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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 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 few ideas that might help it along:
Emperor Baldwin, a reportedly moral man who embodied the Crusader spirit, beats Boniface of Montferrat to Thessalonica, thus preventing this powerful and unruly de jure vassal--de facto sometime-rival sometime-ally--from existing
Baldwin wins or completely avoids (easy due to butterflies from Thessalonica) the Battle of Adrianople in 1205. This means that Baldwin--by all accounts a decent, able, and persuasive (and he had to have been, to have been chosen Emperor)--has many more years to organize his territories and dictate policy, as well as try to put the Venetians in their place
Baldwin prevents the Frankish rulers from completely raping their owns lands of all gold, wealth, icons, religious relics, and resources; this means that there is much less Greek resentment toward the Latins
He either works hard but gently to convert the Greek populace, or forms some kind of syncretic religion and culture (this is in case of unexpected resistance, or an unfriendly Pope)