I noticed that there's a lot of stuff that is on the previous timeline post and isn't on here. Mainly things that happened outside Earth, such as the Calamity, an MG killing a Dark Lord, Gabriel's Last Stand, etc. All the stuff that we knew the occurrence order of but not the actual times for.
Wait, the Goddesses got shattered at age 13?
So, did the unkown die to 'nuke to the face'?
?!??
A five year old levitating a car as the first public display of useful magic and then WW3 starting in response isn't new. That was part of the old timeline.
The obvious fix is to have Germany invade and start World War III. It's tradition, really.
The miracle is presumably that they've moved the Golden Gate Bridge to LA, and San Francisco hasn't responded by declaring war on them for gutting their tourist revenue. Not entirely sure where it would go though, since the LA coastline is mostly flat.
They proved magic exists earlier, but this was the first public example of magic being used to actually do something useful.
For all we know they could have invaded because the masquerade breaking made a really nationalist MG come out of hiding to join the military.
I agree with this sentiment. The details of this part of the timelines are really off. It worked better when this part was vague.
Semi-ninja'd
That part has been mentioned on Discord to involve widespread (but very minor effect on each individual) influence from Gaia.
In this case, I would say that it is on the creator to explain AU-elements; the audience usually assumes that anything not explicitely mentioned to have been changed is the same as in our world.
Germany isn't really a good choice for it. They are surrounded by allies geographically and culturally have making sure the horrors of the Nazi's never happen again. However they would be dragged into any sufficiently large war that involves NATO.
The use of real life nations, locations, and dating systems suggests that this is a fairly recent divergence from real life history particularly considering Germany didn't exist as a nation until 1871. The first entry in the timeline that takes place in this dimension is the discovery of magic in 2007 suggesting that is the historical divergence point. Who the pope is doesn't matter in the slightest. No nation is ever going to give up their sovereignty to a foreign power on the say so of a single man with no authority over anything they give a shit about. Most nations would just consider him crazy and many of the ones that may care would be more likely to consider it a declaration of war on their entire people. Especially Muslims in the middle east as crusade is exactly as friendly a term to them as jihad is to modern Americans. This isn't even a matter of geopolitics it is a matter of human nature. Unless this pope was actually the strongest magic user in the setting specializing in mass mind control no one is going to submit. Particularly because they are in the middle of a world war with the groups they would have to merge with.
Far more plausible but I would recommend replacing the floating car with something more intimidating, that looks like it may be government controlled.
Or you know we could just blame it all on the Illuminate.
Or you know we could just blame it all on the Illuminati.
