He would be the beginning of something that would determine the course of history for centuries to come. There had been some rumors about a former Knight Templar who was bringing a Spanish army to aid the old Byzantine Empire but Osman wasn't worried about mere rumors, as he knew his carefully crafted out plans would succeed. Not to mention the Byzantines, who were now relying on aid from their Christian Brethren to the West. Still, the way was long as Osman had to start almost from scratch in a place surrounded by rivals and hostile tribes. His successes as a commander quickly spread and Persians, Arabs, and Turks, all fleeing the Mongol onslaught in the East, wanted to join under his command. Soon he offered his services to the Rum Sultan and started dreaming of an empire of his own. He was unmatched in physical strength and therefore got the name bone-breaker.īut Osman had more than just his strength.

Now that he had grown up, he took his father's place and became a Bey himself. Son of a Turkish Bey, he had followed his nomadic family to this new fertile place in former Roman lands. With many of the neighboring powers gone or busy fighting the Mongols while the Byzantine Empire in the West was slowly crumbling, he knew that he had to strike the iron while it was hot. At this moment, Osman, a young member of a Turkish tribe, became aware of the opportunity that lay ahead of him. Even the mighty Seljuk empire was gone and the Rum Sultanate and other minor kingdoms in Anatolia were the only kingdoms left in Turkish hands. Their empire now stretched as far as Anatolia, where refugees of the fallen Eastern Turkish empires started occupying Byzantine land.

Just as sun rises in the East, so did the hordes of Mongolia out of the steppes of the East.

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