New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer

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.

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)