Angst

Marriage Alliances

Under Suren the elder, marriage alliances were negotiated with the other qabals of Chaldea as the cornerstone to the unification of Chaldea. There is no extant record of any major marriage alliances with other ruling families, though one may surmise that there must have been one with Angustus' ruling family of the New Persian Empire, to whom Suren swore allegiance, Chaldea and the occupied lands of South Bank Euphrates becoming its most southerly satrapy.

Pontus
The first major marriage alliance successfully negotiated by Mustasha was with Pontus, his eldest sister Vashti (b.94) marrying the Prince of the Royal House of Pontus, Antigonus Gonades, who held lands around the Dardanelles.

This also incidentally gave the Hamid line a marriage alliance with the Galatian ruling family of Macalix, as Macalix married Ate, the daughter of the Emperor of Pontus.

Both these marriage alliances were to cause severe problems during the Slavonian campaign of 121. This is dealt with in a separate thread.

Attila the Hun
The conquest of New Persia by the norseman Olaf The Hairy in 115 was accomplished with the support of Vikings and Huns. In a Zeus-inspired initiative Mustasha and Attila entered into a double-marriage alliance that was intended eventually to lead to the emergence of a united realm of Chaldea and the Hunnish-held lands east of the Tigris. The marriages took place but the political basis underlying them disappeared, after the re-establishment of the New Persian Empire by Angustus after the death of Olaf the Hairy.

The Nubian Dynasty
Mustasha Junior, younger brother of Mustasha's heir, Suren, was given the rule of Nubia, it being too remote from Chaldea to be held from the Great Oasis. How this kingdom ended under Mustasha Senior's rule is related separately. Suffice it to say here that Mustasha Senior united the squabbling twin sons of Nubia's deceased ruler by managing to get Mustasha Jr. established in a series of complex marriage alliances.