OOC: Dan Messanisk Arkkesjrnid

[Aerandariel]

After some consideration, here is what I am thinking for Angiris and Tuscarawas.

In an alternate history timeline, Angiris would not be an Empire, but it would be a Republic. During the last Angirisian elections, had the referendum to dismantle the Empire passed, Angiris would have become a "Republican Dominion". Basically, this Republican Dominion is what Angiris would be in an alternative universe. No Emperor, no Imperial traditions. I would also imagine alternate-Angiris would be very secular, and thus it would care less about religious issues but even still it would likely be mostly Sentric or Ostrid with mix of other religious communities. Basically... a melting pot.

I pitched to Lines earlier about the possibility of Tuscarawas having totally avoided being a colony of any Brigidnian power, much like Ethiopia did during the early twentieth century. This would then infer that Tuscarawas would have probably been a much more militaristic power and potentially even an imperial power in the Mandavine Sea region. But this also would require Tuscarawas to have industrialized in a fairly quick fashion, and I couldn't be sure as to how something like that could affect the country. Religiously, Tuscarawas would still cling to its native religions, and consider some other religions to be heretical (Sentricism may be one of them, I haven't decided).

In these scenarios, with Angiris, I cannot imagine it would be willing to fight with this HME outright but it certainly wouldn't bend its knee. With Tuscarawas, it will fight to the very end, inevitable or no.