User blog:Thewolvesden/Idea Tuesday Marathon and Edition Nr. 1 - Magical Earth

Before starting with the book ideas, I want to say that this week, with the start of the series, there will be a week full of Idea Tuesday. Hope you enjoy it.

This book idea of today is inspired by Oerwinde's Sundered Veil timeline. The change is that in 1415, some British cultists break the barrier between the natural and supernatural. Thus, many events occured during that time.

The protagonists are 2-5 magic students (yes, magic exists) from Eastern European nations (maybe Serbia, Ragusa, Wallachia/Dacia, Novgorod, Byzantium, Trebizond, Georgia etc.) that go study in one of the cities of magic, Constantinople (some of the others being London, Avignon, Copenhagen, Baghdad and Kyoto). During their study there, they experience the murder of many prominent arcane masters. They uncover a plot of the Aragonese King (name maybe Andreu or Gerard) to weaken the 'sinful' magic users of Constantinople (the Aragonese are in their own church, the Barcelonian Catholic Church, which is strictly anti-magic), and they help to compromise the attack on the Emperor. This is all I got as for a plot.

Background info, so you do not use locations or  that are not the same: Christianity is pretty split up: There are the Orthodox, the Avignon Catholics, the Barcelonian Catholics, the McGregorists (protestants) and the Church of Denmark-Norway. Orthodox and McGregorist nations get along pretty well, due to their liberal view on magic, while the Avignon Catholics are only allowing holy magic (magic induced through faith). The Barcelonians are completely opposed to magic. The Church of Denmark-Norway is odd, as they acknowledge the existence of other deities (for example the Nordic Gods like Thor or Odin), but they consider God their true god. Besides that, there is also a Christian faction in Japan, the Japanese Catholics, who also consider ancestor worship. Other religions have other opinions on magic, for example, Islam accepts magic to some extent, more than the Avignon Catholics, but less than the Orthodox, McGregorists, Japanese and Dano-Norwegians. Judaism bans practice of magic, with the notable exception of golem-making. Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism all accept magic, and Zoroastrianism, which has had a huge revival, is especially specialized in fire magic. A new cult that needs to be taken in consideration is the Cult of Hephaestus, which believes the Hellenic gods were in a huge war against each other, and in 1415, Hephaestus won. They specialize in fire magic, as well.

Locations are drastically changed. Russia breaks up, due to Moscow's destruction during the Silver Sky (destruction of the barrier between natural and supernatural). Rome is destroyed by McGregorists with a fireball in 1495. Iceland was destroyed, and most fled to Vinland (Newfoundland) and Greenland. Bursa and Cairo are also destroyed in the Silver Sky, leading to a retreat from these parts by the Muslims, believing Allah is punishing them for expanding. Persia loses faith in Islam and becomes Zoroastrian again.

Places you need to take in consideration are cities around the Byzantine Empire, like Smyrna (Izmir), Nicomedaea (Izmit), Thessaloniki and Athens, while also not excluding cities like Trebizond (Trabzon), Tblisi, Tarnovo, Balgrad (Alba Iulia), Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Skopje, the capitals of Trebizond, Georgia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Ragusa and Serbia  respectively. Maybe also taking in consideration cities like Novgorod and Vladimir, but these are pretty far away. For the Russian states, take in considerations that Novgorod and Pskov are republics, while the others are Principalities. Also, Kiev is NOT able to be a principality, as Kiev is the capital of the Khazar Republic, a majoritary Jewish country. Keep in mind that Antioch, Damascus and Jerusalem are under the French puppet state of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Egypt and most of Anatolia are also Christrian as the Kingdom of Egypt was restored in Alexandria and Byzantium is pretty powerful. As to a list of Christian denomination of countries, the Russian states, Wallachia, Serbia, Byzantium, Trebizond, Egypt, Georgia and Ragusa are Orthodox. The Holy Roman Empire (which excludes the Hanseatic Republic and the Rhineland) is almost entirely Avignon Catholic, with the exception being the Netherlands. Avignon Catholics are also the North Italian Republic, Naples, Galicia. Castille, Navarra, Portugal, Jerusalem, France and Poland-Lithuania. McGregorists are Brittany, the UK, Switzerland, Rhineland and the Hanseatic Republic. Aragon is Barcelonian Catholic, and Denmark-Norway is Dano-Norwegian.

Any other questions in the comments please. Thanks, and enjoy the marathon.