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The desert sand and the night wind were cold against her burning skin. It had been worse than usual, a harder run over worse ground, and her lungs burned for air with each short, sharp pant, but she couldn’t risk breathing now. Couldn’t risk any noise, not anything. She lay crumpled at the...

I. Nikolaos I is unique among Byzantine usurpers in that he had no interest in either the throne or power, both of which were thrust upon him entirely against his will; perhaps that is why he was a good emperor. By the dawn of the 13th century, the Byzantine Empire was in...

I figure it's about time that The Sietch gets one of these too, seeing how AH.com and AlternateTimelines have their own. The idea is self-explanatory: post any lists of monarchs, presidents and heads-of-state, etc., etc., here. To start us off, here's a list from a 'WW3 in 1948' TL I'm working...

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I cooked up the following scenario for the campaign season of 451: In March 451, the King of Suebian Gallaecia, Rechiarius, had a falling out with his Visigothic wife, Goisuintha, that left him convinced that his father-in-law, Theodoric II, is plotting against him. Rechiarius decides that his...

Here's the idea: PoD: Around 2000 BC, hunter-gatherers in the Papua Peninsula begin cultivating Sorghum propinquum, simultaneously acclimatizing it for the highlands and increasing overall yield, and by around AD 1 it becomes a fully productive grain, spread northward to the main Highlands...

Copied over from the general thread. The basic premise is that Andronikos II is killed in battle against the Turks at Tralleis in 1284 and the Byzantine Empire is spared his reign of mass stupidity. Table of Contents: I - 1284-~1300 II - ~1300 - ~1400 (political) III - ~1300 - ~1400 (social) IV...

Hello, all. Over the last year or so I've had a number of ideas for a timeline based on the emergence of an agricultural civilization somewhere within the desert west of the United States, most of which have quickly fizzled out but still bugged me in the back of my mind. I've written some essays...

This is a thread for me to stick ideas, snippets and outlines for writing things I'm writing. To be truthful, I find that having anonymous strangers criticize my writing helps improve my output and quality (both from encouragement and 'screw you, I'll show you I'm a better writer' syndrome), so...

From the other thread. Thoughts?

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>control F 'wikibox' >no results I think it's about time we get wikibox thread for this forum, so to start us off....

I don't think this is against the rules, and as this story is both OC fictional material and AH, I'm putting it in two forums. As before, please let me know what you think of this so I can stop or go forward.

This was a concept I came up with this morning and quickly wrote out. I'm not sure if I want to turn this into a series, so please let me know what you think.

For the last couple of months, I've been working on a project tentatively titled Blood on Rocky Top: A History of the Appalachian Wars and the Fall of the Union of American Peoples' States. This is a sort-of prologue to that story that I'd like to publish here as a feeler in regards to its...

Hey, I've been wondering what the most likely PoD for a Confederate victory would be. What do you guys think?

I was on AH.com yesterday when I came across this glorious wall of text: The user essentially states that a) the Mercator Projection is a tool of white supremacy, b) anyone who doesn't immediately remove any copy of it at the behest of a wholesome group of BIPOC or 'post-colonial citizens'...

Hello, this is a copy of my current timeline on Alternatehistory.com. I'm currently suspended, and this has inspired me to create a thread here so I can continue the story if I get banned. I'd like to say thank you to the kind folks here who have allowed me to join this site.