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So Romulus killed his brother Remus as they were constructing the walls of Rome. Whether this was due to Remus's insulting the Palatine Walls (as he had wanted to build the city on the Aventine), or Romulus's wanting to be sole king, or some other factor, we don't know. Well, that's irrelevant...

Just that, what if the first of Henry II's legitimate sons to survive to adulthood does not predecease him? Henry the Young King was tall, fair, handsome, charming, generous, kind, brave, and merciful, as well as being something of a tournament hero and celebrity among the middle class and...

Annals of the Anglo-Norse Table of Contents Siward the Stout [Sigeweard Digri], Earl of Northumbria Lived 1000- Reigned 1023- "Earl Siward was one of the old breed; he himself had been born in the land of the Danes, and journeyed to England as a young man." --Bishop Cola of Durham, Annals...

The POD is in 1016, when Earl Uhtred the Bold of Northumbria is more amenable to the invasion of Cnut, and so is not eventually killed by Thurbrand the Hold, with Cnut's connivance. 50 years later, little has changed except that Uhtred's descendants have managed to hold onto the Earldom of...

This seems to be one topic that hasn't really been done to death...or done at all. Since I've been on the site (only a few months, admittedly, but it's enough to see trends), I've only seen two threads relating to the Latin Empire. I won't waste much time on speculation, for I'm planning the...

So in addition to posting an update a day in my Roman TL, I've been juggling the idea for a Latin Empire TL in my head for about...a day now :D I'm a man of action. Anyway, I just want to open a discussion on the possibility and plausibility of a Latin Empire surviving and thriving. I have a...

FOR WANT OF THE HAMMER TABLE OF CONTENTS & LIST OF CONSULS PROLOGUE PART 1 It was only just mid-morning, and Gaius Marius and Publius Rutilius Rufus were already finding it hard to contain their boredom. They had made several rounds of the camp after morning assembly and drill, and then again...