The Other Horizon

The Other Horizon
I am trying to redo the timeline, A Horizon in the South of Orient which has been finished its part I, I want to try a slow pace and big updates in this TL, since most of my TL's are fastpaced and have skips I will try to avoid that in this TL.

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A Country that emerged from oblivion
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.

The people from Goryeo and Nippon traded with the people of Selurong and settled it 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.

Compared to the Other regions of Selurong it is only the Bannag, Agno and Pampanga region that is increasing population, the Population of Samtoy, Kumintang, Bikol are still small, that people of the three river basins that it was said that if they migrated to these regions the people of Samtoy, Kumintang and Bikol would lose ground and assimilate the people of these three river valleys.

Due to the people of Selurong being more numerous, the people of the Bannag river valley and Pampanga river valley formed the polity of Irraya, ruled by the Tondo Dynasty, the first known King of Irraya is Magat on the 1400, earlier it was said that the legendary King Timanukum was the one who established Irraya, he existed on the late 1300's but nothing was said about him, the capital of Irraya is Irraya on the Bannag Valley.

Magat was only known on the late 14th century because he married a Mongolian Princess named Borte and made tribute to the Emperor of China, he encouraged the Nestorians to migrate to his country, since his country already had Nestorians earlier on and it was due to him that Selurong was known to be a secretive nation and it would be easy to hide the christians in Selurong.
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On the 1400 due to Vietnamese raids to Champa and the siezure of a part of Champa by Dai Viet some Chams were invited by the ruler of Sulu, Rajah Baginda to settle Palawan, the settlers in Palawan invited by Rajah Baguinda were many, at this time, Magat also invited the Chams to settle Chams in Samtoy in order to give them a home, the settlers arrived on droves on the town of Batak and Pagudpod, the Chams in Samtoy and the Samtoy people, the Chams also settled Kumintang which was objected by the ruler of Kumintang but they were easily pacified by Magat, the conflict regarding the Cham settlers and the rulers in Kumintang and Samtoy and due to that on 1402, the Ruler of Kumintang, Makisig and the Chiefs of Bigan and Lawag rebelled against Magat, Magat's officers and underlings defeated them and sent them to Magat where Magat imprissoned Makisig and the chiefs of Bigan and Lawag, this gave Magat a direct control of these lands as a regent and he encouraged more Champa settlers to come, at the same time, Rajah Baginda visited Selurong and talked regarding the resettlement of Cham refugees in their lands, they believe that giving homeless or countryless people land is important because it would give them new life but also it would give their nation more people to govern.


Rajah Baguinda pointed out to Magat of Irraya that they would be known for their deeds in the future even after 600 years, Magat agreed to Rajah Baguinda and Magat of Irraya fed Rajah Baguinda the food in Selurong, this meant a start of a friendship between Magat of Irraya and Rajah Baguinda and meanwhile, Borte of Mongolia is the one who encouraged Magat to have Selurong be settled by Nestorians but a year after they settled they were driven to the mountains by pagans, Borte of Mongolia and Magat were apologetic of what happened to the Nestorians that she settled and apologized formally to the Nestorian settlers in Mahabe Pagotan where they were expelled to the Mahabe Pagotan area but there are earlier Nestorians in that region and this strengthened the Nestorians in Selurong later on, on the same time Borte of Mongolia had a dream.

After Magat quelled the rebellions, Borte of Mongolia dreamt about the Bruneians and the Europeans invading their land.
Her dream is, Nakhoda Ragam Bolkiah conquering Manila, then her vision forwards to the conquest of Selurong by Legaspi and the later revolutions that happened to the Philippines.

Borte also dreamt that there will be a united country occupying their country of Selurong the visions on her dreams made her cry while dreaming, she cried and wept inside while dreaming that when she woke up Magat saw her crying when she woke up.
Magat comforted Borte and told her that what she has seen in her dreams would never happen and their land would be forever free.

Borte: I had a dream that our country would be occupied and airbrushed from history.
Magat: This will never happen, I will never let that happen.

Magat told Borte that they should go out of their palace more and Borte should be with Magat on his own meetings with his own underlings, Magat really made Borte happy due to what he did by comforting her, Borte is also homesick she missed her parents from Mongolia and China since she has not seen them for decades, Magat and Borte visited China for a month on 1403 and talked to the Chinese emperor Yuan Shi, the father of Borte and Magat told the old man that he is a dutiful husband upon the return of Magat and Borte, there are people from Mongolia who wanted to settle a lush territory in Selurong accompanied Magat and Borte, when Magat and Borte returned their children hugged them and told them how they missed them.
 
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Countries in Selurong
-Irraya:the largest principality in Selurong
-Kumintang
-Kaboloan
-small petty principalities
 
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How do Nestorian Christians get to Southeast Asia?
They arrived earlier via China and India but it did not survive, if it did survive it syncretized due to the lack of scriptures, I am just doing in this TL to allow the survival of the Nestorians in the Philippines by allowing Nestorian refugees to settle in Luzon and give them a strong community there.
 

katchen

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Boy, you must really yearn for a Christian presence in the Philippines badly.Never mind. It's no more ASB than Mizos in Mizoram in Northeast India turning out to be the lLost Tribe of Menashe, converting to Judaism en masse and moving to Israel. And that has actually happened OTL.
 
Boy, you must really yearn for a Christian presence in the Philippines badly.Never mind. It's no more ASB than Mizos in Mizoram in Northeast India turning out to be the lLost Tribe of Menashe, converting to Judaism en masse and moving to Israel. And that has actually happened OTL.
Yeah, but the Nestorians remain a strong minority in the Mountains.

I talked to some people who have evidences of Philippines(as well as Korea) having Nestorians on the northern parts before, I am trying to have them survive ITTL because they were airbrushed in history due to Nestorianism failing in Asia, treat it as just that the Nestorians settled Luzon earlier due to difficulties in China due to people in China being intolerant of that religion before the Nestorians were officially invited to Luzon/Selurong ..
 
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The Father of Selurong

Magat and Borte had many children and one of them is the future successor of Magat whose name is Mandaya, Mandaya was very much loved by his mother, Borte which is the reason why Mandaya has a very good charisma and charm. Borte is a very good mother to the young Borte. Borte wanted to raise Mandaya as a great ruler which is what Borte and Magat wanted.
Magat and Borte were also busy of taking care of the country talking to their officers while Mandaya and his other siblings remained under the care of maids, Magat wanted to be the greatest ruler and he want to be remembered as a good father but really he is just remembered as the first non mythical ruler of Selurong.
Magat and Borte talked about the previous rebellion in the North West of the Island of Selurong and prepared the execution of the perpetraitors of the rebellion, the the two rulers from Samtoy and the ruler/lord of Kumintang, they were killed by being beheaded, after that Magat officially declared himself as the King of Selurong and for that reason he is known as the Father of Selurong and Selurong's first ruler even if he is not the one that actually united it.
For many people now they believe that his move to make him recognized as a King is a dumb ass move and due to his being the only recognized ruler of Selurong he is recognized as the first ruler of the Principality of Irraya as well even though it was not him that established it but now that belief is disproven due to artefacts and proofs of earlier rulers of Irraya existing but he is still the one credited for Selurong being known i the Outside world.
Magat never saw his son Mandaya surpassing him as a ruler in the future and only viewed him as a replacement but his mom, Borte saw Mandaya being great and due to this there are conflicts between Borte and Magat regarding Mandaya, their other children, namely Burak and Alon are very different from Mandaya, despite Magat being lax Mandaya is a very responsibe and mission oriented person and more mission oriented than Magat and wanted to put Selurong to greatness which is something that Magat had never known from the begining.
In the meanwhile Burak's only dream is to be married to a King which is encouraged by her mother Borte.
Magat gave up the land of Manila on 1404 as a commandery to the Yuan Emperor in order to calm the dispute with Majapahit, he was supported by his wife Borte due to the results of it to the relations of Selurong and the Yuan Empire.
Magat talked to Borte and told Borte that he should improve his administration on the Kingdom of Selurong since now he has declared himself as the King no longer just a Prince in Selurong, he felt strange that he now had basically united the Island of Selurong, the people of Selurong called their Island as Bahi which is known as Selurong, Mayi or Maidh to the foreigners, it was Magat, the ruler of Irraya who united the Island of Bahi/Selurong and formally subjugated the principalities in Bahi or Selurong, earlier..
The new ruler of Kumintang and the ruler of Kaboloan recognized Magat as the supreme ruler of Selurong which solidified the rule of Magat in Selurong, Magat was delighted of what happened and for him this would be the start of the unified Selurong.
On the start of 1405, the ruler of Majapahit Empire tries to sieze Manila in order to tap trade from China but failed due to it being a Chinese commandery, the defeat was insulting to the Majapahit Empire and also the sultan of Malacca faught against the Majapahit Empire which causes Majapahit to start to decline, the war caused some people of Majapahit to migrate to the island south of Java which is almost a wasteland and has hostile people as well.

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Meanwhile the people of Champa that migrated to Palawan establish the settlement of Kuta Cham in Palawan, Kuta Cham started to become the most populated area in Palawan.

 
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Two Arranged marriages
On 1406, The King of Selurong, precontracted a marriage contract between the new King of Majapahit and Burak, the daughter of Magat of Selurong, the marriage contract seemed perfect because it meant the complete cession of the claims of the Majapahit Empire to the City of Manila which was made into a Chinese commandery, Burak was promised married to the King of the Majapahit Empire, since the cession to Majapahit of the city of Manila cannot be made, the marriage is only an act of mercy of Selurong and Yuan to the Majapahit Empire to end its own problems with China and Selurong.
On the later part of 1406, Burak arrived to the Majapahit Empire and was married to Suhita, the new King of the Majapahit Empire the son of the Previous King of Majapahit, since the previous King of Majapahit abdicated from shame, the reign of Burak and Suhita on the Majapahit Empire ensured good relations between Selurong/Mayi and the Majapahit Empire but at this point Majapahit is weak and just focusing on its self.

Meanwhile on Sulu, on the same year, Rajah Baguinda wanted to have chinese recognition as well in order for them to be able to trade with China and avoid the Chinese from establishing a commandery in their region, Rajah Baguinda picked his wife Bai as the emissary to China and also he wanted a Royal marriage of his son, Ali to a Chinese Princess like his friend Magat of Selurong did, the visit to China did happen, however the request to have a Chinese Princess to marry Ali never happened initially, at this time Sulu is a strategical location for trade between East Asia and China while Selurong gave the Chinese their birds nest as a luxury item, however the Chinese responded later on and sent a Princess to marry Ali, her name is Ai, a grand daughter of the Chinese Emperor which meant the end of the Chinese non recognition of Sulu.

Magat was happy about what happened and attended the wedding of Ali to Ai, a Chinese Princess, Ai was wearing pearls on her gown and she worn Hijab on her head which meant she had already converted to islam already and also that she easily learned the Tausug language of Sulu.
 
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