quote: "Now that the city was taken it was well worth all our previous labours and hardships to see the devotion of the pilgrims at the Holy Sepulchre. How they rejoiced and exulted and sang a new song to the Lord! A new day, new joy, new and perpetual gladness, the consummation of our effort and devotion drew forth from all new words and new music. This day, I say, will be famous in all future ages. This day, I say, marks the justification of all Christianity, the humiliation of paganism, and the renewal of our faith. 'This is the day that the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.' For on this day the Lord Revealed himself to his people and blessed them."

-Raymond of Aguilers on the capture of Jerusalem

quote: "Of the life of man the duration is but a point, its substance streaming away, its perception dim, the fabric of the entire body prone to decay, and the soul a vortex, and fortune incalculable, and fame uncertain. In a word all things of the body are as a river, and the things of the soul as a dream and a vapour; and life is a warfare and a pilgrim's sojourn, and fame after death is only forgetfulness."

-Marcus Aurelius

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EPILOGUE

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The Alexandrian Crusade. The birth of Prince Charles.Assassination attempts, civil war, and Charles reaches manhood.The conquest of Egypt, more civil war, the Death of Good King Baldwin.Love affairs, bastards, and various evil Italians.In which the wicked get their comeuppance.Schizophrenia, Mongols, More War, and the Death of Charles the Conqueror.The Judgement of God, Civil Wars in Egypt, Adultery, and the Invasion of Cyprus.The Great Crusade against the Mongols. Imperial Glory.Chaos, Civil War, and the Death of a Tyrant.Baghdad: Killer of Kings. Prosperity under the virile Emperor Guiraud.Peace, mountains of gold, and inbred children.Bookworms, love, and crippled children. War with Byzantium and the claiming of the Crown of Persia.The Plague Years.The Pax Jerusalem. The end of the Middle Ages.The Renaissance begins. Centralizing power in the Kingdom. The conquest of central Arabia.A New World discovered! Protestant heresies! Storm clouds over Persia!The invasion of Persia. The liberation of Ethiopia. Big guns and stylish hats. The chicken bone of destiny.Saints, Prophecies, and Betrayals: The First Byzantine War.The Second Byzantine War. Colonies in Madagascar. The invasion of India. The Third Byzantine War. The Fourth Byzantine War and the forging of King Louis the Bold.The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Byzantine Wars:War in India. Liberal revolts. The forbidden love of Queen Ioulanda and General Gumpenberg.Democracy is born in Nicholia. The Great War with Rum. A power play by Ming China.Triumph in India. Liberal revolts and slow modernization. More independence movements in Nicholia.The birth of Prussia and the Fall of Rum.War against Georgia. The total triumph of Christ in Arabia. The Bill of Rights and gradual liberalization of the Kingdom. Laurence V takes the throne.Railroads spring up. Colonies in Antipodea and tension with Leon. The Partition of Georgia. Liberal revolts.The Russian invasion of the Silk Road. The colonial humiliation of the Scots. Colt rifles for Jerusalem.War in China. The annexation of Tripoli. Realist artists gain fame and prestige.War in Antipodea. Ironclads. The German war of independence. Nobles triumph over ambitious capitalists. The first Great Nicholian War. The Crusader Queen takes the Throne.The conquest of Scottish Antipodea. The Great World War against Russia.A new Constitution for Jerusalem. Airplanes, electricity, and colonial Africa. The death of the Crusader Queen.The colonization of Africa. Voting rights expanded. The Great Game in India.The Twenty Years War. The rise of the Fascists. King Baldwin XVI.Storm clouds gather. An alliance with Orleans. Rebels in Africa.Mccullough's War. The invention of the atom bomb. XA-1005C. Armageddon.by SuperBeepy