alternatehistory.com

Hey everyone! I've been lurking the forum here for awhile, but I never joined because I was a little bit nervous about putting my writing out there for critique. So, I've seen it done before where people put out ideas for timelines and then let the forum vote on it, which is a good idea I think, seeing as I would hate to write something nobody wants to read. With that in mind, here are some ideas that I have been bouncing around in my head for awhile. I hope some of them are interesting!


King of Snakes


Lucius Cornelius Sulla dies at the Battle of Chaeronea, and his army is annihilated. Archelaus and Taxiles spend the remainder of the year consolidating Greece and expelling the Romans from Macedonia while Lucius Licinius Lucullus joins forces with Marcus Licinius Crassus and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius in Africa with an army of Hellenes, Numidians, and Mauretanians. Can Rome be wrested from Cinna? If so, what happens to their regime, after having taken Rome with an army of foreigners at their back? Can Greece be wrested from Mithradates without Sulla? Can Asia?


This Man Too Is Alexander



Hephaestion lives, but Alexander dies. Hephaestion is the unquestionable regent of the empire, but who will be the heir of Alexander remains in question. Roxane gives birth to a boy on schedule, and Stateira to a daughter. Meanwhile, Eurydice marries Arrhidaeus, and within a year bears him a bouncing baby boy. Will the army accept the son of Alexander, or will they prefer a full-blooded Argead to rule the empire that he left behind? And what of the Persian nobles? Was Alexander’s empire destined to be torn apart?


Not My Heifer



A heifer slated for sacrifice is released by her owner’s daughter. What possible impact could that have? This timeline would be an exploration of a re-routed Indo-European Migration, around the Caspian and through Iran, with Mesopotamia being thoroughly Indo-Europeanized by the onset of the 1st millennium BCE.


For Want That A Fire Should Burn


An actress notices that she has knocked over her oil lamp and rushes to smother the fire in dust from outside the theater. What possible impact could that make? This will be a timeline that explores the premature downfall of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the Praetorian Prefect of Emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar, and the rise of Drusus Julius Caesar to the principate. What would the Roman Empire look like with such vicious figures as Caligula, and Nero, and the instability of the Year of Five Emperors?


Heaven Lost


Jing Ke successfully murders Ying Zheng (Qin Shihuangdi), thus strengthening the alliance of Dai, Qi, and Chu, which successfully drives the armies of Qin out of the Kingdom of Yan, leaving the generals and government officials of Qin to fight one another over the regency and potential heirs to the throne.


Not So Cruel A Mistress
(ASB)


The glaciation of the last ice age is less severe, thus preventing the formation of the North American Great Lakes, and allowing Britain to remain connected to Europe? How does this change the course of human migration and societal development? Are some animals spared by the Quaternary Extinction? If so, what are the consequences? Do the peoples of the Americas “discover” Europe?


I admit, I am kind of partial to Not So Cruel A Mistress and Not My Heifer, as I enjoy conworlding quite a bit, but I would be happy to write any of these for an audience.
Top