Broken Crescent 3 Diplomacy: Progress

The world that once every one knew was quickly vanishing. Quickly growing nations of around the Middle East, India, Asia Minor, and Africa have wiped out of all independent cities. Growing there empires off small bumps in the road. This was known the Progress Era. It though, Abruptly ended when there was no more smaller kingdoms left.

Every nation now turning to their borders, Seeing that the next movement they take would cause a major war this time, and leave there kingdom defenseless for another kingdom to attack. Now, Powers are at their peak in Military. With no words being spoke to other kingdoms, An uneasy rest came to all, not knowing when they will be invaded.

To all of the eastern kingdoms, the war between the Hindus and the Ghorid Empire have come to a standoff. If the Ghorid Empire now invades India. Then the Ghorids may be in fact one of the strongest nations in the world.

To the west of the Ghorid Empire, The Ghaznavids are now possibly looking at a two front war. With the Sindh rallying up the troops by their borders. and the Shahs doing random raids against small towns. The Ghaznavids are at a truce with the Ghorids, after a very long stalemate battle, gaining no lands and losing over half of the military a piece, For the Ghaznavids. This gets rid of one front.

To the center of the Middle East. There are no wars, Though, Small skirmishes on the Abassid Caliphate border and the Seljuk Turks. Georgia, having a rather large very well equipped army at the borders. No one knows if it is an invasion force, or a defense force.

In Africa. The Ayyubid Sultanate, once the strongest nation of the Nile, is being repelled back by one of the first African Empires. Muraka. This empire has grown from dust into a dangerous threat, taking over valuable trade posts to the Omans. and taking more ground from the Ayyubid Sultanate from Migration. The great leader of the Ayyubid Sultanate people now sets an elite army to the south, to scare away the hordes of African people,

The holy city of Jerusalem now being well under the Crusader's power. After their major victory against the Ayyubid Sultanate of Homs castle. Though, not attacking the Ayyubid Sultanate’s Damascus due to a "Cease Fire". Though, nobody knows how long peace will keep, Perhaps they are just waiting for France's army of Crusaders spotted off the coast of Iraklion to land, and break the stale mate of the Ayyubid Sultanate.

A tad bit up the north lays the Proud "Principality of Antioch." This was a result of two smaller kingdoms, The Kingdom of Antioch, and the Kingdom of Armenia. Merging due to rivals enemies. Once after they merged. They attacked the Abassid Caliphate , Winning a victory and gaining a defensive buffer zone, Aleppo. Though... The Abassid Caliphate only have towns past Aleppo, With a large poorly equipped army now at the border of the two countries, who knows if it is an invading force, or an army quickly formed to stop the might of the Antioch and Armenian people.

To the North West corner. The Turks now looking what to do, After their quick victory over a Roman Castle at the borders, while the Romans were distracted by a call that a Possible Attack from France to the island of Iraklion. The Romans are no stranger to wars in Europe. Considering that now they Divide their empire's military force. An event like this happened more than half a century ago. The western front at war with Hungry and Venice. The eastern at a dead lock between the Russians, the Turks, and any passing Crusader armies.

To the Arabian Coast line, the trade like country of the Imamate of Oman have built more of a trade empire than a military. Bribing cities to join their empire for a "Few coins" Now that they control almost the whole coast of Arabia to the Indian Ocean. They have migrated north into the Sindh lands. Possibly provoking the Sindhs, To the south, The Arabians are met with the Ayyubid Sultanate, and a rather large forces called in at the threat of the Imamate of Oman. Now they protect one of the holy cities Mecca with their lives. of course, Being a trader at best, means not being military at best. They have lost their trade outposts on the Horn of Africa, and a small island trade posts to the African nations.

The Omans now just entering the new fear of what the world has already been experiencing for the last few years. They call for a meeting for all empires to come to, At the small port city of Sur, located at the northern Arabian coast line. Easy to get to by ships from any where the Indian ocean touches. They now invite all nations to come and to discuss things easier than before. The building planning to be used is a Noble's second house, Though, The government has taken away that man's second house and declared it a Diplomatic Center. Being only a hand full of guards at the building, and a natural trade center. They hope to now, have the impossible be done, Having sent out invitations to all the empires, and have all empires sit down, and Talk.

There would be a lone Oman diplomat that was fairly young at a table with 16 chairs, Waiting for the other diplomats to come in, Seeing that no one was their yet, or even any one was going to come, He eat foods that the king supplied the house of diplomats, and took long naps right at the diplomatic table, In his opinion, No one would come out this far to just talk.

A tall, light-skinned man, wearing distinctly European clothing strides into the hall.
"Greetings, ambassadors of all the great nations of the East!"
The man then notices that the room is empty save for an Arab shoving handfuls of grapes into his mouth.
"Errr... ambassador, I suppose I should say."
The Omani diplomat continues to eat, not saying a word.
"I guess that I should introduce myself, then. I am Henri de Marseille, ambassador of the Holy Kingdom of Jerusalem."
The Arab, having finished off the bowl of grapes, lets his head fall to the table and starts to snore.
The man then sits down as far away as possible from his sleeping companion, slightly disconcerted at the lack of recognition he has received so far....

A messenger has rode his black stalion all the way from kiev on the orders of the mighty khan, he finds a long hall in which he is instructed to enter...
upon arrival the Khans faithful srvant sees a greedy man eating and drinking exotic wines and foods, as well as a strange outlanderish fellow quite in the corner wearing a cross around his neck
'i was told this was an important meeting, not a restraunt!'
his words are said with such authority that the few people in the room look at him, the Omani messenger puts his food down and addresses the messenger...

The man would stop eating, and try to up himself in Postier alertedly.

Greetings Noble Diplomats of... uhhh... of far away lands!, The Sultan of Imamate of Oman sends many thanks to you for coming forth to talk!, You may enjoy your stay here, knowing that you did come from.. uhh.. very far away! but, Please note that you can choose any of the 15 bedrooms that isn't occupied in the upper floor, Also, the Sultan encurages you to relax yourselves. This is some what of the reason why he picked the Port City of Sur.

The Young arab diplomat claps his hands twice, and so forth two bowls of grapes and two golden cups of wine brought to the Jerusalem Diplomat and the Russian one..

Now we wait to see if any one else comes...

then the turkish diplomat walks powerfully into the room
and begins to eye up possible friends and foe, afterwards breaking the akward silence that had took hold with a strong powerfull welcome to everyone who had made it so far.
and then brought up the question.
'when are the others making it here?'

The young arab diplomat sighed.

They will be coming, Until they, if you wish to talk to eachother you may.

The Young arab would clap his hands again, and another bowl of grapes and a golden cup of wine would be brought to the turkish diplomat. The young arab would be no longer acting like a slob.

the kypchak messenger belches and frowns havin tasted these strange 'grape' fruits, he spits this fruit out and demands better food...
'what do u call this? are yuo trying to poison us!'
the kypchak messenger begins to anger, but looks on hoping tht more respect 4 him is shown, he starts to admire the turkish diplomat as he seems to be the only other in the room with a backbone

The Arab seeing that his the diplomatics seem alittle more... barbaric than would have expected.

"One second Gentlemen... I must order up some Meat... I sense that you are not the type that enjoys grapes... Though, I wish for you to please remain calm. This is a room of talk. If you do any thing that could danger any one... I will have you suspended from this house of Diplomacy, and to be escorted to another inn that will be payed by the most generous sultan himself. And ofcourse the newest guard orders in place, That is the second highest from the sultan's guards himself to keep us all safe if any thing is to happen."

The young diplomat would point toward the door, and by it stood two heavily armored and heavily armed guards.

the kypchak messenger is feeling quite vunerable now, he is unarmed and feels hard done by, he responds by saying 'how dare you, not all pagans are barbaric, i just expect intelligent company, something your failing to give, your testing my patiences fool' to this the Omani dipomat is making an important decision on whether he should stay, he looks at the kypchak and analyzes the situation (his attitude may be blunt but he is unarmed...) hmmmm...

the turkish diplomat begins to laugh watching the strong ackward conversation unfold.
but begins to think its think to interveen
'look my friends we are here to talk not to fight'
'lets get alittle friendlyer before coming to blows'

The young diplomat sighed again

I see. These gaurds are only here to protect what is most important to the sultan. And there are only 4 out of 16 here at the moment.. we are waiting until the full roster gets here before we start...

Doors open and in the room a well dressed man enters. He is followed by some servants and couple of personal bodyguards.
He bows to the other ambassadors and then says with a strong and confident voice..

Greetings Ambassadors,
I am The Caliph of Abbasid Caliphate and the Defender of Islam.
Our nation do not like wars so we hope peace will be between us and our neighbors.
But there are still some things that needs to be cleared out.

He turns to the Ambassador from Oman...

Our southern neighbors..
We hope that we can establish trade and an alliance between our two nation.
We have no territorial claims to you and there for we will welcome you as brothers..

He bows slightly to Oman's ambassador..

But our other neighbors..
To our northern neighbors, The Great Seljuks and The Kingdom of Georgia, we have no territorial claims either and there for I also hope trade and alliances will be established.

But we have some issues with The Armenian Kingdom because we consider Aleppo as one of our provinces. So we hope that we can find a peaceful solution to this matter.

Also.. We consider Diyarbakir and Malatya, these are held by the Turkish Sultanate at the moment, as our provinces. But I hope that we can work something out with them also. Privately of course..

To our eastern neighbor.. The Malikate of Sindh..
Shiraz and Firuzabad belonged to our empire before they rebelled against our power..
It is most unfortunate that Sindhs rulers captured them before us and thus making things little bit complicated.. I hope that they come to their senses and will agree to leave from these two provinces..

Servant gives a glass of water to the Caliph and once he finished drinking he continued..


With all others.. We are open for trade..

There are some other things I must mention..
We will not tolerate NO spies and especially assassins in our lands..
If someone wants to move their agents through our lands then they must ask our permission for that before they do it..
Also .. sending merchants to our lands without trade rights could complicate our relations with their rulers..
If we find some agent or merchant in our land that have no right to be there then they shall be executed..

He stops for a moment and then continues..

But now I must leave...
My trusted friend, Mahmud, will stay here to represent us...

After saying that we bows to the gathered and turns around to leave..

The young diplomat raises up.

Ahhh! Finally one of a proper man! , Yes, This sounds one of thE most generous proposals yet in this room! I accept on behalf of the great sultan of the Arabian Coast!

The young diplomat bows to the well gifted Ambassador.

The Abbasid Caliph heard the Oman's ambassador just before he left the room and turned around..

We are generous people.. he smiles.. I am happy to hear that You accept our proposal.. some others probably will not be so happy he smiles again..

But now I have to go..

Turning to Mahmud he says..

Take a seat among the other ambassadors and serve me well!

Saying that he turned and left the room..

A well sized greek man entered in the court, His face obviously showed that he did not want to come.

I have not come here to eat, drink, or talk about useless things!, I am here to tell people what the Roman Emperor wants and that is all, And first of all, let's get this straight Turk Scum!

The greek man turned to the turk.

No reason in hell that The empire of Rome will even think an alliance of your scum filthy people. We have moved more troops to the borders to make sure that these Turks do not steal another settlement from us!, I demand that the old castle will be returned, and the Armies of the Turk scum to leave all military from our borders! If they know what is good for them!

Then the greek man turned again the the Russians.

You Barbarians are threatning our northern border, I demand you pull all of your troops out from the border! To make sure we are CLEAR on that I have moved more troops to my northern front. So get the hell out of thier stupid barbarian!

Then he turned to the Kingdom of Jerusalem's diplomat

I demand that your navy of your crusading pigs keep sailing toward your capital, If they dare look at our lands your navy will be sunk and your crusading pig army Beheaded, Every last one!

The greek man walked to the young Oman Diplomat, that was already shaking in fear of the Roman Diplomat, and sat a chair one away from him.

"Thank you for having this meeting held, As the Roman Empire, We wish you good fortunes, for this meeting has been able to tell these animals of what they should be doing."

He would be silenced by the servents coming giving him a bowl of grapes, a cooked meat, and a glass of wine, With no sign of the russain getting his cooked meat.

The ambassador of Jerusalem looks slightly insulted at the Roman diplomat's words.
"I assure you, sir, the King of Jerusalem and his crusaders have absolutely no designs on your lands. And here I thought I would have a good Christian friend at this meeting. In fact, wasn't it your Emperor who requested assistance against the Muslims in the holy land not 50 years ago? The Kingdom does not wish war on you at all, rather I seem to remember that we were still assisting you in the Turkish wars until their recent peace. We wish to renew our trade rights and alliance with the Roman Empire."

He then turns to address the Caliph's emissary.
"And with that 'misunderstanding' taken care of, we would be happy to trade with your Caliphate at the current time. However, if at any time you go to war with an ally of the Kingdom, we will be forced to cancel trade. You do seem quite a peaceable nation, however. I am sure we have nothing to worry about."

And with that, Henri de Marseille seats himself again, still alone due to the lack of friendly Christians.

My Khan has sent a message on this news:

NEVER has the Khan ever been so insulted! you threaten the mighty turks, my khan and The fine crusaders,ha, this is laughable! YOU WILL B ANNAILATED! our people are usually peaceful, but we see peace is not an opinion here, your crumbling empire will dissapear this instance! is your emperor on drugs? i see a senisible ruler would not make such empty threats, The mighty turks have been targeted by you, and possibly the abbasids! there reknown reputation is better than that of your emperor! your countless defeats will continue and i DECLARE that the turks will form an ALLAINCE with me! for mutual protection, of course it is your descision as i no our people have had quarrels in the past, but we see eye to eye, also if the kharezm shah will accept, i would offer an allaince to them to, as im sure were awaer of the upcoming mongolian threat, I would also add me are nations both with large land mass and potential, please consider.
I have no quarels with you either georgia, and i feel trade rights is our first way for progress
but for the ERE there is no mercy, i do not want this to make other nation beleive we are reckless, but only authortive, as im sure your aware of the Eastern Roman pigs threats, i truely didnt want this to happen, and not so soon, our lands mean much to us, simple and 'barbaric' are your words, but the barbarian was you on your arrival here, if the turkish sultanate the kharezm were to accept my allanice offers, i swear i would stay with my oath, but i cannot allow myself to be trampled underfoot by my southern neighbours, from the great Khan himself.

The messenger glares at the eastern roman empire diplomat with deep anger, he sees a ceremonial sword attached to the wall and thinks (any more from him and ill get that sword and cut his throat)

The Caliphs emissary turns to the Jerusalems emissary ...

We are open for trade to everyone. We hope that there will be no war with the Allies of the Jerusalem.

Mahmud smiles...

Another thing..
The Kypchak ambassador should watch what he says for he might regret his words later..

Mahmud looks towards the Kypchak emissary..

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The ambassador of Jerusalem looks slightly insulted at the Roman diplomat's words.
"I assure you, sir, the King of Jerusalem and his crusaders have absolutely no designs on your lands. And here I thought I would have a good Christian friend at this meeting. In fact, wasn't it your Emperor who requested assistance against the Muslims in the holy land not 50 years ago? The Kingdom does not wish war on you at all, rather I seem to remember that we were still assisting you in the Turkish wars until their recent peace. We wish to renew our trade rights and alliance with the Roman Empire."

He then turns to address the Caliph's emissary.
"And with that 'misunderstanding' taken care of, we would be happy to trade with your Caliphate at the current time. However, if at any time you go to war with an ally of the Kingdom, we will be forced to cancel trade. You do seem quite a peaceable nation, however. I am sure we have nothing to worry about."

And with that, Henri de Marseille seats himself again, still alone due to the lack of friendly Christians.

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The Roman Diplomat seemed to be more calmed now.
Yes.. yes... all of this is true... The sudden attacks from the turkish empire and cause one of the castles to be lost has put us in the high alert... I will send word of this to my Emperor at will, Our only request is to please notify us before a crusading army is on the way, First word it was a French navy... Possibly an ally to one of the nations to the west at we are fighting, and pulled up top to defend... As we will trust you for now, We will pull back the navies that were being sent to you to "Escort" the crusades... Forgive the Roman Empire Mis-understandings, Sir Henri de Marselle.
He would bow his head while sitting to the jerusalem diplomat, for a sign or respect.

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My Khan has sent a message on this news:

NEVER has the Khan ever been so insulted! you threaten the mighty turks, my khan and The fine crusaders,ha, this is laughable! YOU WILL B ANNAILATED! our people are usually peaceful, but we see peace is not an opinion here, your crumbling empire will dissapear this instance! is your emperor on drugs? i see a senisible ruler would not make such empty threats, The mighty turks have been targeted by you, and possibly the abbasids! there reknown reputation is better than that of your emperor! your countless defeats will continue and i DECLARE that the turks will form an ALLAINCE with me! for mutual protection, of course it is your descision as i no our people have had quarrels in the past, but we see eye to eye, also if the kharezm shah will accept, i would offer an allaince to them to, as im sure were awaer of the upcoming mongolian threat, I would also add me are nations both with large land mass and potential, please consider.
I have no quarels with you either georgia, and i feel trade rights is our first way for progress
but for the ERE there is no mercy, i do not want this to make other nation beleive we are reckless, but only authortive, as im sure your aware of the Eastern Roman pigs threats, i truely didnt want this to happen, and not so soon, our lands mean much to us, simple and 'barbaric' are your words, but the barbarian was you on your arrival here, if the turkish sultanate the kharezm were to accept my allanice offers, i swear i would stay with my oath, but i cannot allow myself to be trampled underfoot by my southern neighbours, from the great Khan himself.

The messenger glares at the eastern roman empire diplomat with deep anger, he sees a ceremonial sword attached to the wall and thinks (any more from him and ill get that sword and cut his throat)

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The Roman Diplomat hears the Khan's diplomats words and laughs.
Hah, That Khan of yours is a pathetic dog. He claims that my empire will be destroyed, My empire that I have held for over a thousand years? I doubt it. If you wish to come to attack me, Come right ahead, Though, I will promise you, you will fall and perish, My navy will blockaid every single port you have, cutting yourself from the trade. While you squirm to get your armies together from your vast empire of worthless lands. You will be in debt too far for your soldiers to even considering listening to you any more, I am sure that the Turks will see my point of view. and at least pull back there armies from my border. Perhaps they are better from worthless barbarians after all.

the kypchak embassy clashs his fist against the table with such an impact tht the romans cooked meat crashs of the table and into his face

my lands have been earned rightously and yours seems to of been crumbling over recent years, regardless of whethers its 1000 years old or not, you started this, and my Khan would refuse to be diplomatic as Jerusalem has, we feel you do not deserve such prvilages, if it want for your instant threats the offer of trade would hav been gladly offered but you choose to cause havoc, you come in here with many threats, then act like the kinder one!

i remind that it was my Khan letter and not me who said this abbasids, although we must think as one,
you claim peace but demand sindh, turkey and armenia to hand over there hard earned settlements, i hardly think you can critize me, i offer you trade unless you feel that you aren't good enough to accept, which we would understand
turning my attention by to the Eastern Roman Empire my khan refuses to bk from his lands, we wouldnt dare attack you, we're sure only a nation such as yours would sub due to such dubious thought, as your first speech shows!

the kypchak messenger stands up as he sees that the oman servants finally consider bringing food to the kypchak, the kypchak messenger says 'i wouldnt eat your food if it were the last on earth, my khan taught be to be a master of austere and self-restraint, i need not your charity'

The Roman would continue laughing, and eating. Not taking the Khan as any serious threat.

"I simply asked that you are to back off from our borders. And if you do not comply, We will just think that you will be attacking the good people of the roman empire. I think every one in this court can agree with me when they see a rather larget barbarian army at their borders, We heard of your armies are just a bunch of dirty peasents, but still. These dirty peasents must be removed from the fort posted right by the river that seperates our countries, and back to your pathetic homelands. If this is not met. The Romans will do this, For you ofcourse.

The Roman Diplomat now grinned, seeing the man's anger as entertaining.

Mahmud answers with a calm voice to the Kypchak ambassador..

We have righteous claims to those lands.
They belonged to us not very long time ago.
Also WE do not threaten our neighbors because WE will try to find peaceful ways to solve this situation.
And just like I said.. We are open for trade to everyone.. even to you...
I hope that Ambassador will not behave like a barbarian anymore and embraces more civilized ways to make his voice to be heard..

the messenger surprisingly calms a little only mumbling death threats which no one else seems to hear

dirty peasants? half way through your speech i thought you were apoligizing for your insolance, but then your fool enough to twist the knife even further! i feel your attitude will go down hofficify with the Khan, i would please with him to let you hav our border fort, but no actual settlements, our land will remain our land!
and peasants you say? what an ignorant stereotype, doe a peasant talk as fluently as me, i think not, doe a peasant have some of the finest stalions the world has ever seen? does a peasant have the ability to conquer over ukraine and beyond, if he doe, then i am happy to b a peasant, better than being as arrogant as your self...

The Caliph of Abbasid Caliphate i thank you for openly coming out about the lands you want to clame back but i dont think the lands you want back from us can be done by dipolmacy.

The greek man i thank you for insluting my offer of friendship, then trying to convince me that i should see your side when my great ally defends me i dont see how that works.

the kypchak and i have signed alliance to defend ourselfs from the aggressive ERE and i hope he clams down and stops insulting the kypchak khan

happliy looks to everyone in the room

BEHOLD
it has been announced, the wise strong mighty turks have chosen to accept my alliance, its comforts me that they have accepted the offer and overlooked ERE's ridculous effort to try and turn against me, this nation is honorable, and you now see my kindness when it is deserved, Kharezm, the offer still stand to you when you arrive
from the almighty khan

the messenger sneers at the eastern roman diplomat, the eastern roman diplomat is still laughing though strangly...(mayb there whole nation is on drugs)

The Roman Diplomat sits and enjoys talking to him now, finding it funnier every moment.

Yes.. ofcourse. You brag about your little empire, your army marches a hundreds of miles, Your troops know how to walk and run better than to fight. And yes. I forgot, your people don't even know how to sail on the waters, let alone fight on it. If you keep this Up, surely the Roman Emprie will just simply blockaid you, and you will then, see the empire's might. when you are in debt. I have no intentions to take your lands, due to the very simple fact that your lands are worthless. Though, Maybe your Caffa fortress will be a nice claim, a nice seaport town. or hell. Every town that borders the ocean will be the roman empires if you keep this up. I do think that every one on the court thinks your a mad man now...

He turns to the Turks.

Oh great... I knew the barbarians would cling to the scum faster than a fly could. The turks should be damn afraid. Having 4 armies by the borders ready to strike. How many armies can you spare to defend against me, You ask of friendship when you STOLE my lands from me? I demand you give them back before you even speak of your "Friend ship" while defending against the other nations who you have their lands. I demand that you give the areas that you have took from My own empire, and the Abbisuds. Or we will take these lands from you

He turns to the Abbisud's diplomat

Maybe we do have some things to discuss, even though our empires are so seperated, The same empire has taken lands from both of us...

The roman diplomat started to laugh again. Enjoying to provoke the Khan diplomat.

the kypchak messenger heres the ERE's rantings and cuts him short

you say the trustworthy turks are in trouble!, look at your own borders, your right inbetween 2 powerful nations that at the moment hav every reason to hate your guts, if your people new of your actions they would desert you, putting there lives in such great danger! and by mocking my lack of naval forces you also insult the proud kingdom of makuria, who also suffer from lack of ship capabilitys, you no your weaker than i and there for plan weakling tactics of attacking ports with no guard, are you a man or a mouse? dont worry, your people wont have to deal with your oppression soon enough when constantiople has been exterminated, i no you lie even if others dont, and while i would be at peace with other nations, i would rather destroy you be for any one else regardless, so you should be quite scared, your messenger can laugh all he likes but behind closed doors we no how much you fear us...and an attack on the turks who have done even less wrong than me will mean a brutal attack from me, i should leave him out of this, it is my Khan who wants the fight, not the successful turkish sultanate

looks towards Abbisud's diplomat

Seeing as the ERE has hinted greatly that he wishes to get you to work with him agaist me i wish to say if it is possible, i can work something out with you from one islam brother to another and maybe we could consider working something out with the lands you want back so we can have friendship true members of islam should have together.
This is why i have offered you and i a chance to become ally.

The ambassador of Jerusalem, exasperated at all of this argument, tries to calm the situation down.
While the Roman diplomat is not listening, he hastily says:

"For the benefit of all the nations at this meeting, including his own, I will attempt to reason with the Roman in a way that he understands. I apologize in advance for any insults I may make towards your nations."

Then he stands.

"Ahem... my good friend, I wish to give you a bit of advice, straight from my heart, in order to keep your prosperous empire safe. While these Kypchaks and Turks are clearly *coughs* infidels and barbarians, you should remember that no matter how righteous, powerful, and technologically advanced your empire is, making enemies of too many barbarians at once may, against all logic, bring about your downfall. I would ask you to remember what happened to the old Roman Empire of the West so many hundreds of years ago. Did not the innumerable horde of Goths and Huns sack the city of Rome, however powerful their legionaires were? I plead with you: do not make every man here your enemy. Instead, make allies, preferably with your fellow Christians, if I may make a humble suggestion."

Henri de Marseille then seats himself, hiding the fact that he is silently gagging over his grovelly words.

The roman laughs more.

Please. The Western romans were corrupted as it was, and we split from them, and they fell as it is. We are speaking of no Huns, I am speaking of the Turks who steal lands from me, and A barbarian up north that wishes to attack me, but has failed to understand that The Roman Emperor have just put up a very large army of Spear, Pike, and Bowmen to the only enterence to my kingdom, They surely do wish to attack me if they do not want to leave my borders. The Roman Emperor simply asked for the forces of barbarian and turks to lower the military forces on their borders, and for the turks to give back my castle. and their would be peace, but these people want the war, they refuse to leave. This can be solved peacefully, or we can "Assist" them to move out of the border lines. It is simple, The Roman Emperor wanted peace from the start, How can Roman Emperor achieve peace when the armies linger to my borders, waiting for a weakness and to attack me? If the military forces would be removed, The roman emperor would station them into my cities. Not have them building a fort at a river end so these damn barbarians are planning to destroy the empire? Them barbarians should know that sense they are a nation of "peace" the first step of "peace" is to draw the armies away from the borders.

The Roman Diplomat sighed.

War can be averted. but only if these barbarians would listen to a civilized tongue.