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In Progress Let's Play as 1200s Lithuania in Crusader Kings II: The Hitman Gods, the Teutons and the Mongols
- Thread starter Cassidy
- Start date
Corporate_Jew_Master
Arcane
1) Deceit is the prime weapon of the subhumans altaic warriors.
Kashmir Slippers
Magister
1) Rather see this keep going.
Thor Kaufman
Arcane
1) obv, go for triple backstab damage
Cassidy
Arcane
Alright, considering the likelihood of the "an hero" option getting more votes, here it goes.
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God have mercy on England, because the Lithuanian Hitmen will have none!
Hitman Blood Money: Ave Maria
With the complete subjugation and annihilation of Lithuania at stake, Butavas was faced a hard choice between fighting to the death for the gods, ultimately a futile gesture, or kneeling to the cross with deep seated cynicism, pretending to worship their God to put an end to the wars before they put an end to Lithuania. Butavas thus was baptized with much of his family, a hollow gesture in a still mostly pagan kingdom to save Lithuania from a final demise. The Pope rejoiced the news of a new kingdom joining their Church, yet they were fools to expect this to last.
The spiritual battle lost by Lithuania was only one of many successful "holy" wars, for since the conquest of the city of Jerusalem, never before in History the moral authority of Catholicism has been so high, unlike Orthodoxy, rife with Bogomil and Iconoclast heresies since Constantinople fell to the devious Republic of Venice.
To pretend to accept Jesus as Lord had some benefits. No longer trapped by the frail Gavelkind succession, Butavas began to take measures to transform Lithuania into an elective monarchy, where all Dukes would be able to put a vote for the next king... and all dukes in Lithuania remained faithful to the old gods, with the recently converted king having very little desire or interest to change that. Naturally, this was all according to the plan to trick the hypocrites, to spit on their cross during the night while praying to it during the day. For once Butavas dies, the Romuva faith shall once again return to the throne of Lithuania.
From retaining a pagan as the "court chaplain" to research rather than getting a priest to convert, to voting on a bright and pagan son of his, Butavas actions never hid his contempt over such essentially forced conversion.
With only 38 years of age, the Pope responsible for putting the Kingdom of Lithuania on their knees died. Whether an industrious and patriotic Lithuanian had anything to do with that or not is something the king is unaware of. Good riddance, and may he despair once he realizes there is no Heaven. There were however others that deserved to die, and one whore in particular was on the hit list of Lithuania.
Butavas have appreciated the deep irony of the title his Catholic subjects have given to him, too simple-minded to realize what happened.
To keep the Christian zealots distracted, a Grand Tournament was organized, the first in the history of the Kingdom, and probably the last as well.
Unfortunately, accidents happen. No, really, it was an accident, not a crafty Lithuanian assassination attempt.
While pagan, Butavas had to deal with Catholic peasant mobs... now it is the opposite, how annoying.
Champions rose, the crowd cheered, and the Lithuanian tradition of excellent light cavalry was proven once again. A valuable distraction indeed.
The Kingdom of Lithuania may have a Catholic ruler for now, but the plans to conquer Pommerania and Cape Arkona were never abandoned. Yet, they needed a claim now that they temporarily joined Christendom.
There will be much intrigue and even conflicts over the same family once Butavas dies, the price to pay for preventing the extinction of Lithuania as an independent kingdom, for the Romuva and Catholic family members will likely fight each other for a long time.
Butavas has always been a kind ruler, and when a certain nuisance bothered him, unlike some of his distant predecessors, he sent him flowers.
When the Spymaster of England agreed to help Lithuania with their long plans of revenge for what England did, the fate of England was defined.
Shit.
Lithuania continued to advance thanks to a consistent intelligence effort, and in the field of military organization, Lithuania was ahead of most of the world.
Die bitch, die already! This is what happens when outsourcing hitman jobs, even when they are organized by a Lithuanian.
Hitman 2 Theme
While one of the daughters of Butavas was about to get married with the king of Leon, finally the whore that brought victory to Poland in their "holy war" for Prussia got what she deserved, but that was not enough, not enough at all. England has grown too powerful, somehow inheriting Denmark, something utterly against the best interests of Lithuania. It was then that the legend of the Lithuanian Hitmen would truly rise, for Butavas has decided to decimate the English royal family, to bring enough turmoil for their empire to fall apart so that their planned conquest of Cape Arkona will not be borderline impossible due to their rule over it and their massive size.
The last of the Livonian Order shall not be tolerated, for they were de jure part of the Kingdom of Lithuania, and thus, even after conversion, Butavas still had a justification to crush them.
The successor of the bitch queen had a very short reign, and as long as England was that massive, all reigns over there would be short-lasted indeed, until something very unfavorable could allow for the rest to happen on its own.
No matter how many times it was unsuccessful, a curse without equal, the murderous gaze of vengeful Lithuanian Hitmen for what they did, remains over England, and all their kings shall be short lived!
Butavas planted roses with a great serenity and calmness, and a few hours later plotted the deaths of those who forced him to convert.
Three kings murdered in an incredibly short time, and more would meet the same fate soon. The wrath of the Lithuanian Hitman is truly without equal, and no matter how many massive armies, how many guards, how much security one has, when a Lithuanian is at it, being killed is inevitable.
The great turmoil of three short lasted reigns starts to crack England, but it still is not enough, but perhaps enough for the claims made over Pomeralia to be pressed through war.
With the King of England being only 1-year old, his immediate heir meets his demise as well. Revenge is a dish best served cold, but it still tastes delicious.
He should be directing such cruelty towards the Polish and English scum instead.
No mercy! Now it is time to throw an inbred degenerate Innsmouth look baby out of the window, and let a 60-year old Portuguese assume the throne of England, with all the chaos it should ensue.
The conversion could secure a great future for the Gediminaitis dynasty, even if soon religious differences would forever divide their family. One of Butavas sons secured a Bethrotal with the queen of the Rus, which meant that eventually the Lithuanian dynasty would rule over those lands, provided the queen of Rus doesn't die first, of course.
Requesting The Brazilian Slaughter opinion about this.
Through the turmoil the revenge of the Lithuanian Hitmen, who now became truly legends across all of Europe for their mastery of assassination, for being such assassins of the most powerful kings, for putting an empire on their knees, finally England lost Denmark, and now the time was perfect to begin the invasion of Pommerania. England under a Portuguese old king who only had female heirs, truly what they deserved.
And now it is time to finish this long revenge with its final touch: the gradual conquest of Pommerania.
Butavas had a long and peaceful reign, the relative degree of religious tolerance and the elective monarchy pleasing his Romuva vassals, and he was now determined to leave his successor much close to the goal of forging a Romuva Church.
The last independent Persian Kingdom fought in the name of the thunder god, and conquered the city of Kiev. The Mongol Empire, bloated and rife with peasant revolts failed to become the most successful participant in such great holy war for the reformed Tengri Church. However, considering the vast distances, it is unlikely the Persians will manage to keep what they conquered. Now that Islam was crushed like a skull of pig, hopefully the Tengri hordes will turn their attention towards all of Christendom, except for those pretending to be part of it, hopefully.
While the Lithuanian armies glorious besieged the capital of England, Butavas became sick. His illness became worse and worse. This could be his end.
An alliance with Armenia placed Lithuania in a holy war against Muslims, and naively, the Pope decided to give them some support while the Catholic king growing ever worse in his illness would be succeeded by a heathen once he dies.
Maimed and suffering with a terrible fever, Butavas died with only 37 years of age, and once again, Lithuania has returned to their roots.
It is said that the last words of Butavas were to the priest near his bed. Word on the street is that he told the Catholic priest to shove his crucifix up his ass, although there is no confirmation those were his dying words. Yet, once again Lithuania has returned to the old gods, and also to the troubles of Gavelkind succession because the Elective monarchy that allowed a heathen to succeed ironically depended on Catholic institutions no longer relevant for the Kingdom, but eventually that will no longer be a problem. Regardless, Butavas I became later iconic as THE Lithuanian Hitman, and as the scourge of England. He died certain that what Lithuania went through because of zealotry has been avenged.
LONG LIVE KARIJOTAS!
DEATH TO ROMANISM!
TO BE CONTINUED
==============================
God have mercy on England, because the Lithuanian Hitmen will have none!
Hitman Blood Money: Ave Maria
With the complete subjugation and annihilation of Lithuania at stake, Butavas was faced a hard choice between fighting to the death for the gods, ultimately a futile gesture, or kneeling to the cross with deep seated cynicism, pretending to worship their God to put an end to the wars before they put an end to Lithuania. Butavas thus was baptized with much of his family, a hollow gesture in a still mostly pagan kingdom to save Lithuania from a final demise. The Pope rejoiced the news of a new kingdom joining their Church, yet they were fools to expect this to last.
The spiritual battle lost by Lithuania was only one of many successful "holy" wars, for since the conquest of the city of Jerusalem, never before in History the moral authority of Catholicism has been so high, unlike Orthodoxy, rife with Bogomil and Iconoclast heresies since Constantinople fell to the devious Republic of Venice.
To pretend to accept Jesus as Lord had some benefits. No longer trapped by the frail Gavelkind succession, Butavas began to take measures to transform Lithuania into an elective monarchy, where all Dukes would be able to put a vote for the next king... and all dukes in Lithuania remained faithful to the old gods, with the recently converted king having very little desire or interest to change that. Naturally, this was all according to the plan to trick the hypocrites, to spit on their cross during the night while praying to it during the day. For once Butavas dies, the Romuva faith shall once again return to the throne of Lithuania.
From retaining a pagan as the "court chaplain" to research rather than getting a priest to convert, to voting on a bright and pagan son of his, Butavas actions never hid his contempt over such essentially forced conversion.
With only 38 years of age, the Pope responsible for putting the Kingdom of Lithuania on their knees died. Whether an industrious and patriotic Lithuanian had anything to do with that or not is something the king is unaware of. Good riddance, and may he despair once he realizes there is no Heaven. There were however others that deserved to die, and one whore in particular was on the hit list of Lithuania.
Butavas have appreciated the deep irony of the title his Catholic subjects have given to him, too simple-minded to realize what happened.
To keep the Christian zealots distracted, a Grand Tournament was organized, the first in the history of the Kingdom, and probably the last as well.
Unfortunately, accidents happen. No, really, it was an accident, not a crafty Lithuanian assassination attempt.
While pagan, Butavas had to deal with Catholic peasant mobs... now it is the opposite, how annoying.
Champions rose, the crowd cheered, and the Lithuanian tradition of excellent light cavalry was proven once again. A valuable distraction indeed.
The Kingdom of Lithuania may have a Catholic ruler for now, but the plans to conquer Pommerania and Cape Arkona were never abandoned. Yet, they needed a claim now that they temporarily joined Christendom.
There will be much intrigue and even conflicts over the same family once Butavas dies, the price to pay for preventing the extinction of Lithuania as an independent kingdom, for the Romuva and Catholic family members will likely fight each other for a long time.
Butavas has always been a kind ruler, and when a certain nuisance bothered him, unlike some of his distant predecessors, he sent him flowers.
When the Spymaster of England agreed to help Lithuania with their long plans of revenge for what England did, the fate of England was defined.
Shit.
Lithuania continued to advance thanks to a consistent intelligence effort, and in the field of military organization, Lithuania was ahead of most of the world.
Die bitch, die already! This is what happens when outsourcing hitman jobs, even when they are organized by a Lithuanian.
Hitman 2 Theme
While one of the daughters of Butavas was about to get married with the king of Leon, finally the whore that brought victory to Poland in their "holy war" for Prussia got what she deserved, but that was not enough, not enough at all. England has grown too powerful, somehow inheriting Denmark, something utterly against the best interests of Lithuania. It was then that the legend of the Lithuanian Hitmen would truly rise, for Butavas has decided to decimate the English royal family, to bring enough turmoil for their empire to fall apart so that their planned conquest of Cape Arkona will not be borderline impossible due to their rule over it and their massive size.
The last of the Livonian Order shall not be tolerated, for they were de jure part of the Kingdom of Lithuania, and thus, even after conversion, Butavas still had a justification to crush them.
The successor of the bitch queen had a very short reign, and as long as England was that massive, all reigns over there would be short-lasted indeed, until something very unfavorable could allow for the rest to happen on its own.
No matter how many times it was unsuccessful, a curse without equal, the murderous gaze of vengeful Lithuanian Hitmen for what they did, remains over England, and all their kings shall be short lived!
Butavas planted roses with a great serenity and calmness, and a few hours later plotted the deaths of those who forced him to convert.
Three kings murdered in an incredibly short time, and more would meet the same fate soon. The wrath of the Lithuanian Hitman is truly without equal, and no matter how many massive armies, how many guards, how much security one has, when a Lithuanian is at it, being killed is inevitable.
The great turmoil of three short lasted reigns starts to crack England, but it still is not enough, but perhaps enough for the claims made over Pomeralia to be pressed through war.
With the King of England being only 1-year old, his immediate heir meets his demise as well. Revenge is a dish best served cold, but it still tastes delicious.
He should be directing such cruelty towards the Polish and English scum instead.
No mercy! Now it is time to throw an inbred degenerate Innsmouth look baby out of the window, and let a 60-year old Portuguese assume the throne of England, with all the chaos it should ensue.
The conversion could secure a great future for the Gediminaitis dynasty, even if soon religious differences would forever divide their family. One of Butavas sons secured a Bethrotal with the queen of the Rus, which meant that eventually the Lithuanian dynasty would rule over those lands, provided the queen of Rus doesn't die first, of course.
Requesting The Brazilian Slaughter opinion about this.
Through the turmoil the revenge of the Lithuanian Hitmen, who now became truly legends across all of Europe for their mastery of assassination, for being such assassins of the most powerful kings, for putting an empire on their knees, finally England lost Denmark, and now the time was perfect to begin the invasion of Pommerania. England under a Portuguese old king who only had female heirs, truly what they deserved.
And now it is time to finish this long revenge with its final touch: the gradual conquest of Pommerania.
Butavas had a long and peaceful reign, the relative degree of religious tolerance and the elective monarchy pleasing his Romuva vassals, and he was now determined to leave his successor much close to the goal of forging a Romuva Church.
The last independent Persian Kingdom fought in the name of the thunder god, and conquered the city of Kiev. The Mongol Empire, bloated and rife with peasant revolts failed to become the most successful participant in such great holy war for the reformed Tengri Church. However, considering the vast distances, it is unlikely the Persians will manage to keep what they conquered. Now that Islam was crushed like a skull of pig, hopefully the Tengri hordes will turn their attention towards all of Christendom, except for those pretending to be part of it, hopefully.
While the Lithuanian armies glorious besieged the capital of England, Butavas became sick. His illness became worse and worse. This could be his end.
An alliance with Armenia placed Lithuania in a holy war against Muslims, and naively, the Pope decided to give them some support while the Catholic king growing ever worse in his illness would be succeeded by a heathen once he dies.
Maimed and suffering with a terrible fever, Butavas died with only 37 years of age, and once again, Lithuania has returned to their roots.
It is said that the last words of Butavas were to the priest near his bed. Word on the street is that he told the Catholic priest to shove his crucifix up his ass, although there is no confirmation those were his dying words. Yet, once again Lithuania has returned to the old gods, and also to the troubles of Gavelkind succession because the Elective monarchy that allowed a heathen to succeed ironically depended on Catholic institutions no longer relevant for the Kingdom, but eventually that will no longer be a problem. Regardless, Butavas I became later iconic as THE Lithuanian Hitman, and as the scourge of England. He died certain that what Lithuania went through because of zealotry has been avenged.
LONG LIVE KARIJOTAS!
DEATH TO ROMANISM!
TO BE CONTINUED
Thor Kaufman
Arcane
Awesome
I've never had the patience to play a whole Paradox game yet, but I hope that some day, I will. 
Sweet revenge. Truly the Lithuanian hitmen are without equal.
Good to see the Christian yolk thrown off!
Good to see the Christian yolk thrown off!
Cassidy
Arcane
This will be the last update in this page.
====================
The Defiance of the last Pagans
Skyforger - Cekulaina Zile Dzied
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
But he molested children! How can you?
Karijotas "The Apostate", as the Romanists called him, reigned over a divided Kingdom, where the shadow of the cross loomed larger and larger every year. Through the power of the Lithuanian Hitmen, extremely faithful to the old gods, Karijotas hoped to revert part of such situation, but there was much work to do. Meanwhile, another closer step to cape Arkona. However, now there was truce, but, if they waited, England could grow too strong for Lithuania to stand a chance of victory again.
Therefore, the truce can go to the abyss! After all England did against Lithuania, they deserve no honor.
Giltine's Chosen are feared by a reason. All Catholic bishops desecrating sacred sites of the Romuva faith were eliminated very quickly, in no small part thanks to the Russian spymaster support, who had little care for the Catholics after what they have done to Constantinople.
Guess what happens now?
Thousands of lives were saved by the deeds of one Lithuanian that entirely averted a war.
Meanwhile in Poland
They never change.
Arrogant, the English thought they could defeat the Lithuanian armies with only a fraction of their forces. Mercenary reinforcements from Russia and Finland proved them wrong.
Karijotas actions in battle have tempered him with patience, a valuable virtue, specially when defending ground.
One of the unfortunate consequences of the less than honest conversion of his father was how the rabble and sheeple over Vilnius lacked the intelligence to realize such conversion was not genuine, and fell to the siren song of the false god. Now, the traitors rose against their own kingdom. They won't be forgiven!
While the war with England for Pommerania was proving more complicated, even more traitors rise to defy the legitimate king and the legitimate gods.
More mercenaries were hired and more men recruited to the siege of Stettin, and the English suffered another terrible and crushing defeat, but they still refused to surrender Stettin. More blood would have to be shed for Lithuania to end one step closer to Cape Arkona, the key to reforming their faith.
Eventually, England had no more choice, suffering defeat after defeat for falling into the trick of not checking the seas for reinforcements. Victory!
Still, some Poles and traitors needed to be taught a lesson in blood.
The war however had a significant cost in lives, and the mercenaries weren't cheap to maintain, and now, while they prepared to return those invaders to their precious Poland, Danish scumbags decided to start a "crusade" of their own as well. It seems that blood and war will be a near constant for the last pagan kingdom of Europe, and the Danes will be tough foes, specially because they brought Norway to their "holy" war as well.
A great battle happened at Stettin, the Danish scum having the advantage of numbers and of having killed one of the Lithuanian commanders. The future of Lithuania demanded victory. There was no other acceptable outcome.
The victory at Stettin was a great victory for Lithuania that not even reinforcements could change. Crush the liberals without mercy!
Karijotas learned much from these trying battles, from the difficult wars he waged ever since the kingdom of Lithuania returned to the real gods, against much of Poland, against England, Norway and Denmark, where ultimately, through superior maneuver over land and sea, Lithuania prevailed so far. Then, after finishing off the Danish forces, a Norwegian army approached their reduced forces, both even numbered, but with the Norwegians having much more heavy infantry.
It was one hell of a fight, but Lithuania once again prevailed, and their armies now marched to finish the Potatoes and the Snowmen off.
Then more scum rise over Vilnius, demanding a king that will kneel to the false prophet known as the Pope. They will soon meet their deserved fate.
With their crusasder armies utterly annihilated, Denmark and Greater Potato were forced to pay heavy indemnities to Lithuania, and these two great victories against too unholy wars gave a very important boost in the moral authority of the Romuva Faith, that will be sufficient with a few more conquests and the capture of Cape Arkona for the long hoped dream of doing the same the much larger Mongol Empire has done and reforming their religion as well.
The peasant scum thought they had a chance. They were given no mercy, sent to see there is no god as they believed at.
Karijotas was not overtly cruel, but he nevertheless ordered for the leader of the massive revolt in Vilnius to be publicly executed as a warning to the rest of the heathens.
The other malcontents were vanquished shortly after, and Lithuania has prevailed against such numerically superior threats.
Karijotas got hurt during the war, for he fought many hard battles, yet, like Lithuania recovered from its darkest times, from a forced conversion even, so did the king.
No way!
There is however a serious problem. His wife was a bit old but a genius. Now she is too old and he still has no heir. If he dies, another Catholic will inherit. Having too much pressure, Karijota would end making a grave mistake.
His traitorous brother plotted his death, to which he reacted by ordering his arrest.
And banishing the traitor.
And then...
Some bribes will be needed to gather enough supporters for a now necessary Hitman job to secure Lithuania won't end in Russian hands. Meanwhile, Karijotas is strongly considering a divorce to marry with someone that will have greater chances of bearing him a heir, any heir.
All along, Denmark was crushed again in revenge, and, being depleted, they simply agreed to give in Wolgast after a while. Victory!
Never before has Lithuania been so close to both the extinction of its traditional religion and its greatest glory. Once the truce with Denmark ends, because the price for breaking truces is too painful to be endured a second time, then the decisive moment, the reformation of the Romuva faith, provided that asshole in matrilineal marriage with a Rurikovich fat bitch doesn't inherit Lithuania first.
Cape Arkona will be Lithuanian, as will all of Pommerania!
Even more, a new dream, still distant, slowly gains form, but that is for another time, and it may never, ever happen. Right now, the reformation of the Romuva faith is the greater goal of the kingdom, a goal that may require much bloodshed yet.
TO BE CONTINUED
====================
The Defiance of the last Pagans
Skyforger - Cekulaina Zile Dzied
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
But he molested children! How can you?
Karijotas "The Apostate", as the Romanists called him, reigned over a divided Kingdom, where the shadow of the cross loomed larger and larger every year. Through the power of the Lithuanian Hitmen, extremely faithful to the old gods, Karijotas hoped to revert part of such situation, but there was much work to do. Meanwhile, another closer step to cape Arkona. However, now there was truce, but, if they waited, England could grow too strong for Lithuania to stand a chance of victory again.
Therefore, the truce can go to the abyss! After all England did against Lithuania, they deserve no honor.
Giltine's Chosen are feared by a reason. All Catholic bishops desecrating sacred sites of the Romuva faith were eliminated very quickly, in no small part thanks to the Russian spymaster support, who had little care for the Catholics after what they have done to Constantinople.
Guess what happens now?
Thousands of lives were saved by the deeds of one Lithuanian that entirely averted a war.
Meanwhile in Poland
They never change.
Arrogant, the English thought they could defeat the Lithuanian armies with only a fraction of their forces. Mercenary reinforcements from Russia and Finland proved them wrong.
Karijotas actions in battle have tempered him with patience, a valuable virtue, specially when defending ground.
One of the unfortunate consequences of the less than honest conversion of his father was how the rabble and sheeple over Vilnius lacked the intelligence to realize such conversion was not genuine, and fell to the siren song of the false god. Now, the traitors rose against their own kingdom. They won't be forgiven!
While the war with England for Pommerania was proving more complicated, even more traitors rise to defy the legitimate king and the legitimate gods.
More mercenaries were hired and more men recruited to the siege of Stettin, and the English suffered another terrible and crushing defeat, but they still refused to surrender Stettin. More blood would have to be shed for Lithuania to end one step closer to Cape Arkona, the key to reforming their faith.
Eventually, England had no more choice, suffering defeat after defeat for falling into the trick of not checking the seas for reinforcements. Victory!
Still, some Poles and traitors needed to be taught a lesson in blood.
The war however had a significant cost in lives, and the mercenaries weren't cheap to maintain, and now, while they prepared to return those invaders to their precious Poland, Danish scumbags decided to start a "crusade" of their own as well. It seems that blood and war will be a near constant for the last pagan kingdom of Europe, and the Danes will be tough foes, specially because they brought Norway to their "holy" war as well.
A great battle happened at Stettin, the Danish scum having the advantage of numbers and of having killed one of the Lithuanian commanders. The future of Lithuania demanded victory. There was no other acceptable outcome.
The victory at Stettin was a great victory for Lithuania that not even reinforcements could change. Crush the liberals without mercy!
Karijotas learned much from these trying battles, from the difficult wars he waged ever since the kingdom of Lithuania returned to the real gods, against much of Poland, against England, Norway and Denmark, where ultimately, through superior maneuver over land and sea, Lithuania prevailed so far. Then, after finishing off the Danish forces, a Norwegian army approached their reduced forces, both even numbered, but with the Norwegians having much more heavy infantry.
It was one hell of a fight, but Lithuania once again prevailed, and their armies now marched to finish the Potatoes and the Snowmen off.
Then more scum rise over Vilnius, demanding a king that will kneel to the false prophet known as the Pope. They will soon meet their deserved fate.
With their crusasder armies utterly annihilated, Denmark and Greater Potato were forced to pay heavy indemnities to Lithuania, and these two great victories against too unholy wars gave a very important boost in the moral authority of the Romuva Faith, that will be sufficient with a few more conquests and the capture of Cape Arkona for the long hoped dream of doing the same the much larger Mongol Empire has done and reforming their religion as well.
The peasant scum thought they had a chance. They were given no mercy, sent to see there is no god as they believed at.
Karijotas was not overtly cruel, but he nevertheless ordered for the leader of the massive revolt in Vilnius to be publicly executed as a warning to the rest of the heathens.
The other malcontents were vanquished shortly after, and Lithuania has prevailed against such numerically superior threats.
Karijotas got hurt during the war, for he fought many hard battles, yet, like Lithuania recovered from its darkest times, from a forced conversion even, so did the king.
No way!
There is however a serious problem. His wife was a bit old but a genius. Now she is too old and he still has no heir. If he dies, another Catholic will inherit. Having too much pressure, Karijota would end making a grave mistake.
His traitorous brother plotted his death, to which he reacted by ordering his arrest.
And banishing the traitor.
And then...
Some bribes will be needed to gather enough supporters for a now necessary Hitman job to secure Lithuania won't end in Russian hands. Meanwhile, Karijotas is strongly considering a divorce to marry with someone that will have greater chances of bearing him a heir, any heir.
All along, Denmark was crushed again in revenge, and, being depleted, they simply agreed to give in Wolgast after a while. Victory!
Never before has Lithuania been so close to both the extinction of its traditional religion and its greatest glory. Once the truce with Denmark ends, because the price for breaking truces is too painful to be endured a second time, then the decisive moment, the reformation of the Romuva faith, provided that asshole in matrilineal marriage with a Rurikovich fat bitch doesn't inherit Lithuania first.
Cape Arkona will be Lithuanian, as will all of Pommerania!
Even more, a new dream, still distant, slowly gains form, but that is for another time, and it may never, ever happen. Right now, the reformation of the Romuva faith is the greater goal of the kingdom, a goal that may require much bloodshed yet.
TO BE CONTINUED
Kashmir Slippers
Magister
Bump!
Thor Kaufman
Arcane
^
Bump!
Lets hope you can produce a proper Romuva heir!
Lets hope you can produce a proper Romuva heir!
Krash
Arcane
bump!
Thor Kaufman
Arcane
^
hostergaard
Educated
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2013
- Messages
- 71
Bump for moar hitmen!
Bump!
Kashmir Slippers
Magister
Bump!
Kashmir Slippers
Magister
Bump!
Thor Kaufman
Arcane
bam
Cassidy
Arcane
A New Church Smithed from Stone and Blood
Anvil of Crom
A genius wife unable to bear children and spiteful is an undesirable one. Karijotas will need a better wife, and meanwhile, some "wetworks", not some, but a lot of them will be required, challenging the skills of the best Lithuanian Hitmen.
Thus, he married with a Finn that had a lot of talents.
However, all the conflicts made him oblivious to problems at home. Zemaitija has once again displeased the gods, the old woman ruling over it embracing the effeminate Christianity and worse, Memel being converted to Catholicism under the nose of Karijotas. This will not stand! The angels of death shall bring them all to the realm of Giltine!
DEATH TO RUSSIA
DEATH TO RUSSOPHILE RACE TRAITORS! OOPS NOT THIS TIME
The threat of Russia inheriting Lithuania was solved, but there was another problem created with the effective solution to this one:
Now that the reputation is already in, it is time to finish the job and send all the rotten part of the Gediminaitis who worship the false God to their deaths!
Another service for the Lithuanian Hitmen. Fortunately, being pretty much the only Orthodox of relevance, the entire court despises him, which means he won't live much longer.
Are you Lithuanian Hitmen or not?
Finally! All apostate siblings were sent to the bleak lands of Giltine, for when the Lithuanian Hitmen come, no god can save those in their lists. Better, even if Karijotas dies now, his desmesne won't be divided anymore, but inherited by his younger half-brother faithful to the old gods.
The last de jure territory of Lithuania joins the Kingdom, and is given to the Archpriesthood of Livonia. The independent Mecklenburg was a natural target after this easy victory. Another easy victory for sure.
Their king fought valiantly and died. This wouldn't last much longer.
Yet the conquest served to hone Karijotas meager martial skills.
Now, all that had to be done was to wait for the truce with Denmark to end, and then, the time would come for something that would change Lithuania forever. First however, there were preparations for such great action, such as bringing a WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW? to all apostates in the kingdom as the Hitmen slice their throats.
Let them beg for salvation to fall on the deaf ears of a false god! No mercy to those who serve a Church that tried to destroy Lithuania!
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW CRONE?
Even better, slaughtering that old apostate like a pig brought in some secrets she was hoarding, secrets that served well to advance the military organization of Lithuania much ahead of her time.
And finally a proper ruler was set for Zemaitija, and soon for Memel as well, although the latter would require a lot more of hitman work.
Finally Karijotas' first child would be born.
After the chaos in Scandinavia that near wiped Sweden off the map, the Finns remained a free people mostly, and from the northernmost and coldest regions of Karelia, at Kola, a dynasty of Lappish chiefs has slowly united Finland under mighty Karelia, and now they faced an arrogant Russian Bogomil ruling over a tiny part of it, a Bogomil that would soon meet his end, while for Finland, this was just the beginning.
His false god didn't save his three surviving children, and won't save him as well. Unfortunately, all this honor to the goddess of death was getting expensive, but it was necessary, as a show that the moral authority of the Romuva faith won't be tarnished by inside traitors and apostates.
For the moment, Memel was left for another time because the master of hitmen and spies needed to be relocated for maximum odds of success, and instead another bishop was dealt with.
Not exactly the heir Karijotas would want, but he still is young.
At last, the time has come for the final step before doing to their religion what the Mongols did to theirs and transforming something oral into written, the informal into formal, the stone into magnificent buildings. There was only one more step required for the reformation: Cape Arkona, the place where the last Slavic pagans of Pommerania made their final stand, fighting to the last man for the gods, but also an important site for the Romuva faith, for it is believed the stone hammer of Perkunas still rests there.
DEATH TO ROMANIST SNOWMEN!
Tragedy happens as his second wife dying giving birth to a stillborn child, but such is life, and Karijotas moves on.
Work will be required to rebuild Arkona back to the glory of the gods, but for now, this was one great first step. Denmark is clearly weakened. They have ceased to be the fearless and feared Vikings after embracing Christianity and becoming no longer courageous, proud Vikings, but instead effeminate, pathetic libruls .
Nothing can stop the Lithuanian Hitmen, and at last all titles of Lithuania are ruled by properly faithful individuals who stand proud instead of bending their lies to snaketongues and liars. The lesson was given to all those who wavered in their faith to the gods, in how death by the masterful hands of the best in the art of silent assassinationb is the only fate that awaits traitors.
Andhaira X, utterly crushed, like a worm thinking it can defeat a Lion, insists in trolling the Mongol Empire. This will end well... for the Mongols.
The Mongols have proved that even something as insidious as Islam can be crushed, but the Christian world is far more strong, and Lithuania far smaller than the vast Mongol Empire as well. Yet, to burn Rome to the ground, to desecrate all her Churches, that would be a perfect revenge for all they have done against the Baltic peoples since the Livonian genocide that wiped out the Livs. Maybe this is wishful thinking, for to reach Rome, Empires will have to be annihilated first.
Against all odds, in the year of 1345, Finland became the penultimate pagan kingdom in Europe. Whether they would survive or not remained to be seen.
Crushed and long broken by previous wars, Denmark surrendered, and finally, a watershed that will forever change the History of Lithuania and of Europe is about to happen.
From its last breath, the Romuva religion became something with a clear structure, clear definitions and far more inspiring than its humble origins, without ever forgetting them.
However, not all saw the centralization and creation of a Catechism, of a written Liturgy for the gods as welcome. Many still stuck to the old, unstructured and unreformed Romuva faith. Yet now, finally Vilnius could be purified from the taint of Catholicism effectively, because everything, from creation myth to the values defended, from the inspiring monuments, was set to inspire the masses with its quintessential divinity. With an excellent Theologian and priestess leading the conversion efforts, the reformed Romuva religion shall take over the Baltics.
The god of all and the gods of nature and industry shall prevail over the god of the weak and of the Jews! Hammer the cross down! Let the vines consume it, for the twilight of the false god draws near!
TO BE CONTINUED
PS: The Reformation of the Romuva religion included the creation of a formal Order of Giltine's Chosen, so secret it is impossible to detect it in-game, because they really are the best of the best when it comes to silent assassins.
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