Isaac's Empire 2.0

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ByzantineCaesar

ByzantineCaesar

Basileus Giorgios said:
Would anybody be interested in some new IE content?
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I’m always around, though it’s been a while. The timing of your post is actually kinda scary for me because I had literally just been searching for the term “Isaac’s Empire” in AH.com after coming across a thread asking about the board’s best timelines, thinking about the TL for the first time in years. That’s an extreme coincidence, so much that I thought my notifications had glitched out for a moment. :p
 

Basileus Giorgios

ByzantineCaesar said:
I’m always around, though it’s been a while. The timing of your post is actually kinda scary for me because I had literally just been searching for the term “Isaac’s Empire” in AH.com after coming across a thread asking about the board’s best timelines, thinking about the TL for the first time in years. That’s an extreme coincidence, so much that I thought my notifications had glitched out for a moment. :p
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Great minds, eh?

So far I'm not promising anything and not sure where I'll go- a continuation of the main TL, or some "revisionist" historical analysis. IE is, after all, a popular history written either in-TL or by somebody with access to in-TL resources, so I might have a try at doing some mock "academic" analysis. I raise an eyebrow now, six years later, at my account of the reign of Eirene Nafpliotissa- which should really be "Naupliotissa" if we're transliterating properly!

Let's see. I'm currently re-reading IE 2.0 for the first time in a few years, from the death of Ioannes II onwards.

One thing that will change is the Empire will no longer be occupied by people called "John" and "George"- it'll be Ioannes, Georgios and so on going forward!
 

Grand Prince Paul II.

unix_fan said:
Do the Romans hold all of the Italian peninsula in this timeline?
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More or less.

In Italy, Apulia, Kalabria, Sicily and Sardinia are under direct imperial rule. The rest is a patchwork of city states, all notionally under Constantinople's hegemony but in practice largely left to their own devices. Some, notably Genoa, have a very privileged position vis-a-vis their relationship with the Empire, others are kept on a much tighter leash: Venice would be a good example of this. Generally speaking, the further north you go, the lighter Constantinople's influence is.
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Basileus_Komnenos

Basileus_Komnenos

Basileus Giorgios said:
Now I'm under pressure! I'll try to get something posted in the coming days- though quite what is a mystery.
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@Basileus Giorgios
Please do man! Your amazing timeline was one of my main inspirations for my own Eastern Roman timeline about the Komenoi. I really enjoyed reading your timeline and it was one of the reasons why I decided to join this site in the first place. I stumbled upon your timeline when I was in high school surfing the internet for alternate history timelines about the ERE where Constaninople didn't fall.
 
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