Ultrix stories

Ultrix stories were one of the three basic narratives used in the Crossover Cycle. Ultrix was set after a behind the scenes manipulator, almost always Mala Dzumach Kavanah, had established herself as the ruler of the Universe. In the archetypal Ultrix story, Mala's machinations in BHH created a trap where Ciarraí Teagwyn Kavanah's attempt to arrest her rise to power was what triggered her ascension; she then ruled under the title "Her Ethereal Majesty, the Director of Reality", and divided her state—the "New Cascade"—into functional groups called "factions" that replaced species-nations. Naturally, some Ultrix stories diverged from this basic formula.

The New Cascade's defeat was achieved by an alliance of characters from all the cycles—archetypally, the Fourth Army and the Four Great Mages led an alliance of the Vorsnoir, the original Great Mages, the Frontier characters, Evonian rebels led by Sabriel Lunadelle Redena, and some or all of the Ravensgate, into battle. This "crossover" element is not fundamental to an Ultrix story (in contrast to the other stories in the Crossover Cycle), reflecting Ultrix's origins in The Long RP, a 2016 BHH RP from before the creation of the other cycles. Following Mala's defeat, Ultrix stories often proceeded to attempt an etiological myth, somehow relating the end of Glastieven mythology's timeline to the start of Glastieve.