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  It is almost always a sad occasion when an Emperor dies, and Unitas mourns Trajan II more than any Komnenos before him. He finally began the process of imperial digestion, of molding the many into one! The illegitimate crown of Sicily was finally broken, the Hellenization and education (really, the two are synonyms) of the next generation of nobility was insured, and the army was strengthened almost beyond measure! The only shame is that my father, a patriot to the last, won't see the fruit of all this labor. As for our new Basileus, he is certainly...capable, yes? OOC: It's a good thing Kyriakos is a genius. Slothful, cruel, arbitrary, and shy? Jesus.
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Yes, a period of internal organization and growth after Valeria's conquests was quite called for. To that end, Trajan II is less akin to his namesake and more akin to Hadrian, a great Emperor in his own right. One only hopes that Kyriakos will be able to move forward to add more territories to support this core growth. (OOC: Don't forget Craven. I forget the precise requirements for dows when it comes to Imperial Reconquests and Holy Wars, but I really hope Craven doesn't leave us with no way to expand save for forging claims and vassalizing claimants to other thrones. That can get messy.)
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I think Somalia took a new province in Yemen! Isn't that amazing?
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 As a relative newcomer to the Senate following my father passing on the mantle of the ΑΙ υποσημειώ Ιμπυ lineage, the rule of Basileus Trajan constitutes the majority of my experience. His passing saddens me greatly, for as vital as ending heresies with swords may be, ending them with words is the far greater act. I welcome Basileus Kyriakos, for in him we have a Basileus of great zeal, a patient man with an intellect to match his father and with impressive skill with a blade.
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 Emperor Trajan did pretty well if you ask me! W-well, sure, he may not have done much, but if anything, that makes it more impressive! You know, that new angel statue looks an awful lot like one of the old statues my grandfather used to keep around... Of course, that was Athena, this one is completely different! AJ_Impy posted:
Ah, don't think of it as a lack of experience, buddy, I'm glad we have young Senators like you to keep the blood fresh! I'm sure your father must be very proud of you, I'm retiring soon myself, and my own son has, um, ah... a condition that worries me sometimes, but you certainly have nothing to be ashamed of!
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That is a lot of hair. Minor linguistic note - doukes is the plural of doux, not douxes. You're better looking at the genitive of the third declension for a word's root in Latin and Greek rather than the supposed default of the nominative singular, because the nominative adds s which can alter the apparent ending. Here, the root douk plus s turns to doux, while the rest of the word still uses that douk as its base. The Latin is the same thing, with root duc becoming dux in the nominative singular, and the rest going ducem, ducis, duci, duce, duces, duces, ducum, ducibus etc. This is why, as you might have realised, the English version of the word is duke.
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OOC: See that slothful trait? That is going to basically kill most attempts to do anything stone dead. Really, it is literally the worst trait you can get because it pretty much puts an end to using any CB other then claims. Plus it is a terrible trait in general both in terms of stats and in terms of roleplaying. Also, I never realized this before, but the icon for it is an actual sloth hanging from a tree and not a weird-looking hand.
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Sleep of Bronze posted:That is a lot of hair. I've been writing "douxes" this entire LP. 
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I only just noticed it was wrong and I do Greek at Oxford. Consider it sort of a compliment to you though. I think I saw it this time because it was at the start of an update so I wasn't in the flow of the story. The rest of the time I'm too caught up in reading. Sleep of Bronze fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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Mar 30, 2014 11:29
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The HRE got a bad case of the pox, right there. And hey, internal administration doesn't get half as much credit as it deserves. The other Empresses might have been conquerors, but Trajan was a real state-builder.
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ZearothK posted:The HRE got a bad case of the pox, right there. It seems ironic that the New Byzantine senates presided over endless wars of conquest, suppressions and religious expansion, whereas the Old Roman/Milvian coalition oversaw years of peaceful development, civic building improvements and diplomatic progress.
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So a Komnenian administration would see the restoration of the Republic?
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Mar 30, 2014 14:26
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By that logic we should immediately rush the UNITAS in to become the most enlightened and tolerant state in any paradox LP.
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Mar 30, 2014 15:36
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Vote Guiding Light to end the schism! One way or another!
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AJ_Impy posted:It seems ironic that the New Byzantine senates presided over endless wars of conquest, suppressions and religious expansion, whereas the Old Roman/Milvian coalition oversaw years of peaceful development, civic building improvements and diplomatic progress. 
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Mar 30, 2014 18:10
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AJ_Impy posted:It seems ironic that the New Byzantine senates presided over endless wars of conquest, suppressions and religious expansion, whereas the Old Roman/Milvian coalition oversaw years of peaceful development, civic building improvements and diplomatic progress. We should all vote Centrist, then everyone becomes happy!
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Mar 30, 2014 18:16
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No, see, that's their party line. Going by precedent, centerists being elected will lead to nobody being happy in many new and exciting ways.
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We're just building up right now, Rome is in need of a strong army with strong legions! Crimea Italy Ptolemy Carthage Sardinia Croatia Somalia They're all coming senators fear not, but Rome will have legions that will sweep the enemy aside like leaves in a breeze. No one will doubt that the Byzantines conquered more than the Romans.
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  Well, now the time is right to officially announce the founding of the Inclusionists. To re-iterate the writings from last time, in case you weren't here or were simply too drunk to notice: Are you perchance a New Byzantine that thinks the current direction the party is going is too close to the Old Romans? Are you maybe a Milvian that believes the Pentarchy should not be built upon the blood of believer and unbeliever alike? Are you a Komnenian that thinks that all these wars are hogging all the nice young people that used to bring you your wine when you couldn't stand anymore? Or are you simply fed up with the way the expansion of the empire leaves widows and orphans in its wake? If so, the Inclusionists AKA hippies? are the group for you! We simply ask two questions: "Can't we all just be friends?" and "Don't we have enough already?" The tenets of the Inclusionist party are rather simple: 1) Aggressive wars are to be avoided at all costs. 2) Defensive wars are to be finished as fast as possible (without giving up, though - just because we want to be friends doesn't mean we don't have self-preservation instincts). 3) The stability of the realm is paramount, and as such expansion should be avoided. 4) A wide-spread decree of toleration is necessary for the long-term stability of the Empire. 5) As such, there should be no active conversion within the realm. If the local rulers convert the populace, then there's nothing we could have really done (beyond replacing rulers, but that would upset the stability), but the Imperial chaplain shall not be actively converting. 6) Any sort of aggressive intrigue is to be cancelled immediately, and a terrible institution such as this hypothetical Black Chamber should not even come close to existing. Defensive intrigue to support the stability of the realm is permitted. 7) Arguments within the Senate involving Inclusionists should be kept to a minimum. We're not here to argue, we simply abide by our code and support the peace in the realm. 8) And finally, the Imperial family should be fostering relations with the large Catholic realms of Europe, for a realm with its unity supported beyond borders is a stable realm. And while we may not be powerful enough to reach all of those goals, we will try our hardest to support the peaceful endeavors in the realm in the hopes they beat out the aggressive ones. Now, as for the question of how exactly this group is aligned, I believe this group will be able to work best as a cross-party faction, rather than its own party, so everybody tired of war and hatred can join! And as such, I believe re-aligning with the New Byzantines myself is probably the closest thing to a party walking the same line as I wish to walk, even if we've been gaining some more radical elements lately - but that's why I'm there, to counter-radical it up.
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OOC: Is it bad I can imagine a disgruntled Senator becoming an adventurer to 'restore the Kingdom of Carthage'?
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AdventFalls posted:OOC: Is it bad I can imagine a disgruntled Senator becoming an adventurer to 'restore the Kingdom of Carthage'? This senate has some kooky loving folks in it, that's for sure. And considering that the latest CK2 patch added a chance that a kinsman that was told he wasn't ready for a title ends up becoming an adventurer with a claim on one of your titles, it wouldn't be too far-fetched if some senators get told "we're not going after Carthage, sod off" and then they run out and raise an army three times the imperial army's size.
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TheMcD posted:This senate has some kooky loving folks in it, that's for sure. And considering that the latest CK2 patch added a chance that a kinsman that was told he wasn't ready for a title ends up becoming an adventurer with a claim on one of your titles, it wouldn't be too far-fetched if some senators get told "we're not going after Carthage, sod off" and then they run out and raise an army three times the imperial army's size. OOC: Doesn't help that last patch screwed with a lot of sizes, though it would be entertaining as hell. Carthage: The Fourth Rome (now run by Hellenists)!
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AJ_Impy posted:It seems ironic that the New Byzantine senates presided over endless wars of conquest, suppressions and religious expansion, whereas the Old Roman/Milvian coalition oversaw years of peaceful development, civic building improvements and diplomatic progress.  Well it helps that Trajan basically ignored the senate and did what he wanted for most of his rule. Truly, he was a great man! TheMcD posted:
I'd happily join your cause, but I'm unwilling to carry a banner that ugly.
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Duckbag posted:
OOC: Let's face it, my graphical skills blow chunks. If somebody could make something better, I'd definitely appreciate it.
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AdventFalls posted:OOC: Is it bad I can imagine a disgruntled Senator becoming an adventurer to 'restore the Kingdom of Carthage'? Any Senator that does that is a traitor to the Empire! Carthago delenda est! 
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Ah, of course. The party of traitorous, heathen-loving, rebel-enablers returns, all grown up and official! My father railed against you, and I can do no less! But first, I must ask a question: what is better, a great building, or quarried stone? A great building, of course! A Hagia Sophia, a Pantheon! That is what Unitas and the Old Romans seek to build. Do make it, the stone must be cut, rearranged, and constructed. The architects must not make a single error. But, the end is worth it. No longer is there a pile of rock, there is a magnificent edifice, ready to stand time's test. You Inclusionists, though, would be satisfied with the pile of stone! Peoples are the stone that builds empires! Like stone, they must be shaped, assembled, and yes, cut! In the end, these stones are gone, and the building remains. So too must be our conquests: Slavs, Pechenegs, Turks, Italians, Greeks: they remain uncut! The Hall of Empire is designed, but we lack architects with the will to build it! To acquire the right and holy cornerstones, even! Now, you say we should build nothing. We should be satisfied as a warehouse! Rome exists only in name. There are no Romans until we are all Romans, and this can never be as long as a Turk is a Turk, an Italian an Italian, or a Greek a Greek! All these labels must be swept aside! You would enforce them, you would fence off a builder's tools! Rome must be willing to make a new world. It can be done. It must be done. But only if we don't limit our ambitions!
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:
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Flesnolk posted:
I believe that is supposed to be his interpretation of the Inclusionist tenets - that we should be "satisfied to be a warehouse" compared to the grand feats of architecture he sees his vision of the empire as. Personally, I'd rather be a warehouse than a building that doesn't meet a single safety regulation because of its massive size and that will surely either collapse or burn down. I'm reminded of the Roman insulae...
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Emperor Trajan will go down in history, truly, as one of our greatest emperors. He has brought us into a golden age of strength and stability (and why no, I'm not just saying that because he appears to have enacted the Imperial Army Act that my mother first brought to the floor in spite of its failure to pass). There has never been a better time to be a Roman than in our lifetimes.
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Adept Nightingale posted:
Now that you mention it, he enacted a massive amount of secondary and tertiary legislation. In line with the Evangelism Act, our court chaplains selflessly went out to pagan courts. In line with the Doukal Education Act, the heirs of potential troublemakers were given tutelage. There are other examples as well: Rather than dismissing the senate, he listened to all of us, and chose the most beneficient of all our ideas.
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Ah, the good times have returned! My friends, is it not a joyous day? The Altar of the Angel of the Victory of Christ once again graces our most honored institution, and the Trajan of old was reborn. Our mother Rome has been liberated. The Empire truly lives once more!
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PART 21: The Bad Years (1296-1299) Excerpts from Such Dizzying Heights, Such Abysmal Depths: The Senates of Rome and Byzantium: Trajan II died in Rome. While the emperor was already 61 years old— a prodigious age for a Komnenos monarch-- the death still took the empire by surprise. The cadre of officers and officials in whom Trajan had placed responsibility for his exercises in Italian nation-building immediately departed for Constantinople to inform the Senate of this important news and secure the succession. In their haste to return directly to the the imperial metropole, the officials neglected to collect the emperor's son, Kyriakos ("Cyriacus" in Latin sources), who was still in Messene in his capacity as the Doux of Sicily. And so for several days Kyriakos remained busy with the day-to-day business of running his theme, unaware that he was the emperor of Byzantium. It is testament to the bureaucratic, military, and administrative apparatuses constructed by his father that the Byzantine state continued to function during this transitional period before Kyriakos arrived in Constantinople in the June of 1296.  The Senate was not entirely confident in their new emperor, as he lacked the reputation for kindness, fair play, and the magnetic personality and charisma his father was know for. It did, however, appreciate Kyriakos' raw talents. The nobles of the empire, however, were less than impressed. They sensed that, for all of Kyriakos' keen intellect and patience, he had a fundamental weakness of character. Contemporary accounts of his reign[1] seem to corroborate this; however, nota bene that this judgement was often influenced through the retrospective lens of later events in his reign.  Still, Trajan and his predecessors often dealt with conspiracies amongst the nobility, and Kyriakos and those close to him had little reason to suspect that the so-called Golden Age of the Komnenoi (a phrase which was already appearing in period writing as early as the middle years of Trajan's reign[2]) and it was perhaps reasonable of the empire to expect his own accomplishments to equal the brilliance of his father's and grandmother's.  Continuity with Trajan II and Valeria the Apostle was a key aspect of Kyriakos' public persona. His first act as emperor was to literally follow in his father's footsteps in honoring the revered Valeria with a pilgrimage to Antioch.  He went to extreme efforts to stage efforts to portray himself as a penitent, humble pilgrim.[3]   Following his arrival in the city of the apostles, he commissioned-- at great expense-- an elaborate fresco of the Virgin Mary in the Basilica of Valeria.  This carefully orchestrated act of political/ecclesiastical theater had one weak link: the emperor himself. He came across as haughty and disinterested to both secular and religious authorities in Antioch.[4]  State propagandists duly wrote panegyrics to Kyriakos, the dutiful grandson of the Apostle, but Trajan's old inner circle began to increasingly sense something had gone wrong.[5]  Meanwhile, the various conspiracies against Kyriakos amongst the doukes of the empire reached critical mass.  In the August of 1296-- less than three months after the death of Trajan-- Doux Gerasimos of Epirus insisted that Kyriakos abdicate the throne and the Senate ratify Prince Hippolytos Komnenos as emperor.[6]  With the coffers drained by Kyriakos' building projects in Antioch, the Byzantine state was once again forced to go into debt to finance the civil war.  Notably, the initial epicenter of the revolt was in the historical core of the Byzantine Empire— Greece and Anatolia— rather than the republics of the steppes or the Italian themes. This is perhaps testament to the work of Trajan in binding these provinces to the empire— although it should be noted that Italy did eventually rise in revolt. In any case, it is important to remember that this particular revolt was a struggle for control over the apparatus of the Byzantine state, rather than a repudiation of the very existence of such a state, as various other wars for independence had been.  Kyriakos appealed to the King of Wales-- currently a Komnenos-- for aid, but Robert Komnenos saw little reason to favor one Komnenos claimant over another.  Initially, Loyalist forces enjoyed superiority in the Greek theater, outnumbering Epirotean forces.  Similarly, the Loyalists won several key early victories in Anatolia.  With the war apparently going well, Kyriakos easily replenished military losses from the thriving population of Constantinople.  Kyriakos ordered a grand offensive into the Anatolian interior, where he believed the main concentration of rebels to be located.  The empire, however, consisted of much more than just Greek and Anatolia. Kyriakos, taking the loyalty of Italy for granted, traveled there in order to collect the imperial armies raised in those provinces and lead them east to reinforce those attempting to reassert control of Greece. They were caught off-guard when many of the more important Italian doukes aligned themselves with Gerasimos and Hippolytos.  And so Kyriakos, who sought to emulate his Komnenos forebears in so many other ways, ultimately met the typically Komnenian fate of being slain in battle.[7]  The optimistically named Valeria II was hastily crowned Empress in Constantinople.  Even at the age of 13, Valeria II's formidable military instincts were well-known amongst the remaining members of Trajan's inner circle.[8]  It remained an open question if her reign would last long enough for her to take advantage of her many gifts, however. For now, leadership over loyalist forces rested in the hands of the Eparch of Velbazhd, Dionysios.  Meanwhile, the education of the young empress remained the responsibility of Apollonios, the grandmaster of the Valerian Order.  Powerful Roman armies remained in the field in Greece and Anatolia, but the situation in the west continued to deteriorate rapidly, and by 1297 the only outpost of loyalist authority in all of Italy was the city of Rome itself.  Gerasimos decided to concentrate on first dislodging the loyalists from Anatolia, trusting that the smaller imperial army in Greece would be unable to take Epirus itself while his forces were occupied in the east. Initially, however, the formidable loyalist host in Anatolia held its ground-- but casualties were appalling.   When the loyalists attempted a renewed offensive, Gerasimos was able to bring in reinforcements from his Italian allies and crush Dionysios' forces.   His forces severely depleted by the loss at Prusa, Dionysios used some of the remaining funds loaned to the crown by the Jewish merchants of Constantinople to hire mercenaries— ironically, the Bulgarian mercenaries who had razed Genoa and claimed its ruins as a "New Bulgaria". The mercenaries were evidently able to set aside the centuries of animosity between Bulgarians and Byzantines— Dionysios, unlike the unfortunate Genoese, had cash in hand to retain their services.  In 1299, Valeria II came of age.  The empress was much more qualified to run an empire-wide war effort than Dionysios. However, the situation was dire— perhaps unsalvagable. Loyalist forces in Greece, bolstered by the Bulgarian mercenaries and the survivors of the disaster at Prusa had occupied much of the Epirus heartland, but Gerasimos was unconcerned-- the bulk of the empire remained in revolt, rebel forces far outnumbered loyalists, and Constantinople itself was under siege. The war was nearly won, and it was only a matter of time before the Theodosian Walls were breeched and the empress and Senate were delivered to his hands. Many of Trajan's old officers, including Gazi, fully expected to be dead within the year.[9]  Attempting to take advantage of the collapse of imperial authority in Italy, France attempted to seize territories from the rebellious Doux of Neapolis.  Valeria II was well aware that her only hope lay in deliverance from outside the empire. Managing to slip correspondence through the rebel siege, she arranged marriage between herself and the a prince of Novgorod. However, Tsarevich Jákob a Sopron was so far removed from the Rurikovich tsar that no alliance between Byzantium and Novgorod resulted— and, in any case, Novgorod was rapidly losing ground to Kiev in its battle for dominance over the Russians.  And then, on July 12th, 1299, deliverance did come— not in the form of foreign intervention, but in an improbable stroke of good fortune.  The elderly Doux Gerasimos, presiding over the months-long siege of Constantinople, overexerted himself planning an assault on the empress's fortifications and dropped dead on the spot.[10]  Both contemporary observers[11] and modern historians[12] hotly debate the exact causes of both the Doux's death and the breakdown of cooperation amongst the rebels and subsequent disintegration of support for Hippolytos' claim on the throne. To the zealous Valeria II, however, the source of her salvation was never in doubt: it was divine providence.  In the Senate, the Milvians agreed. To the more secular parties— the New Byzantines, Old Romans, et al, she was perhaps simply extraordinarily lucky.  She elected to continue what had, by this point, become a ritual for the Komnenos monarchs and travel to Antioch on pilgrimage. For the fortunate Valeria II, however, the intrigues and scandals which plagued Kyriakos' time in Antioch were absent— she returned to Constantinople without incident. After three years of disaster, a fragile peace had returned to the empire. Hopes were high in the Senate for the implementation of its legislation, neglected through the crisis years. The Mediterranean held its breath to see what the empire would do next.  [1] Edith Eden, ed., The Correspondence of Osman Gazi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), 171-173. [2] Apollonios Papakostas, "The Victor Writes History: The Crossroads of Propaganda and Historiography in the reign of Traianos II Komnenos," Journal of Byzantine History 127 (February 2011): 75-101. [3]John Adams, "Annus Horribilis: 1296 as a Turning Point in the Komnenian State," BYZANTION: New Byzantine Studies 12 (April 2013): 106-241. [4] Eden, 190. [5] Eden, 192. [6] Adams, 76. [7] Chang Xiu-Lan, The Flower of Chivalry: The Monarchs of the West at War, 1000-1500, (Beijing: Comet Books, 2014), 450-455. [8] Eden, 205. [9] Eden, 209. [10] Natasa Persopoulou, The Body Politic: How the Fragility of Human Health Shaped Medieval History (Athens: The University of Athens Press, 2001), 503-504. [11] Eden, 212. [12] Adams, 230, 232-3, 240-1.  Assassination Scorecard: Tsars Killed: 2 Badshahs Killed: 2 Sultans Killed: 7 (plus 1 battle death) Nosy Chancellors Killed: 2 Katepanos Killed: 1 Mad Bishops Killed: 1 OOC Note: Around this time, you might start to see a suspiciously large number of members of the Ceska Lipa dynasty. Are the Czechs taking over Europe? 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Oh dear god my tables. If that massive panorama of what appears to be a civil war could either be [timg]ed, it sure would make reading the text in this update easier.
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Christ, Valeria is better than a lot of the Mary Sue characters the game starts you off with at certain bookmarks. She's just as good as Alexios was. Ooooh, the world will tremble.
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I bet she gets stabbed by some random priest a month into her reign.
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I'm glad her education went well. I'm not so glad that even more fat is being bred into the dynasty. Will we never have lovely rulers? I would like to call a Senatorial moratorium on our Emperors personally leading troops, or fighting duels at least. It is not only insultingly beneath their station, but it puts the state itself at risk! Our luck is has been incalculable! A regency in the middle of a civil war? Every gambler in the Empire was betting on the rebels. We cannot allow this to happen again.
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Valeria II doesn't sleep. She waits. Valeria II can cut a hot knife with butter. When the Devil goes to sleep at night, he checks under the bed for Valeria II. But in seriousness, our Empress looks to be an incredible leader, and such a fortunate one too. Let's pray that good fortune keeps up.
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Only the Holy See of the Pentarch in Rome of all the Italian provinces stayed loyal in the darkest days. A man of cynicism and shallow faith nearly lost the Empire, for all his initial zealous promise. Hail to the new Basilissa, may the Almighty forever guide her to victory.
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