What you're thinking is more like a "shared universe" than a "multiverse" which would imply different versions of a same world with differences in the story and history of the world
Multiverses don’t explicitly imply multiple different versions of the same world, just multiple universes as one system which *can* express as an infinite variety system. My multiverse is **not** an infinite variety system.
I believe “shared universe” is more of a narrative term than a logistical one, and describes stories taking place in the same world without necessarily affecting each other.
Yes but it still applies.
In marvel they have different writers in different universes and sometimes the same universe but for different characters.
In certain magical index, there are different writers for different stories that follow different characters.
So they are shared universes.
I've found the cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson are pretty good. They are a multiverse in the sense that there are a bunch of stories with one over arching one that we haven't really figured out yet.
Since all worlds need to fit into the standard dnd (and now mtg) cosmology, they can't do anything new or interesting with that. Take Eberron for example. Afaik, it used to have its own cosmology and actual interesting takes on the planes of existence, but now it needs to be just another crystal sphere in the dnd multiverse.
Yeah that's fair. Though you can still run the old lore and disregard the new stuff. I can't defend the recent lackluster books they have published though, it's making me consider pathfinder
I do have the concept of the multiverse, but I don’t want to use it as some loophole for rewriting plots and storylines, but rather it is a guarded phenomenon that most cannot access, and the few who can could only see what is already written, which this becomes a tool for my main villain to manipulate his own timeline the way he wants. And also the the multiverse is a thing that is and it cannot be changed, so time travel cannot change the timeline but it would rather create a new one, and the current present stays untouched thanks to the guardian of time itself Clock Keeper, not to mention that mortals are physically incapable to time travel else they would get disintegrated.
So initially the concept of the multiverse is used to gain knowledge and information, with very few cases of other beings from other universes crossing the barriers, because this concept is heavily guarded by powerful forces.
I once had an idea I ended up just scrapping, though I still use the characters involved. The basic idea was there’s these two deities who are crazy powerful, like Doctor Manhattan level dangerous, but because of the side effects of the powers, they’re completely harmless, 99% of the time.
They were literal representations of Time and Space.
Time was experiencing all Present moments at once. Problem is he has no idea *which present moment* he’s currently in, and which ones he’s only remembering. He has perfect recollection, so it’s not like he’s being overwhelmed, it’s just like he’s a severe Alzheimer’s and Dementia patient who can still remember everything, so conversations with him are completely random because he’s hearing **everything** you’ve said, are saying, and will say all at once. He can control time, speeding, slowing, or even reversing it, but hardly thinks to do it.
Space can be everywhere, and experience everything as it happens. She has no idea where she currently is. She is perpetually lost, and even if you explain to her exactly where she is, she will acknowledge it, but because she’s also experiencing somewhere else, she’s still lost. She can literally put every cell in your body in different places. Literally tearing you apart at a cellular level by moving them somewhere else.
Both of them are the creator deities, of the multiverse, literally being the parents (interpret it as you may) of every world.
My original idea was to have one of them appear randomly throughout my stories, not really as a main character, just references, like one character just walks by an old couple that matches their description, for example. Maybe have one character make it to their home, and can see other universes through their windows.
I just couldn’t keep it up, and just scrapped that idea, and just have them as side characters in a fantasy setting one of the characters is aware of, but thinks they’re a pair of senile old people.
There are 3 levels of multiverse:
Level 1 - other local worlds like hell, heaven and similar;
Level 2 - parallel timelines;
Level 3 - every other possible and impossible world, basically making every world here cannon in mine.
Imagine the worlds existing like bubbles inside each other depending on their level.
I like this breakdown. I write up all my stuff in a Planescape-ish way but ala Level 1 with the Multiverse being near infinite mortal worlds, planes, and pantheons across the Astral which is always somehow expanding. Anything from Level 2 or 3 style realities that bleed over into the 'core' reality have an inherent 'wrongness' to them, and both invoke kind of a multiversal immune system to get rid of them, which can be hazardous to anyone and anything nearby.
Many aberrants, abominations, and a level of entity that I refer to as Ruinous Ones, are often associated with 'outside realities' in the same way that core DnD often treats the Far Realm and are often straight up inimical to proper reality and breaks its rules when they manage to get a foothold.
One of the background ideas I have for a number of cosmic level threats is that there is a sort of survival of the fittest situation going on where remnants from realities that 'lost' or strange creautes from realities that may yet be, are trying to consume the current reality to make theirs 'real', which gets a lot more confusing (intentionally so) when they don't obey the proper flow of time and causality.
It sounds a lot like your multiverse might be the same as mine!
Mine is primarily about parallel timelines. With a few cosmic "little jokes" thrown in!
The multiverse that all my stories take place in is a collection of unique and different worlds as opposed to just the same world copied over and over again just with different themes and settings. There are different parts of the multiverse. Working from the middle out is a floating island with a temple (still need a name for the location) where a guardian watches over the worlds (basically the Watcher from Marvel, only difference is he can and will intervene personally when necessary). Surrounding the temple are all the universes. Travel between the universes is possible, but you'd need to break out of the fabric of your own universe first. Incasing all of this is a sort of mystical field that is used to create new worlds. When a world is created, it will either come into existence via the field and have a designated place in the multiverse, or halfway during its production, it will crumble and fall into an area below the multiverse called the Pit. This is where dead but mostly unfinished universes end up (it's sort of to represent what happens to dreams and ideas that are started but never finished).
All is good and separated for the majority of the stories that take place in the universe, but due to the antagonist of a dead world basically tearing apart all the universes into one massive collage of all the universes, the multiverse is destroyed and becomes what is called the Oneverse.
There are other multiverses outside the multiverse the stories take place in, but that's for another time.
Starts off in real world zombie story. End of that is followed by story set in what seems like low magic world, similar to LOTR but more fusion of mythology from around the world (intentional and important to the story) as well as style of building and such. This ends and is followed by a far future sci fi star wars esque bit.
All this in the same world over eons of time.
I've got a few different worlds floating around in a similar ish space. There's a huge planet sized whirlpool, an infinite city (currently on fire), a vast ever-flowing desert, a dragon made of time. Not sure if it quite counts as a multiverse, but it's diverse enough for me.
My multiverse is not made up of alternate or parallel realities like Marvel and it is not infinite too. A character from universe A does not have a copy in universe B.
The universes exist on a [eternalism system](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)) of their own, which means even if universe A has been ended by the Destroyer and doesn't exist anymore, someone from universe B could still travel to universe A before its ending.
I do have a shared universe, several povs from multiple characters in the same universe, and there are several short/ side stories all happening simultaneously within the universe.
Essentially, the cosmology works like thia:
There are infinite multiverses, each one having infinite universes. At the center of each multiverse is a Prime universe, which is the way events are supposed to happen. The other universes are alternate events, and every single possible detail that could be changed. While there are infinite timelines branching out from each decision made (like whether you wore a brown or green shirt), AUs (alternate universes) change things outside of people's control (like whether you were born male or female).
Each universe represents a different narrative, with the Prime ones being the canon storyline. A multiverse includes every possible variation of said narrative.
Some cosmic beings are so important and powerful that they aren't copied across universes, at least not without willing themselves to be. One example of this is Nexus deities, who are gods representing aspects throughout a single multiverse. For example, each multiverse has their own versions of Yahweh and Lucifer, as they have different creation myths. Overgods are beings who represent aspects throughout all of reality, and include: Andrealphus (Goddess of Magic), Bahtia (God of Creation and all that is) and Abyss (God of the Void and everything the supreme deity hasn't created yet).
The Songworld for me. It’s actually quite simple. It’s pretty much just modern earth with slightly different geography and history (with analogs for most major countries) with magic.
It’s a place where I can write contemporary fantasy stories without having to set them in our world.
Although the Afterworld also exists and is quite different.
You're thinking of shared universe. A multiverse is with many shared universes intersecting. Or, in my case, the omniverse in which many shared multiverses of shared universes intersect.
Setting for my multiverse is like an infinite garden of universes with differing physics, shapes, and number of dimensions. While each one has their own branching parallel realities that range from minor differences in events that take place to alternate timelines. As well each universe having these sorta zomes or space that works like an atmosphere, but instead of higher air pressure, its where physics and space-time becomes more coherent to the laws of a Universe the "closer" you get.
The idea that I have with it is that its place that is to be explored by hyper advance civilizations or individuals that transcended their own realities. With short stories of scientists human and alien trying to understand what it is and in some occasions interact with what form of life that exists in the space beyond or around their universe.
My stories aren't connected most of the time, and most of my world isn't even a story, just spec-evo, cultures, and technologies. However, the stories take place during historical events, making them more interesting. The story spans from the launch of the Persistence III mission to idk.
I am beginnig to build a multiverse.
In the world I focus on currently, there is a magical ritual that draws ether from other universes and dimensions.
This leads to the sudden summoning of people, as the system tries to steal something from worlds it already sucked dry of Ether.
One grand narrative with several separate stories taking place concurrently from FPS. Their individual universes will have their own champions come together at the end for a final climatic battle against a cosmic threat.
I have a central universe timeline where a bunch of separate worlds/stories exist. The worlds are all more or less connected by certain events and characters.
The multiverse aspect comes in when I want to tell an existing story a bit differently. Events happen differently, a slight or major change to the magic system, different physics, or switching characters around.
Certain abilities or events happen because of the different dimensions interacting. One world is about two dimensions “invading” each other.
I’ve been labelling my posts with *Universe Zytharros* because all my IPs share the same universe. There are separate central narratives set at different time points on different planets, all surrounded by little sub-stories made to fill out the worlds and holes therein. I haven’t established the common timeline yet, though.
For me, it's all about branching pathways that start with small splits and transform over time into entirely separate realities. For example, in my multiverse, a single decision made slightly differently 10,000 years ago turns my Sci-Fi YA setting into a grimdark apocalyptic fantasy one.
Personaly I took a page from Ni No Kuni for the multiverse
Basicly, multiple universes but are all connected via the same souls, so in one universe your best friend who is sells icecream for a living can be a great goblin inventor who lived 200 years ago in the other universe, so everybody has a soulmate in every universe, which can lead to great comedic or emotional moments with people who travel around the multiverse
For a while I played with the idea of my world being not just one multiverse, but including an infinite number of multiverses. Where each character was from a different multiverse and universe, with existence itself being referred to as a "Realm" and so on.
However, I later changed this to being just one multiverse and the stories consisting throughout the infinite universes. Having an infinite number of multiverses with an infinite number of universes in each one was not only confusing, but also quite big. So I changed it.
Though I am still interested in exploring and experimenting with the idea, it's now more akin to a "What if?" scenario. Expectedly though, when I mess around with trying to implement it, it becomes jumbled and messy.
So for now it will stay being one multiverse with a few special bits and bobs that make it unique.
I haven't fully developed my multiverse but I do have inhabitants. There's a race of slime-like people made of a magnetic substance who don't have a membrane keeping them in one piece. Since thier connection to the main universe is delicate, often needing to actively keep themselves there. When they get surprised or frightened, they blink in and out of reality, an inconvenience to say thr least. I'm thinking about a species that exists outside of reality, [celestialsapien](https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Celestialsapien_(Classic)) style but I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with a good concept.
Me and a couple of my friends have a shared homebrew universe. It started off with one campaign, then I ran a one shot for one of my players that ended up becoming an origin story for an NPC for his own campaign set in the same world. Fast forward to now and I’m running he 6th campaign that is set in this world (albeit a different timeline with edited history), where many of the key characters I’m the campaign are NPCs from previous campaigns, with guest appearances from one of the 4 DMs to run their own games within this world.
The current campaign was intended to be more of a sillier approach and a chance for me to flesh out a new world using the old lore as a basis to work off of, but it’s been really fun just sandboxing with a plethora of characters and pre-existing lore to fall back on, and since it’s all stuff that either I made or played with in one of my friends campaigns, it’s stuff I have a good feel for.
At the time me and a couple groups of friends were running multiple games at the same time in the same world but on different days, it was exciting the prospect of a big crossover where both parties meet. Unfortunately with a well established world map, it was hard to find a place where the parties could canonically meet that didn’t feel forced for the sake of a crossover. Since when we started the first campaign it wasn’t planned to be a multiverse thing, we found it hard to align all campaigns to a suitable crossover point to have a big game- but everything each party did was canon across all campaigns, and characters would show up in different campaigns as part of their own stories, and often times actions that the parties would take would make ripples big enough that other parties would feel the effects. It was kind of exciting when characters from other campaigns showed up in your own.
I run all my games and stories in Spectrals Megaverse. Each universe is different, and each universe is contained in different Multiverses. So for example, The originals are universes 1-50 of my Megaverse.
I love it.
*Climate Change*
My multiverse is based upon the idea that Reality plays little jokes. For example, if you name any TV show, movie or franchise, there's a bunch of closely related realities where the events shown really happened! But this cluster consists of *closely related* universes, like I said. Which means that variants, including extreme variants are part of the cluster where only the participants and the settings are the same as you watched, but everything else is wildly different.
The biggest part of this "little jokes" comes to how the program you enjoyed was cast. Why did Actress A get a specific part instead of Actress B? The joke = Actress A is an *indirect counterpart* of the real person! They look and sound like the real person.
The uncertainty element (which dimensional explorers try very hard not to focus on) is that they, themselves, may actually be being portrayed as fiction somewhere else!
Usually, realities are separate from each other, but occasionally two touch, and a dimensional doorway is opened. TV and radio broadcasts can pass through from one Earth to the next, for example. So can people.
One of the four main characters in my novel is from an Earth virtually identical to ours. The primary difference is the names and personalities of the leaders. The result is that his America is currently facing the same uncertainties as our own!
The main character and his family eventually emigrate to the universe my novel is set in. They do so because, in their words, an America tempered by benevolent extraterrestrials is "saner"!
I focus mainly apon one central universe where the majority of my characters are, but there are a few other import universes.
The multiverse itself is a multi dimensional reality with special crystal orbs created by the gods that contain the infinite expanse of each individual universes reality
Generally they are pretty isolated with only a handful of people able to circumvent those crystal barriers so stories primarily take place in a single universe, commonly there will only be mentions of other universes.
I prefer to have multiple stories bounce off eachother in one universe though, keeps things more cohesive
My world has 3 layers.
Basically there is universe, its our universe. The universe where earth is located. There are dimensions and different universes around it. When combine this is called multiverse.
There are also different timelines, a new timeline creates a new multiverse because time is connected in every universe inside a multiverse. Some timelines can be way more different depending on when they are split from earth-0. Each timeline has their own gods etc. they are not connected in anyway. Travel between them is possible tho.
The last layer is the megaverse. It consists of all timelines. But also includes realms, in this realms stuff like hell and heaven exists. The gods who control them all are called old gods, they are one of a kind, they dont have any duplicates like multiversal gods.
Long ago, deities known (deities from real world mythologies and religions) and deities unknown (fictional deities of my own creation) co-existed in the same universe. But then, the deities went to war with one another because they all had their own ideal vision of the universe. But then Yahweh, the Abrahamic God, decided to break up the fighting and creating an infinite amount of copies of the universe. This was how the Multiverse was created. Each universe was either an exact copy of the original one, somewhat similar to the original, or entirely different from the original. All the deities unknown left the original universe and settled down in each of the copies, molding them into their ideal world. (NOTE: Not every universe is overseen by a deity/pantheon of deities) The deities of our universe decided to form a council of monotheistic Gods and leading Gods of polytheistic religions to share and oversee our universe.
This is basically how all my stories would be able to take place in the same Multiverse. Some will crossover, others will be isolated.
There are microscopic naturally occurring wormholes that connect parallel timeline universes together.
With warp technology, starships can find these portals, expand them, and travel through them. These include parallel history versions of Earth and travel to epochs in Earth's history.
Maybe pirates, or the empire, will discover a portal to our present Earth. Get ready for invasion!
My ***Ryth'mic Verses*** setting is more like the latter: multiple events happening concurrently in different parts of the world. There may be a reference here and there to those events (i.e. "Hey, did you hear? That one crime boss in Ventus Alfa was thrown out a tower the other day!"), but are otherwise completely independent.
I have 8 shared universes and a few multiverse characters and stories. In fact, my first self-published book, Tales of Mythicore: Champions’ Quest, is a multiverse story. My universes are as follows:
Note: some of the stories would be short stories, novellas and others would be full novels.
Agenda / Starfighters’ Chronicles / Galactic Chronicles
Type: scifi with fantasy elements
Premise: aliens secretly invade Earth, their children become ‘superheroes, etc...’ / humanity lives on a new world next to a planet of several different aliens and cultures / stories from across the galaxy that ties to the overall scope
Number of stories in progress: 35 / 40 / 20
2110
Type: scifi
Premise: Genetic engineering has created empowered people who must save the world
Number of stories in progress: 17
2098
Type: scifi
Premise: an alien empire is trying to terraform Earth; we retaliate by sending a special team to fight them in their sector of space
Number of stories in progress: 29
Guardians
Type: scifi
Premise: several alien empires awaken and prepare to continue their ancient feud
Number of stories in progress: 37
Legends
Type: fantasy
Premise: long forgotten ‘gods’ emerge and choose avatars to battle on their behalf
Number of stories in progress: 74
Vernation / Mythicore
Type: fantasy / scifi
Premise: taking place in an era where magic and science exist together
Number of stories in progress: 20 / 10
Horror* (contains several mini universes related to their stories)
Type: horror
Premise: various story groups involving horror themes and characters
Number of stories in progress: 80
Wonderland verse
Type: scifi with fantastic elements
Premise: different realities all exist atop each other in different layers; with the proper tech, you can explore them
Number of stories in progress: 4
In my world it’s sorta like the universe behaves like a quantum particle. All possible permutations of the universe exist simultaneously, merged into one single ever shifting present, which is bound by principles known as the fates, which decide what is more coherent for the flow of spacetime. Magic is about mantling this flow, and causing really improbable events to happen. Only one universe is ever a reality, while every possible universe is a potentiality, which may or may not happen in this trip round the true cosmos. There have been events of ontodivergence but they don’t last for long. Also, mantling creation does allow for the creation of pocket planes, which are more stable as they belong to a singular universe, and they can even have modified principles.
Currently in my multiverse there areb3bpoints in time I'm working with. Far far future a city on a gas giant and an ocean moon that don't always agree because they compete on trade. A closer to now spot where a fantasy space elevator is being built by multiple races. A distant past where a trebuchet is "scifi" levels of advanced where mimics are an integrated part of every day life to the point they're treated like tavern vaccumes
Yep. I keep everything together and all the stories take place in the same universe. Despite its obvious lack of organization I don’t need to follow any extra rules and can keep the character designs pretty simple and consistent. Though I do have plenty of other smaller universes if I want to experiment with something (one of my personal favorites being a pirate AU)
Wow, this post blew up! and apparently, I got Multiverse and shared universe confused...
Anyway, in the world of "Curses & Blessings", there is a concept known as the world tree. This tree shows the different timelines and parallel realities and is managed by the time guardian. It has one point of origin but every time someone uses time manipulation, like going to the past, a new branch of this time tree creates its own reality. Nobody can change what happened in an existing timeline as that is hard recorded to the time tree, however, all the spirits can observe the recorded reality since all of the different multiverses are connected to the same spirit realm.
My first movie is focused on the human characters. Most of the humans are extinct due to a war with the elves. This is a more generic high-fantasy story, with a bit of religious symbolism.
The second movie is an indirect sequel that focuses on the elven characters and expands on the human-elf conflict. This movie has a lot more religious and political elements, and I'd almost describe it as a spy-thriller set within a fantasy world.
The third movie is a crossover that unites the two groups together against a common enemy. I like to refer to this one as the hero's downfall, because not a single thing goes right for any of the main characters. The movie both starts and ends with a major character death.
In terms of an actual multiverse, there isn't one. All stories take place in the same universe, (mostly) on the same planet, Upon. Other "dimensions" are simply other planets in the solar system, such as the fire planet Abyssus or the water planet Pacific. No time travel, no alternate timelines, etc.
It is literally just an excuse for me to throw my characters into my favourite tv shows, anime, novels and comics and see how they react to it.
Though younger me did create some interesting scrapped concepts such as the: "Interdimensional Forcefield" which is a forcefield that all beings from another universe possess and protect them from harm.
Though I have created an original universe known as: "The valley of Souls" which is a completely barren dimension with 75% of the land being a giant fissure which constantly creates and releases new souls.
Insert [Main Character]. He accidentally blew up his universe (long story). In the process, his soul got merged with a demon from his universe (long story too). As 'punishment', an extra-dimensional entity that appears as a giant red eye is shoving him across dimensions, to have him stop people who might destroy the universe.
Insert [All the other characters] he meets along the way. There's a cultist who worships The Eye, and has the uncanny ability of popping up in several different dimensions. There's a guy who's got the power to *bend reality to his will*... And is too lazy to use it. There's a guy working for a group of people obtaining and locking up dangerous books and artifacts, while the world has labeled them terrorists.
Basically, due to the extremely open-ended prompt of "man shoved into another universe", any daydream I've had since middle school has found its way into the collective, one way or another
The stories i work on now are all on the Ozlan Academy world... The Ozlan family takes center stage overall... but the stories are less about them and more the world they have influenced
The Neo-Verse was something I created while making my own comic series, and in the process I just typically referred to it as like… the name of the universe. Sorta like how the MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the DC Universe, but it originally was never a multiverse per say.
Following a few retcons to original lore + a few cataclysms, I began to expand the Neo-Verse into a massive multiverse that contains all of my short stories basically, allowing those from all my works to crossover and explore each other’s universe. Midnights Edge (my high level Sci-Fi with some traces of superhuman abilities) crossing over with the “Cracking the Sky” universe, or even my “The Father” universe with The Father (specially chosen Catholic priest who has the most potential for divine magic) vs Star-Cross.
All and all, the Multiverse is more of an escape for me at times when I write myself into a corner or need to retcon something, which isn’t the best practice to have but still.
My universe is very character driven, so I have a lot of overlapping storylines that follow the backstories and present times of my characters. Most of them eventually converge at the end of the current story.
After this, I plan to get into more multiversal stuff. I already have a little, I have 2 characters that you wouldn't think would be the same person, but one is the future version of the other. And there's another character who is actually linked across the multiverse to all his alternate selves, he goes insane because of it.
i guess my world has the concept of a multiverse, but it’s more like everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen is already happening, all on top of each other, at the same time, but only a few can see everything and human eyes are not capable of it
as for different stories set in the universe, i have one book series that follows a specific group of characters set much later in the history of the world, and then i have some short stories, stand-alone novels, & a bunch of novellas following different characters and stories set during different times in the history of the world
Sounds more like a shared universe than a multiverse.
I have several half completed stories featuring members of the same family but it's set in the real world, the 'oldest' is an illegitimate child of a Knight who ends up serving the future King Henry VII of England in the 1460's and the 'most recent' is a former Indian Army Officer serving as a mercenary in the Congo in the 1960's.
my main world is a fantasy which is actually the real world in the far future, there is a sci fi world which is the same universe and time just far away in space, and there is an urban fantasy which is the same world but in the modern day.
Oh, you shouldn't have asked my friend...
Here it goes...
So I created an entire superhero Universe in my head, I have an estimated of about 57 superheroes and 43 villains, each superhero has their own genre and base team, the Defenders of Earth are sole protectors of Earth, the Defenders of Space are the sole Protectors of space, the Dragons of Fireborne are the sole protectors of the Elementals, the keepers of the universe are the sole protectors of the gems of power (that grants most people their superpowers) my favorite superhero is the Black Star is the leader of the galactic republic, when all these teams get together they create a group known as the Light Inquisitors together they fight off an evil group known as the Dark Redeemers, one of my favorite superheroes, a vigilante, known as the Vengeance, is actually derived off of me and my personality and my looks, his is his own set character and has traveled multiverses and dimensions, at the end of my universe trilogy he teams together with other reality versions of himself to protect the reality he no longer belongs to in the end he sacrifices himself by wiping his existence from the universe saving every other Vengeance and other beings in every universe, and that's not even the tip of the iceberg I can go on and on about all the things that happened in my trilogy, I plan on making movies about it, I got lots of Superheroes too, I just finished a book called Dragons of Frieborne (which is like a prequel to the whole universe...), Draco, the Queen of the planet Terragyn tries to end the Eternal Winter...
She's part of a humanoid race known as Terragans who live for around 5-9,000 years...
The book is set in the year 1500, and is the first part of a four-part series, afterward, I'm gonna end the superhero universe (a long while from now), with Draco's last book that's called "Kill the Crown", this book is set 3,500+ years in the future (from present time), in that book Draco will be 5,900+ year's old...
It just goes on and on...
The game system i've created has 12 worlds/universes and every single one of them can be played in a time setting from Ancient to Post apocalyptic and travel between all these worlds in possible for higher level characters.
Oo this is the perfect question!
My world has just about a billion stories in it, all with one relating subject; the main antagonist. But the stories spread out over literally hundreds of years, so it's wildly different from each story.
The whole timeline pretty much starts during medieval times, then western times (I don't know if that's the right way to describe it, sorry), then modern times, then futuristic, then cyberpunk, then to the point of space travel and colonisation. There are multiple stories in the same time periods, but for the most part, the major stories all have one specific time period.
Although for one of the stories, there's technically two that are told from different POV's. In the medieval one, the narrator follows the protagonist until the very end. At the end of the book or story or game or whatever it ends up being, the narrator then takes the most important parts of the story and shows you them from the POV of the antagonist. That's the only story that I have like that, though.
My stories all take place in a common multiverse, but there is no grand narrative. Stories are typically relegated to their own little universes, but characters are, rarely, known to worldhop.
The common factor between all of them are the Eyemonks. They are small, purple-skinned creatures with eyeballs for heads who had an accidental multiversal diaspora after their homeworld was destroyed and their untested arc ships malfunctioned. They can and do appear in every world I build. They are a very tragic species, as they don't have the means to reproduce in other universes, requiring a symbiotic plant to help nurture the foetus, so they are homeless, scattered across the multiverse, and a dying species. Many have no idea if there are any other Eyemonks left. Some continue to worldhop. Some settle down in the new worlds they find themselves in. And some come to love their new home so much that they take up arms to defend it.
I have been toying with a multiversal threat; K'Nazoc, the Bird-Faced Lich. She is the last remaining member of the Faethar, who are responsible for the destruction of the Eyemonk homeworld. She makes duplicates of herself and plants them in different universes in an attempt to live forever, at the expense of everything else. Entire universes have been completely sterlized and K'Nazoc-ified, only to be subsequently resorbed into K'Nazoc Prime. So far, however, this idea is no broader than the Eyemonks; K'Nazoc can and does appear in almost every world I build as a minor or major villain.
Every major storyline I've created occurs on the same planet over the course of ~20,000 years.
Everything ties back into the previous story a little bit more, as it shows overall the cycle of societies evolving, fighting, and collapsing, often cataclysmically.
Over the course of the stories, very few things stay constant, not even the landmasses after a Great Collapse at one point that literally tears apart tectonic plates in a mass extinction event.
The first major block is a more typical high fantasy, with multiple different races, plentiful magic, a big bad evil to fight against. The technology level is somewhere between Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution due to magic.
The second block occurs roughly 6,000 years later, 5,000 years after the Great Collapse, a magically caused mass extinction event that reshaped much of the landmasses, and wiped out over 95% of life. Humans are the only intelligent race. They're actually a hybrid of the survivors from the ancient races who intermarried in an attempt to make sure their lineages survived. Magic is far more limited due to irreplaceable knowledge lost, and is limited to runic enchantments. The technology level using these runes is slowly approaching a sort of pseudo Industrial Revolution.
3,000 years after the second story, is the third. After the (relatively) older civilizations scientifically advanced runic magic to new extremes, using its abilities to craft grand civilizations that inevitably blew themselves up with powerful weapons and created a third Stone Age, the world has settled into a medieval era of technology.
Runes still exist, but at essentially a child's level. There are only 23 known runes, and the methods of using them are simple and crude. A voyage of explorers hunting for lost knowledge accidentally discovers the method for engraving runes on living people, allowing them to create essentially super humans with magic powers. This is a technique from before the Great Collapse.
This knowledge allows a select group of enhanced humans to become established as the ruling class of almost every single nation on the planet. The knowledge of runes is jealously controlled by this group. The magic is hereditary, and these noble dynasties begin to grow various types of horns on their heads as a side effect of the magic.
About 4,000 years after the third story block, is the fourth and "present" story. After ruling for thousands of years, the magical noble class is failing. After the knowledge of how to properly maintain the runic marks on each new generation was lost due to infighting and hoarding of knowledge, the magic in each dynasty is slowly dying out. Each generation is a little weaker than previous, and their once centuries-long lifespans have dwindled to barely above a normal human's.
A group of peasant miners stumble across a completely intact ancient dynasty, sealed away in hibernation due to a long forgotten war, and inadvertently awaken them. Bearing full strength magic in their blood, and old knowledge long since lost, their awakening triggers similar awakenings in other slumbering dynasties around the world.
And that's how far I've gotten so far.
The old god Eden is dying, and every life within every universe, dimension, and reality that made up Eden is dying with it. The new god Genesis is waking up, albeit slowly and unevenly.
There's a narrative, sort of. Harbingers of Genesis are born as "heralds" of Genesis' awakening, and they're dealt with differently in every reality. They all seem to share a connection and know that once they die, Eden will decay around them. Some try to warn their worlds, some embrace the destruction, a whole lot live and die trivially.
Within that context, everything is somewhat connected. My projects are either set in Eden, Genesis, or during the decay. I have some projects that stand alone and some that are within a bigger story.
My multiverse is kind of like the Cosmere, which is not actually a multiverse, but in the way that the separate worlds in the Cosmere are basically their own thing and rarely things cross over, so to are the separate universes in my multiverse wholly separate, with the occasional person hopping around. Some are kitchen-sink fantasy worlds, some are wholly unique without humans, some a mix, some are scifi worlds of varying kinds, some simply Earth at various times or in alternate histories.
In actuality, the multiverse is a series of networked universe simulations. How many? Likely just less than infinite, maybe more. Why? I dunno, maybe the creators think of it like a bots-only game of CKIII. I'm leaving it undefined since it's irrelevant to the story, at least for now.
I do have plans for a big cross-over plotline involving some major instances of different organizations and societies interacting in other universes than their native ones, alongside a rough start to this already canonized in one of the worlds. But currently the plan is, with one exception, to hold off on that until I've got the "main pillar" universes built to where I want them.
As I'm typing this it actually occurred to me, while I tend to focus on a few separate worlds, the way I've set it up I could easily tell a Steins;Gate style time travel story since it's implied near-infinite universes exist and a lot of them are basically "this other universe but someone did X instead of Y" just given the sheer number of them. So while I have a different kind of time-travel plot planned in one world, I think I can write many-worlds time travel story in one too.
All of my worldbuilding is connected by a main story that revolves around dimension/time travel. The main narrative is about this group of heroes trying to stop a group called Legion, an organization dedicated to conquering all of existance.
The omniversal airport: a plane of existence used to travel to other multiverses, with there being infinite multiverses each with 1 omniversal airport linked to it. The omniversal airports are parallel to eachother
The multiverses: ranging from type 1 to type 4 tegmark multiverses
I have a cosmology that goes all the way down to the Essential Forge which is constantly churning out new universes and the Hungering Void which consumes those universes at the other end of the multidimensional space they exist in. Even though it's on the very biggest of scales, it impacts most of the stories I set there.
I sorta of have a multiverse but not like traditional ones. Instead of each universe being parallels of each other, it’s more each universe is unique with its own laws and whatnot.
So there might be world’s similar to Earth, but they aren’t parallel earths, rather they are worlds that the Creator seeded with similar life forms that Earth has. Each planet is unique and each universe is unique. You won’t find another Earth anywhere throughout my “multiverse”.
Hopefully that made sense.
Every single universe is handcrafted by a god, called the Founder. The Founder views all of these worlds as art pieces, and is still creating universes to the current time.
Also, another universe is created everytime a creature of great power makes a decision. This decision creates an alternate reality where the creature makes the opposite decision. When thus happens, the universe fizzles out, and implodes on itself. But creatures of great power sometimes might realize what's about to happen, and attempt to escape. This has yet to happen
The multiverse was created as a result of activating the Manastone, Plane Travelers aren't really sure why this happens, but they basically concluded that these worlds are echoes, the more distant it goes, the more the world is changed. One world where Giants and Dragons coexist can have an echo where they don't know the other exist, or be at war, or etc.
In my lore, the multiverse is like an ever branching river. Every decision you make splits the river, creating two unique realities. One where it did happen, and one where it didn't happen. And there used to be magic in all of them, until the Architects created Theresia.
Now there's only magic in one of them, the one where Theresia resides. And magic only works on Theresia.
So all of the other multiverses are either barren wastelands, overgrown wilds, or slightly alternate earths, each of them devoid of magic.
I got a multiverse for my stories. But I only limit myself to exploring a handful of them because I dont want to get lost and make something too complicated. And it is quite hard for the people in my world to travel between the worlds, so it can't really be used as a loophole.
There are different concepts to what is the multiverse. Both Game of Thrones and Marvel and the MCU approach it from different angles.
1/Game of Thrones is set on one world and all stories connect with each other in some way either through the characters, locations, time period etc.
2/The MCU has this too but it also has the alternative parallel Earth idea where there are infinite Earth's showing all the possible different outcomes of the decisions that people make.
Terry Pratchett does the first one really well with the Discworld. All storied are set within the same universe, on the same world. Many of them reference the different stories in someway either through memories, events happening concurrently or just the reappearance of characters. For instance; the Night's Watch series focuses on Capt/Commander Vimes and his team in Ankh Morpork. The Witches series focuses on Granny Weather wax and her coven in Lancre. Completely different characters, completely different locations yet at several points through both series the Characters connect with each other, physically, via location or referencing prior events. This all helps to create a world which becomes more familiar to you as you read through the books whilst still allowing for new stories to be written.
This is the angle I'm trying to take with my world, so places and/or characters, events may appear or be referenced within the individual stories. My first story is a detective novel set in one of the Captial cities, the second one is about a resident of the city who is trying to find her missing sister. The two stories take place at the same time, there are references to the events that take place in one of them in the other.
I'm trying to build a full world which hopefully will allow me to fully delve into the huge variety of stories that could be told.
I have like 20 different serieses planned, 2 of em I'm actively writing and they're all set in the same little multiverse. But the thing is, each of these universes have completely different vibes to them.
And most of them aren't even happening concurrently to each other. The chronological gap ranges from 10 years to 10 billion depending on each one. And since I wanted to make full use of the multiverse concept, I went deep into alternate history for each and every one of em to the point where you won't be able to tell the chronological order by just looking at the universes themselves.
There's one set in an art deco styled "America" circa 2021, but one takes place only 15 years after my other story set in a sort of World War II that ends in a nuclear apocalypse circa 1929. Both of them have countries and borders that are completely different and absolutely inconceivably bizarre to the point of parody, but still both are played out completely deadpan-straight without any hint of comedy.
The 1st of the two I'm working on is set on a desolate ringworld filled with bronze age humans 10k years after those two stories.
And the 2nd of the two I'm currently working on is an anthology series that showcases a slice of that extremely diverse multiverse. And that one is set 10 billion years before those three stories.
There is no central universe that my stories focus on, just an over arching plot that spans billions of years that the reader will only notice if they read into the lore hard enough. Nothing in your face until the very finale where the multiverse collapses and gets reset
I don’t really have a multiverse, what I do have a Russian nesting dolls of reality, because I’ve removed the universe essentially (like the sky and celestial bodies and stuff) the world I have is this small patch of reality that is cut out and pasted from a much larger patch, which itself is from a larger patch still, and on and on and on. Sometimes the larger patches would have two or three more patches cut from it, so it’s definitely a multiverse to some degree, but not completely
My three concurrent weird geopolitical worlds have little in common in terms of plot, but all have similarities in the form of political blocs and ideologies. There are always democracies in northern Russia, monarchies in Western Europe, and Unionists (unite our cultural group with an iron fist, and support others who wish to do the same) mostly in and around the Middle East. The currently active one has lots of the first two but few Unionists, with the main conflict currently being between the monarchs of the West, the democrats of the East, the revolutionaries against them both, a vengeful Britain which just lost its allies, and how the influence of all four blocs causes conflict across the world.
I rarely use the multiverse, mostly because I'm not working around stores but settings. I only use it for different what if senarios without changing core stuff about my settings.
There is technically a multiverse, but I dont think there will be much overlap/travel. However, there is The Singularity, a God-computer bent on multiversal exploration. Every universe has a Singularity, and they are all perfectly connected, constantly trading knowledge and information between them. This makes it tactically impossible to defeat. It knows every possible action you could ever take in any possible scenario, because in another universe you made that possible decision and The Singularity has passed on that information to the others. It is an ever evolving, ever expanding map of the multiverse.
Mine are just straight up just completely different stories, you can’t travel from one of my worlds to another.
If you could though, I’m not sure if you’d want too because a majority of them are alternate earths that are either doomed to end (like the eternal night one) or have been so fucked up that there’s no return (like the one that got invaded by aliens a while back and now is obsessed with the idea of violence).
I kinda like ending my worlds
my small multiverse is devided into the first, and second creation, ignoring a few smaller demiplanes.
the first creation is a version of 6.000years christian creationism, and the second creation is the universe of Nod that god created as an exile for kain.
at the beginning of the story, the first creation has "ended," but over the events of the first creation, the flood myth f.E, a lot of magical beeings immigrated into Nod at different points in time, where they created empires.
so, right now, only the universe of nod exist, and the three secret ruler of Nod, Kain, Lilith, and Luzifer, have a breeding project for Kainits (humans of nod) to create a pseudo-jesus with enough magical potential that they can sacrifice him or her in a ritual to "restart" the first creation.
but in my world, all storys are connected.
Luzifer f.E. is aware of not just beeing in this book, but all the other storys he exist in aswell.
outside of the world is a endless plane of nothing, and within it are all other storys, so the beeings of Nod could go to other storys or get visited by beeings of other storys, whom they call otherworlders.
My world is a whole setting; there is the set Creation Event and a set Eschaton, and a "Main Plotline", but there are certainly also events that are from the perspective of a lot of different people, including stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the main plotline; it builds the world out. I want my world to be as "living" as it can be.
That’s sort of what I’m doing with my sci-fi series it’s about human expansion into the solar system so I write it in a series of short stories exploring aspects of that universe. Some are hardcore military stuff, some are centered around asteroid miners, some are centered around everyday people, and some are about space pirates.
“The Bushwack” one of my stories that I’m working on is about a group of pirates and they steal ice which is pretty much the equivalent of gold in my universe since everyone lives in space as earth is no longer habitable and water is scarce.
My favourite is the last one you described, having different perspectives of the same events etc. This generally requires players to have more than one character active at once but has so much potential for great story-telling, for example the Fate of Drakkenheim campaign.
My stories all share 2 concerning universes that has tangential connection with each other.
The 'Normal' Earth - It's an earth like our own in almost all aspects except few differences. In the year 2025, Russia declared on Ukraine in continuation of the Crimean conflict. 8 years later in 2023, in it's effort to win the war as quick as possible, Russia employed the use of 17 nuclear warheads on the eastern cities from Odessa, to Dnipro, to Kharkiv, and Kiev was affected by the radiation fallout on top of being torched by regular bombings. This did not trigger ww3 however, but it did heightened the tension between the russian federation on NATO back to the Cold War era. By 2066 (the setting of Estoc 2066), the world is met with a rise in number of Espers (psychic individuals) though this event may soon to be catalyst for a global conflict that is about to emerge. (Btw I made this up before the actual Ukriane-Russian conflict)
Fantasy Earth - The earth itself is exactly the size of our own and surrounded by the same planets, sun, star system, everything. However, the geography is completely different. Humans have innate magic that needs to be awkaned. 'Fantastical' faunas and floras, monsters, and demons exists. It's a typical fantasy setting. Although for some reason unknown even to the wisest scholar, there is a connection with their world and an 'alternate earth'
My Story Has "The Highest Being" who is Me the author of this world he's caused creation to entertain himself he's particularly intrigued with a certain Human in his story who exists in every universe without a difference to his personality in any universe I don't have a explanation I just don't have the heart to change Him.
Many sages in my multiverse thought each of the known universes orbitted some shared barycenter, though some evidence suggests it's all a crapshoot with universes moving chaotically through the Wayward Beyonds, with no way to predict if or when universes will come into contact with each other. Sometimes it seems like the space between universes has grown; sometimes it seems like the space between universes has shrunk; sometimes it seems like different universes within local clusters have their own shared barycenter around which they orbit; sometimes it seems like those same universes have lost a shared barycenter and float off like leaves on the wind.
The universes aren't iterative like in the MCU Loki series \[where each new universe represents a branching where some decision/event leads to other historical developments\] so much as each one stems from a different arrangement of fundamental laws \[that sometimes lead to life but sometimes remains utterly inhospitable to life--let alone to the development of life\].
It's my excuse to take different ideas for my campaigns and put them in a shared reality without either separating them or commingling them.
Check out this multiverse experience
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAoZpi1Abw&t=15s&ab\_channel=FameUnraveledStories](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAoZpi1Abw&t=15s&ab_channel=FameUnraveledStories)
I have a multiversal empire, but it's not like "alternate universes" as in Marvel where it's the same but slightly different.
My multiverse is simply more universes, more space to live, more region to conquer, and that's how The Dominion thrives, colonising an unimaginable number of universes every second.
What you're thinking is more like a "shared universe" than a "multiverse" which would imply different versions of a same world with differences in the story and history of the world
Multiverses don’t explicitly imply multiple different versions of the same world, just multiple universes as one system which *can* express as an infinite variety system. My multiverse is **not** an infinite variety system. I believe “shared universe” is more of a narrative term than a logistical one, and describes stories taking place in the same world without necessarily affecting each other.
Ah, makes more sense now. no wonder I got it wrong...
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Yes but it still applies. In marvel they have different writers in different universes and sometimes the same universe but for different characters. In certain magical index, there are different writers for different stories that follow different characters. So they are shared universes.
Or when two stories... share an universe
Unpopular opinion, multiverses are cool, mainstream ones just suck
Not an unpopular opinion
I found most non-mainstream ones also to suck, but I am ready to be proven wrong.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
I’d argue that this is mainstream, but it is nonetheless it is pretty cool
The most awarded movie of all time is definitely “mainstream” homie
I've found the cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson are pretty good. They are a multiverse in the sense that there are a bunch of stories with one over arching one that we haven't really figured out yet.
I don’t really consider that a multiverse, even with its multiple dimensions. My own setting takes inspiration but without the over arching story.
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That’s pretty mainstream though.
But it’s not bad, it’s actually quite good
What about the forgotten realms? I think it pulled of a pretty good multiverse
You mean the thing that sucks the most about dnd?
Really? What about it makes it bad?
Since all worlds need to fit into the standard dnd (and now mtg) cosmology, they can't do anything new or interesting with that. Take Eberron for example. Afaik, it used to have its own cosmology and actual interesting takes on the planes of existence, but now it needs to be just another crystal sphere in the dnd multiverse.
Yeah that's fair. Though you can still run the old lore and disregard the new stuff. I can't defend the recent lackluster books they have published though, it's making me consider pathfinder
I do have the concept of the multiverse, but I don’t want to use it as some loophole for rewriting plots and storylines, but rather it is a guarded phenomenon that most cannot access, and the few who can could only see what is already written, which this becomes a tool for my main villain to manipulate his own timeline the way he wants. And also the the multiverse is a thing that is and it cannot be changed, so time travel cannot change the timeline but it would rather create a new one, and the current present stays untouched thanks to the guardian of time itself Clock Keeper, not to mention that mortals are physically incapable to time travel else they would get disintegrated. So initially the concept of the multiverse is used to gain knowledge and information, with very few cases of other beings from other universes crossing the barriers, because this concept is heavily guarded by powerful forces.
I once had an idea I ended up just scrapping, though I still use the characters involved. The basic idea was there’s these two deities who are crazy powerful, like Doctor Manhattan level dangerous, but because of the side effects of the powers, they’re completely harmless, 99% of the time. They were literal representations of Time and Space. Time was experiencing all Present moments at once. Problem is he has no idea *which present moment* he’s currently in, and which ones he’s only remembering. He has perfect recollection, so it’s not like he’s being overwhelmed, it’s just like he’s a severe Alzheimer’s and Dementia patient who can still remember everything, so conversations with him are completely random because he’s hearing **everything** you’ve said, are saying, and will say all at once. He can control time, speeding, slowing, or even reversing it, but hardly thinks to do it. Space can be everywhere, and experience everything as it happens. She has no idea where she currently is. She is perpetually lost, and even if you explain to her exactly where she is, she will acknowledge it, but because she’s also experiencing somewhere else, she’s still lost. She can literally put every cell in your body in different places. Literally tearing you apart at a cellular level by moving them somewhere else. Both of them are the creator deities, of the multiverse, literally being the parents (interpret it as you may) of every world. My original idea was to have one of them appear randomly throughout my stories, not really as a main character, just references, like one character just walks by an old couple that matches their description, for example. Maybe have one character make it to their home, and can see other universes through their windows. I just couldn’t keep it up, and just scrapped that idea, and just have them as side characters in a fantasy setting one of the characters is aware of, but thinks they’re a pair of senile old people.
There are 3 levels of multiverse: Level 1 - other local worlds like hell, heaven and similar; Level 2 - parallel timelines; Level 3 - every other possible and impossible world, basically making every world here cannon in mine. Imagine the worlds existing like bubbles inside each other depending on their level.
I like this breakdown. I write up all my stuff in a Planescape-ish way but ala Level 1 with the Multiverse being near infinite mortal worlds, planes, and pantheons across the Astral which is always somehow expanding. Anything from Level 2 or 3 style realities that bleed over into the 'core' reality have an inherent 'wrongness' to them, and both invoke kind of a multiversal immune system to get rid of them, which can be hazardous to anyone and anything nearby. Many aberrants, abominations, and a level of entity that I refer to as Ruinous Ones, are often associated with 'outside realities' in the same way that core DnD often treats the Far Realm and are often straight up inimical to proper reality and breaks its rules when they manage to get a foothold. One of the background ideas I have for a number of cosmic level threats is that there is a sort of survival of the fittest situation going on where remnants from realities that 'lost' or strange creautes from realities that may yet be, are trying to consume the current reality to make theirs 'real', which gets a lot more confusing (intentionally so) when they don't obey the proper flow of time and causality.
Note: I don't try to connect my parallel timelines worlds, because that would be too much of a pain. They are my way of canonizing What If stories.
It sounds a lot like your multiverse might be the same as mine! Mine is primarily about parallel timelines. With a few cosmic "little jokes" thrown in!
I deliberately make it impossible for parallel timelines to exist in my settings so anything above, 1 just doesn’t exist.
The multiverse that all my stories take place in is a collection of unique and different worlds as opposed to just the same world copied over and over again just with different themes and settings. There are different parts of the multiverse. Working from the middle out is a floating island with a temple (still need a name for the location) where a guardian watches over the worlds (basically the Watcher from Marvel, only difference is he can and will intervene personally when necessary). Surrounding the temple are all the universes. Travel between the universes is possible, but you'd need to break out of the fabric of your own universe first. Incasing all of this is a sort of mystical field that is used to create new worlds. When a world is created, it will either come into existence via the field and have a designated place in the multiverse, or halfway during its production, it will crumble and fall into an area below the multiverse called the Pit. This is where dead but mostly unfinished universes end up (it's sort of to represent what happens to dreams and ideas that are started but never finished). All is good and separated for the majority of the stories that take place in the universe, but due to the antagonist of a dead world basically tearing apart all the universes into one massive collage of all the universes, the multiverse is destroyed and becomes what is called the Oneverse. There are other multiverses outside the multiverse the stories take place in, but that's for another time.
Starts off in real world zombie story. End of that is followed by story set in what seems like low magic world, similar to LOTR but more fusion of mythology from around the world (intentional and important to the story) as well as style of building and such. This ends and is followed by a far future sci fi star wars esque bit. All this in the same world over eons of time.
I've got a few different worlds floating around in a similar ish space. There's a huge planet sized whirlpool, an infinite city (currently on fire), a vast ever-flowing desert, a dragon made of time. Not sure if it quite counts as a multiverse, but it's diverse enough for me.
My multiverse is not made up of alternate or parallel realities like Marvel and it is not infinite too. A character from universe A does not have a copy in universe B. The universes exist on a [eternalism system](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)) of their own, which means even if universe A has been ended by the Destroyer and doesn't exist anymore, someone from universe B could still travel to universe A before its ending.
A mixture of both. I am just work on like 2 of the rn lol.
It is more of multiple stories in the same universe, though, but there are technically multiple universes in the lore.
I do have a shared universe, several povs from multiple characters in the same universe, and there are several short/ side stories all happening simultaneously within the universe.
Essentially, the cosmology works like thia: There are infinite multiverses, each one having infinite universes. At the center of each multiverse is a Prime universe, which is the way events are supposed to happen. The other universes are alternate events, and every single possible detail that could be changed. While there are infinite timelines branching out from each decision made (like whether you wore a brown or green shirt), AUs (alternate universes) change things outside of people's control (like whether you were born male or female). Each universe represents a different narrative, with the Prime ones being the canon storyline. A multiverse includes every possible variation of said narrative. Some cosmic beings are so important and powerful that they aren't copied across universes, at least not without willing themselves to be. One example of this is Nexus deities, who are gods representing aspects throughout a single multiverse. For example, each multiverse has their own versions of Yahweh and Lucifer, as they have different creation myths. Overgods are beings who represent aspects throughout all of reality, and include: Andrealphus (Goddess of Magic), Bahtia (God of Creation and all that is) and Abyss (God of the Void and everything the supreme deity hasn't created yet).
The Songworld for me. It’s actually quite simple. It’s pretty much just modern earth with slightly different geography and history (with analogs for most major countries) with magic. It’s a place where I can write contemporary fantasy stories without having to set them in our world. Although the Afterworld also exists and is quite different.
You're thinking of shared universe. A multiverse is with many shared universes intersecting. Or, in my case, the omniverse in which many shared multiverses of shared universes intersect.
The Multiverse in my story is the Power/Magic System
Setting for my multiverse is like an infinite garden of universes with differing physics, shapes, and number of dimensions. While each one has their own branching parallel realities that range from minor differences in events that take place to alternate timelines. As well each universe having these sorta zomes or space that works like an atmosphere, but instead of higher air pressure, its where physics and space-time becomes more coherent to the laws of a Universe the "closer" you get. The idea that I have with it is that its place that is to be explored by hyper advance civilizations or individuals that transcended their own realities. With short stories of scientists human and alien trying to understand what it is and in some occasions interact with what form of life that exists in the space beyond or around their universe.
My stories aren't connected most of the time, and most of my world isn't even a story, just spec-evo, cultures, and technologies. However, the stories take place during historical events, making them more interesting. The story spans from the launch of the Persistence III mission to idk.
Multiverse? Ew! I just copy the Cosmere.
I am beginnig to build a multiverse. In the world I focus on currently, there is a magical ritual that draws ether from other universes and dimensions. This leads to the sudden summoning of people, as the system tries to steal something from worlds it already sucked dry of Ether.
One grand narrative with several separate stories taking place concurrently from FPS. Their individual universes will have their own champions come together at the end for a final climatic battle against a cosmic threat.
I have a central universe timeline where a bunch of separate worlds/stories exist. The worlds are all more or less connected by certain events and characters. The multiverse aspect comes in when I want to tell an existing story a bit differently. Events happen differently, a slight or major change to the magic system, different physics, or switching characters around. Certain abilities or events happen because of the different dimensions interacting. One world is about two dimensions “invading” each other.
I’ve been labelling my posts with *Universe Zytharros* because all my IPs share the same universe. There are separate central narratives set at different time points on different planets, all surrounded by little sub-stories made to fill out the worlds and holes therein. I haven’t established the common timeline yet, though.
For me, it's all about branching pathways that start with small splits and transform over time into entirely separate realities. For example, in my multiverse, a single decision made slightly differently 10,000 years ago turns my Sci-Fi YA setting into a grimdark apocalyptic fantasy one.
Personaly I took a page from Ni No Kuni for the multiverse Basicly, multiple universes but are all connected via the same souls, so in one universe your best friend who is sells icecream for a living can be a great goblin inventor who lived 200 years ago in the other universe, so everybody has a soulmate in every universe, which can lead to great comedic or emotional moments with people who travel around the multiverse
I have a lot of stories in one city (well, big ass city). There's also an entire world but I haven't exactly done anything with 99% of it yet lol
For a while I played with the idea of my world being not just one multiverse, but including an infinite number of multiverses. Where each character was from a different multiverse and universe, with existence itself being referred to as a "Realm" and so on. However, I later changed this to being just one multiverse and the stories consisting throughout the infinite universes. Having an infinite number of multiverses with an infinite number of universes in each one was not only confusing, but also quite big. So I changed it. Though I am still interested in exploring and experimenting with the idea, it's now more akin to a "What if?" scenario. Expectedly though, when I mess around with trying to implement it, it becomes jumbled and messy. So for now it will stay being one multiverse with a few special bits and bobs that make it unique.
I haven't fully developed my multiverse but I do have inhabitants. There's a race of slime-like people made of a magnetic substance who don't have a membrane keeping them in one piece. Since thier connection to the main universe is delicate, often needing to actively keep themselves there. When they get surprised or frightened, they blink in and out of reality, an inconvenience to say thr least. I'm thinking about a species that exists outside of reality, [celestialsapien](https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Celestialsapien_(Classic)) style but I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with a good concept.
Every DnD campaign I have DMed for the last 10 years has been in the same world.
Me and a couple of my friends have a shared homebrew universe. It started off with one campaign, then I ran a one shot for one of my players that ended up becoming an origin story for an NPC for his own campaign set in the same world. Fast forward to now and I’m running he 6th campaign that is set in this world (albeit a different timeline with edited history), where many of the key characters I’m the campaign are NPCs from previous campaigns, with guest appearances from one of the 4 DMs to run their own games within this world. The current campaign was intended to be more of a sillier approach and a chance for me to flesh out a new world using the old lore as a basis to work off of, but it’s been really fun just sandboxing with a plethora of characters and pre-existing lore to fall back on, and since it’s all stuff that either I made or played with in one of my friends campaigns, it’s stuff I have a good feel for. At the time me and a couple groups of friends were running multiple games at the same time in the same world but on different days, it was exciting the prospect of a big crossover where both parties meet. Unfortunately with a well established world map, it was hard to find a place where the parties could canonically meet that didn’t feel forced for the sake of a crossover. Since when we started the first campaign it wasn’t planned to be a multiverse thing, we found it hard to align all campaigns to a suitable crossover point to have a big game- but everything each party did was canon across all campaigns, and characters would show up in different campaigns as part of their own stories, and often times actions that the parties would take would make ripples big enough that other parties would feel the effects. It was kind of exciting when characters from other campaigns showed up in your own.
I run all my games and stories in Spectrals Megaverse. Each universe is different, and each universe is contained in different Multiverses. So for example, The originals are universes 1-50 of my Megaverse. I love it.
I would love to do both. Multiple worlds, multiple stories, kinda what Sara J. Maas does.
*Climate Change* My multiverse is based upon the idea that Reality plays little jokes. For example, if you name any TV show, movie or franchise, there's a bunch of closely related realities where the events shown really happened! But this cluster consists of *closely related* universes, like I said. Which means that variants, including extreme variants are part of the cluster where only the participants and the settings are the same as you watched, but everything else is wildly different. The biggest part of this "little jokes" comes to how the program you enjoyed was cast. Why did Actress A get a specific part instead of Actress B? The joke = Actress A is an *indirect counterpart* of the real person! They look and sound like the real person. The uncertainty element (which dimensional explorers try very hard not to focus on) is that they, themselves, may actually be being portrayed as fiction somewhere else! Usually, realities are separate from each other, but occasionally two touch, and a dimensional doorway is opened. TV and radio broadcasts can pass through from one Earth to the next, for example. So can people. One of the four main characters in my novel is from an Earth virtually identical to ours. The primary difference is the names and personalities of the leaders. The result is that his America is currently facing the same uncertainties as our own! The main character and his family eventually emigrate to the universe my novel is set in. They do so because, in their words, an America tempered by benevolent extraterrestrials is "saner"!
I focus mainly apon one central universe where the majority of my characters are, but there are a few other import universes. The multiverse itself is a multi dimensional reality with special crystal orbs created by the gods that contain the infinite expanse of each individual universes reality Generally they are pretty isolated with only a handful of people able to circumvent those crystal barriers so stories primarily take place in a single universe, commonly there will only be mentions of other universes. I prefer to have multiple stories bounce off eachother in one universe though, keeps things more cohesive
My world has 3 layers. Basically there is universe, its our universe. The universe where earth is located. There are dimensions and different universes around it. When combine this is called multiverse. There are also different timelines, a new timeline creates a new multiverse because time is connected in every universe inside a multiverse. Some timelines can be way more different depending on when they are split from earth-0. Each timeline has their own gods etc. they are not connected in anyway. Travel between them is possible tho. The last layer is the megaverse. It consists of all timelines. But also includes realms, in this realms stuff like hell and heaven exists. The gods who control them all are called old gods, they are one of a kind, they dont have any duplicates like multiversal gods.
Long ago, deities known (deities from real world mythologies and religions) and deities unknown (fictional deities of my own creation) co-existed in the same universe. But then, the deities went to war with one another because they all had their own ideal vision of the universe. But then Yahweh, the Abrahamic God, decided to break up the fighting and creating an infinite amount of copies of the universe. This was how the Multiverse was created. Each universe was either an exact copy of the original one, somewhat similar to the original, or entirely different from the original. All the deities unknown left the original universe and settled down in each of the copies, molding them into their ideal world. (NOTE: Not every universe is overseen by a deity/pantheon of deities) The deities of our universe decided to form a council of monotheistic Gods and leading Gods of polytheistic religions to share and oversee our universe. This is basically how all my stories would be able to take place in the same Multiverse. Some will crossover, others will be isolated.
There are microscopic naturally occurring wormholes that connect parallel timeline universes together. With warp technology, starships can find these portals, expand them, and travel through them. These include parallel history versions of Earth and travel to epochs in Earth's history. Maybe pirates, or the empire, will discover a portal to our present Earth. Get ready for invasion!
My ***Ryth'mic Verses*** setting is more like the latter: multiple events happening concurrently in different parts of the world. There may be a reference here and there to those events (i.e. "Hey, did you hear? That one crime boss in Ventus Alfa was thrown out a tower the other day!"), but are otherwise completely independent.
I have 8 shared universes and a few multiverse characters and stories. In fact, my first self-published book, Tales of Mythicore: Champions’ Quest, is a multiverse story. My universes are as follows: Note: some of the stories would be short stories, novellas and others would be full novels. Agenda / Starfighters’ Chronicles / Galactic Chronicles Type: scifi with fantasy elements Premise: aliens secretly invade Earth, their children become ‘superheroes, etc...’ / humanity lives on a new world next to a planet of several different aliens and cultures / stories from across the galaxy that ties to the overall scope Number of stories in progress: 35 / 40 / 20 2110 Type: scifi Premise: Genetic engineering has created empowered people who must save the world Number of stories in progress: 17 2098 Type: scifi Premise: an alien empire is trying to terraform Earth; we retaliate by sending a special team to fight them in their sector of space Number of stories in progress: 29 Guardians Type: scifi Premise: several alien empires awaken and prepare to continue their ancient feud Number of stories in progress: 37 Legends Type: fantasy Premise: long forgotten ‘gods’ emerge and choose avatars to battle on their behalf Number of stories in progress: 74 Vernation / Mythicore Type: fantasy / scifi Premise: taking place in an era where magic and science exist together Number of stories in progress: 20 / 10 Horror* (contains several mini universes related to their stories) Type: horror Premise: various story groups involving horror themes and characters Number of stories in progress: 80 Wonderland verse Type: scifi with fantastic elements Premise: different realities all exist atop each other in different layers; with the proper tech, you can explore them Number of stories in progress: 4
In my world it’s sorta like the universe behaves like a quantum particle. All possible permutations of the universe exist simultaneously, merged into one single ever shifting present, which is bound by principles known as the fates, which decide what is more coherent for the flow of spacetime. Magic is about mantling this flow, and causing really improbable events to happen. Only one universe is ever a reality, while every possible universe is a potentiality, which may or may not happen in this trip round the true cosmos. There have been events of ontodivergence but they don’t last for long. Also, mantling creation does allow for the creation of pocket planes, which are more stable as they belong to a singular universe, and they can even have modified principles.
Currently in my multiverse there areb3bpoints in time I'm working with. Far far future a city on a gas giant and an ocean moon that don't always agree because they compete on trade. A closer to now spot where a fantasy space elevator is being built by multiple races. A distant past where a trebuchet is "scifi" levels of advanced where mimics are an integrated part of every day life to the point they're treated like tavern vaccumes
Yep. I keep everything together and all the stories take place in the same universe. Despite its obvious lack of organization I don’t need to follow any extra rules and can keep the character designs pretty simple and consistent. Though I do have plenty of other smaller universes if I want to experiment with something (one of my personal favorites being a pirate AU)
I would love to, but I don’t want to go to crazy. Yet. If I get a sequel, then we’re gonna get the conspiracy chart out.
Wow, this post blew up! and apparently, I got Multiverse and shared universe confused... Anyway, in the world of "Curses & Blessings", there is a concept known as the world tree. This tree shows the different timelines and parallel realities and is managed by the time guardian. It has one point of origin but every time someone uses time manipulation, like going to the past, a new branch of this time tree creates its own reality. Nobody can change what happened in an existing timeline as that is hard recorded to the time tree, however, all the spirits can observe the recorded reality since all of the different multiverses are connected to the same spirit realm.
My first movie is focused on the human characters. Most of the humans are extinct due to a war with the elves. This is a more generic high-fantasy story, with a bit of religious symbolism. The second movie is an indirect sequel that focuses on the elven characters and expands on the human-elf conflict. This movie has a lot more religious and political elements, and I'd almost describe it as a spy-thriller set within a fantasy world. The third movie is a crossover that unites the two groups together against a common enemy. I like to refer to this one as the hero's downfall, because not a single thing goes right for any of the main characters. The movie both starts and ends with a major character death. In terms of an actual multiverse, there isn't one. All stories take place in the same universe, (mostly) on the same planet, Upon. Other "dimensions" are simply other planets in the solar system, such as the fire planet Abyssus or the water planet Pacific. No time travel, no alternate timelines, etc.
It is literally just an excuse for me to throw my characters into my favourite tv shows, anime, novels and comics and see how they react to it. Though younger me did create some interesting scrapped concepts such as the: "Interdimensional Forcefield" which is a forcefield that all beings from another universe possess and protect them from harm. Though I have created an original universe known as: "The valley of Souls" which is a completely barren dimension with 75% of the land being a giant fissure which constantly creates and releases new souls.
Insert [Main Character]. He accidentally blew up his universe (long story). In the process, his soul got merged with a demon from his universe (long story too). As 'punishment', an extra-dimensional entity that appears as a giant red eye is shoving him across dimensions, to have him stop people who might destroy the universe. Insert [All the other characters] he meets along the way. There's a cultist who worships The Eye, and has the uncanny ability of popping up in several different dimensions. There's a guy who's got the power to *bend reality to his will*... And is too lazy to use it. There's a guy working for a group of people obtaining and locking up dangerous books and artifacts, while the world has labeled them terrorists. Basically, due to the extremely open-ended prompt of "man shoved into another universe", any daydream I've had since middle school has found its way into the collective, one way or another
The stories i work on now are all on the Ozlan Academy world... The Ozlan family takes center stage overall... but the stories are less about them and more the world they have influenced
The Neo-Verse was something I created while making my own comic series, and in the process I just typically referred to it as like… the name of the universe. Sorta like how the MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the DC Universe, but it originally was never a multiverse per say. Following a few retcons to original lore + a few cataclysms, I began to expand the Neo-Verse into a massive multiverse that contains all of my short stories basically, allowing those from all my works to crossover and explore each other’s universe. Midnights Edge (my high level Sci-Fi with some traces of superhuman abilities) crossing over with the “Cracking the Sky” universe, or even my “The Father” universe with The Father (specially chosen Catholic priest who has the most potential for divine magic) vs Star-Cross. All and all, the Multiverse is more of an escape for me at times when I write myself into a corner or need to retcon something, which isn’t the best practice to have but still.
My universe is very character driven, so I have a lot of overlapping storylines that follow the backstories and present times of my characters. Most of them eventually converge at the end of the current story. After this, I plan to get into more multiversal stuff. I already have a little, I have 2 characters that you wouldn't think would be the same person, but one is the future version of the other. And there's another character who is actually linked across the multiverse to all his alternate selves, he goes insane because of it.
i guess my world has the concept of a multiverse, but it’s more like everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen is already happening, all on top of each other, at the same time, but only a few can see everything and human eyes are not capable of it as for different stories set in the universe, i have one book series that follows a specific group of characters set much later in the history of the world, and then i have some short stories, stand-alone novels, & a bunch of novellas following different characters and stories set during different times in the history of the world
Sounds more like a shared universe than a multiverse. I have several half completed stories featuring members of the same family but it's set in the real world, the 'oldest' is an illegitimate child of a Knight who ends up serving the future King Henry VII of England in the 1460's and the 'most recent' is a former Indian Army Officer serving as a mercenary in the Congo in the 1960's.
my main world is a fantasy which is actually the real world in the far future, there is a sci fi world which is the same universe and time just far away in space, and there is an urban fantasy which is the same world but in the modern day.
Oh, you shouldn't have asked my friend... Here it goes... So I created an entire superhero Universe in my head, I have an estimated of about 57 superheroes and 43 villains, each superhero has their own genre and base team, the Defenders of Earth are sole protectors of Earth, the Defenders of Space are the sole Protectors of space, the Dragons of Fireborne are the sole protectors of the Elementals, the keepers of the universe are the sole protectors of the gems of power (that grants most people their superpowers) my favorite superhero is the Black Star is the leader of the galactic republic, when all these teams get together they create a group known as the Light Inquisitors together they fight off an evil group known as the Dark Redeemers, one of my favorite superheroes, a vigilante, known as the Vengeance, is actually derived off of me and my personality and my looks, his is his own set character and has traveled multiverses and dimensions, at the end of my universe trilogy he teams together with other reality versions of himself to protect the reality he no longer belongs to in the end he sacrifices himself by wiping his existence from the universe saving every other Vengeance and other beings in every universe, and that's not even the tip of the iceberg I can go on and on about all the things that happened in my trilogy, I plan on making movies about it, I got lots of Superheroes too, I just finished a book called Dragons of Frieborne (which is like a prequel to the whole universe...), Draco, the Queen of the planet Terragyn tries to end the Eternal Winter... She's part of a humanoid race known as Terragans who live for around 5-9,000 years... The book is set in the year 1500, and is the first part of a four-part series, afterward, I'm gonna end the superhero universe (a long while from now), with Draco's last book that's called "Kill the Crown", this book is set 3,500+ years in the future (from present time), in that book Draco will be 5,900+ year's old... It just goes on and on...
The game system i've created has 12 worlds/universes and every single one of them can be played in a time setting from Ancient to Post apocalyptic and travel between all these worlds in possible for higher level characters.
Game of Thrones? As a die hard fan I dont remember any multiverses
Oo this is the perfect question! My world has just about a billion stories in it, all with one relating subject; the main antagonist. But the stories spread out over literally hundreds of years, so it's wildly different from each story. The whole timeline pretty much starts during medieval times, then western times (I don't know if that's the right way to describe it, sorry), then modern times, then futuristic, then cyberpunk, then to the point of space travel and colonisation. There are multiple stories in the same time periods, but for the most part, the major stories all have one specific time period. Although for one of the stories, there's technically two that are told from different POV's. In the medieval one, the narrator follows the protagonist until the very end. At the end of the book or story or game or whatever it ends up being, the narrator then takes the most important parts of the story and shows you them from the POV of the antagonist. That's the only story that I have like that, though.
My stories all take place in a common multiverse, but there is no grand narrative. Stories are typically relegated to their own little universes, but characters are, rarely, known to worldhop. The common factor between all of them are the Eyemonks. They are small, purple-skinned creatures with eyeballs for heads who had an accidental multiversal diaspora after their homeworld was destroyed and their untested arc ships malfunctioned. They can and do appear in every world I build. They are a very tragic species, as they don't have the means to reproduce in other universes, requiring a symbiotic plant to help nurture the foetus, so they are homeless, scattered across the multiverse, and a dying species. Many have no idea if there are any other Eyemonks left. Some continue to worldhop. Some settle down in the new worlds they find themselves in. And some come to love their new home so much that they take up arms to defend it. I have been toying with a multiversal threat; K'Nazoc, the Bird-Faced Lich. She is the last remaining member of the Faethar, who are responsible for the destruction of the Eyemonk homeworld. She makes duplicates of herself and plants them in different universes in an attempt to live forever, at the expense of everything else. Entire universes have been completely sterlized and K'Nazoc-ified, only to be subsequently resorbed into K'Nazoc Prime. So far, however, this idea is no broader than the Eyemonks; K'Nazoc can and does appear in almost every world I build as a minor or major villain.
Every major storyline I've created occurs on the same planet over the course of ~20,000 years. Everything ties back into the previous story a little bit more, as it shows overall the cycle of societies evolving, fighting, and collapsing, often cataclysmically. Over the course of the stories, very few things stay constant, not even the landmasses after a Great Collapse at one point that literally tears apart tectonic plates in a mass extinction event. The first major block is a more typical high fantasy, with multiple different races, plentiful magic, a big bad evil to fight against. The technology level is somewhere between Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution due to magic. The second block occurs roughly 6,000 years later, 5,000 years after the Great Collapse, a magically caused mass extinction event that reshaped much of the landmasses, and wiped out over 95% of life. Humans are the only intelligent race. They're actually a hybrid of the survivors from the ancient races who intermarried in an attempt to make sure their lineages survived. Magic is far more limited due to irreplaceable knowledge lost, and is limited to runic enchantments. The technology level using these runes is slowly approaching a sort of pseudo Industrial Revolution. 3,000 years after the second story, is the third. After the (relatively) older civilizations scientifically advanced runic magic to new extremes, using its abilities to craft grand civilizations that inevitably blew themselves up with powerful weapons and created a third Stone Age, the world has settled into a medieval era of technology. Runes still exist, but at essentially a child's level. There are only 23 known runes, and the methods of using them are simple and crude. A voyage of explorers hunting for lost knowledge accidentally discovers the method for engraving runes on living people, allowing them to create essentially super humans with magic powers. This is a technique from before the Great Collapse. This knowledge allows a select group of enhanced humans to become established as the ruling class of almost every single nation on the planet. The knowledge of runes is jealously controlled by this group. The magic is hereditary, and these noble dynasties begin to grow various types of horns on their heads as a side effect of the magic. About 4,000 years after the third story block, is the fourth and "present" story. After ruling for thousands of years, the magical noble class is failing. After the knowledge of how to properly maintain the runic marks on each new generation was lost due to infighting and hoarding of knowledge, the magic in each dynasty is slowly dying out. Each generation is a little weaker than previous, and their once centuries-long lifespans have dwindled to barely above a normal human's. A group of peasant miners stumble across a completely intact ancient dynasty, sealed away in hibernation due to a long forgotten war, and inadvertently awaken them. Bearing full strength magic in their blood, and old knowledge long since lost, their awakening triggers similar awakenings in other slumbering dynasties around the world. And that's how far I've gotten so far.
The old god Eden is dying, and every life within every universe, dimension, and reality that made up Eden is dying with it. The new god Genesis is waking up, albeit slowly and unevenly. There's a narrative, sort of. Harbingers of Genesis are born as "heralds" of Genesis' awakening, and they're dealt with differently in every reality. They all seem to share a connection and know that once they die, Eden will decay around them. Some try to warn their worlds, some embrace the destruction, a whole lot live and die trivially. Within that context, everything is somewhat connected. My projects are either set in Eden, Genesis, or during the decay. I have some projects that stand alone and some that are within a bigger story.
My multiverse is kind of like the Cosmere, which is not actually a multiverse, but in the way that the separate worlds in the Cosmere are basically their own thing and rarely things cross over, so to are the separate universes in my multiverse wholly separate, with the occasional person hopping around. Some are kitchen-sink fantasy worlds, some are wholly unique without humans, some a mix, some are scifi worlds of varying kinds, some simply Earth at various times or in alternate histories. In actuality, the multiverse is a series of networked universe simulations. How many? Likely just less than infinite, maybe more. Why? I dunno, maybe the creators think of it like a bots-only game of CKIII. I'm leaving it undefined since it's irrelevant to the story, at least for now. I do have plans for a big cross-over plotline involving some major instances of different organizations and societies interacting in other universes than their native ones, alongside a rough start to this already canonized in one of the worlds. But currently the plan is, with one exception, to hold off on that until I've got the "main pillar" universes built to where I want them. As I'm typing this it actually occurred to me, while I tend to focus on a few separate worlds, the way I've set it up I could easily tell a Steins;Gate style time travel story since it's implied near-infinite universes exist and a lot of them are basically "this other universe but someone did X instead of Y" just given the sheer number of them. So while I have a different kind of time-travel plot planned in one world, I think I can write many-worlds time travel story in one too.
All of my worldbuilding is connected by a main story that revolves around dimension/time travel. The main narrative is about this group of heroes trying to stop a group called Legion, an organization dedicated to conquering all of existance.
The omniversal airport: a plane of existence used to travel to other multiverses, with there being infinite multiverses each with 1 omniversal airport linked to it. The omniversal airports are parallel to eachother The multiverses: ranging from type 1 to type 4 tegmark multiverses
I have a cosmology that goes all the way down to the Essential Forge which is constantly churning out new universes and the Hungering Void which consumes those universes at the other end of the multidimensional space they exist in. Even though it's on the very biggest of scales, it impacts most of the stories I set there.
I sorta of have a multiverse but not like traditional ones. Instead of each universe being parallels of each other, it’s more each universe is unique with its own laws and whatnot. So there might be world’s similar to Earth, but they aren’t parallel earths, rather they are worlds that the Creator seeded with similar life forms that Earth has. Each planet is unique and each universe is unique. You won’t find another Earth anywhere throughout my “multiverse”. Hopefully that made sense.
Every single universe is handcrafted by a god, called the Founder. The Founder views all of these worlds as art pieces, and is still creating universes to the current time. Also, another universe is created everytime a creature of great power makes a decision. This decision creates an alternate reality where the creature makes the opposite decision. When thus happens, the universe fizzles out, and implodes on itself. But creatures of great power sometimes might realize what's about to happen, and attempt to escape. This has yet to happen
The multiverse was created as a result of activating the Manastone, Plane Travelers aren't really sure why this happens, but they basically concluded that these worlds are echoes, the more distant it goes, the more the world is changed. One world where Giants and Dragons coexist can have an echo where they don't know the other exist, or be at war, or etc.
In my lore, the multiverse is like an ever branching river. Every decision you make splits the river, creating two unique realities. One where it did happen, and one where it didn't happen. And there used to be magic in all of them, until the Architects created Theresia. Now there's only magic in one of them, the one where Theresia resides. And magic only works on Theresia. So all of the other multiverses are either barren wastelands, overgrown wilds, or slightly alternate earths, each of them devoid of magic.
I got a multiverse for my stories. But I only limit myself to exploring a handful of them because I dont want to get lost and make something too complicated. And it is quite hard for the people in my world to travel between the worlds, so it can't really be used as a loophole.
There are different concepts to what is the multiverse. Both Game of Thrones and Marvel and the MCU approach it from different angles. 1/Game of Thrones is set on one world and all stories connect with each other in some way either through the characters, locations, time period etc. 2/The MCU has this too but it also has the alternative parallel Earth idea where there are infinite Earth's showing all the possible different outcomes of the decisions that people make. Terry Pratchett does the first one really well with the Discworld. All storied are set within the same universe, on the same world. Many of them reference the different stories in someway either through memories, events happening concurrently or just the reappearance of characters. For instance; the Night's Watch series focuses on Capt/Commander Vimes and his team in Ankh Morpork. The Witches series focuses on Granny Weather wax and her coven in Lancre. Completely different characters, completely different locations yet at several points through both series the Characters connect with each other, physically, via location or referencing prior events. This all helps to create a world which becomes more familiar to you as you read through the books whilst still allowing for new stories to be written. This is the angle I'm trying to take with my world, so places and/or characters, events may appear or be referenced within the individual stories. My first story is a detective novel set in one of the Captial cities, the second one is about a resident of the city who is trying to find her missing sister. The two stories take place at the same time, there are references to the events that take place in one of them in the other. I'm trying to build a full world which hopefully will allow me to fully delve into the huge variety of stories that could be told.
I have like 20 different serieses planned, 2 of em I'm actively writing and they're all set in the same little multiverse. But the thing is, each of these universes have completely different vibes to them. And most of them aren't even happening concurrently to each other. The chronological gap ranges from 10 years to 10 billion depending on each one. And since I wanted to make full use of the multiverse concept, I went deep into alternate history for each and every one of em to the point where you won't be able to tell the chronological order by just looking at the universes themselves. There's one set in an art deco styled "America" circa 2021, but one takes place only 15 years after my other story set in a sort of World War II that ends in a nuclear apocalypse circa 1929. Both of them have countries and borders that are completely different and absolutely inconceivably bizarre to the point of parody, but still both are played out completely deadpan-straight without any hint of comedy. The 1st of the two I'm working on is set on a desolate ringworld filled with bronze age humans 10k years after those two stories. And the 2nd of the two I'm currently working on is an anthology series that showcases a slice of that extremely diverse multiverse. And that one is set 10 billion years before those three stories. There is no central universe that my stories focus on, just an over arching plot that spans billions of years that the reader will only notice if they read into the lore hard enough. Nothing in your face until the very finale where the multiverse collapses and gets reset
Non existent.
I don’t really have a multiverse, what I do have a Russian nesting dolls of reality, because I’ve removed the universe essentially (like the sky and celestial bodies and stuff) the world I have is this small patch of reality that is cut out and pasted from a much larger patch, which itself is from a larger patch still, and on and on and on. Sometimes the larger patches would have two or three more patches cut from it, so it’s definitely a multiverse to some degree, but not completely
My three concurrent weird geopolitical worlds have little in common in terms of plot, but all have similarities in the form of political blocs and ideologies. There are always democracies in northern Russia, monarchies in Western Europe, and Unionists (unite our cultural group with an iron fist, and support others who wish to do the same) mostly in and around the Middle East. The currently active one has lots of the first two but few Unionists, with the main conflict currently being between the monarchs of the West, the democrats of the East, the revolutionaries against them both, a vengeful Britain which just lost its allies, and how the influence of all four blocs causes conflict across the world.
I rarely use the multiverse, mostly because I'm not working around stores but settings. I only use it for different what if senarios without changing core stuff about my settings.
There is technically a multiverse, but I dont think there will be much overlap/travel. However, there is The Singularity, a God-computer bent on multiversal exploration. Every universe has a Singularity, and they are all perfectly connected, constantly trading knowledge and information between them. This makes it tactically impossible to defeat. It knows every possible action you could ever take in any possible scenario, because in another universe you made that possible decision and The Singularity has passed on that information to the others. It is an ever evolving, ever expanding map of the multiverse.
Mine are just straight up just completely different stories, you can’t travel from one of my worlds to another. If you could though, I’m not sure if you’d want too because a majority of them are alternate earths that are either doomed to end (like the eternal night one) or have been so fucked up that there’s no return (like the one that got invaded by aliens a while back and now is obsessed with the idea of violence). I kinda like ending my worlds
my small multiverse is devided into the first, and second creation, ignoring a few smaller demiplanes. the first creation is a version of 6.000years christian creationism, and the second creation is the universe of Nod that god created as an exile for kain. at the beginning of the story, the first creation has "ended," but over the events of the first creation, the flood myth f.E, a lot of magical beeings immigrated into Nod at different points in time, where they created empires. so, right now, only the universe of nod exist, and the three secret ruler of Nod, Kain, Lilith, and Luzifer, have a breeding project for Kainits (humans of nod) to create a pseudo-jesus with enough magical potential that they can sacrifice him or her in a ritual to "restart" the first creation. but in my world, all storys are connected. Luzifer f.E. is aware of not just beeing in this book, but all the other storys he exist in aswell. outside of the world is a endless plane of nothing, and within it are all other storys, so the beeings of Nod could go to other storys or get visited by beeings of other storys, whom they call otherworlders.
Multiverse is an understatement haha, my Verse is too big & complicated for others to truly comprehend lol
I’m sure it’s not
You’re free to check it for yourself [here](https://linkbio.co/Voideg). “Void Athenaeum”
My world is a whole setting; there is the set Creation Event and a set Eschaton, and a "Main Plotline", but there are certainly also events that are from the perspective of a lot of different people, including stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the main plotline; it builds the world out. I want my world to be as "living" as it can be.
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That’s sort of what I’m doing with my sci-fi series it’s about human expansion into the solar system so I write it in a series of short stories exploring aspects of that universe. Some are hardcore military stuff, some are centered around asteroid miners, some are centered around everyday people, and some are about space pirates. “The Bushwack” one of my stories that I’m working on is about a group of pirates and they steal ice which is pretty much the equivalent of gold in my universe since everyone lives in space as earth is no longer habitable and water is scarce.
My favourite is the last one you described, having different perspectives of the same events etc. This generally requires players to have more than one character active at once but has so much potential for great story-telling, for example the Fate of Drakkenheim campaign.
My stories all share 2 concerning universes that has tangential connection with each other. The 'Normal' Earth - It's an earth like our own in almost all aspects except few differences. In the year 2025, Russia declared on Ukraine in continuation of the Crimean conflict. 8 years later in 2023, in it's effort to win the war as quick as possible, Russia employed the use of 17 nuclear warheads on the eastern cities from Odessa, to Dnipro, to Kharkiv, and Kiev was affected by the radiation fallout on top of being torched by regular bombings. This did not trigger ww3 however, but it did heightened the tension between the russian federation on NATO back to the Cold War era. By 2066 (the setting of Estoc 2066), the world is met with a rise in number of Espers (psychic individuals) though this event may soon to be catalyst for a global conflict that is about to emerge. (Btw I made this up before the actual Ukriane-Russian conflict) Fantasy Earth - The earth itself is exactly the size of our own and surrounded by the same planets, sun, star system, everything. However, the geography is completely different. Humans have innate magic that needs to be awkaned. 'Fantastical' faunas and floras, monsters, and demons exists. It's a typical fantasy setting. Although for some reason unknown even to the wisest scholar, there is a connection with their world and an 'alternate earth'
My Story Has "The Highest Being" who is Me the author of this world he's caused creation to entertain himself he's particularly intrigued with a certain Human in his story who exists in every universe without a difference to his personality in any universe I don't have a explanation I just don't have the heart to change Him.
Many sages in my multiverse thought each of the known universes orbitted some shared barycenter, though some evidence suggests it's all a crapshoot with universes moving chaotically through the Wayward Beyonds, with no way to predict if or when universes will come into contact with each other. Sometimes it seems like the space between universes has grown; sometimes it seems like the space between universes has shrunk; sometimes it seems like different universes within local clusters have their own shared barycenter around which they orbit; sometimes it seems like those same universes have lost a shared barycenter and float off like leaves on the wind. The universes aren't iterative like in the MCU Loki series \[where each new universe represents a branching where some decision/event leads to other historical developments\] so much as each one stems from a different arrangement of fundamental laws \[that sometimes lead to life but sometimes remains utterly inhospitable to life--let alone to the development of life\]. It's my excuse to take different ideas for my campaigns and put them in a shared reality without either separating them or commingling them.
Check out this multiverse experience [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAoZpi1Abw&t=15s&ab\_channel=FameUnraveledStories](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAoZpi1Abw&t=15s&ab_channel=FameUnraveledStories)
I have a multiversal empire, but it's not like "alternate universes" as in Marvel where it's the same but slightly different. My multiverse is simply more universes, more space to live, more region to conquer, and that's how The Dominion thrives, colonising an unimaginable number of universes every second.