The Fantiverse

**The Fantiverse** is a fantasy comedy book series written by Ogran9. It began officially writing during the summer of 2022 and carried on throughout the rest of the year and will likely continue throughout 2022-2025. The series centers around several experiences the author went through as a child/presently/or expects to as an adult, and puts them in a fantasy setting. It includes a variety of different characters, locations and storylines, exploring various themes and experiences, particularly involving neurodivergent, LGBT+ and POCs growing up in the world.

## Synopsis

In multiple different planets with multiple people, a corrupt system and awakening dangers force a bunch of people to change — for better, or for worse.

## Books

**Beyond the Frozen Forest**: In the peaceful Salamvalley, mysterious occurrences and rifts between friends disrupt a once peaceful life for Zayn.

**The View of the Moon from My Window**: Holding multiple secrets, Sana dabbles between telling people about a significant part of them and rescuing their friend.

**Drift of the Leaf**: Zayn’s childhood friend returns to Salamvalley, and Zayn has to cope with his new relationship with him.

**Invasion of the Hunt**: With an invasion imminent, Sana and Moonbeam try to find a way to stop Hevu from killing everyone.

**Beyond the Winter World**:

**Driving Away**:

**Structural Input**:

**On the Rise**:

**Into the City**:

**Under the Surface**:

**Season 1**:

## Characters

Zayn

Sana

Natasha

Rolo

Orris

Nazia

Javier

Fyrinem

Moonbeam

Fashi Captain

Hari

Hevu

Fashi General

Morder

Yusif

Talaj

Aman

Sahira

Ben

Enderia

Shuja

Raul

Villet

Ernie

Henry

Auro

Rath

Scar

Nafsin

Jamil

Erin

Simon

## Development

The series started in incredibly loose development involving the author liking the idea of combining multiple stories he'd written being brought together and creating a grand cinematic universe. It reached the height of its potential during summer 2021 where he actively tried to tie his stories together. It started with a series called "The Otherworld" which had started as just a standalone book, before expanding into a total of twenty books with multiple different characters and stuff happening. He then decided to tie it into another episodic series he'd been writing, "The Gnome and the Cat", which also went through several stages of development and was undergoing a rewrite process. He also decided on combining "The Tree of Life" and "The Penguin and the Whale", some other stories that he'd written when he was much younger.

By winter 2021, he had a general idea of what he wanted to write and what characters he wanted to put a lot of focus on. After creating an outline of the series, he sort of backed up on the series and opted to come back to it much later due to other projects that he wanted to work on. After he'd completed those, he came back to the Fantiverse. During this time, as he learned more about writing and improved, gaining lessons and feedback from numerous people, he came back to the Fantiverse nearly a year later, just before the summer of 2022 and begin developing a more small-scale story idea in order to not make it feel bloated. He cut out multiple things from the story, including the idea of making it a combination of his old stories, and instead an entirely new series (with elements inspired from those old ones). He cut all elements from "The Penguin and the Whale" and "The Tree of Life" from it, deciding they added too much to the story yet were used too little and were better off as standalones.

Then he began writing, and at first tried to use old stories he created with his sister as the outline... and then got a better idea to use more personal experiences in order to make it feel more realistic and more... wholesome. His sister also decided to play a big part in the project, being eager to put some of her own wishes and wants into the story (including a rather cute romance). He also had some readers give him feedback — the main one being his friend, Qibli77, who give him a lot of feedback and inspired him while writing the story. He also took help from his mother and sister, who read the books and enjoyed them too. By early 2023, he finished the first phase of his series, with a lot more to come.

The series underwent several revamps during 2023, particularly with massive plot idea changes involving later on in the series in which things like foreshadowing, retcons and even vastly different tones were integrated.