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I've wanted to try my hand at this for a year or so, so please bear with me for a bit.
Inspired by a great many phenomenal timelines such as Union of American Realms, And All Nations Shall Gather To It and A House of Lamps, this is my highly experimental attempt at creating a high medieval world that mixes plausibility with fiction. At face value, it may seem like a cheeky attempt at evading responsibility for historical discrepancies that might arise from my own lack of knowledge on certain subjects, but with a small PoD in the 990s and a few larger ones in the 11th century, I think the kind of formatting I'll be attempting will suffice. If not, though, I encourage everyone to offer their two cents and suggest possible ways for me to improve this TL or its coming updates, I am always open to suggestions!
Due to the experimental and off-the-cuff nature of this timeline, updates are likely to be sporadic, as I will have to be researching certain topics as much as I possibly can before endeavoring to create updates that showcase the changes between this timeline and our own. Furthermore, as its title suggests, I will attempt to alleviate these concerns by having such a medieval setting have some unreliable sources, narrators whose tellings will not be as accurate or as truthful as they seem, as it was much harder, if not impossible to come across an objective writer during the time this TL is set in.
As for the time this exercise takes place? New Years' Day 1102. Reason? None in particular, except for some poetic parallelism between a certain realm that has inspired me to begin all this.
The realm in question? The medieval Kingdom of Croatia, specifically the intriguing power struggle between three brothers at the end of the first millennium on who exactly will inherit the holdings of their famous father. And believe it or not, there is already a TL made by yours truly covering exactly those events, but more on that after the very creative title card. Now, to open this TL...
As I've said before, The Cold Man of the Mountains is canon to this exercise and the beginning of changes from OTL:
Inspired by a great many phenomenal timelines such as Union of American Realms, And All Nations Shall Gather To It and A House of Lamps, this is my highly experimental attempt at creating a high medieval world that mixes plausibility with fiction. At face value, it may seem like a cheeky attempt at evading responsibility for historical discrepancies that might arise from my own lack of knowledge on certain subjects, but with a small PoD in the 990s and a few larger ones in the 11th century, I think the kind of formatting I'll be attempting will suffice. If not, though, I encourage everyone to offer their two cents and suggest possible ways for me to improve this TL or its coming updates, I am always open to suggestions!
Due to the experimental and off-the-cuff nature of this timeline, updates are likely to be sporadic, as I will have to be researching certain topics as much as I possibly can before endeavoring to create updates that showcase the changes between this timeline and our own. Furthermore, as its title suggests, I will attempt to alleviate these concerns by having such a medieval setting have some unreliable sources, narrators whose tellings will not be as accurate or as truthful as they seem, as it was much harder, if not impossible to come across an objective writer during the time this TL is set in.
As for the time this exercise takes place? New Years' Day 1102. Reason? None in particular, except for some poetic parallelism between a certain realm that has inspired me to begin all this.
The realm in question? The medieval Kingdom of Croatia, specifically the intriguing power struggle between three brothers at the end of the first millennium on who exactly will inherit the holdings of their famous father. And believe it or not, there is already a TL made by yours truly covering exactly those events, but more on that after the very creative title card. Now, to open this TL...
As I've said before, The Cold Man of the Mountains is canon to this exercise and the beginning of changes from OTL:
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