Alternate History and Reality Writing Prompts

"What iteration of civilization are you on? It always takes, like, a hundred just to get to farming, then civilization falls back and resets, and it takes a thousand to trade, ten thousand to get to government... What do you mean 'One?' Your species has never been reset to hunter-gatherers?"

The year is 12023, you’re writing your thesis on ancient civilizations roughly 10,000 years ago on the gods they worshipped such as Kalel; God of Justice, Zelda; Goddess of Wisdom, Batman; God of Fear, Ironman; God of Fortune and thousands more.

Interstellar Travel is significantly easier and Humanity simply missed that step in development, so after an alien armada invades modern day earth the humans are shocked to find them bearing muskets and cannons, and flying wooden ships

Humans are 1000x more sensitive to the smell of petrichor (that smell you get with rain) than sharks are to blood, to no apparent evolutionary advantage. You're privileged to be a part of the first welcoming committee to meet our new Non-Human arrivals in person. They smell like petrichor.

The first rover lands on mars and NASA discovers that every boat and plane that has disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle scattered around the surface of the planet.

A human ship activated its self destruct sequence when boarded by an enemy, when humanity was asked why would we do such a thing by the galactic community, we simply responded "We don't give up the ship, such as the crews of old. We never give up the ship."

Some pedestrian ran out in front of your truck, and you hit him. So why, now, are you and your shitbox Ford in a strange stone and wood town, with a fox-person yelling into the passenger window directions on how to kill the King of the Liches? Well, at least the fuel gauge is stuck on full.

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.

Long ago, a necromancer discovered that the black oils seeping out of tar fields responded strangely to his magic. This discovery seemed useless until, centuries later, the industrial revolution came, and fossil fuels became the backbone of modern civilization.

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.

"Many claim human lineage. Many would be humans are just elves or dwarves with a pinch of human blood decades back. Clearly your an imposter." "I'm just a kid from Ohio and I have no idea what you're talking about."

When humanity finally set foot on the first habitable planet outside of the solar system we were surprised, and saddened, to find the ruins of an advanced civilization. We were even more surprised, and confused, when we determined these ruins to be of human origin.

"Sir I must inform you that you are in possession of an illegal and forbidden item. Please hand it over immediately." You look around your storage room filled to the brim with illegal and forbidden items from all sorts of dimensions and realities.

We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them

The galaxy is on the brink of war between two major factions. In order to prevent it, the two sides secretly chose modern day Earth to become a scapegoat as an imminent threat to the galaxy. However, they underestimated Earth, which is now a rising third power in the galaxy.

Humans didn’t evolve, they were made as a warrior caste for another species. When they didn’t work out their creators dumped them on earth with no tech, now that they have discovered warp travel…

Nuclear weapons have been banned for so long in the a galactic community that most aliens think they’re just fairytales. Imagine their surprise when they see humans using them in a war.

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.

Our planet shares the same orbit with Earth- on the opposite side of the sun. We see their lives on the internet and TV, but we’ve never been able to actually GO there.

You're a dimension-hopper, who can walk through parallel worlds like turning a corner. The increasing number of apocalyptic Earths is really starting to bother you, though

You are the proprietor of "The Wandering Inn", a tavern and guest house that appears sporadically to travellers in different worlds across the multiverse. You keep a journal on all of the weird, wonderful and disturbing visitors you've fed and lodged.

"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?"

Aliens first observed our planet long before the Industrial Revolution, a perfectly habitable world ripe for conquest. However, it takes hundreds of years for the invasion fleet to arrive and they are in for one hell of a suprise.

When at least one copy of a book exists, so too exists an alternate dimension where the story is true. The government, upon building an interdimensional transportation device, realized the danger of this and began burning all 'harmful' books.

You find out your Girlfriend is literally the Queen of an entire existential Dimension

Adam and Eve wrote the Bible to cover up the real evil they committed that got them kicked out of Eden. This is the story of what really happened.

It’s 1000 years in the future and the USA no longer exists. What country(ies) now exist in place of it? What type of governments do they have? What is their culture like?

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.

A schoolgirl wakes up in an alternate reality. In this world, men can have sex with women whenever they feel the desire, and she can't say no regardless of position. They have no concept of rape; this is just how things have always been.