Re: Russia in Ill Bethisad

Jan van Steenbergen writes:
 > > Good! We look forward to it!
 >
 > Well, if I am informed correctly, the primary purpose of Ill Bethisad is not to
 > alter history, but rather to modify it at certain points and see what would
 > have happened as a result (and perhaps as secondary purpose it provides a home
 > to a number of a posteriori conlangs). How deep those "modifications" will
 > reach, and how predictable their outcome will be, is of course dependent on the
 > moment in history where you draw the line; it would be much easier to tell what
 > the world would look like if Kennedy hadn't been shot, than what it would look
 > like if Alexander the Great had been shot at 16 by an angry shopkeeper who
 > caught the poor boy shoplifting.
 >

Shot?  With what?  I don't think they even had crossbows in 4th
century BC Macedonia... ;)

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