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| ====== Children of the Sun ====== | ====== Children of the Sun ====== |
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| by [[offtopic:othyrsyde]]. | A Mesoamerican timeline by [[offtopic:othyrsyde]]. You can find it [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322778|here]]. |
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| ==== Background ==== | ==== Background ==== |
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| "Children of the Sun" arose out of a desire to do a TL where Americas' indigenous peoples fair better in the face of European colonialism, similar to what [[timelines:Malê Rising]] did for Africa and [[timelines:With the Crescent Above Us]] did for the Ottoman Empire and the global south. | "Children of the Sun" arose out of othyrsyde's desire to do a TL where Americas' indigenous peoples fair better in the face of European colonialism, similar to what [[timelines:Malê Rising]] did for Africa and [[timelines:With the Crescent Above Us]] did for the Middle East and the global south. |
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| The first attempt at this was a TL called "Mociba Guazabara", which explored the failure of Colombus's voyage to the Caribbean, and the Taino adopting and spreading scavenged European tech to the rest of the Americas. "Children of the Sun" emerged from the combination of othyrsyde's research into the effects of her original POD on Mesoamerica, a dream she had about an indigenous rebellion (which the exact details have been double-secret classified and stored in the most distant reaches of the Sukarian Islands to keep Spoiler Plagues from escaping and running a muck), and reading about the Nicaraguan War of Captains. Othyrsyde eventually came to like these new ideas more and more, and in light of never truly feeling the plausibility of her old TL, opted to focus on what would become "Children of the Sun" instead. | The first attempt at this was a TL called "Mociba Guazabara", which explored the failure of Colombus's voyage to the Caribbean, and the Taino adopting and spreading scavenged European tech to the rest of the Americas. "Children of the Sun" emerged from the combination of othyrsyde's research into the effects of her original POD on Mesoamerica, a dream she had about an indigenous rebellion (which the exact details have been double-secret classified and stored in the most distant reaches of the Sukarian Islands to keep Spoiler Plagues from escaping), and reading about Nicaragua's War of Captains. Othyrsyde eventually came to like these new ideas more and more, and in light of never truly feeling the plausibility of her old TL, opted to focus on what would become "Children of the Sun" instead. |
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| ====Narration Style==== | ====Narration Style==== |
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| The TL has two editions, with slightly different styles of telling its history. The short lived first edition was presented with a mix of 3rd person narratives and history book style updates written from the perspective of in-universe authors; similar in style to the unreliable narrator format in such TLs as [[timelines:Look to the West]] and [[timelines:Decades of Darkness]]. | The TL has two editions, with slightly different styles of telling its history. The short lived first edition was presented with a mix of 3rd person narratives and history book style updates written from the perspective of in-universe authors; similar to the unreliable narrator format in such TLs as [[timelines:Look to the West]] and [[timelines:Decades of Darkness]]. |
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| The current edition was changed due to othyrsyde not being confident in how people would look back on the events yet from a more contemporary POV (which pondering about and researching was severely eating up time that could have been better spent researching and writing the subjects of the updates), and due to criticisms from readers who became lost in the events and due to the their often unfamiliarity with Mesoamerican and early Spanish colonial history. So the TL's format was redone in a style dominated by more 3rd person and 1st person narratives in hopes to allow the historical lens and alternate terminology of CoS to evolve more organically, and expose more of the details of the period's history and figures. | The current edition was changed due to othyrsyde not being confident in how people would look back on the TL's events from a more contemporary POV (which pondering about and researching was severely eating up time that could have been better spent researching and writing the subjects of the updates), and due to criticisms from readers who became lost in the events, often because of their unfamiliarity with Mesoamerican and early Spanish colonial history. So the TL's format was redone in a style dominated by more 3rd and 1st person narratives in hopes to allow the historical lens and alternate terminology of CoS to evolve more organically, and expose more of the details of the period's history and figures. |
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| It also features artwork and maps done by the author, and extensive notes on indigenous languages that color the dialogue in the updates. | It also features artwork and maps done by the author, and extensive notes on indigenous languages that color the dialogue in the updates. |
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| **[[Artwork and Maps of Children of the Sun|Artwork and Maps]]** | **[[Artwork and Maps of Children of the Sun|Artwork and Maps]]** |
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| | **[[Chronology of Children of the Sun|Chronology]]** |
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| **[[Important Figures of Children of the Sun|Important Figures]]** | **[[Important Figures of Children of the Sun|Important Figures]]** |
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| The thread itself can found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322778|Here]] | The thread itself can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322778|Here]] |
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