An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania
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I've been trying to think about this, but I'm not sure what benefit the Russians would get from intervening. I don't think they even border the HRE, so to get there they'd need to march through Poland or Hungary I think. I'd question their ability to mobilize enough forces to defeat the Triunes or to support that army if the Triunes actually resist. But I would think a small force, maybe 15,000 that could carry Elizabeth back to her lands to begin rallying German banners to her side would be doable.
Re-reading this again just now and the word "Empress" rang a bell. I did a bit of digging and found this passage (link is here) from May of 2019 dealing with the Roman raid in Bavaria in 1634 (added emphasis is mine):
First of all, tremendous callback. Secondly, I wonder what other aid, covert or overt, Rhomania can offer a member of the "Roman Imperial family." There's a zero percent chance that Elizabeth will march into Germany with two tagmata. But subsidies so she can pay German Landsknecht? Intelligence about what's going on in Henri/Phillip's court? Have to imagine that aid will extend beyond a Rhoman-flagged ship firing on Triune soldiers and evacuating two wanted fugitives from the HRE, just curious as to what form that will take.
Cryostorm
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Anything more iconic than Russians marching across a continent to interrupt someone's conquest spree?
Nope, but this is a century or more ahead of schedule. It would be a very early sign that the rest of Europe needs to watch out for Russia.
Isn't that practically guaranteed? Unless they get something like manifest destiny to recover old territories from Russia, Prussia and Vlachia. There's no way that they'll be conquered without due justification.
Tell the Soviets in 1938 that their lack of a border with Nazi Germany meant they were safe from Lebensraum
Vince
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Well they're broken up into multiple states that don't seem keen to reunite at the moment. So as much as I would like to see it that probably won't happen.
Though if Rome was behind the rescue I like how they've rationalized Elizabeth has gone from existential threat to possible useful tool to keep Henri from dominating the HRE
Finally the new head of all things about "the west", finally starts taking action to weaken and lose the west's interest on the east.
That way, any kind of flames that erupt in the west, stays in the west.
You know, re-reading this TL, I've become curious to how the Malayized or Japanized forms of Greek names will develop. We already see this with the Slavs (Aleksei=Alexios, Ivan=Ioannes) ever since they become Christianized. Since the Japanese and (partly) the Malays have embraced Orthodox Christianity, its only natural to see it happen.
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japanese i think will be hardcore, considering their language is on a total different branch of humanity. The Europeans have all names with origins referring to saints or god related, the japanese have names like Akira which is translate in wisdom.
if you want japanized versions of the greek names, Alexios becomes something like " arekisios".
You know the meme of the Japanese guy yelling in the tunnel? Would his name be Takasios instead of Takeshi?
"Stop it, Takasios, you don't have enough stamina." "No, I will become sex itself. I will absolutely become sex!"
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oh god.
Takasios castle.
no, no no, i'll protest if we won't have takeshi's castle
Oh my god, what if Akihibara ITTL isn’t weeaboo central, but it becomes the campus of the biggest Orthodox university in Asia, or something similar…
And the art form we associate with anime isn’t a Japanese invention, but a German one, or something from an equally absurd nation.