WTF is the Flameborn Multiverse?

The Flameborn multiverse is based on the premise that Fëanor, Fingolfin and Finarfin were A. lovers with each other and B. in most [but not all] universes, reincarnated as mortal [which is not canon; Finarfin is still alive canonically, and in canon the Eldar are re-embodied rather than re-incarnated] and they find their way back to each other and to Maglor, across multiple universes, where different things happen to the same set of characters and across each universe they meet under different circumstances. In some/most universes the Valar give them a choice and they choose to reincarnate as mortal so Maglor isn't alone, still wandering Middle-Earth thousands of years post-canon.

➤Fëanor is reborn as an Icelander named Sören Sigurðsson.

➤Fingolfin is reborn as a mortal named Nicholas Decaux or Nicolae Dooku depending upon universe.

➤Finarfin is reborn as a mortal named Anthony Hewlett-Johnson.

➤Usually, Nicholas/Nicolae is the oldest of the three [born in the late 1940s-1960s depending on universe] and Sören is the youngest of the three [born in the 1980s-1990s depending on universe], a reverse of Fëanor being the eldest. Usually Sören and Anthony are only four and a half years apart, but in OnlyMags I increased their age difference [Anthony is in his forties and Sören is in his twenties] and that may probably be my trend going forward with new projects.

➤Most of the universes/standalones are set in the 2000s. There is a chance that down the road as I get more of my to-do list conquered, I may write earlier time periods as well as far-future fic [though To Loose The Fateful Lightning ends in 2049, when Sören is sixty-five].

With the exception of Corn of Eternity, most of my universes and standalones are E-rated porn-with-plot.

There are occasionally worlds within the multiverse where Fëanor, Fingolfin and Finarfin remain elves [either they never die, or Fëanor and Fingolfin are re-embodied as elves] - currently Shades Of Silver-Gold is my only work where this happens but there will be others in the future. The brothers are still lovers, however.

Each series on AO3, except for my series explicitly marked as collections of standalones, is its own universe. Northern Lights is one universe comprised of five stories building a narrative. Learning To Fly is seven stories set in the same universe. Etc.

Unlike the MCU, where you pretty much have to watch 10+ other movies to be able to follow along with new releases, it is not necessary to read the entire 900k+ words of Northern Lights to be able to understand Learning To Fly to be able to understand Under The Rose. Each universe is part of the multiverse but it is self-contained, so if you only want to read one, you're not really missing anything.

With that said, I do drop little Easter eggs and tiny bits of interconnectivity - Sören multiverse-hops in To Loose The Fateful Lightning [Northern Lights universe] and that version of him shows up on-screen in the Under The Rose universe and off-screen in Learning To Fly [Lightning says what specifically he did while he was there]. There are also moments of deja vu where a character will repeat an exact sentence across universes, or the same sort of event will happen but to different people. So while you don't have to read every single everything for context, you will get some bonus "hey, cool" moments if you end up reading everything.

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A breakdown of what's going on in each universe

Seeds Of Fire

The canon-era backstory for any modern-era A/B/O universes/standalones I write. Fëanor is an Omega; Sören is an Omega in my A/B/O fic. 42 individual stories about Fëanor or his kin, some of them one-shots, some of them multi-chapters. It's not necessary to read every single story in the series for context, a lot of the stories are just PWP and some involve kinks that people may not be into.



Northern Lights

The OG of my universes, which I started in 2018. The universe is a mashup of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Norse mythology, and the most explicitly supernatural of my universes.

It starts off with Early Installment Weirdness - the first book, Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time, is about Sören and Dooku meeting and falling in love, and Dooku has some angst about his age which results in them breaking up [but getting back together at the end]. It's much lighter and fluffier than the rest of the books in the series, which get progressively darker in tone. It's notable for having modern-day versions of other Star Wars characters, an idea I'd pretty much abandoned by the third book in the series because by 2019 I was pretty well and done with Star Wars fandom.

In Chains introduces Maglor, and Like Flames introduces Ali, Kenny, and... Anthony. In Blood Sings literal Ragnarök happens and in To Loose The Fateful Lightning Sören goes on a universe-hopping adventure and his character takes a decidedly darker turn [he snaps after trauma and goes on a hunt after his rapist ex across universes].

➤Sören starts off as a barista in England [he was a bartender in Iceland], during In Chains/Like Flames he runs an art studio in Akureyri, in Blood Sings and Lightning he's living in Australia in something akin to a witness protection program but for MI6 to keep an eye on Force-sensitives.

➤Nicolae Dooku starts off as a barrister, retires in Iceland and writes novels, and once they're in Australia he works as a chef.

➤Maglor is a wandering musician who met Sören under the alias Alejandro Magalhães, the first and only time I've used a name that isn't some variation of Mark/Marcus for him.

➤Anthony commands a nuclear submarine for the Special Boat Service [we find out later he was one of the keepers of the letters of last resort], is a Gulf War vet, and gets dragged into MI6 when his Force sensitivity is discovered. He gets assigned by MI6 to keep an eye on Sören's family and develops a Bodyguard Crush on Sören, which is very very mutual, and they spend most of Blood Sings eye-fucking each other and trying to fight their attraction.

➤Alinta, aka Ali, is Sören's maternal cousin and she's half-Aboriginal [Sören's uncle Böðvar moved to Australia and married an Aboriginal woman], and is partnered to Kenny, a Korean-American; Ali is a major POV character in Like Flames and Blood Sings. Ali eventually ends up sharing Maglor with Sören and his partners. Northern Lights is thus far the only universe of mine where Ali and Kenny show up on-screen, though they make a guest appearance in SV's Silmarella [see way way further down].

➤When Sören is living in Australia he uses the alias Stefan Kierkegaard and pretends to be Danish [his third language]; he ends up having a son that he names Søren Kierkegaard, who is a mini-him. Ali has a Peredhel daughter with Maglor named Elanora who is a musical prodigy. It's not really kidfic, but the kids do get some screen time.

➤Sören has an abusive ex named Justin Roberts, who is not based on any one individual person but is several of my worst exes rolled together.

There are five books in Northern Lights. Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time can be read as a standalone, if you just want to read Dooku getting it on with a younger guy who looks like Jon Snow, who tries to pull the stick out of Dooku's ass, and In Chains can also be read as a standalone if you just want to see Maglor find happiness. The other three books in the series depend on each other for context, though there are people who've only read one of them and left kudos so I assume they could theoretically also be read as standalones, and I do try to provide little "previously" bits and pieces so you're not completely lost with what's going on.

My friend SemperViridis has suggested new readers start with this universe, because Anthony doesn't show up until the third book and if you've read Learning To Fly first then this it may be confusing as to why he's not on screen for the first two, but Learning To Fly overall has more hits/kudos [and tends to be in the middle of the supernatural-to-mundane scale] which seems to imply people like it better so I actually suggest LTF if you're starting out - with that said, you do you, read what interests you, it probably isn't that big of a deal which universe you start with.

If you are Pagan, this universe may potentially be uncomfortable for you because this is an AU where certain of the gods have become corrupted [again, Ragnarök happens].

Furthermore, I cannot emphasize enough that Blood Sings and To Loose The Fateful Lightning both get very dark.

Finally, it needs to be said that Northern Lights has a fraught history and In Chains, Like Flames and Blood Sings underwent major edits because of it. I can no longer re-read the stories in the series because it hurts too much, like ripping open a wound, but I refuse to orphan something I worked so hard on, so I archive-locked everything from In Chains down for mental health reasons.

There are companion "Easter egg" one-shots in Northern Lights: Appendices if so inclined. This series is also archive-locked.



Learning To Fly

The most soap-opera of my universes, set mostly in London, that documents the breakdown and rebirth of Sören and Anthony's relationship, and falling into a polymuddle. While You Sang To Me is chronologically the first book in the series, I wrote it closer to the end of the series. If you start off reading You Sang To Me you will have some context for why Anthony is Like That in Rain Falls, but you can also read Rain Falls first and You Sang To Me later and You Sang To Me will hit harder. Up to you.

LTF is not as explicitly supernatural as Northern Lights - it starts off with a little weirdness and gets progressively weirder as the series goes on, with the most weirdness in Rise, the conclusion.

The main narrative of LTF is

There are companion one-shots in Love Nest which are not necessary for context but might be fun to read.

In this universe:

➤Sören is a neurosurgeon and works for the NHS.

➤Nicholas Decaux is a Classics professor at UCL.

➤Anthony is a criminal defense barrister. Following a car accident, he ends up with a spinal injury where he permanently needs to use a cane.

➤When we meet "Mark" [Maglor] he's a mature student at Cambridge; later he's a wandering musician living for awhile in Scotland.

➤Sören manages to avoid being involved with Justin Roberts, but Justin is the driver that crashes into Anthony.


Under The Rose

The most "mundane" of my completed universes, which still has some weirdness happening [elf wandering Middle-Earth, past life dreams].

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, where Sören and "Mark" [Maglor] share an Airbnb house in Sausalito for the summer and hook up, can be read as a standalone.

➤Sören, Nicolae Dooku, and Maglor are all professors at the University of Oregon in Corvallis; Sören teaches art, Dooku teaches ancient history because he was there, and "Mark" teaches musical theory.

➤Anthony was a criminal defense barrister, moved to the US for safety reasons, and now specializes in civil rights law. Anthony is also a trans guy in this universe [in Northern Lights and Learning To Fly he's cis]. Anthony makes a cameo in The Hounds Of Love and his formal entrance in Hello, It's Me.

➤This universe focuses more heavily on Sören's relationship with Maglor, but Sören and Dooku pine for each other like idiots [and Sören doesn't even know Dooku is gay]; Dooku and Anthony end up as a couple, and eventually it turns into a quad.

➤Maglor is much more of a dork in this universe and you get to see him rocking out to hair metal. This is where the "Hells and the KISS dolls" thing started. [Maglor: "Action figures."] He's also a lot more dominant here than in my other universes, which some people appreciated when I was allowing comments.

➤Sören has a sort-of-girlfriend named Sharon and an almost-girlfriend named Karen but it doesn't really go anywhere.

➤Sören has an abusive ex named Seth Robinson [again, not based on any individual but several]. Justin is around however, and Karen killed him in self-defense.



Corn Of Eternity

Co-authored with my roommate. We've been working on this since 2020, it's nowhere near done, honestly we don't even know what "done" looks like.

The premise is that my OCs go to Indiana to visit her OCs, end up staying there long-term courtesy of the United States government once their Force-sensitivity is discovered... and it turns out that it's maybe not a coincidence they've all convened in Indiana because Maglor needs to be rescued, and Sauron is at large - he has a carnival as a money-laundering front for a meth business; his meth is turning humans into Orcs. Sauron also has an unholy alliance with right-wing politicians; one of the fics involves a gay orgy with a cross-dressing Ron "Don't Say Gay" DeSantis.

There are a LOT of fics in this series and we're still writing it. Not everything is necessary for context, so if you don't feel like reading every single story and scarring your brain you can still follow along. We're working in smaller bits and pieces rather than fewer but longer stories, and we're also tackling some stuff out of order, like we've written stuff that happens in 2022 before some stuff that happens in 2019.

➤Sören is a doctor and went to Harvard.

➤Anthony is an archaeologist and a professor.

➤Nicholas is an ancient history professor.

➤Nicholas and Anthony were an established couple and Sören met them on FetLife because they were looking for a submissive third.

➤My roommate's OCs Yeyette, Victor, DeKalb, and Dara are heavily featured.

➤Sauron has a son named Larry [yes, his name is Larry], who is a wannabe goth and kind of a bumbling idiot, and for some mysterious reason when we write Larry fic it gets more kudos than anything else in this series.

➤Larry is with Juniper, Sören's ex, the female version of Justin Roberts. Juniper is basically Nancy from The Craft but crazier.

➤Finwë had a brother named Palcë, who is around for part of the series.

➤The real stars of the show are the cats, who can talk and are Force-sensitive. If you read nothing else in the series, here's a fic my roommate wrote about the cats doing a spell to kill Putin.

➤Icelandic folklore shows up here moreso than my other universes [rune spells, necropants] and it probably falls after Northern Lights as my most supernatural-oriented universe.

➤The universe deals with current events like COVID, US politics, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you need an escape from that, this may not be right for you, but if you want a tongue-in-cheek catharsis [I repeat, Putin dies because of cat witchcraft], you might enjoy this.

➤This series is our most wholesome and most fucked-up at the same time. There's also a lot of crack, my roommate and I just bounce weird-ass ideas off each other and make each other die laughing.


If you want to start off low-commitment

Here are some multichapter fics not part of the universes above that are standalones or can be read as standalones, if you want an introduction to my characters but you want to read something smaller [by comparison] and less complicated.

We Two Boys, Together Clinging - A/B/O where Anthony, an Alpha, visits Iceland for the holidays because he's depressed post-breakup and doesn't want to get his family down, and encounters Sören, an Omega, who offers to show him around Iceland. 41.9k words, rated E.

Midnight Sun - A/B/O where Sören, an Omega, encounters "Magni" [Maglor], who's busking, and a friendship develops that blossoms into Alpha/Omega romance. 36k words, rated E.

Let Them Eat Cake - Anthony has a baking competition show on the BBC where he's known for being snarky and Sören is one of his contestants. UST ensues. 35.9k words, rated E.

OnlyMags - Anthony and Sören are a FTM couple who run a bookstore/coffee house in coastal Maine and started doing OnlyFans during COVID lockdown. They become friends with "Mark" [Maglor], a homeless guy who happens to also be FTM... and more than he seems.

Fuck You, Justin - Self-indulgent trash I wrote for myself as a "yay you survived COVID" present. Sören encounters Anthony, the guy his boyfriend Justin cheated with via Grindr hookup, Anthony had no idea Justin wasn't single, he offers to buy Sören dinner to apologize, then he rocks Sören's world better than Justin ever did. 17.9k words, rated E.

Surrender And Certainty - A/B/O fic involving Sören and Anthony as an established couple starting a new life together in Brighton. 27.8k words, rated E.

The Space Between, where Dooku commands a space station and his old flame Severin [Sören as an El-Aurian, same species as Guinan] shows up as his new chief medical officer. 88k words, rated E.

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