The Holy Palace: Pope Maximus The Avenger

The Holy See; The Holy Empire Of The Papal States


Name of Faction: The Holy See
Government Type: Theocratic Democracy
Official Language(s):
Latin; French; Italian; English
(Latin for the Faith, French due to the Neighbours, England due to their major influence.)
Official Currency: Denarii
Name of Capital: Jerusalem
Faction Leader: Gregory Phillips (Of England)
Official Religion(s): Strict Roman Catholic
Faction Color: (red: 247, blue: 12, green: 200)
(Revised)Faction History:
The Papal States have sailed to Outremer after being pushed out of Rome, faced with the Islam and Pagans, will they survive?

Previous History

Storm Clouds gather over the World. As the Ancient City Of Rome has been violently taken by the Venetians. The Men Of Faith sail to the Holy Lands for Refugee. Successfully setting up in Jerusalem, the Papal Elections were suspended. A new Pope rose to power, He is angry, and wants Rome back in the Hands of the Almighty! The anger of Men and God alike has been lit. Pope Maximus is expansionist. With God on the Side of these men, may they NEVER fail. The Papal Elections are reinstated and Cardinals assigned to each Roman Catholic Nation. (Note: @Lenin Cat: This is over dramatized for the sake of Role Play, he will not attack you straight away but open Negotiations with you for Rome. It is also a reason for the Papal States to go Military.)

Map Claims

Map Claims:

Diplomacy

Template and Explanation

Nations Treaties Listed Relations: These are the things that list what harms or helps the relations. Overall: Summarizes the Relations in a sentance, along with the totals of the relation attributes. Cardinal Status: (Catholic Nations Only) Faith: (Catholic Nations Only) How much the Papacy like them in terms of Religion, things that attribute to this, are Excommunication, War, Cardinal, Alliances and more. The crosses system works like Medieval 2 Total War, if you have a large amount of crosses (Up to 10) the more they like you.

Diplomacy

Catholic Castille Military Alliance Trade Rights Relations: Same Religion (+1), Cardinal (+2), Trade Agreement(+1), Alliance(+1) Overall: (5) The Papacy is very happy with Castille Cardinal Preferati Faith:††††††† (7) England Trade Rights Relations: Same Faith (+1), Pope(+3), Trade Agreement(+1), Overall: (5) The Papacy is elated with England. Papal Controller Faith:†††††††††† (10) Norway Trade Rights Relations: Trade Agreement (+1), Gifts (+1), Cardinal (+2) Overall: (4) The Papacy very much like Norway. Cardinal Preferati Faith:††††††††(8) France Relations: Cardinal (+1), Diplomatic Errors (0) (Not easy to communicate with.) Overall: (1) The Papacy are ambivalent on the matter of France. Cardinal Faith:†††††††(7) Switzerland Relations: Cardinal (+1) (The Papacy seek to better relations between them and Switzerland) Overall: (1) The Papacy are ambivalent on the matter of Switzerland. Cardinal Faith:††††(4) Germany Relations: Cardinal (+2) (The Papacy seek to better relations between them and Germany.) Overall: (2) The Papacy likes Germany Cardinal Preferati Faith:††††††††(8) Orthodox (Full) Russia Relations: No Communication Overall: No Communication So Far Venice Trade Rights Relations: Trade Route Established (+1), Orthodox Faith (0), Failed Diplomacy(-1), Non-aggression Pact (+2) Overall: (2) The Papacy is amiable with Venice and wishes to keep it that way. Other Ptolemaic Dynasty Trade Rights Relations: Intimidation(+2), Nearby (+1), Trade (+1), Different Faith (-1) Overall: (3) The two nations generally like each other. Amazonia DESTROYED

Anthems

Official National Anthem Unofficial Anthems: United We Stand - Divided We Fall Archangel

College Of Cardinals

Nation:
Deutsches Kaiserreich
Name:
Lukas Helgenberger
Age:
47
Position:
Cardinal Preferati

Nation:
Crown Of Castille
Name:
Alejandro Gutiérrez Escamillo
Age:
63
Position:
Cardinal Preferati

Nation:
Republic Of Norway
Name:
Alfonso de Borja
Age:
44
Position:
Cardinal Preferati


Nation:
-
Name:
-
Age:
-
Position:
Cardinal

Nation:
Deutsches Kaiserreich
Name:
Julian Schulhauser
Age:
55
Position:
Cardinal

Nation:
Kingdom Of France
Name:
Jean-Noel Benoit
Age:
63
Position:
Cardinal

Nation:
The Swiss Mercenary Confederation
Name:
Tobias Krüger
Age:
65
Position:
Cardinal

Nation:
-
Name:
-
Age:
-
Position:
-

Nation:
Kingdom Of England
Name:
Lloyd Charleston
Age:
51
Position:
Cardinal

Nation:
Papal States
Name:
Bilaal Sajjad
Age:
24
Position:
Archbishop Of The Americas

When the age is Red it means that the Cardinal has fallen sick.

Excommunicated Factions:
There is mercy in the Lord's Heart! There is no excommunicated nations!

Current Pope


Gregory Philips Of England



Age:
57
Personality
Upstanding Catholic: The Pope prefers to avoid the rich catholic privileges, preferring to live with basic necessities and give the rest to charities, making him much more loyal to the one true faith. (+1 Piety)(-1 Admin)
Intellectual: He can keep track of a lot of things at one time, this helps him administrate. (+1 to Admin)
Pacifist: This man is no lover for War, he would never be seen leading troops to battle, some say he is a "Spineless Coward" (-1 to Command)
Would Rather Be A Peasant: This pope would rather be a modest farmer, he has been ignoring his holy duties. ( -1 to Admin)
Refrains from Combat:This man has not been able to expand the Holy Lands at all. (-1 Command)(+1 to Piety)

Piety: †††††† (6)
Command: ⚔⚔ (2)
Admin: ✍✍ (2)

Previous Popes

Maximus I Pope Maximus The Martyr From The Papal States Reign: 1493-1497 Died: Assassinated Significant Contributions: Set Up Alliances Personally Went In to Battle Trade Set Up Defensive War: Amazonia Notable Personality Traits: Sometimes, His holiness was angry. Disliked Venice When he was alive, many lies were spread by the Heretics, some said he was Perverted, yet with a Iron Cross he burned them down in the name of the Lord. Liked France

News and Timeline
1490-1500

Cardinals anointed.
The Republic Of Venice has accepted trade and declined their place on the Cardinal College.
Trade Rights aquired for: Ptolemaic Dynasty(Land), Castille(Sea).
Alliance with: Castille
Kaiserreich's Bishop is promoted to Cardinal.
Trade Agreement: England
Trade with: Aragon
Non-Aggression Pact with Aragon(30 turns)
Ptolemaic Dynasty accepts a diplomatic Alliance
France's Cardinal Preferati is demoted to Cardinal
(Due to inactivity with communication with the Church)
Norway gains a Cardinal Preferati
Switzerland gains a Cardinal
The Catholic Treaty Signed
Saint Maximus was killed
Reformist Union Formed
Crusade Called On Amazonia
Amazonia disappeared
Gregory Philips coronation
2 Cardinal's anointed
Germany gains a Cardinal Preferati
Reformist Union - Acre Riot

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⚔ PAPAL ARMED FORCES ⚔
ON THE 14TH OF AUGUST 1493 ANNO DOMINI, POPE MAXIMUS THE AVENGER SEVERED THE TIES WITH SWITZERLAND AFTER THE RELOCATION TO JERUSALEM, THE PAPAL GUARD WERE AN ELITE TIER OF THE PAPAL ARMED FORCES. THE PAPACY MASSED TROOPS FROM THE CITIES THEY OWNED, CALLING ALL MEN OVER THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN, TO NOT ANSWER THE CALLING WAS A SIN. ON THE 26TH OF APRIL 1505 ANNO DOMINI, THE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC EMPIRE OF THE HOLY SEE WAS FORMED, REFORMING THE ARMY SYSTEM, PROFESSIONAL ARMIES WERE RAISED, ALL CATHOLIC PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED IN TO THE ARMY. THE PAPAL ARMED FORCES (PAF) ARE NOW A BIG CONTENDER IN THE WORLD LEAGUE

P.A.F. ARMY PLACEMENT - SPRING 1521

STANDING ARMIES

:: THE FIRST DIVISION The Holy Papal Guard GARRISON Jerusalem :: 34th BENEDICT Division MARCHING Acre - > Antioch 2nd COLONIAL Division GARRISON Cuba 1st COLONIAL Division LANDING Gulf Of Mexico ( -> Mexico Region TEXAS Company Garrison Texas 53rd Gotland Regiment LOADED HHPS Mary Madeleine

FLEETS & SHIPS

HHPS : His Holiness the Pope's Ship HHPF : His Holiness the Pope's Fleet HHPF Trinity 3 Ships Baltic Sea ⚓ Anchored ⚓ HHPF Corinthians 3 Ships Gulf Of Mexico Landing HHPF Genesis 8 Ships Saragasso Sea Patroling HHPF Trinity HHPS Mary Madeleine Brig 100% HHPS Immaculate Brig 100% HHPS Matthew Sloop 100% HHPF Corinthians HHPS Adam Caravel 100% HHPS Peter Corvette 100% HHPS Caesar Corvette 100% HHPF Genesis HHPS Jesus Christ Galleon 100% HHPS Joeseph Frigate 100% HHPS Mark Man Of War 100% HHPS Luke Frigate 100% HHPS John Brig 100% HHPS Acts Frigate 100% HHPS Romans Corvette 100% HHPS Psalms Fleut 100%

Okay I am willing to accept the alliance, and I'll tried to persuade LOC to not destroy your faction.

Key word here is TRY. I am prob not going to take military action against Amazon (you know they

worship Goddess like we do): for example we have Apollo, Mars, Dianna, Minerva, and Mercury.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

(Don't ask why Mars is a goddess)

Okay so if LOC is trying going to declare war on you, I'll be willing to gift you Libya in the Central med if you lose

Jerusalem. I expect it back but I'll save you if I can.

If you keep being hostile to us we will answer with force. What about we get you a place in the New World? And you will not ask us for Rome anymore.

Ok. So If Jerusalem is lost, I will take your offer, with Libya, as I will be establishing a foot hold in europe. If any nation is kind enough to allow me a specific region to set up in Europe, It would be greatly appreciated, I will give back Libya when I get a stable capital.

@Venice, I have not made any hostile actions against Venice, I answered your wishes of rescinding your cardinal, I am focusing on the Middle East, we have no quarrels to be had.

A letter written by Supreme Queen Hippolyta XXIII of Amazonia is sent to the Perverted Pope. In Latin it reads as follows:

“My spies tell me that your nation is in a state of panic and assumes that we warrior women wish to destroy you. Amazonia does not want to involve itself in any lengthy war and it does not want the lands of Palestine, which actually belong in Egypt’s claims. I state again that I wish to secure Cyprus and Phoenicia for the Queendom. You may keep Jerusalem and its environs if Egypt doesn’t mind. And you may send your troops out into the vast Arabian Desert to die from heat secure the oases and settlements there. Here is a map for you to ponder:


You may yet have a chance to think with your upper brain and prevent war from breaking out between us. I await your reply…

Queen of All Women, Supreme Queen of Amazonia, Descendent of Myrina the Great, and Loyal Servant of the Goddesses; Hippolyta XXIII of the 10^th Dynasty”

A message is sent back to the Amazonian People.
"It is obvious how we could misconceive, yes? The retraction of your troops on the Western Front to take the southern front, but in hind sight, I see you were just rushing to claim your land before it causes war between us. A very noble and honorable gesture on your part. Another Misconception must have been the way you treated our Nun. But however, I accept this offer. I do realize we have conflicting Ideals, we understand this, but you also have to understand our position, we do not call any other place home. I hope we can prosper from this peace treaty. Do not let our differences get between us, we settle this like civilized people. For future reference, we shall have diplomacy in a neutral manner, I will send a diplomat with no silly paraphernalia with them, they will not bear a cross, and I ask that your diplomat be a woman with no severe hatred for men and a decent understanding of foreigners. Is this a request for a non-aggression pact? We gladly accept either way."

The message is copied onto a different piece of parchment and the original is burned. No Amazonian wants to touch what the perverted Pope touched. The new Queen, Penthesilea IV, writes back:

Originally Posted by Librarian

"It is obvious, how we could misconceive, yes? The retraction of your troops on the Western Front to take the Southern Front, but in hind sight, I see you were just rushing to claim your land before it causes war between us. A very noble and honorable gesture on your part.

“Considering that you are men with inferior intellect, yes it is obvious how you could misinterpret our actions.

Originally Posted by Librarian

Another misconception must have been the way you treated our Nun. But however, I accept this offer. I do realize we have conflicting Ideals, we understand this, but you also have to understand our position, we do not call any other place home. I hope we can prosper from this peace treaty. Do not let our differences get between us, we settle this like civilized people.

My mother (may she rest in peace) gave your nun hospitality and gifts. Though of course she attacked the Catholic religion because it’s blasphemous, but I say we treated O’Connell quite well.
You’re damn right we have conflicting ideals! You’re a little patriarchy trying to justify its existence in the form of a big imaginary friend called “god.” We are a mighty matriarchy that does the Goddesses’ Will on Earth.
You are very good at misinterpreting things. Amazonia never declared war on you. Well… not a hot war, but it is a cold war. This isn’t a peace treaty since we never were in a state of real war.
We are one of the most civilized people in the world! We have arts, science, and literature! We have aqueducts, baths, libraries, and grand monuments! You do not. All you paint is some guy called Jesus. All you build are churches. All you write are bibles. Boring.

Originally Posted by Librarian

For future reference, we shall have diplomacy in a neutral manner, I will send a diplomat with no silly paraphernalia with them, they will not bear a cross, and I ask that your diplomat be a woman with no severe hatred for men and a decent understanding of foreigners. Is this a request for a non-aggression pact? We gladly accept either way."

No Amazonian is going anywhere near your perverted leader. May your Pope die of a horrible disease that kills him slowly!
And, uh no… this isn’t a request for a non-aggression pact. What a silly idea anyway! Amazonia is all about aggression! We aggressively exercise. We aggressively hunt. We aggressively have sex. We aggressively pursue knowledge. And we engage in aggressive diplomacy. Deal with it.
We are requesting a mutual respect of each other’s claims and sphere of influence. We don’t care about Palestine or Jerusalem. It’s a dumpy town in a dumpy desert. And we definitely don’t care about the Arabian wastelands. Have at them.

Queen of All Women, Supreme Queen of Amazonia, Descendent of Myrina the Great, and Loyal Servant of the Goddesses; Penthesilea IV of the 10^th Dynasty”

That's just mean.

Amazonian spies are the Queen’s eyes and ears…

Originally Posted by Librarian

Also, our most... disliked neighbour, has a cold war with us. But they have also a cold war blockade. With their massive fleet looming near Cyprus, it makes it impossible for us to build a fleet. His holiness requests, to circumvent this blockade, could you [Norway] build a fleet and gift it to us? Your relations will go up.
I am thinking more about having a fleet near Norway to take a settlement on mainland Europe. Building it not the problem rather than, if I built it, it would be seen as aggressive and probably destabilize the acute balance we have created between the nations. Building an aggressive fleet would be an act of war.

Supreme Queen Penthesilea IV writes a short message to the Perverted Pope:

“You and your people clearly do not understand us. We have not established a blockade per se. If you build a fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean (or have anyone else build one for you there) it will be seen as an act of aggression unless you immediately sail it west to Europe. You say you wish to return home. To take back Rome. Then by the Goddesses please do so! And leave the Near East to us. Why conquer Syria and Arabia when you could sail to Italy or even farther to a whole new continent?!

In short: there is no blockade. Stop making assumptions. They just make an ass out of you and me.”

OOC: yeah, Lenin, aggressive diplomacy is kind of mean.

OOC: I see the Amazonians has spies even in the Scandinavia? (I think you are power gaming now...) For the record, my fleet that Norway is building is being built in the Baltic Sea, not the Eastern Mediterranean, so the warning does not apply there, however I will be creating a fleet and sailing directly out of that sea after Operation Hadrian. Also I will still be expanding in the Middle East.

✞ THE POPE IS DEAD ✞


The Pope entered his chambers at 9 o'clock, he knelt to do his daily prayer, a rustle was heard from his window, but his holiness did not think much of it. The next he knows, a cold steel blade penetrates his throat and then he groans. The next thing he knew, he was before the Holy Gates.
Guards hear the groan and enter the chambers, yet to assassin is no where to be seen.
A procession is held a month later. The men and women sit in the chairs. His coffin is carried down the aisle and in to the courtyard, the Head Priest does the ceremony. The ornate coffin is lowered in to the ground and is covered with a statue.


Every flag is replaced with a black flag, indicating mourning, there will be wailing in all Catholic's hearts

The Papal Votes have been counted.
And there is a New Pope.

Pope

Nation: Kingdom Of England Name: Archbishop Of Canterbury - Gregory Phillips Age: 52 Personality (SOAB please send me some traits of your Pope, have 1 bad one and two good or 2 bad and one good.)

The Sultan Condemns all the Random Conquests of the Pope.