The Mandala Stands Strong: An Ancient Timeline.
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Yeah it does. Though it would pretty hard not to make Macedonia intervene if they had survived. They were the 'Masters of the Hellenes' which meant that any Greek state could call for aid from them in any war against non-Hellenes whilst protecting Hellenic Lands such as Magna Greca. It was a huge matter of prestige; never used OTL, but (un)fortunately used ITTL.
Perhaps, Instead of Roman, A Macedonian state does the same and conquers Mediterranean, it was full of weak states and tribe, Greek Culture has been thriving there and there are no major players to oppose them, essentially a Greek Empire in Mediterranean
Some choice - humiliation and reduction, or humiliation and subjugation.
Has Epirus gained land as a result of this war? Or has it been reduced to a vassal of Alexander?
Has Epirus gained land as a result of this war? Or has it been reduced to a vassal of Alexander?
I could actually see that here--that would be interesting...
That technically happened in OTL, the Romans were obviously big admirers of Greeks and spread their Greek Culture along with their own Latin culture across the empire, here, there will only be Greek culture that spreads across the regions
Nah, it's only the name that is Greek, and some flairs of Anaxagoras that is greek due to his mother. All others, he has been raised as a Nepali; though he is bilingual with both.
Chapter 24: Illyrian Conquest and the Celts
Chapter 24: Illyrian Conquest and the Celts
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273 BCE
Anaxagoras I of Nepala Mandala was pretty old by this point; both in age and in mental health as well. He was 60 years old now, and his son, Apollo, had died in an accident with a horse riding competition a few years ago in the high valleys of Mustang; much to Anaxagoras I’s dissatisfaction and much despair. His mother, Thessalonike had died decades ago, simply a year after his father, Ekaveer the Great had been killed, she had collapsed into paralysis after the news of his father’s death and the news of her death unfortunately hadn’t been surprising, with all the arrows pointing in that direction for her. His son had left no heir, and now his heir was his grandnephew from Chrysanthe, Yuvan Bir Shakya was the heir to the throne, the 18 year old pretty enthusiastic in his demeanor, Anaxagoras idly wondered what his grandnephew would do with the Kingdom.
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Meanwhile in Prrydain
Cassibellanus, the ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe in Pryddain had a dream. The Goddess Morrigan beckoned him forward as he stumbled his way through the marshes in search of the great goddess of fate and war.
It was in that dream that he stumbled upon a small shrine, made by the Brigante that he saw the inscriptions on the ground. Not many of his kind were literate. In fact it was hard to find royals and noble of blood men who were literate in fact, however, unlike them, Cassibellanus was a different man. He could read. Now this may have sounded simple to many, however for man in Pryddain, it was a huge accomplishment. The runes on the ground…..they spoke of Rule as one, rule with one.
Cassbellanus snapped out his sleep as he stumbled onto the ground and looked at the areas surrounding him. He snapped his eyes four times to gather his bearings.
“What in the name of Morrigan was that?!” He swore mentally.
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Alexander IV looked at the map of Illyria and said “Well, father, the last Campaign for me, I guess. What you always wanted to do. To conquer Illyria.”
He sighed and looked at the windows of the palace and looked outside. The winds were blowing out. The nation of the Makedonian Empire was flourishing and with the sun blazing high. He closed his eyes wondering how his Uncle was faring in the realm of Hades.
How he stood before the three judges and looked at them defiantly. Alexander IV knew not whether Ekaveer the Great had descended into the Hellenic Underworld or the Hindu, however in both, he presumed that Ekaveer had managed to wrestle his way into Elysium, or whatever was the Hindu equivalent of it. Though considering Ekaveer died on Hellenic soil, Alexander IV believed that Ekaveer had descended into Hades and not Patal and Narak, though, the final rites made it hard to understand.
He sighed and shook his head. No matter, the conquest of Illyria awaited him. Speaking about Conquest…….that pipsqueak of a King, Pyrrhus was quickly becoming very very agitating to him. Umbria had been granted to Pyrrhus as his own domain, and the man was now calling the lands of the Kingdom of Epirus running from the North of Epirus to the south of Aetolia and into Umbria, the ‘Epirot Empire’. As much as Alexander IV liked the man’s battlefield cunning and tactics, the man was quickly getting on his nerves. The Epirot ‘Empire’ was under the suzerain of his own Empire, and emperors tended to get big heads, Alexander IV knew, and if Pyrrhus did not watch his step, then Alexander IV would come crashing down upon him.
But no matter, anyways, the lands of Illyria awaited him.
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King Yavun I of the Nepala mandala looked at the painting of his granduncle who had just died a few days ago. He sighed. The old man had been stressed a lot, and whilst Yavun himself, was a man of youth, himself, he was probably not going to be the overzealous money spending brat that Anaxagoras I believed he would be. Yes, their relation was complicated in this manner’ they loved each other, in the same manner all relatives loved each other, however it was a complicated relationship. His granduncle had always been cold, and aloof. Grandma Chrysanthe said it was largely due to the death of his famous ancestor, Ekaveer the Great, Anaxagoras I’s father, whom he admired a lot. He sighed, the death of Apollo, his uncle, and the son of Anaxagoras I had hurt Anaxagoras I as well, most probably. He turned around and left the building. Well, he was now Maharajah, and he could pursue his interests in seafaring, and making the Mandala develop a proper navy, a navy that could scour the seas in the south east. Now he only need to convince that damn Rajah of Kalinga to accept his proposals for a large fleet…..
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1 year later
Alexander IV smiled as he looked at the ruins of the old cities of Illyria. The region was his now. Conquered after a two year campaign in the region. The Aqueleans in the north had intervened in the north and set up a puppet state with a tribal confederacy, but that small and insignificant. He had no plans to drive up that north in the rocky mountains which would make any conquest largely, dare he say it…..pyrrhic.
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9 years later, (Australia, Larrakia Lands)
Fejo Batcho, sighed as he rubbed his sticks in the ground next to the ocean. The embers burned his hands, and he swore and threw the sticks away and dove his hands into the beach waters. He narrowed his eyes as he saw something in the sea in the distance. A triangular…….what the hell was that?
Little did Fejo Batcho, became the first Larakkia to see a Nepalese merchant ship stranded at sea.
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273 BCE
Anaxagoras I of Nepala Mandala was pretty old by this point; both in age and in mental health as well. He was 60 years old now, and his son, Apollo, had died in an accident with a horse riding competition a few years ago in the high valleys of Mustang; much to Anaxagoras I’s dissatisfaction and much despair. His mother, Thessalonike had died decades ago, simply a year after his father, Ekaveer the Great had been killed, she had collapsed into paralysis after the news of his father’s death and the news of her death unfortunately hadn’t been surprising, with all the arrows pointing in that direction for her. His son had left no heir, and now his heir was his grandnephew from Chrysanthe, Yuvan Bir Shakya was the heir to the throne, the 18 year old pretty enthusiastic in his demeanor, Anaxagoras idly wondered what his grandnephew would do with the Kingdom.
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Meanwhile in Prrydain
Cassibellanus, the ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe in Pryddain had a dream. The Goddess Morrigan beckoned him forward as he stumbled his way through the marshes in search of the great goddess of fate and war.
It was in that dream that he stumbled upon a small shrine, made by the Brigante that he saw the inscriptions on the ground. Not many of his kind were literate. In fact it was hard to find royals and noble of blood men who were literate in fact, however, unlike them, Cassibellanus was a different man. He could read. Now this may have sounded simple to many, however for man in Pryddain, it was a huge accomplishment. The runes on the ground…..they spoke of Rule as one, rule with one.
Cassbellanus snapped out his sleep as he stumbled onto the ground and looked at the areas surrounding him. He snapped his eyes four times to gather his bearings.
“What in the name of Morrigan was that?!” He swore mentally.
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The Advent of Prydain.
- Varun O’Brien
- Whilst it is debated when the actual Pryddish Empire came to be, and how it started, one of the key beginnings of the empire was perhaps not in 78 AD (After Destruction ITTL, not death) when the lower region known as Pritannia was unified, however in the year around 300 to 250 BC (Before Cristof ITTL). It is said that during this time, Cassibellanus, a famous warlord on the Island and the leader of the Catuvellauni tribe, one of the hundreds of tribes that we today call ‘Celts’ that occupied Gaul, Prrydain, and Iberia at the time, had a dream, reportedly. As a bit of context first, back then, the Celts always divided their lands between their heirs, leading to fragmentation of land. However after this ‘dream’ on part of Cassibellanus, he first instituted absolute primogeniture so that only his first son would inherit the lands; and instead his second and third children gained powerful titles and placeholders within the Tribe itself to satisfy them. This of course without the fragmentations of central authority and lands whenever a Tribal King died, meant that the Catuvellauni Tribe became a consolidated and powerful kingdom in the middle of Pritannia. In order to counter them, more and more tribes and kingdoms in the islands officially started to adopt absolute primogeniture to counter them; and the tradition of splitting lands after death quickly died on the island itself. Without this many historians believe that the Prryddish Empire, which would one day rule over so much of the entire planet, would not have even become as we know it.
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Alexander IV looked at the map of Illyria and said “Well, father, the last Campaign for me, I guess. What you always wanted to do. To conquer Illyria.”
He sighed and looked at the windows of the palace and looked outside. The winds were blowing out. The nation of the Makedonian Empire was flourishing and with the sun blazing high. He closed his eyes wondering how his Uncle was faring in the realm of Hades.
How he stood before the three judges and looked at them defiantly. Alexander IV knew not whether Ekaveer the Great had descended into the Hellenic Underworld or the Hindu, however in both, he presumed that Ekaveer had managed to wrestle his way into Elysium, or whatever was the Hindu equivalent of it. Though considering Ekaveer died on Hellenic soil, Alexander IV believed that Ekaveer had descended into Hades and not Patal and Narak, though, the final rites made it hard to understand.
He sighed and shook his head. No matter, the conquest of Illyria awaited him. Speaking about Conquest…….that pipsqueak of a King, Pyrrhus was quickly becoming very very agitating to him. Umbria had been granted to Pyrrhus as his own domain, and the man was now calling the lands of the Kingdom of Epirus running from the North of Epirus to the south of Aetolia and into Umbria, the ‘Epirot Empire’. As much as Alexander IV liked the man’s battlefield cunning and tactics, the man was quickly getting on his nerves. The Epirot ‘Empire’ was under the suzerain of his own Empire, and emperors tended to get big heads, Alexander IV knew, and if Pyrrhus did not watch his step, then Alexander IV would come crashing down upon him.
But no matter, anyways, the lands of Illyria awaited him.
***
King Yavun I of the Nepala mandala looked at the painting of his granduncle who had just died a few days ago. He sighed. The old man had been stressed a lot, and whilst Yavun himself, was a man of youth, himself, he was probably not going to be the overzealous money spending brat that Anaxagoras I believed he would be. Yes, their relation was complicated in this manner’ they loved each other, in the same manner all relatives loved each other, however it was a complicated relationship. His granduncle had always been cold, and aloof. Grandma Chrysanthe said it was largely due to the death of his famous ancestor, Ekaveer the Great, Anaxagoras I’s father, whom he admired a lot. He sighed, the death of Apollo, his uncle, and the son of Anaxagoras I had hurt Anaxagoras I as well, most probably. He turned around and left the building. Well, he was now Maharajah, and he could pursue his interests in seafaring, and making the Mandala develop a proper navy, a navy that could scour the seas in the south east. Now he only need to convince that damn Rajah of Kalinga to accept his proposals for a large fleet…..
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1 year later
Alexander IV smiled as he looked at the ruins of the old cities of Illyria. The region was his now. Conquered after a two year campaign in the region. The Aqueleans in the north had intervened in the north and set up a puppet state with a tribal confederacy, but that small and insignificant. He had no plans to drive up that north in the rocky mountains which would make any conquest largely, dare he say it…..pyrrhic.
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9 years later, (Australia, Larrakia Lands)
Fejo Batcho, sighed as he rubbed his sticks in the ground next to the ocean. The embers burned his hands, and he swore and threw the sticks away and dove his hands into the beach waters. He narrowed his eyes as he saw something in the sea in the distance. A triangular…….what the hell was that?
Little did Fejo Batcho, became the first Larakkia to see a Nepalese merchant ship stranded at sea.
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Un Prydain, Un Pobol, Un Brenin! 
Nepalese Australia - sounds interesting.
What's going on with the Veneti?
Nepalese Australia - sounds interesting.
What's going on with the Veneti?
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