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Thande‘s first, and so far only, major timeline. In 2008, it won a Turtledove for best 18th Century Timeline.
It was started in January 2007, after Thande had already been on the site for two years, but some glimpses of it were provided by a series of brainstorming maps posted on the Map Thread some months before. However, Thande radically changed the conception of the TL several times between then and writing the TL proper, so the maps bear little resemblance to the eventual TL.
The original version of the TL would have featured an alternate George III of Great Britain who became obsessed with the Americas and fought in the Seven Years’ War under an alias. Thande eventually rejected this for being too romantic. However, the title was more appropriate for that conception than it is for the eventual result.
The TL includes numerous references and cameos to other AH.commers and their works, and is written from the perspective of a multiverse exploration team from Chris’ Multiverse War series.
In 1727, George II was crowned King of Great Britain. He had the usual Hanoverian feud going on with his son, Prince Frederick, and in OTL considered exiling him to the American colonies, but relented. However, in TTL thanks to an embarrassing incident at the coronation, he goes through with it and Frederick gets exiled to his namesake town of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
This starts a chain of events which ends up with an increased British (and European) interest in the Americas, more transatlantic links, and an earlier strong American identity.
List of states and regions in Look to the West
List of wars in Look to the West
Often abbreviated to LTTW.
Due to Thande inadvertently giving two characters similar backstories in two close-together chapters, the timeline has become nicknamed the “Look to Burning Down People’s Houses TL”.
Roberto is Thande’s official mapmaker for LTTW, a fact that he takes great joy in, and loves to flaunt it around.