Charcolt: Andreas III’s children (ages are of 1630) in order are:
Zeno of Volos (deceased, mother was unidentified woman from Volos).
Theodoros of Nineveh (age 7, mother is Anna of Amida, washerwoman who became then Kaisar Andreas’ mistress in the Army of Mesopotamia, currently married to the Kephale of Gallipoli)
Alexandros of Baghdad (age 6, mother is Maria of Agra)
Nikephoros of Trebizond (age 2, mother is Maria of Agra)
ImperatorAlexander: At this point no. The Andalusi have been pushed back into the mountains of Granada, the same terrain in which the Emirate of OTL lasted 200+ years, so they’re down but not out. The Spanish still have a lot of work ahead of them. I currently don’t have any plans for an Imperial title for Spain, although a successful completion of the Reconquista would make a good backdrop. There is an OTL precedent for a Spanish Emperor, as in 1077 Alfonso VI of Leon declared himself “Emperor of All Spain.”
You and HanEmpire are both correct. Andreas II married a descendant of an illegitimate daughter of Andreas Niketas. The Persian royal house is descended from Andreas Niketas’ eldest sister, but the Despots of Sicily are descended from another of Andreas’ sisters, Zoe, who was the one that was at the Black Day.
Frustrated Progressive: One of my main reasons for keeping Al-Andalus around was because I’d seen the argument that any pro-Byzantine TL is automatically Islamophobic and this was my way of disproving it. Now though I consider that argument to be stupid. Also, and this was the clincher, I didn’t have any ideas on how to progress with them, the same with Wu. So I’m tidying up bits. And I admit I have a soft spot for early modern Spain.
Emperor of Greater India: The Romans are indeed the only true Empire. But let the barbarians have their delusions of grandeur. They’re less likely to ruin the carpet that way…
JohnSmith: The Eternal War, plus all the other military escapades in the Middle East and North Africa in the past few decades, have been sucking up most Roman resources for decades now. None of the Latin powers with maritime interests have faced such a sustained resource-draining threat.
HanEmpire: This. Only the Romans have had the ‘pleasure’ of fighting a twenty-year war with an Empire capable of putting 100,000+ high-quality soldiers led by one of the top-ten commanders in human history.
In my defense I’m only following OTL medieval and early modern European noble tradition by having the marriage lines be so entangled. Andreas II Drakos’ wife was a Montefeltro who was descended from Andreas Niketas’ illegitimate daughter, plus his father was descended from Zoe, Andreas Niketas’ older sister who was at the Black Day.
The Merovingian: The throne is now held by the Drakos dynasty. The dynastic founder, Andreas II Drakos, was married to a woman from the Montefeltro family who was herself a descendant of Andreas Niketas via an illegitimate daughter. So the Second Komnenid and Drakos dynasties are related, but not very closely.
Bergioyn: I see what you did there.
RogueTraderEnthusiast: A real brazen attack might be enough to spark a serious direct Imperial effort. The key problem before was lack of resources; the Eternal War didn’t leave much to spare. With a breather in that regard the Romans’ options became much more varied.
Tax reform is on the way but I don’t want to give any details since I’d just be repeating myself once I got to the update in question. Unfortunately for the Romans history doesn’t tend to wait quietly…
Sir Omega: They’re not too happy about it, but they’ll tolerate other monarchs calling themselves Emperor. Having “Roman” in the title though is completely unacceptable. When speaking with the Wittelsbachs, the Romans just called them ‘Emperor’ and leave it at that. Just calling them ‘Emperor of the Germans’ would be taken as an insult so the Romans take diplomatic refuge in being vague.
Babyrage: The level of hurt the Triunes are feeling is more on the range of ‘pissing them off’ as opposed to actually impairing them.
Stark: Aragon is currently ruled by a cadet branch of the Spanish royal dynasty which gives them some protection on the grounds of ‘overthrowing your cousin is so gauche’ but the Aragonese are definitely a third-tier power at this point. A Spanish kingdom controlling all of Iberia minus Aragon would be around 10 million, still not in the category of the big three (HRE, Triunes, Romans) but much bigger than anyone else.
I’m planning on some point to have some updates dedicated solely to eastern affairs (one each for India, China & Japan, the Lands below the Winds?).
Andry2086: There are Greek dialects and regional accents, with Constantinople Greek being the official standard for all government business. I don’t know anything about OTL Greek dialects so I can’t speculate on the nature of TTL ones.
Mexican ITTL is a Nahautl-based language but with substantial loan words from Arletian and Castilian, plus a few Greek (mainly government/administrative terms). It is completely different from OTL but this Mexico is completely unlike OTL Mexico.
Zeno of Volos (deceased, mother was unidentified woman from Volos).
Theodoros of Nineveh (age 7, mother is Anna of Amida, washerwoman who became then Kaisar Andreas’ mistress in the Army of Mesopotamia, currently married to the Kephale of Gallipoli)
Alexandros of Baghdad (age 6, mother is Maria of Agra)
Nikephoros of Trebizond (age 2, mother is Maria of Agra)
ImperatorAlexander: At this point no. The Andalusi have been pushed back into the mountains of Granada, the same terrain in which the Emirate of OTL lasted 200+ years, so they’re down but not out. The Spanish still have a lot of work ahead of them. I currently don’t have any plans for an Imperial title for Spain, although a successful completion of the Reconquista would make a good backdrop. There is an OTL precedent for a Spanish Emperor, as in 1077 Alfonso VI of Leon declared himself “Emperor of All Spain.”
You and HanEmpire are both correct. Andreas II married a descendant of an illegitimate daughter of Andreas Niketas. The Persian royal house is descended from Andreas Niketas’ eldest sister, but the Despots of Sicily are descended from another of Andreas’ sisters, Zoe, who was the one that was at the Black Day.
Frustrated Progressive: One of my main reasons for keeping Al-Andalus around was because I’d seen the argument that any pro-Byzantine TL is automatically Islamophobic and this was my way of disproving it. Now though I consider that argument to be stupid. Also, and this was the clincher, I didn’t have any ideas on how to progress with them, the same with Wu. So I’m tidying up bits. And I admit I have a soft spot for early modern Spain.
Emperor of Greater India: The Romans are indeed the only true Empire. But let the barbarians have their delusions of grandeur. They’re less likely to ruin the carpet that way…
JohnSmith: The Eternal War, plus all the other military escapades in the Middle East and North Africa in the past few decades, have been sucking up most Roman resources for decades now. None of the Latin powers with maritime interests have faced such a sustained resource-draining threat.
HanEmpire: This. Only the Romans have had the ‘pleasure’ of fighting a twenty-year war with an Empire capable of putting 100,000+ high-quality soldiers led by one of the top-ten commanders in human history.
In my defense I’m only following OTL medieval and early modern European noble tradition by having the marriage lines be so entangled. Andreas II Drakos’ wife was a Montefeltro who was descended from Andreas Niketas’ illegitimate daughter, plus his father was descended from Zoe, Andreas Niketas’ older sister who was at the Black Day.
The Merovingian: The throne is now held by the Drakos dynasty. The dynastic founder, Andreas II Drakos, was married to a woman from the Montefeltro family who was herself a descendant of Andreas Niketas via an illegitimate daughter. So the Second Komnenid and Drakos dynasties are related, but not very closely.
Bergioyn: I see what you did there.
RogueTraderEnthusiast: A real brazen attack might be enough to spark a serious direct Imperial effort. The key problem before was lack of resources; the Eternal War didn’t leave much to spare. With a breather in that regard the Romans’ options became much more varied.
Tax reform is on the way but I don’t want to give any details since I’d just be repeating myself once I got to the update in question. Unfortunately for the Romans history doesn’t tend to wait quietly…
Sir Omega: They’re not too happy about it, but they’ll tolerate other monarchs calling themselves Emperor. Having “Roman” in the title though is completely unacceptable. When speaking with the Wittelsbachs, the Romans just called them ‘Emperor’ and leave it at that. Just calling them ‘Emperor of the Germans’ would be taken as an insult so the Romans take diplomatic refuge in being vague.
Babyrage: The level of hurt the Triunes are feeling is more on the range of ‘pissing them off’ as opposed to actually impairing them.
Stark: Aragon is currently ruled by a cadet branch of the Spanish royal dynasty which gives them some protection on the grounds of ‘overthrowing your cousin is so gauche’ but the Aragonese are definitely a third-tier power at this point. A Spanish kingdom controlling all of Iberia minus Aragon would be around 10 million, still not in the category of the big three (HRE, Triunes, Romans) but much bigger than anyone else.
I’m planning on some point to have some updates dedicated solely to eastern affairs (one each for India, China & Japan, the Lands below the Winds?).
Andry2086: There are Greek dialects and regional accents, with Constantinople Greek being the official standard for all government business. I don’t know anything about OTL Greek dialects so I can’t speculate on the nature of TTL ones.
Mexican ITTL is a Nahautl-based language but with substantial loan words from Arletian and Castilian, plus a few Greek (mainly government/administrative terms). It is completely different from OTL but this Mexico is completely unlike OTL Mexico.
