F · № 02
ChronoCouncil
2–590–120 min
Civilization Strategy
Five civilizations compete across time, not space. Actions in earlier eras ripple forward, altering what later eras inherit.
Press · Games · Apps · LOTM — one workshop
Stories you play.
Games you live.
A maker's house for ideas that need more than one form to work. Books, games, apps, and video — all from the same workshop. The seams are visible on purpose.
Multiverse Forge · Games № 02
A game of crisis communication
Signal Loss
2–5 players·90 min·Age 14+
52:14
9:41●●●
BookRecap
This week
Ch. 4 · highlight
"The rules you inherit become the rules you forget to question."
The Council of Selves
72% · CH 8/11
The Last Human Edge
34% · CH 3/9
Streak · 14 days
4 formats · one workshop
4
Books in 2026
4
Games in forge
2
Apps in beta
2026
Inception year
Four workshops.
One forge.
Everything made here refuses to pick a single category. The books inform the games. The games inform the apps. The channel is the hallway where they bump into each other.
The Press
Books that take systems seriously. Self-leadership, AI, popular science, history — all interrogated, not summarized.
4
Titles
Hardcover
Format
2026
Launch
The Games
Experiences where the rules you inherit turn out to be the subject. Crisis games, systems games, games about institutions.
4
In forge
Tabletop
First
Q3 · 26
Playtest
The Apps
Small tools that earn their place on your device or PC. BookRecap, Writer's Toolkit, and whatever comes next — shipped with the workshop attached.
2
In beta
iOS · Web
Platforms
Open
Waitlist
Leaders of the Multiverse
Our flagship video show — character analyses that become self-leadership frameworks. Picard, Stark, Gandalf, Daenerys. One episode every 7–10 days.
00
Episodes
Soon
Cadence
—
Subs
02 · The Press
Four books.
Arriving 2026.
A launch slate that argues for itself: identity, intelligence, curiosity, history. Shipped with the workshop attached — drafts in public, margin notes visible, commits timestamped.
03 · The Games
Stories you play. Games you live.
Games about the rules
you inherit.
Eight games in the workshop — from AI governance simulations to ecological engine-builders. Each one argues for its subject by making you live inside it.
Flagship · Crisis Game · 2–5 Players
Signal Loss.
A crisis management game for people who've never had a crisis.
You're the comms lead. Something has gone wrong. The rules you inherit are the problem. 90–120 minutes. Hidden-role optional. Ships in a linen-wrap box with a brass token.
In Development
F · № 03
Council of Selves
2–430 min
Draft · Strategy
Companion to the book. Draft an identity from seven archetypes. Spend attention. Survive the week. 52 cards, one pencil.
F · № 04
Fork / Merge
2–445–60 min
Engine Building
Cultivate a living ecosystem. Fork branches, merge back. A small game about the cost of diverging and the cost of reuniting.
Also in the Forge
№ 05 · Early prototype
Market Frenzy
Auction · Bluffing
№ 06 · Early prototype
Rootwork
Tile · Engine Building
№ 07 · Early prototype
Protocol
AI Governance
№ 08 · Early prototype
The Pitch
Party · Social
04 · The Apps
Small tools.
That earn their place.
Two apps in the workshop, both launching 2026. No AI slop, no prose generation — just the kind of thoughtful utility that shows up on your device and stays there.
Reading · iOS & Web
BookRecap
Never lose your place in a series again.
AI-powered recaps that remind you what happened — characters, plot threads, key revelations — without spoiling what comes next. Built for readers who juggle multiple series and hate re-reading 400 pages just to remember who betrayed whom.
Spoiler-Free Recaps
AI-generated summaries that stop exactly where you stopped reading. No accidental reveals.
Character Guides
Who is who, what they did, and how they connect — refreshed to your exact reading point.
Event Timelines
Visual timelines of major plot events so you can piece the story back together fast.
Series Tracking
Track where you are across all your series. Pick up any book with confidence.
AI Recaps
Series Tracking
Spoiler-Free
Character Guides
Open Beta
Free tier · Pro from €7.99/mo Join waitlist →
Writing · macOS
Writer's Toolkit
Three engines that analyze your fiction like a pro editor.
Manuscript analysis that catches what you miss. Voice fingerprinting detects characters who sound alike. Plot hole detection tracks inconsistencies and impossible knowledge. Cover brief generation creates designer-ready briefs from your manuscript's tone and themes. No text generation. No prose modification. Your words, sharper.
Voice Fingerprinter
Detects characters with similar dialogue patterns. Every character should sound like themselves.
Plot Hole Detective
Tracks inconsistencies, unresolved threads, and impossible knowledge across your manuscript.
Cover Brief Generator
Creates designer-ready briefs from your manuscript's tone, themes, and emotional arcs.
100% Offline
Your manuscript never leaves your machine. Complete privacy, zero generation. Analysis only.
Developmental Editing
Consistency Checking
Voice Analysis
Privacy-First
Launching 2026
Free tier · Pro from €19/mo Join waitlist →
05 · Leaders of the Multiverse
Leaders of the Multiverse.
A YouTube show. Launching Q2 2026.
Subscribe on YouTubeWhat do Picard, Stark, Gandalf, and Daenerys teach about the battles we fight within ourselves? A show where character analysis becomes self-leadership framework.
Character analyses. Game design diaries. Framework breakdowns. One episode every 7–10 days, starting June 2026.
Status
Studio built. Episode 01 in edit. June 2026.
Q2 '26
Planned · First Four
001
The Kobayashi Maru — what the unwinnable test really teaches
Character analysis · Star Trek
Premiere
002
Avengers and the 3C team — chemistry, conflict, command
Team dynamics · MCU
Episode 2
003
Batman's trust stack — who he tells, in what order, and why
Self-leadership · DC
Episode 3
004
Civil War's two-lane problem — when both sides are right
Moral architecture · MCU
Episode 4
The Thesis
Every great fictional leader is a case study in internal governance.
Their triumphs and failures map directly to the frameworks in Council of Selves. LOTM decodes what they got right, what they got wrong, and what you can steal for your own inner council.
The Ecosystem
Every episode is a trailer for a chapter.
Every chapter is extended content from an episode. The same character archetypes appear in the games. Maximum cross-pollination — this is where the Forge ecosystem comes alive.
06 · About the Forge
One forge. Four doors.
How it started
It started with a question.
What if the frameworks that help us understand ourselves could live in more than one medium? What if a self-leadership method could be a book and a board game and a YouTube show? What if reading about how Picard leads could actually help you lead yourself?
That question became four books, some games, a handful of apps, and a show. The same characters show up in the games. The same frameworks get unpacked on YouTube. The apps help you remember what you read.
It isn't a collection of side projects. It's one creative universe, experienced through different doors.
01Press
Books.
Self-leadership, AI, science, history — four hardcovers arriving 2026.
Enter →
02Games
Games.
Crisis, deduction, institutions — played on a table or a screen.
Enter →
03Apps
Apps.
BookRecap and Writer's Toolkit — small tools, shipped with the workshop attached.
Enter →
04LOTM
Show.
Leaders of the Multiverse — character analysis becomes self-leadership framework.
Enter →
The Founder
Nuno Valério.
Portuguese, living in Germany. Head of Innovation at Merck by day. Author, game designer, YouTube host by conviction.
Twenty years operating inside large institutions taught me how systems actually move — which is mostly sideways, and usually by accident. Multiverse Forge is the workshop where the things I make outside those institutions go.
Books on self-leadership because I needed them first. Games on crisis because the boardroom taught me more than any textbook. Apps on memory because reading should compound. And a YouTube show because the best conversations I have are the ones I wish more people were in the room for.
Merck · Head of Innovation 4 Books · 2026 Darmstadt, DE