Two years ago, I played in a LARP called Temptemus Papam, simulating a fictional 1500 papal election. I was Henry VII. In the game, alliances went differently from in OTL: the most important two changes are that I negotiated a marriage alliance with France, which with legal changes would allow Henry VIII to inherit both realms, and that the player of Louis XII made a compromise with the player of Ascanio Sforza, allowing the Sforza to rule Milan in the name of France.
Here is a narrative version of the scenario I drew as a result of this. It goes as far as 2013, and is about 55,000 words.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ewlh3jE8iE3vgnzdTvh6VaHJoaijU2MPpvXbtwjya3I/edit
A few notes:
1. Strictly speaking, there are multiple PODs all in rapid succession. If you want to retcon it as a single POD, then imagine that, shortly after the birth of Charles V, Louis XII got into an accident that prevented him from having future children. This would get him worried about succession early, and might get him to actually make that agreement with England, to balance against the upcoming Austro-Spanish union.
2. This TL is fairly parallel in the sense that the industrial centers and such are the same as in OTL, and major conflicts happened around the same time as in OTL. I have a somewhat deterministic view of history, one in which Europe's industrialization was triggered by the maturation of its North American colonies, the world wars were triggered by conflict over colonies between the established major power and an upstart, communism as a serious force is an inevitable consequence of early industrialization, and so on. Even locations of new industrial centers like Birmingham and Manchester were for the most part already ordained by geographic factors by 1500, even if those specific cities were still tiny. A few decisions could have gone the other way, and I mentally coin-flipped: the biggest is that Japan did not have to industrialize early and Turkey could have (China was pretty much hopeless by the POD).
3. There's a lot of genocide and ethnic cleansing, some of which is flipped from OTL. Often the genocidaires get away with it. I hope I don't get accused of promoting either; I did try to be very clear about consequences like "the black slaves who were returned to Africa died of tropical diseases" or "Germany and Russia killed millions of Poles."
4. Later in the TL, I talk more about economic history. 2013 francs ~ OTL's 2013 dollars. It's actually not because I wanted to match modern currency value, but because I wanted to match that of OTL's mid-19th century Britain for a story I started writing about Anna Natri, and it was just easier to assume a factor-of-100 inflation rate since then, as in OTL's Britain, and not a factor-of-20 rate as in OTL's America.
5. I don't really have good maps. I asked a while back how to make maps and never got a fully satisfactory answer. I have a few Google Earth maps for borders, but in a lot of cases, especially colonial African and Southeast Asian borders, you'll have to infer things from the text.
6. For the North American cities, I definitely took shortcuts, like calling *New York New Amsterdam where it would probably fit better to call it New Antwerp (instead, New Antwerp = *Albany), and keeping a lot of geographic or Native American names. The TL has 1 or 2 cities with the same name as a different OTL city (Narragansett = *Providence, if it counts, and 1 city that's too small to be discussed). So in general, if you see a recognizable name, it's the same city, maybe with a slightly different CBD location. For the other cities: Monvert = *Richmond, VA; New Suffolk = *Norfolk, VA; New Bristol = *Boston; Alba = *Vancouver; Henriville = *Georgetown/Washington; Ohio City = *Cincinnati; Hodgeton = *Columbus, OH; Point Junction = *Atlanta; New Liege = *Birmingham, AL. North American provinces are a lot like US states, at least in the East; the big differences are that NC/SC/GA are divided into 2 (Thomasina and Carolina) and not 3, AL/MS/eastern LA are one province, New Netherlands = NY+NJ+western VT, New Scotland = PA+DE, and New Devon = NH+southern ME (most of ME is in Acadia).
Here is a narrative version of the scenario I drew as a result of this. It goes as far as 2013, and is about 55,000 words.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ewlh3jE8iE3vgnzdTvh6VaHJoaijU2MPpvXbtwjya3I/edit
A few notes:
1. Strictly speaking, there are multiple PODs all in rapid succession. If you want to retcon it as a single POD, then imagine that, shortly after the birth of Charles V, Louis XII got into an accident that prevented him from having future children. This would get him worried about succession early, and might get him to actually make that agreement with England, to balance against the upcoming Austro-Spanish union.
2. This TL is fairly parallel in the sense that the industrial centers and such are the same as in OTL, and major conflicts happened around the same time as in OTL. I have a somewhat deterministic view of history, one in which Europe's industrialization was triggered by the maturation of its North American colonies, the world wars were triggered by conflict over colonies between the established major power and an upstart, communism as a serious force is an inevitable consequence of early industrialization, and so on. Even locations of new industrial centers like Birmingham and Manchester were for the most part already ordained by geographic factors by 1500, even if those specific cities were still tiny. A few decisions could have gone the other way, and I mentally coin-flipped: the biggest is that Japan did not have to industrialize early and Turkey could have (China was pretty much hopeless by the POD).
3. There's a lot of genocide and ethnic cleansing, some of which is flipped from OTL. Often the genocidaires get away with it. I hope I don't get accused of promoting either; I did try to be very clear about consequences like "the black slaves who were returned to Africa died of tropical diseases" or "Germany and Russia killed millions of Poles."
4. Later in the TL, I talk more about economic history. 2013 francs ~ OTL's 2013 dollars. It's actually not because I wanted to match modern currency value, but because I wanted to match that of OTL's mid-19th century Britain for a story I started writing about Anna Natri, and it was just easier to assume a factor-of-100 inflation rate since then, as in OTL's Britain, and not a factor-of-20 rate as in OTL's America.
5. I don't really have good maps. I asked a while back how to make maps and never got a fully satisfactory answer. I have a few Google Earth maps for borders, but in a lot of cases, especially colonial African and Southeast Asian borders, you'll have to infer things from the text.
6. For the North American cities, I definitely took shortcuts, like calling *New York New Amsterdam where it would probably fit better to call it New Antwerp (instead, New Antwerp = *Albany), and keeping a lot of geographic or Native American names. The TL has 1 or 2 cities with the same name as a different OTL city (Narragansett = *Providence, if it counts, and 1 city that's too small to be discussed). So in general, if you see a recognizable name, it's the same city, maybe with a slightly different CBD location. For the other cities: Monvert = *Richmond, VA; New Suffolk = *Norfolk, VA; New Bristol = *Boston; Alba = *Vancouver; Henriville = *Georgetown/Washington; Ohio City = *Cincinnati; Hodgeton = *Columbus, OH; Point Junction = *Atlanta; New Liege = *Birmingham, AL. North American provinces are a lot like US states, at least in the East; the big differences are that NC/SC/GA are divided into 2 (Thomasina and Carolina) and not 3, AL/MS/eastern LA are one province, New Netherlands = NY+NJ+western VT, New Scotland = PA+DE, and New Devon = NH+southern ME (most of ME is in Acadia).