I don't know really much about the Iriquois. I started this world on a question someone had asked a long time ago. What if the Iriquois Federation had been stronger? I think one of the factors that arose was that it would have helped if it was nearer the coast so that the settlers would have met it very quickly.
I then have the IF leaders be smart enough to realize they can't stop the horde, and instead they offer a respected place in their society for the newcomers, while reserving some of the top spots for themselves.
The Fairy creatures are almost all N. European, and the religion is Protestant, but the buildings do have protective Iriquois magic on them.
Its a collision of cultures.
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What's the Belgian take on WW1?
There are some people over here who have always kinda wondered about WW1. We almost all accepted the necessity of WW2, and beating Hitler (and a number of us thought we should have finished the job and taken out Stalin as well).
The sinking of the Lusitania, as I understand the Laws of War, was a legitamate act, even though at the time it was portrayed as a horror. One is allowed to bomb a hospital if the enemy has set up an anti-aircraft gun on the hospital roof (Americans don't do that nowadays, but we legally could.) And the Lusitania had passengers, but it also had ammunition.
Course, I've only got a little understanding of what actually happenned.
One factor over here is that a couple of pundits in positions of serious influence, Jonah Goldberg who wrote the book 'Liberal Fascism' and Glenn Beck of Fox News both have come out bashing Woodrow Wilson in the strongest terms. I forget whiich one who claimed Wilson was the world's first fascist leader.
Now at the same time, Bismarck had short circuited democracy and created a socialism or something....and socialism tends to lead toward war and horror. One point I'd heard was that Bismarck had created a system that only a genius like Bismarck could run, and without him, it failed.
Of course, another factor was that everyone in Europe at the time thought that machine guns were weapons of offense instead of realizing their true nature when both sides had them. After a century of civilizing natives, or enslaving them, depending on which nation held the gun, Europe thought they were magic attack machines.
And despite the propaganda later as idiots covered their idiocy, all the young were really keenly enthused to go off to war despite the misgivings of their wiser elders. And then after teh massacres, teh young then went on to blame the elders who had given them good advice for giving the opposite advice. Sometimes there really is little justice in the world. I wonder if this is where Liberals got the habit of blaming others for their own sins.
I suppose you could make some sort of alternate WW1. Or some world in which sanity burst forth...it probably requires the older men to tell the younger men to 'shut up and sit down you twit!'
There is a world which MJ was running for Shawn...started out as the Prisoner of Zenda like....and then Shawn moved on past that to building up the army of his small country with forts and stuff so that when the Germans invaded in 1914 he'd be ready.
