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Absolutely adore this so far and I'd absolutely love to see more. You forgot to switch out "Madison" with "Burr" on the text underneath the map though
 
Equestrian Politics
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Triple Crown Party and Corona Party
Party to Uphold Hippocracy
Everfree Party
Nightmare Party
Equalist Party (Marksist-Glimmerist), Equalist Party (Trotskyite), and Equalist Party (Blankist)
Free Alliance of Farriers and Ferriers
Discordian Party
Rhinoceros Party and Ponyville-North Everfree 1008 Election

First up in the parties that solely contest the reserved ridings, we have the earth pony parties.

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Earth pony politics has historically been a divide between the more agricultural and rural interior of Equestria and the urban and mercantile centers in Canterlot and on either coast. Before the creation of the reserved ridings in 624 CE, the two factions would fight for influence within the Triple Crown Party. Within the party, they were known as the Country faction and the Court faction. The Court faction was made up of descendants of earth pony families who had moved to Canterlot early in Equestria's founding and had developed businesses or landholdings close to the capital through their connections and influence in Celestia's court and the unicorn nobility. The Court faction held great influence in Canterlot and with Celestia, and was assumed to speak for all earth ponykind in its influence in parliament. Certainly many early members of the Court faction had good intentions such as Silty Clay, the first earth pony Cheval Regent in Equestrian history. Clay used his influence in Canterlot to promote investment in many infrastructure improvements for rural Equestrians including some of the earliest national road systems in the country, and the Bank of Equestria, which was the first bank to issue credit to ponies backed by the royal treasury and was initially used primarily by ponies in smaller towns seeking funding for improving agricultural lands or for supporting weather production facilities.

Over the centuries since Silty Clay, however, the Court faction grew distant from the ponies in the more outlying Equestrian towns as the earth pony families in Canterlot grew entrenched and isolated in the capital and in the court. Rural earth ponies started to resent the outsized influence the Canterlot earth ponies had and the seeming neglect of rural and agricultural matters. In particular, as Equestria began trading with the surrounding nations and coastal cities began to grow, the merchants cities like Manehattan and Baltimare began to echo the sentiments of the rural earth ponies. Beginning in the eighth century of the Diarch Era, the mercantile ponies sent regular delegations to Canterlot to express their grievances in a direct audience with the Princesses, and to strengthen their arguments regarding trade would often bring rural farming representatives with them. As with the Court faction before them, a few took up residence in Canterlot to lobby for influence in the Triple Crown Party and occasionally with Celestia and Luna directly where necessary. This split between the Court and Country factions continued within the Triple Crown Party through the Nightmare Rebellion up until the creation of the reserved ridings.

The creation of the reserved ridings themselves saw many of the divisions between the Court and Country factions laid bare, even before the formal parties were actually formed from the debate over the drawing of the boundaries. Canterlot itself was not populated by nearly as many earth ponies as the cities, and with the largely rural population of earth ponies it was clear the Country faction would have a large influence over the earth pony ridings. Even so, the Court faciton initially divided Canterlot between three ridings despite it barely having enough population for a single riding, leading to the new Court Party initially gaining three of the twenty earth pony ridings after the first drawing of the boundaries. However, this was not sustainable and future boundary adjustments diminished the Court Party's influence while the Country Party came to dominate earth pony politics. However, the Country Party's dominance and the growth of the coastal cities as commercial centers soon led to divisions between the rural and urban members of the Country Party. In the year 765 of the Celestial Era, the Court Party, now down to one member for decades, saw an opportunity to realign earth pony politics and regain power. The Court Party made a deal with the two Manehattan member and the MP from Fillydelphia to switch parties and declared themselves defunct, forming a new party the Municipal Development League.

The Municipal Development League soon rose to the main opposition to the Country Party. The growth of the party was primarily driven by the growth of the cities on the coasts, particularly of Manehattan which quickly became the main commercial and financial hub of Equestria and became the largest plurality earth pony city in Equestria. However, as Manehattan grew, so did its influence over the party as the city rose to hold four of the twenty earth pony ridings. As Manehattan's influence over the party grew, Canterlot's dwindled. In 852, Raisin Cane, editor of the Manehattan Dawn Journal, became leader of the Municipal Development League. Under Cane's leadership, the party became just as inward focused as its progenitor had, centered around Manehattan instead of Canterlot, as Cane gave special attention and prime party appointments to those in his circle. The more insular and conservative nature of the party under Cane led to the rise of the Everfree Party in the late ninth century, and the slow collapse of the Municipal Development League to effectively a Manehattan machine.

While the Everfree Party and Municipal Development League arose out of splits within the Court Party, the Country Party likewise had some splits of its own. The Country faction and later the formal party, while representing many rural areas, still was not entirely unified. While most of the Country Party agreed with the Triple Crown policy of convectionism - balanced weather management between pegasi and earth ponies - but lobbied for more earth pony input, some earth ponies went to the extreme end of thermalism and earth pony control over weather production and management. In 710 of the Celestial Era, a group of disaffected thermalist earth ponies broke with the Country Party and formed the Free Soil Party after weather mismanagement caused a drought to hit the Foaledo area. The Free Soil Party started off with little representation in parliament only occasionally winning any ridings at all. Usually the Free Soilers would win a riding after a drought or flood or other disaster escalated tensions between the earth ponies and pegasi, but for the first century they would lose after matters subsided and things were smoothed over. Recently though, settlement closer to the Macintosh Hills and the San Palomino Desert have increased the need for rain in the southwestern region of Equestria which due to the transport distance and rugged terrain Cloudsdale has been reluctant to provide. The Cozy Glow Crisis only stirred up trouble between the farmers and weatherponies in the already dry areas further, and in the ensuing election, the Free Soilers held on to Sahara Wind's seat in San Palomino-Arimaspia and also gained the Appleloosa & Macintosh Hills riding. With three seats now, the Free Soilers are close to edging the Municipal Development Party for third most earth pony seats, and if they keep climbing could even pass the Everfree Party as the main opposition to the Country Party in the earth pony ridings.
 
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Empress Guinevere of America
The Northeastern Premier Lords of America
(And now the Southern Five)
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The current ruler of Maryland, having assumed the position after years as his Alzheimer-ridden father’s regent, Grand Duke Felix VII’s has been, all around, a peaceful and relatively prosperous one, with the grand duchy seeing a rise in the HDI and a diminishment of wealth inequality (which has been a recurrent problem on it, born most of all due to the fact that it was the last major state in the empire to end serfdom in the 1920s, as the practice by that time was bore of a unofficial slavery) while the economy has seen a boon ever since Maryland became the center of American cinema. Although it has been a good reign, recent years have seen a rise in problems and unrest, as the Fifth Floridian Civil War (which the grand duke supports, as the current king is his grandnephew, altough all the kingdom’s neighbors have agreed to “politely stay out of it”) has caused a high number of refugees to cross the border into Maryland, which has caused tensions between the Catholic Floridians and the staunchly protestant population (which mostly follows the Gaelic Church, considered by many Catholics as being “basically pagan”), which threaten to cause the conflict to spill over to Maryland.
Married to Princess Primrose Marie of America, only sister to Emperor Percival, Felix’s family life and succession has been considered his main problem, as until 2008 the grand duchy had in place a Salic Law and while the grand duke had two sons, the eldest, Felix, renounced all his rights to the succession in 1991 after coming out as homosexual (he now lives in the Japanese Pacific with a harem of husbands), while the youngest, Thomas, died with his children in a plane crash in 2005; because of that, his current heir is his eldest daughter, Scarlett, whose position has been more than once questioned (or even challenged, by some now tongueless or conveniently deceased) by male relatives, some of whom say they should do like the Irish Kings of the past and elect among the agnatic stock. Because of that, some fear that there will be a civil war come the grand duke’s death (and he is now recovering from another stroke).

Ruling over one of the more fragmented states in the Empire, inheriting it after the death of his estranged father, Grand Prince Bracken II’s rule has been considered, all in all, one of the most peaceful in Piedmont’s history (seeing as there wasn’t any major infighting among the branches of the Carteret Dynasty, which the rest of the empire traditionally turns the blind eye to), seeing a slow but visible try on branching the local economy outside of cotton, tobacco and the textile industry, with an direct investment by the grand prince on tourism and green energy (Bracken is an assumed and very vocal vegan and ambientalist), which have seen a lukewarm response by the populace.
Married thrice, Bracken’s main problem during his reign (and wedded life) has been, like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him, his family, as two centuries of constantly marrying close relatives (no male on the family’s main branches has married someone who wasn’t at least their third cousin since 1845) have dealt a serious blow on the dynasty’s gene pool and fertility; married firstly to his first cousin, Princess Octavia of Piedmont-Prunespring, he divorced her in early 2005 after almost a decade of miscarriages and stillbirths, and a year later married a more distantly related (his third cousin by his mother side), Princess Catherine of Piedmont-Sasparilla, a bride chosen by his father whom he divorced less than two months onto his reign. Currently, he is married to his third wife (and long-time mistress), Princess Eva Maria de Moctezuma (a cousin of the Mexican Monarch), with whom he has a pair of twin children, born in 2013 after the grand prince passed through a two-years-long fertility treatment.

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The oldest and longest ruling Premier Lord of the empire (in fact, none of his colleagues were born before he ascended to his position), Prince Richard V inherited his position from his father, Richard IV, at the age of 6, being under the chaotic regency of his relatives for almost a decade before forcibly taking over, and has ruled over the Banks ever since. A capable administrator, although he has long been working together with his Princely Assembly and Secretary, during his reign the Banks have seen many goods and bad times, as he has been ruling over them for over 70 years by now, and is currently, in a similar manner to its northernly neighbor, passing through a period of economical hardship, although in a slightly better shape than Tidewater.
Married in 1963 to Princess Louise Marie of Navarre (his own house was born when his grandmother, Princess Madeleine of the Banks, married Lucien of Monaco, a younger brother of its prince), with her he had 5 children (who inherited their mother’s frail complexion), but only one of them, Adelaide, managed to produce offspring, but due to her marriage to another Premier Lord all her rights to the succession where made null for herself and her daughter. Lacking a clear heir after the death of his eldest son in 2002 (he was childless and died of a possible suicide by overdose in 2002) in 2005 he married a second time to Princess Victoria of Maryland, with whom he has three healthy children, including a heir and spare.

Inheriting the duchy after her father’s death in a shark attack, Duchess Igraine is the 8th duchess regnant of Cape Fear, and, in a surprising twist in comparison to her predecessors, has actually worked to better its economy, as while an old in the past wealthy territory, Cape Fear had the bad luck of having lavish dukes and duchesses who basically bankrupted the duchy (whose treasury is directly linked to the ducal house’s finances), meaning that Igraine inherited a poor territory and such a level of debt that she was for a time ranked 2 on “poorest royalty” (loosing only to a Swedish prince and an African petty king). Educated in finance and infamously stingy, Igraine took even more loans (mostly from close friends among the Premier Lords) to invest on Cape Fear’s economy, and although sometimes heavy handed, her actions seem to be working, as the economy is on a upswing and Cape Fear is one of the few territories on the American South to not see much effects of the current recession.
Married to a cousin of the King of the Floridas, Prince George, and with three children, Igraine’s personal life has not been well, as the Duke Consort was recently involved in a corruption scandal (and was kicked out by his wife) and has been discovered to have a total of 7 illegitimate children, besides that, the Prince of Berkeley has been diagnosed with a malign tumor on his back, and although a surgery has been planned to treat it, it will probably leave him paraplegic, while Princess Morgause is also passing through a surgical treatment for her severe scoliosis.
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The current ruler of Tidewater (and the first woman to hold that position by her own right since the Albemarle Dynasty gained it over 300 years ago), Vicereine Margaret’s rule over the viceroyalty has all around not been the most successful one, as while it was in a good era due to its position on one of the world’s largest natural harbors, with the naval industry and shipping providing a large amount of wealth to the state, the current recession has been especially hard, with businesses being closed and many seeing the loss of jobs and homes, the Vicereine’s own inexperience on rulership (caused mostly by her father’s absurd distrust of his children and relatives, seeing as Tidewater remains one of the states were its ruler has nigh absolute power) has also not helped the situation.
Married to the second son of the Vicereine of Delaware, who had to convert to Independent Catholicism (one of the most strange protestant faiths born out of Ireland, it has literally all the traits of Catholicism, but believes that the Pope is the devil trying to manipulate good Christian souls and that cardinals are witches colluding with him, it does not have a head, with all singular churches being ruled by their local priests) to do so, Margaret has a single daughter, Victoria, and has more than once declared she does not plan to have more children.​
 
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The 2008 Great Britain presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Conservative ticket of George Osborne, the junior Great Britain Senator from Cheshire, and Vince Cable, a member of the Great Britain House of Representatives from Yorkshire, defeated the Labour ticket of Gordon Brown, the President of Great Britain, and Pete Mandelson, the Great Britain Secretary of Commerce. Osborne became the youngest person ever to be elected to the presidency.

Incumbent Labour President Gordon Brown was eligible to pursue a second term. Brown secured the Labour nomination by February 2008, defeating Speaker of the Middlesex County Assembly John McDonnell. The Labour primaries were marked by a sharp contest between Osborne and the initial front-runner, Senate Majority Leader Liam Fox. After a long primary season, Osborne secured the Labour nomination in June 2008.

Early campaigning focused heavily on the common desire for change. Former President Tony Blair endorsed Brown, but the two did not campaign together, and Blair did not appear in person at the 2008 Labour National Convention. Osborne campaigned on the theme that "Year for change," while Brown emphasized his experience. The campaign was strongly affected by the onset of a major financial crisis, which peaked in September 2008.

Osborne won a decisive victory over Brown, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote by a landslide. Osborne received the largest share of the popular vote won by a Conservative since Margaret Thatcher in 1984. As of the 2016 presidential election Osborne's total count of 74.9 million votes still stands as the largest tally ever won by a presidential candidate. Osborne flipped 50 counties that had voted Labour in 2004.


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The 2008 Great Britain Senate elections were held on November 4, 2008, with 57 of the 172 seats in the Senate being contested.

The presidential election which was won by Conservative George Osborne, elections for all House of Representatives seats, and several gubernatorial elections, as well as many state and local elections, occurred on the same date.

Going into these elections, the Senate consisted of 87 Conservatives and 85 Labour, giving the Conservative caucus the slightest 87-85 majority. Of the seats up for election in 2008, 23 were held by Labour and 21 by the Conservatives. Labour, who openly conceded early on that they wouldn't be able to regain the majority in 2008, lost fourteen seats This election was the second cycle in a row in which no seats switched from Conservative to Labour. In addition, this was the largest Conservative Senate gain since 1978.

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The 2008 Great Britain House of Representatives elections were held on November 4, 2008, to elect members to the Great Britain House of Representatives to serve in Congress from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011. It coincided with the election of George Osborne as President. All 478 voting seats, as well as all 2 non-voting seats, were up for election. The Conservative Party, which won a majority of seats in the 2006 election, won a landslide victory. The Labour Party, hoping to regain the majority it lost in the 2006 election or at least expand its congressional membership, lost 93 seats. Labour gained one Conservative seat total, while losing 94 of their own, giving the Conservatives a net gain of 93 seats, effectively erasing all gains made by Labour since 1994. The 27.4% popular vote advantage by the Conservatives was the largest by either party since 1932, 76 years earlier. Turnout increased due to the 2008 presidential election. The presidential election, 2008 Senate elections, and 2008 state gubernatorial elections, as well as many other state and local elections, occurred on the same date.
 
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The 2008 Great Britain presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Conservative ticket of George Osborne, the junior Great Britain Senator from Cheshire, and Vince Cable, a member of the Great Britain House of Representatives from Yorkshire, defeated the Labour ticket of John McCain, the President of Great Britain, and Pete Mandelson, the Great Britain Secretary of Commerce. Osborne became the youngest person ever to be elected to the presidency.

Incumbent Labour President Gordon Brown was eligible to pursue a second term. Brown secured the Labour nomination by February 2008, defeating Speaker of the Middlesex County Assembly John McDonnell. The Labour primaries were marked by a sharp contest between Obama and the initial front-runner, Senate Majority Leader Liam Fox. After a long primary season, Osborne secured the Labour nomination in June 2008.

Early campaigning focused heavily on the common desire for change. Former President Tony Blair endorsed Brown, but the two did not campaign together, and Blair did not appear in person at the 2008 Labour National Convention. Osborne campaigned on the theme that "Year for change," while McCain emphasized his experience. The campaign was strongly affected by the onset of a major financial crisis, which peaked in September 2008.

Osborne won a decisive victory over Brown, winning the Electoral College and the popular vote by a landslide. Osborne received the largest share of the popular vote won by a Conservative since Margaret Thatcher in 1984. As of the 2016 presidential election Osborne's total count of 74.9 million votes still stands as the largest tally ever won by a presidential candidate. Osborne flipped 50 counties that had voted Labour in 2004.


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The 2008 Great Britain Senate elections were held on November 4, 2008, with 57 of the 172 seats in the Senate being contested.

The presidential election which was won by Conservative George Osborne, elections for all House of Representatives seats, and several gubernatorial elections, as well as many state and local elections, occurred on the same date.

Going into these elections, the Senate consisted of 87 Conservatives and 85 Labour, giving the Conservative caucus the slightest 87-85 majority. Of the seats up for election in 2008, 23 were held by Labour and 21 by the Conservatives. Labour, who openly conceded early on that they wouldn't be able to regain the majority in 2008, lost fourteen seats This election was the second cycle in a row in which no seats switched from Conservative to Labour. In addition, this was the largest Conservative Senate gain since 1978.

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The 2008 Great Britain House of Representatives elections were held on November 4, 2008, to elect members to the Great Britain House of Representatives to serve in Congress from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011. It coincided with the election of George Osborne as President. All 478 voting seats, as well as all 2 non-voting seats, were up for election. The Conservative Party, which won a majority of seats in the 2006 election, won a landslide victory. The Labour Party, hoping to regain the majority it lost in the 2006 election or at least expand its congressional membership, lost 93 seats. Labour gained one Conservative seat total, while losing 94 of their own, giving the Conservatives a net gain of 93 seats, effectively erasing all gains made by Labour since 1994. The 27.4% popular vote advantage by the Conservatives was the largest by either party since 1932, 76 years earlier. Turnout increased due to the 2008 presidential election. The presidential election, 2008 Senate elections, and 2008 state gubernatorial elections, as well as many other state and local elections, occurred on the same date.
I’m very confused with some of the text it changes between McCain, Osborne and brown. I’m guessing that Brown is meant to be the McCain equivalent and Osbourne the Obama equivalent.
 
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"There was a goblin, or a trickster. Or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it or… reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world. A good wizard tricked it and sealed it into the Pandorica where is sits to this day. Legend says you can hear when the beast was coming thanks to a loud wheezing sound is heard before the end of the world."
Tempus Medicus is the Roman god of Time, space, grand warfare, medical professionals, and astronauts.
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One of the earliest records that references Tempus Medicus is in a Roman villa in Rome. On the wall by the entrance depicts Tempus Medicus, an unknown figure, and a temple. The "Tempus Medicus Household Plaque" originated around 80 CE in Rome. The next reference is in the epic poem, "Sola Sibi Centurioni" or "The Lone Centurion" that follows a Brittonic centurion named Ruaidhrí as he protects the Pandorica from demons that wish to steal and open it. He is guided by Tempus Medicus throughout his journey, something that lasts through the centuries. Most historians have decided that the text itself is loosely based on an old Pictish tale that has since been lost.
Following this, shrines and temples dedicated to Tempus Medicus began to appear throughout the roman world. Often it competed with Christianity in throughout the empire. The persistence of the Cults of Tempus Medicus were so previlent, that eventually the Catholic Church would syncretize them with Saint John of Taurdia, a small town named after the abode of Tempus Medicus centuries prior. However, there were some monks in Cumbria in 1207 who claimed that Saint John had come to visit them and live among them. During this time, Saint John of Taurdia would be called the "Mad Monk", an epithet that would appear in multiple folk tales about both Saint John of Taurdia and Tempus Medicus.
Recently, some people have tried to connect Tempus Medicus to a legendary figure known as "The Doctor" who appears in United Nations Intelligence Taskforce records from the 1970s.

(The Doctor as an ancient god, I thought it was fitting.)
 
Wikibending:
Seige of Ba Sing Se
The Five Wisdoms
Bumi
Metalbending
Hundred Year War

Spoilers for the Kyoshi novels.

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Fire Lord Chaeryu had two sons.

Well, he likely had many more. Chaeryu was infamously generous with his pleasures, and no doubt there were many sons and daughters of unmarried (and perhaps married) commoners quietly given a stipend to live far away from court.

But he had two sons that could not so easily be dismissed. There was Chaejin, son of Huazo. Huazo was the prize daughter of Saowon Clan, a powerful force in the outlying islands. Chaejin possessed several attributes that seemed to make him an ideal heir, aside from being the eldest son. He inherited his father’s self confidence and stature, and while “Chaejin” and “Chaeryu” sounding similar may seem trivial to modern audiences it carried powerful symbolic significance.

Chaejin was not, however, legitimate.

Huazo was booted as a potential bride soon after she discovered her pregnancy (but before she informed the Fire Lord) and was replaced by Sulan. Sulan was a scion of the Keohso Clan. Although still on an outlying island, the Keohso were much more closely linked to the Capital. Sulan died giving birth to the Fire Lord’s official heir, Zoryu, and Chaeryu would never marry again.

Zoryu was much smaller than his father, and was far less accomplished in feats of Fire Bending, despite personal tutoring from Hei-Ran former headmistress of the Royal Academy. He was quite well learned, an excellent administrator, and even capable of great political strategies. However for the latter he needed time. When thrown into situations where an immediate response was needed, Zoryu had an unfortunate tendency to panic.

After a few years at court Chaejin and his mother were packed up and sent back to Ma’inka Island. Eventually, of course, Chaeryu died, and Zoryu became Fire Lord. The Saowon Clan, ambitious for Chaejin, used their influence amongst the Fire Sages to make Chaejin the official representative of the Sages at Court. This had the bonus of making him very difficult to remove.

Chaejin almost immediately began to undermine his brother, gathering support with the aid of his mother’s clan. Poor harvests and a variety of bad omens undermined Zoryu’s authority, although he still retained the support of the Keohso Clan. Court was swiftly divided. Chaejin’s supporters wore Camilla Crest of the Saowon, while the Fire Lords’s party wore his mother’s Peony. Soon tensions were running high, and war seemed on the horizon.

Things came to a head in 295. Avatar Kyoshi arrived for a royal festival, and was sucked into the political maelstrom. This was followed by an attack by Yun, the Earthbender who had been falsely proclaimed as the Avatar before Kyoshi had been properly identified. Yun’s main target was initially Hei-Ran, his supposed Fire Bending tutor. Hei-Ran was also representing her own Sei’naka Clan

Kyoshi and some close companions withdrew from the Capital, while riots flared up all across the Fire Nation. After a few days away, an another near fatal attack on Hei-Ran by Yun, the Avatar and company returned to the Cladera, with Kyoshi apparently having discovered some new information.

And then…

Well. There are three stories.

The first is the one widely reported at the time. Kyoshi had discovered evidence that Yun was conspiring with the Saowon Clan to destabilize the Fire Nation, and promptly apprehended Chaejin and his mother for incentivizing riots. Upon hearing this Zoryu swiftly found and apprehended Yun. Support for the Saowon collapsed upon discovery that they were working with foreigners. However, at the insistence of the Avatar and the mercy of the Fire Lord, no mass executions took place. The Saowon were confined to their home island. The conflict was termed the Camellia-Peony War by the Fire Lord, for the symbols of the leading clans involved. This has the benefit of being close to the source, although there are some questions. Why would Kyoshi, not terribly well known for her mercy, want the Saowon spared? And why would Zoryu, who was known for his at times frosty relations with the Avatar, listen? And it does hew towards the traditional portrayal of Avatar-Fire Lord Relations, one of professional harmony rather than one saving the other.

Under the reign of Fire Lord Sozin, history was rewritten. Claiming “new evidence” had arisen, Fire Nation propaganda changed course. In this version Zoryu takes center stage, apprehending both Yun and the Saowon Clan. Kyoshi is portrayed as an incompetent, a dangerously violent loose canon who nearly ruined everything, only made somewhat respectable by her Fire Nation allies. Evidence provided for this includes Kyoshi misidentifying Chaejin as Zoryu and a supposedly botched interrogation of the Saowon Clan. And, since no self respecting Fire Lord would do anything different, all the traitors are executed. In addition, the event was renamed as the “Floral Crisis'' as no war actually took place. This change in title is the only bit of historiography to last, as the story reeks of anti-Avatar propaganda.

Finally there are Oral Traditions on Kyoshi Island that tell yet another tale. Here, Yun’s preference for the Saowon Clan was a personal effort to derail Kyoshi’s Avatarhood and open up a line of attack on Hei-Ran, and that leading Saowon members were in fact totally unaware of his actions. The “Yun” captured was in fact an imposter produced by Zoryu who used it as an opportunity to defeat his rivals. The real Yun in fact remained at large until being slain by Kyoshi a few months later. A riveting tale, although how much of it is the result of years of local legend is unclear.

As for the truth, none but the spirits know.
 
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Jack Napier, better known as Joker (or sometimes The Joker), was an American businessman, gangster, and supervillain operating out of Gotham City, New Jersey. Napier was born in Motor, Iowa to farming parents, who relocated first to Camden, New Jersey, and then later to Gotham City, where they would spend the rest of their lives as factory workers. Little is known about his life prior to his arrival to Gotham. His father is believed to have died from complications regarding syphilis around 1910, and his mother from suicide in 1914.

As a teenager, Napier often got involved in fights with teachers and other students, being expelled twice before his mother's death. From then on, he picked up odd jobs and performed minor thefts for neighborhood gangs until around 1921, when he was believed to have joined the original Red Hood Gang, where he would rise up in prominence over the next several years. As a grunt, he was responsible for transporting copious amounts of alcohol, drugs, and money throughout the city of Gotham. During this time he made many friends and contacts within the Red Hood Gang, their distributors, and in the Gotham City Police Department. Despite committing brutal assaults and murders in broad daylight, at times undisguised by his gang's signature red hoods, he was never arrested or formally charged, even as other members were.

By 1937, he is believed to have become the undisputed boss of the Red Hood Gang, after many of the old guard were arrested by the Gotham Police (headed by a new Commissioner, Jim Gordon), died in shootouts with the police, or were assassinated by rival gangs hoping to make a move on their turf. At this time, Napier was publicly known as a businessman dealing with expensive imported clothes, watches, and various novelty toys for children. Those who did know his identity as a major crime boss were either killed, often in brutal ways, or left terrified into silence.

The next year, he became involved in a gang war with the Falcone Crime Family, headed by then-patriarch Carmine Falcone, that resulted in hundreds dead or wounded, mostly civilian casualties. In 1940, during a confrontation with the original Batman, who declared war on all crime in Gotham, and set his sights on the Red Hoods, Napier fell in a vat of chemicals at the Ace Chemical Processing Plant, where he was believed to have died. Months later he re-emerged, body bleached white and face trapped in a permanent smile, and took back control of the Red Hoods, then in disarray without him.

Napier, now calling himself the Joker, turned his attentions from money and power into a war against all those who had wronged him or the Red Hoods, from Batman, who had left him scarred and deformed, to the police, the judicial system, and the Falcones (whose leader, Carmine, he personally killed with the same chemical he was tossed into, leaving him dead with the same smile that the Joker held). While Napier's last two years as leader of the Red Hoods saw them establish themselves as Gotham's most violent, feared, depraved, and dangerous gang, a reputation shared by Napier, they also completely alienated the public, other gangs, and even members within the gang, many of whom committed suicide rather than risk displeasing Napier. In March of 1942, during a scuffle with Batman, Napier accidentally impaled himself with his own knife and bled to death before the police could arrest him.

Prior to his transformation into the Joker, Napier was known as a quiet and unglamorous man. As a crime boss, he rarely wore any flashy clothes or expensive jewelry, rarely smoked, and never drank. Despite this, he was known to have a fearsome temper, beating members unconscious in front of others as an example. His few years as the Joker saw him as his most cruel and deranged, leaving behind a trail of bodies both as a warning to the world, and just for the sadistic pleasure that the actions brought him. While only known as the Joker for a couple years, his actions and reputation as the Clown Prince of Crime left a permanent mark on Gotham City. Several gangs in the decade since have called themselves the Red Hoods, none of which were ever as successful as Napier's gang. More infamously, several criminals in Gotham have appropriate the names Red Hood and Joker for their own benefits, ranging from petty thieves, public nuisances, bank robbers, crime bosses, and serial killers. Some have used the Joker as an image representing anarchy and nihilism, positively or negatively.
 
Princess Eleanor, Duchess of Cardiff is the consort of The Queen of The United Kingdom, Rachel.

She born to wealthy businessman and close personal friend of The Royal Family, William Beckett and his wife Laura, Eleanor's younger brother Elliot was close friends with Rachel's younger brother Henry.

Rachel and Eleanor began secretly dating at age 14, In 2006, at age 20, they came out together.

In 2012, the two got married, and Eleanor was made the Duchess of Cardiff.

In 2014, She became Consort of the Monarch when Rachel's father Francis III Abdicated and Rachel became Queen of The UK.

Eleanor is a known LGBT and environmentalist activist.
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Henry Wilson, PC, FRS (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; 16 February 1812 – 22 November 1875) was an American politician of the Liberal-Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of America from 1868 to 1874. Prior to his premiership, Wilson was a prominent Liberal-Conservative, and a strong proponent of equality for "freedmen". Wilson is remembered for protecting blacks, reestablishing the public credit and rebuilding the Royal American Navy.

Wilson was born in Farmington, New Hampshire. His father named him Jeremiah Jones Colbath. but Wilson changed his name in 1833. Wilson entered the Massachusetts Bay House of Representatives in 1843. Originally a Whig, Wilson joined the Liberal-Conservative Party after the Whigs collapsed in 1844. He served as Premier of Massachusetts Bay from 1850 to 1853. Wilson was one of three Prime Ministers to also serve as a first minister along with Franklin Pierce and John Bush. During his premiership in Massachusetts, Wilson built an anti-slavery coalition.

Wilson entered the House of Representatives in 1854 as a member of the Native American (Know Nothing) Party. He returned to the Liberal-Conservatives when Martin van Buren became Prime Minister in 1855. When Van Buren twice formed governments in the 1850s, Wilson served as Minister of the Interior. Wilson also served as Minister of War during the Duke of Boston's premiership.

Wilson became prime minister in 1868. During his premiership, Wilson created the Ministry of Justice, and prosecuted white supremacist hate groups. He appointed African Americans and Jewish Americans to prominent ministerial offices. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission. Wilson's Native American policy had both successes and failures. Wilson appointed reformers, for example for the prosecution of the Whiskey Ring. Wilson's effectiveness as Prime Minister was limited after he suffered a debilitating stroke in May 1873. The Panic of 1873 plunged the nation into a severe economic depression, that allowed the Kerrites to defeat the Liberal-Conservatives in 1874. Wilson's health his health continued to decline until he was the victim of a fatal stroke while working in Parliament in late 1875.

Throughout his career, Wilson was known for championing causes that were at times unpopular, including workers' rights for both blacks and whites and the abolition of slavery. However, Wilson's reputation for personal integrity and principled politics was somewhat damaged late in his career by his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
 
I already uploaded the map to this election, so I might as well add the infobox, too. Here is my infobox for the 1867 Confederate States presidential election from Harry Turtledove's classic 1992 alternate history novel The Guns of the South

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Notes:
1: I originally had the map posted inside the infobox. However, the map screwed up the infobox somehow and I was forced to remove it and put it under the infobox, instead.

The 1867 Confederate States presidential election took place on November 5, 1867 and was the second sextennial presidential election held. It set the stage for the path of the country going forward, particularly as regards to slavery. Two new parties were born, the Confederate Party of General Robert E. Lee and the Patriot Party of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Candidates
The new Confederate Party was created by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It had Liberal-Centralist positions on Federalism, nationalism and was anti-slavery. Lee was nominated to be the party's candidate while Albert Gallitin Brown was chosen as his running mate.

The new Patriot Party was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest. It had Conservative-Centralist positions on Nationalism, Confederalism, States' Rights and was pro-slavery. Forrest was nominated to be the party's candidate while Louis Wigfall was chosen to be his running mate. Forrest was also supported by the Rivington Men.

Campaign
During the campaign Forrest went on the stump around the Confederacy, while Lee remained at home. Until election day, Lee felt sure he would win. Forrest ran for president on the platform to continue slavery, while Lee promised to ease restrictions against blacks. Lee also went soft-line on the United States and made use of various issues, while Forrest just kept to his platform.

Election Results
The election came to ride on Tennessee with the Electoral College tied down 55-50 (60 were required for election). Eventually, several days after the election, Lee won the College 69-50 and the popular vote 496,536 to 466,901.

Totals by States

Totals:

Robert E. Lee-Albert Gallatin Brown (Confederate Party)

496,536
popular votes
69 electoral votes
6 states carried


Nathan Bedford Forrest-Louis Wigfall (Patriot Party)


466,901 popular votes
50 electoral votes
6 states carried

Total amount of popular votes: 963,437
Total amount of electoral votes: 119

Results by state:

Alabama
Forrest wins the state with 51,189 popular votes and also wins the states 11 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 38,933 votes. 90,122 votes in the state in total.

Arkansas
Forrest wins the state with 28,376 popular votes and also wins the states 6 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 25,776 votes. 54,152 votes in the state in total.

Florida
Lee wins the state with 7,063 popular votes and also wins the states 4 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 6,238 votes. 13,301 votes in the state in total

Georgia
Lee wins the state with 57,056 popular votes and also wins the states 12 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 49,391 votes. 106,447 votes in the state in total.

Kentucky
Lee wins the state with 80,565 popular votes and also wins the states 14 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 65,651 votes. 146,216 votes in the state in total.

Louisiana
Forrest wins the state with 26, 215 popular votes and also wins the state 8 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 24,295 votes. 50,510 votes in the state in total.

Mississippi
Forrest wins the state with 39,384 popular votes and also wins the states 9 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 29,711 votes. 69,095 votes in the state in total.

North Carolina
Lee wins the state with 55,223 popular votes and also wins the states 12 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 41,489 votes. 96,712 votes in state in total.

South Carolina
No popular vote in the state, but Forrest wins the states 8 electoral votes.

Tennessee
Lee wins the state with 74,368 popular votes and also wins the states 14 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 71,738 votes. 146,106 votes in the state in total.

Texas
Forrest wins the state with 35,248 popular votes and also wins the states 8 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 27,807 votes. 63,055 votes in the state in total.

Virginia
Lee wins the state with 75,739 popular votes and also wins the states 13 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 51,982. 127,721 votes in the state in total.

Note: South Carolina's electors to the Electoral College were chosen by the state's legislature rather than by popular vote.

Update 3/10/2022: Replaced old map with new map, making Lee and Forrest have their proper colors.
 
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