New Reality Seeds

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by fchase8

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.

Dee could reasonably be involved in the original plot too. Saladin is after all a pivotal figure in the mythology of England thanks to his connection to Richard the Lionhearted, and the resonances of Richards crusade in the codifications of Arthurian myths in the next couple generations (Chretien de Troyes is a contemporary of Richard and Saladin after all).

Without Saladin, Richard might never be involved in a Crusade at all. If he was anyway, he probably would've been more successful - and a united Kingdom of Jerusalem and England, even if it lasted only a generation or two, is likely to have a pretty significant impact on the future trajectory of English history. Even if he didn't, with the who knows what changes in the genealogy of the House of Plantagenet from diverting Richard's life, there's lot of scope for the England a couple centuries later to be very different.