Prologue

The Multiverse! The inextricable and fragile jungle of universes, where time and space don't have any meaning, where the improbable rubs shoulders with the rational, where the choices of one influence the lives of many…

The Multiverse, yes! The object of much care but also much greed…

From the outside – given it is possible to have something outside the Multiverse – it looks like a huge woollen ball, gleaming in the vast emptiness of the nothingness. But if you were taking a closer look, you could realise it is composed of many strings which looks like as if they were made out of pure light.

Each of this string represented a single universe – or a dimension, if you prefer. And despite the infinity of them, they never ever cross or touched one another. Oh, they can get close and influenced each other, yes! But entering in contact with one another would mean their end and it would threaten the balance of the whole Multiverse. And if the balance of the Multiverse is threaten…

But let's forget about that very depressing idea and let's zoom on three particular strings-universes. They are close to each other, very close, but perfectly parallel. They don't have anything special compared to the other universes, except that their inhabitants called them respectively Oblivion, Nirn and Aetherius. No, these worlds have nothing special, really.

Nothing… except that one if moving dangerously close to the second one…