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But... have you ever considered revelling in the glorious intricacy which is your own web of plots, whilst being serenaded by the purrs of a long haired feline?

Excess is just a flourish.





Bwahahahahaha

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Since the plan is to force the USA and Mexico to join forces to defend their sovereignty, getting Britain to declare war on both nations might work.

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In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War most of Mexico north of Guadalajara wanted to be taken by the USA. Washington would be a pain true, but Mexico City was provably worse. The French were invited in by Mexico's elites to permanently crush progressive revolts in Northern Mexico.

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The Cabal's plans have often been low on realism and high on destructiveness.

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As written I assume the French are still in Mexico. So as the French left once they saw the ACW was wrapping up, both wars are still ongoing.

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Your insight is clear and penetrating.

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Try this one...

In most worlds Saladin is a major figure. In this Q6 Low Mana Parallel he seems to have died as a child if he was even born. Fights between the Islamic powers preserved the Crusader States until the local year 1346. Now Orhan I is moving to conquer the Holy Lands. This will both delay any conquest of the Byzantine Empire and bring the Ottomans into conflict with the Mamluks.

The Cabal, wanting more Greek and Latin classical texts to survive, and also wanting the Byzantines to survive into at least the 16th century, are working to protect and strengthen the Palaiogos dynasty by changing the outcome the 1341-1347 Civil War.

Basically, an espionage game in the High Medieval Near East. Homeline is more interested in limiting Cabal influence than anything else. This world is low mana but there seem be be some anomalies. Homeline is worried about the Cabal's real goals.

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You know, Homeline doesn't have the same reaction to the Cabal that it has to Centrum. So far as they know, the Cabal has no large scale agenda that threatens Homeline. In fact there's no reason to think the Cabal is even organized enough to have any unified agenda apart from "keep magic secret"...an agenda that Homeline actually approves of since it restricts the spread of another method of parachronic travel. There's no particular reason why they'd care that some Cabal lodge likes Byzantium and wants to help it.

Now one possibility is that is that a Homeline group with deus vult tendencies is intervening to try to direct the Turks away from the Crusader Kingdoms and toward Byzantium while at the time trying to strengthen the foes of the Turks. The patrol is looking to shut them down for exceeding acceptable levels of tampering while at the same time the Cabal's Byzantium are looking for the source of the disruption in their agenda...

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What if The Cabal caused Saladin's non-existence? This could be from some of that time-traveling that The Cabal gets up to.

And what Infinity found out? The idea that The Cabal can travel through time would terrify Infinity, even if it only works on mana worlds.


There could be a bunch of relatively close parallel mana worlds (likely low-mana) that were created by Cabalist time travel.

For instance, low-mana Q3 Armada-3, where Spanish broadsheets blame a college of magicians for the revolts that have broken out in England & Netherlands after Philip II's death, could be because of some John Dee intervention gone wrong.

(think Times Without Number)

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Fun ideas, not how I wrote it but enjoy.