Horizon on the South of Orient

Horizon on the South of Orient
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Trade and Chaos

In the late 13th century, the population of Irraya started to increase and due to that the town of Irraya started to expand and flourish that it absorb it's nearby towns, Irraya started to look more as a progressive town.

The population increase also happened in Meykawayan and Irraya although it is less than that of Irraya.
Due to the population of Irraya and it being a trading hub in Selurong it became a big city in the Island of Selurong and very prosperous compared to other towns, and second to it is Meykawayan and third is Lingayen in Kaboloan.

After a long storm,the Bannag river and Pampanga river both overflowed and left the flood plains of Bannag and Pampanga river fertile where in the Cities of Irraya, Meykawayan and Apalit are found which made the farms and the harvest more fruitful in the river.

The people of Selurong experienced prosperity due to international trade, there are two important polities in Selurong competing for the supremacy in the Island Selurong and these are Kaboloan, Kumintang and Tondo but currently Tondo had the economic supremacy as for the moment, in Early 14th century an earthquake occurs in the Tondo which also affected Balintawak causing the area of Tondo to be sparsely populated due to the people fleeing it and the royal family of Tondo moved to the area west of Lihan causing Tondo and the city of Maynilad to be a depopulated and lose their significance completely, Tondo was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake but the Tondo Royal family rebuilt their original capital Tondo but it will never be able to regain its glory as a capital and the defacto capital is moved north to Macabebe where the Tondo royalty are currently residing, in the mean while the Confederacy of Madya-as and the Rajahnate of Cebu are booming due to them being near the Sulu trading port, the Sulu polity is an ally of the Tondo polity.

In the early 14th century Due to the increase in Population in the plains of Selurong which are the Pampanga river area, the Bannag river area and the Kaboloan region which is the Agno river area, the dialects in the Bannag river area began to be more uniform and the Pampanga river area began to look uniform as well and the process of converging of the dialects in the Bannag river area and the Pampanga river area dialects began in the early 14th century begin to look more similar to each other and they begin to converge to be more similar linguistically.

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The people from Goryeo and Nippon traded with the people of Selurong which cultural bring influences to Selurong.
In the meantime in Champa In 1307 AD, the Cham King Jaya Simhavarman III (Che Man), the founder of the still extant temple of Po Klaung Garai in Panduranga, considered to cede two northern districts to the Đại Việt in exchange for the hand in marriage of a Viet princess but his advisers adviced him against the cession of the two districts because it will greatly weaken Champa, instead he marries a Mongolian noblewoman named Odval, who was pregnant while her husband, Simhavarman was sickly, she gave birth to a son and she died at the birth of her own son, the son was named Simhavarman after his own father in 1308, Simhavarman III died a few months after the death of his wife, Odval, the new King of Champa, Che Chi was declared to be the King of Champa, Che Chi took the custody of his younger brother.
Champa and Vietnam had peace during the reign of Che Chi, Che Chi sent emissaries to Vietnam when he succeeded as the King in order to improve Champa’s relationship with Vietnam and also the relationship between Cambodia and Vietnam also became better due to Che Chi marrying a Cambodian woman in the end Champa became peaceful with its neighbors.

On 1333 in Nippon, Emperor Go-Daigo ordered local governing vassals to oppose Hōjō rule, in favor of Imperial restoration, in the Kenmu Restoration.
To counter this revolt, the Kamakura bakufu ordered Ashikaga Takauji to squash the uprising. For reasons that are unclear, possibly because Ashikaga was the de facto leader of the powerless Minamoto clan, while the Hōjō clan were from the Taira clan the Minamoto had previously defeated, Ashikaga turned against the Kamakura bakufu, and fought on behalf of the Imperial court.

After the successful overthrow of the Kamakura bakufu in 1336, Ashikaga Takauji set up his own bakufu in Kyoto, the Ashikaga Bakufu and Emperor Go-Daigo were agreeing on how to govern Nippon but they had some minor differences.

In the meanwhile in the mid-14th century, the other strong polities in Selurong namely, Kumintang and Kaboloan recognize the ruler of Tondo as their liege which cemented the rule of the Tondo Dynasty in all of Selurong, the Rulers of Tondo were dominating Selurong economically and they are even praised, the Tondo Dynasty are related to the Sri Vijaya Dynasty and came from Sumatra before they lived in Tondo.

In the Mid-14th Century the Vietnamese attack Champa causing some people to flee for nearby areas which are Guangdong, Selurong, Borneo and north Sumatra.
In the Mid-14th Century the trade relations between Selurong and Champa became better that there are some Cham migrants to Selurong after Champa was attacked by the Vietnamese in the Mid-14th Century due to land disputes.

In the meanwhile in Goryeo, King Gongmin began to push Yuan garrisons back around 1350. By the 1350s Goryeo regained its lost northern territories from the Yuan Dynasty and this contributed to the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in Eastern Asia, King Gongmin celebrated at the return of the lost lands of Goryeo.
 
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The Shockwaves of Ming

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The Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against Han Chinese that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation projects. Consequently, agriculture and the economy were in shambles and rebellion broke out among the hundreds of thousands of peasants called upon to work on repairing the dykes of the Yellow River.

A number of Han Chinese groups revolted, including the Red Turbans in 1351. The Red Turbans were affiliated with the White Lotus, a Buddhist secret society. Zhu Yuanzhang was a penniless peasant and Buddhist monk who joined the Red Turbans in 1352, but soon gained a reputation after marrying the foster daughter of a rebel commander. In 1356, Zhu's rebel force captured the city of Nanjing, which he would later establish as the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

With the Yuan Dynasty crumbling, competing rebel groups began fighting for control of the country and thus the right to establish a new dynasty. In 1363, Zhu Yuanzhang eliminated his arch rival and leader of the rebel Han faction Chen Youliang in the Battle of Lake Poyang, arguably the largest naval battle in history. Known for its ambitious use of fire ships, Zhu's force of 200,000 Ming sailors were able to defeat a Han rebel force over triple their size, claimed to be 650,000-strong.

The victory destroyed the last opposing rebel faction, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang in uncontested control of the bountiful Yangtze River Valley and cementing his power in the south. After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu (present-day Beijing) in 1368. The last Yuan emperor fled north to Shangdu and Zhu declared the founding of the Ming Dynasty after razing the Yuan palaces in Dadu to the ground; the city was renamed Beijing in the same year. Zhu Yuanzhang took Hongwu or "Vastly Martial" as his era name.

After Hongwu became the Emperor he sent out emissaries in order for the countries surrounding the Middle Kingdom to recognize him and one of them are sent to Tondo who are regarded as the Kings of Selurong due to their intermarriage with the other, at this time the rulers of Tondo are already considered to be the Kings of Selurong due to their control because of trade and intermarriage with the other dominant polities in Selurong namely Kumintang and Kaboloan.

On 1365, King Gongmin of Goryeo was overjoyed by the birth of a son to his Queen who was childless for 15 years whom he loved so dearly, the son was named Yushin who became King after the death of Gongmin in 1389 after the death of Gongmin of Goryeo and he became known as King Gungjo of Goryeo.
King Timanukum II of Selurong would marry Dibuka of Kaboloan in 1360, King Timanukum II was the first known King of Selurong while the previous Kings were considered mythical he sent emissaries to the new Dynasty of China, the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute to Emperor Hongwu and sent emissaries which accompanied the return of the emissaries of the Ming Dynasty which established the relationship between Selurong and the Ming Dynasty.

he arranged the marriage of his children namely Tala and Yumo to King Gungjo and Princess Deokman respectively, the marriage alliance would help the two countries to cement their own relations to each other, Yumo and Deokman and Tala and Gungjo respectively met in Orchid Island also known as the Botol Island, Deokman would last see her own brother in this Island the same would happen to Tala, the marriages was made in order to guarantee good relationship between Selurong and Goryeo.
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Princess Deokman was married to Yumo and he loved Deokman dearly since their wedding day that he never took any concubine nor cheat her he was madly with her, Deokman of Goryeo was renamed as Dibuka, named after the Queen of Selurong, Dibuka, she gave birth to a son named Alon in 1392, which made Yumo very happy of Deokman of Goryeo.
The retinue of Deokman of Goryeo were Korean speaking Buddhists which helped the progress of Selurong as a country, this was the unforgettable legacy of Princess Deokman of Goryeo, this was one of the reasons why she was very loved by the people of Selurong.

Meanwhile in Nippon, the period of North and South Courts (Nanboku-chō) ended in 1392, when the South Court gave up during the reign of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

In 1394, Timanukum II dies and Yumo takes over the throne, Yumo had a crown made for him and his own Queen, the crown was laden with gold and pearls, the crown was very hard to made because gold and pearl is rare on Selurong, Yumo talked to the Dowager Queen Dibuka and told him how he loved his own consort that he cannot have a concubine nor cheat his own wife, Dowager Queen Dibuka is happy about his decision.

Queen Dibuka(Deokman of Goryeo) was very fond of her new land that she always helped her husband in administrating Selurong before she died however, Deokman of Goryeo was very nice to her subjects and even helped some of them, she was very much remembered for a very long time and her children with her husband were affected by what she did.

Tala of Selurong, Queen of Goryeo is also loved by her own husband just like how her brother loved her sister in law and the marriage also produse many issues or offsprings as well and one of them is Prince Ung(b. 1394), the eldest child of Tala of Selurong and King Gungjo of Goryeo, both the marriages created an alliance between Selurong and Goryeo which lasted for a long time and made the Goryeo House and the Tondo House related via marriage.

Queen Tala of Goryeo also sent her own representatives at the coronation of King Yumo and Queen Dibuka(Deokman) as well which made King Yumo very happy feeling the prescence of Queen Tala in their own coronation.

The Kings of Champa and Majapahit sent their own representatives seeking the hand of other Selurongese Princess, they were successful and they were able to get one Princess each of them escorting them to their new groom, the two Princesses sent to Majapahit and Champa to marry Cham and Majapahitan Princeses are Kaya and Burak who were very reculant of the marriages and initially rejected the marriage offers, Kaya was married to a Majapahit prince while Burak was married to a Cham prince.

In the end the two Princesses were persuaded by the envoys to marry out to their respective countries so they were escorted by the representatives sent by Majapahit and Champa, Kaya married a Majapahit Prince when she goes to Majapahit and Burak marries a Cham Prince when she went to Champa.

In 1410, Deokman of Goryeo died which left King Yumo alone but he also decided that he would not marry again and because of that King Yumo is remembered as a Pious King, King Gungjo sent condolences to his sister and sent his wife Tala as a representative in order for them to see each other since for a time because King Yumo is very lonely at the loss of Deokman of Goryeo, Tala of Selurong gave some items that Deokman of Goryeo had before she married him in order to comfort King Yumo at the loss of his own wife, Deokman of Goryeo after that Tala of Selurong came back to Goryeo.

In 1410, the King of Champa, Rama I, the Husband of Burak sent emissaries to Selurong which were entertained by the widowed King Yumo, Rama I told King Yumo that he liked the stories about the land of Selurong, he heard that the mountains and the plains of Selurong which his wife, Burak told him about, he will try to visit Selurong, which he did in 1411 and he liked what he saw on his visit, Rama I told King Yumo was not originally destined to be the King of Champa, he became Champa at the death of his brother and King Rama understands the feelings of King Yumo about his wife’s death.

On 1410, a town named Aparri north of Irraya became the trading hub north of Selurong to Joseon and Nippon, the nearby towns merged with it and many of the people of those towns migrated to Aparri proper.

In the meantime in Sulu in 1380, Karim ul-Makhdum arrived in Simunul island from Malacca, again, with Arab traders. Apart from being a scholar, he is a trader and believed to be a Sufi missionary whose origin is from Mecca. He preached Islam in the area, and was thus accepted by the core Muslim community. He was the second person who preached Islam in the area, since Tuan Mashā′ikha. To facilitate easy conversion of nonbelievers, he established a mosque in Tubig-Indagan, Simunul, which became the first Islamic temple to be constructed in the area. This was later known as Sheik Karimal Makdum Mosque. He died in Sulu, though the exact location of his grave is unknown. In Buansa, he was known as Tuan Sharif Awliyā. On his alleged grave in Bud Agad, Jolo, an inscription was written as "Mohadum Aminullah Al-Nikad". In Lugus, he is referred to Abdurrahman. In Sibutu, he is known to as his name.

 
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Quick Guide
In this time the countries of Goryeo, Selurong and Nippon are really very close due to trade and the other countries in East Asia were recovering from the effects of the Mongol attacks.

Selurong

A country that had just popped from existence, it first made tribute to China during the Ming Dynasty and made a Dynastic double marriage with Goryeo, Tala of Selurong married the King of Goryeo, Gungjo and King Yumo married Deokman of Selurong, in OTL the land of Selurong is known as Luzon.

Goryeo

In OTL it fell to the traitorous Li Family who founded the Joseon Dynasty but it survived because the wife of Gongmin gave birth to son and later Goryeo established good relations with Selurong and had a double dynastic marriage with Selurong.

Ming Dynasty

Emerged from a rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty, it had good relations with the surrounding countries including, Zhongguo is experiencing a revival because of the Ming Dynasty although they have problems in Wakou and Mongolian raids.

Champa

It is better than OTL, although Dai Viet still attacks them, they can still recover and start over, Champa also has good relations with Selurong and the second son of Che Bong nga married Burak of Selurong and the second son later became King Rama I when his older brother died.

Nippon

Japan is ruled by the Ashikaga Bakufu, some of the dialects of central japan changed their initial /F/ to /H/ like in Hana(Flower), the dialects in Kyushu and Eastern Japanese are said to be quite divergent, it is a source of pirates called the Wakou that wreck the coasts of China and Goryeo.
 
What is the connection between the TL and the map attached? The story appears to be related to the Philippine Islands and the red circle in the map shows the southwest part of Bengal.
 
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Shaking Turbulence

On 1420, King Yumo died from grief from the death of Queen Dibuka(Deokman of Goryeo) and their son, Alon became the King of Selurong who took the regnal name Timanukum III, the Dowager Queen Dibuka took care of the King and raised him in the traditional manner, Timanukum III saw the potential of Irraya as a city and a capital seeing that it is near the trading route between to Goryeo and Nippon and China as well, he married the daughter of the ruler of Irraya when he moved, she was named Kayan, at this point Selurong’s power center has been on the north ever since the later part of King Yumo’s reign and the Tondo area has been declining, Timanukum III was very ambitious and decided to fortify the Botol Island which was welcomed by the people of Botol which was near Tapanga, the Island of Taiwan.
In the meantime in Sulu ,under Rajah Baguinda Sulu becomes stronger because of its ties with the Malacca Sultanate and as well as its ties in trade with Selurong and also because of its Muslim faith, on the meanwhile Selurong was engaging on trade with the Ming, Goryeo and Nippon, Timanukum III improved the relationship between Selurong and Sulu, however there are faith issues between the two countries and the traders of Sulu even went to Selurong where it became an intermediary between Sulu and the East Asian countries, Timanukum III and Kayan has a son named Magat who will succeed Timanukum III, Timanukum III was also known for improving the internal relations of Selurong and made it internally stronger and also an intermediary between the Malay world and East Asia, Timanukum III also improved the relationship between Champa and Selurong and some Champa settlers established their settlements in the North West of Selurong and later in 1440 Magat was married to woman named Hang Li Po who was sent from China in return for a tribute for china.
Rajah Baguinda and Timanukum III had good relations because they traded with each other goods from countries near them, Sulu gave the goods from the Southern countries like India while Sulu gets from Selurong the goods from Nippon, Korea and Japan, even after the passing of Rajah Baguinda, Selurong and Sulu remain in good relations, however there are religious problems between Selurong and Sulu because Selurong is pagan while Sulu is Muslim.
In the latter part of the reign of Timanukum III, King Yumo is reinterred with Deokman of Goryeo, his wife in respect for the love of King Yumo to Deokman of Goryeo.
Sulu became a Sultanate on 1450 when Sharif Ul Hashim became a ruler of Sulu, Timanukum III sent many emissaries to the Sultanate of Sulu congratulating the new Sultan, however at this time, Timanukum III is no longer healthy and his son Magat became his own regent.


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It looks like I need to incorporate this scenario to another timeline of mine since many things had changed in Europe.
 
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Which TL?

This set up can make for some big changes once Europe begins its mad grab.
It will be a part of one of my current TL's but there will be some modifications so stay tuned, I don't want to spoil that TL for you but for the meantime there is a TL Antetype of this TL based on the same idea, it is named A Surprising Discovery that I am currently working and the already finished predecessor of this TL named A Terraces and Pagodas.
 
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Turbulent days

Magat II did reign long on Selurong, but he was different from his father, he knew about the muslims and he did not like them and wanted to have them expelled from Selurong although he was good with the Nestorian Christians who lived the the Mahabe Pagotan mountains, he was known as a patron of arts in Selurong and even had the Kawi script adopted on Selurong since the Baybayin cannot accomodate the language of Selurong, he only married a minor noble in Selurong and aside from that not much was known about him aside from that since most of the people of Selurong were still illiterate at this time.
On 1490, the Mount Pinatubo erupted which caused destruction in Selurong to be in a depression for a time, it caused some of the people near Pinatubo to migrate to the Bannag river area which made it flourish more and also secretly the people south of Selurong invited Ragam Bolkiah of Brunei, and a few years, after that Sultan Ragam Bolkiah conquered Selurong south of Pasig river which invited him without a response from Magat II because the Kingdom was just recovering from the disaster, although, the son of Ragam Bolkiah who was assigned to rule South of Selurong, Lontok did marry Princess Banua a granddaughter of Magat II later on.

 
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Timanukum III

On 1500 Timanukum III, the son of Magat I was able to replace Magat I, who was quite uncompetent as a ruler in Selurong, Timanukum III was very happy to recieve the crown which he was waiting for since he was young, he prefered to be a simple man rather than a King but his own duties matter more than that and he was able to attack Southern Selurong or Lower Selurong, Upper Selurong became known as the Kingdom of Irraya at this point other than the Kingdom of Selurong, the Kingdom of Irraya was able to have peace with Lower Selurong and Brunei after he attacked Lower Selurong, however the people of the Kingdom of Irraya was always wishing to get Lower Selurong to reunite the Island again and free it from the clutches of Bruneian domination but Timanukum III focused on his countries' external affairs rather than the conflicts, he welcomed some Chinese people who were envoys of the Emperor of China, Yung Sheng of Ming.
Timanukum III was wondering when he heard of the White Explorers in Visayas, he is thinking would these Explorers bring luck to the land or cause disaster, his son Domogan said that every thing would be fine and that Selurong would be fine and Timanukum III was happy of that.


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