My world lore:

My “Big Bang Theory.” I never planned a shared universe for my writing. It just happened. The worlds in my various series emerged from a handful of core concepts that kept recurring in everything I wrote, born out of pondering the universe out of less the scientific view and more a metaphysical pontification. This, my friends, is what happens when someone likes science and pseudoscience and ponders, “What if both are aspects of truth for the whole?” It all traces back to a dog-eared book of Greek mythology in my elementary school library. I’d check it out repeatedly, fascinated by how the ancient Greeks made sense of their world through the four classical elements—Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. These elements appear throughout mystical traditions—from tarot cards to astrological birth charts. Astrologers assign each zodiac sign not only an element but also a “modality”: cardinal (initiating), fixed (stabilizing), or mutable (adapting). Like chemical compounds, these combinations create twelve distinct personalities with family resemblances but individual traits. I found myself drawn to the concept of how these elements behave in nature. Not like if I mixed the right amounts of water and earth, I’d get a tree or anything like that. It’s more symbolic modeling. Water and air flow and adapt to their containers. Earth remains steadfast and resistant to change. Fire refuses to change itself but transforms everything it touches. This pattern of simple forces combining and evolving echoes through creation—from the Big Bang’s first moments to the complex universe. So, I kept going to “what came before this?” and came up with my ‘primordial elements’–order, chaos, and time. And all things are some blend of them. To me, the universe is alive, so these were the first things to exist…sentient expressions of those elements. As things evolved, the more “homogenized” things became until everything…every living thing, every non-living thing, every molecule or star or planet or rock or lizard…was composed of the three primordial elements. Everything that comes after them are all born of those three things. And if you ever listen to someone talking about quantum theory, time makes things very confusing. Especially when someone says “everything exists at once” and stuff, I just take enough of that to go…you know, Time makes all things possible. However, quantum mechanics is why my worlds have this shared universe, but do not necessarily exist together. Or perhaps they do, they just have not crossed paths. Yet.