Calling the Old Man Out: Partly the reason why Anastasia Romanova split off from her father, Tsar Alexander.Born into Slavery: Paulo the Elder and the Malê most of the politicians in post-Civil War South Carolina.Fast-forward to the near-present, and they still refuse to accept Mary as a family member or admitted Constantine's homosexuality. Mary's mother was disowned when she married an Armenian radical, and poet Constantine Cavafis' homosexual tendencies were hushed out for fear of breaking his image, even after his death. Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Cavafis of Egypt.After her time as Prophet-Queen of Rwanda, she organized protests and resistance groups in Igboland against the Imperial British government with a thousand-pound bounty on her head. She led her followers to rifle-battles with only a sword to defend herself. Badass Preacher: Mélisande, in spades.The Abacars and the Igbo were no slouch in this department, either.Badass Pacifist: Aiza Khalid and the women of Java.As you can guess, this doesn't make for good statesmanship. Television broadcasts show him literally descending from the clouds.
Said republic is in ruins primarily due to it's dictator being. After the End: Some of the narrative settings in the timeline features this, most recently being the massacre of a Bateke group in the ruins of the United Congolese Republic.WARNING: Some spoilers are unmarked due to the elaborate nature of this timeline! You have been warned! Historical characters appearing in Malê Rising include: The timeline can be read here, with a comprehensive list of posts here for those who don't want to sift through the discussions. However, the timeline is occasionally updated with some infill narratives and guest updates since. One of the more beloved timelines in AH.com, it has won numerous praise from readers for the amount of detail written, the style of Jonathan's narrative writing and the fact that almost all the narrative characters (both good and bad) are written as humans, rather than loud-pieces.Īfter an epic run, the timeline has officially concluded on December 17, 2015, bringing to a close around 336 chapters covering over 170 years in-story / 3 years and 348 days in real-world time.
By the 1950s, the world has diverged still farther as decolonization draws to a close, both newly independent states and former imperial powers face fresh challenges, and a new, post-Westphalian international order emerges. These two forces, though subtle at first, shall affect the world in ways either side had never imagined.īy 1900, shortly after a Great War, the influence of the Malê has made itself felt, subtly or otherwise, throughout the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas, as new ideologies form and conflicts arise that are inspired by or in reaction to them. Nearby, a deposed sultan begins to develop a separate Islamic theology in reaction to the new republic. In 1840, they establish a republic in the lower Niger Valley based on the Islamic liberation theology of their charismatic leader. The premise is that the Malê revolt of 1835, a rebellion of Muslim slaves in Bahia, Brazil, is slightly more successful the revolt is still defeated, but the Malê survive to carry on guerrilla resistance in the mountains and eventually win passage to West Africa as an intact force. Malê Rising is an extended Alternate History story/essay by Jonathan Edelstein on. In the 19th century.Ī timeline where theologies are mixed, empires are liberal and Darkest Africa gets turned on its head. That is a real (fictional) African republic.
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