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wingsofwrath In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2017-12-08 14:31:16 +0000 UTC]

I think you got the gist of what is going to happen... Then again, if you know history it's kind of a given.

On the other hand, by 1900, you'll find that a charge of "heresy" doesn't actually carry the same weight as it did back in the 15th century, so "treason" will have to do.
Same goes for burning at the stake - execution by firing squad is more the mark in these modern times. As for sham trials, I'm afraid you're dead wrong, as the real life Dreyfus Affair proved, and it was pretty much contemporary to the setting of my comic...

Besides, the power of the Vatican isn't really what is was anyway, so I don't think anyone is going to trouble bringing the Pope into this, and it's not like said leader of the Catholic Church is going to do anything more than a token protest against a sovereign, secular state as the French Empire is by that point. In real life, while Catholicism was still the State Religion following Napoleon's "Concordat of 1801", from 1871 onwards a series of reforms led to the gradual secularization of the state, culminating in the passing of the law for "Separation of the Churches and the State" in 1905, so I see no reason why the same wouldn't be true in my comic - after all, the "point of divergence" is the 2 September 1870, at the Battle of Sedan, when their version of the great cavalry charge led by Jean Auguste Margueritte narrowly succeeds, where ours narrowly failed. 

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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to wingsofwrath [2017-12-09 09:20:31 +0000 UTC]

Ah, that’s what you are aiming for. I thought it was more like the premise of the short lived series “kings” that technology and fashion was 500 years ahead of its time, but the basic political, cultural and religious structures and politics of 1415-20 were the same.
Instead, if I now understand correctly, in this version, Joan didn’t exist in the 15th Century, and the Inheritance war was somehow settled without her. Otherwise, the history was more or less the same as ours until 1870, the divergence point of which led to a new war between France and England instead of them fighting together against the Germans. Or, my more precise guess, is that the Whig/independent reforms set in motion by Wilberforce regarding the wider moral conduct of the affairs of the wider British Empire, were derailed and set back by the incident you are referring too. In reality, From 1715-1913, England had enacted a consistently pro German policy, particularly Pro Prussian, and royalty from both countries mingled often during that period. From the old Irish perspective, the British and Germanic empires was one big tyranny with two heads. That unity began to fracture as Whig reforms slowly but surely began to moderate British colonial policy, while Germany’s grew more ambitious. While Victoria lived, they felt bound by love for her to struggle to get a along, in spite of their diverging interests, but upon her passing, it was only a matter of what pretext and when they would go to war. What REALLY made the war so horrible was Carnage Steel, in my opinion. Remove him from the historical equation, and I don’t see the war lasting more then two years.
At any rate, you’re Joan was born into a world where the German/English bond had NOT weakened, or so I am assuming; where am I wrong?

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wingsofwrath In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2017-12-09 12:15:04 +0000 UTC]

History is exactly as it was in our world until 1870.

That includes the historical Jeanne d'Arc, who is actually a character in my comic, albeit in the guise of vision/hallucination for "our" Jeanne, depending on how you want to interpret it.

The reason the French and English go to war in this universe is because they almost did in ours - in our case the ruffled feathers were settled because of Queen Victoria's francophile son "Bertie" (the future Edward VII) who acted as a go-between and also shared uneasiness about the rising star of the German Empire. 

Since in this universe the Prussians narrowly failed to win the 1870 war, there is no "German Empire", but instead the Norddeutscher Bund led by Prussia being opposed at all junctures by a group of South German states (Bayern, Württemberg, Baden and the Großherzogtum Hessen) allied with Austria Hungary and representing Austrian aspirations of somehow restoring the Holy Roman Empire.  It's all pointless, by the way, but it certainly does serve to keep all those German states occupied and out of the hair of the "important" European nations...

Another factor is the fact the French Empire is still pretty much that, under Napoleon IV (our world Napoléon, Prince Imperial, who died at the hands of the Zulu in 1879) who, in 1895, married Princess Hélène of Orléans (who in opur world married Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta), finally reconciling the Bourbon and Bonaparte dynasties. Hence why the French Flag is blue with a single fleur-de-lis. The tricolour is sometimes also used alongside, but never by itself.

And speaking of flags, another change I made was deciding that the Union Flag would be superseded by a modified Royal Standard based on both the Royal Arms of England and those of Scotland (hence the single golden lion rampant rather than the three lions passant guardant), but I haven't yet decided what happened exactly to lead to this. I only know that the Irish are even less pleased than in real life at this point.

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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to wingsofwrath [2017-12-10 08:24:25 +0000 UTC]

Oh, the Irish would DEFINITELY not have stayed neutral as they did in our timeline, they would have signed up in droves to fight for the French.
I strongly recommend the following for perspective:
www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Irish…
The Author was a friend of Hilaire Belloc, who was born on one of those culturally ambiguous small islands along the English Channel, whose loyalties may well have been suspect in Your scenario. Catholic Brits Generally may have also found themselves in a difficult position as well. Chesterton certainly would not have supported such a conflict.

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wingsofwrath In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2017-12-10 23:17:27 +0000 UTC]

Umm... the Irish weren't neutral during WW1. They were pretty much part of the United Kingdom and fought in France against the Germans... at least until the Easter Rising of 1916 and the heavy handed British reaction to it which swayed public opinion towards the rebels and paved the way - along with the Conscription Crisis of 1918 and other such blunders - to the Irish War of independence in 1919.

And in my comic, there is definitely going to be something along the lines of the Easter Rising, with French support, of course.

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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to wingsofwrath [2017-12-10 23:30:04 +0000 UTC]

Chesterton was recruited by the British government specifically to persuade the Irish to fight for Britain against the Germans. The chronicle I provided you a link to is his entire account of the matter. Maybe some Green Irish joined up early on to make money (that Orange fought proudly goes without saying), but the overwhelming sentiment was to stay as neutral as possible because they basically loathed Germans and English in equal measure, having not been particularly impressed by the Whigs efforts to moderate British foreign policy which significantly contributed to the rift between England and Germany in the first place. German attempts to win them over after the 1916 rebellion failed even harder. At any rate, read Irish Impressions, Gilbert can convey what really happened better then I can.

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wingsofwrath In reply to FuryofthePeople [2016-02-12 16:27:25 +0000 UTC]

I can only tell you "it'll be ready when it's ready".

Basically, at this point the story is ready to go and I'm aching to give it a try, but the last two years have been constant barrage of bad things happening to loved ones, everything from car crashes to illness to death, on top of the work I must do to support myself, so there has been precious little time in which to draw comics.

You will, however, be happy to know I'm slowly going back into it - these fast few days I've already drawn a fourth page and I'm currently drawing a fifth, which I'll post on DA pretty soon. 

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FuryofthePeople In reply to wingsofwrath [2016-02-12 16:41:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for replying, and best wishes for your family.

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wingsofwrath In reply to ColonelBSacquet [2015-05-31 08:16:20 +0000 UTC]

That's because it IS a shortened Lebel.

It's a modification of the standard Lebel called "Mousqueton Mle 1886 M93 R35" that was introduced in our world at the same time as the MAS-36 for second line troops, since there were never enough stocks of the latter.

In this universe, I'm assuming they needed a short rifle to supplement their stocks of the Mousqueton Berthier for trench fighting. Sure, it lacks the accuracy and reload speed of the Berthier (especially the later version, with the 5 round en-bloc clip), but it beats having to negotiate tight spaces and winding trenches with the full size rifle...

Interesting, I did not know about the Irish Defence Force ranks.
In the Shadowless universe, the things on their sleeves are actually branch colour insignias and were based on those worn by the Imperial Japanese Army in various forms (breast or arm) from 1900 until 1945 (I had a link to it here, but the DA automated system thinks it's spam and won't let me post it - you'll have to google it for yourself, I'm afraid)

If you do want to know more about the uniforms and insignia of the French Army in the Shadowless universe, you can try here .

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wingsofwrath In reply to killabee [2010-09-30 19:37:52 +0000 UTC]

thanks! Imi pare bine ca iti place.

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