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Angevin Empire

The sun shines in Angers, aka Paris, as the parade trumpets ring out. It is the 50th birthday of Angevin's great emperor Henri VI, and the celebrations are massive. Cheering crowds surround the royal motorcade, as the illustrious monarch waves to his adoring people. Truly there has never been a greater age than this, a greater empire, a more prosperous and more stable realm than the Angevin Empire.

But all is not well in the Empire of the Sun.

Two days after this parade, a grenade thrown into a crowded restaurant will kill 25 people. A week after that, two Angevin nobles will be found floating in the Seine river dead. There is insurgency brewing in the kingdom. Bitter nobles who have worked under the pompous emperor have begun to plot and conspire, foremost amongst them Philip, Duke of Aquitane. Also scheming are the long-suppressed French republicans, crushed centuries ago in the failed Battle of the Bastille and rising up intermittently since. In the shadows of Angers's backalleys the Revolutionaries plot in their conspiracy to bring liberté, egalité and fraternité to the Angevin Empire.

And across the Channel things aren't too good either. The winter of '33 - '34 has been cruel to the English, who have for centuries been treated as subhuman by the French. Famine has gripped the poorer parts of the island, and cases of people fleeing to Scotland and Eire are higher than ever. In March, explosions at the regional capital Lundenwic destroy several bridges over the Thames River causing mass disruption. In April, an Angevin delegation arriving from Calais is shot at by small-arms fire whilst disembarking from their boat, and the lead diplomat is wounded.

The Sun Emperor is oblivious to this all, choosing to live out his days in luxury in the Palace of Versailles, high on various exotic drugs and women. He does not know it, but the age of Angevin global domination may all soon come crashing down.