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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.



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.


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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