Independence factionalists tried to weasel their way out of the Principality once again. The usual suspects; Aquitaine, Norway, Italy, Ostlandet were joined by some Anglo-Saxon Dukes and Arabian Dukes, making this generation's war of independence the largest one yet. One would think that history showing each successive war ending in failure would deter them from fighting, but no.
The loyalist strongholds in France, Italy, Denmark, Iceland and Calatrava in Spain all quickly fell to to the rebels; the Knights of Calatrava did not show much gratitude for me giving them their land back. Rather amusing was that the option to vassalize the Knights Templar who were fighting against me. Sure enough, for 500 gold I pulled them out of the war. Then imprisoned their grandmaster for rebelling. I had tens of thousands of troops in the North fighting to save the Orthodox state of Rus from being blobbed to death by pagan invasions and the rest in the south fighting the Umayyad and Abbasid remnants. Needless to say it turned into a massive clusterfuck and several of the rebels got holy war cb'd by the Muslims in the chaos; without my troops defending them they were defenceless.
The Amalfi Republic and the Benetio Republic both share counties, with the Benetio Republic existing entirely within the Amalfi Republic. The Fsyche Republic families have also blobbed all over the North Sea and one of the Houses has set up outposts in Jerusalem. I wonder as well if rival Republics' trade posts are automatically destroyed if their counties come into your possession, as at some point Venice and Georgia died and I own both and I've noticed that the Amalfi Republic has trade posts in all lands except mine. Most of the lands lost to the Muslims in the independence wars were recovered, though the Persians have run off with some of my lands I'm yet to take back from them.
The West African pagan religion is extinct on a mainstream level, the Norse and Suomensko are still fighting on (and during the independence wars for a brief moment vikings once again raided Middlesex, the first time Vikings had done so in a century) and Slav pagans are still raiding my Finnish vassals which is why I'm defending my Orthodox Christian neighbour of Rus. Rus will gradually convert/kick the shit out of the pagan fucks if allowed to live. There's also been a Jewish state on the Horn of Africa which has persisted since I started the game, having survived being conquered by the Abbasid, Mali, Hashimid and the Abbasid successor states, the Abbasid reformed Empire again and again. In terms of culture Jerusalem is completely Anglo-Saxon and countries all across the Principality are at risk of being permanently absorbed by Anglo-Saxonism. Though the war of independence has somewhat undone centuries of work.
The Makedon family still rule the Byzantine Empire, having survived the falls of Constantinople and attempts by the Athenians, Thracians, British, German, Bavarian, Lotharingan, Arabian, Makedon and countless Byzantine attempts to remove the Makedons from power. I don't really know how they keep climbing back into power every time they are deposed, but they're resilient. The Karlings still own central Europe and the Kingdom of Asturias was finally taken over by the Fsyche dynasty through aggressive marriages. Germany may also soon become a part of the Fsyche dynasty after the Kingdom fell to a child Queen of Karling betrothed to marry a child Prince of Fsyche. The Cumanian and Turkestan family in the East is also in a massive civil war, partially the result of the original great Khan being an imbecile and partially the result of British agents meddling in their internal politics.
EVERYTHING IS GOING ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU
Though I really need to find some way to accelerate cultural assimilation into Anglo-Saxonism. I've been educating the heirs of foreign vassals to some success but even so, it takes a bloody long time. I need Mali and Scandinavia to be Saxon A.S.A.P.
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