Letter Bee

A Song of Ice and Fire: The Bleeding Years (Character/Nation RP Hybrid)

Highly doubt you'll have me.

But I'll put down some tentative interest here.

Could dust off my House Harlaw from some time in the past maybe.

@BigPapaBelial

If you know ASOIAF/GoT, I'll have you.

I will admit to finding it hard to explain complex settings to other people, by the way; that problem still exists, so I'm glad you know ASOIAF.

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Letter Bee

ok

@Dinh AaronMk

Thanks; I presume I have to summarize the Greek War of Independence and not just jump to the revolutionary movement against Otto I?

Edit: Okay, sorry about that; that sounded lazy.

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Pagemaster

It looks good to me chief but I also get the impression from the content and structure it's still sort of work in progress. I get the sense you could probably shine a light on the internal crises of the Empire. Being perhaps the least or last touched by the Napoleonic fervor there'd be some hard arguments about the British role in Europe in the world at large or the social or political movements from within the eternal tory rule of England or English society at large.

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Stop being a pussy and embrace the groundwork for any revolution. That's what the RP is going for.

@Dinh AaronMk

Good point; now I need time and inspiration for a nation sheet.

HORIZON: In Wastes, Our Dreams

A problem just occured, @ERode: I am fast acquiring a lot of RPs and I might need to refrain from joining more.

I'll update you on if I can't join after all.

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Pagemaster, Thanks! And I asked because Lord Byron is a British Citizen and thus under your purview (he was also nominated King of Greece IRL, although not sure if that applies to this RP).

Edit: And it seems that Lord Byron being nominated King of Greece IRL was an exaggeration which modern scholars disbelieve. Dangit.

Edit 2: I need a candidate for King who is relatively liberal yet tolerable to the establishment. Any candidates?

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Pagemaster, Can I have Lord Byron as King of my Greece? I dislike Otto the Barvarian.

The Ghost of Napoleon

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So historically, Greece was usually under the patronage of three powers in Europe:

- The Francophile faction, which was usually aligned in the more conservative powers of Hellenic government and favored a more gradual shift of the country into modernity after Ottoman rule.

- The Liberals and Irredentists, who found themselves being found under the influence of the British.

- The reactionaries and Orthodoxists, who liked the strong power of Russia's status and mutual orthodox heritage to, again leverage power against the Ottomans (I think you're noticing a pattern here)

OTL the conservative factions in Greek politics would largely end up winning internally, but Greece herself was by in large under the whims of a British establishment - who in turn would end up being pro-Hellenic more often than not, due to the interests of the expanding Greek state likewise also serving as a natural check to both Russian and Ottoman interests in the Balkans. In that vein, your best bets for any fruitful alliance here would most definitely be Britain, who was very interested in a Hellenic state who could fulfill that role.

@Yam I Am

Thanks!

The Ghost of Napoleon

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Russia will be in the midst of a civil war for a little while and will not have the ability to project power into the balkans during it.

@Lady Lascivious

That is okay.

Want a volunteer battalion for either side?

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Lady Lascivious, be Greece's patron? :P

The Ghost of Napoleon

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To make a long story short:

There isn't one: There was only one when you acted like these events that Muhammad Ali did historically were - as I said earlier - things he could do in a vacuum and wouldn't attract anyone's attention, when in reality, they all certainly did.

If you just made it clear that you're willing to go in knowing that Muhammad's actions likely would have resulted in the Oriental Crisis occurring to make Egypt a vassal state of the Ottomans again (as it did historically with a 5 nation coalition against Egypt), then...sure. There's nothing wrong with your sheet whatsoever.

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@Yam I Am

Oh. Well, that makes sense.

So it was my misunderstanding Page which caused the mess in the first place. I can accept that - But it was still honest ignorance which caused the misunderstanding; I did not know how people work and admittedly didn't care to do so until August of last year.