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Neethis' Map Game: Volhynian Khanate

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Got bored trying to find a website to rotate a map, so I'm going with this instead :D

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1242, and Vienna burns.

Ogedei Khan lives for another twenty years, and the Mongolian Hordes overrun Europe. By 1265, when he finally dies and the Mongolian generals have to head back and elect a new leader, Mongolian troops have burned and pillaged from Rome to Paris, Madrid to Berlin, and have dipped their toes in the Atlantic (the greatest "lake" they've ever seen) on the Portuguese and Brittany coasts. As they retreat they leave behind millions of dead and displaced, entire nations dissapeared under their swords. Thousands more are either enslaved or freely join the Mongols, French, Germans, Magyars, Spanish and Slavs joining the Horde on their trek back into the heart of Asia.

Seven centuries later, and the Volhynian Khanate is one of the nations formed long after the dust has settled over eastern Europe, and the age of the Horde has passed. The Volhynian people have an incredibly mixed descent; the Khanate was initially founded as an Orthodox Christian Kingdom, half a century after the Mongol retreat, by gatherings of Slav and German refugees. This first Kingdom was then conquered and colonised by Turks coming across the Black Sea in ever greater numbers. Later influxes of Mongols and Europeans rounded out the ethnic diversity, and interbreeding over the next six hundred years created a unique and distinct peoples ruling this side of Europe.

The religious complexion of the Volhynian Khanate is just as mixed as the ethnic background. Largely Sufi Muslim, there are also large minorities of Tengriites ( [link] ) and Buddhists from central Asia, and Orthodox and Fundamentalist Christians (Catholicism was pretty much wiped out, with no surviving Papacy) from the west.
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AmongTheSatanic's avatar
I'll do a turn whenever, but given the PoD, I don't know if I'll capture the awesomeness of this so well o: