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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8379942" data-attributes="member: 6704184">How I do it in my AU Earth setting, Crossroads;<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the indigenous people of America (the common name ends up being Iroquoisa amongst Europeans due to The Iroquois being the dominant power trading with early Viking settlements in Iceland and Greenland) don’t die in droves to European diseases</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the Spanish Catholics show up as desperate but wealthy exiles, build coastal trade ports, and later return to Iberia as a wealthy prodigal child</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">one of Europe’s Great Powers is the Reykjavik Federation, which consists of members states in Scandinavia, Northwestern Russia, and North Eastern America, and the islands in between</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">First Nations folks have their own mystic and martial traditions which make them a match for European explorers, which combines with fairly equal population numbers to a more equal footing in early military conflicts </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slavery of the South Asian Islamic variety is the only prominent form of slavery in the world as of the main time period (1630’s), and it is a dying practice. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Catholicism is a minority faith in Europe, only having major traction in parts of Iberia, Italia, and the coastal trade ports of South and Western “Iroquoisa”.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An additional source of schism in the European Christian faith is that Catholicism focuses on the works of St. Peter, while Orthodoxy focuses on the works of St. Mary, and has a female Holy Mother at its head, known as The Magdalena. Orthodoxy is the most common form of Christianity in Europe, with Catholicism having fallen out of favor after High King Mordred Pendraig’s pagan army sacked Rome in the 2nd Century CE with the help of the Knights of The Raven and Knights of The Dragon, a holy and arcane order of knights, respectively, as well as the blessings of The Queen Mother, The Morrigan, who is the mother of Mordred’s heirs and mentor to Mordred and his mother, Morgan Le Fey. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Basically, Europe is less religiously oppressed/more religiously diverse, less patriarchal, less racist, and less militarily imperialist, having a sort of stalemate between several great powers.</li> </ul>[spoiler=The great powers are];<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Empire of Briton, capital Cardiff, ruler High King Mordred the 9th, parliamentary Monarchy. Aristocracy are largely Shadar-Kai and Vryloka, being scions of The Sisters (Morrigan, Nimue/Nemain, and Macha). Empire spans Britain, most of France, parts of Iberia, and various islands stretching as far as Gibraltar. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Federation of Reykjavik, capital Reykjavik, ruled by The Allthing and current Queen Margrethe III and her Prince Consort Ratonhnhaké:ton. Spans Scandinavia and North Eastern “America”, as well as Islands in between and a small amount of North Western Russia. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Empire of The Golden Horde, as yet WIP empire ruling much of Eastern Europe, ruled by an Emperor. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Holy Empire of Byzantium, capital Constantinople, seat of the Orthodox Church, ruled by Divine Empress Justintinia XII, an aasimar descended from the archangel Uriel. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Islamic Empire, capital Baghdad, in the midst of a Renaissance, but much reduced in power and land, especially after the rise of the Zoroastrian Empire of Iran (Persia), under Darius The Inheritor. </li> </ul>[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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