Viorp
Minstrel
First of all, I checked.
Yes, doing alternate history is worldbuilding, don't judge me.
I've been working on this super fun scenario which started out as:
"hmm... what if the Poles became hussite and joined the Bohemians in their uprising"
A stupid little idea, which blossomed into something weird as hell. You see the national hero of the Czechs Jan Żiżka ang other high ranking hussites actually proposed that Vytuatas the currently ruling High Prince of Lithuenia would become the King of Bohemia. Which didn't really work out and they ended up being democratic.
So I start the timeline by having Vytuatas accept the offer, while also having Hussitism become a thing in Poland. Vytuatases rule keeps the Hussites together preventing infighting which killed the uprising and they survive unified untill 1430 even good old Jan Żiżka still lives and is 70 by now and still has 1 eye.
Funfact about him, he is one oft he only commanders which are undefeated while also having lead his troops when he was already blind...
But then I started to dig deeper do you know what ingenious miliatry commander was also active at the time?
Jeanne d'Arc another undefeated commander AND she even wrote threatening letters towards the Hussites.
So everything fits perfectly.
This is the set up for the story.
After the battle of Grünwald the Pope ruled very good conditions of loss for the Teutonic knights which the Poles did not accept. In our timeline the the Pope revised his decission to be more fair. In this one he does not deepening the divide between Poland-Lithuenia and the Church.
In 1422 Vytuatas accepts the Bohemian throne, he is somewhat involved in the coflict, but not much. He dies of the plague in 1429 where his cousin Władysław Jagieło inherits both Lithuenia and Bohemia from him and Władysław has already long converted to the Hussite faith. (unlike Vytuatas which stayed loyal to the Pope)
Władysław goes a step further though, by proclaiming himself the Holy Roman Emperor and decreeing Hussitism the only true faith. The conflict escalates from a big civil war to a conflict to determine the one to rule europe and the true denomination of christianity.
Jan Żiżka with access to Lithuenian troops fares better and does not loose his other eye and does not fall sick living a very long life up to 70.
Meanwhile the Pope finds out about the trials Jeanne d'Arc is going trough and the letter she wrote to the English "Retreat immediately from France and instead join me in a war against the Heretics of Bohemia." (yup she actually proposed that.
As the Hussite menace is much bigger this time and Jeanne's Inquisitory trial was very badly conducted the Pope forces these terms on the English by threat of excommunication. The disputed lands are temporarly to be held by the Papal state.
So Jeanne is freed and given command of basically every single knight west to the Oder.
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That's the point where the story kicks in though the protagonist is a squire from a minor Polish noble family.
Later I'll also have the Ottomans join in on the fun >
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Anyway alternate history is super fun because you get to know history and stuff you'd never get to know otherwise. Like how Jan Żiżka basically started his military carrer at 50 or how there was an order of Dragon Knights: Order of the Dragon - Wikipedia
Most fascinating I found Jeanne d'Arc though.
From these sources:
Joan of Arc - A Military Appreciation
Joan of Arc - Wikipedia
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) - Physical appearance
I found out so much stuff about her and how a lot of info about her is fake.
For example:
In media they often show her as a beutiful noble woman with long blond hair and white skin. On the contrary she was an average-height. Very skinny and slightly muscular girl with short black hair, brown eyes and dark skin. Though her squire describes her indeed as very pretty. He mainly mentions her leggs and how nicely shapen her boobs were... leter obiously adding that he had no dirty thoughts about her.
She also was not the raging feminist or a progressive person, and deffinetly not trans -_-
In many ocassions she claimed that she'd rather be sewing or hearding sheep than going to war and what she is doing is out of need not want. She also enjoyed feminine clothing she often wore male attire for protection or to deter rape. Her comerades claim that whenever they entered a town she would immediately return to female clothing.
She also was described as very cheerful and what I'd describe as cute. For example she called d’Alençon "gentle duke" or "pretty duke".
Now I just need to find some goddamn stuff about Żiżkas personality. I also got somewhat the tactics down. Both Żiżka and d'Ark were very good tacticians and made good use of artilery. Żiżka was much more experimental and innovative though while d'Ark excelled at riling up people one of the mentioned paper descibes her as a
"super-cheerleader" though she also is known for her very agressive yes patient approach to war.
Anyway what do you think of the idea here?
Is Alternate History worldbuilding?
Do you like Alternate History?
Yes, doing alternate history is worldbuilding, don't judge me.
I've been working on this super fun scenario which started out as:
"hmm... what if the Poles became hussite and joined the Bohemians in their uprising"
A stupid little idea, which blossomed into something weird as hell. You see the national hero of the Czechs Jan Żiżka ang other high ranking hussites actually proposed that Vytuatas the currently ruling High Prince of Lithuenia would become the King of Bohemia. Which didn't really work out and they ended up being democratic.
So I start the timeline by having Vytuatas accept the offer, while also having Hussitism become a thing in Poland. Vytuatases rule keeps the Hussites together preventing infighting which killed the uprising and they survive unified untill 1430 even good old Jan Żiżka still lives and is 70 by now and still has 1 eye.
Funfact about him, he is one oft he only commanders which are undefeated while also having lead his troops when he was already blind...
But then I started to dig deeper do you know what ingenious miliatry commander was also active at the time?
Jeanne d'Arc another undefeated commander AND she even wrote threatening letters towards the Hussites.
So everything fits perfectly.
This is the set up for the story.
After the battle of Grünwald the Pope ruled very good conditions of loss for the Teutonic knights which the Poles did not accept. In our timeline the the Pope revised his decission to be more fair. In this one he does not deepening the divide between Poland-Lithuenia and the Church.
In 1422 Vytuatas accepts the Bohemian throne, he is somewhat involved in the coflict, but not much. He dies of the plague in 1429 where his cousin Władysław Jagieło inherits both Lithuenia and Bohemia from him and Władysław has already long converted to the Hussite faith. (unlike Vytuatas which stayed loyal to the Pope)
Władysław goes a step further though, by proclaiming himself the Holy Roman Emperor and decreeing Hussitism the only true faith. The conflict escalates from a big civil war to a conflict to determine the one to rule europe and the true denomination of christianity.
Jan Żiżka with access to Lithuenian troops fares better and does not loose his other eye and does not fall sick living a very long life up to 70.
Meanwhile the Pope finds out about the trials Jeanne d'Arc is going trough and the letter she wrote to the English "Retreat immediately from France and instead join me in a war against the Heretics of Bohemia." (yup she actually proposed that.
As the Hussite menace is much bigger this time and Jeanne's Inquisitory trial was very badly conducted the Pope forces these terms on the English by threat of excommunication. The disputed lands are temporarly to be held by the Papal state.
So Jeanne is freed and given command of basically every single knight west to the Oder.
-----------------------------------------
That's the point where the story kicks in though the protagonist is a squire from a minor Polish noble family.
Later I'll also have the Ottomans join in on the fun >
-----------------------------------------
Anyway alternate history is super fun because you get to know history and stuff you'd never get to know otherwise. Like how Jan Żiżka basically started his military carrer at 50 or how there was an order of Dragon Knights: Order of the Dragon - Wikipedia
Most fascinating I found Jeanne d'Arc though.
From these sources:
Joan of Arc - A Military Appreciation
Joan of Arc - Wikipedia
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) - Physical appearance
I found out so much stuff about her and how a lot of info about her is fake.
For example:
In media they often show her as a beutiful noble woman with long blond hair and white skin. On the contrary she was an average-height. Very skinny and slightly muscular girl with short black hair, brown eyes and dark skin. Though her squire describes her indeed as very pretty. He mainly mentions her leggs and how nicely shapen her boobs were... leter obiously adding that he had no dirty thoughts about her.
She also was not the raging feminist or a progressive person, and deffinetly not trans -_-
In many ocassions she claimed that she'd rather be sewing or hearding sheep than going to war and what she is doing is out of need not want. She also enjoyed feminine clothing she often wore male attire for protection or to deter rape. Her comerades claim that whenever they entered a town she would immediately return to female clothing.
She also was described as very cheerful and what I'd describe as cute. For example she called d’Alençon "gentle duke" or "pretty duke".
Now I just need to find some goddamn stuff about Żiżkas personality. I also got somewhat the tactics down. Both Żiżka and d'Ark were very good tacticians and made good use of artilery. Żiżka was much more experimental and innovative though while d'Ark excelled at riling up people one of the mentioned paper descibes her as a
"super-cheerleader" though she also is known for her very agressive yes patient approach to war.
Anyway what do you think of the idea here?
Is Alternate History worldbuilding?
Do you like Alternate History?
Inkling
