History happened one way. Yours doesn’t have to.

Alternate history — sometimes called counterfactual history — asks what the world would look like if one real event had gone differently: a battle lost instead of won, a ship that never sailed, a marriage that never happened. On Clan Rising you don't just read the what-if, you play it, starting from the real history of your own family name.

Three ways in. Butterfly Effect: name a single divergence and live inside its compounding aftermath, turn by turn. World Conquest: raise your clan and take territory history never gave it. Create History: design your own castle, village or city as a photoreal walk — the place your family might have built.

Yes. Create History lets you pick a year from 1400 to 1945, a real region of Europe and your family name, then the artist builds a photoreal panorama walk of your castle, village or city — a place that belongs to you alone.

No — but it makes the what-ifs sharper. Look your surname up first and the scenarios start from your family's real region, seat and stories. You can also play as a stranger anywhere in Europe.