It was for a time an independent Kingdom ruled by the (installed by me) awesomely named Hippolytus of Hungary (Ippolito in his native Italian). But his son Hippolytus II got invaded by the Ilkhanate and then the Golden Horde somehow invaded it again. idk what's up there. There was an independant Hungarian Empire of the Reformed Tengri faith that controlled territory as far east as Cumania but that's long gone by now.
And anyways, Yarrun still hasn't read The King's Shadow, leaving me to wonder whether that book really exists or if I hallucinated it and all the references to it on the internet are make up by people to make me feel non-insane.
If I do not complete this feat by your birthday, you are free to beat me about the head and neck until I have learned my lesson.
Reading legitimate history books about William Marshall (or even history books where Marshall is not the focus, but is an important figure) is weird.
I get the sense that William Marshall is the self-insert guy of real life; except that he actually existed and actually was that awesome.
Dude was sent to be killed at about four-five years old (his dad was rebelling against King Stephen), and King Stephen was all like "I have your son. Are you sure you don't want to surrender? Don't make me hurt this innocent kid". and John Marshall, William's dad, was all like "Dude, I am the hammer and my wife is the anvil, and together we are the forge that can make more kids. Kill William, see if I care."
And King Stephen reluctantly gave the order for William to be killed. Luckily, a few days later, King Stephen found William playing with the executioner's sword (kid was always interested in swords) and the sight so touched him that he rescinded the execution order.
the Golden Horde 'somehow' invading somewhere has to be the least surprising thing :p
Yeah but usually they go in geographic order, like from east to west (or right to left if you prefer). This time they just said "hey we're going to take that piece of land way over there and never touch anything around it ever".
the Golden Horde 'somehow' invading somewhere has to be the least surprising thing :p
Yeah but usually they go in geographic order, like from east to west (or right to left if you prefer). This time they just said "hey we're going to take that piece of land way over there and never touch anything around it ever".
My understanding of Hungarian history is pretty limited. I know at some point the Magyars claimed most of the Carpathian Basin as their own and at some point Stephen I was crowned as king formally. Beyond that I don't know much.
And anyways, Yarrun still hasn't read The King's Shadow, leaving me to wonder whether that book really exists or if I hallucinated it and all the references to it on the internet are make up by people to make me feel non-insane.
If I do not complete this feat by your birthday, you are free to beat me about the head and neck until I have learned my lesson.
Oh well, at least you watched The Secret of Kells and thereby saved your freshly-donated kneecaps.
My understanding of Hungarian history is pretty limited. I know at some point the Magyars claimed most of the Carpathian Basin as their own and at some point Stephen I was crowned as king formally. Beyond that I don't know much.
For starters, the Magyar are more closely related to the Finns and Estonians than any surrounding ethnic group, and were alien in that respect even a millennium or more ago when they settled in Central Europe. Their language is not Indo-European or Turkic, but Ugric, written until the Middle Ages in runes similar to but not the same as those used by the Khazars and western Mongol tribes. It is also agglutinative in a very peculiar way, like stacking verb components and cases like German stacks nouns and adjectives. It is a well-attested language, but a very odd one.
Their history and politics are pretty messy and weird for completely different reasons. To give you an idea, look up what's going on in Hungary right now with Fidesz. It's... terrifying.
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It was for a time an independent Kingdom ruled by the (installed by me) awesomely named Hippolytus of Hungary (Ippolito in his native Italian). But his son Hippolytus II got invaded by the Ilkhanate and then the Golden Horde somehow invaded it again. idk what's up there. There was an independant Hungarian Empire of the Reformed Tengri faith that controlled territory as far east as Cumania but that's long gone by now.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I get the sense that William Marshall is the self-insert guy of real life; except that he actually existed and actually was that awesome.
Dude was sent to be killed at about four-five years old (his dad was rebelling against King Stephen), and King Stephen was all like "I have your son. Are you sure you don't want to surrender? Don't make me hurt this innocent kid". and John Marshall, William's dad, was all like "Dude, I am the hammer and my wife is the anvil, and together we are the forge that can make more kids. Kill William, see if I care."
And King Stephen reluctantly gave the order for William to be killed. Luckily, a few days later, King Stephen found William playing with the executioner's sword (kid was always interested in swords) and the sight so touched him that he rescinded the execution order.
Then GOD IS SEVEN!
Then GOD IS SEVEN!
COINCIDENCE?????
My understanding of Hungarian history is pretty limited. I know at some point the Magyars claimed most of the Carpathian Basin as their own and at some point Stephen I was crowned as king formally. Beyond that I don't know much.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Is that Yarrun in the Astronaut suit?
Tumblr hates him.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead