I was researching a story line and kept running into a wall as to the time, place and participants of a pod taking place in North America that would involve a couple of large battles but I would really like to avoid the Civil War, the Mexicans or the British. Is it too ASB to build a character from the ground up and make him a sort of Native American Genghis Khan (unifying the tribes, fighting the Americans, etc)? Maybe have him be the son of a war leader that is captured by the British or French, able to learn something or European tactics, and turning around and using it against the US? It would not involve a Native Empire in the end, but a war thread that should last 5 or so years.