The Authors

In the eighth episode Legend, a member of the staff of The Lines Between, holds up a book with the words The Authors written on the page and says they use the name sparingly NA E8·01:30:50. Legend says something vast was at the beginning, made The Lines Between, and alone wields the power the party saw in a room it should not have looked into NA E8·01:30:50. Legend says they dare not think of them for too long, that their power over the world is indescribable, that they do not care, and that "They are not gods. They're bigger than that." NA E8·01:30:50

In the ninth episode Ylfa whispers "The Authors." NA E9·00:44:12 Turquina says all the fairies have seen them too, and that all magic is in some way rooted to their will NA E9·00:44:21. Rosamund asks what if they do not want to be in the stories the Authors want NA E9·00:49:14. In the twelfth episode Snow White says "Oh, I don't think I like them very much at all." NA E12·00:43:38 In the fourteenth episode Gerard asks Alba Mac Lir whether she is aware of the Authors, and she says she has heard that name spoken only once before, by one who claimed to know them, the Baba Yaga NA E14·00:21:17 NA E14·00:22:12 NA E14·00:22:25.

In the eighteenth episode the Baba Yaga tells Timothy they are eternal, vast and cosmic, and that everything about the world, they create NA E18·00:12:53. She says she has watched countless of them die and is still there, and that she has lived in the forest through generations of Authors and does not worry about them NA E18·00:13:14 NA E18·00:15:55. In the nineteenth episode, when Snow White's spell is interrupted, Brennan says Mother Goose feels the attention of things beyond his understanding focus on the place with an ancient malevolence, as if to destroy the universe NA E19·01:43:41. In the finale Brennan says the Authors have come because they have realized that something is not going according to the stories they wrote, and that they seem to have realized the Neverafter has happened at all and are coming to change it NA E20·00:48:55 NA E20·00:49:01. Brennan describes the Authors' hand moving malevolently toward Rosamund and calls the hands eldritch beings of pure coldness and malevolence NA E20·00:59:38 NA E20·01:08:44. The hand fires ink at the Stepmother NA E20·01:09:21. Pib's thrown dagger makes a hand implode and collapse into raw ink NA E20·01:37:32. Brennan says the Authors retreat, bested by some force from this world that they are too malevolent and shortsighted to understand NA E20·02:13:08.