Saturday, April 4, 2020

Habsburg Megacampaign: Part 33: 1298-1307: Kaiser Waltheof and fall of the Holy Land

Emperor Asclettin didn't have long to live.

He sent emperor of China second Emerald Tablet for another 5000 Chinese mana. That's enough to request a third invasion at some point.

In his last days, his great-granddaugher's Georgia just fell apart - presumably due to an ultimatum from independence faction. Her Indian kingdoms of Bihar and Gondwara, as well ans possessions in Persia and Mesopotamia all seceded, leaving her with just parts of Georgia proper, and nothing in her other 6 kingdoms.

He died at age of 68. Or was it 74. It's hard to tell due to Fountain of Youth. He was soon declared a saint, for a total of 5 bloodlines.

The empire was then taken over by his 5th son Waltheof, emperor of New Rome and king of Jerusalem. At 11/24/17/10/10 Waltheof is sure to focus on military victory.

Waltheof was publicly Orthodox but secretly Catholic - as apparently half the realm, who converted when asked by emperor Asclettin, but kept their Catholic ways in private.

True to his key strengths, Waltheof declared ten wars before his father was even properly buried - including war to abolish Empire of Holy Land, and to make Pope pay him tribute.

That really infurated all Catholics, who rushed to defend Pope's money. It was a surprisingly difficult war, but Pope gave up at half the required warscore.
War to abolish Empire of Holy Land was a lot easier - emperor got reduced to just king of Arabia, and his non-de-jure vassals got freed.

I divorced by lowborn wife, and betrothed Gulisa, second daughter of queen of Epirus, Serbia, Croatia, and Sardinia-Corsica. A few strange coincidences later she found herself a queen of all that.

If her lands are added to my realm it will really clean up the borders. And of course even after we got married, Gulisa would not agree to an alliange because political concerns. Oh well.


I hoped all this would get Catholic moral authority below 100%, but that plan failed, it's still over 125%
At least this gets everyone except Britannia below crazy dev level for EU4 converter
I'm going to be the HRE, so it doesn't matter terribly much how much land I have


There are three religions - Catholic, Orthodox, and Buddhist
Rumors that any other religions exist are obviously false
I modded a lot higher heretic spawn rate, and there's some, but with Catholic and Orthodox at over 100% authority, and Buddhist not having any possible heretics they're not getting far. I guess they'll wait for 1500s.

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