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Gaulia/ Gutonia

  • Based on a different outcome of the Hundred Years War (In which it basically never happens)
  • Philip iv the original has Louis x, Philip, charles, and Isabella
  • Louis x lives 4089-4116)
  • Philip lives 4091 to 4122
  • Louis x rules after Philip iv. But Isabella is back from England by that time and she has a plan – she has her son marry his first cousin, Louis X’s daughter Joan ii of Navarre. After Philip V doesn’t have any sons, Ed “Philip vi” and Joan take over.
  • They have:
  • Maria (4129-4147) – married Peter of Aragon
  • Jean Charles “the bad” (originally based on John of Gaunt and Charles ii the Bad of Navarre) – (4132-99). Marries a woman named Blanche and is the dad of a son named Henry
  • Isabella (4133-83) – marries a man named Enguerrand VII de Coucy in a love match, has two daughters
  • Joan Agnes (4134-96) – betrothed to Peter of castille, married Gaston iii of Foix, is the mom of Gaston IV
  • Joan Margaret – 4136-87 (became a nun)
  • Philip Louis (4138-72) – marries Yolande of Dampierre and Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster. He is based originally on Lionel of Antwerp and Philip (son of Joan ii of Navarre)
  • Louis William (4140-44)
  • Edmund (4141-4208) – married Isabella of Castille
  • Mary 4144-4161
  • Thomas 4145-87 – had issue, based off Thomas of Woodstock
  • After Ed “Philip” dies, the throne passes to Jean Charles “the bad”. He reigns from 4177 to 4199 and is called Charles ii of Navarre, V of Gaulia.
  • Jean Charles’ kids that lived to adulthood:
  • Henry Pedro IV (c. April 4157 – 20 March 4213)
  • Bonne Katherine of Castille (4153-4208)
  • Elizabeth (4154-4216)
  • Blanche (4159-85)
  • Philippa Joanna (4160-4235) of Navarre
  • Charles iii (4161-4225)
  • Henry Pedro (based on henry iv of Bolingbroke) marries one of his cousins from the guy who would became Philip V the Tall (dead in 4122). Her name is Margaret and she’s his great-granddaughter.
  • Henry Pedro and Margaret have:
  • John Henry (4176-4219)
  • Margaret Philippa (4174-4231)
  • Louis (4177-78)
  • Bonne (4179-4209)
  • Mary (4180-4222)
  • Antoine (4184-4215)
  • John Philip (4189-4235)
  • Charles Thomas (4178-4241)
  • Charles’s son, Charles iii of Navarre, vi of France, and is called “the wise and noble”. He reigns from 4199 to 4225 and has only daughters live to adulthood with his wife.
  • So the current line-up so far is:
  • Philip iv (4068-4114)
  • Louis r. 4114-4116
  • John r.4116
  • Philip V r. 4116-4122
  • Ed and Joan (r. 4122-49, 4122-77)
  • Jean Charles ("Charles iv) ( (r.4149-99) (based on John of Gaunt and Charles II of Navarre)
  • (Bonus: Philip Louis (4138-72) – marries Yolande of Dampierre and Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster. He is based originally on Lionel of Antwerp and Philip (son of Joan ii of Navarre))
  • Henry Pedro (r.4199-4213) (based on Henry of Bolingbroke and Pedro the Count of Mortain)
  • (bonus: Charles iii of Navarre, Henry Pedro's brother (4161-4225)
  • John Henry (r.4213-4219)
  • (bonus: Antoine, son of Jean Charles (4184-4215)
  • John Philip (4189-4235) r. 4219-4235
  • Charles Thomas (4178-4241) ) r. 42
  • Philip Henry (4241-77)
  • Charles 4253-97
Arthur is based on Owain Glyndwr and Wat Tyler, neither of whom have confirmed offspring. Their followers are partly based on the Victual brothers, who were essentially hired pirates and later founders of kingdom of Mecklenburg, a kingdom within the Cymru empire. However this Arthur had at least one child, a daughter, who marries a fellow named Musa who hails from Stephonia in the Nykus Sea and was a prince without a throne there. They have a child named Magnus, who begat Erik, who begat Arthur III. When Arthur II couldn't have any sons from his wife, he decided to take on multiple wives, keeping whichever one gave him a son and paying off the families of the daughters-only wives so that they wouldn't turn against him and, if money wouldn't suffice, marrying those daughters off to minor nobles on the main continent. So began a long standing tradition in which it did not matter what rank the women came from because none of them would be queen - only princess consort. They would be pulled from families known for having many living offspring, treated to the finest finery and foods, and told to start creating heirs. Disabled princes were ineligible for the throne, but ones with sufficiently badass prosthetics could vie for it. When a king/emperor died, his sons would either swear fealty to one among them or fight to the death - or a combo of the two.
King Louis the fourteenth had been king for a very long time. He cultivated a court that catered to his every whim like clockwork, with the intention that if every courtier was busy arguing over who got to hand the king his underpants in the morning, they would be too busy to conspire to overthrow him. For the most part, this theory held true. But his son, the Grand Dauphin, was a dull creature who many saw as malleable, if not completely useless as a potential ruler. His father thought he would be a duplicitous and stupid son, so he gave him the worst tutors and meanest nannies. He married a princess from Pavere, whose mother was a duchess from Ayiti, at his father's behest. Mariana Victoria of Pavere was considered ugly but highly cultured, thus Louis XIV's choice. Their son, also named Louis, married a haughty princess named Pirilipat of Zwarhen who said she had recently escaped a "mortifying" relationship with a hideous man who had been turned into a nutcracker. She is based off of Marie Adelaide of Savoy, who was historically described as doll-sized. Meanwhile, the king's nephew, the Duke of Orleans (named Philippe the 2nd) was an avid amateur alchemist who dabbled in the occult, and he was keen on both getting a hold of Greater Zewhal's magic (remember, King Arthur took over that kingdom by force) and taking the throne of Gutonia for himself. He started out by doing a survey of all the metals and minerals to be found in Gutonia, from the border with Aquitanias to the border with Cilitzia. The more experienced alchemists pretended he was better at the trade than he actually was so that they could get a better payout for it. (All metal-based money was supposed to be lower than the "king's standard" when printed anyway, out of respect for the king.) After learning a lot of alchemy, though, he wanted to learn something he couldn't find in books...and so he turned to the occult. Upon reading the work of Faustus, he decided the best way to gain the knowledge and power he craved was to overthrow the government, and a scheming woman named Yulia promised to help him do it. Upon the death of King Louis XIV and the beginning of his great-grandson's regency, she helped the Duke to gain primacy in the royal regency council and cut off roads to Zwarhen as the government imploded. He slowly knocked off each member of the regency council one by one. He teamed up with Cardinal de Fleury and raised the Parliament of Paris to elite status, allowing for everyone who was Philippe's enemy to be conveniently outside the walls of the Parliament building when Yulia cast a curse of freezing weather and enchanted time upon the land. Every day the Parliament - which gradually went by several names including the National Assembly and later the Directory of Ancients (shortened to la Directoire), and by night they partied - with the ghosts of the dead royals who still haunted the ballrooms. They even all wore white makeup and powdered wigs and called it an homage to the ghosts.
War for Camelot - Triggered originally by one King Jan Plantagenet and his ambitions to conquer Gutonia (stopped only by his death), the war was mainly fought between the Norse Zewhal and Gutonia with various noblemen in Cymru (you know it better as Wales) picking sides. For over a hundred years. Queen Isabella of Gutonia was at her wit's end. Her husband, Edward II of Camelot, had started their marriage by giving away all her wedding presents to his lover, Piers Galveston. He barely spent any time with her, prefering instead to party with Piers, who was very rude. Then once Piers had finally been taken down by Camelot's Parliament, Edward fell in with the Despenser family, who tailored to his brand of poorly executed but still cruel governing. They turned the court against Isabella since she was not from Camelot. She fled to her home court in Gutonia, seeking aid from her own family, who promtly obliged: they tricked Edward into releasing her oldest son to Gutonia, where they then kept him. It was impressed upon the child that if he worked for Gutonia, they could take down Camelot. Along comes a man named Arthur, who says he stands for Welsh independence and maybe Welsh supremacy, and he convinces all the peasants that he is on their side (a slight parallel to Wat Tyler's rebellion of 1380) and also that he is the second coming of King Arthur - the one who was supposed to have gone to Avalon. He wins in this timeline, which Isabella isn't too upset about to be honest. The king of Gutonia, it turns out, only has enough living heirs to last until Edward reaches his majority (about age 20), so he takes the throne in 4068 and has a nice long reign after his uncles. He renames himself "Philippe" to show his dedication to his mother's cause. At the same time this was happening, a prince from the Arabian corridor named Musa, who was the fourth born son of his father and so was unlikely to really get a crown although he was in line to rule Rumelia under his father if his older brothers died. Sensing that this scenario was a long way off, though, he opted to travel, and ended up marrying the daughter of Arthur, thus bringing Ottoman inspired tradition and culture to Camelot, now called Greater Cymru (aka Wales). He takes up the mantle of king after Arthur, forging ahead to create an empire by using magical artifacts traded widely throughout his home realm and by conquering the land of the Norse, otherwise known as Zewhal. To the greater world that doesn't speak or understand Welsh very well, the empire is then called Zewhal. The rulers also immediately stand out by refusing to worship within the Church, opting instead for pagan gods from the Norse and Welsh pantheons, and THAT in turn leads to a slew of wars from kingdoms more horrified by the magic-using than by anything else

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