how much influence the Europeans are putting on the Huns. Firstly, in 1071, as the Crusades were preparing to begin, the Huns finally converted to Christianity (The Huns were to useful and powerful before hand to make any sort of demand such as Conversion). The Huns can also be seen adopting many French/ Latin words. The Tar endings are based around the French Terre endings, and have adopted words that would pertain to settled life (such as Ville would be Fal and Chateau would be Satao )
In 1074, the First Crusade was called against the Muslims, and France, as the Holiest and most powerful of all Christian Kingdoms, headed the charge. As the Huns and French crossed the Seas and landed in the Holy Land, the Huns were able to wreck havoc upon the Muslims, making the First Crusade an astonishing success ending in 1078. The Huns were declared 'The Knights of Christ,' A title the Hunnic Kingdom would never give up.
Any time the Arabs tried to counter and take back the Holy Land, the Huns would come and save the day, making Muslim victories few and small. It was only with the Turks that the Huns were finally pushed back, but it didn't matter, since the Franco-Huns and Portuguese (who the Huns just seem refuse to ever stop calling them Suebi) were pushing back the Muslims in Iberia
In 1270, a force rocked the entire Eurasian continent. The Mighty Mongols have arrived, with Genghis Khan, the Universal Ruler, at their helm! The Hunnic King, Sharls, with the accompaniment of French King Louis, traveled far to the realm of the Mongols, to the court of Genghis Khan. When Genghis Khan heard who it was that arrived at his camp, the King of the Huns, it was he who bowed down, as Genghis Khan saw Sharls, as decedent of Attila, to be of higher position then himself (Let us not forget, Attila in this story essentially became the icon of all Nomads, with the Hunnic Kingdom becoming a Holy Land of sorts to them)
Sharls, with permission of his lord Louis, decided to crown Genghis Khan with Three titles: King of the Mongols (Ruwa Mongolar), Son of Attila (Attila Mogul (the country itself is called Son of the Huns, Hunlarin Mogul)), and the Universal Ruler (Evrensel Ruwa (the country itself is called the Universal State, Evrensel Toriin)). This compounded Genghis Khan's Legitimacy as ruler of all the Nomads (well sort of, later Hunnic rulers would title themselves Arch-Father of All Nomads).
Before we finish up, let us look at other regions of the world. Along with the Mongols, there is two other great (semi) Nomadic states: Pannonia and Bulgaria, who have crafted powerful states for themselves, but there power is starting to wane, and they have recently converted to Christianity also (Pannonians to Catholicism and Bulgarian to Orthodoxy).
In the North-East, we have two Crusader States, the Teutonic Order and the Livonian Order, but they have been less successful as the Baltic Confederation, headed by the Lithuanian Realm, have fought them back.
Sicily is also trying to force itself as a naval power on par or even greater then Venice's, taking the Balearics and even Tunis.
But enough, it's time for the major event. Starting in 1393, many French nobles started complaining of the Hunnic power: They were the Royal Guards, the Elitist part of the Army, they had permission to roam in land of other nobles (they were even able to be pardoned for raiding). The Nobles had enough, and they want Hunnic power limited. The French King eventually relented, and in late 1399, the King made a law stripping some power from the Huns. Only in late 1400 are the Huns finally receiving it.
1600
Another 200 years...
When the Huns received the news of the Hunnic Restriction Law, they were shocked. They always had good relations with the King of France, what would prompt him into making this decision? In 1402, the heads of the Hunnic Nomads, including King Amerack I, traveled to the court of the French King Louis XI. When Amerack heard the reasons behind Louis's 'treachery,' Amerack decided it would be better just to be independent. Louis honored their decision, but the true argument came from the other vassals in the area of the Huns, notably the Grand Duchy of Hispania, Duchy Controbes, Lusitania, and Pyrenees. This started a 40 year war that spring on and back off. The Huns would ultimately get these vassals, but lost a lot of territory in France. This land, called Bazim Geraketar (Our True Land), will spark trouble in later years.
The Portuguese (Suebar) feared the Huns new found independence, as historically the Huns chased them down. So they started the process of searching for other lands that they could flee to if the Huns did start to chase them down again. This led to, in 1445, the Discovery of the New World.
The Huns never really went to war with the Portuguese, except to maybe steal some of the gold they found. Instead, Amerack II and his descendants would start the process of settling down the Huns from top-down. Many of the Huns disliked this, but Sharls III found a way to try to help this. In the New World he heard about a land of endless plains, a Land of Eternal (blue) Sky, a long loved Tengrist traditional Holy Land. So Sharls claimed the Great Plains, calling it the Land of the Eternal Sky, and declared the land was free for Nomads to wander. Many Nomads moved to the land of the Eternal Sky, but others stayed behind. Those that stayed behind became more and more disinterested in the Monarchy, and wanted to move the Huns back to the old ways, maybe even to Tengriism. These are the beginnings of the Traditionalists.
The Huns didn't really focus much on colonization (except of course the Land of the Eternal Sky), or even really that much on military. Instead, as mentioned, they focused on settling down and increasing the administration, and the more the change, the more other people, want to change it dramatically, the Anti-Tradionalist or the Liberals. These Liberals see as the nation changes, the better (they think) it gets. They want to change it dramatically, letting go of all the old ways, even Christianity (if you can call that an 'old way') and Tengrism, and, most importantly, Nomadism.
While These two hundreds were anti-dramatic for the Huns, outside of the 40 year war, they have set the stage for the most destructive conflict they've faced since Attila himself.
1812
And now we come to an epic peak, the New Attila, Garva Tilka, is rising, but we can't talk about him until we cover oh so much more. The Iberian Revolution is upon us.
Let us first meet the contenders:
The Liberals: Wants to change just about everything about the structure of the Hunnic State, most importantly the monarchy and the Nomadism (which by 1750 has mostly gone away). They also want to give more rights to people like the Cotalans, Basque, and Gaulicians.
The Traditionalists: They want to revert back to an older state, where the Huns were Nomads and feared by all of Europe. This has the consequence of not being very liked by the minorities of the Hunnic Kingdom, but they don't care. They also seem to practice a lot on Calvary tactics.
The Monarchists: Want to keep the state a Monarchy, but they're willing to slowly reform the state for what's best.
So let the Revolution Begin!
We start in 1768. This is the year that both Liberals and Traditionalists had planned their uprisings and demonstrations against the Monarchy. This carried on for a year before the King of the Huns, Amerack V conceded to some of their demands, carving the Old Regime into 7 new provinces, each with a local parliament, and of course there was an upper parliament. That same year, the Traditionalists used their new found freedom to raid into Southern France, the Bazim Geraketar, demanding for the return of Their True Land.
France was predictably upset about this. Amerack promised to track down the criminals, but couldn't do it before France invaded in 1770 to hunt them down themselves (and possibly destroy the revolution. That is just speculation though). Amerack sent troops to try to stop the French, but suffered defeat after defeat near Bordeaux. The Liberals and Traditionalists blamed the Monarchy for the defeats, and rose up in protest. This required pulling more troops from the front to quell the protester, which led to more losses, which led to more protests...
As we can see, this was not going well for Amerack, and he was eventually assassinated in 1772 when a musket ball flew through the carriage he was riding in and into his heart. Amerack's son, Sharls, fled to Portugal (which is still called Seubetar by the Huns). The Liberals quickly took over the government, forming the Confederation of Iberia, or the First Federation. This First Federation was unstable, and within months it descended into Civil War as the Traditionalists rose up, the Portuguese invaded trying to reestablish the Monarchy under Sharls (there were also some notable uprisings in the Basque territory in favor of the Monarchy). Shockingly, the First Federation was actually the most stable government for the next 15 years.
1775 was the low point of the revolution, when the most territory was occupied by the Federation's enemies. But that year they won a major battle against both the Traditionalists and the Monarchists. By 1777, the Traditionalists were kicked out of the war and a major battle was won against France (but they would lose a lot more before the civil war was over) and the Federation was starting insertions into Portugal. By 1780, the Portuguese were defeated and annexed as the Republic of Portugal (Repubalak Portucal, the first time they actually referred to them as Portugal!), ending the Civil War. The First Federation was disbanded, replaced with the United Republics of Iberia, or the Second Federation.
This was also the turning point in the war with France, as a young general and actually moderate Traditionalist under the name of Garva Tilka defeated them in the battle of Cotalans, also known as the battle of Valencia. Gavra Tilka actually studied the tactics of Attila, and intended to use them in a modern setting with the aid of modern technology, so he understood that fully reverting back to the old ways was an idiotic idea, and apparently his tactics were able to bring victories. But the road to the final victory would be a long and hard one...
While France had fallen back behind the Pyrenees by the end of 1781, with political turmoil in Iberia caused by the disbanding of the Second Federation, replaced by the Third Federation, followed by the the assassination of the President of the Third Federation to be replaced by the Fourth Federation (yes all that happened in one year), France was able to return the front to the Pyrenees. The following year, Garva Tilka was able to make a decisive attack against the French, retaking Toulouse and even capturing Bourdeaux by the end of 1783.
But as Garva Tilka was preparing for a grand invasion into France in 1784, the Parliament building the Federation's capital of Toledo was stormed by Traditionalists, founding the First Consulate. The Iberian army refused to push forward while Traditionalists controlled the nation. So Garva Tilka more or less sat back, fighting defensive battles (which were not at all his forte) while he waited for the consulate to disband. Finally, in the end of 1784, the Parliament building was destroyed, killing all the traditionalists inside. Representatives of all the provinces convened and formed the Fifth Federation. Too late to attack, Garva Tilka sat and waited for 1785 to come for his grand invasion.
But when he started the attacks, he found that the French had dug in deep with huge numbers of reinforcements. Not wanting to lose the initiative a bit, he led a daring landing into Poitou and harassing the French from behind, allowing the Iberians to march again.
There would be two more Federations before Garva Tilka finally stepped foot in the Palace of Versailles in 1787, ending the 17 years' war. The Seventh Federation would annex the entire South of France, far more then the Bazim Geraketar that had started the war. Garva Tilka, upset at how unstable the government of Iberia was, marched his army on Toledo and founded a Second Consulate, but a popular one as everyone in Iberia loved Garva Tilka.
But Garva Tilka was hungry for power. In 1788, not even a year after the end of the 17 Years' War, Tilka invades Northern Italy, defeating them by Christmas and forming a puppet out of them. He did the same thing to Sicily in 1789, and 1790, he made an 'unexpected visit' to Rome, where he more-or-less forced the Pope to crown him Emperor, forming the Iberian Empire. He then invades France again in 1791, making a puppet out of them, and in 1792, he starts the 'Liberation War' for Pannonia, which had recently been divided between Bohemia, Poland, and Croatia. He fought against them for three years, taking the Pannonian basin and northern Croatia for his nation. He also gave southern Croatia to Serbia and parts of Moldavia to Wallachia, confirming alliances. He also divided the Holy Roman Empire into 4 parts (5 if including Bohemia): Rhine, Danube, Weser, and Elbe. He also invaded and puppeted Netherlands during this time. With the Peace coming in 1795, this started a fairly short time of peace over Europe.
He would make other, smaller insurrections into other areas, such as North Africa, but the next big event was in 1799, when relations between Bohemia and Tilka would lead him to invade Bohemia. A coalition of Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, and Bulgaria all joined the war against Garva Tilka, and in 1800 in Prague, Garva Tilka suffered his first major defeat. When news of his defeat came to Toledo, the Iberians officially deposed the Emperor, founding the Third Consulate. Garva Tilka accepted this, and became a simple General for Iberia yet again. By 1804, the Coalition had reached the Pyrenees, and in 1805, they captured Toledo. They restored most of the old borders (Bordeaux remained part of Iberia), and restored the Monarchy, returning the heir, Sharls VI, from a 33 year exile. Gavra Tilka wasn't chased down, captured, and exiled, as he had fallen from grace and not perceived as a threat, and the Coalition let Tilka remain, however the Monarchy chose to act with him.
That would turn to be a grave mistake. In 1807, Garva Tilka raided the Royal Palace, slitting the throat of the Returned King Sharls. His own son Amerack and heir was again able to escape. Garva Tilka again declared himself Emperor. In 1808, he invaded and conquered Portugal, and in 1809, he invaded France, just to be defeated by the Coalition at Paris. He would rule for another two years before Toledo was captured again, and Garva Tilka was sent into exile in the harsh Russian Siberia. The Monarchy was again restored, Amerack returning as Amerack VI.
And thus ended 43 years of Chaos.
Americas- 1837
We'll catch a bit more up on the Americas between 1600-1811, and also look at some of the other happenings of the world up to 1837, the year of the death of Garva Tilka
There was relative calm leading up to the Iberian Revolution. Of course there was Colonial Wars, but usually the status quo prevailed. The Aztecs and Incas, living far beyond their lifespan, were conquered by the French. The Norwegians and English also joined the Great Game of South America by colonizing New Norway (Southern Andes or Gunandas) and Patagonia. England also successfully took northern Mexico, and it's game up the West Coast. The Dutch survive, but they're not nearly as big as the French, English, or Portuguese, but still bigger then Norway and arguably bigger then the Huns.
Speaking of which, as we recall, Sharls III opened the Great Plains to the Nomads. Quickly, the Traditionalists of the Old World flocked through the city of Nomadsport (We would call it New Orleans. The Huns call it Porat Gotebar) and went off to settle the plains, or the Land of the Eternal Sky. In this land, the settlers developed a similar but different culture from the Old World Huns. While the New World Traditionalists generally ruled, the live peacefully with both the New World Liberals, who settled in the cities (notably Porat Gotebar) and the Native Nomads, such as the Dakota, Blackfoot, and Cheyenne. If you wanted to live a nomadic lifestyle, you could just up and head to the plains and find a horde, while if you wanted to live a settled lifestyle, you just find a town or a city and settle. Much different then in the Old World Huns where there was high tension between the Traditionalists and the Liberals
But, then came the Revolution. When the Traditionalists and Liberals rose up and created a constitutional monarchy, the New World did not join in, although they did except the new regime. But once the King was assassinated and a Liberal Government took over, the Land of the Eternal Sky feared they would come and wipe out nomadism, so they declared independence as the Republic of the Eternal Sky. This sort of acted as another part of the Iberian Civil War, although few agree to this. They didn't really want to succeed, and they looked for any chance where it would be safe to rejoin Iberia. They also did fight against French raids, but they were relatively few (only two ways in: by Sea, or by Canada. Neither were very appealing, and besides, they had more important problems with the Iberians themselves)
The first chance the Eternal Skyers [any better names out there?] saw to rejoin Iberia was during the Traditionalist First Consulate, but the Consulate was assassinated before Eternal Sky could rejoin. The next chance to join was when Garva Tilka declared the Second Consulate, and not long after he became Emperor, an official treaty was signed between Iberia and the Eternal Sky in which they were reunited on the condition that their way of life wouldn't be impeded upon.
During Tilka's conquests, the Eternal Skyers benefited greatly, taking almost all French, Portuguese, and Dutch Land in the Americas. But one thing that always aroused a little tension was that the Skyers wanted Tilka to declare war on Britain, but Tilka always refused because he couldn't invade Britain itself. But the Land of the Eternal Sky became an empire in it's own right anyway (Gavra Tilka sometimes talked about also declaring himself Emperor of the Eternal Sky, but never did).
When Gavra Tilka was overthrown for the Third Consulate, the Eternal Sky still acknowledged him as Emperor, declaring independence once again as the Empire of the Eternal Sky. Tilka was grateful, but still acted as a general in Iberia, sending orders to Iberia only as a general. Once the Revolution was crushed the first time, the Coalition believed it would be impossible to take back and redistribute the lands conquered by the Eternal Sky.
When Tilka returned to power, the Eternal Sky once again reunited with Iberia, but it didn't last long until Tilka was overthrown and captured.
And thus began the fall of the Empire of the Eternal Sky. While the Conquered people didn't care for returning back to their homelands, they didn't want to be part of Eternal Sky anymore, and thus began several series of revolutions against them. By 1818, the Eternal Sky was left back where they started 50 years before.
Now it's time we start talking about the rest of the world up to 1837. Also in 1818, Garva Tilka was able to escape from his Siberian Prison, and thus started 19 years of the biggest man hunt in history. My 1820, he had returned to Iberia and started writing a political book along the lines of our Communist Manifesto, Common ( Artak ) where he labeled three major things all men should have in common for a good state: Kardakasm, Fanatasm, Reponsasm (often translated as Brotherhood, Freedom, and Responsibility), thus founding Tilkism (essentially Socialism) and Communism. In 1823, on his 75th birthday, he came out of hiding and appeared before a crowd to make a speech in Toulouse. The old Coalition quickly gathered in Toulouse, but Tilka had escaped already.
He made several such speeches before he finally died in 1837. The Coalition shortly after found his body and threw it into the sea, and thus accidentally started the 1837 revolutions as several Tilkists and former allies of Tilka rose up. Notably, the 5 Kings war, a united rebellion against the Bohemia ruled Empire, made a new German Empire, and Tilkists forced the Hunnic Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy, but also forced the Bazim Geraketar back into Hunnic Hands. 1837 sparked a whole new world.
Back in the Americas, no nation has really shown itself as the equivalent of the USA, or at least not yet
1900
We are another 63 year into the epic story of the Kingdom of the Huns. Oh, how tensions have grown. France and the Huns were allies and partners only 500 years ago, granted shaky. Now, they're going at each others throats. Meanwhile, the Traditionalists and Liberals still compete inside the Kingdom of the Iberians, though now under the flags of the Tilkists and Attilists. This is the beginning of the 1900s, with tensions at all time high.
As we remember, in 1837, Garva Tilka, the symbol and main leader of the Iberian Revolution, died and his body was thrown into the sea. In this started the Revolutions of 1837. Subsections of this grand Revolution included the 5 Kings' War, the German War of Independence against the Bohemian ruled Holy Roman Empire, destroying the empire and forming the German Federation. Also among these was the second Iberian Revolution, again reforming the Hunnic Kingdom into a constitutional monarchy, along with France. The historical Bazim Geraketar was returned to the Huns, but some of it was taken back in later war between France and Iberia (although it should be noted that by this point, the Bazim Geraketar refers to all Hunnic inhabited lands north of the Pyrenees). From these harsh tensions grew with the beginnings of alliances.
We also see the colonization of Africa, and the Huns take a slice of it for the same reason they went after the Great Plains, because they still have problems between the Liberals and the Traditionalists. The Kingdom again opened up these new regions to Traditionalist nomadism. France and and other powers also joined in. In Turkey, many nations took isle of the East Aegean to help carve sphere of influence over the Turks, as with China.
In America, things are going to hell quick, at least for some countries. In the Caribbean, the French and Dutch Caribbean Federations broke down into massive civil wars, the Dutch Caribbean is still fighting in one as the Republic of Ayiti. Further north, the Land of the Eternal Sky took a bite out of Vanamen, but the Canadians and Brits are keeping them in line in the future. It's also notable Canada's huge expansion west, while the Eternal Sky stands still, flexing it's muscles but that's it. Russia also has finally made it to Alaska, after being delayed by the Nomadic people for a while. France also regained a small foothold on the continent, and whether this will be used to regain former colonies is yet to be seen, although unlikely.
Oh yes, you want to hear about the big war of the 1837-1900 era, the Wars of La Plata. Argentina and Kozetar attacked Amazon to get more land, but Kozetar was plotting something much bigger. When the Amazonian war ended, Kozetar betrayed Argentina and invaded, causing the largest war of South American history. Two years later, Kozetar was victorious, taking away all land Argentina gain and more and gave it either to it's puppet state Guaran or itself. Argentina is backwater now, lucky that it kept as much land as it did, and Kozetar is the definite leader in South American politics.
Now we should talk about Hunnic Politics. You thought people can get emotional about politics in our world, you haven't seen Hunnic Politics. Becoming Prime Minister in Iberia is just asking for assassination plots against you
Let's go in order from left to right
Communists: Self explanatory
Tilkists: Essentially Socialists, these are the followers of Garva Tilka's ideology. Ironically, while Garva Tilka was considered center-right, his ideology is interpreted as leftist.
United Independence: Those who want to see their people independent of Iberia, but instead of having a many independence parties, they combine into one.
Liberals: Since the times of the Iberian Revolution, these Liberals have moved to the position of moderates, center to center-left.
Traditionalists: They too have moderatized, moving to center-right.
Attilists: Due to the moderation of the Traditionalists, many of the right and far-right felt betrayed, thus creating this new party to continue the fight to bring the Huns back to Nomadism. These guys are essentially Hunnic-Nazis. And they make up 11% of parliament...
Note on the Government: While the Traditionalists do make up the largest party, they could not make an alliance with the Liberals (or the Tilkists, but that would be harder then to do then make an alliance with the Liberals), which was required to form a government. Instead, the Liberals allied with the Tilkists, and the Tilkist Jon Tanurci officially became the head of government. The opposition and their supporters are very mad about this.
1920
what have we done...
Only a couple years after the 1900 episode, and how much has happened...
Let's first meet some of the teams here:
The Allies:
Iberia
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Lithuania
Support from Italy
The Coalition:
France
Britain
Bohemia
Russia (and their puppets of Ukraine and Georgia. Funny how the world works)
Support from Portugal
The Pact:
Serbia
Ottoman Turkey
Dacia/ Wallachia
The Entente:
Croatia
Bulgaria
Greece
Moldova
Let's begin with the Brive-la-Gaillarde Oil and Gas Refinery explosion of 1912, near the border of Iberia and France. Now, French and Iberian relations are already edgy and they're always prepared for a war between the two of them. Now, a French refinery run by Hunnic workers had just exploded (it's unknown if it's terrorists or an accident, and if it was terrorists, it's unknown if it was pro-French or pro-Iberian), and Iberia and France were pointing fingers at each other and started mobilizing. A huge web of alliances and rivalries suddenly set off: Germany, allied to Iberia, mobilized; Britain and Bohemia, rivals of Germany, mobilized; Poland and Lithuania, allied to Germany, started playing war games to strike fear into Bohemia; Russia, hoping to gain more influence over Poland and Lithuania, mobilized. In the Balkans, the alliance known as the Pact started mobilizing, hoping the war between the Great Powers would allow their expansion of power. Three months after the Brive-la-Gaillarde Refinery explosion, France invaded the Iberian Bazim Geraketar, and the the whole thing blew to pieces.
Germany and Netherlands quickly invaded France and their puppet of Belgium. Germany and Poland also invaded Bohemia, destroying Government resistance in only a year, but the Czech public quickly organized into bands led by Tilkists and Communists, starting the Czech Resistance. In the Bazim Geraketar, France was able to reach the Pyrenees in a year, virtually knocking the Huns out of the war, although there would be couple conflicts in the area still. Russia and their puppet of Ukraine invaded Lithuania and Poland, and their western allies held off the German assault while they prayed for the Russians to break through and crush Germany. In the Balkans, the Pact struck, invading the Entente.
Russia eventually invaded the distracted Moldova, hoping to sneak around the Polish and Lithuanian troops, thus leading to the Pact aligning with the Coalition, and the Entente aligning with the Allies. But this went nowhere very fast for Russia, as while Moldova was hilariously crushed with the rest of the Entente, Poland was able to stop the incoming Russians from Moldova.
Meanwhile, on the home fronts, thing were going very bad very quickly for many countries. In the 1916 elections in Iberia, the government Liberals and Tilkists gained seats in the parliament, despite every thing going wrong for them. The Opposition, made of the Traditionalists and Attiists, blamed a combination of Liberal corruption and that the main Traditionalist and Attilist supporting base, the Bazim Geraketar, was occupied and wasn't able to vote. Because of these, the Attilist Gotalak Askensuye took to the streets of Catalonia with much of his party and the Traditionalists joining his demonstration, thus preparing Iberia for another civil war. Huns also rose up in the Bazim Geraketar, but this is likely not going to end well for them.
In Germany and the German Occupied Bohemia, we already talked about the Czech Tilkist insurgency. But in Germany proper, a Republican movement was rising up, hoping to overthrow the Five Kingdoms of the German Federation for Five Republics. And in Russia, in 1917, people growing tired of the war started to rise up in the form of Separatists, Republicans, and Communists. Already, the Russian Imperial Capital had to be moved to Tver.
Finally, in 1918, the Governments of the Allies and Entente surrendered to the governments of the Coalition and the Pact. Later that year, the Five Kings of Germany were overthrown for the Five Republics. The German army retreated from Bohemia, allowing the Communists to take over, where they helped stage a coup in Poland, creating the United Tilkist Republics, or UTR.
In 1919, as Russia collapsed into civil war between separatists, communists, republicans, and monarchists, peace talks started in Paris. There it was decided that Iberia was to cede the Bazim Geraketar to France (or as they call it, the Basé Geraque) and the Five Republics of Germany would cede Alsace, also to France. The Empire of Yugoslavia was formed from a union of Serbia, Croatia, and Bulgaria and a part of Greece, on the condition that Albania gained freedom. Romania was united under Dacia. Ottoman Turkey fell to republicans not long after the peace talks began, and so Turkey became an independent republic, but much of their other territory was taken by the French, Brits, and Italians. Notably, the Maghreb would stay part of the Iberian Colonial Empire in the treaty of Paris, but it wouldn't be like this for long...
After the loss of the Bazim Geraketar at the hands of the Liberals, that was just the push needed for the Attilists to overthrow the government, although it was found unnecessary. King Issac I of Iberia personally called for Gotalak Askensuye to become the new prime minister of Iberia, which he gladly accepted and quickly declared himself dictator. Already he's pushing his agenda across Iberia: The belief that the Nomads were the true Race, the people marked by Tengri and closest to him, and were destined to rule the world, while at the other end he saw the Romance settled life as decadent and unnatural, but he didn't care to wipe it out immediately, rather keep it and watch it wash itself away. But he did start persecuting the French and Romance people inside Iberia, it wasn't that hard since they had just fought a war with them. He also persecuted the Communists and Liberals, the 'cowards who lost the war,' but notably not the Tilkists. The relations between the Tilkists and Attilists had always been odd, since while Tilkism was leftist, they still took the name from Garva Tilka, who was actually a Traditionalist and one of the great heroes of the Attilists, second only to Attila himself.
After the accession of Gotalak Askensuye, the Iberian colony of the Maghreb rose up and declared independence, but it too quickly descended into civil war between the Liberals, the Traditionalists, and the Berber natives who wished to get their land back into their hands.
In the East, the UTR has invaded Lithuania, hoping to spread Tilkism there too, and in Russia, their puppets of Ukraine and Georgia successfully got free from the Russian thumb, Ukraine even getting away with land from it, and the Russian Civil war becomes more and more obviously a war between the Republicans and Communists to see who'll get power after the Monarchy is finally destroyed
Maghreb- 1924-25
Note 1: Each frame acts as 1 month
Note 2: The Hunnic name for a car is Temirat, literally 'Iron Horse,' while the Hunnic name for tank is Zirtemirat, literally 'Armored Iron Horse.' Most of the world borrows this word for their own name of tank, such as English where it's call Sirtermit.
In March on 1924, as the Maghrebi civil war carried on, Gotalak Askensuye, the Attilist leader of the Hunnic Kingdom, started the reconquest of the Maghreb, his army of Zirtemirats landing in strategic places. In only five months, half the population of the Maghreb was under Hunnic control. Askensuye personally went to the Maghreb and called for a month long truce between all factions while they negotiated ultimate peace.
Askensuye was a genius, knowing right where to strike into the hearts of most. The two biggest factions left were the Berbers and the Traditionalist Huns, the Liberal Huns mostly knocked out of the war. Askensuye talked to the Traditionalist how they were after the same goal, how the Traditionalists wanted to live free in nomadism. He said essentially the same to the Berbers, whom he believed weren't as corrupted as, say, the Romance people. And of course, he made sure to mention to all factions that it was just matter of time before his army of Zirtemirats conquered the rest of the Maghreb.
During this month long truce, large sections of the Berber and and Traditionalist armies defected to the Hunnic army, taking large sections of land back for the Hunnic Kingdom. What remained of the Berber, Traditionalist, and even the Liberal armies bound together in the name of independence. What remained of their armies was mostly concentrated in Fezzan.
As the truce ticked away, tension in the air grew higher. It was said that on the last day of the truce, at 23:59 one could heard a single grain of sand shift, and at 0:00, only a minute later when the truce ended, one wouldn't even be able to hear God yell. The exact moment the truce ended, Askensuye demanded the army to charge forward.
A couple of months (and missing frames) later, at Sabha, Fezzan, the last of the Independent Maghreb Army was surrounded by the Hunnic Army. Askensuye personally looked over the siege, sitting on a Zirtemirat the entire time, watching as the city crumbled. In June 22nd, 1945, the Independent Maghreb Army surrendered to Gotalak Askensuye, ending the reconquest.
Many propaganda films were made about the war, showing the strength of not only of the Army, but also of Askensuye's leadership and the greatness of the Hunnic and Nomadic People as a whole.
France and Iberia- 1930-32
Now it's 1930, it's been about 10 years since the rise of Gotalak Askensuye. Recently, a large economic depression struck across the world. Iberia was one of the least struck, but neighboring France was struck hard and was starting to go through upheaval. Gotalak Askensuye is currently searching for allies anywhere, but they're hard to find when he essentially believes everyone in Western Europe (outside of the Huns, of course) should be thrown into a pit of fire. His only chance is with the Turks, upset at the betrayal at the hands of the former Coalition, the Bulgars, and, oddly enough, the United Tilkist Republics. Currently, the second in power is a Pannonian (Hungarian), who Askensuye would be glad to negotiate with, as soon as the first in power is over thrown, but that's a different matter...
In October 1930, Toulouse and Bordeaux (Tolos and Bordar in Hunnic), cities with a majority Hunnic population rose up against the French, demanding that the Bazim Geraketar be returned to the Hunnic Kingdom. France refused, and went to confront the rebels. Gotalak Askensuye warned that confronting the Hunnic rebels will result in war with the Huns.
France decided to attack the rebels anyway, believing the former Coalition will band together to keep the Huns in their place. France overestimated. The rest of the Coalition was still reeling from the depression, so was weary to go to war. So when French troops attacked the Hunnic rebels in Toulouse, they suddenly found themselves alone in a conflict with one of the greatest military powers of the time.
Askensuye demanded for the army to surge over the Pyrenees into the Bazim Geraketar, starting the Toulouse war. France was overwhelmed and in only 4 months, the Huns had France at their knees, offering the Bazim Geraketar back in exchange for peace. Suddenly, Askensuye was at a very odd place. He realized that taking the Bazim Geraketar would end the war with victory, but if he continue the war, he knew he could force France into total subjugation at the cost of diplomatic isolation. He decided to go for the total subjugation of France.
After the Huns' refusal of peace, Portugal declared war on the Huns, hoping that if they could take Toledo (Tolad), they could force the war to be over immediately. This was hardly the case. Only a couple of months after the Portuguese intervention, their main army was surrounded and destroyed. Meanwhile, on the French Front, the war temporarily came to a halt at the Loire. The French Army had been built up there, preparing for one final showdown. What came instead was a quick, somewhat uneventful, surrounding and destroying of the French armies at Tours, Blois, and Orleans. The Hunnic army and what remained of the French army then headed off to Paris.
On the Portuguese Front, the Hunnic Army started down the Tagus River to Lisbon. Later studies and records have shown that the Hunnic Army purposefully poisoned the lower Tagus specifically to cause death to the Portuguese in Lisbon, where several thousand people died from drinking the poisoned water. In January, Portugal completely surrendered.
In France, the siege of Paris began, and Askensuye came up with a brilliant idea to justify the complete subjugation of France; He would prop up the French Kingdom again, where France and Huns would be in a personal union, sharing King Issac II. And so, Askensuye ordered the capture of Reims, so he could then crown the new king of France. Before Paris even fell, he invited Isaac II to Reims, where on Christmas day Askensuye personally crowned the King of the Huns and Iberians also the King of the French. Just over a month later, the French Republic surrendered. Gotalak Askensuye took all of southern France and gave it to the Kingdom of the Huns, leaving the rest as the French Kingdom. The borders taken were similar to the ones taken during the Iberian Revolution over a century before, closing in on the 150th anniversary of the end of the 17 year's war.
Thus, Gotalak Askensuye was able to take over two different nations with minimal tarnishing of the Hunnic reputation. It was only a couple weeks after the peace that the French people were starting to be pushed out or down right killed in the Bazim Geraketar, and harassed by the Army in the rest of the newly conquered territory. The Portuguese had a similar fate, and many of them fled to the former colonies. The new Prime Minister of the French Kingdom was a Hun and good friend of Askensuye. In the United Tilkist Republics, an assassin killed the current leader, a Pole, and his Pannonian right-hand man took his place as Premier.
Americas- 1932
Note: Whenever I say 'Caribbean states,' Florida/Jardin is included in that list
It's been 32 years since the last time we've checked in on the Americas.
Firstly, in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War, Alaska achieved independence. Also, Kuzetar straight annexed their puppet of Guarantar, and the 'Caribbean Wars' have ended when the Hatian civil war ended. The British Colonies have become more independent over the years from the Motherland, gaining their own parliaments.
The Caribbean states are notably insane (imagine 7 North Koreas all pointing guns at each other, that's how bad the Caribbean states are) and are home to a large amount of privateers, as they try to stop trade with any of their rivals. Each of the Caribbean states are looking for larger allies to beat back each other's rivals. How the 'Second Caribbean War' hasn't started yet, the world still doesn't know, but that land there is the powder keg of the Americas
After the Toulouse war of 1930-32, Alaska and British Hopiland invaded the French colony in California in order to protect them from Hunnic Occupation. This happened in other French colonies as well, such as some of their southern African or Indian/Pacific Isles colonies. But when the Toulouse war ended, so did the attempt to protect the French colonies as well. Gotalak Askensuye is upset at this, and intends to reclaim this territory in the name of the King of the French Isaac II, or at least against some of the easier targets.
As tensions grow in Europe, the Americans are also shifting around as they try to decide who's side they're going to be on. There is talk about Monk Tanritar allying with the Hunnic Kingdom, although there has been no conformation that either government is actively seeking an alliance with the other. There's also talk about the former French and Portuguese colonies are making alliances against the Huns in defense of their brethren. But, hey, the Caribbean states are crazy, so there could be some sort of odd alliance between the Huns and one of the Caribbean states.
1943
August 1935 - The First Battle of the Caribbean starts as Privateers from the long hated enemies Caray and Arawak attack each other, with help of their allies. Caray gained help from the Hunno-French kingdom and the Eternal Sky Land and later their ally of Borican, and Arawak was aided by Great Britain. This started a diplomatic crisis that forced the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Pace Hanson, to fly to Paris so he could meet with Isaac II, Gotalak Askensuye and Farden Sosi (Prime Minister of France). During the course of the negotiations, they would actually have take breaks to give orders to their respective admirals and captains, along with Pace Hanson having to give news and reports to Parliament.
Throughout the negotiations, both sides hinted at the possibility of war. Luckily, the First battle of the Caribbean ends with semi-successful negotiations
September 1935 - The Second Battle of the Caribbean starts, not even a month after the last. Arawak and Caray can’t help but fight each other again, and once again Pace Hanson flies to Paris to talk with Askensuye, Sosi, and Isaac II. Negotiations break down until Hanson declares that war is inevitable now (he’s actually referring to war between Arawak and Caray). Askensuye replies that if war is inevitable, then Hanson is suddenly an enemy of the Hunno-French Kingdom. Askensuye has Isaac II arrest Hanson and sent to prison in Toledo. Askensuye orders for Hunno-French ships to specifically aim at British ships, and orders bombers to head of to London. Britain was about to vote to declare war (many historians believe that they wouldn't have done it) when the news of Hanson's arrest and Hunnic bombs suddenly dropping on London delayed the vote. When parliament reconvened three days later, they voted unanimously to go to war with the Huns. Some Hunnic allies come to their aid
In the Caribbean front, British ships flee. The Arawak navy is almost destroyed
October 1935 - Hanson is executed as an enemy and an ‘Etablar,’ a Settled Man, as declared by Askensuye. This act pushes even more nations into war against the Allies, setting off even more alliances.
France invaded Belgium during this month.
The Third Battle of the Caribbean occurs as the Britsh Caribbean fleet returns to defend against a Carayian invasion of the Arawak isles. The British Caribbean fleet is forced to flee again.
November 1935 - Fall of Belgium and Netherlands, their respective governments flee to Britain. All soldiers and government officials captured by the Huns are immediately executed as enemies and Etablars. Belgium is annexed by France, and Netherlands is turned into a puppet state.
The Huns invade Italy, taking over the northern half. The battle of the Strait of Bonifacio occurs between the Hunnic and Italian fleets, ending inconclusively.
Caray successfully invades, conquers, and annexes Arawak.
The Eternal Sky invades British Virginia (the east coast of North America)
British Hopiland invades and liberates French California, setting up the Republican government-in-exile there
December 1935 - All of Mainland Italy and Sicily is conquered, all that remains of Italy proper are Corsica and Sardinia, that hold out well. The Italian government flees to Cairo and the Pope flees to Jerusalem. Again, any troops and government officials captured are executed immediately. Lombardy is annexed by the Hunnic Kingdom, and the rest of the conquered territory is turned into a puppet state.
Germany is invaded, but it turns into the hardest battle yet.
British bombers are starting to head out over the Channel to bomb the Huns
January 1936 - Invasion and conquest of Jarden, Canadian invasion of the Eternal Sky land from the north.
February 1936 - Fall of Germany, and the mainland Europeans have been beaten back. Captured German officials are executed.
Turkish offensive into the Italian Holy Land.
March 1936 - Fall of Corsica. Annexed into Hunnic State
April 1936 - First Battle of Jerusalem ends in Italian victory, ending the Turkish invasion of the Holy Land
Battle of Charleston, Virginia, British victory, halts the Eternal Skyers offensive into British Virginia
Fall of Sardinia. Annexed into the Hunnic State
June 1936 - Battles of the Bay of Biscay and Gulf of Cadiz, ending in British victory and dealing a severe blow to the Hunnic navy.
July 1936 - Massive bombing campaign against Britain begins
Second invasion into British Virginia, this time from the South
August 1936 - Invasion of Italian Egypt from the West by the Huns
September 1936 - Battle of the Coast of Egypt, Hunnic victory, preventing British from resupplying Italian Egypt.
Battle of Alexandria, Hunnic victory
Italian government flees again, heading to Jerusalem
Second battle of Charleston, British victory, again halting the invasion into British Virginia
October 1936 - The Huns lands a massive force on the British Isles, hoping to force Britain out
Siege of Cairo begins
November 1936 - Siege of London begins
December 1936 - Battle of the Channel, decisive victory for the British. Hunnic forces in England unable to be reinforced.
January 1937 - Hunnic invasion of the British Isles repulsed
Second battle of the Channel, Hunnic troops in retreat are slaughtered. This comes with a result of hundreds of thousands of Hunnic soldiers dying
February 1937 - Hunnic invasion of Yugoslavia. Romania comes to the help their ally, Yugoslavia. Greece sends aid to the Huns. Askensuye accepts the gifts, but has plans for Greece in the future...
Coalition liberation into Jarden
March 1937 - Fall of Cairo
Jarden completely liberated
May 1937 - Fall of Romania
Greece officially joins the war on the side of the Allies, declaring war on Yugoslavia.
Invasion of the Eternal Sky Land from Hopiland and Virginia
June 1937 - Fall of Yugoslavia
Pannonian Yugoslavia and Romania goes to the UTR, the rest going to a new, Bulgarian-led Yugoslavia.
Jerusalem falls. Italian Government flees to Iraq and finally to Britain
July 1937 - Askensuye's betrayal of Greece. Greece is almost immediately defeated and annexed by Turkey.
August 1937 - Invasion of Iraq
Important landmarks and artifacts of Ancient Greece are desecrated by Hunnic troops stationed there.
September 1937 - Battle of the Garden Straits (Florida straits) ending in Decisive British Victory. Allied navies will never have a strong presence again in the American seas
November 1937 - Battle of Baghdad, Hunnic Victory.
Talks begin between the Arab State and Huns to try to convince Arabs to join the war.
War in Europe seems to come to stand still. There’s occasional bombings, but it’s completely frozen now
December 1937 - Arabs joins the war on the side of the Allies
March 1938 - Fall of Nomadsport (New Orleans) and the Land of the Eternal Sky surrenders
April 1938 - Invasion of Borikan
June 1938 - Invasion and liberation of Arawak
Hunnic invasion of Ukraine
Tatar-Kuban joins the war on the side of the Allies
July 1938 - Hunnic capture of Kiev. Ukraine is turned over to the Tatars
September 1938 - Invasion of Caray
October 1938 - Borikan and Caray formally surrenders. End of the Americo-Caribbean front
December 1938 - Battle of Kuwait, British victory
March 1939 - Second Battle of Baghdad, narrow Hunnic victory
April 1939 - Battle of the Sea of Sicily ends in decisive British victory. What remains of the Hunnic navy is essentially destroyed.
May 1939 - Attempted Invasion of the Levant by the Coalition.
June 1939 - Invasion of the Levant pushed back
Hunnic invasion of Russia
July 1939 - Turkish invasion of Georgia
Siege of Petrograd begins
September 1939 - First battle of Tsaritsyn and Moscow begins
November 1939 - Third battle of Baghdad, British victory
December 1939 - Battle of Moscow ends in Hunnic withdrawal
Battle of Tsaritsyn ends in Hunnic victory
January 1940 - Second invasion of the Levant by the Coalition. Capture of Damascus and Jerusalem
February 1940 - British invasion of Arabia. Arabia immediately surrenders
March 1940 - Second battles of Tsaritsyn and Moscow starts
Coalition invasion into Turkey
April 1940 - Capture of Cairo
August 1940 - Capture of Tripoli
Second Battles of Moscow and Tsaritsyn ends: Moscow remains in Russian hands and Tsaritsyn is recaptured.
October 1940 - Capture of Ankara from the Turks
November 1940 - Capture of Tunis
Attempted invasion of Iberia through Portugal ends in failure
December 1940 - Battle of the Lusitanian Sea, the rebuilt Hunnic fleet along with junk ships from puppet states throw themselves at the British navy. Somehow ends in Hunnic victory
January 1941 - Battle of the Breton Coast defeats the Hunnic fleet, although is survives
February 1941 - Fall of Istanbul, Turks surrender
March 1941 - Third battle of Tsaritsyn. Hunnic army is defeated decisively
Hunnic North Africa is completely in control of the Coalition
April 1941 - Parisian uprising. French citizens capture and assassinate Farden Sosi. British troops land to supply the French
May 1941 - Battle of Paris repulses the British from France
Siege of Petrograd is lifted
Invasion of Sicily by the Coalition
June 1941 - Battle of Sofia ends in Coalition victory
July 1941 - Huns completely beaten back from Russia
September 1941 - Battle of Belgrade ends in Coalition victory. Bulgar-led Yugoslavia surrenders
Second battle of the Lusitanian sea sees the end of the Hunnic Navy. There will be no more Allied naval presence in the war
October 1941 - Italian citizens overthrown the Puppet government. Allied troops quickly come to secure Southern Italy
Capture of Kiev, Tatars surrender
November 1941 - Invasion of the UTR by the Coalition.
December 1941 - Invasion of Iberia through Andalusia by the Coalition
January 1942 - Battle of Cadiz ends in British victory.
March 1942 - Battle of Toledo ends in Hunnic victory.
April 1942 - Invasion of Andalusia repulsed.
First Battle of Krakow ends in UTR victory
May 1942 - Second battle of Krakow ends in Coalition victory. UTR government flees to Prague
June 1942 - German and Dutch uprisings overthrow their respective Puppet governments. The Dutch revolt is put down and Southern Germany is recaptured.
July 1942 - Siege of Prague begins
August 1942 - Journee des Francais Libres (Jour de la Liberte), the Second French uprising. Paris is Liberated and Allies successfully secure Northern France. Mass guerrilla war pushes the Huns back in Provence and Savoy.
Huns defeated in Southern Germany, Netherlands liberated, Lombardy liberated,
Prague and UTR surrenders
September 1942 - Invasion of the Bazim Geraketar
October 1942 - Three branched invasion of Iberia; From the Bazim Geraketar, Through Portugal, and through Andalusia
November 1942 - Battle of Toledo ends in final Hunnic defeat. Isaac II kills himself in fear of the Coalition. The final thing Gotalak Askensuye said, after hearing the news of his officers betraying him in the surrender of Toledo and the suicide of Isaac II were “I have failed civilization.” Askensuye then had the messenger stab him in the heart with an arrow, supposedly one fired by Attila himself.
Throughout the liberation of many territories, most notably in Lombardy, Provence, and Pannonia, a disturbing trend rose up: Millions of people dead in gruesome way. The Coalition knew that Askensuye was crazy (look no further then what he had done to Pace Hanson back in 1935), but this? This was too much. Millions of Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Dutchmen, Greeks, Portuguese, Romanians, and some Slavs were being slaughters, either being burned alive or their head being cut off, or being impaled. Meanwhile, several captured soldiers and factory workers were found to be Russians or Slavs in general that were taken from their homes and forced to work as Slaves.
At Askensuye's office, they found several documents laying out his grand plans and ideological beliefs. He believed that the Romance and Greek people were essentially the product of the Devil himself, made to spread settled life and the corruption and decadence that comes with it, and should thus be shoved into a fire (Sorry Romance and Greek people). After that were the people 'born free but corrupted to the point where they can't be saved,' ie, they should also be shoved into a fire. These included the Germanics, Celts, and Western Slavs (Sorry to you guys too). Above them were those 'not as corrupted, but can't be fully saved,' and thus should be slaves. These included the Southern and Eastern Slavs, the Finns, and others (sorry again). The final people, top of the ladder and 'superior people' were the People that could be saved, the people that can fully turn back to Nomadism, were of course the Huns, Turks, Bulgarians, and Tatars, but also the Arabs along with the Gypsies and Jews (stateless people that were constantly moving around. How times have changed)
And thus, the Second World War was over after 7 years and two months. Portugal is liberated; Turkey and Iberia are divided into occupation zones; the UTR is divided; Pannonia is given a new state; Bulgaria is given a new state (Romania and Yugoslavia complain that they're rewarding the Allies and punishing the Coalition); Constantinople is created into the capital of a new, UN-type organization; Ukraine is annexed by Russia; Belgium is divided between Netherlands and France
And thus, we end the story of the Kingdom of the Huns.
Demographics of the Kingdom of the Huns- 1934
Religions:
Roman Catholic: self explanatory
Hunnic Catholic: The Pope created a revised Catholicism to specifically suit the Nomadic Huns, as opposed to the more settled style of Roman Catholicism.
Hunnic Protestantism: During the Protestant Reformation, the King of the Huns split off from the Catholic church. Hunnic Protestantism is essentially Anglicanism but for the Huns
Galician Protestantism: Hunnic Protestantism made to suit the Settled people. Originally called Cotalan Protestantism (Since Cotalans were for a long time the largest settled populace), it was eventually started to be called Galician Protestantism after the largest populace that converted to it.
Revived Tengriism: Self explanatory. Mostly focused on Extremely pro-Attilist Huns. Most regions that majority Tengriist are just barely so.
Cultures:
When People say 'Hun,' they're actually referring to 'Upper Hun.' There's actually 4 member of the Hun (or Greater Hun) group, only two of which have a large populace. Iberians are also refer to an even greater group
Iberians:
Greater Huns:
Upper Huns
West Khazars
West Avars
Cotalan (Half Goth, Half Alan, considered part of Greater Huns)
Iberian Romance:
Portuguese
Pyrenian (they're language is the closest living language to Latin)
Andalusian
Other Iberian:
Iberian Celt/Galician
Basque
Non Iberians
French
Italians
The National Anthem is called "Kingdom of Wanderers," was first written during the Iberian Revolution, specifically Garva Tilka's reign as Emperor. It was originally called "Emperor of the Wanderers," and was written in honor of Garva Tilka, but when the Kingdom was restored, it was renamed "Kingdom of Wanderers." Later, it was renamed "Kingdom of Wonders," but most people stubbornly hold on to the name of "Kingdom of Wanderers."
The National March is called "March to the Steppes." It was also written during Garva Tilka's reign as Emperor and was written to the hope of the eventual unity of the Nomadic people. Garva Tilka loved it so much, It'd be the only song he'd have played at parades and victory marches. When Garva Tilka was overthrown in 1812, the song fell into obscurity until it was rediscovered by Attilists. When Gotalak Askensuye became dictator, he made the song the national march again.
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600 AD
In 451, Attila and his Huns defeat the Coalition of Romans and Visigoths at Chalon, thus leading to the Huns conquering the entirety of Gaul. Only three years later, Attila died and his empire fell to pieces, but his son Ellac (or Allick) consolidates his lands in Gaul, and many of the Huns declare their loyalty to Ellac. The Hunnic Empire east of the Rhine dissipates into nothing, replaced by the Avars, Alans, and Khazars.
Continuing from Ellac's death, the Hunnic Empire grew smaller and smaller. The Franks, who had settled in Northern Gaul under Ellac's rule, asserted their independence. The Franks and Huns, though, do have an understanding and don't attack each other and are quite friendly.
But, the Eastern Hordes of the Avars, Alans, and Khazars, see Hunlu as a holy land of sorts, and continuously migrate there. The Kingdom of the Huns is generally divided into 12 territories: 4 Hunnic (Including the King's personal territory), 3 Alan, 2 Roman, and 1 each for the Khazars, Basques, and Avars.
The Kingdom of the Huns also serves as mercenaries, mostly for the Franks, but also notably for the Ostrogoth (Ostgotar) and Suebi. The Huns and the 4 Hordes are also known for consistently raiding Visigoth (Westgotar) land, as they still hold grudges against each other.
1000 AD
In 712 AD, the quickly growing Arabian Caliphate crossed the Pillars of Hercules, and were heading north to the Hunnic Kingdom. The Hunnic King Rugas II quickly went to the Franks for help. King Clovis II of the Franks declared he would help the Huns if they became his vassals. They would of course, have large freedoms and would be mostly independent, only doing some duties for their new High King. Rugas Akitillid agreed and became Petty King under the Franks. In 714, the Franco-Hunnic army met the Arabian Army and defeated them, thanks due to the great horsemanship of the Huns and the professional infantry of the Franks. From there, the Huns and Franks went on to conquer much of Iberia from the Arabs, although they were eventually pushed back out by the Muslims. But the Franco-Hunnic alliance had just begun, and the High and Petty Kings saw potential and their relationship.
Together, they went on to conquer much of Central Europe. The Huns themselves would often decide the next High King indirectly, because whoever the Huns declared their allegiance to often won the war of succession. In this way, the Frankish Empire grew large, at it's height stretching from Iberia and Naples to Jutland and Bohemia.
But unfortunately, in 872, the Huns had settled into a more peaceful life, or at least refused to war in the newest war of succession. And so, the Frankish Empire divided into three: Francia, Italia, and Alimania (Germany)
On the other side of the Continent, two different Empires are emerging: The Bulgars and Pannonians
1400
Another 400 years have gone along. The Franco-Hunnic Empire is the greatest of them all, holding a firm grip on the rest of Western and Central Europe. No one dares mock or insult the King of France, as doing so would be the equivalent of mocking God and his Knights of Christ, the Huns. But we're about to witness an event that would tumble that French dominated world down, down, down, and will rock the world for hundreds of years....
We start by seeing how much influence the Europeans are putting on the Huns. Firstly, in 1071, as the Crusades were preparing to begin, the Huns finally converted to Christianity (The Huns were to useful and powerful before hand to make any sort of demand such as Conversion). The Huns can also be seen adopting many French/ Latin words. The Tar endings are based around the French Terre endings, and have adopted words that would pertain to settled life (such as Ville would be Fal and Chateau would be Satao )
In 1074, the First Crusade was called against the Muslims, and France, as the Holiest and most powerful of all Christian Kingdoms, headed the charge. As the Huns and French crossed the Seas and landed in the Holy Land, the Huns were able to wreck havoc upon the Muslims, making the First Crusade an astonishing success ending in 1078. The Huns were declared 'The Knights of Christ,' A title the Hunnic Kingdom would never give up.
Any time the Arabs tried to counter and take back the Holy Land, the Huns would come and save the day, making Muslim victories few and small. It was only with the Turks that the Huns were finally pushed back, but it didn't matter, since the Franco-Huns and Portuguese (who the Huns just seem refuse to ever stop calling them Suebi) were pushing back the Muslims in Iberia
In 1270, a force rocked the entire Eurasian continent. The Mighty Mongols have arrived, with Genghis Khan, the Universal Ruler, at their helm! The Hunnic King, Sharls, with the accompaniment of French King Louis, traveled far to the realm of the Mongols, to the court of Genghis Khan. When Genghis Khan heard who it was that arrived at his camp, the King of the Huns, it was he who bowed down, as Genghis Khan saw Sharls, as decedent of Attila, to be of higher position then himself (Let us not forget, Attila in this story essentially became the icon of all Nomads, with the Hunnic Kingdom becoming a Holy Land of sorts to them)
Sharls, with permission of his lord Louis, decided to crown Genghis Khan with Three titles: King of the Mongols (Ruwa Mongolar), Son of Attila (Attila Mogul (the country itself is called Son of the Huns, Hunlarin Mogul)), and the Universal Ruler (Evrensel Ruwa (the country itself is called the Universal State, Evrensel Toriin)). This compounded Genghis Khan's Legitimacy as ruler of all the Nomads (well sort of, later Hunnic rulers would title themselves Arch-Father of All Nomads).
Before we finish up, let us look at other regions of the world. Along with the Mongols, there is two other great (semi) Nomadic states: Pannonia and Bulgaria, who have crafted powerful states for themselves, but there power is starting to wane, and they have recently converted to Christianity also (Pannonians to Catholicism and Bulgarian to Orthodoxy).
In the North-East, we have two Crusader States, the Teutonic Order and the Livonian Order, but they have been less successful as the Baltic Confederation, headed by the Lithuanian Realm, have fought them back.
Sicily is also trying to force itself as a naval power on par or even greater then Venice's, taking the Balearics and even Tunis.
But enough, it's time for the major event. Starting in 1393, many French nobles started complaining of the Hunnic power: They were the Royal Guards, the Elitist part of the Army, they had permission to roam in land of other nobles (they were even able to be pardoned for raiding). The Nobles had enough, and they want Hunnic power limited. The French King eventually relented, and in late 1399, the King made a law stripping some power from the Huns. Only in late 1400 are the Huns finally receiving it.
1600
Another 200 years...
When the Huns received the news of the Hunnic Restriction Law, they were shocked. They always had good relations with the King of France, what would prompt him into making this decision? In 1402, the heads of the Hunnic Nomads, including King Amerack I, traveled to the court of the French King Louis XI. When Amerack heard the reasons behind Louis's 'treachery,' Amerack decided it would be better just to be independent. Louis honored their decision, but the true argument came from the other vassals in the area of the Huns, notably the Grand Duchy of Hispania, Duchy Controbes, Lusitania, and Pyrenees. This started a 40 year war that spring on and back off. The Huns would ultimately get these vassals, but lost a lot of territory in France. This land, called Bazim Geraketar (Our True Land), will spark trouble in later years.
The Portuguese (Suebar) feared the Huns new found independence, as historically the Huns chased them down. So they started the process of searching for other lands that they could flee to if the Huns did start to chase them down again. This led to, in 1445, the Discovery of the New World.
The Huns never really went to war with the Portuguese, except to maybe steal some of the gold they found. Instead, Amerack II and his descendants would start the process of settling down the Huns from top-down. Many of the Huns disliked this, but Sharls III found a way to try to help this. In the New World he heard about a land of endless plains, a Land of Eternal (blue) Sky, a long loved Tengrist traditional Holy Land. So Sharls claimed the Great Plains, calling it the Land of the Eternal Sky, and declared the land was free for Nomads to wander. Many Nomads moved to the land of the Eternal Sky, but others stayed behind. Those that stayed behind became more and more disinterested in the Monarchy, and wanted to move the Huns back to the old ways, maybe even to Tengriism. These are the beginnings of the Traditionalists.
The Huns didn't really focus much on colonization (except of course the Land of the Eternal Sky), or even really that much on military. Instead, as mentioned, they focused on settling down and increasing the administration, and the more the change, the more other people, want to change it dramatically, the Anti-Tradionalist or the Liberals. These Liberals see as the nation changes, the better (they think) it gets. They want to change it dramatically, letting go of all the old ways, even Christianity (if you can call that an 'old way') and Tengrism, and, most importantly, Nomadism.
While These two hundreds were anti-dramatic for the Huns, outside of the 40 year war, they have set the stage for the most destructive conflict they've faced since Attila himself.
1812
And now we come to an epic peak, the New Attila, Garva Tilka, is rising, but we can't talk about him until we cover oh so much more. The Iberian Revolution is upon us.
Let us first meet the contenders:
The Liberals: Wants to change just about everything about the structure of the Hunnic State, most importantly the monarchy and the Nomadism (which by 1750 has mostly gone away). They also want to give more rights to people like the Cotalans, Basque, and Gaulicians.
The Traditionalists: They want to revert back to an older state, where the Huns were Nomads and feared by all of Europe. This has the consequence of not being very liked by the minorities of the Hunnic Kingdom, but they don't care. They also seem to practice a lot on Calvary tactics.
The Monarchists: Want to keep the state a Monarchy, but they're willing to slowly reform the state for what's best.
So let the Revolution Begin!
We start in 1768. This is the year that both Liberals and Traditionalists had planned their uprisings and demonstrations against the Monarchy. This carried on for a year before the King of the Huns, Amerack V conceded to some of their demands, carving the Old Regime into 7 new provinces, each with a local parliament, and of course there was an upper parliament. That same year, the Traditionalists used their new found freedom to raid into Southern France, the Bazim Geraketar, demanding for the return of Their True Land.
France was predictably upset about this. Amerack promised to track down the criminals, but couldn't do it before France invaded in 1770 to hunt them down themselves (and possibly destroy the revolution. That is just speculation though). Amerack sent troops to try to stop the French, but suffered defeat after defeat near Bordeaux. The Liberals and Traditionalists blamed the Monarchy for the defeats, and rose up in protest. This required pulling more troops from the front to quell the protester, which led to more losses, which led to more protests...
As we can see, this was not going well for Amerack, and he was eventually assassinated in 1772 when a musket ball flew through the carriage he was riding in and into his heart. Amerack's son, Sharls, fled to Portugal (which is still called Seubetar by the Huns). The Liberals quickly took over the government, forming the Confederation of Iberia, or the First Federation. This First Federation was unstable, and within months it descended into Civil War as the Traditionalists rose up, the Portuguese invaded trying to reestablish the Monarchy under Sharls (there were also some notable uprisings in the Basque territory in favor of the Monarchy). Shockingly, the First Federation was actually the most stable government for the next 15 years.
1775 was the low point of the revolution, when the most territory was occupied by the Federation's enemies. But that year they won a major battle against both the Traditionalists and the Monarchists. By 1777, the Traditionalists were kicked out of the war and a major battle was won against France (but they would lose a lot more before the civil war was over) and the Federation was starting insertions into Portugal. By 1780, the Portuguese were defeated and annexed as the Republic of Portugal (Repubalak Portucal, the first time they actually referred to them as Portugal!), ending the Civil War. The First Federation was disbanded, replaced with the United Republics of Iberia, or the Second Federation.
This was also the turning point in the war with France, as a young general and actually moderate Traditionalist under the name of Garva Tilka defeated them in the battle of Cotalans, also known as the battle of Valencia. Gavra Tilka actually studied the tactics of Attila, and intended to use them in a modern setting with the aid of modern technology, so he understood that fully reverting back to the old ways was an idiotic idea, and apparently his tactics were able to bring victories. But the road to the final victory would be a long and hard one...
While France had fallen back behind the Pyrenees by the end of 1781, with political turmoil in Iberia caused by the disbanding of the Second Federation, replaced by the Third Federation, followed by the the assassination of the President of the Third Federation to be replaced by the Fourth Federation (yes all that happened in one year), France was able to return the front to the Pyrenees. The following year, Garva Tilka was able to make a decisive attack against the French, retaking Toulouse and even capturing Bourdeaux by the end of 1783.
But as Garva Tilka was preparing for a grand invasion into France in 1784, the Parliament building the Federation's capital of Toledo was stormed by Traditionalists, founding the First Consulate. The Iberian army refused to push forward while Traditionalists controlled the nation. So Garva Tilka more or less sat back, fighting defensive battles (which were not at all his forte) while he waited for the consulate to disband. Finally, in the end of 1784, the Parliament building was destroyed, killing all the traditionalists inside. Representatives of all the provinces convened and formed the Fifth Federation. Too late to attack, Garva Tilka sat and waited for 1785 to come for his grand invasion.
But when he started the attacks, he found that the French had dug in deep with huge numbers of reinforcements. Not wanting to lose the initiative a bit, he led a daring landing into Poitou and harassing the French from behind, allowing the Iberians to march again.
There would be two more Federations before Garva Tilka finally stepped foot in the Palace of Versailles in 1787, ending the 17 years' war. The Seventh Federation would annex the entire South of France, far more then the Bazim Geraketar that had started the war. Garva Tilka, upset at how unstable the government of Iberia was, marched his army on Toledo and founded a Second Consulate, but a popular one as everyone in Iberia loved Garva Tilka.
But Garva Tilka was hungry for power. In 1788, not even a year after the end of the 17 Years' War, Tilka invades Northern Italy, defeating them by Christmas and forming a puppet out of them. He did the same thing to Sicily in 1789, and 1790, he made an 'unexpected visit' to Rome, where he more-or-less forced the Pope to crown him Emperor, forming the Iberian Empire. He then invades France again in 1791, making a puppet out of them, and in 1792, he starts the 'Liberation War' for Pannonia, which had recently been divided between Bohemia, Poland, and Croatia. He fought against them for three years, taking the Pannonian basin and northern Croatia for his nation. He also gave southern Croatia to Serbia and parts of Moldavia to Wallachia, confirming alliances. He also divided the Holy Roman Empire into 4 parts (5 if including Bohemia): Rhine, Danube, Weser, and Elbe. He also invaded and puppeted Netherlands during this time. With the Peace coming in 1795, this started a fairly short time of peace over Europe.
He would make other, smaller insurrections into other areas, such as North Africa, but the next big event was in 1799, when relations between Bohemia and Tilka would lead him to invade Bohemia. A coalition of Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, and Bulgaria all joined the war against Garva Tilka, and in 1800 in Prague, Garva Tilka suffered his first major defeat. When news of his defeat came to Toledo, the Iberians officially deposed the Emperor, founding the Third Consulate. Garva Tilka accepted this, and became a simple General for Iberia yet again. By 1804, the Coalition had reached the Pyrenees, and in 1805, they captured Toledo. They restored most of the old borders (Bordeaux remained part of Iberia), and restored the Monarchy, returning the heir, Sharls VI, from a 33 year exile. Gavra Tilka wasn't chased down, captured, and exiled, as he had fallen from grace and not perceived as a threat, and the Coalition let Tilka remain, however the Monarchy chose to act with him.
That would turn to be a grave mistake. In 1807, Garva Tilka raided the Royal Palace, slitting the throat of the Returned King Sharls. His own son Amerack and heir was again able to escape. Garva Tilka again declared himself Emperor. In 1808, he invaded and conquered Portugal, and in 1809, he invaded France, just to be defeated by the Coalition at Paris. He would rule for another two years before Toledo was captured again, and Garva Tilka was sent into exile in the harsh Russian Siberia. The Monarchy was again restored, Amerack returning as Amerack VI.
And thus ended 43 years of Chaos.
Americas- 1837
We'll catch a bit more up on the Americas between 1600-1811, and also look at some of the other happenings of the world up to 1837, the year of the death of Garva Tilka
There was relative calm leading up to the Iberian Revolution. Of course there was Colonial Wars, but usually the status quo prevailed. The Aztecs and Incas, living far beyond their lifespan, were conquered by the French. The Norwegians and English also joined the Great Game of South America by colonizing New Norway (Southern Andes or Gunandas) and Patagonia. England also successfully took northern Mexico, and it's game up the West Coast. The Dutch survive, but they're not nearly as big as the French, English, or Portuguese, but still bigger then Norway and arguably bigger then the Huns.
Speaking of which, as we recall, Sharls III opened the Great Plains to the Nomads. Quickly, the Traditionalists of the Old World flocked through the city of Nomadsport (We would call it New Orleans. The Huns call it Porat Gotebar) and went off to settle the plains, or the Land of the Eternal Sky. In this land, the settlers developed a similar but different culture from the Old World Huns. While the New World Traditionalists generally ruled, the live peacefully with both the New World Liberals, who settled in the cities (notably Porat Gotebar) and the Native Nomads, such as the Dakota, Blackfoot, and Cheyenne. If you wanted to live a nomadic lifestyle, you could just up and head to the plains and find a horde, while if you wanted to live a settled lifestyle, you just find a town or a city and settle. Much different then in the Old World Huns where there was high tension between the Traditionalists and the Liberals
But, then came the Revolution. When the Traditionalists and Liberals rose up and created a constitutional monarchy, the New World did not join in, although they did except the new regime. But once the King was assassinated and a Liberal Government took over, the Land of the Eternal Sky feared they would come and wipe out nomadism, so they declared independence as the Republic of the Eternal Sky. This sort of acted as another part of the Iberian Civil War, although few agree to this. They didn't really want to succeed, and they looked for any chance where it would be safe to rejoin Iberia. They also did fight against French raids, but they were relatively few (only two ways in: by Sea, or by Canada. Neither were very appealing, and besides, they had more important problems with the Iberians themselves)
The first chance the Eternal Skyers [any better names out there?] saw to rejoin Iberia was during the Traditionalist First Consulate, but the Consulate was assassinated before Eternal Sky could rejoin. The next chance to join was when Garva Tilka declared the Second Consulate, and not long after he became Emperor, an official treaty was signed between Iberia and the Eternal Sky in which they were reunited on the condition that their way of life wouldn't be impeded upon.
During Tilka's conquests, the Eternal Skyers benefited greatly, taking almost all French, Portuguese, and Dutch Land in the Americas. But one thing that always aroused a little tension was that the Skyers wanted Tilka to declare war on Britain, but Tilka always refused because he couldn't invade Britain itself. But the Land of the Eternal Sky became an empire in it's own right anyway (Gavra Tilka sometimes talked about also declaring himself Emperor of the Eternal Sky, but never did).
When Gavra Tilka was overthrown for the Third Consulate, the Eternal Sky still acknowledged him as Emperor, declaring independence once again as the Empire of the Eternal Sky. Tilka was grateful, but still acted as a general in Iberia, sending orders to Iberia only as a general. Once the Revolution was crushed the first time, the Coalition believed it would be impossible to take back and redistribute the lands conquered by the Eternal Sky.
When Tilka returned to power, the Eternal Sky once again reunited with Iberia, but it didn't last long until Tilka was overthrown and captured.
And thus began the fall of the Empire of the Eternal Sky. While the Conquered people didn't care for returning back to their homelands, they didn't want to be part of Eternal Sky anymore, and thus began several series of revolutions against them. By 1818, the Eternal Sky was left back where they started 50 years before.
Now it's time we start talking about the rest of the world up to 1837. Also in 1818, Garva Tilka was able to escape from his Siberian Prison, and thus started 19 years of the biggest man hunt in history. My 1820, he had returned to Iberia and started writing a political book along the lines of our Communist Manifesto, Common ( Artak ) where he labeled three major things all men should have in common for a good state: Kardakasm, Fanatasm, Reponsasm (often translated as Brotherhood, Freedom, and Responsibility), thus founding Tilkism (essentially Socialism) and Communism. In 1823, on his 75th birthday, he came out of hiding and appeared before a crowd to make a speech in Toulouse. The old Coalition quickly gathered in Toulouse, but Tilka had escaped already.
He made several such speeches before he finally died in 1837. The Coalition shortly after found his body and threw it into the sea, and thus accidentally started the 1837 revolutions as several Tilkists and former allies of Tilka rose up. Notably, the 5 Kings war, a united rebellion against the Bohemia ruled Empire, made a new German Empire, and Tilkists forced the Hunnic Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy, but also forced the Bazim Geraketar back into Hunnic Hands. 1837 sparked a whole new world.
Back in the Americas, no nation has really shown itself as the equivalent of the USA, or at least not yet
1900
We are another 63 year into the epic story of the Kingdom of the Huns. Oh, how tensions have grown. France and the Huns were allies and partners only 500 years ago, granted shaky. Now, they're going at each others throats. Meanwhile, the Traditionalists and Liberals still compete inside the Kingdom of the Iberians, though now under the flags of the Tilkists and Attilists. This is the beginning of the 1900s, with tensions at all time high.
As we remember, in 1837, Garva Tilka, the symbol and main leader of the Iberian Revolution, died and his body was thrown into the sea. In this started the Revolutions of 1837. Subsections of this grand Revolution included the 5 Kings' War, the German War of Independence against the Bohemian ruled Holy Roman Empire, destroying the empire and forming the German Federation. Also among these was the second Iberian Revolution, again reforming the Hunnic Kingdom into a constitutional monarchy, along with France. The historical Bazim Geraketar was returned to the Huns, but some of it was taken back in later war between France and Iberia (although it should be noted that by this point, the Bazim Geraketar refers to all Hunnic inhabited lands north of the Pyrenees). From these harsh tensions grew with the beginnings of alliances.
We also see the colonization of Africa, and the Huns take a slice of it for the same reason they went after the Great Plains, because they still have problems between the Liberals and the Traditionalists. The Kingdom again opened up these new regions to Traditionalist nomadism. France and and other powers also joined in. In Turkey, many nations took isle of the East Aegean to help carve sphere of influence over the Turks, as with China.
In America, things are going to hell quick, at least for some countries. In the Caribbean, the French and Dutch Caribbean Federations broke down into massive civil wars, the Dutch Caribbean is still fighting in one as the Republic of Ayiti. Further north, the Land of the Eternal Sky took a bite out of Vanamen, but the Canadians and Brits are keeping them in line in the future. It's also notable Canada's huge expansion west, while the Eternal Sky stands still, flexing it's muscles but that's it. Russia also has finally made it to Alaska, after being delayed by the Nomadic people for a while. France also regained a small foothold on the continent, and whether this will be used to regain former colonies is yet to be seen, although unlikely.
Oh yes, you want to hear about the big war of the 1837-1900 era, the Wars of La Plata. Argentina and Kozetar attacked Amazon to get more land, but Kozetar was plotting something much bigger. When the Amazonian war ended, Kozetar betrayed Argentina and invaded, causing the largest war of South American history. Two years later, Kozetar was victorious, taking away all land Argentina gain and more and gave it either to it's puppet state Guaran or itself. Argentina is backwater now, lucky that it kept as much land as it did, and Kozetar is the definite leader in South American politics.
Now we should talk about Hunnic Politics. You thought people can get emotional about politics in our world, you haven't seen Hunnic Politics. Becoming Prime Minister in Iberia is just asking for assassination plots against you
Let's go in order from left to right
Communists: Self explanatory
Tilkists: Essentially Socialists, these are the followers of Garva Tilka's ideology. Ironically, while Garva Tilka was considered center-right, his ideology is interpreted as leftist.
United Independence: Those who want to see their people independent of Iberia, but instead of having a many independence parties, they combine into one.
Liberals: Since the times of the Iberian Revolution, these Liberals have moved to the position of moderates, center to center-left.
Traditionalists: They too have moderatized, moving to center-right.
Attilists: Due to the moderation of the Traditionalists, many of the right and far-right felt betrayed, thus creating this new party to continue the fight to bring the Huns back to Nomadism. These guys are essentially Hunnic-Nazis. And they make up 11% of parliament...
Note on the Government: While the Traditionalists do make up the largest party, they could not make an alliance with the Liberals (or the Tilkists, but that would be harder then to do then make an alliance with the Liberals), which was required to form a government. Instead, the Liberals allied with the Tilkists, and the Tilkist Jon Tanurci officially became the head of government. The opposition and their supporters are very mad about this.
1920
what have we done...
Only a couple years after the 1900 episode, and how much has happened...
Let's first meet some of the teams here:
The Allies:
Iberia
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Lithuania
Support from Italy
The Coalition:
France
Britain
Bohemia
Russia (and their puppets of Ukraine and Georgia. Funny how the world works)
Support from Portugal
The Pact:
Serbia
Ottoman Turkey
Dacia/ Wallachia
The Entente:
Croatia
Bulgaria
Greece
Moldova
Let's begin with the Brive-la-Gaillarde Oil and Gas Refinery explosion of 1912, near the border of Iberia and France. Now, French and Iberian relations are already edgy and they're always prepared for a war between the two of them. Now, a French refinery run by Hunnic workers had just exploded (it's unknown if it's terrorists or an accident, and if it was terrorists, it's unknown if it was pro-French or pro-Iberian), and Iberia and France were pointing fingers at each other and started mobilizing. A huge web of alliances and rivalries suddenly set off: Germany, allied to Iberia, mobilized; Britain and Bohemia, rivals of Germany, mobilized; Poland and Lithuania, allied to Germany, started playing war games to strike fear into Bohemia; Russia, hoping to gain more influence over Poland and Lithuania, mobilized. In the Balkans, the alliance known as the Pact started mobilizing, hoping the war between the Great Powers would allow their expansion of power. Three months after the Brive-la-Gaillarde Refinery explosion, France invaded the Iberian Bazim Geraketar, and the the whole thing blew to pieces.
Germany and Netherlands quickly invaded France and their puppet of Belgium. Germany and Poland also invaded Bohemia, destroying Government resistance in only a year, but the Czech public quickly organized into bands led by Tilkists and Communists, starting the Czech Resistance. In the Bazim Geraketar, France was able to reach the Pyrenees in a year, virtually knocking the Huns out of the war, although there would be couple conflicts in the area still. Russia and their puppet of Ukraine invaded Lithuania and Poland, and their western allies held off the German assault while they prayed for the Russians to break through and crush Germany. In the Balkans, the Pact struck, invading the Entente.
Russia eventually invaded the distracted Moldova, hoping to sneak around the Polish and Lithuanian troops, thus leading to the Pact aligning with the Coalition, and the Entente aligning with the Allies. But this went nowhere very fast for Russia, as while Moldova was hilariously crushed with the rest of the Entente, Poland was able to stop the incoming Russians from Moldova.
Meanwhile, on the home fronts, thing were going very bad very quickly for many countries. In the 1916 elections in Iberia, the government Liberals and Tilkists gained seats in the parliament, despite every thing going wrong for them. The Opposition, made of the Traditionalists and Attiists, blamed a combination of Liberal corruption and that the main Traditionalist and Attilist supporting base, the Bazim Geraketar, was occupied and wasn't able to vote. Because of these, the Attilist Gotalak Askensuye took to the streets of Catalonia with much of his party and the Traditionalists joining his demonstration, thus preparing Iberia for another civil war. Huns also rose up in the Bazim Geraketar, but this is likely not going to end well for them.
In Germany and the German Occupied Bohemia, we already talked about the Czech Tilkist insurgency. But in Germany proper, a Republican movement was rising up, hoping to overthrow the Five Kingdoms of the German Federation for Five Republics. And in Russia, in 1917, people growing tired of the war started to rise up in the form of Separatists, Republicans, and Communists. Already, the Russian Imperial Capital had to be moved to Tver.
Finally, in 1918, the Governments of the Allies and Entente surrendered to the governments of the Coalition and the Pact. Later that year, the Five Kings of Germany were overthrown for the Five Republics. The German army retreated from Bohemia, allowing the Communists to take over, where they helped stage a coup in Poland, creating the United Tilkist Republics, or UTR.
In 1919, as Russia collapsed into civil war between separatists, communists, republicans, and monarchists, peace talks started in Paris. There it was decided that Iberia was to cede the Bazim Geraketar to France (or as they call it, the Basé Geraque) and the Five Republics of Germany would cede Alsace, also to France. The Empire of Yugoslavia was formed from a union of Serbia, Croatia, and Bulgaria and a part of Greece, on the condition that Albania gained freedom. Romania was united under Dacia. Ottoman Turkey fell to republicans not long after the peace talks began, and so Turkey became an independent republic, but much of their other territory was taken by the French, Brits, and Italians. Notably, the Maghreb would stay part of the Iberian Colonial Empire in the treaty of Paris, but it wouldn't be like this for long...
After the loss of the Bazim Geraketar at the hands of the Liberals, that was just the push needed for the Attilists to overthrow the government, although it was found unnecessary. King Issac I of Iberia personally called for Gotalak Askensuye to become the new prime minister of Iberia, which he gladly accepted and quickly declared himself dictator. Already he's pushing his agenda across Iberia: The belief that the Nomads were the true Race, the people marked by Tengri and closest to him, and were destined to rule the world, while at the other end he saw the Romance settled life as decadent and unnatural, but he didn't care to wipe it out immediately, rather keep it and watch it wash itself away. But he did start persecuting the French and Romance people inside Iberia, it wasn't that hard since they had just fought a war with them. He also persecuted the Communists and Liberals, the 'cowards who lost the war,' but notably not the Tilkists. The relations between the Tilkists and Attilists had always been odd, since while Tilkism was leftist, they still took the name from Garva Tilka, who was actually a Traditionalist and one of the great heroes of the Attilists, second only to Attila himself.
After the accession of Gotalak Askensuye, the Iberian colony of the Maghreb rose up and declared independence, but it too quickly descended into civil war between the Liberals, the Traditionalists, and the Berber natives who wished to get their land back into their hands.
In the East, the UTR has invaded Lithuania, hoping to spread Tilkism there too, and in Russia, their puppets of Ukraine and Georgia successfully got free from the Russian thumb, Ukraine even getting away with land from it, and the Russian Civil war becomes more and more obviously a war between the Republicans and Communists to see who'll get power after the Monarchy is finally destroyed
Maghreb- 1924-25
Note 1: Each frame acts as 1 month
Note 2: The Hunnic name for a car is Temirat, literally 'Iron Horse,' while the Hunnic name for tank is Zirtemirat, literally 'Armored Iron Horse.' Most of the world borrows this word for their own name of tank, such as English where it's call Sirtermit.
In March on 1924, as the Maghrebi civil war carried on, Gotalak Askensuye, the Attilist leader of the Hunnic Kingdom, started the reconquest of the Maghreb, his army of Zirtemirats landing in strategic places. In only five months, half the population of the Maghreb was under Hunnic control. Askensuye personally went to the Maghreb and called for a month long truce between all factions while they negotiated ultimate peace.
Askensuye was a genius, knowing right where to strike into the hearts of most. The two biggest factions left were the Berbers and the Traditionalist Huns, the Liberal Huns mostly knocked out of the war. Askensuye talked to the Traditionalist how they were after the same goal, how the Traditionalists wanted to live free in nomadism. He said essentially the same to the Berbers, whom he believed weren't as corrupted as, say, the Romance people. And of course, he made sure to mention to all factions that it was just matter of time before his army of Zirtemirats conquered the rest of the Maghreb.
During this month long truce, large sections of the Berber and and Traditionalist armies defected to the Hunnic army, taking large sections of land back for the Hunnic Kingdom. What remained of the Berber, Traditionalist, and even the Liberal armies bound together in the name of independence. What remained of their armies was mostly concentrated in Fezzan.
As the truce ticked away, tension in the air grew higher. It was said that on the last day of the truce, at 23:59 one could heard a single grain of sand shift, and at 0:00, only a minute later when the truce ended, one wouldn't even be able to hear God yell. The exact moment the truce ended, Askensuye demanded the army to charge forward.
A couple of months (and missing frames) later, at Sabha, Fezzan, the last of the Independent Maghreb Army was surrounded by the Hunnic Army. Askensuye personally looked over the siege, sitting on a Zirtemirat the entire time, watching as the city crumbled. In June 22nd, 1945, the Independent Maghreb Army surrendered to Gotalak Askensuye, ending the reconquest.
Many propaganda films were made about the war, showing the strength of not only of the Army, but also of Askensuye's leadership and the greatness of the Hunnic and Nomadic People as a whole.
France and Iberia- 1930-32
Now it's 1930, it's been about 10 years since the rise of Gotalak Askensuye. Recently, a large economic depression struck across the world. Iberia was one of the least struck, but neighboring France was struck hard and was starting to go through upheaval. Gotalak Askensuye is currently searching for allies anywhere, but they're hard to find when he essentially believes everyone in Western Europe (outside of the Huns, of course) should be thrown into a pit of fire. His only chance is with the Turks, upset at the betrayal at the hands of the former Coalition, the Bulgars, and, oddly enough, the United Tilkist Republics. Currently, the second in power is a Pannonian (Hungarian), who Askensuye would be glad to negotiate with, as soon as the first in power is over thrown, but that's a different matter...
In October 1930, Toulouse and Bordeaux (Tolos and Bordar in Hunnic), cities with a majority Hunnic population rose up against the French, demanding that the Bazim Geraketar be returned to the Hunnic Kingdom. France refused, and went to confront the rebels. Gotalak Askensuye warned that confronting the Hunnic rebels will result in war with the Huns.
France decided to attack the rebels anyway, believing the former Coalition will band together to keep the Huns in their place. France overestimated. The rest of the Coalition was still reeling from the depression, so was weary to go to war. So when French troops attacked the Hunnic rebels in Toulouse, they suddenly found themselves alone in a conflict with one of the greatest military powers of the time.
Askensuye demanded for the army to surge over the Pyrenees into the Bazim Geraketar, starting the Toulouse war. France was overwhelmed and in only 4 months, the Huns had France at their knees, offering the Bazim Geraketar back in exchange for peace. Suddenly, Askensuye was at a very odd place. He realized that taking the Bazim Geraketar would end the war with victory, but if he continue the war, he knew he could force France into total subjugation at the cost of diplomatic isolation. He decided to go for the total subjugation of France.
After the Huns' refusal of peace, Portugal declared war on the Huns, hoping that if they could take Toledo (Tolad), they could force the war to be over immediately. This was hardly the case. Only a couple of months after the Portuguese intervention, their main army was surrounded and destroyed. Meanwhile, on the French Front, the war temporarily came to a halt at the Loire. The French Army had been built up there, preparing for one final showdown. What came instead was a quick, somewhat uneventful, surrounding and destroying of the French armies at Tours, Blois, and Orleans. The Hunnic army and what remained of the French army then headed off to Paris.
On the Portuguese Front, the Hunnic Army started down the Tagus River to Lisbon. Later studies and records have shown that the Hunnic Army purposefully poisoned the lower Tagus specifically to cause death to the Portuguese in Lisbon, where several thousand people died from drinking the poisoned water. In January, Portugal completely surrendered.
In France, the siege of Paris began, and Askensuye came up with a brilliant idea to justify the complete subjugation of France; He would prop up the French Kingdom again, where France and Huns would be in a personal union, sharing King Issac II. And so, Askensuye ordered the capture of Reims, so he could then crown the new king of France. Before Paris even fell, he invited Isaac II to Reims, where on Christmas day Askensuye personally crowned the King of the Huns and Iberians also the King of the French. Just over a month later, the French Republic surrendered. Gotalak Askensuye took all of southern France and gave it to the Kingdom of the Huns, leaving the rest as the French Kingdom. The borders taken were similar to the ones taken during the Iberian Revolution over a century before, closing in on the 150th anniversary of the end of the 17 year's war.
Thus, Gotalak Askensuye was able to take over two different nations with minimal tarnishing of the Hunnic reputation. It was only a couple weeks after the peace that the French people were starting to be pushed out or down right killed in the Bazim Geraketar, and harassed by the Army in the rest of the newly conquered territory. The Portuguese had a similar fate, and many of them fled to the former colonies. The new Prime Minister of the French Kingdom was a Hun and good friend of Askensuye. In the United Tilkist Republics, an assassin killed the current leader, a Pole, and his Pannonian right-hand man took his place as Premier.
Americas- 1932
Note: Whenever I say 'Caribbean states,' Florida/Jardin is included in that list
It's been 32 years since the last time we've checked in on the Americas.
Firstly, in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War, Alaska achieved independence. Also, Kuzetar straight annexed their puppet of Guarantar, and the 'Caribbean Wars' have ended when the Hatian civil war ended. The British Colonies have become more independent over the years from the Motherland, gaining their own parliaments.
The Caribbean states are notably insane (imagine 7 North Koreas all pointing guns at each other, that's how bad the Caribbean states are) and are home to a large amount of privateers, as they try to stop trade with any of their rivals. Each of the Caribbean states are looking for larger allies to beat back each other's rivals. How the 'Second Caribbean War' hasn't started yet, the world still doesn't know, but that land there is the powder keg of the Americas
After the Toulouse war of 1930-32, Alaska and British Hopiland invaded the French colony in California in order to protect them from Hunnic Occupation. This happened in other French colonies as well, such as some of their southern African or Indian/Pacific Isles colonies. But when the Toulouse war ended, so did the attempt to protect the French colonies as well. Gotalak Askensuye is upset at this, and intends to reclaim this territory in the name of the King of the French Isaac II, or at least against some of the easier targets.
As tensions grow in Europe, the Americans are also shifting around as they try to decide who's side they're going to be on. There is talk about Monk Tanritar allying with the Hunnic Kingdom, although there has been no conformation that either government is actively seeking an alliance with the other. There's also talk about the former French and Portuguese colonies are making alliances against the Huns in defense of their brethren. But, hey, the Caribbean states are crazy, so there could be some sort of odd alliance between the Huns and one of the Caribbean states.
1943
August 1935 - The First Battle of the Caribbean starts as Privateers from the long hated enemies Caray and Arawak attack each other, with help of their allies. Caray gained help from the Hunno-French kingdom and the Eternal Sky Land and later their ally of Borican, and Arawak was aided by Great Britain. This started a diplomatic crisis that forced the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Pace Hanson, to fly to Paris so he could meet with Isaac II, Gotalak Askensuye and Farden Sosi (Prime Minister of France). During the course of the negotiations, they would actually have take breaks to give orders to their respective admirals and captains, along with Pace Hanson having to give news and reports to Parliament.
Throughout the negotiations, both sides hinted at the possibility of war. Luckily, the First battle of the Caribbean ends with semi-successful negotiations
September 1935 - The Second Battle of the Caribbean starts, not even a month after the last. Arawak and Caray can’t help but fight each other again, and once again Pace Hanson flies to Paris to talk with Askensuye, Sosi, and Isaac II. Negotiations break down until Hanson declares that war is inevitable now (he’s actually referring to war between Arawak and Caray). Askensuye replies that if war is inevitable, then Hanson is suddenly an enemy of the Hunno-French Kingdom. Askensuye has Isaac II arrest Hanson and sent to prison in Toledo. Askensuye orders for Hunno-French ships to specifically aim at British ships, and orders bombers to head of to London. Britain was about to vote to declare war (many historians believe that they wouldn't have done it) when the news of Hanson's arrest and Hunnic bombs suddenly dropping on London delayed the vote. When parliament reconvened three days later, they voted unanimously to go to war with the Huns. Some Hunnic allies come to their aid
In the Caribbean front, British ships flee. The Arawak navy is almost destroyed
October 1935 - Hanson is executed as an enemy and an ‘Etablar,’ a Settled Man, as declared by Askensuye. This act pushes even more nations into war against the Allies, setting off even more alliances.
France invaded Belgium during this month.
The Third Battle of the Caribbean occurs as the Britsh Caribbean fleet returns to defend against a Carayian invasion of the Arawak isles. The British Caribbean fleet is forced to flee again.
November 1935 - Fall of Belgium and Netherlands, their respective governments flee to Britain. All soldiers and government officials captured by the Huns are immediately executed as enemies and Etablars. Belgium is annexed by France, and Netherlands is turned into a puppet state.
The Huns invade Italy, taking over the northern half. The battle of the Strait of Bonifacio occurs between the Hunnic and Italian fleets, ending inconclusively.
Caray successfully invades, conquers, and annexes Arawak.
The Eternal Sky invades British Virginia (the east coast of North America)
British Hopiland invades and liberates French California, setting up the Republican government-in-exile there
December 1935 - All of Mainland Italy and Sicily is conquered, all that remains of Italy proper are Corsica and Sardinia, that hold out well. The Italian government flees to Cairo and the Pope flees to Jerusalem. Again, any troops and government officials captured are executed immediately. Lombardy is annexed by the Hunnic Kingdom, and the rest of the conquered territory is turned into a puppet state.
Germany is invaded, but it turns into the hardest battle yet.
British bombers are starting to head out over the Channel to bomb the Huns
January 1936 - Invasion and conquest of Jarden, Canadian invasion of the Eternal Sky land from the north.
February 1936 - Fall of Germany, and the mainland Europeans have been beaten back. Captured German officials are executed.
Turkish offensive into the Italian Holy Land.
March 1936 - Fall of Corsica. Annexed into Hunnic State
April 1936 - First Battle of Jerusalem ends in Italian victory, ending the Turkish invasion of the Holy Land
Battle of Charleston, Virginia, British victory, halts the Eternal Skyers offensive into British Virginia
Fall of Sardinia. Annexed into the Hunnic State
June 1936 - Battles of the Bay of Biscay and Gulf of Cadiz, ending in British victory and dealing a severe blow to the Hunnic navy.
July 1936 - Massive bombing campaign against Britain begins
Second invasion into British Virginia, this time from the South
August 1936 - Invasion of Italian Egypt from the West by the Huns
September 1936 - Battle of the Coast of Egypt, Hunnic victory, preventing British from resupplying Italian Egypt.
Battle of Alexandria, Hunnic victory
Italian government flees again, heading to Jerusalem
Second battle of Charleston, British victory, again halting the invasion into British Virginia
October 1936 - The Huns lands a massive force on the British Isles, hoping to force Britain out
Siege of Cairo begins
November 1936 - Siege of London begins
December 1936 - Battle of the Channel, decisive victory for the British. Hunnic forces in England unable to be reinforced.
January 1937 - Hunnic invasion of the British Isles repulsed
Second battle of the Channel, Hunnic troops in retreat are slaughtered. This comes with a result of hundreds of thousands of Hunnic soldiers dying
February 1937 - Hunnic invasion of Yugoslavia. Romania comes to the help their ally, Yugoslavia. Greece sends aid to the Huns. Askensuye accepts the gifts, but has plans for Greece in the future...
Coalition liberation into Jarden
March 1937 - Fall of Cairo
Jarden completely liberated
May 1937 - Fall of Romania
Greece officially joins the war on the side of the Allies, declaring war on Yugoslavia.
Invasion of the Eternal Sky Land from Hopiland and Virginia
June 1937 - Fall of Yugoslavia
Pannonian Yugoslavia and Romania goes to the UTR, the rest going to a new, Bulgarian-led Yugoslavia.
Jerusalem falls. Italian Government flees to Iraq and finally to Britain
July 1937 - Askensuye's betrayal of Greece. Greece is almost immediately defeated and annexed by Turkey.
August 1937 - Invasion of Iraq
Important landmarks and artifacts of Ancient Greece are desecrated by Hunnic troops stationed there.
September 1937 - Battle of the Garden Straits (Florida straits) ending in Decisive British Victory. Allied navies will never have a strong presence again in the American seas
November 1937 - Battle of Baghdad, Hunnic Victory.
Talks begin between the Arab State and Huns to try to convince Arabs to join the war.
War in Europe seems to come to stand still. There’s occasional bombings, but it’s completely frozen now
December 1937 - Arabs joins the war on the side of the Allies
March 1938 - Fall of Nomadsport (New Orleans) and the Land of the Eternal Sky surrenders
April 1938 - Invasion of Borikan
June 1938 - Invasion and liberation of Arawak
Hunnic invasion of Ukraine
Tatar-Kuban joins the war on the side of the Allies
July 1938 - Hunnic capture of Kiev. Ukraine is turned over to the Tatars
September 1938 - Invasion of Caray
October 1938 - Borikan and Caray formally surrenders. End of the Americo-Caribbean front
December 1938 - Battle of Kuwait, British victory
March 1939 - Second Battle of Baghdad, narrow Hunnic victory
April 1939 - Battle of the Sea of Sicily ends in decisive British victory. What remains of the Hunnic navy is essentially destroyed.
May 1939 - Attempted Invasion of the Levant by the Coalition.
June 1939 - Invasion of the Levant pushed back
Hunnic invasion of Russia
July 1939 - Turkish invasion of Georgia
Siege of Petrograd begins
September 1939 - First battle of Tsaritsyn and Moscow begins
November 1939 - Third battle of Baghdad, British victory
December 1939 - Battle of Moscow ends in Hunnic withdrawal
Battle of Tsaritsyn ends in Hunnic victory
January 1940 - Second invasion of the Levant by the Coalition. Capture of Damascus and Jerusalem
February 1940 - British invasion of Arabia. Arabia immediately surrenders
March 1940 - Second battles of Tsaritsyn and Moscow starts
Coalition invasion into Turkey
April 1940 - Capture of Cairo
August 1940 - Capture of Tripoli
Second Battles of Moscow and Tsaritsyn ends: Moscow remains in Russian hands and Tsaritsyn is recaptured.
October 1940 - Capture of Ankara from the Turks
November 1940 - Capture of Tunis
Attempted invasion of Iberia through Portugal ends in failure
December 1940 - Battle of the Lusitanian Sea, the rebuilt Hunnic fleet along with junk ships from puppet states throw themselves at the British navy. Somehow ends in Hunnic victory
January 1941 - Battle of the Breton Coast defeats the Hunnic fleet, although is survives
February 1941 - Fall of Istanbul, Turks surrender
March 1941 - Third battle of Tsaritsyn. Hunnic army is defeated decisively
Hunnic North Africa is completely in control of the Coalition
April 1941 - Parisian uprising. French citizens capture and assassinate Farden Sosi. British troops land to supply the French
May 1941 - Battle of Paris repulses the British from France
Siege of Petrograd is lifted
Invasion of Sicily by the Coalition
June 1941 - Battle of Sofia ends in Coalition victory
July 1941 - Huns completely beaten back from Russia
September 1941 - Battle of Belgrade ends in Coalition victory. Bulgar-led Yugoslavia surrenders
Second battle of the Lusitanian sea sees the end of the Hunnic Navy. There will be no more Allied naval presence in the war
October 1941 - Italian citizens overthrown the Puppet government. Allied troops quickly come to secure Southern Italy
Capture of Kiev, Tatars surrender
November 1941 - Invasion of the UTR by the Coalition.
December 1941 - Invasion of Iberia through Andalusia by the Coalition
January 1942 - Battle of Cadiz ends in British victory.
March 1942 - Battle of Toledo ends in Hunnic victory.
April 1942 - Invasion of Andalusia repulsed.
First Battle of Krakow ends in UTR victory
May 1942 - Second battle of Krakow ends in Coalition victory. UTR government flees to Prague
June 1942 - German and Dutch uprisings overthrow their respective Puppet governments. The Dutch revolt is put down and Southern Germany is recaptured.
July 1942 - Siege of Prague begins
August 1942 - Journee des Francais Libres (Jour de la Liberte), the Second French uprising. Paris is Liberated and Allies successfully secure Northern France. Mass guerrilla war pushes the Huns back in Provence and Savoy.
Huns defeated in Southern Germany, Netherlands liberated, Lombardy liberated,
Prague and UTR surrenders
September 1942 - Invasion of the Bazim Geraketar
October 1942 - Three branched invasion of Iberia; From the Bazim Geraketar, Through Portugal, and through Andalusia
November 1942 - Battle of Toledo ends in final Hunnic defeat. Isaac II kills himself in fear of the Coalition. The final thing Gotalak Askensuye said, after hearing the news of his officers betraying him in the surrender of Toledo and the suicide of Isaac II were “I have failed civilization.” Askensuye then had the messenger stab him in the heart with an arrow, supposedly one fired by Attila himself.
Throughout the liberation of many territories, most notably in Lombardy, Provence, and Pannonia, a disturbing trend rose up: Millions of people dead in gruesome way. The Coalition knew that Askensuye was crazy (look no further then what he had done to Pace Hanson back in 1935), but this? This was too much. Millions of Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, Dutchmen, Greeks, Portuguese, Romanians, and some Slavs were being slaughters, either being burned alive or their head being cut off, or being impaled. Meanwhile, several captured soldiers and factory workers were found to be Russians or Slavs in general that were taken from their homes and forced to work as Slaves.
At Askensuye's office, they found several documents laying out his grand plans and ideological beliefs. He believed that the Romance and Greek people were essentially the product of the Devil himself, made to spread settled life and the corruption and decadence that comes with it, and should thus be shoved into a fire (Sorry Romance and Greek people). After that were the people 'born free but corrupted to the point where they can't be saved,' ie, they should also be shoved into a fire. These included the Germanics, Celts, and Western Slavs (Sorry to you guys too). Above them were those 'not as corrupted, but can't be fully saved,' and thus should be slaves. These included the Southern and Eastern Slavs, the Finns, and others (sorry again). The final people, top of the ladder and 'superior people' were the People that could be saved, the people that can fully turn back to Nomadism, were of course the Huns, Turks, Bulgarians, and Tatars, but also the Arabs along with the Gypsies and Jews (stateless people that were constantly moving around. How times have changed)
And thus, the Second World War was over after 7 years and two months. Portugal is liberated; Turkey and Iberia are divided into occupation zones; the UTR is divided; Pannonia is given a new state; Bulgaria is given a new state (Romania and Yugoslavia complain that they're rewarding the Allies and punishing the Coalition); Constantinople is created into the capital of a new, UN-type organization; Ukraine is annexed by Russia; Belgium is divided between Netherlands and France
And thus, we end the story of the Kingdom of the Huns.
Demographics of the Kingdom of the Huns- 1934
Religions:
Roman Catholic: self explanatory
Hunnic Catholic: The Pope created a revised Catholicism to specifically suit the Nomadic Huns, as opposed to the more settled style of Roman Catholicism.
Hunnic Protestantism: During the Protestant Reformation, the King of the Huns split off from the Catholic church. Hunnic Protestantism is essentially Anglicanism but for the Huns
Galician Protestantism: Hunnic Protestantism made to suit the Settled people. Originally called Cotalan Protestantism (Since Cotalans were for a long time the largest settled populace), it was eventually started to be called Galician Protestantism after the largest populace that converted to it.
Revived Tengriism: Self explanatory. Mostly focused on Extremely pro-Attilist Huns. Most regions that majority Tengriist are just barely so.
Cultures:
When People say 'Hun,' they're actually referring to 'Upper Hun.' There's actually 4 member of the Hun (or Greater Hun) group, only two of which have a large populace. Iberians are also refer to an even greater group
Iberians:
Greater Huns:
Upper Huns
West Khazars
West Avars
Cotalan (Half Goth, Half Alan, considered part of Greater Huns)
Iberian Romance:
Portuguese
Pyrenian (they're language is the closest living language to Latin)
Andalusian
Other Iberian:
Iberian Celt/Galician
Basque
Non Iberians
French
Italians
The National Anthem is called "Kingdom of Wanderers," was first written during the Iberian Revolution, specifically Garva Tilka's reign as Emperor. It was originally called "Emperor of the Wanderers," and was written in honor of Garva Tilka, but when the Kingdom was restored, it was renamed "Kingdom of Wanderers." Later, it was renamed "Kingdom of Wonders," but most people stubbornly hold on to the name of "Kingdom of Wanderers."
The National March is called "March to the Steppes." It was also written during Garva Tilka's reign as Emperor and was written to the hope of the eventual unity of the Nomadic people. Garva Tilka loved it so much, It'd be the only song he'd have played at parades and victory marches. When Garva Tilka was overthrown in 1812, the song fell into obscurity until it was rediscovered by Attilists. When Gotalak Askensuye became dictator, he made the song the national march again.