Talk:A Bad Past (Map Game)/@comment-5590986-20170427191102

(To help with activity I am going to release the lore into chapters)

Chapter 1: Lagged Time (1347 to 1450)

In the early year of 1347, word had reached Europe from Crimea that a dark plague lurked over the horizon across the Empire of Mongolia. Tales of men, women, and children's skin boil from a extreme stench with cursed black lumps all over their bodies. Many people was unsure of what to do until word reached Caucasia that the death had made it's spread there. The great famine was already surpassing by the time the black death spread.

Sensing danger incoming, the Polish King, Casimir the Great, had closed his borders. Thanks to Poland's sparse and isolated population, many other kingdoms concluded that it would also be effective to close their borders and isolate those within the city walls. Many were not allowed to enter when the plague passed through each country with little rates of infection, and many were not allowed to leave. The plague had not done any real damage passed the barren cold wastes of Russia.

As the plague changed it's course to Anatolia, the small Turkish immigrants fled into the Byzantine Empire, but was denied access to it's European side. Many of those in anatolia died, but many also survived thanks to the mountains. Ships that carry the dead along with them were routinely burned.

By 1357, the plague has passed through and those who were still homesick began to trickle out to their own farmlands. After a couple of incidents of famine here and there (because no food from farms for a while and stocks were low). Things were looking bright for Europe.

Despite the set back, the Byzantine Empire was weak, but the Turkish states were alot weaker from the plague, which had built up in anatolia rather than spread out (to reduce the regional death rate) into Europe. The Byzantine Emperor, in 1373, John V Palaiologos (who reigned since 1341, total of 50 years irl) began a vigorous campaign into Anatolia. By his death, his efforts allowed the Purple Phoenix (representation for Byzantine Empire irl, same like a Bear with Russia or Bald Eagle with USA) to be reborn again as a stable state by his death in 1391.

During this time, gunpowder was starting to be expanded on during the perpetual war between France and England. With each battle, larger and bigger cannons is becoming more widespread. Rumor has it that one cannon is as tall as a hut and it's sound can be heard throughout Europe.

Many minor inventors around this time rose to prominence, such as Orban (Urban) of Brasso, a Hungarian engineer and inventor who helped revolutionize cannons throughout the early 15th century, become the standard weaponry for siege for many centuries to come. Some models today were based off of his cannons.

With byzantines being stable and the plague has little effect, history will be changed, but somehow it will run slower to the point of lagging behind by centuries.

Because whats the point in change if there was no real problem?