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I know this isn't particularly related to /tg/ but a bit of personal searching hasn't answered me very well. Also, I'm looking for opinions.
I'm currently writing a setting for a novel about a fantasy Europe set ten years after not-World War One. The primary aggressors of the war were the Kingdom of Cordelia and a collection of smaller states united in a similar concept to the HRE, though primarily united by trade and prosperity rather than whatever reason of the day the HRE was. A state friendly with the Cordelian's suffered from a political assassination by a rival neighbor, and asked them to step in to try and force the neighbor to admit their guilt and allow an investigation. The Cordelian king, seeing an opportunity to get his foot in the door of the not-HRE via the friendly republic and their allies, jumped at the chance.
However, the largest state, known as Dycia, wanted no outsider influence encroaching on their territory and warned the king against poking his nose where it didn't belong. When the king threatened the rival republic with war, marching down an army to intimidate them into folding, the Dycians and their allies were there with there own. Heads were butted, neither would back down, and the first shots of the war were exchanged. Four years of bloody fighting was done as both sides called in their allies across the continent to defeat the other.
However, unlike our version, this war ended primarily in a stalemate, with several bordering states being annexed by the Cordelians (some willingly, most kicking and screaming) and the republics folding into a single power in the wake of a tattered and bloodied war economy, reforging themselves as the Dycian Republic, similar to the Netherlands in terms of politics of Statists vs Monarchists. The years that followed consisted of both sides attempting to recover their losses and trying to find the next breakthrough in terms of warfare for when one attacked the other.
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I'm currently writing a setting for a novel about a fantasy Europe set ten years after not-World War One. The primary aggressors of the war were the Kingdom of Cordelia and a collection of smaller states united in a similar concept to the HRE, though primarily united by trade and prosperity rather than whatever reason of the day the HRE was. A state friendly with the Cordelian's suffered from a political assassination by a rival neighbor, and asked them to step in to try and force the neighbor to admit their guilt and allow an investigation. The Cordelian king, seeing an opportunity to get his foot in the door of the not-HRE via the friendly republic and their allies, jumped at the chance.
However, the largest state, known as Dycia, wanted no outsider influence encroaching on their territory and warned the king against poking his nose where it didn't belong. When the king threatened the rival republic with war, marching down an army to intimidate them into folding, the Dycians and their allies were there with there own. Heads were butted, neither would back down, and the first shots of the war were exchanged. Four years of bloody fighting was done as both sides called in their allies across the continent to defeat the other.
However, unlike our version, this war ended primarily in a stalemate, with several bordering states being annexed by the Cordelians (some willingly, most kicking and screaming) and the republics folding into a single power in the wake of a tattered and bloodied war economy, reforging themselves as the Dycian Republic, similar to the Netherlands in terms of politics of Statists vs Monarchists. The years that followed consisted of both sides attempting to recover their losses and trying to find the next breakthrough in terms of warfare for when one attacked the other.
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