This implies that the many worlds succeed each other in time rather than that they coexist in parallel universes. The Emberverse rationale for the supernatural is that consciousness survived an earlier universe and manifests as deities in this one. In Poul Anderson's "Flight to Forever," one single universe recurs cyclically.
However, the Emberverse also has parallel universes. The Change universe diverges from ours at a specified date although the Emberversers have no way of knowing that our world exists. In fact, maybe our world does not exist in that fictional scenario? But there is definitely a divergence when Nantucket is displaced into the past.
Deor, the speaker in the above quotation, goes on to invoke the to us familiar idea that tales in one world may be truth in another although he is still referring to the cyclical universe, not to parallel universes. And he is also referring to the "world" that he and his companions have entered which is neither a past nor a parallel universe but an imagining in the Otherworld. There are not only many worlds but also many kinds of worlds.
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