Alternate Realities
General
Alternate Realities is the name of Realities that have branched off Nexus Realities. Echoes of Prime Realities is also an appropriate name and description. There exists a truly incomprehensible amount of them that using the word "infinite" would be an understatement.
Changes and impacts
Some of these are so similar to the Prime Reality you could search for differences over several lifetimes and nothing noticeable would stand out. Others are so radically different that one would be surprised that they were connected at all.
Small changes, small impacts.
A friend might spell her name differently, or a house might have a slightly different shade of yellow. That business meeting maybe had a bowl of red apples, instead of green ones. Small changes, small impacts.
Small changes, big impacts
The more interesting ones are those with more noticeable differences. They might have occurred through a butterfly effect of small changes having greater impacts.
On a battlefield, an arrow or sword thrust might have been a few millimeters to the left and struck through a crevice in armor, killing an important general or a ruler. Taking a left turn, instead of a right one ended in a meeting with an important person, years too early, be it a future spouse, a nemesis, or a working companion.
In some Alterations, the differences could not be more different. Some might have whole family lines that had not been born in a Nexus Reality. Technology and scientific understanding might also have taken different turns.
Metaphysical changes and impacts
Some of these changes concern the metaphysical as well, though they are not as common. In these cases, it is primarily the barriers between the Multiversal Realms of the same Reality that are affected. Subsequently, the Ether Weave of these Realities is affected as well.
If the changes are big enough, they may result in some distinct physical changes on both an individual, environmental, cultural, and societal level.
Creation of Alternate Realities
How Alternate Realities come to be is quite simple really: Whenever one makes a choice, there could have been several different paths one did not take. Each of these unchosen paths branches out from a Prime Reality like soap bubbles being popped into smaller ones.
One Alteration where one chose to take the right door instead of the one to the left, or where one turned around and walked back, or another where one stood still and waited for a while. Each choice creates ripples across the Waters of Time that affects various outcomes differently, which causes snowball effects that can tremendously alter its course away from Prime Reality.
The Three Factors of
Alternate Reality Differences
What this means is that the older an Alternate Reality is the more profound and noticeable its changes are. Well, that is one reason. Another is proximity to the Prime Reality; the closer an Alteration is to a Prime the more influenced it will be by its presence. Like a celestial body whose gravitational pull has a greater impact on smaller celestial bodies that are near it.
So in short, proximity and age are the two most prominent factors for the appearance of an Alteration. The third factor, which is unfortunately mostly ignored, is that some Alterations are Echoes of other Alterations. And those have Alterations of their own and so on and so forth.
Pararealities.
Parallel Dimensions.
Echoes of Prime Realities.
Quarantined Realities.
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