Yggdrasil's Nine Sons - Europe divided between the norse religion and christianity

Yggdrasil's Nine Sons
Yggdrasil's Nine Sons is a 19th century TL concentrated on Europe, but regarding the entire world, in which: -the norse religion survives, reforms itself into a centralized religion (which later faces a schism and a re-reformation), -the non-existence of islam, -a giant Estonian empire which colonizes Siberia, -the survival, expansion, burocratic reformation and constitution of an empire of the Oirats, -a divided and germanized france, -the union of Portugal and Castille and later conquest of Aragon which resulted in an Iberian Empire called Visigotia (yup, I went there), -the sedentarization of the magyars in the area of the OTL Crimean Khaganate, -the creation of an early catholic romanian kingdom in Pannonia which later manages to conquer wallachia and moldavia and create an empire in the balkans.
Oh yes, these following things will also be present: Korean Empire, Japanese civil war won by the shogunate, division of Japan, Ainu republic, giant germanic empire, Scandinavia, celtic union, nazi argentina, thai australia, Federal Union of Oceania, nordic-celtic Canada, Persian Sassanid Empire, Zoroastrianism, Arabic Polytheism, Buddhist India, Hindu/Christian Oceania, Democratic China. So, here we go...
Chapter 1 - Europe, two decades after the Cogress of Thanica
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After the Thanic Wars and the fall of Thanis Darhan, with the battle of Bibrakt in Central Gaul, the victors now faced a europe whose face was changed forever by Thanis, with the introduction of the Thanic Code, or the Civil code, the dissolution of much of the Antik Regim, the ancient feudal system that dominated much of the Absolute monarchies of western europe up to that point, and a national awakening in Gaul and Germany, both of which were occupied by what they saw as the ''Visigothic Opressors''. As such, the great powers of Europe decided to meet in the Capital of the Thanic Empire, as a final mockery to the Emperor of the Visigoths, and restore the aristocratic order that was trampled upon by the Republicans. Such a task was hard, because of the individual objectives each powers had that on more then one ocassion entered in direct conflict.
Ostland, having had to burn Sammalin, the second most important ostish city in Europe, conduct a scorch, run, hit and run again campaign durring much of the Thanic Campaign in Ostland, and having had to allow a Belarussian Duchy on its border, a giant humiliation for the self-proclaimed driver of slavs out of europe, desired not only heavy reparations from Visigotia, they also wanted the division of Visigotia into smaller kingdoms, so that it may never again rise back to the status it once possessed. Ostland also felt itself betrayed by Romania, which seemed to manipulate everything from the shadows, a feeling reinforced by the fact that Romania lost the least during the coalition wars and by the altruistic nature of Romania regarding Visigotia during the congress. This in turn lead to the myth of the 'Romanian Backstabber', the idea that Romania was a compulsory backstabbing nation that only looked out for itself, and that will do anything to undermine other great powers in europe. This idea would exist in Ostland to this day, giving birth to many stereotypes and racist behaviour, aswell as the idea of the communist ''Ostish Way'', the idea that ostish people are hard-working, honest and relatively simple, as oppossed to the ''Romanian Way'' which states that the capitalistic romanians that are lazy flamboyant liars.
Romania, the only power with which Visigotia was constantly at war during the reign of Thanis and the Republican period following the Visigothic Revolution of 1792, Romania was also the least harmed, due to its Alpino-Carphatic Fortress system built during and after the Great Deluge against Scandinavia and Gaul. In fact, most of the combat seen between these two empires happened on land in Italy and during the short-lived Visigothic Campaign in Egypt, and by sea, around the Mediterranean. The battle of Sardegna was the deciding battle in the Mediterranean theatre, due to the destruction of 76% of the Visigothic fleet asigned to Europe. Albeit Romania had to rebuild 42% of its entire fleet, the fact that Romania no longer had to protect its colonial waters back in North America due to the American Revolution backed by the Visigots in the long term came back to bite the Thanic Empire, which now faced a bigger and less stretched Romanian Fleet. After Sardegna Visigotia lost almost all controll over the Mediterranean, which from now on would be referred to as a Romanian Lake, up until WW2. The fact that the Visigotic Foreign Minister Tuinstra was a good friend of Emperor Andrei also helped the Romanian-Visigothic relationship, Romania vetoing in the first two weeks any proposal regarding Visigotia untill Visigotia would be declared an European Great Power and invited at the negotiation table. This behaviour of Romania would be one of the main reasons for the creation of the Concert of Europe.
Scandinavia was, observing now the entire 19th century and the events that were to happen, the biggest loser in the Thanic Wars. The Emperor of all Norse, protector of germanic people everywhere, has seen Germany and Gaul trampled upon by Visigothic armies, Prussia and Denmark occupied by foreigners, norse sagas burned down and traditional hierarchies and values left behind in favour of Thanic Codes, Republican ideas and values such as Equality and secularism. In the aftermath of the Thanic Wars Scandinavia has seen its southern rival Saxony expand its influence in most of Germany, and declared an official Great Power. In the following decades the same weakened Scandinavia would see itself excluded from the Germanic Question when Saxony will manage to unite all of Gaul and Germany in a southern-germanic empire, and then reduced to a junior partner in a Germanic Alliance. Scandinavia however, for the time being, tried to graple to whatever prestige and virtual power they still posessed and created a Germanic Confederation in a last bid to maintain Scandinavian Hegemony in Germany. Having lost Finland to Ostland, Scandinavia was also quite hostile to Ostish proposal, and preferred to align themselves with Romania, opting for reparations from Visigotia instead of its division.
Saxony following the Thanic Wars, a period in which it has seen itself reduced to either a meaningless kingdom opposing Visigotia or an ally kingdom of the great enemy of Europe, Thanis. Albeit humiliated and utterly destroyed on the battlefield, Saxony during the congress tried to consolidate what would be the continuation of its march towards Germanic Unity, consolidating its aquisition of Scandinavian Pommerania 50 years ago, and pushing for a more consolidated germany in the form of a few strong absolute monarchies as oppossed to a sea of bishopics, princes, free cities, etc... Saxony also, some may say in a
Geierian (Future first chancellor of Germania), pushed for a Germanic Confederation, hoping to further undermine from within Scandinavia and at the same time push its own agenda. This would prove perfect for Geier, who will use the institutions of the Confederation to create a Federation of Germany first and then the Germanic Empire. Saxony opted for the division of Visigotia, proof of the Germanic-Visigothic antagonism that will cause much turmoil on the continent.
Visigotia came out relatively well, having only to pay reparations to the entire continent. However the Thanic Wars mark the end of the Romanian-Visigothic rivalry, proof of the decadence of Visigotia as a World Power. Albeit it will manage to bounce back to the great power status, the Visigothic Revolution and the Wars were the apex of Visigothic power, requiring lots of manpower and resources, which in the wake of its failure to conquer europe would prove to have been a giant mistake that would doom Visigotia's military might. The congress was also an insult to all the effort of its people and Thanis himself, since it aimed at restoring Absolutism in Europe and maintain the antik regim. In retrospect, Visigotia and Thanis managed to overcome the Congress, since the Republican seeds planted by the Thanic conquests would grow beyond congress capacity to contain it, resulting in an europe of laws and secularism and republics.

The Congress begun on the 18th of August, 1815, and after two months, released the following treaty:

The Treaty of Thanica
Desiring a lasting peace on the European continent, and between the european nations,
Aiming at a traditional, pre-thanic, anti-republican Europe that rejects Thanic laws and values, aswell as all stipulated laws and customs introduced by means of aggression in occupied countries,
Recognizing the duty of Europe to restore old kingdoms and eradicate the so called ''sister republics'' and all thanic vassals whose titles are illegitimate and meaningless,
Observing capacities such as military might, manpower, population, territory, prestige, economical capacity aswell as economical output and the ability to project outwards one's own military to further collective interests, a great power is then recognized as possessing said status,

The Empire of Romania, the Empire of Ostland, the Kingdom of Visigotia, the Kingdom of Saxony, the Empire of Scandinavia, the kingdom of Netherlands, the kingdom of Italy, the kingdom of Yorkland, the kingdom of Cymria, the kingdom of Poland, the kingdom of Gaul, the kingdom of Britonnia, the kingdom of Gaul, the kingdom of Austrasia, the kingdom of Westphalia, the kingdom of
Braunschweig-Holstein, the Kingdom of Franconia, the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Grand-duchy of Livonia, the Grand-duchy of Finland, the Kingdom of Egypt, The Kingdom of Armenia, The Grand-duchy of Caucasia, The Sassanid Empire (Special Entry, as per the 36th resolution and all resolutions regarding great power status)


have agreed as follows

1) Visigotia will maintain it's territorial integrity before the Visigothic Revolution, forever relinquishing any claims to conquered and occupied territories during the Thanic Wars, and ending its occupations in areas that are still occupied.
2) The Darhanic Dinasty is declared illegitimate, its occupation of the Visigothic ''Imperial Throne'' declared null and void of any real meaning and prestige.
3) TheKarler Dinasty is restored to the throne of Visigotia, and a Karler will from now on occupy the throne of the newly formed Italian Kingdom.
4) Visigotia will pay reparations to the countries that signed this treaty. The sum of money will be discussed individually, and must not result in the bankrupcy of Visigotia. The entire sum must not be more then 150% of the entire monetary wealth of Visigotia present in its treasury. The individual sum of money paid to a nation must not be above 10% of the entire monetary wealth of Visigotia present in its treasury.
5) Visigotia reliquishes all claims on Italy, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.
6)Visigotia is recognized as a Great Power.
7) Italy will, during a 20 years period, accept and procure means of survival for italians relocated to italy from the Exarchate of Ravenna, the Savoyard March and the Exarchate of Lombardy-Venice in Romania. The Exarchate of Ravenna, the Exarchate of Lombardy-Venice and the Savoyard March are and will always be Romanian territories, and italy hereby relinquishes all its claims to previously mentioned territories.
8) Italy will be hereby guaranteed by Romania, its security becoming a Romanian issue. Italy is declared as being under Romanian protection and under the Romanian Sphere of influence. All acts of aggression against Italy are an offense to Romania.
9) The ex-Holy Roman Empire and its territories are now defunct. In its place, the Germanic Confederation, headed by a president, Scandinavia, will consist of the newly formed kingdoms of Germany, aswell as Gaul, Austrasia, Britonnia and Saxony.
10) The Confederation of Germania will be headed by a president country, which will be elected in the city of Westphalia at the death of the monarch of the president country. The votes of each country are equal, and the country with most votes becomes president. The president must maintain order and peace, and further germanic goals.
11) The Confederation of Germania as a whole will uphold traditional values, and oppose republicanism in all of its forms.
12) Saxony's possession of Pommerania is formally recognized.
13) Saxony is recognized as a Great Power.
Scandinavia relinquishes all claims on Finland, Pommerania and on any colonies in germany.
14) Scandinavia is recognized as a Great Power.
15) In place of the many principalities of the HRE, the following 4 kingdoms were created: Westphalia, Franconia, Bavaria, Braunschweig-Holstein.
16) Belarus is a grand-duchy under Ostish ownership.
17) Finland is a grand-duchy in a personal union with Ostland.
18) Ostland will be payed 15% of the entire national wealth of Spain.
19) Ostland recognizes Visigotia as a state, and will respect its national and territorial integrity.
20) Ostland is recognized as a Great Power.
21) Saxony will accept during the following 20 years relocated people of germanic background from Romania.
22) Poland will accept during the following 20 years relocated people of poles from Romania.
23) Poland recognizes the Romanian historical and cultural ownership, aswell as de facto ownership of Cracovia, Silesia, Carpatia, Podolia, Suburbia (Krakow, Silesia, Lower Silesia, Subcarpathian Voievodship, Lesser Poland, Podolia).
24) Visigotia will accept during the following 20 years relocated people from Romania, and will also be payed 20% of the entire national wealth of Spain.
25) Netherlands recognizes the romanian ownership of South Africa by Romania and relinquishes all claims on said colony.
26) Romania recognizes the established borders between Italy and Romania.
27) Romania will be payed 5% of the entire national wealth of Spain.
28) Romania will have access to the Gibrlatar strait.
29) Romania is recognized as a Great Power.
30) All Great Powers hereby declare to maintain a traditional, pre-thanic order in europe, and to repel any and all republican waves on the continent.
31) All Great Powers have a duty to maintain order and peace in Europe, and to try to resolve conflicts and crisis by means other than war.
32) All Great Powers recognize that war is to be a last resort, if any other solutions fail.
33) All Great Powers will respect eachother and their sphere of influence.
34) All Great Powers are equal, and will be treated as such.
35) All Great Powers are European, or of European cultural and historical background.
36) Due to its special ties and long history with Europe and its continuous interactions with it, aswell as due to its military, its manpower, its status and territory, the Sassanid Empire is hereby Recognized as a Great Power.
 
Chapter 1, Part II - Two Decades of Unrest
While Thanis and his Revolutionary Empire were transformed into history, left behind by the Coalitions that formed against the man that almost had it all, Europe was still marked by the Visigoth and the ideas he brought.
In Gaul, the land most torn by the last war, a pan-germanic fervour unmatched by any other nationalistic movement was taking place, pushed by the intellectuals and artists of that time, by means of art or poetry. Having enjoyed more then a decade of civil liberties, private property and (almost)free speech, the gaulish nations returned under a rigid absolute monarchy would have none of that, and so, unlike in Visigotia, Gaulish republicans stormed the country, trying to take power by force. The first of such movements happened in 1823, sparkling a continental quasi-revolutions that would scorch over Europe for almost 2 years. Gaul was the first, where the Skald faction, named after the mythical poets of medieval Scandinavia, having worked underground and prepared for almost 5 years, begun their rebellion in Nevr, in Center East Gaul, from which it engulfed half of Gaul. At the climax of the revolution, the Skalds were besieging the Gaulish Capital, threatening to cut the King's head if he would not give in to popular demand and step down and let a Republic be born. This only happened because Romania was busy in Greece and refused any request by both Ostland and Scandinavia to send troops, since they were the closest. Instead Romania elected to ignore the so-called other powers and leave it's trusted ally, Saxony to deal with the Gaulish Rebellion. Saxon troops swiftly crushed the irregular armies of the Skalds and fred Neuv Alessia from the republicans. Alas, the Saxons increased their own influence over Gaul, a thing that would prove dangerous in the future.
The Germans themselves created their own Skalds, with varying degrees of success. The biggest success was in Westphalia, were the Saxon army was beaten twice, before Romania and Scandinavia each sent troops to put the rebellion to the ground once and for all.
Romania, Visigotia, Ostland and Italy were the only ones not hit by the wave of 1823. Romania due to its constitutional monarchy, which in itself would be illegal according to the Congress treaty. No one batted an eye when a Scandinavian diplomat pointed out that Romania was itself breaking the treaty it was proposing, and the diplomat was afterwards quitely dismissed without anyone speaking about it from that moment onwards. In truth, everyone knew Romania was itself a irregularity according to the treaty, but all great powers went along with it since it was obvious that the Romanians had no desire to push their system down the throats of other countries, but on the contrary, it was pushing for an absolute monarchical system, present in most of the other powers. This cynical way of doing politics allowed Romania to stay out of the republican revolutions, leave other powers to enforce the treaty, and get some nice agreements to deport minorities out of the Empire.
Visigotia, while having some unrest, albeit civil and not aggressive like in Gaul, never had to preoccupy itself with such matters, and the civil disobedience sponsorised via shadow trade guilds and intellectual circles by Romania peacefully hijacked the government from the hands of the king with a popular referendum that had to vote between keeping the absolute monarchy and having a constitutional one. 74% voted to have a constitution to limit the powers of the king, and on the 5th of February 1824 Visigotia became a constitutional monarchy based on that of Romania. Soon after a historical alliance between the two countries to maintain peace and commerce in the mediterranean would be signed, proving to be the beginning of an alliance between the two countries that would span more than one century.
Ostland experienced minor skirmishes in old Estonia (OTL estonia), proving the backwardness of most of the country.
Scandinavia's 1823-1825 period is known as the First Factions War, because of the anarchical state of the country starting with December of 1823, when the High Priest of Akerhaus was shot dead by a member of the underworld party
Heimdallers. This in turned caused the heavily religious society of Scandinavia, and Sweden in particular, to call for a public 'witch hunt' of these ''extremists''. The youth in particular identified with the Heimdallers for their revolutionary ideas and hostility to the traditional way of behaviour that was being pushed on the young Scandinavians. As such, in march of 1824, the official beginning date of the Factions War, first in Coppenhaggen and then in the other cities of Scandinavia, guerilla warfare broke loose on the streets between young hooligans and the police. The two factions, the Heimdallers and the Conservatives, fought first in the cities and then in the hills, on the roads, and on the seas for Scandinavia's future, and, while the 'war' ended at the end of 1824, political assassinations and terrorist attacks continued well into 1825.
The Celtic Islands (British Isles OTL) and Italy, aswell as Netherlands only had to deal with terrorist attacks and strikes, due to the rise of secret societies in said countries. In Cymria the Round Table was very popular with the Intellectuals, aswell as with Wales proper, culminating in the Defenestration of June, in which Count Llunt, then the freshly chosen head minister of the King's Cabinet, was pushed through a window by a servant in the king's palace, killing the count and causing panic throughout Cymria, aswell as a decade of books dealing with political intrigue. Italy had its own Albertini, named after Alberto Carlini, a genoese boy that threw a stone at the carriage of the Marquis of Genoa and was then arrested, trialed and killed. The Albertini however were infiltrated by the Italian Government and subsequently arrested. Netherlands saw the rise of the Fredom Party, which would later become the Liberal Democratic Party.
 
You have a wonderful preface, but the story's formatting (line spacing, typeface, etc.) could use some work to make it more readable.

Looking forward to this.
 
Chapter 1, Part III - Romania's minorities

While Romania never really experienced any nationalistic or republican uprising, the rising importance of the so called ''Greek Question'' was a red flag for the United Empire of Romania, which could in the future become neither united, nor an empire. It was clear to the Mioreni Palace, the HQ of the Foreign Minister and all diplomats in Romania, that the greek should, no, will follow the same fate as the italians and the armenians. The only problem was where to deport them?

The Italian minority in Romania, which before the Thanic Wars compromised the majority in most of Romanian Italy, were deported en-masse to Italy, a state created in 1814 after the liberation of Italy from Thanis. Italy itself was called an artificial state by many, even more artificial than that Thanis created in 1806. The critique came due to the fact that Italy for 2 years had no military, no navy, no police force, no real government. It was Romania protecting and governing in Italy in the name of the Italian State. In truth, Italy was a pet project of Romania, created only to have a place to dump it's italian minority that compromised almost 20% of it's entire population. The deportations were slow, and horrific in some areas where the peasants were opposed to this new policy. It is believed that between 1815 and 1835 as much as 5% of the entire Italian Romanian Population was killed. Taking in consideration the fact that there were around 9 mil. people in Italy at the time, it is believed that around 450.000 italians died in the process. By 1835, when the deportation agreement were due to end, the Italian State, now a stable constitutional monarchy and ally of the Romanian Empire, had around 20 mil. people concentrated within its borders. On the other hand the Exarchate of Ravenna, the Grand-duchy of Tuscany, the March of Savoy and the Principalities of Lombardy and Venice (both of which were in a personal union under a d'Este Prince), all had only 6.4 mil. subjects, 87% of which were Romanians, and 11% of which were Italians.

The Armenian minority was much easier to manage, in part due to its smaller population. Armenian subjects of Romania in 1815 were barely the majority in Cesaria, Pontus Meridional and in Danaia, and were a significant minority in Pontus Minor and in Arsaca. While the Turks were by now an insignificant minority that was neutralized by recognizing their right to practice their own faith and by preserving the title of Caliph, given to an Osman, and turned into a usefull puppet of the government that was used to calm the turks in times of unrest, the armenians remained an important factor in the easternmost regions of the Empire. As such, in 1815 Romania decided to include in the treaty an agreement signed by the Romanian and the Armenian dignitaries at the Congress that would allow Romania to slowly and silently deport the remnants of the Armenian population stuck in Romania back to their rightful country. The deportation was treated more like an immigration by the armenians, that were for centuries living in a segregated manner, unnable or unwilling to trade or interact with the romanian colonists. As such, they were in very poor conditions, and when promised new lands and homes, most of them happily agreed to be transported by the Romanian caravans to Armenia. Some of course opposed this operation, and in 1822, a developing rebellion was put down by romanian gendarmes before it could transform into a full-fledged rebellion. In 1835, Armenians were less then 2% of the Romanian European Population. The Anatolian population was of 1.4 millions, 90% of which were Romanians.

At the Congress, the Mioreni delegation decided to use their newly acquired ally as their solution to the disturbing ''greek question''. Visigotia, as a sign of gratitude towards the Romanians that not only assured their national integrity, but made it so that they would also be conserved as a Great Power, would in turn have to accept over a 20-year period greek people 'exported' from Romania.
Count Tuinstra, the chief of the Visigothic delegation, grudgingly accepted the proposal after intense talking between him and Emperor Andrei.
In 1815, the regions of Peloponez-Creta, Grecia Centrala Macedonia Occidentala and Cyprus all had a greek majority, while Greater Epirus, Macedonia Orientala and Greater Ionia all had significant greek minorities. Special Docks, called Voyage Ports were built ad hoc in Athens, Smirna, Napliu, Corint, Rodos, Cyprus, Volos, Tesalonica, Cavala, Constantinopolis and Atalia. It is estimated that around 45% of the Greek population in Romania willingly left Romania, thinking nad believing that they are going to a better place, a place full of opportunity. That was in part due to the so called ''Greek Opportunity Project'', a propaganda project, and one of the best organized propagandas in modern history. The G.O.P. was created in order to romanticize and fantasize the deportation of the Greeks, with posters with mottos such as ''Destiny awaits, Opportunity knocks at your door. What will you do?''. The following poster had a bourgeois greek family waving the flag of the Central Greek region, as the father, the head of the family, points at you. Posters, announcements inside the church, public festivals when the caravans came in major cities and in the cities where the docks were set up were all put in place to convince the greek population that this is what they wanted. The cost was gigantic, and it is estimated that 4% of the Entire GDP of the Empire was used during those 20 years for the GOP, twice as much as the conbined costs of the Italian and Armenian deportation operations. 55% of the greeks are estimated to have remained in Greece and on the coasts of Anatolia. Cyprus, Crete and other important islands such as Rhodos were all purged by General Costin Batec, a now infamous personality in Romanian and Greek history. General Batec, a man renown for his cruelty in the military, was purposefully put in command of the local operation in Cyprus to deal with the greeks, and while the original plan was to scare them into accepting to be deported, Batec considered the greeks unworthy of such an extravagant choice, declaring that the romanian government was giving the greeks more then they ever deserved, and the greeks still refused. As such, the general deviated from the original orders and ''drove them into the sea'', literally. Most men on the island were killed after they forcefully opposed Batec, and were then given to the ships waiting in the docks and suggested by the general to throw them somewhere in the middle of the sea. The captain of the ship refused to do such a thing, chosing to contact the HQ in Ragusa and ask for new orders. The HQ expected Batec to brutalize the greeks, and ordered the capital to do exactly what he was suggested. In the meantime, the women and children were slowly driven onto the shores and then shot at until they were far away from shore. The troops were told to wait till the sunset, at which point they would have to shoot anyone that was seemingly still alive. After the Cyprus Massacre, the ship that was destined to get to Cartahena with a handful of greeks was then ordered to get the general and his troops to Rhodos, then to Crete, then to Lesbos, etc.. In total, 12 such massacres happened between 13 August and 18 October of 1832. 13 August is now the Remembrance Day of the Greek Massacres in Romania. In total, 12% of the entire Greek population was murdered by Batec. The population of the isles was subsequently replaced with Romanian colonists of Slavic descent from Servia and Iliria Orientala.
The rest 43% of the Greek population was after 1835 systematically discriminated against. The peak of the discrimination policies was during WW1, when greeks were put in concentration camps hidden in the Greek Mountains. During WW2 however greeks played a key role during the Balkanic and Carpathian Operations, and after the war they were recognized as a minority in the country, given rights to practice their own faith and speak their own language, and the greek language was recognized as an official language of the United Empire of Romania. To this day, most ex-greek regions have a romanian majority, while the greek minority still exists, the greeks being recognized as an essential part of the culture, politics and history of the United Empire.
 
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