Alternate History

What is Alternate History? To first understand Alternate History, we first need to understand history. History is generally a collections of events that have occurred throughout humanity's lifetime. It is shaped by countless events and wars. However, what if things had happened differently? Alternate History is often a thought exercice to reuse the history learned and make it into something else. Alternate History scenarios can prove to be good settings and backgrounds for stories and is a niche utilisation of historical knowledge. However, even if most alternate history enthusiasts tend to list their works as purely works of fictions and that they do not contain their political beliefs nor are they trying to push an agenda onto others, we still need to be careful of what is fictitious alternate history and propagandist alternate history compared to the real history of mankind.

Scenarios

Alternate History is one of my passions and hobby, one that I find both fun and useful in life. I frequently create alternate history scenarios and develop them further and further. Here are three of my main alternate history scenarios. These are not exhaustive descriptions of the entire timeline, only an abridged version as well as being more historic-realistic versions instead of a more story-centric version.

Etigeox

Point of Divergence - 1963/2010/2017/2027 | Present Date - 2046
Etigeox is quite probably one of my most unrealistic alternate history scenarios, more so since it happens in the future but it is my favourite. However, it wasn't created for the sake of a realistic scenario but as a background for multiple stories I've written. Etigeox concentrates about the Etigeox Federation of Northeast America and subsequently the Etigeox ideology it bears, its Etigeox Party and the massive fictitious company of Lysent Entertainment. The timeline spans from either 1963 or 2010 to 2127. As of 2046, the Third Etigeox War is ongoing between the Etigeox Forces across America, Africa, Europe and Asia against NATO, the CSTO and various other factions such as the Unitary Cooperative or the Asian Democratic League. The Etigeox Federation of Northeast America is mostly held together by the Lysent megacorporation, with its CEO being the Head of State of the Federation as well. The 2020s and 2030s had been years of warfare sprouted from the 2017 Serbian invasion of Kosovo and 2020 Russo-Belarusso-Moldovan invasion of Ukraine and robotic development (keep in mind that this scenario has been first initialized in 2017, way before the 2022 renewed offensive in Ukraine). Deception Industries, a company built from the ground up by Lysent after the Ukrainian war remains Lysent Armament's main rival in Eastern Europe, fueling the Eurasian Union technologically. Further information

Manche

Point of Divergence - 1380 | Present Date - 1921
Manche is an alternate history scenario based around the Victorian era and the early 20th century, mostly focusing on the conflicts between the Angevin Empire and its newly created sister kingdom of Belgium against a Spanish-German alliance and a Russian rivalry. Its initial point of divergence would be around 1380, with the ascension of Charles VI to the throne of France as a child and his reign being much more terrible for France than in our timeline with a regency council only planning to overthrow each other. Overall, the Plantagenets instead of losing most of its holdings in France, creates an union between the Kingdoms of France and England, later absorbing Scotland into the mix. Later, as a compromise, the capital of the new union is set on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, also known as la Manche in French, creating a new major port city in the middle of nowhere.
Elsewhere in Europe, as of 1921, the Russian Empire holds dominion over most of the east, the Kingdoms of Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland being under their sphere of influence. The Swedish Empire did not horribly fail as it did in 1708, however it still lost most of its baltic holdings to the Russians, letting the Swedes focus on a large colonial empire alongside the Dual Monarchy of the Angevin Empire. Spain had been united under Portugal and Castile and Leon instead of Aragon while the Holy Roman Empire had strongly united under effectively a dictatorship. After their defeat in the First Great War, the nations of Spain, the Netherlands and Germany had turned to Communism while a newly established Kingdom of Belgium was put established with the same Plantagenet Dynasty. The rest of the world in Manche rests divided between colonial empires, only notable exceptions being the mostly independant states of North and South America, a divided China, the Japanese Empire, Nejd and Iran. Oh and assassination is widespread among the aristocracy due to multiple legends depicting that succesfully killing an opposing noble with no heir would mean that their possessions would be yours. Furthermore, Manche draws many inspirations for Divergences of Darkness, a Victoria 2 mod.

Polska Dominacja

Point of Divergence - 1200? | Present Date - 1804
Polska Dominacja is an alternate history scenario mostly revolving around the Commonwealth of the Intermarium, a greater Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the United Kingdom of Hispania ruled by the House of Murcia, creating an unlikely union between Christian and Islamic Spain. The initial two points of divergence would be during the Reconquista, where a marriage was organized between the warring states to quell instability and the continuation and unions of the Royal Houses of Jagiellon and Hunyadi against the Habsburgs, Ottomans and Muscovites.
The scenario mostly revolves around the betrayal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Netherlands against the rest of Europe, resulting in Europe except the west ending under Polish domination. Prior to the Seven Years War in this timeline, Europe was divided amongst a resurgent Bourbon France, Murcian Spain, the German Confederation unifed in response of the failure of the Holy Roman Empire against outside aggression, a disunified Italy, the Polish-Lithuanian-Hungarian Commonwealth, the Republic of Novgorod and Denmark-Norway while in the east, a collapsing Second Assyrian Empire is facing demise facing renewed Spanish and Ottoman skirmishes.
Following the disastrous Seven Years War where the United Kingdom had betrayed the rest of Europe against an overwhelming Polish Empire, Europe is divided between the three last great powers: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Netherlands, also occupying France, the Commonwealth of the Intermarium and Murcian Spain.

Führerin

Point of Divergence - 1938
An alternate World War Two scenario entered around an improved Molotov-Ribbentrop pact leading to a temporary German-Soviet Alliance along with the death of Hitler and a Cold War between the Germans in Europe and Africa, Americans in both Americas, Soviets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Japanese in the rest of Asia.

Fallen Afterstorm

Point of Divergence - 1910 | Present Date - 1936
An alternate history scenario based around the writings of a popular French author and activist causing widespread mutineries and revolts on the Western Front, leading to a hastened collapse of the Western Colonial Empires and widespread unrest across Europe and the world. Civil war madness.

Other things.

Everything else

Wikipedia Infobox:
While also learning HTML and CSS, I've been able to edit and recreate info boxes from Wikipedia for my alternate history scenarios. These are not true Wikipedia articles.

Vexiology:
As I am also mildly interested in vexiology, the study of flags, I have been some flags for my fictional nations for alternate history, often based on already existing flags.

Countryballs:
Also known as Polandball, countryballs are a formidable way of personifying countries, nations and groups into an easily-digestible cute circle. I have made some Polandball comics myself based on alternate history:

As an honorable mention, I did create some mapping alternate history videos on YouTube, however I do not regard them as professional or good enough quality to include them here.

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