User blog:Inferno Pendragon/Villains Megaverse

as we enter the new year I'm still devoting a lot of time to trying to get the cosmology stuff sorted out and while the afterlife / soul stuff will be a debate that goes on infinitely (as is the nature of such things) I figured I'd try and speak about "Megaverse" so that we can understand a bit more about the mind-boggling concepts myself and Misery sometimes discuss when refering to Omniverse theory.

As authors we have created many different realities and each runs in a fairly unique way, however where they end up in the "multiverse" depends on several things:


 * "mainstream" worlds are realities written with the "core" concepts of Villains Lore in mind, these worlds govern by much the same concepts and laws, characters regularly interact with one another and in general all the usual godheads and cosmic types are involved to varying degrees.. a great deal of our sagas take place in "mainstream".


 * "alternate" worlds are realities that were once "mainstream" but have since deviated via certain events or influences that have altered one or more of the Villains Lore "core" concepts and laws : examples of this would be worlds with deviant history such as "Inferno kills Ebonscale and takes his place (Inferno II)" or worlds with significantly different canon such as "Misery and Red never separated and Auburn remained the spirit of vengeance (as opposed to Hubris in "mainstream").


 * finally we have "bubble" worlds, these are realities that can be considered part of the "megaverse" rather than multiverse proper.. these worlds are not part of the "tree" but still connected to it via little "threads" if you will, allowing interaction with it more frequently than completely "alien" worlds.. these worlds have their own cosmology and laws, sometimes radically different from Villains Lore.. yet due to being connected to the "mainstream" tree (even faintly) they will often share at least a few elements.

"alien" worlds will not concern us as writers but are worth mentioning nevertheless, these are settings completely separated from Villains Lore - beyond the "Abysm Wall" if you will.. these are still Omniverse but include things we as a community obviously can never interact with (Star Wars, Marvel, DC, "real world" and so on for infinity).