Characters
36 entries in the Europa Universalis compendium.
Louis XIVThe king who moved his court to Versailles and made Paris safe with boulevards.Ivan IVA legendary tableau of Cossacks drafting an insulting reply to an Ottoman ultimatum, captuPeter the GreatThe Tsar who modernized Russia through military, diplomatic, and administrative reforms.Frederick the GreatThe enlightened despot who forged Prussia into a European military powerhouse.Alfonso XThe Wise King who sponsored the Alfonsine tables and the Siete Partidas, fought a war withAkbarThe third Mughal emperor who expanded and consolidated Mughal domains across the Indian suNader ShahThe last great Asiatic military conqueror, restoring Persian glory through iron and blood.Henry VIIITudor king who broke with Rome, burned the monasteries, and remade England in his own restElizabeth IThe Virgin Queen who turned England into a maritime titan.Suleiman the MagnificentThe Magnificent: a ruler of high administrative skill in the game.Isabella I of CastileThe Medici queen who ruled France through intrigue and patronage, only to be banished by hMehmed IIThe twelve-year-old sultan who wanted to fight at Varna but was overruled.Catherine the GreatThe Northern Semiramis: conqueror, reformer, empress.Charles VThe emperor whose realm spanned every time zone on the map.Philip II of SpainPlaywright of history, memory, and the surtexte.Gustavus AdolphusThe king who taught Europe how to fight — and made Sweden roar.Oliver CromwellThe Lord Protector who reshaped England's destiny—with a sword in one hand and a Bible in Maria TheresaArchduchess, reformer, and defender of the Habsburg legacy.Frederick William IThe drillmaster who whipped a kingdom into an army.Selim IHe crushed his father, strangled his rivals, and carved an empire from the bones of the MaBaburFounder of the Mughal Empire, a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan.Akbar the GreatThe Mughal emperor who unified India through conquest and wisdom.Shah JahanBuilder of empires and monuments to love.AurangzebThe sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707, under whom the empirIvan the TerribleThe first crowned Tsar, whose iron hand forged Muscovy into Russia.Henry VIII of EnglandSix wives, one broken faith, and a kingdom remade in the player's hands.Francis I of FranceThe Renaissance king who defied the Habsburgs and sheltered da Vinci's final years.Ferdinand II of AragonKing of Aragon, architect of a unified Iberia, and master of the Mediterranean board.Napoleon BonaparteThe Corsican who crowned himself Emperor and redrew Europe's map by force.Joan of ArcA seventeen-year-old girl who broke the English siege and rewrote France's destiny.Vlad the ImpalerA small Balkan principality, a brutal king, and an empire that will not stop at the DanubeMaximilian IThe archduke who married his way into a continent and forged the Habsburg century.Henry VII of EnglandThe man who ended the Roses and planted the Tudor oak on the English throne.Alexander I of RussiaThe Tsar who held Europe together after Napoleon and watched his own empire strain under tLouis XIV of FranceThe Sun King's golden reign turns France into the continent's undisputed colossus.James IV of ScotlandA poet-king who built a navy, then lost it all at Flodden.
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