Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)

Previously On... The Multiverse
Main character(s):	The Bookwyrm
Main setting:	Plume Coteries' Library
Key crew
Publisher:	Arcbeatle Press
Writers:	Aristide Twain, Peter Guy, Lena Mactire, James Wylder
Release details
Part of:	The Book of the Snowstorm
Release date:	26 December 2023

Navigation
The Book of the Snowstorm
Next →	The Book of the Snowstorm
Coloth
← Previous	The Cactus and the Corpse
Next →	The Book of the Snowstorm
Corsair Queen
Next →	Our Finest Gifts We Bring
The Detective of Ishiok
Next →	The Claus-Rosen Bridge
Dionus
Next →	Trauma and Tinsel
Auteur
← Previous	The Cactus and the Corpse
Next →	The Claus-Rosen Bridge
SIGNET
← Previous	Coda
Next →	Magic Bird of Fire
Small Miracles
← Previous	Samhain Miracles
Next →	Our Finest Gifts We Bring
The Castaways of Ishiok
Next →	The Cathedral of Winter
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
← Previous	And Today, You
Next →	Conspiracy-1263 and the Christmas Conspiracy
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids crossover fiction
← Previous	And Today, You
Next →	Our Finest Gifts We Bring

Previously On... The Multiverse was a prologue or preamble to the 2023 anthology The Book of the Snowstorm. It acted as a summary for an immense number of stories that had taken place in prior releases, briefly summarising characters and organisations from across Arcbeatle Press's output, such as Coloth, Auteur, Jenny Everywhere, SIGNET, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and Lady Aesculapius, an in-universe summary supplied directly to the reader or an unknown person by the Bookwyrm.

Summary

The Bookwyrm introduces a great many individuals and organisations from across the multiverse.

Characters

• Coloth
• Callum
• Maritsa
• Rich
• Corsair Queen
• Tirion
• Lotto
• Mae
• Dionus
• Auteur
• Gideon
• Virtuoso
• Gemini Shadow
• Caoimhe MacMurrough
• Kyla Verger
• Bex Taylor
• Violet O'Hara
• Kayzee
• Draven Pelletier
• Cleo Mentia
• Charles Zoltan
• Xanara Pasam
• Olivia
• Aoife Fitzgerald
• Jae-Sun
• Augustus Grange
• Maurice Griss-Ventner
• Abraytha Janus Colefia
• Lady Aesculapius
• The Multi-Coloured Medic
• Jenny Everywhere
  • Jenny Everywhere
• Laura Drake
• Jenny Nowhere
• Jenny Over-There
• The Man in Grey
• Dynamite Thor
• The Abstract of Luminance
• The Abstract of Remembrance
• The Abstract of Chaos
• Thymon
• Spatium
• Psykha
• Sophie Everytime
• The Bookwyrm

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Coloth is from the Third Universe, as first seen in PROSE: War Crimes ^[+]Loading...["War Crimes (short story)"].
• Coloth, Callum and Maritsa spent half a year as outlaws in the Plume Coteries' Library, as seen in PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse ^[+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"].
• The Third Universe is ruled by Archons of the Morning Star.
• Auteur was once the goddess of Gendar with the help of "fellow minor deity" Gideon, as seen in PROSE: The Gendar Conspiracy ^[+]Loading...["The Gendar Conspiracy (short story)"].
• SIGNET is based in York, as first seen in PROSE: Hervoken Halloween ^[+]Loading...["Hervoken Halloween (short story)"].
• Charles Zoltan, Xana, Olivia, Aoife and Jae-Sun recently combatted the Yssgaroth, as seen in PROSE: Night of the Yssgaroth ^[+]Loading...["Night of the Yssgaroth (novel)"].