Banestorms

Banestorms are timespace anomalies that transport people (and places) between universes. Banestorms tend to happen around vortices (vortex singular). Banestorms are analogous to "Islands in the Sea of Time" events, or ISOTs, as exampled below.
==Examples==
*"Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster in Amazing Stories (June 1934) - inspired the Leinster reality
*The American Dream: An American Officer ISOTed to the Revolutionary War
*A Golden Island To The West — California ISOT from 2018 to 1850 (Sufficient Velocity forums)
*A Naval Base in a (Landlocked) Sea of Fëar [Kancolle ISOT + The Hobbit] (Spacebattles forums)
*RWBY ISOT - fanfiction.net
*ISOT American 2002 - The 2002 continental US is transported to 1942. (Formatting was messed up and so it was transcribed to this site)
*Every Silver Lining has its Cloud: Buffy and company are transported to the Forgotten Realms
*A New Eagle - OTL USA ISOT to the Kaiserreich in 1936
*Summoning Japan - translation of a Japanese light webnovel series (incomplete)
**Gate - Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri fanfiction some of which are based on Summoning Japan (the original Gate is about a doorway not an ISOT event)
*ISOT/Isekai Stories (WIP): hub of various ISOT stories
** The Salvation War: Armageddon and Pantheocide
* Second Chance series by Christopher G. Nuttal: Modern day UK is transported back to 1940.
*America in Another World by RonTheBlackCat 
*Waltpad ISOT
===Alternate history forums===
As a general rule of thumb a login is required to read these.
*alternatehistory.com wiki ISOT stories
*America's Stepbrother, America's Enemy (v2.0) - Story Only - The America of December 21st 2012 is transported to Orwell's 1984
*A Keystone in the Sea of Time 2007 Pennsylvania is transported to 1632
*The Final Countdown a fanfiction of the movie where history is changed
*An ISOT in Grimdark - Germany 2012 sent to the Warhammer World Story Only
*ISOT: Timewreck Titanic - A 2012 Titanic commemorative fleet is transported to 1912
*As One Star Sets, Another Rises - New Story Only Thread - The Japan of 2015 is transported to 1939.
*No Glory in the Slaughter – A 2016/1916 British ISOT
==Cross Universe Travel==
Cross Universe Travel where journey is expected ...even if the destination is not, is generally not considered ISOT. 
*USS Voyager Vs the Fog - USS Voyager goes through a wormhole to the Arpeggio of Blue Steel/蒼き鋼のアルペジオ reality.
*City Beyond the Gate: Sword and sorcery adventurers use a permanent Gate to travel to modern London.
*Queen of the Demonweb Pits: Gates to various worlds/realities.
*Gate - Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri: The actual manga is a gate rather than an ISOT
*All These Earths (1978) by F. M. Busby: FTL causes one to shift into other realities, other histories. First story could technically be called ISOT.
== See Also ==
* Reality Quakes
* Island in the Sea of Time (Literature) (TV Tropes)
* The titular GURPS: Banestorm, a setting with quite a lot of banestorms, causing a lot late-medieval folks to fall into the world of Yrth
==References==
*GURPS Infinite Worlds p.75
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