Brunei vs Majapahit & Kutai

Brunei was brave enough to declare war on Kutai, my vassal. The armies of the Majapahit empire will now march to Kutei to protect our vassal.

I really love Europa Universalis III. I love history, specially the history of the small and obscure countries that nobody knows about, so this game, together with the modding community, offers me a fully playable world full of these WTF countries.

[BTW this is the In Nomine expansion, with the mod Terra Universalis (I'm the creator of it! But this part of the world is based in another mod, Divide et Impera)]

I miss that world, full of countries, full of culture, full of complexity...

I will remember the history of these obscure countries in future posts. They deserve it.

As you may know, Brunei still exists today. Sure it is just a shadow of the powerful sultanate that ruled Borneu, but its existence is enough to make me feel happy as it makes the world a more interesting place. (As a monarchist, it makes me double happy as it still is a monarchy - republics are much less interesting).

The South Monarchy

90 years after the North Monarchy it was proclaimed the South Monarchy.

«Soldiers!
You have in front of you the Blue and White Flag! Those were always the colours of Portugal, since king Afonso I, in Ourique, in the defense of our lands against the Moors until king Manuel II keeping against the african rebels our domains in Magul, Coolela, Cuamato, and many other battles that showed the portuguese arms.
«When in 1910 Portugal abandoned the Blue and White, Portugal abandoned its history! And the peoples that abandon their history become weak and die.
«Soldiers! The Army is, first of all, the highest symbol of the Nation and, because of that, it has to sustain and saved it in the hardest circunstances, helping it in the right hour against the internal or external dangers that threaten its existence.
«And abandon the history is an error that kills! Against that error the Army must hoist again his old Blue and White Flag.
«The Nation points you the ways of Value, Loyalty and Bravery, where the portuguese of the past conquered the greatness and glory that today still dignifies the Army of Portugal among the nations of the World!
«Let's follow it, soldiers! And sustain it with the body, even at the cost of our own blood!
«And with the help of God, and with the strength of our traditional beliefs , that the Blue and White symbolizes, we will save our Nation!»

«Long live king Manuel II!»
«Long live the Army! Long live the Portuguese Nation!»

Speech of Paiva Couceiro to his soldiers in the North Monarchy in 1919.