The Silver Knight, a Lithuania Timeline
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I actually really like that song.
It's also the unofficial theme song for Super Saiyan Blue seen in Dragon Ball super.
Rebuilding the Tower of Babel, Pt. 1
Reader Submission #1
Rebuilding The Tower of Babel: Part One
Excerpt From "A Brief History of Unitarianism"
The Unitarian Language is interesting to say the least.
It's vocabulary is a messy mixture of all the various languages of the world.
Almost contradictory to that fact, it's grammar is mostly of Slavic origin (to the chagrin of non Slavic Unitarians everywhere).
Many wonder how an artificial language works at all, much less unites Unitarians all over the world in common understanding.
How did the the life's work of a single Slavonian Linguist become one of the most widely spoken tongues on earth?
Let us find out.
The birth of the Unitarian language began in 1849, in the quaint West Slavonian city of Zagreb.
It was then and there that the father of the Unitarian Language, Marijo Vuković was born into a wealthy bourgeoisie family.
Even as a child Vuković was gifted in linguistics, he of course learned Slavonian from his family, along with Hungarian in his primary school years.
In his teenage years he attended a military school in Krakau, where he personally opted to be tutored in the local language.
Vuković made it a personal goal to learn all of the languages of of his country, showing that even at a young age held the idea Visegradism to heart.
In 1869, at the age of 20 and in pursuit of the Bohemian language, he attended the University of Prag.
Vukovic during his first year of University
Vuković's time in Bohemia marked a turning point in the evolution of his political thought.
His mother and father were very Protectionist, and these ideas were imparted on their son.
Crucially though, he also became familiar with the works of Weber during this time.
He joined a Unitarian political club in 1871 and for a time was a devout convert to the ideology, working to organize the laborers of Prag.
Eventually though, he became of the opinion that although Unitarianism had many good ideas, it's overarching goal of a divsionless world government was contradictory to human nature.
As he wrote in the foreword to his book, One Language For One Nation, "Unitarianism, if ever implemented, will only rob men and nations of the predatory instinct that is the soul, dragging us all down to mediocrity".
Divorced from Unitarianism, he returned to Protectionist and Visegradist politics, this time, applying a Unitarian lens to the topics.
He reasoned that the differences in languages and distinctions between nationalities, far more than class was what divided the people of Visegrad.
In his view, language barriers and federalism prevented Visegrad from assuming it's 'rightful role' as the undisputed hegemon of Europe.
The idea of a Europe united by Visegrad was very common idea in Visegradian Ultranationalist circles at the time.
More concerning, he also stated many times in his later years that it was unrepresented nations such as Slovaks and Romanians that were keeping Visegrad from greatness.
Yes, as shocking as it may sound, the father of the Unitarian Language, employed by Revolutionary Unitarians all over the world, was in fact an ideological forebear to Purple Unitarianism.
It dawned on Vuković that few people were as well suited to smash through Visegrad's language barriers as him.
Fluent in the languages of all the nations he could easily combine them into a language that would suit all.
In over two years of arduous writing, that is what he started to do.
The first volume of One Language For One Nation, was printed in 1876.
It contained fully realized grammar rules for his new language, simply called Visegradian.
Visegradian was designed to be as simplistic and easy to learn as possible, notable among languages for having absolutely no exceptions to it's grammatical rules.
Unfortunately, most of Vuković's time was spent creating grammar for Visgradian, thus One Language For One Nation had only 500 words for a vocabulary.
His intention was to flesh out the vocabulary with later additions of One Language For One Nation but his dream would unfortunately never come to pass.
Vuković died suddenly of appendicitis only five months after volume one of his book was published.
The popularity of his work however, would outlive Vuković by a great deal.
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Vukovic really was realistic enough that individuality is what drives people to push themselves into WHO they want to become in life.
Go Forth and Seek Glory
Reader Submission #2
Go Forth and Seek Glory
Excerpts from A History of the City of Birmingham – Declan Tatcher
Birmingham has its birth in the early days of the Norman Conquest, and was started by the Anglo-Norman dynasty of the "de Birmingham"s. They patronised the early settlements and saw it rise to a respectable number of around 2,000 by 1550. It would see explosive growth over time as we will discuss. Today Birmingham is the second largest city in England, and is only edged out of being the second biggest in Britannia by Dublin. Similarly to Dublin, which began as a pale for early English attempts to dominate the local Irish, Birmingham's origins are as a small settlement to help keep track of some of the furthest reaching Welsh raiders and as a former homeland of a minor tribe of the Anglo-Saxons. Thus it seems fitting in the course of English history of the theoretical underdogs proving themselves, with Wessex and the Danes and the English and the French and now Birmingham triumphing in terms of size over all its potential rivals to become such a large and great city. And this story starts with the end of the historic kingdom of Scotland, typically referred to as the Duchy of Caledon in modern parlance.
Following the “Celtic Campaigns” that saw the last of the Celtic peoples crushed in the isles, Birmingham became an asylum for them in the heart of England. Many moved to it due to the collapse in power of the local guilds and the lord family “de Birmingham”. These local residents would assimilate quickly but they would guarantee that the city came to rival both Dublin and London in terms of size, for a time Birmingham suffered under a dearth of royal funding due to being a hotbed of Reformist ideas in England but this would eventually peter out with time. More immigrants would come to Birmingham in the form of ultra-Catholic Bretons fleeing the chaos and attitudes of France in this time. The last group to be added to the Birmingham pot that were not of English extraction were the small number of Hausa people brought over by the Imperial Navy during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The English brand of Catholic puritanism saw them reject chattel slavery and seek to convert them to the true faith by freeing them of both their earthly and spiritual shackles. With most abandoning their traditional faiths and instead adopting Catholicism, they make up approximately 10% of Birmingham’s population. This was part of Charles the Only’s megalomaniac ideas of world domination by the British Puritanical faith with his well-known crazed speech of “Obey me subjects, Obey me world!”
Aside from internal and mild external immigration, Birmingham’s main growth came from the fact that it was the centre point of two canals being dug up. This was most interesting considering the mostly agrarian nature of Britannia meant that most of the pseudo-industrial workers would come to it as the sole arsenal of semi-modernity within the Empire. This saw the population soar to new heights and would help cement Birmingham and protect it from a clampdown from the Monarchy. Seeing the advantages to concentrating the impurity of technology and potential dissidents in one place Birmingham flourished as the capital of “Liberal Britain”. During the Great European War, Birmingham would become the “Factory of Righteousness” in the building of the new arms to supply the outdated army. This would further see it plaster itself as the face of the progress that needed to be made, but as with all things in Britannia it took an exceptional turn.
The Royal Council of Britannia decided that to prove the purity of their ideals and the superiority of Puritan doctrines over the Flammantian heresy that they would begin to expand the industrial attitudes of Birmingham to much of unified Merica. This “Catholic Industrialisation” would also be expanded to naval efforts with the Emerald Isle seeing Dublin and the more minor Belfast become the major naval hubs of the “new” Imperial Navy that sought to be able to contest themselves against the hated French. The Mayor of Birmingham, Harold Kernan, hated the French so much that when the Monarchy decided that mere technological parity was fine for Britannia, Kernan protested and demanded a continuation of this “Puritan Revolution” to see Britannia as above all others and to continue experimentation in line with the Puritan teachings until “every stain of their infected, corroding fingers will be sponged, purged and if need be blasted from the face of the earth”. Despite this action, his protests and pleas fell upon deaf ears and the Royal Council removed him from his mayoral position, Birmingham would go on but the Catholic and Puritan Industrialisation would stop.
(OOC : Hopefully this isn’t too overreaching, I though a city would be a fun way to express British flavour and stuff. The idea with the Industrialisation is that Britannia does a Tsarist Russia and reforms itself militarily and internally but nowhere near enough to actually be equal and thus they remain a weak power compared to the others despite their reforms.)
Go Forth and Seek Glory
Excerpts from A History of the City of Birmingham – Declan Tatcher
Birmingham has its birth in the early days of the Norman Conquest, and was started by the Anglo-Norman dynasty of the "de Birmingham"s. They patronised the early settlements and saw it rise to a respectable number of around 2,000 by 1550. It would see explosive growth over time as we will discuss. Today Birmingham is the second largest city in England, and is only edged out of being the second biggest in Britannia by Dublin. Similarly to Dublin, which began as a pale for early English attempts to dominate the local Irish, Birmingham's origins are as a small settlement to help keep track of some of the furthest reaching Welsh raiders and as a former homeland of a minor tribe of the Anglo-Saxons. Thus it seems fitting in the course of English history of the theoretical underdogs proving themselves, with Wessex and the Danes and the English and the French and now Birmingham triumphing in terms of size over all its potential rivals to become such a large and great city. And this story starts with the end of the historic kingdom of Scotland, typically referred to as the Duchy of Caledon in modern parlance.
Following the “Celtic Campaigns” that saw the last of the Celtic peoples crushed in the isles, Birmingham became an asylum for them in the heart of England. Many moved to it due to the collapse in power of the local guilds and the lord family “de Birmingham”. These local residents would assimilate quickly but they would guarantee that the city came to rival both Dublin and London in terms of size, for a time Birmingham suffered under a dearth of royal funding due to being a hotbed of Reformist ideas in England but this would eventually peter out with time. More immigrants would come to Birmingham in the form of ultra-Catholic Bretons fleeing the chaos and attitudes of France in this time. The last group to be added to the Birmingham pot that were not of English extraction were the small number of Hausa people brought over by the Imperial Navy during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The English brand of Catholic puritanism saw them reject chattel slavery and seek to convert them to the true faith by freeing them of both their earthly and spiritual shackles. With most abandoning their traditional faiths and instead adopting Catholicism, they make up approximately 10% of Birmingham’s population. This was part of Charles the Only’s megalomaniac ideas of world domination by the British Puritanical faith with his well-known crazed speech of “Obey me subjects, Obey me world!”
Aside from internal and mild external immigration, Birmingham’s main growth came from the fact that it was the centre point of two canals being dug up. This was most interesting considering the mostly agrarian nature of Britannia meant that most of the pseudo-industrial workers would come to it as the sole arsenal of semi-modernity within the Empire. This saw the population soar to new heights and would help cement Birmingham and protect it from a clampdown from the Monarchy. Seeing the advantages to concentrating the impurity of technology and potential dissidents in one place Birmingham flourished as the capital of “Liberal Britain”. During the Great European War, Birmingham would become the “Factory of Righteousness” in the building of the new arms to supply the outdated army. This would further see it plaster itself as the face of the progress that needed to be made, but as with all things in Britannia it took an exceptional turn.
The Royal Council of Britannia decided that to prove the purity of their ideals and the superiority of Puritan doctrines over the Flammantian heresy that they would begin to expand the industrial attitudes of Birmingham to much of unified Merica. This “Catholic Industrialisation” would also be expanded to naval efforts with the Emerald Isle seeing Dublin and the more minor Belfast become the major naval hubs of the “new” Imperial Navy that sought to be able to contest themselves against the hated French. The Mayor of Birmingham, Harold Kernan, hated the French so much that when the Monarchy decided that mere technological parity was fine for Britannia, Kernan protested and demanded a continuation of this “Puritan Revolution” to see Britannia as above all others and to continue experimentation in line with the Puritan teachings until “every stain of their infected, corroding fingers will be sponged, purged and if need be blasted from the face of the earth”. Despite this action, his protests and pleas fell upon deaf ears and the Royal Council removed him from his mayoral position, Birmingham would go on but the Catholic and Puritan Industrialisation would stop.
(OOC : Hopefully this isn’t too overreaching, I though a city would be a fun way to express British flavour and stuff. The idea with the Industrialisation is that Britannia does a Tsarist Russia and reforms itself militarily and internally but nowhere near enough to actually be equal and thus they remain a weak power compared to the others despite their reforms.)
You should inform me through a convo on any submissions want to make. I'll approve this one, but you should keep that in mind for the future.
Chapter 76: To Cope
Part 76: To Cope (1918-1920)
This "Vitkauskas Deal" proved to be just as unpopular as the results of the contentions 1917 election - both parties dropped their ideological standing in favor of working together! Normally, this wouldn't be much of a problem, but many of the voters for the UC and for the Centre made their choice solely to not let the other party win. In addition, Vitkauskas himself was unexperienced and wasn't even aware of this conspiracy until the last moment. Still, now that there was no large bloc of representatives blocking all of the Democrat's plans, the day-to-day work of the government could flow more smoothly, and for the first time in many years, the situation in the Lithuanian nation started to get a little better.
Artūras Vitkauskas, Democrat of the Republic of Lithuania
Augustinas Stankevičius, pianist and leader of the Revival Front (1918- )
Whatever may be the case, Sanjay Nijasure became the sole chairman of the Indian Unitarians, and he immediately made moves to organize and empower the state to fulfill the Nijasurist ideal. Urdu was declared as the sole state language and state atheism was enforced, all industry ended up nationalized and under central government control, all resistance, whether political or nationalist, was swiftly oppressed with an expanded law enforcement organ and a secret police, while the government took meals to eradicate the Indian caste system and integrate the lower castes and the "casteless" into the greater society. Chastised from the rest of the world due to it's radical ideology, India turned towards it's fellow Unitarian nation, Turkey, and the two nations entered a tightly knit, albeit somewhat wary alliance. If states like Persia or Iran weren't frightened before, well...
Sanjay Nijasure, Chairman of the Indian Unitarians
The Jiaqing Emperor's reign marked changes in Chinese domestic politics, albeit very small. Previous Emperors dabbled a bit in modernization and new technology, but all their changes "came from above", while social or political changes, like democratization, were completely shunned - however, the young, energetic Emperor hoped to transform his nation not just from his own decrees, but also from the initiative of the people. While China stayed as an absolute monarchy, for now, an Imperial decree in 1920 gave the green light to the formation of "citizen authorities" - somewhat democratic self-governance in most major regions and cities, where appointed officials would have to work in tandem with representatives elected by the inhabitants of the province, or city. Even if this was only a miniscule step towards democracy, it caused a large uproar across the bureaucracy - how could the power of officials appointed by the Mandate of Heaven be shared with commoners! - and was yet an important step towards reforming the nation along Western lines.
An another nation which went through an important political change was Spain. Ever since the failed reforms of the 19th century, Spain was governed as a reactionary military dictatorship - however, this structure was definitely not going to last. The first nail in the coffin of the dictatorship was the Great European War - the Spaniards first enthusiastically supported the conflict, but their excitement faded as soon as reports from the front about mass deaths in failed offensives, as well as incompetent political and military leadership arrived. The results of the peace conference in Paris also came off as a disappointment - sure, Spain acquired some border territories and increased it's colonial empire, but to the thousands of crippled war veterans, widows and impoverished citizens, it all came off as a complete waste of life. The people were furious.
1919 was a year of great turmoil in Spain. Catalan and Basque nationalists were the first to take their matters to the streets, followed by worker unions and underground political movements. Riots and shootouts between armed citizens and the police took place across the whole country, to the point where this "Spanish Spring" presented a deadly threat to the military government. The dictatorship made the (supposedly) smart choice and approached Germania and Visegrad for their support in handling this mess, or at least their opinion. Germania and Visegrad, who were unsurprising scared of a revolution on the European continent, declared that they wish to see the Spaniards negotiate and not resort to violence - and with the situation in the streets deteriorating in a matter of days, the Spanish government had no choice but to fold. Manuel Garcia Terrero, the dictator of the Spanish State, resigned from his position and his successors signed a constitution proposal put forward by the Popular Front, an organization of worker unions and underground parties not too dissimilar from the Council of National Restoration in Lithuania, and thus declared the foundation of the democratic Federal Republic of Spaniards, Basques and Catalans. Yet another reactionary regime crumbled in the face of the zeitgeist of the new age.
And Britannia suddenly found itself even more lonely...
"Long Live the Federation! May it last a thousand years!"
Sebastian Carranzo, 1920
Look who we have here.
Shun China is China ruled by the Shun Dynasty, which was established in the 17th century. Recent events there have been described in the current chapter.
So, what happened to the Manchus ITTL? I know the Shun conquered them ITTL but how did the conquest of Manchuria go ITTL?
Nothing too extraordinary, I'd say - I didn't really put much thought into it. Most of the were taken over in the 17th century, though a number of the northern ones remained independent until the 18th.
A weird syncretic amalgamation of Western influences and local traditions. The country is an absolute monarchy under a Nahua dynasty which claims descension from the Altamiranos. They follow their old pagan faith, but it's pretty much unrecognizable from OTL Aztec religion - the human sacrifice part of the tradition has been abandoned, and Christian figures like Jesus and Archangel Michael are now a part of the pantheon as minor gods.
The country is mostly agricultural, but it's main export is raw metals, minerals, gold and, since recently, oil.
Aah, so Shun China has stepped up to the plate of GLORIOUS ASIAN MONARCHICAL SUPERPOWER where Mughal India has fallen.
If it doesn't end in a restoration then it's just a dystopia anyway.For sure, but don't write Unitarian India off just yet.
Monarchism everywhere!