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I am of two minds. The first is eager for Knights of X, because it wants to see Betsy rally the Captain Britain corps and a handful of plucky mutants to wage an epic struggle against Merlyn and his witchbreed-hating hordes for the fate of Otherworld. Should be awesome, and I am totally here for it.

The other mind is eager for Knights of X because it hopes to see Rachel take Betsy in her arms and give her a long, slow, deep, soft, wet kiss that lasts 22 pages.

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The ending of Excalibur made me cry, and I am so ridiculously excited for Knights of X (and Secret X-Men, but boy did I love Excalibur, and Rachel on the cover makes me even more excited for KoX).

There has been something I've been thinking about when it comes to Otherworld, though, in regards to the Omniverse... And this is a long one. This might be a "don't worry about it" or "that will be explained in Knights of X", in which case, I'm more than happy to wait. Even if it's never explained, won't detract from my enjoyment of KoX. Anyways, I've been trying to wrap my head around the mechanics of Otherworld since XoS. We know:

1. There is only one Otherworld, with all of its provinces

2. There is an omniverse, which we're all used to, each with a variation of Captain Britain as protector (speaking of which, I would LOVE an EXiles easter egg to pop up somewhere, but am not expecting that due to the tangled knot of continuity that entire series presented to Marvel Omniverse)

3. There is at least AN Amenth

What I'm wondering about is if any other dimension has an External Gate that leads to Otherworld (we do know there's a Captain Krakoa somewhere in the Multiverse). Do a lot of dimensions have an External Gate that lead to the same place in Otherworld, and then only leads back to their native dimension from Otherworld? Or is 616 the only dimension in creation that's created an External Gate? And, for that matter, do other dimensions have regular gates in Otherworld as well?

With regards to Amenth, it seemed Earth's equal and opposite number on the map. Does that imply an infinite number of Amenths, or is Amenth special? For that matter, it seems that 616 has an undue amount of influence on Otherworld: the current rulers of Dryador, Jaime Braddock, etc., all came from 616. Is that because the omniverse was reborn around the 616 and they got a head start on everyone else, is it because "hey, that's who our story is about; don't worry about it", or something else? It seems that we've seen very few variants from other worlds in comparison to the old Captain Britain tales (which, I mean, is probably just because the new Captain Britain Corps is, like 5 minutes old).

Okay, that was ridiculously long-winded. I just love omniversal shenanigans, Otherworld, Excalibur, and all that jazz. I know you can probably answer or confirm 1,9% of this at most, and I'm totally not gonna be at all disappointed by "wait for the book to come out"!

Anyways, thanks again for all of your hard work. Excalibur meant a lot to me, and I can't wait to see what you and the team have in store for Knights of X.

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