Sup folks, I'm back! Here's a new chapter for ya!
By the way, I'm planning to write a fanfic about a small, but modern nation being transported into Falmart. The idea came when I noticed how the Gate always opens in the USA or Russia or Japan or some highly developed country with a strong army. What if they appeared in a tiny country with a negligible global influence? They certainly wouldn't be able to monopolize the Gate as the 3 superpowers would try to strongarm the Gate from them. Imagine the politics and power play as the protangonist has to fight not just Sadera, but other countries on Earth. The potential of such a background would be really amazing!
Secondly, I recently read Summoning Japan, or Nihonkoku Shoukan. The idea of a whole country being teleported into a medieval world appealed to me. The cultural clash, moral and power differences, and the urge to conquer the world with superior weaponry. If I combined the two, I believe that I'd be able to write a unique story.
So I just want to ask if you guys would be interested in reading such a fanfic. Please do spare a minute or two of your time and visit the poll on my profile page. It would mean very much to me. Thank you!
Perseus 12: I'm okay with that. As for the Zhou discover the Gate will they encounter the Ancient Greeks or Ancient Egyptians or Ancient Chinese or Ancient Japanese? Maybe the Ancient Kingdom of Troy or the Kingdom of Israel?
A: That's some really interesting ideas! I can already think of the different reactions of different civilizations. On a side note, many of the civilizations in this story is modeled after Ancient Egypt, Greek, and Chinese. See if you can determine which is which :)
Just a Crazy-Man: Nice I wonder any chance for a crossover timeline.
A: I don't have any solid plans for including a crossover, but I'm open to all suggestions since GATE itself is based on overlapping timelines too.
IC -2150s
The Zhou Emperor personally visits the Gate after Hardy appeared to him in a dream. No one knows what did the goddess told him, but after offering a sacrifice to the monument, he left, ordering that the land surrounding the hill to be cordoned off, and left a small detachment of soldiers to guard it.
For hundreds of years, the Gate remained inert, and the men guarding it married and gave birth to children who take up their positions when they die. A small town was built centering it, dubbed Alnus hill by the local population. Generations after generations they stood vigil, guarding the Gate against trespassers, surviving the ages as Empires rose and fell.
What were they hiding? No one knew. Perhaps the mystery would only be revealed when the Gate comes to life once more.
IC -2100s
The Mesogian Empire falls as the Eastern Islands submits to the Zhou Dynasty. For the next century, the Zou Dynasty would reign supreme throughout the whole of Falmart.
IC -2035s
The Zhou Dynasty now stretches from the Eastern seas to the Blue sea in the West, from the Southern Islands to the wide grasslands of the North.
IC -2000s
Long ago, half of the Wang family left the rest and headed North. After scaling the Grey mountains, they came upon a huge grassland that went as far as one's eyes could see. Pleased with their discovery, the humans settled down, only to discover that the soil was too poor for farming. They had no choice but to resort to hunting and domesticating the herds of four-legged mammals roaming the plains.
As time passed they grew into a tribe of renowned riders, skilled at horsemanship and tamers of the wildest stallions. However, not all the creatures living here are as docile as the stallions.
Before the humans came, this land had been the hunting grounds of the Warriors Bunnies. To them, humans were just a new type of prey. But the Wangs soon proved themselves to be much more than that. Flying along with their speedy warhorses, they waged a war that slowly drove the Warriors Bunnies back despite suffering heavy losses themselves. In the end, their Queen had to sue for peace.
The two sides came to a mutual agreement. While the humans left them to their business, the Bunnies will only fight each other. When mating season comes, the Warrior bunnies would seek out choice men to breed with, which suited the horsemen just fine. (Honestly, would you say no?)
Just like their relatives, the nomadic tribes grew in strength, processing tremendous fighting spirits while their eastern cousins have numbers.
IC -1960s
After centuries of roaming the grasslands, the Horsemen decide to head South in search of warmer lands. Passing through the Gap of Tress, the horde, numbering in tens of thousands, swept through the Zhou Empire, who had no effective way of stoping the fast-moving and elusive calvaries.
They would strike suddenly, carry off their plunder and burn what they cannot take, and disappear before the soldiers from the Central arrive. There were talks of building a wall to seal them out, but who will protect the builders when they are working on it?
The Emperor had no choice but to invest much of his army as border guards, granting huge power to his generals in the process and weakening his hold the troops.
IC -1900s
The Testaments, a set of carefully written prayers was circulated among the followers of Zufmuut, instructing believers on how to worship their god. The Zhou Emperor, a fanatic believer of his gods, brands it as heresy and forbids the reproduction of the documents.
IC -1875s
Over three-quarters of the army are in the hands of the generals, who become increasingly insolent, often demanding gifts of land or titles. With only a token force left, the Zhou Emperor had become nothing more than a puppet figure. Militants, Generals, and Warlords seize territories and bicker amongst themselves with no regards of their Emperor at all.
IC -1820s
Seeing an opportunity, Mesogian loyalists, who had been hiding for the past centuries, rise up against the Zhou Empire and revives the Alliance, now called the New Mesogian Empire. Many support them as Zhou doesn't allow them the freedom to worship their own deities, but the Southern peninsular refuses to join out of fear for retaliation.
A new senate was chosen, Zhou citizens living among them were either expelled or killed, and the Islanders rush to rebuild their long-dormant naval power.
IC -1785s
The invention of windmills.
IC -1750s
Raiding the Zhou Dynasty became increasingly harder as the Easterners adapt to their strategy by building a series of watchtowers and manned fortifications along the border. The horde soon dissolves and the tribesmen return to the life of nomadic ranchers and bunny fuckers.
IC -1710s
Concrete is first used.
IC -1605s
Bandits raid the Imperial Capital of Zhou, pillaging and sacking the city as the Emperor flees with the few men left to him. None of his so-called subordinates took him in, however, as they all feared that harboring the Emperor would draw the wrath of all the other militia leaders. In the end, Ying Zheng, an ambitious warlord takes in the bedraggled Emperor, not the protect him, but to hold him as a hostage. For while the Emperor didn't command soldiers, he commanded the respect of the commoners, who still see him as their sovereign and his words still hold meaning, especially when it came to gifts.
Ruling through the Emperor, Ying Zheng played a proxy war, using empty titles and promises of land 'given' by the Emperor to incite infighting among his adversaries. When the time is right, he gobbled up his neighbors one by one, and after years of conquest, untied the Empire once more.
IC -1600s
Human population passes 30 million.
IC -1590s
The great Eastern empire of Zhou ends when Ying Zheng forces the emperor to abdicate the crown to him. A new Dynasty, Qin, is born and begins with the mass execution of the erudite class and mages. Disarmament of all lower classes was next, as Ying Zheng sought to prevent any uprising by taking away the brains and weapons of those he conquered.
IC -1580s
A group of displaced mages, fleeing for their lives, settle down in a heavily forested dell (a small valley). As word of the refuge spreads, learned scholars from all over the Qin Empire seek sanctuary there. As time goes on, it becomes a safe haven for the erudite, and the settlement took on the name of Ronn (ancient elvish meaning safety) - Dell.
IC -1560s
The Qin emperor Ying Zheng passes away. His body is buried in a huge catacomb the size of 6 football fields, filled with treasures and ornaments and dead slaves, buried alive so they can service the emperor in his afterlife.
IC -1520s
As Ying Zheng's original domain rested by the border of the Northern grasslands, his heir decides to build a great wall thousands of kilometers long to keep out any raiders. The process took 25 years to complete, in which tens of thousands of laborers died in the process.
IC -1475s
The widespread usage of calenders begins. It begins with the Five Phase calendar, which divides a year, consisting of 245 days, into 5 phases: Water, Earth, Wood, Fire, and Gold. The calendar dictates the season to sow seeds, the season to breed livestock, the season for harvest, and many more daily activities.
IC -1465s
With the Great wall keeping out any foreign invaders, and harsh regulation suppressing any internal dispute, the Qin army, once famed for its ferocity and ruthlessness, is bored out of its minds. Turning their tiger-like graze on the Southern Islands, who were still struggling to reconstruct their homeland, the Eastern lords persuaded the emperor to invade the New Mesogian Empire. The emperor, apprehensive of how quickly the Mesogan navy is being built up, approves of the plan.
The official excuse was, in order to punish the Mesogians for attacking them at their weakest, the mighty Eastern empire will now retaliate in force.
IC -1460s
After 5 years of preparation, the Qin invasion force sets off. Consisting of 500 junks and 100,000 men, the huge army splits into two, with the naval flotilla following the coast South and the army marching overland. The plan was for the navy to engage and destroy Mesogian naval assets, then meet with the army at the tip of the Southern peninsular and start ferrying the troops over a narrow channel, known as the Red Gap, onto the Southern Island.
However, two weeks after the 500 ship task force moves out, they were engaged in what would be deemed as the Empire's worst defeat ever. The Mesogian commander, in a daring/desperate attempt, sailed straight across the Eastern Sea instead of following the coast for directions. Although he lost half his ships due to storms and insufficient rations, the Mesogians managed to catch the Empire off guard as the latter never expected their enemy to come from the sea.
Leading fifty triremes, the Mesogian commander set fire to, rammed, boarded, and sunk 300 enemy ships before being destroyed himself. The entire invasion had to put to a stop as the ships lost were carrying grain needed to feed the army.
IC -1450s
The second invasion of the Southern Islands. This time, 180,000 troops took part, as well as 800 warships. The Mesogians put up a gallant fight but were hopelessly outnumbered. In the last Naval Battle of the Red, so-called for the whole sea was dyed red with the blood of the slain, 700 Qin junks clashed with 150 Mesogian triremes. Despite their Pyro's flames (Greek fire) taking out hundreds of enemies, the Mesogians were soundly defeated and the Eastern Empire gains safe passage across the Red Gap.
150,000 infantries, 10,000 cavalries, and thousands of war beast landed on the Southern Island and promptly subjugated the entire island after three months of vicious conflict. To ensure that the Islanders never raise again, the conquerers executed anyone who held an ounce of power, and cut off the right hand of every able-bodied man so they cannot weld a weapon. Leaving behind a garrison of 40,000 men, the invasion army then turned for home, ladened with countless treasures looted from the Mesogians, as well as thousands of slaves.
The Mesogians once again found themselves conquered. But one day they will rise again. One day.
IC -1400s
A Mesogian architect, Theseus Calliadis comes up with the blueprint of Falmart's first Architectural Arch. It was used in a temple dedicated to Qin gods.
IC -1355s
In a parallel universe, centered around the Mediterranean, the Roman Empire begins. Although nobody knows it yet, its fate shall soon be inseparably interwoven with that of Falmart.
Finished! The next chapters will take some time to be published as I'm still deciding on which timeline should I use. Thank you for your patience!