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Hello everyone.

I have been following this site for some months now and have decided to create my first alternate history as background for a tabletop war gaming campaign based on the Warhammer Ancients rules set.

I have made basic ideas but wanted to hear your thoughts how would the events I am working on affect the surroundings and have an impact on history a hundred years later when I am placing the story for the campaign.

The POD I have chosen is year 1077 when king Geyza I of Hungary died and is succeeded by his brother Ladislaus I, but he gets poisoned by agents of Solomon, who is currently residing with the Pechenegs and is planing his return to Hungary to take the throne.

Using his familiy and political links king Zvonimir (a distant cousin of Ladislaus and Geyza and also their brother-in-law ) marches across Drava to support his underaged nephews Coloman and Almos, aged 7 and 9.

A war breaks out between Solomon and Zvonimir. Solomon is supported by the Henry IV of Germany, his brother-in-law. While Zvonimir recieves aid from Boleslaw II, an old ally of his decesed brothers-in-law. The two year war ends in a stalemate. Zvonimir secures the lands west of the Danube, Boleslaw gets the Nitra county while Solomun manages to establish rule in the rest of the realm.

During the war the young hiers of Geyza, go missing from the historic records their fates remaining unknown forever. Following the war the Hungarian nobility crowns Radovan, son of princess Ilona and king Zvonimir as king of Hungary.

Later next year Solomon dies under unexpalined conditions and his Pecheneg ally Kuteshk takes the throne by force. Starting the long enmity of the house of Zvonimir and the Pechenegs as Hungarian nobles would seek to resore their kingdom.

This is the basis of the POD and will be expanding it further, yet I would like to hear your thoughts on it.

Also here are the maps of Croatia and its surroundings in 1078, it is very rough as I only have MS Paint at the moment.

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