28 July 1806

Dear Brother,

If you are reading this then I know dear Hungry has come through on her part. You must thank her for me. It must have not been easy for her to complete this final favor for me. She herself must be still be having plenty of problems with that successor of Leopold she's been landed with, but I guess she still owes me for smashing that damn Turk in Vienna.

But enough about the past, it won't do me any good where I am now, or if I'm even in a place and not just dust on the wind. If you are reading this letter, brother, then you must know by now what has happened.

I can't say didn't see it coming. You were barely the Duchy of Prussia when that pope turned against me. Now I have no land to call my own, no government, and once Francis abdicates, I will cease to be.

I wrote you this letter, dear brother, because if you're reading it, then I am no longer part of this world.

I'm sorry I didn't tell you goodbye, but you are your own country now. You have obligation to you people. Protect them and the family from that crazy French bastard. But do not seek revenge because of my death. It has been in the slightest sense, a long time coming. These last past years I have been nothing but a shell of my former self, we both know this is true, even if you did just try to laugh it off and blabber to me how tall you have gotten (I don't care that your 5'7" and even now I don't care so stop talking about and save the rest of us the grief please.).

I remember when you were born. Such an annoying like Teutonic knight you were, but even back then you were a warrior at heart—and short. Ha! How does it feel to be on the receiving end? You held the Lord's name high. I couldn't have been more proud to share my blood with you, and if Grandpa Germania was still among us, I'm sure he would be proud too.

Out of the rest of us you and Austria are the only that can still care on Grandpa's name. Brandenburg is dead, and I will soon be joining him. Hesse, Holstein, and Saxony are fading quickly, but if they ban together they may be able to hold on. I hope they do. But you Prussia are still standing and you will be for far longer then I did. You will be great brother, greater then I and maybe even Grandpa if you try.

I hope that doesn't go to your head. Lord knows the size of your ego with you always going on about how awesome you are. I will have to give Brandenburg a piece of my mind when I see him in the next life for not raising you to be a little more modest. Then I'll have to thank him for raising the best younger brother a country could have.

I'll miss you Prussia. You and your big, obnoxious mouth.

I hope you will miss me too.

Holy Roman Empire

P.S. If you happen to see Italy, tell her I'm sorry I wasn't able to keep my promise. She will know what I'm talking about.

Author's note!

Epic. Death. I have no clue why I'm doing this to myself. I a) never finish my stories and b) I so don't have time right now to be writing this, but the idea keeps growing in my head. So surprise! I'm actually going to try to stay with this one (keyword try because I said that with my last possible multi chapter and look how that turned out...I still have the second half of that chapter on my hard drive DX ).

Anyways if I do keep writing this, It is a story of a mix of historical facts (Wiki here I come) and things I just simply assume (both of which will be stated separately in Author's note as seen below). Most of it will be in Prussia's point of view, but enough of that. I don't want to spoil to much. And again IF I do continue this I probably be putting notes on my profile just so people can keep everything straight.

And now Wall of History Facts go!

The FACTS

1. The Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist on August 6, 1806 when Francis the II abdicated the throne after being defeated by Napoleon with the fourth Peace of Pressburg. Since 1555, though, the HRE had been nothing more then a hollow name when Pope Paul IV sided with France and Charles V gave up on the collective country. .org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

2. The "successor of Leopold" That HRE was talking about in the first paragraph was Francis I, who put the country on a backward path with his closed view of the world. .org/wiki/History_of_Hungary_1700–1919#Austria-Hungary. And the "damn Turk in Vienna" is yes talking about Turkey and his Ottoman empire when he tried to conquer europe. Vienna, refers to the Battle of Vienna where HRE's army under the command of Polish King John III Sobieski and defeated the Ottoman empire in one of the largest calvary charge in history, giving Hungry back her land that had early been taken from her. .org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

3. Prussia became the Duchy of Prussia in 1525. He was just 30 years old when HRE became a shell. .org/wiki/Duchy_of_Prussia

4. Hesse, Holstein, and Saxony are parts of present day Germany. It is not know if they are alive or not.

MY FACTS

1. Prussia was born as a Teutonic knight which rose up in 1190 and as such lay underneath HRE roof of influence. As stated he was raised by Brandenburg, his older brother, until his death in 1701 when Prussia then became his own country. In other words, HRE watched Prussia grow and become a country, even though he was only about 200 years older then the other boy. From what I've read Prussia was never really a part of the HRE but supported and considered it a part of HRE until it fell. Summing that up to simple words is Prussia and HRE were close hence the letter.

.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights .org/wiki/Duchy_of_Prussia .org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia

2. Out of the original seven Germanic brother that we know of (Hesse, Holstein, and Saxony, Brandenburg, HRE and Prussia, excluding Germany) Prussia and Austria were at the time period of this story were the only one still around as countries.