Thread:Father Grigori/@comment-24664052-20150429101259/@comment-24664052-20150801061406

'''HISTORY '''

 The Ottomans have been former mountain barbarians who regularly lived off trading and raiding, but according to scholars, the ancestors of Ottomans have been foreign to Anatolia, a mountainous land occupied by a strong monster-friendly state once with the same name.

 Their anti-monster culture in odds with Anatolia’s stance had sparked tensions and eventually wars with the monster-friendly state, which started off as a stronger actor. The Ottomans would have been kicked out of Anatolia had the Order not provided them financial and military support, which eventually tipped the scales in favor of Ottomans and culminating in the sacking of Adana.

 With the monster-friendly state lying in ruins, the desert kingdoms now lie vulnerable to Order invasion, yet the Order seemed only allowed a weaker ally to emerge to be preyed upon by the expansionist Pharaohs. Knowing this, King Charles VI gave further support to Osman I (the Father of the Ottoman Nation) and encouraged his expansionist beliefs to create an Ottoman Empire stretching throughout the deserts. Despite hardships and obstacles presented by Pharaohs and Apophii, the Ottomans proved to be determined to expand their nation into an empire, creating, in Osman’s own words, “an empire lasting a thousand years”.

 In the next few decades and centuries, the Ottomans prospered till the Demon Lord was able to gain foothold in the Order and invade Lescatie, which came to a shock throughout all anti-monster states, including the Ottoman Empire. In 2010 (Earth year), it almost came to a point that only accepting monsters will be the option for the Empire to survive due to a number of reasons: individual decadence, failing economy, faltering military, strengthening of desert demon realms to the point that they are now able to penetrate Ottoman border provinces and political witch-hunts that grew from the fears of a Lescatie-esque invasion threatening to take over the Empire. The last Sultan, Osman CCXXI, enacted an unpopular law which allowed monsters acceptance into the Empire and cutting off relations with the Order.

 The law resulted in massive protests and riots against the Sultan who was deemed to be an agent of the Demon Lord and the creation of the Young Turks. Led by Enver Pasha, the Young Turks believed that the virtues that once existed during the time of Osman I must be restored in order for the nation to live on as “Ottomans”. Not surprisingly, the Sultan ordered the military to crush the Young Turks which resulted in a civil war, as more and more people supported the Young Turks. However, support from Zipangu and the Demon Realm provided military support, allowing the Sultan to almost overwhelm the Young Turks.

 Fortunately, the Human Liberation Front, coming from another world called Earth, waged war against the Demon Realm and monster-friendly states, removing the biggest advantage the Sultan had as the Young Turks began receiving HLF support. The liberation of the Ottoman Empire’s northern neighbors and the acquisition of heavy weaponry and fighter aircraft and excessive monetary aid by the Young Turks sounded a death knell for the Ottoman Empire.

 The Young Turks managed to trap the Sultan and his forces in Adana, and in the “Redemption of Adana” as the current Ottomans call it today, the Young Turks begun purging anyone who supported monsters and who have monster wives, sisters and relatives, as well as the monsters themselves as they establish an “Ottoman Republic” which will replace the Empire as the true government of the Ottoman people.

 Today, the Ottoman Republic reversed the monster-friendly policies of the late Empire and throwing back to the early days of hostile policy against monsters. The Ottoman Republic currently fights the desert demon realms in a deadlock war.