Oh god (or Allah rather). The last twenty or so years were so painful. I pulled through, but that was something.
Playing the muslims just north of persia (zhafid something? I renamed the dynasty, can't remember). The whole country is pagan in the beginning. Didn't get that much rebellions about it until now. Between 900 and 924:
-Dumb caliph loses three wars to the basileus. He calls me in but suicide his army before I can come to help. He lost his throne to a decadence rebellion, the abassids are gone.
-Saffanids are bros but call me in a HUGE rebellion and a hindu holy war. We end up winning the rebellion (after waiting a FULL YEAR at 100% warscore for shah "the hunter" to enforce demands. DUDE.), but losing the holy war. It was won back a decade later.
-Women. UGH. Assassinate an heir. Assassinate another wife. Bi-yearly assassination attempts on each other. Whining about who gets to be first wife. Whining about the chief quadi. Whining about whose son/friend gets to be chancellor/marshal.
-Losing two heirs. The first, strong (I'll miss that), was killed by a secondary wife so his son could inherit. Said son died of pneumony. I'm on my third son. 25 diplo, shit everything else. No kidding, he's 25/3/1/1/9. This should be fun.
-DECADENCE. I have one of my half-brothers in prison and the other got a fatal case of iron overdose. Direct injection through the spinal column. Cousins got straightened, heir landed, ramadan observed. That one was funny, I got a call to arm right at the end of it, and waited a few days to finish it before immediately going to war.
-Holy wars. Holy shit the hindu holy order. 8000 ubermensch. I hate those guys. Still managed to stomp the big hindu kingdom.
-Remember how I said I didn't get that much religious uprisings? Yeah, have 4000 zoroastrians in the middle of your holy war. What's that? Not a big deal? Here, have 12.000 more. And 4.000 hindus for good measure.
Aside from that all is well. All my vassals love me so much my vizier is reduced to sowing discord somewhere in india. I persist in marrying all my daughters and nieces to decent husbands (not for the alliances), and there's a crapton of them, but otherwise I'm fine. Oh yeah, I have to pay attention so my vizier/intendant doesn't get a daughter of mine as a ward ("-1060: lost a ward") too.
In international news, bulgaria ate magyar-founded ruthenia, khazaria is agonizing, western europe is a fracking mess again, and georgia is disturbingly large, having eaten part of khazaria and all of armenia.