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I think it's worth mentioning that Louisiana is another viable option for this, although it would be tied up in a politically and economically dominant Creole class with a fair amount of differences to most free Blacks in the state. Prior to the war, 47% of the population was enslaved, and aside...

I hate to dogpile on with the "what about this OTL person?" questions, but since I just finished his memoir, I was curious how Stefan Zweig ended up in this world.

Speaking of Australia and the Wu, I wonder what effect Wu colonization, development, and collapse had on the demographics of Australia - I'd imagine the Aboriginal population is higher than OTL. If it is, that combined with continuous low-level contact with Indonesia, and through that, the...

Interesting that people seem to be assuming the culprit for the counterfeit IBCs is a foreign agent. I immediately thought that it would be high-ranking members of the Imperial Bank. They have the means (they're printing the real ones), the motive (they're stated to have pushed Demetrios III for...

I'm really glad you've broken it down like this - I tend to agree that Mesopotamia would be a dangerous overreach for the Romans, and besides, would go too far (for me, at least) in the direction of an all-out Roman wank. Besides, the Turco-Persian Ottomans are one of my favorite nations in the...

Ominous, and exciting. Demetrios III’s time is fast approaching.

I’d had the thought of Cuba being a Byzantine Empire stand-in, with Havana as the Caribbean Constantinople. Perhaps the remnants of an old Caribbean Empire, destroyed by successive invasions - once the beacon of civilization in the Dark Ages (perhaps it was more prepared to survive the...

Thank you so much - I wanted to say something similar but you laid out the evidence wonderfully. B444 has done a fantastic job at not making the Romans a world-conquering force and instead placing them in a far more interesting multipolar world, and this TL is much stronger for it. I’m all for...

The Reciprocal Guarantee of Two Nations (written in 1791) refers to the PLC as the "The Commonwealth of Two Nations," so with Russia, why not "The Commonwealth of Three Nations" or "The Commonwealth of the Three Nations"

No. There is no such thing as justified ethnic cleansing. Ever. Under any circumstances. Are you suggesting that people who have been living there for generations deserve payback for a crisis that happened over 1000 years ago? Even if the disaster of the 6th century had happened last week...

The Metsuke An American superhero team published by Mutual Entertainment, an American production company and publishing house, the Metsuke were originally created by author Jordan Bethel in 1986. Created in response to the growing popularity of European publishers such as Intrepid Comics (known...

From Gateway to the West to Nomiz Southern Terminus A Visitor’s Guide to St. Louis, DL There are dozens of ways we imagine our nation’s capital: the steel-and-brick of Eads Bridge across the mighty Mississippi, the Beaux-Arts Skyscrapers and shaded boulevards of Laclede’s Landing, the hipster...

That might actually be interesting if Robin Hood, the Joker, and Red Hood all get syncreticized into the Dark Knight's great foe - the dour, dark, martially adept noble lord locked in an eternal struggle with the light, joking, thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Depending on...

It would certainly be larger - an especially optimistic guess could see it taking up a central place in the growing railroad network and challenging Chicago for primacy in the Midwest going forward. It would not be known as the “Murder Capital of the World” - the high crime rates of St. Louis...

The cost of maintaining Russian control simply against Ottoman attempts to retake it would make it nearly prohibitively expensive; British, French, and Austrian condemnation over the act and thus ruining the balance of power in Europe would confirm this expense. Doing so also opens up a long...

B444 directly described Roman actions in Egypt as genocide.

I’m not so sure - the post states that future Latin abolitionists will be frustrates by Rhomania’s refusal to emancipate their slaves, and while that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Triunes, Spanish, Lotharangians, or Arletians will, as a state, embrace emancipation sooner, it does at least...

Republic of Venice - Insight and the Cat Raffaele Meretrice, aka Insight, is a superhero created by writer John Markopoulos in the Serene Republic of Venice in 1947. Influenced heavily by Italian cinema, film noir, and Markopoulos’s own anarchist tendencies, Meretrice is notably less grounded...

The Plantagenets won the Hundred Years War (Ninety Years War in this timeline) and control northern and central France.

Given all the talk about Roman intervention in Mesopotamia and trying to set up Roman hegemony over the region in some manner to deny it to the Ottomans, I have to say... I hope the Romans crash and burn if they try that. Both from a narrative perspective (the more the Romans trounce their...