The Story of Souls: A Sweboz AAR

**Olaf Blackeyes** · 03-18-2009, 23:07

Fraid its not the Proto-Fins. Good guess though.
But its 350 years too late for that to be them.

BTW I ****ING LOVE Paint.Net!

**julius_caesar_the_first** · 03-18-2009, 23:24

All the maps I've found show the Finno-Ugric peoples in that area at that time. Only other guesses are the Rus or Magyars (but they seem to be a lot more to the south).

**HunGeneral** · 03-19-2009, 00:04

Well besides Magyars (300 years too early, pluss to high north) Rus (I guess to much to the north aswell) or Khazars (there back on the steppes) I couldn't think on anyone or atleast I can't remember right now.

Nice work Olaf now you got me thinking on that one.... can't wait to see who they are...

**Olaf Blackeyes** · 03-19-2009, 00:06

Remember this is not OTL is is an ATL.
Stuff can change pretty dramatically with the Butterfly Effect.

Beside you guys have guessed at it several times by now, but you arent giving me a final answer.

**Olaf Blackeyes** · 03-19-2009, 04:36

Chapter Two: Peace
(From the Runic book:)
Winter 609AD
As the snows set in another winter has come. I have returned to the Capital of Germania, Gawjam-Suthezkoz. The reports that our High King, Ardawulfaz, has received are not good. The Khazars are once again on the move, this time it looks like they are heading for the Avars. This will mean more fighting and bloodshed in the winter to come.
To the south the Langobards and Sassanids are entering their 25th winter of war with one another. How EITHER of these peoples have the will to fight for 25 winters is beyond me. It is, as ever, a bloody stalemate along the western bank of the Euphrates River.

In spite of numerous attempts, neither side will come to the table, the Langobards claiming that the Sassanid are oppressing fellow Christians in Armenia, and the Sassanids claiming that these lands have belonged to them since time out of place, as the "Heirs to Akkadia". So things have been forever it seems. These two peoples have gone to war nearly 50 times in 200 winters. This is one of the longer ones however.
Closer to home, the harvests have picked up recently, the Gawjams of Hamburgoz, Akerusoz, and Dietmoz have had plentiful harvests this winter, so when the snows met it will be a good winter.
But i must sign off for there are things i must take care of.

**desert** · 03-19-2009, 04:39

Didn't they stop ending everything with -oz by then?

I'm pretty sure Old English was invented around 600 AD.

**Olaf Blackeyes** · 03-19-2009, 04:43

Yes, Old English is in England, a former Roman province and there are massive Roman cultural inroads into Saxon culture there.
But also remember, by now the Romans were gone and Roman culture had deeply spread amongst the Germans. Without the Fall of Rome, this diffusion into Germania proper will take a LOT longer. You have to take account of the butterfly effect, which i am trying to do.