BRYTHANIA
The Magyars led by Qayan Zsoltán Jebács continued west. Rygaland and Doringen were first invaded in January and November 613 respectively--this became known as the Magyars’ first Milkhemet Mitzvah. This holy war, being, well, a holy war, was supported by 10,000 Taurikegutan expeditionaries, who were promised, about nine months into the war, in exchange for the repayment of a third of the tribute given to the Magyars by the Taurikegutans about a decade before the war.
Magyar troops numbering about 90,000 charged southwest in the name of Judaism. It is unknown how many Rygalanders served as defenders, but huge amounts of them, who were reportedly unarmed and clothed only in loincloths, were slaughtered. It is likely, however, that they in fact fought just as any other Germanic barbarian-warriors would have (meaning they all had weapons, even if they may have been makeshift, and wore at least a bit more than a loincloth), though merely because they were the (defeated) enemies of the Magyars, such stories arose. Regardless, ‘ryga’ became the Magyar word for ‘fool’.
After nine months of fighting in Rygaland, roughly 79,000 Magyars survived, 5,000 Rygalanders had been recruited after their defeat on the battlefield, and 10,000 Taurikegutan expeditionary forces arrived from the east. The Magyar army then split in two. One branch of about 49,000 headed west and would commence the invasion of Doringen and later into the less-civilized parts of Germania, while the other branch of about 45,000 crossed the mountains. Jutheland, Biohaemia, and Angeland, meanwhile, used the invasions that were occurring to their advantage. Juthelanders attacked Rygaland and pushed northeast... but this did not last long. Magyars mistook Juthelanders for Rygalanders, and ended up conquering them as well. Biohaemia attacked the Juthelanders and Doringians from the south, and forged an alliance with the Magyars. Lastly, Angeland pushed into the less-civilized parts of Germania, after their King, Advaerdh I, offered Langubardia the areas south of the Elbe (and all non-noble inhabitants of that area to be used however Marcianuso II wished they be used... almost every man was sent to war in the Holy Roman Empire, and almost every woman and child was enslaved, as Advaerdh had expected, but hoped against), offered assistance in the war against the Holy Roman Empire through the bestowment of troops and ships (which were very similar to the Langubardians’ ausinnes), and offered a lump sum, in exchange for the promise of no unwanted interference in any of Angeland’s activities outside of Langubardia and the promise of military alliance after the Holy Roman War was over.
By 616, Rygaland and Doringen had been dissolved and Jutheland mostly dissolved, and the face of eastern Germania had changed entirely. Zsoltán Jebács created two vassal states. Jutheland was one of them; it had Judaism as its state religion and Magyar as its administrative language, and had the most defensible borders of any state in the world, being surrounded by mountains. Nyugza [1] was another, located in the formerly less-civilized area of Germania and former Doringen, and, like Jutheland, would be converted to Judaism and administrated by Magyars. Both states would pay tribute to the Magyars and eventually be released. The Angelanders absorbed a large portion of the less-civilized area of Germania, though it was not as large as they had hoped and the Magyars had subjugated the area too quickly. Biohaemia had absorbed large areas of former Doringen and some areas of former Jutheland. Central Europe was now just how the Magyars and the Langubardians had wanted it, the home of several buffer states between the powers. Zsoltán Jebács declared himself Kaszer [2] of the Magyar Kaszerdom.
Langubardia continued its invasion of the Holy Roman Empire. Ratre was conquered. Reinforcements continued to arrive, and the Germanic areas of Langubardia were being more and more depopulated, and the formerly Angelander portion almost completely depopulated. After, roughly, the middle of 615, the Holy Roman Empire was in utter chaos. It was already hanging on a thread since the death of the Britannic Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, but generals managed to provide some semblance of order--this ended by the middle of 615 because most of said generals were dead.
Letoca [3], Veroco [4], Debbu [5], Mamusse [6], Lind [7], Ebra [8]... all fell to the Langubardians. They were eventually integrated into Langubardia. The Langubardian army, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, ventured north after all aforementioned cities had fallen. When the Langubardians reached Core [9] in early January 617, where all of the leaders of the surviving Holy Roman states and all remaining Holy Roman generals had converged, they made peace for most of the land they had occupied. Marcianuso II declared himself the new Holy Roman Emperor, and Langubardia became the Holy Roman Empire of Langubardia. The Roman Empire-Consulate was not exactly happy about this but as long as a Langubardian ruler did not claim to be a Roman Emperor-Consul or a Roman Flavitiranus, the SPQR would merely complain rather than respond with force.
The lands of the former Holy Roman Empire in Britannia were changed entirely. Throughout the war, ethnic Britannic Holy Romans escaped north, and if they owned them, brought their Goidel and Pict slaves. This happened mostly regardless of class and sub-ethnicity, though higher-ranking Britannic Holy Romans were more able to migrate north, and less Holy Romans in Venteaddhen migrated north. At the war’s end, only a quarter of the area’s ethnic Britannic Holy Roman population remained. Meanwhile, to the north, the remnants of the original Holy Roman Empire had become a new confederation of states called the Brythanian League. A new capital was built in a new state within the Brythanian League, Urb-Londincorium [10] in Vetoroma [11], both named and created as remnants of the Brythanians’ past and at the whim of the settlers from the south. A new Britannic... well, Brythanian, pope was elected, Quinctio I, and a Brythanian Legator [12] Zosimo I. Lastly, even though the requests of the settlers from the south were mostly granted, Legator Zosimo and Pope Quinctio declared that all slaves throughout Brythania were to be freed from slavery and put into clonedom instead.
To the south, Marcianuso II renamed Ventiathum/Ventiathbur to Ventada, and made it the capital of a new province of Brita. He began the very forced migration that the Holy Roman War began for. As many remaining Germanic peoples in the northeastern areas of Langubardia as could be found were sent to Brita. Meanwhile, incentives were given to Brythanian Holy Romans and Langubardian-Alemannians to settle in said Germanic lands.
The Triple Alliance was sure they had a chance to survive, even though they would definitely lose some land to the Varmans. This conviction was shown to be incorrect when Ahirstan declared war on the Triple Alliance in 613 and formed a temporary alliance with the Varman Empire. The Kardarid Malka, Parekhlal II Kardar, led 68,000 troops into Rashtrakutas, and another Kardarid general, Abdahura, led 40,00 troops into Licchavi and the remnant of the Gupta Empire. Meanwhile about 290,000 Varman troops pushed west.
The Triple Alliance ceased to exist in 619. India was split between two massive empires, both of different faiths.
Makuria had absorbed a huge amount of Zoharists. King Zakkar realized that some system would have to be implemented to ‘digest’ Makuria’s new conquests, while at the same time not irking the clergy by being too tolerant. Maakkors who assisted in the conquest of Egypt were allowed to settle in Egypt and were granted free land. In 614, Zakkar founded the city of Zakkamakouria in the Nile Delta, which would become the new capital. He established a program to move Nubians to Egypt. In early 615, Zakkar discovered a small Christian sect that was practiced in Alexandria, whose leaders believed that heathens should be tolerated but eventually converted, believed that the rich should give to the poor just as Jesus said, among many other things that were exactly what Zakkar wanted to legitimize Makurian rule over Egypt and make Zakkar seem a great man. It is not known what the original name of this Christian sect was, but it became known as Zakkarism and King Zakkar made it the state religion of Makuria in November 615, and adopted its policies, allowing Zoharists to (mostly) worship freely, and establishing the early predecessor to Christian socialism within Makuria.
After the ravaging of Germania and the former Holy Roman Empire, the Salathelan Vahshilate would enter the early stages of its Golden Age, Aksum and Alwa would be pitted against Makuria, and the Seresian states would bicker among one another and attempt to spread their influence outward.
[1] Nyugsza, meaning ‘west’, derives from the Magyar word for the setting of the sun.
[2] Kaszer derives from Caesar in some form or another.
[3] Letoca was formerly known as Letocetum.
[4] Veroco was formerly known as Viroconium.
[5] Debbu was formerly known as Deva.
[6] Mamuthum/Mamuthbur was formerly known as Mamucium.
[7] Lind was formerly known as Lindum.
[8] Ebra was formerly known as Eboracum.
[9] Core was formerly known as Coria.
[10] Urb-Londincorium derives from Latin ‘urbs’, and the names of the cities Londinium/Londinia and Corinium/Corinia.
[11] Vetoroma derives from Roma and the Latin word for ‘old’.
[12] Legator derives from Latin ‘lega’ and ‘-tor’. A Legator leads a league.
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