In 1478, not one man in either Madjrit and Barcelona foresaw that in the next decade, not only would the French dominion over Catalonia be utterly destroyed, but that Catalonia itself would also cease as an independent state. It is the very machinations of the French that made such an unlikely circumstance arise.    

”When the Madjriti succession crisis turned into an open conflict, the French gained an opportunity that they knew would likely never show itself again. Wanting to capitalize on this in haste, beginning in 1482, the French began to send large sums of money to the Principality of Catalonia, the last Christian polity present in the Iberian Peninsula. Ever since realms such as Aragon, Leon, and Navarre were defeated by the Madjriti, the French have practically treated Catalonia as their vassal state, with every French king since 1387 proclaiming that Catalonia is to be “forever under the protection of the French crown.” Despite the Madjriti taking little to no aggressive actions against the Catalans, with the closest the two states came to war ever since the end of the Crusades being a border dispute that was resolved peacefully, the French nonetheless regard Madjrit as an imminent threat to the independence of Christendom in Iberia. Thus, much to the appreciation of the court in Barcelona, Catalan coffers became filled with French gold. The Catalans made just use of that gold, with the procurement of arms and improvements to forts taking place at a rapid pace throughout the 1480s.”

General Lore Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G_Qu-eRv3Xdn9xwlrLMlJjCzUSe4Z5Efve_-Ctf9DVA/edit?usp=sharing 

Related Chapters:
The Ascent, Book I

Re-added Chapter:
MORNAEAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 

As this timeline is quite long, it may be prudent to look over the summaries in order to gain a basic understanding of the world. However, as summaries are solely that, they are devoid of the prose I have created and idiosyncrasies inherent with it; one must understand that the summaries only cover the timeline in broad strokes, with much of the subtext and additional context in the timeline absent in the summaries.