The problem is that it has to come out this way. If I don't write about it as soon as I detrimined that piece of information I'll lose it, or decide on something else. I know it makes for poor entertainment and presentation, but I don't want to sit down and rewrite entire pieces every time I work on it just because I'm displeased with how I worded something. Thus it comes out in paragraphs instead of chapters.Diamond said:You know, I really like this alternate history. The problem I have is that, like G.Bone's TLs, the way in which you're constructing it, as vignettes and brief snapshots, makes it a bit hard to follow (and combined with the fact that I don't know as much about the period as I should. ).
With royal marriages being mostly arranged I think that gives me a good deal of freedom. Its either for poltical gain, or reproduction, with age ranges are workable. Sense marriage is poltics, especially in those days,But it IS good, though. It really illustrates well just how much things can butterfly off in new directions thanks to different marriages and offspring. I'm really liking the way things are looking in England. Trial by combat lives on! Yes!
Othniel said:... thus I come out sounding like an enclyopedia.
More Width even!Shadow Knight said:No worries the TL is going good. I do agree with Diamond it would be nice to have a little more breadth to it, but you do what you can.
Well, maybe it would be better if it was written in Braille?As for encyclopedia like I wonder if my TL comes off like that too...either way do what works best for you.
Othniel said:More Width even!
Othniel said:Well, maybe it would be better if it was written in Braille?
And a damn good film it is, too.Faeelin said:Othniel: Have you ever seen the Lion in Winter? It's a film, set in this era.
No, but if it is either entertaining or would help with the timeline I would be willing to look for it in the libray.Faeelin said:Othniel: Have you ever seen the Lion in Winter? It's a film, set in this era.
Othniel said:No, but if it is either entertaining or would help with the timeline I would be willing to look for it in the libray.
Othniel said:Ideas don't seem to becoming... so I'm going to open up a dialog. What do you guys think of the events thus far? Not just the writting, but what is your concept of the image I'm painting? What are your visions for its future? If the discovery of the Americas are delayed, what do you think will happen in their histories? What changes do you think Islam and Christianity will go through when compared to OTL?
Shadow Knight said:The Normans had loads of infantry many of them Muslim Sicilian Arabs. See references to Roger II of Sicily's army when he supposedly went north to help the Pope against Henry V.
MerryPrankster said:Ah. Then perhaps the phalanxes of the Almoravids/Almohads won't be too troublesome.
Which power would be more militarily formidable? The Almohades or the Normans?
I can think of a few people that will protect them. For example the Hautivilles in Italy, in particular Sicily, but I think having them snake their way into a few German Princes' courts would also be effective. Or I could try and have the catholic church absorb some of their doctrines, and effectively stand as a sect within the catholic church, having it become a bigger issue in the place of monopsychismMerryPrankster said:On the matter of the Lollard PIs idea, perhaps the Lollards become well-known for being investigative or something.
Prehaps. It would be intresting to see such a charter devolp, but for now this is just a timeline. However I may place some short stories off of what happened here when I am finshed with it.The Jews, though disliked for not being Christians, were tolerated (when they were tolerated, that is) due to their financial acumen and cultural emphasis on education.
Perhaps the "heretic" Lollards will be tolerated b/c they make good spies and, later, journalists (or in the present, "chroniclers" or even troubadors).
A Lollard spymaster might be a good character--after all, since they're a persecuted minority often in hiding, they'd make good conspirators.