Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-33689772-20180616022426

An Absolute Turn for the Worst is a detailed timeline that starts with the Marquis of Pombal not being able to reform Portugal, resulting in a much more devastating Lisbon Earthquake, resulting in a successful Spanish invasion and collapse of Portuguese state authority, and finally the establishment of a Portuguese "theocracy" after the Spanish withdraw. This timeline was originally created by LightningLynx89 but I adopted the timeline a month ago and since then I've been working to expand and improve it. My end goal is a world filled with Orwellian dystopias in a multipolar cold war with each other by the middle of the 20th century, but before that pretty much anything can happen as long as its creative but also plausible.

I am open to any suggestions or collaboration regarding the development of the timeline. In fact, I think collaborating with other people will be vital because 1. I don't really have that much time and 2. eventually I run out of ideas. So this thread will be for discussion of the timeline. Feel free to ask any questions or provide constructive criticism.

Some useful things to look up for context: The Seven Year's War, the Marquis of Pombal, the Tavora Affair

'''More specifically, what would be a better name for the timeline? "An Absolute Turn for the Worst" seems long, clunky, and doesn't actually describe much about the TL, but I don't have any better ideas yet. ''' 