10,000 Dawns

The 10,000 Dawns was a multiverse of 10,000 universes that existed physically independent of N-Space. Inhabitants of the Dawns, notably including Graelyn Scythes and Archimedes Von Ahnerabe, sometimes left their reality to visit N-Space.

The Firmament were the caretakers of the Dawns, acting as the multiverse's equivalent of the Great Houses. Other factions of the Dawns included interuniversal paramilitary group Dawn, the Great Assimilation, Centro systems, and the Knights of the Sky. (PROSE: Rachel Survived, White Canvas)

The 10,000 and N-Space were also linked in that many events which happened in one existed as fiction in the other, and vice versa. (PROSE: Rachel Survived) For example, events identical to those surrounding Lolita becoming President of the United States (PROSE: Head of State) were covered in the book Head of State in the Dawns. (PROSE: Rachel Survived)

Working with Faction Paradox, Auteur once attempted to convert the 10,000 Dawns into pure fiction so that its narrative weight could be used to bring the Peace. After manipulating the Original Mammoths into temporally freezing the Dawns, Auteur completed her prepared ritual and nearly of the Dawns and it inhabitants became fiction, save Graelyn Scythes. Graelyn went on to revert every Auteur had done. In the aftermath, Miranda Dawkins negotiated the Christmas Needle Agreement, a peace treaty between the Dawns and N-Space. (PROSE: White Canvas)

Behind the scenes

 * The 10,000 Dawns are the main setting of the 10,000 Dawns series.