Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse, sometimes written as multi-verse or MultiVerse and occasionally appreviated to just verse, is short for "multiple universes" and describes the Course Books storyworld. The Consecution and Antelope series' take place within the same storyworld. However, the many worlds across which the story takes place cannot be accurately described as "universes" in the conventional sense, as the fact that there are more than one pretty much negates the term "universe".

Each "universe" or dimension is seperated by walls of aether which cannot be physically crossed. People and machines can cross between worlds through magic, or by a variety of technologies, but you cannot simply walk or fly from one world to another.

The Course Books primarily take place within a segment of the verse called "the Known Worlds", covered mostly by the Alliance and Gudersnipe Foundation. The unknown beyond this is believed to be relatively small by comparison, however the true extent of the Multi-Verse is not fully understood. The Antelope Books take place on a planet considered to be just beyond the edge of the Known Worlds, but is actually within charted territory.

In the fourth and fifth books of the series involve an invasion said to be from another Multi-Verse, thus offering the theory of multiple Multi-Verses. Joshua later explains this away by offering that the aether walls surrounding what is considered to be "their" Multi-Verse are simply very thick. He proffers that it is all really one Multi-Verse subdivided by thicker-than-normal aether walls creating "clusters" of improperly-defined universes. With this knowledge, how far the Empire of Roads trully stretched remains a mystery.