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Kangxi posted:I was asked on one of the Paradox games discords to provide a map, so here is the Eastern Hemisphere in 1579. The Taira need to clean up Japan's borders and I don't know who, but somebody needs to clean up the messes in Persia and Central Asia.
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zealouscub posted:The Taira need to clean up Japan's borders and I don't know who, but somebody needs to clean up the messes in Persia and Central Asia. Is it going to be us? Also, should we try and do conglomeration with the rest of the "HRE" as it were?
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Technowolf posted:Impressive, considering that the Amhara people are an Cushitic group native to northern Ethiopia.
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# ? Aug 3, 2020 00:39 |
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Third Formal Session of the Assembly of the Elector-Kingdom of Tibet There is one question, there can only be one question. That little religious movement that popped up in Delhi decades ago, sure, that was a one time thing. They could be bought off. There could be a kind of co-existence. While the king has been playing with his toy boats, there has been a growing discontent in the countryside. It has been spreading in the cities, in the universities, and in the great publishing houses, in the tea shops where everyone talks. The priests whisper about it and cannot stifle the furious debates in their lecture halls. A campaign of whispers has spread through the crown lands of Tibet itself. The dispute is not over doctrine, or practice, as they usually are, but over history - events of three centuries ago. Restorationists, so they call themselves, claim to have uncovered evidence that the Sacred Hierarchy has concealed the life and death of the holy woman Pakmodru Tse, and killed her as part of a conspiracy to hide the secrets of life. A priest and writer named Indra Byanjanakar, from Chyasal, claims to have discovered written testimony by a courtier asserting that the former Empress, Pelmo II, was a secret Buddhist and conspired with her court to assassinate a holy woman in front of her entire court. This is only one cause for anger. There are many who see the remaining wealth and power of the hierarchy, its possession of lands, and its undue societal influence as the reason for Tibet's stagnation over the past century. But with rising living standards over the past century, the cities are crowded with the young, the educated, and the angry. The Sacred Hierarchy demands the total destruction of those under the spell of delusion. They offend the local gods. They offend the basic principles of morality. They disgrace nature. They lie about the founders of the church. They would destroy all stable society. They must be destroyed. All entities - cities, princedoms, kingdoms - which have adopted the Restorationist heresy must be destroyed. Some, some, may be granted independence again provided they stay with the faith. The Restorationists cannot tolerate the existence of the corrupted Hierarchy anymore. They know the truth. They know that the church is predicated upon concealing the truth, about how the second founder returned and was slain by a vast conspiracy. They would argue for a dissolution of the military alliance with the Sacred Hierarchy, and a war of annexation to end its independent existence. Tibet must be restored, and the great campaigns and glory of the past will be resumed. As before, please put one of the above flags into your post to signal what faction you are now representing. More so than before, this will affect Tibet's actions, as well as the compsition and attitudes of the rest of the separate Empire.
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the truth is out there people
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 04:23 |
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Unify the nation. Purge the shame of the crypto-Buddhists.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 04:29 |
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I don't know about all this conspiracy business, but the hierarchy never WAS meant to be separate from the crown in the first place. Its independence is an aberration, and this presents an excellent opportunity to correct it.
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The Sacred Hierarchy has robbed us of the second coming of Tse! The ire of the gods has surely been directed at us since this heinous act. We have seen our nation fall from its heights as the strongest and most influential in the world to one that has lost its grip on its former now-squabbling subjects, at times being forced to grovel and hail these pretenders as emperor! We have no choice but to immediately break all ties with the Sacred Hierarchy, who were surely working with the heathen empress to bring about our downfall. Then we must seek restitution for these despicable crimes by bringing them to heel and purging the rot from their very core. Only then will the gods smile upon us again.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 04:44 |
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How many times must we do away with these delusions, these lies? The False Tse continues to fool the gullible and be used as a tool by rebels and traitors to Tibet! The True Tse would know what to do with these liars- as she did when she founded our Sacred Hierarchy, they would be put to sword and torch, and in her name and in the name of the gods, we must not falter! Death to every Restorationist, to their corrupted princes, to their hierophants, to their rabble-rousers, and their sympathizers! We can not allow them to hide anywhere in our Empire or beyond! In the name of the True Tse, deny these lies!
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Attack and dethrone those who claim to speak for the gods. They do not.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 05:32 |
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Changing your interpretation of history based on textual evidence is very enlightened.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 05:44 |
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Tibet must be restored, and the great campaigns and glory of the past will be resumed.
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The sacred and mundane must be rejoined, and the power of the sacred hierarchy to help it's people is waning. They may believe what they wish, but they cannot be allowed to oppress others any further!
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 11:20 |
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Advance the Tse plot, yes.
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 12:23 |
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What vain fool would even try to break the cycle?
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 16:27 |
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[In the Assembly of the Elector-Kingdom of Tibet] The Second Tse: death, death-. Indra Byanjanakar: death, DEATH-. Entire court [pounding tablets]: DEATH, DEATH, DEATH!
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YOU FOOLS! THE REVENANT TSE WILL BE THE END OF US ALL! e: OOC, Tse came back as a secret Buddhist, which she shared with Tsenmo Purgyal Pelmo II, but not the actual Empress who had her killed. Tsenmo Purgyal Pongza 'the Just' was a zealous, upright Bodpa Empress. So all the people voting for Tse are actually voting for secret Buddhism, not a "reform" of the Bon heirarchy. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Aug 4, 2020 |
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The secret Buddhism was a test for the empress, one which she failed.
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habeasdorkus posted:
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# ? Aug 4, 2020 18:03 |
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Don't mind me, I'm moving my stuff to a cozy manor in the Spice Islands
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I love this. I'm putting it in the OP.
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habeasdorkus posted:
That is the most entertaining form of Buddhism
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 00:08 |
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Not a single one of you deserve a proper sky burial.
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 00:13 |
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Pffft. All this talk of honoring the gods with proper rites. Everyone knows the REAL way to honor the gods is to devour their flesh, as the primitive but noble Europeans do.
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 00:21 |
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What is this madness? This petty desire to cleave to whatever lie makes an individual claim more knowledge in one breath than those who have spent a lifetime at the seat of wisdom? This urge to fell the pillars of Heaven simply because one thinks they can simply deny that they are the pillars of Heaven? Only Buddhists would seek to destroy the glory of centuries!
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 00:22 |
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The Revisionists seek to upend harmony over a rumor. They would seek to burn heaven over a lie. How many charlatans calling themselves Tse have come and gone? These are grievances of the petty exacerbated by those too kind or sympathetic to see through the lies.
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 00:41 |
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All is as it was foretold.megane posted:Centuries from now, religious scholars are going to have fits. Bring forth the enlightenment!
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# ? Aug 5, 2020 01:39 |
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Bloody hell, so many reformers.
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Lynneth posted:
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Iolite posted:All is as it was foretold.
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