Re: Russia in Ill Bethisad

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> Interesting! Does that also mean that Galicia was not a part of the
> Austro-Hungarian Monarchy?
Not unless an RTC king sold it to Austria-Hungary, which wouldn't be entirely
out of the question, I suppose.

> And a second question: if Poland was already there before the Great War, then
> on what side was it? Are there any maps of entire Europe of Ill Bethisad?
Not AFAIK.

> Interesting. Since Catholicism is so predominant in Poland, I am curious how
> the Lithuanians managed to resist the pressure of Polish missionaries,
> especially if the two countries were in such a stable unity.
I don't know.  Perhaps one of those religious geniuses popped up, as they
do erratically in human history, who was able to pull together the loosely
coordinated family-traditional paganism of old Lithuania into something
more systematic and organized, fit to become an official religion.  This
would have involved lots of syncretism and possibly an identification of
the Christian God and/or Christ with some Lietuvan deity/ies.

> > What happened between the RTC and the Swedes in Gustavus Adolphus's day?
>
> That question is not for me to answer.
Fair enough.  I just wondered: if he weren't so successful against the
Poles, perhaps the RTC actually had suzerainty over Sweden for a while?

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