Worlds under genre: "Alternative History"

Crimson Aegus

Krakoz looked over the burning triremes that filled the bay. The acrid air no longer burned his lungs as the Broken Tooth slipped out of the harbor into crisp seas. The dusk made the sky appear ablaze as well while the Heritor escaped the Drichean cr...

Alternative History Ancient Sword & Sorcery

Mu

Set on an alternate version of Earth. This alternative Earth has one additional continent by the name of Mu. It is situated in the centre of the Pacific Ocean. Mu is home to a unique nature and many unique cultures. The concept of Mu is based on...

Alternative History Exploration Medieval Modern Speculative

Era'guya

What if you knew how things came to be? What if dragons, gods and men are lost toys dropped in a box by a fickle superpower? What if the dirt was magic? What if you were dropped in this world with no context and no way home? Era'guya is a world wh...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

Star Infinity

It’s the 41st century. Humanity has spread through the stars. Through the use of Aetherium-powered slipdrives, humanity could grow among the cosmos. https://www.reddit.com/user/GreenDevil1995/comments/9cgz0c/star_infinity/?st=JMEOS3LQ&sh=17664f74]

Alternative History Exploration Science Fantasy Space Opera Surreal

Lizard scorched Earth

AH of Spain in which dragons have always been a significant part of daily life, political and military events and fuck it, there are damn dragons everywhere, I WANT TO LIVE HERE

Alternative History Fantasy Modern Science Fantasy Urban

Seventh Sea

Welcome to the world of 7th Sea, where Heroes can come from the most unlikely of places and Villains are foul.

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy Flintlock Historical

R I S E

It is easy to bow to fear. It is easy to drink deep of anger. It is easy to succumb to loathing, despair, and darkness. Resistance takes effort. Resistance is exhausting. Believing in something, anything at all, is painfu...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark

The Five Realms

Known. Wild. Lost. Paranormal. Eternal.Humanity has re-emerged from the darkness into a world quite different from today. The younger mortals nations of the Orqui, the Hobbledehoys, and Human Ffolk, too busy with surviving to notice their le...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Science Fiction Speculative

Jovia System

A system of gas giants and many moons, some home to alien life. This is the evolving setting for an open collaborative speculative evolution project on Discord, taking place on the moon [url=https://www.worlda...

Alternative History Speculative

Pseudo Universe

One of the three main universes that are part of one of the three main universe systems that my stories work off of. Right now I'm just focusing on material for Writer's Guild since that's the one I'm mainly working on at the moment, as wel...

Alternative History Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Superheroic

WECA Earth

So this world came from a certain passion or want that I feel like pursuing and feel like it needs to be done. The world I'm doing is a superhero world based on Canadian Golden Age comics or Canadian Whites (because they're in black and white) that l...

Alternative History Fanfiction Superheroic

Beris

Coming from Millessia, after the Gods of the Circle chose them, the population of Beris are all refugee/colonists. They have had some training but know they are being abandoned by their Empire and its' Gods. Many of the Colonists come from fringe gr...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

Inundated Earth

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Historical Modern

The Bleak War

An alternate history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Alternative History Modern Political

Earth Reborn

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, did it really fall? Similarly, if a species goes extinct on Earth, where do they go? The answer is actually simpler than you might believe: they go to Earth, Reborn. Known by its r...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Speculative Young Adult (YA)

The Hummelverse

In the Hummelverse computers were developed much sooner, which led to the creation of artifical intelligence. Those AIs were used in all kinds of machines, for example factories, but also vehicles like cars, planes, ships, trains, and tanks. The A...

Alternative History Military Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

CONCORD

2068: The World has been redefined. A shadow of it's former self, two decades after the 'Second Wall Street Crash' and the collapse of the global economy; society as we know it is no more. Government control remains, though it is puppetry orchestr...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark

Novanati

Earth is a land that has no meaning to these beings anymore. Many of them disappeared off of the face of it thousands, hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of years ago. Humans as we know them do not exist here, however, species of human wh...

Alternative History Science Fantasy Speculative Subversion Young Adult (YA)

Remnatural AU

From 1983 to the current year of 2019, Hurricane, Utah has been nothing but full of mysteries and missing persons reports. From Fredbear's Family Diner to Rockstar Pizzeria, a tale of murder, grief, supernatural events, and arson could be tol...

Alternative History Fanfiction Horror Supernatural

Hummel Quest

HUMMEL QUEST is a d10 based tabletop RPG system. It is set in a world of sentient war machines, where players take control of a tank character, form adventuring groups, and explore the post-apocalyptic Earth. This system was designed from the basi...

Alternative History Military Science Fiction

Exalted Greece

Disclaimer: This is just for fun. I am by no means an expert on any of these cultures and there are many instances where I have changed details to add more flavor to the campaign setting.

Alternative History Ancient Historical Superheroic Sword & Sorcery

Aposynthesis

Geographically, Earth in 1890s but with some steampunk/cosmic horror nonsense happening. The integration of Cuboids, artifacts of mysterious origin into steam engines, have revolutionized science, bringing with them new technologies and mainstream...

Alternative History Horror Steampunk Supernatural Victorian

Terra Antiqua

Terra Antiqua is a world not quite in the Dawn of it's growth, but not near noon yet. Technologically, it is solidly Bronze Age, though the greater empires have comfortably embraced Iron Age technology. Civilization is very much in it's infancy, tho...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

When Light Dies

700 Years have past since the Great War between Heaven and Hell, the world is divided into 10 Continents and possibly over 30 different countries. This Medieval World faces crisis after Crisis dealing with all Sorts of Monsters and threats from D...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fiction Supernatural

Into Their Own

This world is mostly like our own. The laws of science are the same, as are the species and most of the geography. The technology is roughly equivalent to our world in the 18th century. This world's conflicts are driven by the same causes as always;...

Alternative History

The Eleventh Dimension

A realm of magic and war, the Eleventh Dimension is the central beam that holds all of creation together. It stands as the Central Dimension of the Meta-Physical World Tree. What happens in each dimension ripples across to its neighboring dimensions...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Crystal Prism

What is Crystal Prism? Crystal Prism is an alternate universe, in which the parallel world Aufaniae exists alongside its Earth. What makes it an alternate universe? (BESIDES THIS AUFANIAE PLACE?) "Earth CP" as I refer...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Young Adult (YA)

Doctor Who Alternate Universe

Le monde dans lequel Mara et ses compagnons sont arrivés après avoir vaincu le Celestial Toymaker. Dan, Natrish et Skellig sont originaires de cet univers.

Alternative History Science Fiction

SW:BDL

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Adult 18+ Alternative History Fanfiction Science Fiction Space Opera

Occult London

[quote]Far and white and straight lieth the road to Knowing, and down it in the heat and dust go all wise people of the earth, but in the fields before they come to it the very wise lie down or pluck the flowers. By the side of the road to Knowing -...

Alternative History Horror Supernatural

God's Haven

A world created by the gods working together.

Alternative History Ancient Exploration Fantasy Slice of Life

Risen War (working title)

The world of Risen takes place in modern day Earth, though its timeline has been separated from our own starting in World War II. Germany never invades the Soviet Union to the east and focuses instead on holding the western front, leading to a stalem...

Alternative History Gothic Military Modern Science Fantasy

Vellum

The original concept of this world came from a desire to explore elements of traditional fantasy in the landscape of the Caribbean. From there I have been developing a world as it progresses into The Age of Exploration and The Enlightenment, but what...

Alternative History Child Safe Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic

Opdimous

Still in the dark ages,but with some technology, opmidous holds 6 major cities. Syiodol,hexilous,emberlen,alchemious,cherynok and westlein. Syiodol is marshy and humid, hexilous is dry and hot,emberlen is damp and filled with forest, alchemious is hi...

Alternative History

Heimland

It's been 50 years since the Old Folk vanished. Only their machines are left, along with things waiting in the shadows. And whatever scraps of humanity remain are caught in conflict with a foreign race they either fail to understand, or are afraid to...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

The Broken Path

Fate. Free will. An economy built on the souls of the dead. It's like the 18th century we know, but a bit different. By harnessing magical energy from the transit of spirits en route to the afterlife, societies worldwide have developed di...

Alternative History Fantasy Flintlock

Laeonesse

When the world was still young and unwearied by existence, Fae and humans lived side by side, dwelling in the Blessed Isles of Laeonesse. These islands were lush and rich, cared for by the Fae for untold years as they created a paradise to mimick the...

Alternative History Fairy tale Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Medieval

New Luoyang

What if Chinese mariners found the New World before Columbus did? When Tang Sanzang returned from his longest journey to the west, his journals ignited curiosity to search for the western paradise the holy sutras spoke of. In the end, the Chinese...

Alternative History Steampunk Superheroic

Age of Heroes

In the year 1937 the world changed forever. At the dawn of a new era for humanity, men and women the world over developed miraculous abilities, defying all known science, all laws of nature. The true insanity behind the world was revealed, magic and...

Alternative History Modern Superheroic

Mythrealm

As the faith of the one true God grew in the first world, old gods were forced into a realm of exile along with their children and followers. In this world magic of the old world brews and creatures of legend stir aside the rising population of hum...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Ikma

"The elders used to say that at one point in time, we all used to live together. The trees that shade you, the people you meet, the animals that feed you, and the monsters that teach you. We all were the same, yet we all were...

Alternative History Child Safe Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

Scrungoverse

Lorebook for my various ocs from various times and locations, not really an official story or progressing chapter, and more just varied couples in seperate situations

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Comedy Exploration

The Hyborian Age

[quote]Between the time the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of...[/quote] Welcome to the Hyborian Age, a time of mighty barbarians, evil sorcerers, corrupt priests, tyrannical kings and unnatura...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Tannhauser's World

In the depths of the Thuringenwald is a mountain. One which is out of place. The stone, the plants, the geography, everything speaks of a mountain belonging further south - on the opposite side of the Alps. And within is a gateway to another world...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Hard Magic

New-World

The accident of Tchernobyl didn't happen and the Soviet Union continued developping powerful bombs, and so dos the US and the rest of the world. In 1988, two American bombs as powerful as the Tsar Bomba are launched towards Moscow and Leningrad, and...

Alternative History Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Midguard

A land of unwieldy magic and glorious battle, Midguard houses the awesome might and culture of the Vikings of old. The masters of the seas and ruthless berserkers in battle, they took hold of the entire world. Now, as the world is brought together...

Alternative History Medieval Science Fantasy Speculative Sword & Sorcery

AoD - Main

this is data on the races and worlds of the AoD RPing universe used for my own convenience as the DM of said RP.

Adult 18+ Alternative History Horror Science Fantasy Space Opera

Earth

It's the current Earth, but a different timeline. Currently, it is called Timeline E. [p]Walkers are an incomplete creation made by Alexander Issacs.[/p] [p]The Ted Faro Plague was temporarily stopped somewhere between California and Nevada. It ha...

Alternative History Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

TEST WORLD

to test features and try to break Dimitris's work (Sorry pal, it's for your own good :D ) ----- Please create a note with the description of the bug and how it happened if you can. Something like: I had an article crash with error 500....

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

alpha omega fic

Set in a world similar to Westoros a former Sellsword turned Lady must deal with suitors, her land, her people, and her family

Alternative History

Fey Realms

Welcome to The Fey Realms, a universe created by a technically advanced, godlike race. Two mirrored dimensions The Fey Realm and its counter part The Earth Realm are joined together and are under constant assault by an ancient and completely insane b...

Alternative History Science Fantasy Speculative Superheroic Weird

world 1

testing

Alternative History Fanfiction Soft Magic Surreal

The Cluster

Somewhere outside the fabric of reality exists a loose collection of world fragments linked by mysterious teleportation chambers. These chambers are typically well-hidden or difficult to reach, but these world fragments often hold strange and mysteri...

Alternative History Ancient Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Surreal

Aren

Aren is an Earth-like world at the cusp of an ideological conflict. Similar to Earth's own history in the 1930s, the old monarchical order is falling apart. Although the ancient empires and their monarchs control more than half the surface of the pla...

Alternative History Hard Science Modern

Disenfranchised

In the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion that resulted in the death of many of the worlds most renown Metahumans. A 31-year-old bus driver finds himself out of a job and a home. Through pure happenstance, he discovers he has the ability to st...

Alternative History Modern Superheroic Urban

Rispalta

The world is filled with different races and land, but the land of the humans, elves, and dwarves hold almost all of the land in an imperialistic fashion. The humans hold the human lands which are shared by Samsarian and Undine, and wave their versat...

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Historical

The Musthave Wastelands

Gather around young guns, while I tell you the story of how the Wastelands came to be. A few generations ago, the gangs of the world ended everything in what is known as the Final War. According to the Lore Keepers, like myself, and the Remnants that...

Alternative History Post Apocalyptic

These Tangled Webs

Many myths and legends were originally founded on reality, but the subjects of these myths most often chose to pretend to be human or live apart from human society. They adapted alongside human beings, evolving and developing more efficient technique...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Supernatural Urban

Mainverse

Urban Fantasy

Alternative History Fantasy Historical Supernatural Urban

Victoriam

Victoriam is a floating island built by a team of nine engineers above the ocean just off Canada. It was the Crown Jewel of an alternate version of the British Empire, an Empire where the American Revolution failed and Britain took over the world....

Alternative History Steampunk Victorian

Twinsverse [tbd]

Some fantasy requires a whole new world - and sometimes, fantasy is just what lies out of sight, beyond our star and the iron curtain pulled tight by hard-lined gods. Twins Life and Death, they regulate where celestial force meets Earth, monitoring t...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science

Xironia

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Post-modern Slice of Life

Great Albion

The Divided Kingdom Great Albion is a fantasy setting set in the new world created as a result of what was dubbed by the rest of Earth as "The Hardest Brexit". The story takes place approximately 200 years after the transition, the United K...

Alternative History Comedy Fairy tale Fantasy Surreal

Stargazer Universe

"Maybe one day you too, can become heroes" It's the world we know and love but at the same time its not. Once a comet flew by the earth close enough to be seen by the naked eye. People gathered outside to watch this phenomena. Some of them fell...

Alternative History Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern Urban

Earth 7-89 -b

This world that I am about to create will be a land were super powers are bought and sold to most people. The world is set exactly like how it is now business, slang, even transportation the only open thing that has changed is the super human laws....

Adult 18+ Alternative History Child Safe Comedy Modern

Darkfall

What is PROJECT DARKFALL & Updates Terra is a vast, teeming world, filled to the brim with incredible creatures and life. I...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Modern Supernatural

Tovedorp

Ragnarök has come for the settlement of Troumwarft! One peaceful day nearly twenty moons ago a sudden and bright light blinded all men, women, and children - and changed their world forever! Were they just normal @[Chauken](ethnicity:e270ff7...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Historical

Earth 216

A world like our world but it's history is not our own. The Great War began in 1914 with the assasination of Franz Ferdinand much like in our world but things took a differant turn, the war was not to end until 1954, not because of a victory or a...

Alternative History Clockpunk Flintlock Historical Steampunk

The 2nd Grand War

the greater Axis nations of Germany, Italy, and Spain have declared war on France once more but also dragging in the Soviet Union, the UK and Belgium. It took all of 2 months for them to bust through the Maginot line. Few men remain from any battle t...

Alternative History Military

Gateway to Worlds

In our time a married couple, Brett and Wendy, escaped the big city in a bold attempt to reinvigorate not only their marriage, but their stagnant lives. The adventure they embarked upon could not possibly be imagined. Alone and marooned after surv...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Historical Science Fantasy

Project Silver

Project Silver is a RPG Tabletop system that I have personally put my time into, and is something I hope everyone enjoys. This RPG system is meant to be played with a Post-Apocalyptic setting and story, and will be used in a personal story called Uni...

Alternative History Post Apocalyptic

Presidium (Lunar Animus)

The world of my D&D group. A scifi/fantasy game taking place in an alternate universe in which earth was transported to a solar system where it was destroyed, and the remaining survivors had to learn how to survive on Presidium (Prae). The ga...

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy

Raguk

Raguk looks much like our own world, but the race of man has not pushed the other races into the shadows and they remain powerful. So powerful that they have instead rewritten the most powerful empires and kingdoms to instead be rules by the races o...

Alternative History Sword & Sorcery

T'Lukko

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic

Korinthos

An Empire Broken and Reforged Korinthos and it’s surrounding kingdoms are loosely based loosely off of a 4th century Byzantine Empire with major Roman and Greek influences. Korinthos is a land of Lumitech, items created fro...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Historical

Pirate Republic

People make history. History shapes nations. Nations create people. And where there are people, there are the good and the terrible. Civilization brings to light these things, and governments can give condemnation or praise. The current year...

Alternative History Flintlock Historical

1920s

An alternate version of the Roaring Twenties with weird science (ray guns, flying cars, airships) threatened by a supernatural threat or aliens

Alternative History Decopunk Dieselpunk

Atlantis Utopia (MCU)

Sociocracy was inspired by Plato's ideal state ruled by the thinkers.Members of the first thirteen Familiae of Atlantis had been interested in pursuit of both knowledge and wisdom, so it had been them who established the Ton, caste of ph...

Alternative History Fanfiction Steampunk

Phoenix Reborn

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Modern Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Ocrea

Many years after the expedition of Columbus, a single ambitious explorer and conqueror going by the name Hernán Cortés set out with an expedition of Spanish conquistadors from Cuba after hearing tales from many explorers of a land in needing of conqu...

Alternative History Fantasy Medieval

Wonders and Fantasticals

A universe of heroes and villains, new worlds and lost lands, gods and aliens. It's a place where the fantastic has always been part of our history. Weird science, eldritch abominations, alien invaders and rampaging kaiju have left their mark tr...

Alternative History Science Fantasy Space Opera Speculative Superheroic

Warworlds of Ka'a'

The lands of Ka'a' have always been a collection of very simple towns, full of simple people with simple lives. But then, 50 years ago, the White-Wizard-of-the-North arrived, bringing with him a wave of change. This prophet of the Temple-of-Yip s...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy Western

Allegramma

1968. Fossils are found throughout Europe and the Middle East that show that a sentient life-form existed before Humans on Earth. Throughout the next 30 odd years, excavations reveal an intricate civilisation of primates that lived during the late Eo...

Alternative History Fairy tale Fantasy Science Fiction Speculative

Our World

Throughout all of human history, two opposing factions have shaped events from the shadows. Today they are known as the Templar Order and the Assassin Brotherhood. Both groups want peace, but they have very different ideas for how to achieve it. Othe...

Alternative History Fanfiction Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

Earth2

Modeled on a pre-WWI Hong Kong where wind energy is harvested and ghosts plague the land. The world turns to exorcists who cleanse the spirits of the dead and prevent them from turning on humans. Relying on steam-, human- and wind-powered technolo...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Oriental

Kalerin

[p]Some years past after the world changed. The once golden age of humanity now a husk of itself. A series of disasters and unfortunate events left most of the world either in ruin or struggling to get by. The once advanced society, crumbled by a dyi...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

Evaldae

Evaldae was an underground based civilisation which was much closer to the sun. This created a scalding heat which would have ultimately burned any human being who chose to set foot on the surface. For this very reason, civilisation had chosen to p...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fantasy

Earth

[history:cd01d2f3-044c-4fcc-96d5-6cd978db02e8]

Alternative History Modern Urban

The Land of the Drab Dragoon

13 years before anyone can remember, I wrote a bunch of nonsense on a page. This nonsense was so explosively evocative that anyone who recalled its scent doubled over, anyone who could recall its length had their joints instinctually lock, and anyone...

Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk Clockpunk

The Bonds We Make

it started out with a shapeshifter to help me cope with anxiety while learning to draw. one character became three, three became eight, and now i need to give them a home, because damn i make them suffer enough as it is. think of a future, post-dys...

Alternative History Biopunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Lornnes

oh my glob

Alternative History Historical Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Fallout Dirigo

A Fallout campaign set in southern Maine.

Alternative History Atompunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

The World of Wakefield Science Center

Five years after the outbreak of the virus the Modern World holds on by a thread. It's accidental release from the storage facilities of the headquarters for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has left unfathomabl...

Alternative History Exploration Modern Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Calamity

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Supernatural

Occurrences

1837 ; l'Empire Francien contrôle la majorité de l'Europe directement et à travers ses satellites, le Royaume-Uni de Grande Bretagne et de Scandinavie se dispute les colonies du Nouveau-Monde face au Santo Imperio Español, les Etats Pontificaux, sous...

Alternative History Exploration Soft Magic Supernatural Victorian

Fire

A mutated virus infected few people at first, but because in the beginning, it created virtually no side effects, it took decades for people to actually realize that they had it. Eventually, the entire planet was infected. It wiped out entire conti...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Romantic Post Apocalyptic Supernatural

Fanor

The continent of Fanor is a diverse and interesting place full of unique magic, creatures, and races. there are nine distinct nations on the continent, each with different governments, cultures, religion, and ethnicities. There are four distinct civi...

Alternative History Clockpunk Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock

Indianapolis by Night

Adult 18+ Alternative History Gothic Horror Modern

Post Collision

(Svenska) Efter kolikonen mellan två dimensioner. D&D och våran dimension år ca 2010.

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban

Bastille

The Bastille was built in 23 Ches DR1491 by the Order of Wizards. Originally designed to protect the Grand Wizards when the armies of the Lords Alliance seized control of the Order's campus, it now houses thousands of civilians that are fleeing the c...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, High Magic Political Sword & Sorcery