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If you give an impressive, sovereign-sounding adjective to the ruler's name, that might help. Grand Count, Free Count, etc. After all, the modern ruler of Luxembourg is an independent ruler and a "Grand Duke". According to the Wiki page for "Counts", some Italian and German counts ("Grafs")...

I recently read the book The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss, and I've been fascinated by his biography of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, and the role he played in the French Revolution. However, Dumas was captured by the Neapolitans in 1799...

As a Utah Mormon, I love this! Also seconding the request for a translation.

Foushoo's take seems pretty reasonable, though I will note that it's certainly possible that a similar religion appears, if not one as esoteric and different as Mormonism. After all, in the upstate New York area known as the Burned-Over District, nearly ten different churches arose over the...

I'm extremely happy with that update; it's nostalgic but sweet, very wistful. And @Jonathan Edelstein You captured the aesthetic of Mormonism perfectly, thank you so much for your questions and care in that topic!

This is really cool, I don't know much about the time period but I'd love to see more of this!

Well I mean what else would I be calling a guy who in OTL was considered a prophet and who ran for President of the United States? Sultan or Emir doesn't seem to cut it, haha. Oh and the names mentioned as his disputed successor were the leaders of the OTL Mormon churches following Joseph...

This is memery for the most part, based on the idea that Joseph Smith's enemies called him a "second Mohammad". The premise is: what if he went "okay then I'll just combine my church with Islam"?

It is; the years between 1830 and 1850 changed a lot about Mormonism, and slaveholders becoming converts did happen, which shifted the views on slavery overall.

The early Mormons didn't much like Southern pro-slavery extremists, particularly because the Missourians and Illinoisans who caused them to flee to Utah in the first place were vehemently pro-slavery and accused the Mormons of plotting to baptize and free their slaves.

I don't think I've articulated myself clearly, so I'll try again. My initial PoD is this: more or less, the Mexican-American War goes as OTL, maybe takes a couple weeks longer without the Mormons to scout out certain areas (as the Mormon Battalion did during the war). The Mormons take a...

Well, I don't plan to have the Mormons settle in Texas, so that's not at dispute. I do agree that the Mexican government might see these new Anglos as a second Texas, but unlike the Texans, the Mormons are feeling oppression and have no motivation to annex themselves back to the country that...

Specifically, Mormons settled in Utah when it was still part of Alta California in July 1847. It had been captured but not formally annexed until 1848. You are correct that Mormons participated in the US-Mexican War. My thought was if they had found Utah itself unsuitable for some reason...

So I've long had a TL idea in my head of Mormons settling permanently in Baja California in Mexico instead of the slice of Mexico that soon became the Utah Territory. I'm not so concerned with how they get there as what would be the butterflies and effects on Mexican history once they do. If...

I think it'd also be interesting to see what attempted usurpers could be considered the most overrated and underrated.