An Empire Divided, A World Where Constantine Never Unites Rome.

What ethnic group/nationality were the Seres?

The Seres are partially descended from the roman legion that managed to make their way to China after being trapped by the Hepthalite army. They have no OTL counterparts. They're heavily Chinese however they're lighter skinned overall. They have no real connection to the west besides that and the fact they have their own version of Christianity/use the Latin character system. Basically they use Pinyin instead of the Chinese character system.
 
The Seres are partially descended from the roman legion that managed to make their way to China after being trapped by the Hepthalite army. They have no OTL counterparts. They're heavily Chinese however they're lighter skinned overall.
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Lighter-skinned Chinese.... So a large percentage having light-colored (blue, green, grey) eyes?!
 
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Lighter-skinned Chinese.... So a large percentage having light-colored (blue, green, grey) eyes?!

Yes, think a larger population of the rare tocharian-uighur type Chinese. However due to korean conquests they have a heavy korean influence. The population that has blue/green/grey eyes is about the same amount of irish that have red hair today. It's notable, but not the majority.
 
An Empire Divided 626-650AD

626 - First large south slavic state to appear, Carinthia, located on the Bavarian border.

626 - The Vidaloors lose their oasis state holdings.

627 - The Ket Khanate, having been influenced heavily by the fact that they are the center of luciferianism, begin to form cities. The most important being Turuk, as the original Luciferians have constructed what would be referred to as the ‘Winter Library’ in the center of the city. Centralization in the Ket Khanate advances, although slowly.

627 - 630 - Nakatomi, having long spent their time building their forces, and paying off leaders to align with them launch the ‘Great Reconquest’. Within Ainu forces, and the sudden rebellions in the courts of several Daimyos, the Nakatomi march through the countryside, met with little resistance. By 630, Japan is once more united, outside of the Goguryeo holdings under the Nakatomi Dynasty. The Ainu, having long been loyal to the Nakatomi, gain their own state in northern Japan, a vassal of the Nakatomi Shogunate.

628 - Earliest known book written in the Ket language found. The Luciferians, having spent a long time teaching the Ket’s greek, found that outside the nobility of the Ket Khanate, it is difficult to communicate to the peasantry. With this, the Ket Khagun ordered a new Ket alphabet made, using a modified version of the Greek alphabet, the Luciferians created several dictionaries, one for the Ket people, another for the Samoyedic People, and lastly, translating the Lucifarian doctrine into Mongolic script, the language of the Duka and Oghuz.

628 - Aquitaine, badly feeling the pressure from the Christian realms around them, decides to reform their own beliefs. Modeling in a more monotheistic religion, they make the Church of Sol Invictus the state religion of their realm. Following in their larger companion’s footsteps, Vascones also makes the Church of Sol Invictus their state religion. The forced removal of christians in Aquitaine became commonplace, as the Church of Sol Invictus spread like wildfire throughout the realm. This greatly angered the christian states around them, and many raided border towns of Aquitane.

629 - The Xiongnu spread into the Caucasus, this prompts local slavs to unite under the kingdom of Volhynia, based in former East Armenian land.

629 - 632 - Pikten, longing to reunite its small empire, attacks Elbien. Within 3 years, it has fully suppressed Elbien resistance, much to the displeasure of Britannia, who had used Elbien as a buffer state for the most part.

630 - The Suehans gain power in scandinavia.

630 - The Selkups expand along the north of the Caspian, bringing a border with the Xiongnu Empire.

631 - By this point, the Xiongnu Language has merged enough with the local slavic populace, to form a mostly slavic language. First mention of the Xonu Empire.

631 - Diplomatic relations between the Cuan Kingdom and the Liang Dynasty are established.

632 - Zunism in the Afganistan area in south Bactria and the easternmost area of the Eastern Empire begins to spread heavily, much to the dismay of the Eastern Empire.

632 - Aromanians and Goths in Illyria begin to agitate for independence, fearing that the Illyrian Greeks cannot properly protect them.

633 - 647 - As the Vandalico Empire before it had fell, the Eastern Empire was beginning to decline in power. With the rise of Afganistani Zunism, and a rising Persian Nationalist movement, The death of the last Greco-Persian King spelt the death of the Eastern Empire. 5 Candidates claimed the throne. The first, Chrythianous, arose in Egpyt, intent on regaining the importance of Egypt in the empire. The second, Isocrates, arose in Nicomedia, believing that the Egyptian Greeks had been tainted, and hoped to make the empire truely greek. The third was the Dabuyyid Shah, Khursid, who wished to truely regain Persia for Zoroaster. The fourth, Adeodatus X, claiming legacy to the ancient roman king nearly 300 years prior, who arose in Adeodapolis. The last was Bailseen, an extremely influential Assyrian, who rose to power in Assur. However, several other ‘independence’ groups arose to free themselves. In Israel, the Jews rose up to re-establish the ancient kingdom. Armenia also rose up. In Anatolia, both the Slavs and Galatians arose in rebellion. In Afghanistan, the worshipers of Zun. In Persia, more slavs arose, Bactria moved in to secure much of central asia, while the Selkups moved down to do the same. Many local Persian Dynasties claimed the ‘Shah En Shah’. In upper egypt, the Nubians revolted quickly taking the area. It would be the only group to peacefully take over. Having agreed to support Chrythianous. By 647 the fighting would halt to a standstill. The Ulich Slavs having control over most of northern Anatolia, Nicomedia being reduced to westernmost Anatolia. In Central anatolia the Galatians once more ruled. To everyone’s surprise, the Assyrians managed to conquer much of South Anatolia, the entirety of Mesopotamia, Parts of Arabian, and even took much of the Syriac coast. Armenia easily secured control over most of its former lands, only failing to retake the anatolian coast. Northwest Persia was entirely occupied by the Teverians, who had set up a similar state to the Ulich slavs. Bactria had managed to fight off the Selkups so that they only occupied northwestern central asia, they even managed to take northern Persia. However, the Zunbils, who had managed to liberate afghanistan also took a chunk out of southern Bactria while they were occupied with northern Persia. In Persia and arabia three main states formed. In central persia, a new dynasty arose, The Orasmyn dynasty. However it didn’t control coastal Persia. Most of Eastern Persia and southern Persia had been occupied by the Dabuyyids. But a smaller greek dynasty arose in what remained. Named after the area they occupied, the Elymian dynasty had simply survived due to being a buffer state between the larger ‘Assyrian Dynasty’ and Dabuyyid Dynasty. Only the Qatar area had survived Assyrian conquest. A small republic centered around the city of Dukhan was born. Adeodatus X centered his capital in Adeodapolis. Conquering all of Jordan, western arabia, Sinai, and the eastern coast of egypt, it even managed to reach the nile in some areas. However, Crythianos had fought hard to secure what he could. Controlling the entirety of the Nile delta, he conquered Cyrene and expanded his influence over what areas of egypt Adeodatus had not occupied. Lastly was the Jews, completely isolated religiously, they managed to form an independent state, playing off larger powers. Although it survived the civil war, it would not survive much longer.

633 - Socotra is abandoned by the Eastern Empire. The socotrans themselves manage to set up their own state, yet Punt quickly conquers it.

634 - 640 - The Later Liang had been in decline essentially from their conception. The final blow was met with the Chen conquests. Quickly marching through Liang land, they only met trouble when they fought with the Jing who also sought to take the weakened Liang. Yunan would be lost entirely, re-consumed by tribes. But by 640, the Liang would cease to exist. The Chen and Jing taking their place.

634 - 637 - The S. Goguryeo had long seeked to reunite their kingdom, and had been preparing for some time. Finally they launched an invasion, quickly overtaking the country. However, many Koreans would flee to the North Goguryeo’s Amur lands, and resist Southern Goguryeo forces. Korea itself would be under reunited Goguryeo control within a year, but the new Bahae government in the Amur would continue to fight border skirmishes until 637.

635 - After a revolt in southern Bavaria, Vaenetians are reunited with their independent brothers, and Hrum is reborn.

635 - 638 - Alania, after a major border dispute with the Vendelids, declares war. Within 3 years, all of former Vendelid central spain is under Alannic control.

636 - Last reference of the Albanian people of Illyria, they assimilate with the Aromanians of the area.

636 - 645 - A series of wars in the Roman Confederation change much of the internal borders.

637 - A small Slavic kingdom called Dajiza. Appears in Dacia, the leaders are quickly converted to Arian Christianity by Illyria.

637 - The Tibetan Empire finishes off the dilapidated rump Tuyuhun state.

638 - 640 - The Later Guptas, fearing the Huna empire closing in on them, attack Arakan. Quickly overwhelming the small state, they fully annex it.

638 - The Later Vakatkas merge with Kottura to form a Hindu confederation to oppose the Zoroastrian Huna, Buddhist Gupta, and Natkonevan southern states.

639 - 641 - Arabian War, Arabia, having long declined in the area, attempted to ‘cleanse’ Yemen of its Symonic Christianity. However, Yemen was much stronger than they anticipated. By 641, Yemen had totally annexed Arabia, bringing an end to the zealots there.

639 - The Ainu Federation is formed in Northern Japan under the guidance of the Nakatomi Shogunate in return for their help in wars.

640 - Bactria sends an expedition out to find the mythical roman legion of the east. They find the Seres state, however, they are surprised that only the elders can still speak latin and greek. They offer to trade knowledge to Seres in exchange for silk.

640 - All of the West Slavic tribes except Bohemia are united under Sorbian leadership.

641 - 643 - The Chenla in Indochina conquer the Dvaravati. Following this, them and Dai Viet attack and parition Champa.

641 - 646 - The Kadambas attack the Kummar Rajdom, they fully annex the Empire, proclaiming themselves the 3rd successor of Natkoneva. The territory of the Holy City of Calicut is expanded.

642 - The Komi Khanate is founded in the Urals, after the tribes are united under a Luciferian leader, they expand extraordinarily fast along the Urals.

642 - 660 - Gelimer’s Kingdom, unable to expand inwards on the Sahara, attacks the Britannian Enez Islands. In theory the war lasts until 660, However by 647, the maximum advance of Gelimer’s Kingdom is made, taking the three easternmost islands.

643 - The Vandalicos in Novo Carthago collapse entirely. They are immediately annexed by Espan, who shares a similar, yet romanized language.

643 - 646 - Skotin and Eire war. Seeking to take back some of the land it lost to Eire previously, the Skotin Kingdom quickly takes over parts of eastern Eire. Land will go back and forth, but eventually Skotin will annex parts of its former lands.

644 - After around 300 years of loyal rule, the Regnum Duo is abolished in Corsica, a republic is proclaimed. Corsica and Sardinia will constantly compete with each other over influential trade ports.

644 - First appearances of Scandinavian tribes as functioning entities.

645 - The Oghuz Khanate is annexed by the Ket Khanate.

645 - The Moriyas dynasty is replaced with the Lambakanas dynasty.

646 - 647 - Mauretania, noticing the weakness of its neighbor Numidia invades. Easily overthrowing the weakened state.

646 - Leptis Magna expands and consolidates its borders along the Libyan Coast.

647 - The Great Athenian Observatory is built in Athens.

647 - Aquitaine begins to adopt Early Roman and greek policies, in dreams of ‘restoring rome’ even though by this point there is not a single living Roman inside Aquitane.

648 - 650 - Espan, seeing the opportunity after the death of the the Frakva King. Overwhelming Fravka, they easily take over the country. However, Ceuta manages to take directly across the strait, taking the Gibraltar area.

648 - Bavaria falls into civil disorder. With the help of Hrum, Germany conquers it within the year. However they give some of their original Vaenetian lands to Hrum as compensation.

649 - The Council of Adeodapolis officially condemns the religious movement in the former Arabian area.

649 - The Byzancenas declare themselves the successor to the Vandalicos. To enforce their legitimacy further, they have the Carthaginian Pope declare the Byzancenas a Holy Empire, as he is allowed to be directly influential in Byzancena politics.

650 - The Srivijaya Empire is founded on the island of Sumatra.

650 - The Chen Dynasty conquers Dai Viet within months.
 
Sorry its so late! Questions appriciated!

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Are you attaching the files directly to your post? If that's giving you trouble, you might have better luck using an offsite image host like imgur and just linking the image in.

Anyway, how evangelical is Luciferianism? So far I've been getting a bit of a Gnostic vibe from them with a fair amount of Hellenic mystery-religion thrown in, but to what extent are the Luciferians in places like the khanates actively recruiting into the faith? Things like the creation of the Ket alphabet and standardized dictionaries would seem to imply that they're trying to reach out to the populace of these areas (sort of like the Jesuits in Asia and the New World), but at the same time whenever the Luciferians are mentioned they seem to still be framed as a small, insular group, even when well embedded into societies like the Ket. From the text, it seems like they are still small and insular, but highly influential within the ruling classes of the Ket and other societies due to their relative knowledge and useful skills.

So, a century or two down the line, will Europe or China be menaced by hordes of angry steppe people who, in addition to the usual scariness, also venerate Lucifer?
 
Are you attaching the files directly to your post? If that's giving you trouble, you might have better luck using an offsite image host like imgur and just linking the image in.

Anyway, how evangelical is Luciferianism? So far I've been getting a bit of a Gnostic vibe from them with a fair amount of Hellenic mystery-religion thrown in, but to what extent are the Luciferians in places like the khanates actively recruiting into the faith? Things like the creation of the Ket alphabet and standardized dictionaries would seem to imply that they're trying to reach out to the populace of these areas (sort of like the Jesuits in Asia and the New World), but at the same time whenever the Luciferians are mentioned they seem to still be framed as a small, insular group, even when well embedded into societies like the Ket. From the text, it seems like they are still small and insular, but highly influential within the ruling classes of the Ket and other societies due to their relative knowledge and useful skills.

So, a century or two down the line, will Europe or China be menaced by hordes of angry steppe people who, in addition to the usual scariness, also venerate Lucifer?

Yeah, I attach them directly, its just telling me i'm missing something security wise.

The Lucifarians are based off OTL Ophites, a gnostic group. The reason why they seem like a small society despite their large grasp on society, is because there are two real levels of Lucifarians. The originals, decended from the Illyrian escapees, who act as a 'teacher' class to the rest of the populace, and the average lucifarian, who is not involved in the monk-like standpoint of the original lucifarians. The lucifarian priests are usually what I refer to when speaking of them, as the average Lucifarian is usually not that wise. They seek to spread knowledge throughout the world, which is why they've standardized dictionaries and whatnot with the Ket peoples. However, they have their own inner circle, which they do not like outsiders coming in, which is the 'teacher' type of lucifarians.


Also good job, you hit the nail on the head with the Horde ideas. :p
 
Yeah, I attach them directly, its just telling me i'm missing something security wise.

The Lucifarians are based off OTL Ophites, a gnostic group. The reason why they seem like a small society despite their large grasp on society, is because there are two real levels of Lucifarians. The originals, decended from the Illyrian escapees, who act as a 'teacher' class to the rest of the populace, and the average lucifarian, who is not involved in the monk-like standpoint of the original lucifarians. The lucifarian priests are usually what I refer to when speaking of them, as the average Lucifarian is usually not that wise. They seek to spread knowledge throughout the world, which is why they've standardized dictionaries and whatnot with the Ket peoples. However, they have their own inner circle, which they do not like outsiders coming in, which is the 'teacher' type of lucifarians.


Also good job, you hit the nail on the head with the Horde ideas. :p

Okay, that clears up a lot of things. Assuming the populace actually knows the inner circle exists, how easy or difficult (if at all possible) is it to go from normal layperson to inner-circle initiate? Or is the inner circle much more hereditary, generally only intermarrying among themselves and keeping a close lid on the actual rituals and sacraments of the faith?
 
Okay, that clears up a lot of things. Assuming the populace actually knows the inner circle exists, how easy or difficult (if at all possible) is it to go from normal layperson to inner-circle initiate? Or is the inner circle much more hereditary, generally only intermarrying among themselves and keeping a close lid on the actual rituals and sacraments of the faith?

It's usually hereditary, as the original Greeks still consider the populace 'barbaric' however, initiates are increasingly common. However, it is EXTREMELY difficult to get in, and of course, you have to have a way in, i.e. alreadu established relationship with an inner circle member.
 
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