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Ah, that didn't occur to me. Yeah, that sucks.

The more things change the more they stay the same... reminds me of Deepcut and the spy in an overnight bag.

Very good, all caught up. Lot of butterflies and you've clearly thought beyond the "Germany would do the same thing and THIS ONE KOOKY THING DIFFERENT! But with a different leader" of some alternate histories.

How is Hobbart doing in this scenario? He had a hell of a time getting back into service and it took Monty and direct intervention from Churchill to see him back in action.

Bede was really obsessed with miracles using the dirt of holy places.

Enjoying this so far, well written.

He goes into the religious aspect a fair bit, touching on the numerology aspects you mention. Particularly shrine building dimensions and road orientations based on geometry.

I can rarely find much about Gaul sadly, much of my knowledge comes from Cunliffe, Beresford-Ellis or books like this (with massive pinches of salt) I know as well much of the assumed knowledge of Britain right from pre-Roman to the Anglo-Saxons has been questioned since the 70's and its good...

Gaul had some urban centres but Britain really didn't have that many, and theres a wide variation in styles. Trade before the Romans is mostly long distance, small hops. So resources can go miles but it goes through several different areas before it gets to the destination. Essentially Britain...

Any female prophet will make little headway in the patriarchal world of the past. At best she will be a minor holy woman or priestess with a very small following. Unless your going full on ASB and Lady-Jesus is in fact the daughter of God capable of performing actual miracles.

I'll have to ask for citation on the Druidism part, one of Druidisms (at least in Ireland) most striking similarities is to Vedic and theres postulation that much of Celtic culture was also very similar with distinct castes. If we're looking at Pythagoras theory of reincarnation then its...

Yessssss! Glad your back at it.

More than that, after 1500 the centralisation and race issues come into matters. Particularly in the 18th to 20th century. How dare these inferior cultures alter the religion, this is the way it is and no we're not altering it for a savage/decadent oriental/etc must have played a part.

An interesting contrast to its first spread where coopting local rites was essential in winning converts.

Christianity was fairly big in Asia from about 600-1500 particularly sub-sets of it like Nestorianism.

Gaul was vital to the empire in a way Britain never was, Britain was always troublesome and relatively underpopulated and over garrisoned.

No worries, I'll just rest easy that Britannia OTL was stripped to the bone in regards to troops after years of going abroad and fighting civil wars and surviving Roman troops did form proto-Kingdoms (or elite settlements) along the wall ;)

Constantines Sons are presented with 3 divisions of the Empire, Western, Middle, Eastern (roughly similar to the Gallic Empire, Italy/Africa, Eastern Roman Empire) The Central Empire and East vie for dominance and are weakened while the Western Empire is more defensive, it also sends numerous...

Terrifying, you also have to 100% trust that the rest of the people at your back aren't going to run away because the more people in the wall the less likely you are to die. Even just a couple of people legging it can start a chain reaction of panic and leave the front of the wall (who lets...

I love those maps @Karelian