Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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The Road of Sue, the Very First Sueniverse Story by cookxenya
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Sumerian Religion, Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Original Work
29 Jan 2026
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Before the Road, before the echoes, before the multiverse had a name, there was Sue. Born of Hera and Enki, hidden by the Fates, murdered in a classroom, and reborn through a professor’s desperate act, she becomes a molecular architect of survival. Hunted by governments, she feeds the homeless with transmuted matter. When the gods return in ships, she refuses to kneel—and kills Zeus. She rebuilds the world, then vanishes into madness, only to be called back again. She walks the Great Road, reforms Nibiru, and prays not to become corrupt. The Trine send her to Valdemar. She is Chosen, trained, broken, and remade. She returns to the stars, heals the Tree of Life, and earns her place as heir. This is the first Sueniverse story—the mythic ignition point of a girl who refused to stay dead. THE VERSION WITHOUT THE AI FLUFF.
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- Part 1 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- 2,476
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Mary Sue: the Sueniverse Beginning. by cookxenya
Fandoms: Greek Mythology, Mesopotamian Mythology, Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Original Work (sueniverse/great road)
29 Jan 2026
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Long before the Sueniverse had a name, a child of Hera and Enki vanished into the hands of the Fates. Millennia later, she is reborn as Sue—a quiet 1990s girl who dies in a classroom and wakes on the Astral Plane. Ares offers her a choice: fade, or anchor herself to life again. Through a professor’s desperate act, Sue is reborn into a new body and grows into a molecular prodigy, hunted by black‑ops teams and shadow governments. She survives by wit, will, and the stubborn compassion that makes her a legend among the forgotten. When the Annunaki return to reclaim Earth, Sue refuses to kneel. This is the first Sueniverse story—the origin of the girl who will one day build the Road, but who begins simply by refusing to die.
THE VERSION WITH AI FLUFF.Series
- Part 2 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- English
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The Cult by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Original Work (great road), The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter - Laurell K. Hamilton
26 Jan 2026
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Sue is drawn into a small, secretive cult that promises answers she isn’t sure she wants. The initiation is disturbing, but the real disaster comes later: when Kurj confronts her, she panics and teleports out. The jump tears her Gifts open all at once, leaving her overwhelmed and unstable. Valdemar takes her in, and Firesong begins the slow, methodical work of helping her separate and control the abilities that refuse to stay quiet. Between grounding drills, mage‑sight practice, and learning to sort the thoughts and emotions crowding her mind, Sue slowly rebuilds herself. But even at her best, she can feel the limits of what this world can teach her. When she asks the Temple of the Trine for her Luggage, they refuse—yet open a portal to the Great Road instead. With Kyrith beside her and Princess Fluff in tow, she steps forward into whatever comes next.
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- Part 3 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- 13,726
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Sue thought her fanfiction was harmless—until the news confirmed Skolia was real. Flagged by Earth’s government, probed by Skolian officials, and confronted by Imperator Kurj himself, her instinctive shielding marks her as anomalous. Humiliation deepens when her imagined tenderness is thrown back at her, and biology declares her Rhon: rare, precious, dynastically valuable. As the Assembly demands marriage and Majda presses its claim, Kurj rejects her outright—yet relents only to protect his brothers and deny rivals. What began as private indulgence becomes public spectacle, forcing dynasties to reckon with her defiance.
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- Part 3 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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Kurj Skolia, war-hardened emperor of the Skolian Empire, returns to Earth haunted by memories of his mother, Roca. Amid diplomatic ceremony and emotional restraint, he encounters Sue—an ordinary waitress whose presence triggers a powerful, unacknowledged lifebond. Unaware of her Rhon strength or the multiversal echoes she carries, Sue reels from the impossible recognition. Kurj, trained to command galaxies, finds himself destabilized by her emotional resonance. As he observes her from afar, torn between imperial control and instinctive pull, Sue struggles to reconcile dreams with reality. Their connection—subtle, electric, and undeniable—threads through every glance and silence, reshaping both their fates. Neither fully understands what’s begun, but both feel the shift. And neither can look away.
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- Part 7 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 4 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- English
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- 17,041
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Where the Weave Bends by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro
09 Nov 2025
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In a shattered glade, Sue finds Kurj Skolia dying—shields fractured, mind bleeding into the Weave. Untrained and unprepared, she acts on instinct, shielding him, rerouting psionic currents, forging a lifebond neither chose but both cannot escape. Time fractures, memory and sensation collide, and the impossible becomes real: dreams and fiction bleed into this world. Kurj, tactical and controlled, watches her like a variable he cannot model, while Sue navigates fear, longing, and devotion. Together, they survive, and the Weave bends to their presence, binding mind, heart, and destiny in a fated pattern.
This is their first encounter: raw, non-chronological, and fated. Kurj, fixated on the variable he cannot model, is taken to the House of Healing. Sue is welcomed to the Collegium. The Choosing has already occurred, and the Weave bends to confirm it. EDITED
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- Part 5 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 5 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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Anchor of reality- First Meet by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro
09 Nov 2025
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Under the neon glow of a terrestrial Wendy's, Imperator Kurj encounters a vulnerable Sue in a crucial Lifebond Variation.
Sue surprises him by performing a complete act of Rhon surrender, handing over her passwords and personal data—a profound act of trust that flies in the face of all self-preservation. Kurj immediately recognizes this as a definitive, fated contract. He accepts the surrender, instantly claiming her.
The meeting ends with his soft, final command, grounding their cosmic destiny in a human, yet dangerous, act of possession: "Pack or don't pack... Either way, you're coming." This work anchors the intense emotional stakes of the Lifebond before the cosmic duties of the Empress Ascendent begin.
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- Part 4 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 6 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- English
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- 10,194
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The Shawl and the Game by cookxenya
Fandoms: Xena: Warrior Princess, Sword of Truth - Terry Goodkind, Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan, Valdemar - Mercedes Lackey, Warhammer 40 - Fandom, 000 (referenced)., Original work Great Road
14 Jan 2026
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Sue has the technical math of a Great Road Graduate and the heart of a Valdemaran Herald, but she is "unbaked clay." When the Fates decide she is too soft to govern, they strip her of her safety and drop her into the kinetic fire of the Xenaverse.
In this ten-chapter odyssey, Sue must integrate the lessons of disparate mentors to survive the "Rough Stuff." She learns the lethal grace of the Chakram from Xena, the ethical weight of the Seeker’s Truth from Richard Rahl, and the absolute endurance of a Dreamwalker in the Aiel Waste. Finally, under the biting tutelage of Cadsuane Melaidrin, she masters the Game of Houses. Refusing the binding Oaths of the Aes Sedai, Sue weaves the Purple Shawl—a synthesis of every world she has touched. No longer a waitress or a student, the Sovereign of the Road emerges, ready to face the grim darkness of the 40k Sector.
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- Part 15 of Sueniverse Variations
- Part 7 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- English
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- 11,594
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What was Built Before by cookxenya
Fandoms: Heralds of Valdemar – Mercedes Lackey, Saga of the Skolian Empire – Catherine Asaro, crossover - Fandom, Roadverse/Sueniverse
01 Jan 2026
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Sue arrives in Valdemar at thirty‑six expecting peace, not the shattering truth that her “daydreams” were memories and her “Static” was a long‑distance Companion bond. Kyrith stabilizes her, but her Gifts—Healing, Empathy, Bardic, Mage‑sight, Fetching, Firestarting—aren’t separate. They’re a single, sovereign engine waking up.
When a Skolian ship is ambushed in orbit, Sue’s “sideways” self takes over, and she deletes an Aristos strike fleet from a mountaintop. Kurj survives the fall—furious, freezing, and suddenly aware that the weapon that saved him is a woman in a grey trainee tunic.
Valdemar isn’t ready. The Skolians aren’t ready. The Anunnaki absolutely noticed. And Sue, tangled, exhausted, and terrifyingly powerful, has eight years to learn how not to break the world.Series
- Part 21 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 8 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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On Lyshriol by cookxenya
Fandoms: The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro, Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Original Work, Discworld - Terry Pratchett
14 Nov 2025
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Sue wakes up to a world of beautiful, alien chaos: a landscape of purple skies, blue clouds, and glitter-plants. Disoriented but with an instinctual certainty, she immediately locates her Luggage and waits.
Her presence is soon discovered by Imperator Kurj, a severe Jagernaut on a sleek Lyrine, who challenges her for trespassing on Lyshriol territory. Though she is invisible to his ship's network, the powerful warrior is unable to ignore the unique variable she represents.
After a traumatic insertion, Sue is found recovering in a Healer's care. Her first moment of clarity comes with the quiet presence of the Groveborn Companion, Kyrith, waiting at her door.
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- Part 3 of Sueniverse Variations
- Part 9 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- 11,038
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Through Storm by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Original Work, The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro, Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel
09 Nov 2025
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Trainee Sue, Kyrith, and Kurj are violently ripped from their path and exiled to a storm-wracked, prehistoric wilderness, testing their nascent Lifebond immediately after their conscious commitment. Still in her Grays, Sue must quickly abandon protocol, relying instead on pure survival skills and Kyrith’s steady presence to secure shelter from the icy snow and fierce winds.
The exile strips Kurj of his Imperial structure, forcing him to rely entirely on Sue and to earn the wary, quiet trust of the local Mammoth Hunters. They don't just endure the elements; they forge their partnership in the crucible of necessity, teaching the locals and learning to live as a unit. They emerge a stable, functional, and fully bonded unit, proving their relationship can withstand literal multiversal collapse, preparing them for the intense Discipline and Ascension arc that follows.
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- Part 8 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 10 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- English
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- 2,180
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5000 Years and Still. by cookxenya
Fandoms: The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
05 Nov 2025
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The Warp howls as Sue and her Companion, Kyria, breach a daemon-infested orbital station. Her target: Kurj Skolia, a man fighting for his life who does not remember her.
Sue is the "needle of fate," sent to mend the broken realities of the universe. She ignores Kurj's suspicion, using her immense Gifts to stabilize the entire station, shielding the hull against the raging Warp storm and earning his fierce, yet reluctant, respect.
The weight of their ancient lifebond cracks his soldier's control. When Kurj admits he is single, Sue does not wait. "I miss you. You were my husband for 5000 years," and proposes on the spot amid the wreckage.
He accepts. The kiss re-threads what time and chaos tore apart, binding them once more.
The storm is contained. The bond holds. Now, two souls walk side-by-side into whatever comes next.
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- Part 16 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 12 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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The Weight of Meaning by cookxenya
Fandoms: The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter - Laurell K. Hamilton, Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Sumerian Religion, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Mage: The Ascension
05 Nov 2025
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Sue’s assignment to Commander Kurj Skolia’s highly secure command deck is a cruel irony. She protested the posting, citing her 'untestable' power and the overwhelming, inexplicable pull she feels toward him. Now, forced to serve as a page, her simple mission to observe is complicated by a desperate battle for control.
Every humming console amplifies her fear, and she struggles to conceal the latent Gifts—foresight, empathy, and mage-sense—that constantly threaten to expose her. Her only anchor against the panic is the quiet pulse of her Companion, Kyrith.
Kurj, the imposing Emperor, is acutely aware of the unique resonance of her tightly folded power, sensing the untestable currents she tries to hide. When he actively tests her control, forcing her to instinctively correct a deck malfunction, Sue realizes she is no longer an invisible beginner. Kurj sees her, and his intense focus means her life—and the fate of the command deck—will never be the same.
The struggle for meaning has begun.
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- Part 2 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 13 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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The Star That Fell on Pern by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Original Work, Saga of the Skolian Empire
14 Nov 2025
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Kurj Skolia, a warrior haunted by the "Kyle-Web," violently crash-lands on Pern, clawing his way out of the wreckage of his dead ship and scorched armor. Bleeding out, he is discovered by a swarm of telepathic fire-lizards whose cries of "hurt-sad-alone" press into his mind, giving him an anchor to life.
He is found by Sue, a dimensional traveler and Seed-Self, whose Companion Kyrith guides her. Their arrivals coincide with a pivotal Hatching at a Weyr. In a unique convergence, their disparate magics and realities fuse: Kurj is Impressed by the bronze dragon named Branth, and Sue bonds with the gold named Solith. Their new, improbable partnership—anchored by the dragons and the spiritual presence of a Companion—is the one constant in their chaos. Now, the warrior and the traveler must combine their skill with the Weyr's power to ensure the colony’s survival through Thread, danger, and the ongoing struggle for existence.
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- Part 2 of Sueniverse Variations
- Part 14 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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Storm Threads by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Discworld - Terry Pratchett
08 Nov 2025
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When Haven One collapses into a Warhammer-infested reality, Sue executes a surgical extraction—shielding survivors, salvaging archives, and misleading Ork warbands with psychological decoys. As the multiversal storm spreads, she stabilizes three more displaced Havens, threading emotional logic into terrain, Groves, and Companion births. She holds the Knot—a recursive tangle seeded by the Fates—by anchoring grief, guilt, pride, and silence into resonance. Her recovery is quiet, her leadership sovereign. She trains a mixed-Gift class in a destabilized hall, teaching clarity over doctrine. When the Monarchs convene, she reframes their summit as triage. No merger, no throne—just a framework that holds contradiction long enough to matter. The Grove resumes, recalibrated to birth Companions tuned to survival, not tradition.
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- Part 14 of Anchor of Reality: a Multi temporal Canon of the Great Road
- Part 15 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
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- 7,327
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A Stranger in the Valley by cookxenya
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel, Original Work, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Star Trek
07 Dec 2025
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Sue, a modern grad student and accidental temporal agent, lands in the Paleolithic valley of Ayla and the Zelandoni. She was sent to prevent a future of soulless materialism, but her powerful, erratic Gifts quickly reveal a darker truth: the spiritual instability has gone cosmic. The entire magical nation of Valdemar, fleeing the collapse of its own timeline, is being hurled across space and time to seek sanctuary on Earth.
The cultural shock of this advanced, magical society will shatter the indigenous Cro-Magnon Others. The only solution? The Zelandoni must forge a desperate, fast-track symbiotic alliance with the Neanderthal Clan, using their deep, spiritual stability as the "anchor" for the entire world. Sue, bonded to the Valdemaran construct Kyrith, must race to mediate the integration, eventually becoming a Zelandoni Elder and a Herald of the new, unified Kingdom built on the Prime Directive.
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- Part 5 of Sueniverse Variations
- Part 16 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
- Language:
- English
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- 17,229
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Restraint and Storm by cookxenya
Fandoms: The Saga of the Skolian Empire - Catherine Asaro, Original Work, Sueniverse - Fandom
03 Feb 2026
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Sue wakes in a familiar bed with a stranger’s gun pointed at her—Kurj, but not her Kurj. Dropped into this timeline by the Fates, she must explain the impossible: that they meet across worlds, that they marry in others, and that her unstable powers make him the only safe anchor she has. Kurj keeps his distance, insisting she recover before he lets her close, but Sue’s grief, longing, and instinct keep pulling her back to him. Training, flight, fury, and silence drive them apart until her subconscious betrays her—teleporting her into his bed in her sleep. Now Kurj demands clarity, and Sue demands he stop restraining himself. What follows is a reckoning of power, grief, and choice as two versions of the same souls decide whether to meet in this timeline at last.
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- Part 17 of Beginnings: the Sueniverse Prequels
- Language:
- English
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- 2,494
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