Please note that this story follows an OC, he was created from ideas I had when placing myself in various stories. Also, this is an introductory chapter that explains the world of the OC. This first arc takes place in that world, and after that will proceed to other worlds. This does not mean that the first arc is pointless though, every OC works better when they don't pop up out of nowhere. I own the OC and his world, all other material(unless expressly noted) does not belong to me. Also, keep a look out for any challenges I might post at the end of chapters. The winner of these challenges get to suggest a story for Mark to visit. Feedback is always welcome, so feel free to review or pm me. Thanks.

The life and history of Mark Nelfarn. Information taken from the subject's memories(of his own will and choice) by Tēref Ōlōdur, last son of Alex Hendersen, first emperor of the Human-Trelyri Alliance, and brother of Fämul Dēlōrōf, current emperor of the Human-Trelyri Alliance. Information taken from Mark in the year 3435 after his marriage to Änēl Lōfänōt, last daughter and last child of Alex Hendersen.

Mark Nelfarn, a traveler of the multiverse. He has lived longer than any other mortal in existence, collectively speaking, and in those many millions of lifetimes he has done many things. He has watched the birth and death of stars, seen the rise and fall of countless civilizations, and gone on many thrilling adventures. However, before one can learn about the many things Mark Nelfarn has done, one must know about who he was and the life he lived before he traveled the multiverse. But, to understand him and his life, one must first understand the world he lived in.

His world was very similar to Earth. In fact, his world was another version of Earth. As is the case with any version of a planet in the multiverse, there was a major event that changed the outcome of the future of that universe. For the most part his universe had been the same as the REU (Regular Earth Universe), but when a universe needs something in particular, a person to be shaped a certain way, it changes things to get the outcome it needs. In the case of Mark, his universe needed him to be what he is, and that required many changes to be made to the timeline of the universe.

Most of these differences were people that lived on Earth in its history. In order for Mark to be who he is, his universe had to bring in people to his ancestry at certain points to bring certain qualities into his being. Most of these things, however, could not be normally found in his universe. In order to make him to be what he is, his universe worked with other universes to bring people with those qualities into his family line. Most of these people were not human, in fact if you were to look at his family line, only a small percentage of those people were human. Though the people who were brought in were only individuals, so they make up smaller portions than his human ancestry. The various beings that make up the majority of his ancestry, all of the non human humanoids collectively, make up almost half of his genetics.

There are other differences, mostly small, like the names of various regions, places, geography, but these were all brought about by the biggest difference between Mark's universe and the REU. That difference is that in the year 900, the world was invaded by a hyper advanced civilization of humanoid aliens. These aliens did not have a name, or language for that matter, as they were a telepathic people. Their species developed mental communication very early, leaving their simple language to drop out of existence. After thousands of years they became advanced enough to be able to start traveling to other planets. This was of course aided by the fact that they were fleeing their planet as their sun was about to go super nova.

As they traveled the galaxy, they realized that the other life forms in the galaxy might not communicate by way of the mind, and so decided to use a spoken language, as their records showed that they had one, and that would be how they could communicate. The major problem they faced was that their people no longer had any record of their previous language. They decided that they would use the language of the primitive species on whichever planet they took to be their new home.

As they traveled from the far edge of the galaxy, they scanned for planets that would be suitable to their needs. Eventually they found Earth and determined it to be the closest to what their planet had been. They landed their ships in the ocean and used their devices to study the life forms on the planet's surface. After finding that the humans were the dominant species and had language, they then decided to go and take their language for their own. They discovered, however, that the humans had more than one language. So they decided to sample all of the languages on the planet and have their computers calculate which one would be the best to work with.

They brought their ships onto the land and began to set up their new colony on the planet. The humans did not take kindly to these invaders taking their land, so the humans began to attack. The aliens knew that they could hold their own against the humans, but decided that they needed to focus on colonizing the planet as soon as possible with as few distractions as possible. They decided to kill all of the humans, and at the same time collect their languages for their computers to work with.

They gathered their forces together, then proceeded to take the land by force. The humans were quickly blown away like dust by a storm. They traveled around the planet, killing humans, collecting language information, and charting the planet in one neat package. Things couldn't have been better for the aliens. The same could not be said for the humans however.

As they were making their way through the world, the aliens eventually came upon the people living in the land those in REU know as England. They happened to like some of the parts of the language the humans spoke there, and decided to hold off on killing them until they had cataloged all of the languages of the Earth. After killing all but those in "Early England" and making record of the languages, their computers calculated various forms of those languages until they came upon what those in REU know as English. They learned this new language, taught it to the humans, and made themselves the rulers of the planet. They took the remaining humans and placed them all over the face of the Earth in order to repopulate them.

As time went on, the humans began to refer to their alien overlords as Outerlans. The aliens happened to like the sound of that title, and took it on as their official species name. The Outerlans decided that in order to keep their superiority over the humans, they would need to make sure that the humans could never catch up to them in technology. They then forced the humans to keep to their same levels of technology by banning the study of science. They also cloaked their cities so that the humans would never be able to see their technology. And so, the level of technology in Mark's version of Earth remained the same ever since.

As time progressed, later generations would never know what the Outerlans looked like. They usually kept to their cities and made preparations for later contact with other alien species. They would, however, speak to the humans to keep them in line. There were many humans who began to revere the Outerlans as gods, as the humans could not see them when they spoke, and punishment for breaking their laws was swift and feared.

Now that you know what his world was like, it would also be a good idea to have a basic understanding of his family line, the Nelfarn Family. This will not be a full blown family tree, rather, it will show how his family line led to his being in that universe. In the year 995, Mark's earliest known ancestor appeared in that world. As stated earlier, there were many in Mark's family line that were brought in from other universes. The first Nelfarn to be in that universe was brought in from another and was the first individual from another universe. His name was Toldaroch Matrivus Nelfarn.

The universe that Toldaroch was from was a very magic oriented universe. He was born into a very powerful magic family, an evil one at that. Over many years, the Nelfarn name had been feared, for their family had a magical book of spells containing every spell in their universe. With this spellbook, they had risen to power and had practically taken over their world. They had become so powerful that they could get away with doing anything they wanted, because no one could stop them. This eventually led them to kidnapping their wives and forcing them into marriage. One of these kidnapped women decided that there should be something that she could do to end their reign of terror, and she did it.

As she lived in captivity with the husband she did not want, she found out that the family was very dependent on their spellbooks. They were firmly against learning the various spells contained within the main spellbook, claimed to be given to the family by a dragon, and instead would use books linked to the main book with magic. These smaller books allowed for them to have access to their entire library of spells without having to take the main book out of the Nelfarn manor. She decided that if she could get rid of the main spellbook, they could finally be stopped. She secretly tried many ways to destroy the book, but it had been heavily protected with many spells. But, she found that it could be moved from its place, and if there was no access to it, the Nelfarns would be powerless. So she devised a plan that would not only save her world from the tyranny of the Nelfarns, but would also save her son from being raised by them and becoming evil like they were.

She knew, from her many years of living with the Nelfarns, that they had very powerful magic linked to an element that no one else in their universe had access to, Void. Using this element they were able to do things like control the flow of time, and even travel to other dimensions. She worked out a plan to use their own commodity against them by sending their spellbook to another universe. She studied in secret for five years, shortly after Toldaroch was born, and she had gained enough understanding of the spell to use it once. She knew she would only have one shot at this, so she made her preparations months in advance. She had taken that time to make a pendant for him with many protective wards placed on it so that he would be safe. Finally, the day came for her to make her move.

The day she had chosen was a day of feasting and celebration in the Nelfarn family. On that day, one of the older children in the family was to be going through his initiation to receive his own spellbook. Everyone was gathered out on the grounds of the manor, so no one noticed when she slipped inside with her son. She made her way to the room where the spellbook lay, displayed on its pedistal, and began her work. As she got everything ready, Toldaroch was sitting quietly on the floor. He had always been a good mannered and obedient boy, and that was going to be one of the many things she would miss about him.

Using her magic, she shrank the spellbook from its enormous size down to something more manageable, something a five year old would be able to carry, and put it in a small bag. She then opened a portal to the multiverse. She began to skim through the universes, trying to find one that would be safe for him. But she did not get the leisure of picking a universe, for she began to hear the sound of people walking through the corridors. The young man had finished his ceremony sooner than expected, and they were making their way to that very room to link his spellbook to the one now in the bag. She quickly chose a universe at random, hugged her son and told him she loved him and to be good, then had him walk through the portal. The portal closed right as the rest of the Nelfarn family walked into the room. She had won, and the Nelfarns could do nothing about it.

And so, in the year 995 in Mark's universe, Toldaroch exited the portal in a forest. He began to wander the forest, and was soon found by a group of women who were picking berries. They presumed that he was a child from their village, and took him there. Upon being asked what his name was, he replied with "To… Ma..." as he had not learned to fully pronounce his name. He did know his Family name though, the Nelfarns made sure of that, and since there were no Nelfarns in their village, he was adopted by one of the families. They changed his name to Tom, as it was easier to pronounce, and lived in that village for the rest of his life.

The Outerlans had made a law to keep the humans from becoming too populous. They decreed that humans were allowed to have no more than two children in a family. And so the Nelfarn name continued to be a singular family line, having fifty generations of one son and one daughter. The daughters each married off to various people in their villages, but the sons were married to, through the actions of the multiverse, those that were not from that universe. And so it went, all the way down until we reach Mark… and his sister.