Alternate Timeline Nomenclature

Nguhcraft's alternate timelines have begun being studied by the Time Party of Madness in order to gain more power. To classify timelines and their events, a naming system was developed. The timeline in which everything the Agma Schwa Minecraft and Discord servers occurs is called the prime timeline (or T’).

Events

Red dots show events in the prime timeline. Red arrows show the two types of divergences. Blue dots show the events in the new timelines. Green dots show events that happened differently, but from the same cause and around the same time. Yellow dotted lines show similarity between variating events.

Events are divided into three types: events that happened in the prime timeline but not the new one (Hit Events), events that did not happen in the prime timeline but did in the new one (Missed Events), and events that happened in both timelines but differently (Variating Events).

Hit Events

Hit events are named by adding x–𝑖 to the event name. The variable x signifies the amount of times the event has occured. If only once, then "1–𝑖" is added. Some events, like world wars, do have a number showing the amount of times they have occured. In those cases, that number is used for the x. For example, if World War 1 did not happen in an alternate timeline (or happened later), the lack of a World War 1 would be called World War 1–𝑖.

Missed Events

Missed events are named by adding x+𝑖 to the event name. For example, if World War 2 happened in an alternate timeline, but later (or not at all) in the prime timeline, would be called World War 2+𝑖.

Variating Events

Variating events are named by adding x𝑖 to the event name. For example, if World War 1 happened differently in an alternate timeline, it would be called World War 1𝑖, or simply World War 𝑖.

Timelines of Timelines

Alternate timelines can have their own alternate timelines as well. If a hit event in the prime timeline caused a divergence and in that timeline, there was another hit event, it would be written as x+2𝑖. The inverse is true for missed events caused by missed events: x–2𝑖.

If a timeline contains a missed event and a hit event, the two do not cancel out because they cannot refer to the same event (that would be an event happening and not happening at once).

However, they may refer to the same event at a different time. For example, if the United Ŋations didn't form at the same time as in the prime timeline, but instead formed significantly later, the event could be written UŊ1–𝑖 (the UŊ never forming), a slash, and then UŊ1+𝑖 (the UŊ forming): UŊ1–𝑖/UŊ1+𝑖. Instead of UŊ1+𝑖, it would be written UŊ𝑖 if the formation of the UŊ did not occur in the same way in the alternate timeline.

Moreover, if the missed and hit events do not refer to the same event, then both events are written. For example, if the UŊ didn't form and there was a World War 1, it would be written UŊ1-𝑖/WW𝑖 (because prime WW1 happened inside the UŊ, it would not have been WW1+𝑖).

Divergences from variating events would need the x to become -x. For example, the alternate version of WW𝑖 (which is an alternate version of WW1) would be written WW–𝑖. Or, if it's different enough to warrant its own set of timelines, WW𝑗 (more info in "Timelines").

Simply Put

x+𝑖	x happened when it didn't in T’	–x+𝑖	x happened when it wouldn't have in T’, and under different circumstances
x–𝑖	x didn't happen when it did in T’	–x–𝑖	x didn't happen when it would have in T’, and under different circumstances
x+2𝑖	a second x happened when x didn't in T’	–x+2𝑖	a second x happened when x wouldn't have in T’, and under different circumstances
x–2𝑖	a second x didn't happen when x did in T’	–x–2𝑖	a second x didn't happen when x would have in T’, and under different circumstances
x𝑖	x happened differently than in T’	–x𝑖	x happened differently than in x𝑖, but is not T’
x𝑗	x𝑖 has its own set of timelines separate from the ones branching off from the prime timeline

Timelines

Timelines other than the prime timeline are created by players as alternate history. Timelines are given the name T.[the event that caused the divergence]. For example, the timeline in which a second world war erupted from the 19th United Ŋations meeting is known as T.WW2+𝑖. If two timelines diverge from an event with the same name, 𝑗 is used for one of them instead of 𝑖 (T.WW2+𝑗). If three timelines do, 𝑘 is used for the additional one, and so on.

If enough occur, 𝑜 is skipped to avoid confusion with the number zero. If 𝑧 is surpassed, Greek letters are used: 𝛼, 𝛽, 𝛾, etc.

The Gambian Holiday Wiki

The Gambian Holiday Wiki does have Rabo as a character, but it is not the same character as the one from Nguhcraft, and the events of the Gambian Holiday do not occur in an alternate version of Nguhcraft, so it is not considered an alternate timeline (or series of timelines) under this nomenclature system. Instead, it is an alternate universe. Furthermore, the Gambian Holiday Wiki uses a superficially similar naming system for its timelines, but they work differently, so they should not be confused.