WI: Kavad executed?

[SunKing105]

In 496 AD, the nobles of the Sassanid realm met and agreed to imprison Shahanshah Kavad I, due to several reasons, most prominent being his execution of Sukhra, and his actions regarding the emerging Mazdakist sect. Gushnaspdad proposed that he be killed, but that proposal was rejected, and he was instead imprisoned in the Fortress of Oblivion, where he managed to escape after 2 years and took refuge among the Hephthalites. He would return 2 years later. What if he was executed, and Jamasp remains on the throne much longer? What happens with the Sassanid state? With the Hephthalites? Does this butterfly the Anastasian War? What effects would having a different line of shahs from then onward have?

 

[Vinization]

Well, Hormizd IV and Khosrau II would be butterflied, which is definitely a good thing (especially the latter). However, Kavad himself was rather capable, as was his son Khosrau I. Things could go either way, really.

As for Rome, there would probably still be a war. The two empires spent centuries beating the crap out of each other, one side would find a pretext to do something.