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NOTE: This does NOT mean that The Silver Knight is ending anytime soon. I plan to at least continue it into the 21st century, and there's plenty of events to go through before that, it may take us a long time before we reach it's end. This is for the future.

I've got a few timeline ideas mulling over in my head and I can't really pick between them, so I decided to turn to the people here to give their thoughts on the matter. Thoughts, opinions and comments are appreciated.

You would notice that all of the ideas are about one specific country - but much like The Silver Knight expanded to cover events across the planet, to the point where countries like Germania and Visegrad ended up arguably more interesting than the focus of the TL itself, you can expect similar developments in any of these three timelines.

Option #1 - To Us, the Survivors!

Simply put, it would be putting the ideas in this thread into a TL.

The Mongols have ravaged Europe and plundered up to the Atlantic Ocean, but while some regions have been set back for many decades, others were left untouched. Such is the case with the poor, sparsely inhabited, but fiercely independent and militaristic nation ruled by Grand Duke Mindaugas. In this vastly different Europe, where the Mongols rule supreme and look after tributaries from the Rhine to the Urals, it finds itself in a precarious position - and the TL would follow Lithuania's struggling, bloody, long rise to domination in Central and Eastern Europe, taking over the vacuum left by Ogedei's conquests.

And yes, I know that Empty America exists, don't even ask...

Option #2 - Litwo, ojczyzno nasza

This TL would follow one of the most well-known and interesting points of divergence in Lithuanian history - Michal Oginski's 1811 proposal to Tsar Alexander to recreate Lithuania as an autonomous Grand Duchy, ruled by the Polonized Lithuanian gentry, within the Russian Empire, in a similar vein to Finland. In OTL, the proposal was an inch away from getting approved, and in this TL, the proposal passes.

No Lithuanian National Revival here - with Polish education and government, Lithuania is set to become the Polish version of Scotland, abandoning their old language, but still sticking to their guts and keeping their national identity.

I've already got some ideas floating around on how this POD can result in some interesting changes in 19th century Europe... and if it goes well, we might even see a restored Commonwealth, and I know some people like that.

Option #3 - Großlitauisches Reich

1934 in Lithuania saw a coup attempt by the fascist Iron Wolf Organization against Antanas Smetona's government. The attempt started out well, but due to miscommunication, it ended up dispersed by the forces loyal to the government. In this TL, the coup succeeds, and Lithuania becomes a German-aligned fascist state. Major changes in pre-war Nazi foreign policy in the East follow, and the butterflies quickly build up for a very interesting Eastern Front once World War II starts...
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