Previously On... The Multiverse was a prologue or preamble to the 2023 anthology The Book of the Snowstorm. It acted as a summary for an immense number of stories that had taken place in prior releases, briefly summarising characters and organisations from across Arcbeatle Press's output, such as Coloth, Auteur, Jenny Everywhere, SIGNET, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and Lady Aesculapius, an in-universe summary supplied directly to the reader or an unknown person by The Bookwyrm.
Summary[]
The Bookwyrm introduces a great many individuals and organisations from across the multiverse.
Characters[]
- Coloth
- Callum
- Maritsa
- Rich
- Corsair Queen
- Tirion
- Lotto
- Mae
- Dionus
- Auteur
- Gideon
- Virtuoso
- Gemini Shadow
- Caoimhe MacMurrough
- Kyla Verger
- Bex Taylor
- Violet O'Hara
- Kayzee
- Draven Pelletier
- Cleo Mentia
- Charles Zoltan
- Xanara Pasam
- Olivia
- Aoife Fitzgerald
- Jae-Sun
- Augustus Grange
- Maurice Griss-Ventner
- Abraytha Janus Colefia
- Lady Aesculapius
- The Multi-Coloured Medic
- Jenny Everywhere
- Laura Drake
- Jenny Nowhere
- Jenny Over-There
- The Man in Grey
- Dynamite Thor
- The Abstract of Luminance
- The Abstract of Remembrance
- The Abstract of Chaos
- Thymon
- Spatium
- Psykha
- Sophie Everytime
- The Bookwyrm
Worldbuilding[]
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Notes[]
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Continuity[]
- Coloth is from the Third Universe, as first seen in PROSE: War Crimes [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, Short Trips (Short Trips short stories, 1998)..
- Coloth, Callum and Maritsa spent half a year as outlaws in the Plume Coteries' Library, as seen in PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Aristide Twain, Horrors of Arcbeatle (Auteur, Coloth, Arcbeatle Press, 2023)..
- The Third Universe is ruled by Archons of the Morning Star.
- Auteur was once the goddess of Gendar with the help of "fellow minor deity" Gideon, as seen in PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy [+]James Wylder, A 10,000 Dawns Christmas and The Outer Universe Collection (10,000 Dawns stories featuring DWU elements, Arcbeatle Press, 2019)..
- SIGNET is based in York, as first seen in PROSE: Hervoken Halloween [+]James Hornby, Horrors of Arcbeatle (SIGNET, Arcbeatle Press, 2023)..
- Charles Zoltan, Xana, Olivia, Aoife and Jae-Sun recently combatted the Yssgaroth, as seen in PROSE: Night of the Yssgaroth [+]James Hornby, SIGNET (Arcbeatle Press, 2023)..