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Okay, so I've got several ideas for a timeline, and I can't decide on which. So I'd like y'all to help me decide.

1. The Steppe Lion: A reboot of the timeline in my signature. In a world where the Jewish Khazars never fell, the Rus are divided between Judiac and Scandinavian factions, while the Byzantines and Arabs are tripping over themselves in their opposition to each other and the Khazars. The Holy Roman Empire is more Roman than German, and the Seljuk Turks are instead the Seljuk Goths. The Khazars themselves are ruled by a succession of competent-turned insane dynasties, each more outrageous than the last.

I'm not sure of the format, but likely history-book style.

2. Truth, Fire, Empire: A few months after the devasting Sunni-Shi'a Battle of Karabala, the exiled son of the last Sassasind king sweeps down from the east with thousands of mercenary troops, recapturing Persia for Zoroastrianism. Features a slightly empowered Tang dynasty, a more southern-focused Caliphate, and a Byzantine-Zoroastrian (not Sassasind) alliance.

3. "And Then I Told The Brethren..": A Mormon TL, detailing an LDS church if Sidney Rigdon had not turned against them. A rather strange PoD, because from some sources, it seems Rigdon only became a raging jerk after a head injury. The PoD is him not having that injury. Features a majority black proto-socialist state in the south, a greatly abolitionist LDS church, an even more effective missionary network, a lot of minorities in the Church leadership (blacks get to keep the priesthood), and even Mormon support against the Confederates in the Civil War. However, everything isn't bunnies and sunshine. Rigdom is still unhappy at not being prophet, and his stubborn, inflammatory rhetoric alienates a large portion of the Church, as well as otherwise friendly authorities. And much of the South is enraged at the Mormons...

4. Consult the Oracle: The Oracles pop up in the late Roman Empire as a revitalized, centralized group, akin to preachers, but for pagans. They worship all the Greek pantheon of gods, but venerate Apollo above the others as the prophetic god. This TL will be more a speculative TL, more discussion than actual stuff happening.

5. The Leper Order: The Order of St. Lazarus, an OTL knightly order that defended lepers, grows immensely in power after a fortunate inheritance from a grateful monarch in the Levant. The Order, based more on defense and curing sickness than riches and power, slowly increases its domain and influence, using a Cyrus the Great-style "'magninous" governance. They expand in Anatolia (maybe just in Syria instead), and take Antioch.

6. Glory to Perun: Vladimir the Great does not convert to the Greek rite, nor to Islam or Catholicism, or Judaism. Instead, he reforms Rus paganism, with Perun as the major god, and influences from Zoroastarianism and Judaism. I don't know how I'm going to do this yet, but if it's chosen, I'll do it.


EDIT: Oh yeah, please say why you chose the TL you did.
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