Therefore, 1B 2B it will be.
Unfortunately, however, my skills at writing any script language coherently are poor. I realized several typos in events inherited from Mare Apertum and that I did, issues that ended bringing this AAR to an end forty years before 1820 because of an unavoidable crash in 1780. Not that there would be much to show off, as you'll understand by the end of this final update.
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The Sun will never set in the Great Vinland Hersk!
The first less than competent Fœrer comes after his predecessor dies along the travel to Makassar, where he was meant to lead an army into conquering such uncivilized but rich land.
Stopping at Ming, the army tasked with the conquest of the first of the great wealth in spices Vinland would soon have was ready. Meanwhile, Vinland has grown into more than a frontier country. It has become one of the greatest colonial powers of the world, having secured their South African colonies from the horrors of Ahtu Africa, and now expanding right into the Spice Islands.
Compared to the brutal battles waged against the Dagonl'nu and to the harsh struggles against the Catholic powers that once dared to think they could take a slice of Vinland for themselves, Makassar's defeat was so easy it was not even worth mentioning. And with such quite populous place subjugated to the Hersk, the Spice began to flow into Vinland coffers.
Meanwhile, in Iberia, Navarra, in something that seems deeply ironicly, was wiping Castille from the map, the Basques ambitions toward creating a Kingdom of Spain clear upon the demise of their former allies.
Odinhóll has become a truly great and glorious city, with more than a hundred thousand inhabitants, it has been blessed with a truly majestic and vast harbor with infrastructure to support ships from the entire New World, and one of the greatest ports of the world.
Damn Granadans, but it was cheaper to appeal to their dishonor than to make them pay. Meanwhile, Tollak Amundsen was determined to chart the entire world, to create the first complete world map, with every sea, every corner known and discovered.
From the experience of his great naval expedition to map the entirety of all oceans in the planet, much Naval Tradition was being gained, and great admirals would rise from his brave crew, that went through the frozen waters near the North and South Poles.
Tollak Amundsen sighted another massive landmass in the extremely cold South Pole, large enough to possibly be an entire frozen continent. It was of little interest because of the extreme hostility of such frozen lands, but could unknown secrets and riches be buried under the ice? Braving such hostile land was beyond the technology of this age, for now, but one day an expedition would raise the Raven Banner upon Antarctica.
Fortunately, the rule of the incompetent was not too long, and a new, much greater Fœrer replaced him when he died. Hans Amundsen was his name
Note: Hans gets close, but it still is not as awesome as "Adolf"
Nutmeg is the most valuable resource in the Indies, and it seems colonizing them was indeed a great idea, for they would bring immense wealth to the Hersk.
Fucking dumb limeys. Leave trading to the superior Nordic ubermensch and not to such "Innsmouth Look" degenerates!
This means no attempts towards commercial expansion for a long time.
April 12th, 1770 was the day of Tollak Amundsen's greatest achievement, an achievement that will be remembered in History forever. For he finally has charted ever expanse of seas of the Earth, and from his years of exploration, the most complete World Map ever was created in Vinland. Truly, the legacy of Leif Ericsson has gone far, and now, as Vinland becomes the greatest empire on Earth, it shall be remembered for both its discoveries and feats, and while the Viking Age of old was coming to an end, a new one was slowly rising, from the manufactories where new techniques were being invented, from at first failed attempts to create machines capable of manufacturing in much less time what many men would take longer to do, from the rising of nationalist fervor.
England failed, Vinland prevailed. The Iberian colonial powers mostly perished to the ambitions of a Navarra resolute to form a kingdom of Spain, and the Norses of the Old World lie on the brink of extinction, for indeed it was in the New that the future of those who have faith in Odin have always been, as woven by the Norns. No country has grown more in territory in the last three hundred years than the glorious and triumphant Vinland, or at least no country not worshipping inhuman and eldritch gods.
A powerful country, with an ever rising economy, such was the great future of Vinland, now secure in peace as Ahtu Africa and all others drown in their own madness.
And while most of the West coast ended producing low value goods, in the end, it building all those anchorages and a larger navy to support such expansion was worth.
Having inherited Denmark through a royal union, France marched to achieve what the Teutonic and Norse Orders failed to, and this time, there was no hope. Sweden, Finland and Lithuania were doomed to be sooner or later wiped from the map. It was only in Vinland that the faith to the olds gods would survive, and maybe one day, rapid iron beasts on treads would blitz through Ile de France, their surrounded armies pathetically raising white flags and the vengeance of the Hersk comes, for what they have done against the Norse will never be forgiven and never be forgotten.
Savages being savage, and rightfully exterminated. It seems that no matter how diplomatically Vinland attempts to be, there will always be those barely better than niggers who will only leave colonists in peace after the always handy genocide.
Some funny thing, in the remote Kuril Islands, the Mughal Empire settled a center of trade, but funnily, the only merchants who bothered with it were from Vinland, and they naturally established an insanely profitable monopoly.
Like Granada transformed their former colonies into their new kingdom when their twilight began over Iberia, so did Castille, with the royal family moving to the palce that links Vinland with America, and swearing revenge against the Basques. Of all Iberian colonial powers, only Portugal survives in their ancestral home, as an ambitious Navarra prepares to completely expel Castille and Granada from the peninsula.
In spite of the crisis, through superior trading skills, Vinland managed to create enough monopolies to gain a valuable boon to their trade, a very important step considering the taxes overseas merchants pay make most of their income. This is an advantage that will give to the Hersk an unequal edge in commerce once the crisis is finally over.
In the west coast, Finns who have learned to hate the French 10 times more than the Russians are offered a refuge safe from religious zealotry and imperialism from the Catholic powers.
Through the end of the 19th Century, Vinland expanded so much it became the first truly global empire of the world, for it is said that since 1780, the sun never sets in Vinland. From a harsh, difficult beginning as a minor and backwards country in 1453, Vinland has truly honored the legacy of the mythical Angartýr, becoming a country so powerful and courageous they defied even the unspeakable horrors of Ahtu Africa, and prevailed. Now, with colonies in Africa, Asia, Oceania and India, and as the first country to fully chart all oceans of the planet, Vinland will leave a legacy that will be forever remembered
Vinland is the greatest economic power of the world, her wealth from trade and superior manufacture unequaled, a wealth that would transform them into the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution in the next century. The great importance of economics would also transform the Hersk into a Technocratic Hersk, and Vinland would become the only real Technocracy of the world through the next and the 20th Centuries, a country where wisdom and science have always been more important than the dogmatic cretinism and zealotry of the Old World.
To secure a slice of the trade in Odinhóll is the dream of every single merchant on Earth, for the capital of Vinland is truly a World Trade Center (couldn't resist), where there is more wealth and opportunity to be found than in any other city of the world. Through the next centuries, Odinhóll would become the heart of global capitalism, and oftenly the favorite target of fanatical Christard and Durka Durka terrorists, who being all a bunch of FartRiders would naturally fail again and again in such pathetic displays of dishonorable terrorism.
The legions of ITZ have grown complacent and suicidal, their countries, like the mythical Ouroboros, eating themselves too much to be able to continue expanding. The world still was very toughly touched by the ITZ, but there is much yet to come.
The Qing, once Mughal Empire, once Mongol Khaganate, seems to be in a perpetual state of turmoil. For reasons not entirely known, a Khagan has forsaken the Great Old Ones to embrace Buddhism and Confucianism, and unknowingly, he saved his vast empire, even if it is doomed to much chaos for a long time because of the vastness of Eldritch cults. While the Hastur Khaganate is within a perpetuity of self-destructive chaos, they slowly recover, and may yet challenge the weakened but still powerful Ming Empire to their South.
The worst kebab dressed as gyro of the Ottoman Empire was one of the first to be struck down hard by the legions of the Great Old Ones, and while they suffered severe territorial losses to both Ahtu Africa and the Hastur Khaganate, they have managed to survive as a still powerful, if decadent and declining empire. It is unlikelythey will make through the next century intact.
The Dagonl'nu simply decided to leave Vinland in peace, realizing their gods don't give a fuck about the pathetic and insignificant human politics to make them literally invincible. They have grown quiet for centuries, and would grow ever backwards, even with the dark gods helping them.
The Wyandot became the undisputed rulers of all civilized tribes within Vinland, but they were dragged by their own expansion, failing to westernize, and growing ever more backwards. Through close marriages with the Fœrers of Vinland, there could yet happen an united country within the continent, but only through peace, for the value of honor is held in too high regard inside Vinland for them to betray their only reliable allies.
Through contact with Europeans, the triumphant Vijaynagar within Southern India attempts to westernize, secure in the knowledge Vinland does not have ambitions over the Indian subcontinent, and that all other European powers have grown too weak to attempt a conquest of the Indies. Over most of India, Islam was crushed like a skull of pig and the Wyrmlords triumphed against the Andhairas.
France conquered Scandinavia through their treachery of being a bunch of frogs, and Sweden, Finland and Lithuania are slowly fading away through partitions, with little hope of victory. Perhaps one day there will be a glorious revenge for this, like a blitzkrieg, like some Norse ubermensch dressed in black with an insignia of two lightning bolts from Thor putting froggies in their place and tearing down Notre Dame. But for now Vinland is not yet ready, but once the time comes to say hello to the frogs:
Navarra, despite deprived of any colonial possessions, conquered most of Iberia, forcing Castille and Granada to seek shelter in their former colonies, now remnants of their fallen homeland. From the New World, they prepare themselves to take back the lands they consider rightfully theirs. Through decades their conflicts would remain inconclusive.
As for Vinland, obviously:
VINLAND FUCK YEAH!
THE END