"A few years after the plague, a couple of dark men, bathed in gold, arrived in familiar yet strangely foreign longboats. Their ships reminded us of Danish and Norwegian ones that transported the Great Heathen Army all of those years ago. We had no idea who were these people, and we never knew the impact they were going to have on our history."
-Excerpt from The History of Kɛnɛsan, written in 1361, by a Cornish scribe simply known as "The White Rider".
POST-MORTEM: Europe After The Black Death
The light of the continent of Europe had been snuffed out for some years by now. When the Plague began its rampage in 1346, Europe and the Middle East's destiny had been sealed. People were dropping dead like flies, no matter how hard they prayed to God, Allah, or some other deity. One by one, Kingdoms forged in fire and faith that had lasted for hundreds of years were, along with their people, dying. The streets of major European cities were like scenes out of Hell itself, bodies piled up everywhere, completely empty city quarters, lifeless markets that were once bustling with activity, and borderline psychopathic survivors who were trying to avoid contact with each other. It seemed like this was Europe's equivalent of God's 10 Egyptian Plagues, but instead of it being many plagues, it was just one brutal sickness. When the pandemic ended in 1353, approximately 99% of the continent had died. Most settlements were slowly but surely rotting away, preparing themselves to be forgotten by the annals of history. The surviving cities, towns, and most importantly, people, were suffering. Why? Why didn't they die? Why did they have to endure God's unleashing of Luzbel's realm on Earth? Did this mean that there was a purpose for living? The survivors wanted to die and join their family and friends in Heaven or Hell, but no, they had to be alone in this vast land, a land that was once known as the world's desire, a land once known for housing great battles, leaders, and realms, a land once known as Mighty Europa. History had taken its biggest blow yet with the loss of Europe and the Middle East, but no land is ever truly dead. If people of a land die or disappear, sooner or later, they will be replaced by other people. So as the ashes of the European continent and its people settled, it was time for new people to grab them and rebuild them. These ashes obviously weren't going to be grabbed by the Native Europeans themselves, no, they simply had no chance. Most Europeans had returned to pre-historic levels of technology, with most becoming nomads and hunter-gatherers, exploring the wastelands of the realms they once called home and looking for food and other basic resources. Sometimes, these peoples, if they had common interests, banded with each other to form Tribes, but just like in the good old days of Europe, if they didn't agree with each other, they would fight. In European tribal battles, whole remnants of old ethnic groups peoples were completely slaughtered, such as the remaining Bretons or Basques. Europeans were stubborn and perfidious, and no matter how much their situation had changed for the worse, they weren't willing to change the things that had brought them suffering in the first place.
The start of a great Project
This article is to welcome this great mod, which inserts a post-apocalyptic lore, after a plague wiped out 85% of the population of the European continent. Making room for other continents to emerge and form great empires.Focused on Asian and African empires, which took their colonial influence very far!.
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