Alternative History:2026 Multiverse Awards

This is the page for the 2026 Multiverse Awards to honor the editors, timelines, and content in our Wiki. NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN. Voting will begin on 1 January.

The Multis recognize content from the previous year. Nominations on this page must honor writers and content from the year 2025. Only registered editors who have 200 or more edits and have been on the wiki for at least a month can make nominations and/or vote. Self-nominations are not allowed. Submissions may not be AI-generated.

Nominations will begin in December. Voting will take place during January 2026. The winners will be announced on January 26, the anniversary of the founding of the Wiki.

Writer Awards

Writer of the Year

This award is for the best writer on the wiki in 2025.

Nominations

• Arstarpool - Arstar has been a great writer on 1983: Doomsday. As one of the main writers, he's been sort of like a glue holding the timeline together. Without his help, I don't think the timeline would be as good. Kelothan (talk) 16:25, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
• User:Execcexrrvycvtvtv - He has contributed to a lot of interesting timelines this year, particularly starting a number of timelines with fascinating premises, such as European Horses Who? and Pax Nivkhiensis, and major contributions to Parallelity of Parallelities.Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:31, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
• User:WhiteChocolateFan - Contributes a lot of interesting work both on the Wiki and Discord. He has worked a lot on community timelines such as Apocalypse in August, and made contributions to Altober 3.Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:31, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New Contributor

This award is for the best new contributor to the wiki in 2025.

Nominations

• User:DeinvaterumSovadum - With only a hundred edits on the wiki, they have made an astounding number of contributions, particularly for their new timeline From Alba to France : Radicalist and Monarchists. They certainly have a lot to learn about Wiki timeline organization, but what they have been able to accomplish on both the Wiki and Discord is far more than can be expected for such a new contributor Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:35, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

EoGuy Award for Best Supporting Writer

This award, named for EoGuy, is for the member who has contributed in less-visible ways to the Wiki, whether through copyediting, maintenance tasks, wise advice and collaboration to improve other people's timelines, or positive discussion that improved the quality of the site during 2025.

Timeline Awards

Timeline of the Year

This award is for the best timeline of 2025. All timelines are eligible, provided that large updates occurred during that time.

Nominations

• A Cross Over Japan - A Cross Over Japan is a timeline I am lucky enough to be working on. With a unique take on an interesting POD, it has expanded from there to create a timeline with a world similar, yet distinct from ours. Kelothan (talk) 16:25, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
• President Clark - President Clark is a timeline I've been watching for a few months now. The amount of detail within this timeline's pages is stunning, especially the one about the particular President Clark. The pages of this timeline have inspired me to go forth and improve upon my own pages, trying to match the quality of this work. The graphics are also very well done. The amount of effort put into President Clark and the fruits it produced deserve some recognition. WeinlandCrafter (talk) 8:11, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
• Destinatus - A detailed timeline that User:Karolus Orlandus has expanded significantly in recent times. It features an alternate direction for the War of the Roses, and a custom nation in OTL British Columbia Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:03, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
• Parallelity of Parallelities - A detailed community timeline of many authors, led by User:Execcexrrvycvtvtv. Of all the imitations of Differently, I find this is the most successful this year. Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:03, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New Timeline

This award is for the best timeline that was created in 2025.

Nominations

• A Career of Humanity – Though Crystal may not be super active anymore, her latest timeline is easily one of her greatest, such that I'd say she left in style. ACoH is similar in spirit to conworlds/big tents/Differentlylikes, but a bit more walled off, with Crystal herself pushing the TL into a specific direction. The TL has some really cool ideas and well-written pages. For example, Arasuka is a really fresh take on a Japanese Alaska, full of detail, well-integrated with some of ACoH's other ideas (like Mongolia and León), and made complete with a slew of fitting images. England, meanwhile, is one of the most interesting takes I've seen on this country, positing a surviving Anglosaxon England (after Hastings) that eventually enters a personal union with León before establishing a republic and later turning into a dictatorship. Additionally, the TL has an easily recognizable visual style, with it even sporting highly decorated section headers, for example. I think a recognition of Crystal's efforts is well in order. Wither (talk) 08:02, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
• Apocalypse in August - A very interesting premise and good execution, where the Soviet Union collapses in 1991 and leads to a Nuclear War. A community timeline started by User:WhiteChocolateFan Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:12, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New Article

This award is for the best article created in 2025.

Nominations

• James G. Blaine (The Plumed Knight of Maine) - The flagship article for a timeline started by User:DRAFIGO13, in a world where James G. Blaine is elected President in 1884. Draf has put a lot of passion and research into this article, giving a typical smooth transition from OTL to ATL information. Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:15, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New PoD

This award honors a 2025 timeline with a really interesting starting premise or point of divergence, regardless of how complete it is.

Nominations

• A French Korea – This timeline is clearly in the early stages, but I really like what is here so far. The timeline posits a successful French expedition to Korea, which culminates in France outright colonizing the country. OP has already established how France makes bank from Korea's natural resources and manages to spread Catholicism throughout the country; this, and their teasing of things like a Hanseong Poison Plot, makes me hungry for more. It even appears that OP intends to write about alt-Korean pop culture, if their page for Cookie Run (and its presence in the timeline's banner) is anything go by. I'm definitely watching this one with interest. Wither (talk) 08:37, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
• Pax Nivkhiensis - I will always have a soft spot for timelines involving the Nivkh, and this is a humorous interpretation by User:Execcexrrvycvtvtv.
• European Horses Who? - I find this a rather fascinating premise, where Native Americans have an advanced civilization and Europe is underdeveloped. It definitely needs more development and attention to become worthy of its interesting premise, but I believe it has a great potential in the years to come. A community timeline started by User:Execcexrrvycvtvtv.

Contest Submission of the Year

This award is for the best submission to any game or writing contest played in 2025.

Nominations

• AMARANTH (Altober 3) - Overall my favorite submission for the Altober 3 writing event, submitted by User:WhiteChocolateFan. I have no idea how one so radically changes the format of the Wiki to give such an effect, but its execution is successfully unsettling and worthy of a Halloween treat. Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:26, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New Non-AH Written Work

This award is for the best OTL/non-AH work that was created in 2025. This includes anything written on the wiki that is not alternate history content: blogs, forum posts, etc.

Content Awards

Best New Flag

This award is for the best fictional flag created in 2025.

Nominations

• by User:Sir Ross. Simple but elegant design for a German colonial flag, with a detailed image of a leopard.

Best New Coat of Arms

This award is for the best fictional coat of arms or emblem created in 2025.

Nominations

• 

Coat of Arms of the Third Swedish Republic by Emperor Mackenstein. Sometimes, less is more, and this emblem for Sweden represents that philosophy perfectly well, in my opinion. It's clean, simple, and yet well-designed. Monarchist Scandinavia is so common a trope that republican or communist heraldry for those countries are hard to come by, so I really commemorate Mack for exploring this path anyway. It's not an overwhelmingly impressive coat of arms, but it really doesn't need to be. Wither (talk) 08:24, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

• by User:Tullin. A stunning minimalist design of a logo, as he usually accomplishes. Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:41, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New Map

This award is for the best map created in 2025. Any kind of map is acceptable.

Nominations

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Europe 1925 (Völksreich) by Sir Ross - The atlas maps of Völksreich are 4/5 of the top five maps to come out of this year. It's hard just nominating one, all of them are just that good. You can picture these maps being hung in a history classroom in the world of Völksreich. But, the map of the continent where most of the timeline takes place deserves the nomination the most. WeinlandCrafter (talk) 4:19, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

• by User:Tullin, another excellent map related to his nation Kalmykia (1983: Doomsday) in the Doomsday timeline Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:43, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Best New Graphic

This award is for other visual content - photoshopped images, logos, alternate history media, wiki templates, etc. - created in 2025.

Special Nominations

The following awards look beyond a single year to take in the entire lifetime of the wiki. New content from 2025 is not eligible. Once a person or item wins a lifetime achievement award, they cannot win the same award again.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Writer

This award is for the best writers across the entire lifetime of the Althistory Wiki.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Timeline

This award is for the best timelines across the entire lifetime of the wiki.

Nominations

• Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum – This timeline has been around for a really long time, and has come a long way. Seeing timelines with a starting PoD outside of Europe or the Americas is always fun, and the PoD that this TL posits – a post-Mongol Japan – is easily one of the biggest what-ifs of the Asia-Pacific region. Stooge's Japan falls under the sway of the court nobles, rather than the military landowners, and (very uniquely for an ATL Japan) eventually becomes a one-party republic committed to Pan-Asianism, exporting its ideology across East Asia. The TL also pulls off several other ideas quite well, like a surviving Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, a completely alternative South Asia from 1283 onwards, a Hejazi kingdom/caliphate fending off the Saudi attack, and more. Stooge's United Kingdom even undergoes an Anglish-style language reform due to rivalry with a longer-lived Napoleonic France. What I also appreciate about this TL is that it cites a large amount of bibliography, clearly establishing that it is well-researched. I definitely think CPC should get some recognition for the sheer amount of work and effort put into it over the past decade. Wither (talk) 08:24, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
• Vastator Orbis - Possibly the best and most fleshed out timeline by User:TheCrimsonOracle. Instead of typical Roman PODs leading to a Roman wank, he takes a more free-form and realistic approach, seeing how far the intricacies of politics in the Third Century Crisis can go Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:46, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Discussions

• Removed nomination for CPC. It had been nominated and won the lifetime award for timeline before. Please give a chance for other timelines to get the honor they deserve. FirstStooge (talk) 06:55, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Ah, sorry. I was not aware. Wither (talk) 08:04, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Article

This award is for the best articles across the entire lifetime of the wiki.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Flag or Coat of Arms

This award is for the most interesting, iconic or impressive flags or coats of arms in the archives of this wiki. Nominees must be in the "File:" namespace.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Map or Other File

This award is for the most interesting, iconic or impressive maps and other files in the archives of this wiki. The file can be a portrait, map, picture, etc. as long as it is in the "File:" namespace and is not a flag or coat of arms.

Lifetime Achievement Award in a Map Game

This award is for outstanding work in a map or other game - as a creator, player, mod, artist, etc. - across the entire lifetime of the wiki.

Nominations

• Altober - The original trendsetter for monthly writing events on the Wiki Oh, I didn't mean to push that button! † Oh, well leave a message I guess 17:47, 31 December 2025 (UTC)