In 1616, Maria Elisabeth, grandson of the deceased King John III of Sweden and grandson of the late Karl IX of Sweden, and daughter of John and Karl IX of East Jotland, gave birth to a prince. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Archduke John was twenty-eight years old, and it was the time of youth to triumph. As the cousin of the Grand Duke, Princess Maria Elizabeth has just begun a wonderful life.

This year marked the sixth year of the accession of Gustav II, the Lion of Northern Europe, and the whole of Europe accepted the prophecy of Michel de Nottdam, and the monarchs of Poland and Denmark hoped for the early death of Germany.

In this year, a baby named John Gustav came into the world, and he was born with an aura of eminence.

As the direct son of the founding king of Sweden, Gustav I, from his great-grandfather Gustav Vasa, to his grandfather Vasa's second son, John III, the third king of Sweden, to the only son of his father John III and his second wife Gunyla Birk, and the first son of John, the former Grand Duke of Finland and the current Grand Duke of East Jotland, his family tree is orthodox and noble in all generations.

Not only did John the Younger succeed to the throne of Sweden from the hitherto childless Gustav Adolf, but he also had the opportunity to inherit the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from his uncle Sigismundna, who was the same grandfather.

If Sigismund's successor, Władysław IV Vasa, the distant cousin of John the Younger, succeeded to the throne, as a child nineteen years younger than his cousin, he would not only have the opportunity to receive the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from his cousin, but also to inherit the crown of the Russian Tsar from his cousin.

Of course, the conflict between multiple faiths will become a serious problem.

He was one of the lucky ones who, like Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, had the opportunity to merge a vast empire by virtue of his origin.

In the second year of John Jr.'s birth, Sweden turned its corner.

Gustav II was crowned at Uppsala Cathedral, which had been postponed for six years, and little John was held by his mother in the ceremony.

Little John, who didn't cry or make trouble the whole time, happened to laugh when Gustav mentioned him, and the hidden danger of the king's childlessness seemed to disappear with that smile.

John Gustav, who was gifted and did not suffer from illness or disaster since childhood, spent his infant life happily under the care of his parents.

Due to the birth of John Jr., the Swedish royal family, which was already simple in structure, did not disagree with Sigismund anymore.

As the father of the third in line of succession, the second in line of succession to the Archduke John, resolutely used the leadership of his brother-in-law Gustav II.

With John's help at home, Gustav II, who was on a foreign expedition, achieved even more brilliant results in the wars with Denmark, Poland and Russia.

History is always strikingly similar, and Duke John, who remained in the country in 1618, occasionally caught a chill, a common illness in snowy Scandinavia.

But it was such a common cold that robbed this thirty-year-old Grand Duke of a future full of infinite possibilities.

John Jr. was taken back to Stockholm by his mother, Maria Elizabeth, and the orphans and widows lived in Maria's familiar Drottningholm Palace, which was a good palace at the time, although it was a far cry from the large royal palace that later sits on the island of Staudan.

Prime Minister Axel Uxensena regained power in the country, and in the same year he pushed for the passage of a new law of parliament and embarked on a reform of the town's administration.

Also in 1618, the Czech revolt against the Habsburgs, the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, was the trigger for what we call the Thirty Years' War.

The Electorate of Brandenburg and East Prussia were completely united with the only unitary power.

Maria Ilionora, the Swedish princess from the Electorate of Brandenburg, had only one daughter, and was upset whenever she saw little John's mother and son.

If it weren't for Maria Elizabeth growing up in the royal palace, which was full of servants loyal to Princess Maria, the princess who missed her homeland, she might have been waiting for an opportunity to kill little John, the unsightly child.

Until John Jr. was six years old, Prince John, who had begun to read and write, received a gift that would change his fate, a system that existed in his mind.

After spending more than a month thoroughly figuring out the current status of the system, John Jr. summarized the attributes recognized by the system:

Genius: Diplomacy +2, Conspiracy +2, Internal Affairs +2, Military +2, Learning +2;

Decisive (quick): Diplomacy +1, Conspiracy +1, Internal Affairs +1, Military +1, Learning +1, First Impression +15;

Strong: Diplomacy +1, Military +2, Health +2, +0.1 chance of each successful conception;

Diligent: +1 for Diplomacy, +1 for Conspiracy, +1 for Internal Affairs, +1 for Military, +1 for Study.

Except for John, who is diligent and sensible early, in order to get his mother's praise, the result of spontaneous learning, everything else is innate.

It should be said that he is worthy of being the darling of the times, and John Jr. not only did not inherit the shortcomings of his close relatives' marriage, but also became a healthy child.

The little prince, who was prompted by the system, always pestered his uncle Gustav II at a young age, and soon became a student of Axel Uxsensena with the cooperation of his mother, and although this teacher did not always come to teach him, he was indeed a teacher recognized by the system.

What made little John a little unhappy was that the young teacher was getting closer and closer to his widowed mother.

Six years later, Axel Uxena's Little John was taught to take on some new changes.

Chaste: -0.15 chance of successful conception each time, +0.5 monthly friendship of fellow monks, -0.5 monthly friendship of different monks;

Scholar: +2 to learn;

Hunter: Military +1;

Duel (duelist): Diplomacy +1;

Patience (patient): Diplomacy +1, Conspiracy +1, Internal Affairs +1, Study +1, First Impression +10;

Proud: Monthly reputation +0.5;

Brave: Military +2;

Ambitious: Intrigue +2, Internal Affairs +2, Diplomacy +2, Military +2, Study +2;

Suspicion (paranoid): Conspiracy +2, Diplomacy -1;

Cynical: +2 for conspiracy, -0.2 for monthly piety, +10 for first impressions;

Zealous: Military +2, Monthly Piety +1, First Impression -10;

Temperate: +2 for internal affairs;

Overall, up to this point, John Jr. is simply a model for all European royal children.

If it weren't for the fact that Gutaave's third daughter, Christina II, was too young, and his two previous daughters had died young, John Jr. would have become Gustav II's son-in-law.

On his twelfth birthday, the system unlocked new changes, adding four attributes of strength, agility, intelligence, and charisma, combined with weapon proficiency, to measure Little John's personal combat effectiveness.

It only took a few days for John Jr. to figure out the new features, and he began to take the initiative to follow the British envoys in Sweden, learning foreign languages and knightly rules like a noble squire.

At this time, the time was 1628 AD, the year when not only the Bohemian region of the active Protestant region had fallen, but the famous general Wallenstein was hired by the Austrian Grand Duke to lead an army to defeat the main Danish army, seize the important city of Saxony, and suppress the Electorate of Saxony.

Gustav II received a large amount of supplies from the British and was preparing for a confrontation with the Holy Roman Empire.

As little John grew up little by little, Gustav, who was never childless, was ready to make him the heir to the throne.

The only obstacle is the birth of Princess Christina, the daughter of the current king, who is also alive and well, and according to Swedish custom, she is considered to be an auspicious person who comes into the world in the garb of victory.

John Jr. did not snub his cousin because of a dispute over the throne, but Christina's biological mother, Maria Ilionora, was indifferent to her daughter.

After all, the princess, who is not young, has always hoped to give birth to a son this time, but she gave birth to a girl for the third time, which almost completely shattered the princess's pride, and the princess's jealousy of Maria Elizabeth was almost vented on this Christina princess.

In 1630, Gustav, who was fully prepared, faced Wallenstein, who had formed a fleet in Bohemia, and under the advice of Admiral Hertram and the influence of military spending sent by France, Gustav II took the initiative to attack and landed in Bohemia in July, and the third phase of the Thirty Years' War officially began.

Hedram Joachim Bergston and his fleet defeated the fleet of the Goshua Chamber of Commerce, hired by Wallenstein, to escort the Swedish landing and provide supplies.

The main members of the Swedish fleet included First Officer Gerhardt Adicon, navigator Manuel Almida, and Chief Gunnery Charlie John Lochevfer.

This year, little John was already fifteen years old.

By the time all 13,000 Swedish troops landed in Bohemia, Wallenstein had been relieved of his duties, and the new commander of the Catholic coalition was Count Tilly, and the main force of the coalition was not Austrian but Bavarian.

In 1631, at the age of sixteen, John was made Archduke of Finland and at the same time received the adult recognition of the personal system as a bard.

He gains a range of personal combat attributes and traits.

Base attributes: 8 Strength (military attribute points and strength trait bonuses), 7 Agility (military and health attribute points bonuses), 8 Intelligence (learning, internal affairs, diplomacy, conspiracy combined bonuses), 5 Charisma, 3 Horsemanship (hunting and genius trait bonuses), 4 Domination (military attribute bonuses);

Noble Norse royal origin: Intelligence +1, Charisma +3, Attack +2, Weapon Mastery +2, Tactics +1, Domination +2, Riding +1;

The boy is the squire of the Kingdom Ambassador: Strength +1, Charisma +1, Strike +1, Persuasion +2;

Aspire to be a bard as an adult: Charisma +2, Persuasion +1, Guide +1, Domination +1, Weapon Mastery +1;

Poet: Diplomacy +1;

Gregarious: Diplomacy +2;

The reason for leaving the family to venture far away is the desire for adventure: agility +2, guide +1;

In addition to weapon proficiency, the final physical qualities are: 9 strength, 9 agility, 9 intelligence, 11 charisma, 4 horsemanship, 3 weapon mastery, 7 dominance, 3 strong attacks, 3 persuasion, 1 tactic, and 2 guides. (Weapon mastery represents the level of martial arts, and strong strikes represent the level of power skills.) ）

In general, he is a good boy with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor.

With a squad of Swedish pistols, he left familiar Stockholm for a love of adventure, and entered the chaotic triangle of Sweden, Russia, and Poland via Finland.

When passing through the city of Helsinki in Finland, the new territory system comes into effect.

As the son of the fourth Archduke of Finland of Sweden and the fifth Archduke of Finland and a Protestant Lutheran, Prince Johann Gustav was unanimously supported by the local nobility and commoners.

At the beginning of 1632, John Jr., who had already completed the formation of the new army in Finland with the help of the system, arrived in the Neva Delta region with a mixed cavalry of Finnish light cavalry and Swedish elite musketeers.

In April 1632, Gustav II won the Battle of the Lek River, and the eastern part of Sweden, which included Finland, Latvia, Estonia and part of the western outlying forest areas of Russia, had become John the Younger.

On 19 April 1632, John the Younger's other uncle, Sigismund, Sigismund III Vasa, died of illness in Warsaw, and Władysław IV Vasa hastily succeeded to the throne with a mixed army of thousands of horsemen raised by John the Younger on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea.

In November 1632, Gustav II was killed unexpectedly, and Bernhard and Field Marshal Horn jointly commanded the Swedish legions, which won the final victory at the Battle of Lützen, and the allied commander Wallenstein escaped alive back to Bohemia.

The difference was that John the Younger's army appeared on the flank of the defeated Holy Roman Empire, and he took over the army from Marshal Horn in the name of Prince of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland, and the combined army was even more than the 13,000 men at the time of landing.

As in history, Gustav II's designated successor was Christina, who was six years old when Christina ascended the throne, and Prime Minister Axel Uxsensena did not take the post of regent, a position that was granted by parliament to John the Younger, who was at the front.

After receiving this appointment and announcing it to the whole army, John Jr. received full adult approval from the system.

Just: +2 for internal affairs, +1 for learning, +20 for first impressions, +10 for respectability;

Wroth: Diplomacy -1, Conspiracy -1, Military +3, Respectability -5;

The final result of education is Elusive (grey_eminence): Diplomacy +9, Conspiracy +2, Learning +2, Military -1, Probability of Successful Conception +0.1 per time.

(The final outcome was biased by Prime Minister Axel Uxena's abilities; John was inexplicably close to the British ambassador as a teenager; and the new cavalry he formed in Finland, which was able to defeat the Polish hussars in Lithuania, these three factors combined to cause. ）

He then proceeded to choose a wife for himself, as well as to negotiate peace with the Holy Roman Empire.

Bernhard, who was born as a German prince, belonged to the main battle faction, and Marshal Horn and Prime Minister Axel Uxencharena were the same as Little John, but the difference was that the Swedish army had an absolute advantage in this army, and Little John was bent on leading the army to attack Poland, arranging for people to release the wind to Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Emperor Graz, and Ferdinand II, who was bent on suing for peace to save his life, sent people to kill Wallenstein and Bernhard.

And then there's the story of the Prince Regent, John Gustav.