Historical Divergence Points Writing Prompts

The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assasination attemps by well meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveller doesn't want to kill Hitler, he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross.

We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything.

You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself.

We finally get men to Mars and discover an old Soviet flag there. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn’t say anything.

You live in a world where human beings can bend chemical elements. Your probability of being a particular kind of bender is proportional to an element's abundance in nature. The world is full of hydrogen and helium benders. The year is 1945, and you are the first uranium bender.

JFK shot first.

The year is 2100, and humanity has finally achieved the ability to travel backwards in time. In the first test run ever, you decide to travel back to the Middle Ages, yet instead of the expected squalor and poverty, you encounter an extremely technologically advanced human society.

Alice Liddell became famous after returning from her trip down the rabbit hole. Now an adult, she aids in the British Empire's colonisation of Wonderland.

After an uneventful trip, the Titanic arrives safely in New York. Except this New York gleamed with towers of glass, not stone—and its people claim that the Titanic sunk over a century ago.

In the medieval era, women began to wield magic and were called witches.A war was declared against them. However, the witches won and since then, the world has been ruled by them. You, a 16-year-old boy, discover that you can also wield magic. But your witch mother turns pale hearing this.

"Time travel paradoxes don't happen, they just spawn a new timeline you can travel to." "Wait, does that mean I can go back to caveman times and colonize the fresh earth without consequence?"

You created a device to travel back in time, you chose the ice age but when you arrived you appeared in the middle of a battle between orcs, men and elves. What's worse you device has been damaged and now your stuck in the past.

Big space empires get into “shadow godfather” programs, which mean they take a small civilization under their wing to watch over. In 1910, the human watchers take a break of a few years to see what would happen. They comes back: it’s 1945.

John Brown finds himself isekaied into a fantasy world after he was executed for inciting a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry. He has overpowered abilities, and the world he's reborn into has slavery.

"I know that is a Tyrannosaurus chick. I know it'll grow to be the most dangerous predator on Earth. But that snoot will be booped, and whatever consequences the father has planned for me, I will live with."

The day started out normal here in Britain, at least until that bright light and earthquake. Now all satellites are down and the emergency radio broadcast keeps saying the navy keeps seeing people dressed as Romans and Gauls on the french coast. Did the Whole of Britain really time travel.

The Space Race continues into the 21st century, with humanity preparing to reach Mars by 2000. Two scientists from rival nations landed, and met each other for the first time...

Homo Neanderthalis exist today alongside us Homo Sapiens. What does civilization, society, culture look like in your world? Politics are different, racism is different, concepts of being human is different, and so on.