The Early Years

London, 3950 BC[4]:

Around London lived small villages of the neighboring tribes.  English scouts quickly contacted the first, who gave England maps of the surroundings lands, which revealed that London was on the edge of a large desert, with a line of hills to the west.  Eastwards was a forest containing silks.  Friendly Celts from the other village taught England the customs of ceremonial burial of the dead[5].  Ostrogoths told English scouts much about the land, and Gepids taught the working of a metal called bronze into weapons and ornaments.  More Gepids gave England still more knowledge of the world[6].
 
More scouting of the land revealed that the English were in a VERY good location in the world.  Down the Thames to the west were jungles filled with spices, and to the east were vast forests verily teeming with silkworms.  William immediately made plans to settle these lands as fast as possible.  With all due speed, York was founded in the West Hills.  Realizing that English knowledge of the world was rapidly increasing, the Blessed William and his advisors sat down and worked up maps to guide future expansion efforts.

Map of the West | Map of the East [7]

England was popular with lesser tribes all over the region, and many possessed useful knowledge.  The Burgundian mystics soon walked the streets of London, the Huns taught the secrets of Masonry, the Gepids taught the code of the warrior, and other young Gepid warriors actually joined with the English.  These warriors reached London just in time to head off a raid by savage Alemanni barbarians seeking to sack the city.  After a pair of vicious battles, the barbarians were driven off.  Shortly thereafter, English scouts learned the secrets of working a metal called iron from the extremely knowledgeable Huns[9].  Soon after, English wise men discovered the use of the wheel on their own, shortly before learning mathematics from Burgundian wise men.  Impressed by English civilization, more Burgundians picked up their axes and offered to serve the Blessed William and the Voice as warriors.
 
England grew to three cities with the addition of Nottingham in 1990 BC near Sherwood Forest, where the silkworm thrived.  In celebration, wise men from far off tribes came to pay tribute in London: From the North Gepids came great philosophers, while the Huns sent scribes.  The Seljuks did one better, offering the secrets of Literature.  The South Gepids, not to be outdone, offered a code of laws[10].  Soon after, Birmingham was founded in the spice jungles to the west of York.  At the festival in London by way of celebration, far off tribes to the south, the Vandals and Visigoths, offered gold and the teachings of their many gods.  Many English, lulled by the long absence of the Voice, were swayed by the teachings of these gods.
 
Upon the founding of Manchester on the northern edge of Sherwood Forest in 1725, however, the lesser tribes sent nothing but excuses.  The Blessed William showed great patience, knowing that the tribute would come again, in time.  He was soon proven right, as a tribe in the far east, the Ongurs, made the pilgrimage to London, bearing with them examples of their maps and the models of ships.  The Blessed William immediately ordered a map to be drawn of the entire English realm.

The Map of William:

It showed a great continent, uninhabited by all but mighty England and the dozen or so lesser tribes surrounding the great English towns.  Rumors of other great civilizations had reached the ears of the Blessed William, but where were they?  Nobody knew[11].
 
The answer came fifty years later, when explorers discovered the French town of Rhiems.  The explorer was met by the town's governor, who explained that the French were ruled over by a chief named Napoleon.  When shown a painting of this Napoleon, the explorer marveled at both the Frenchman's outlandish clothes and their overuse of the color pink.  The explorer furthermore learned that the French were a backward people, barely removed from barbarity.  They furthermore had contact with another people known as the Iroquois.  An offer of introductions was turned down after the French governor demanded large amounts of technology.  These Iroquois would have to be discovered on their own[12].  When the explorer returned to London, he passed on this knowledge, as well as the tribute of lesser tribes along the way.  The minor Phoenician tribe sent a wise man who explained the concept of coinage, while the far more important Gepids sent a master builder, who taught the palace architects the secrets of construction.
 
Soon after the encounter with the French, word was brought of a tribe to the north, the Romans.  They were ruled over by a chief named Caesar, and while even more backwards than the French, they at least decorated with a far more pleasing white color.  The Blessed William entertained thoughts of introducing the French and the Romans, but then decided that it would be far more useful to find the Iroquois first.  This same year, the town of Coventry was founded at the forks of the newly-named Coventry River, which flowed from sources near Sherwood Forest to the eastern sea.  This enabled tribute from the Jute tribe, who had an advanced idea of government called the monarchy.  The Blessed William was intrigued by the divine right of kings, and for the next hundred years[13], England experienced chaos as warriors loyal to the king took control of the cities from the previous governors.
 
It was during this time that English scouts encountered the Aztec tribe to the far north.  They appeared to be just as backwards as all the other tribes in the land, and their chieftain Montezuma was an arrogant bastard, as well.  Nevertheless, he was introduced to Caesar and his barbaric civilization taught the most basic of English arts, those of making clay pots.  In return Montezuma provided a pathetic map of his world[14].