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Well, been rather busy that I didn't write a review for 2024 or 2025 yet, so going to do both now!  Work has been busy, and then a move I helped coordinate (that means did most of) and then holiday so it's been a wild ride lately.  But at least this year I am not sick over the holiday so that's a nice change.

For Forever Knight, I was able to pick up a couple more fanzines.  Bid on a few more items but didn't win the auctions. 

I picked up a new fandom to follow - The Magicians.  Intersting show, and I was late coming to it (not too long ago I finally got Netflix and this came as a recommendation to watch.  And then Netflix dropped it).  I'll be honest - I hadn't heard of the show before nor read the books its based on (I haven't owned a TV since 2010 and only in the last few years have gotten into streaming services and started to catch up on shows and movies.  I usually don't say this - but the show is so much better than the books.  Even then, the main character is just not interesting (though I have since learned you either love him or hate him, there is no middle ground), but some of the suporting characters are more interesting and their arcs develop quite a bit so that's nice.  And, different from my early experience with Forever Knight in trying to aquire props or autographs, etc, even years later you can still get props and costumes from this show.  So I've been a bit busy doing that.  My plan is to never retire so I can pay off this bill!  

Anyway, on to the fanfics!

Gifts?  Yeah, no.

Prompted stories!

I never want to miss participating in the FKFicFest, but I'm usually swamped lately, so for 2024 and 2025 I was able to write a very short story. For 2024 I wrote Listen to that Engine Purr to the prompt of 'unexpected visitor'.  Partly a reference to the Caddy and partially to Sydney, I gave my idea of how Nat got her cat.  Its set early in thier relationship before Nick took his job as a Detective and he and Nat are still getting to know each other.  For 2025 I wrote Daylight.  I'm definately getting into songfics and this particular song had been bouncing around for a little bit and I wanted to get it out.  Writing to the prompt 'I'm going to tell you something you don't want to hear' was a perfect pairing.  Its set over multiple centuries, showing how Nick is changing and also not changing as much as he thinks.  Definately something he doesn't want to hear.

For The Magicians, there was thier Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza, which had prompts over a few weeks or months and pretty open for however you wanted to take the story.  Both stories fit under the 'returning after an absence' prompt.  As with my Forever Knight stoies, I love figuring out or closing up plotholes or inconsistencies in canon.  Both stories do this.  The Last Goodbye gives the two characters, Quentin and Eliot, a chance to say a goodbye they didn't get on screen.  Eliot had been possed and then freeded, and immedately Quentin had to leave to dispose of the evil entities they had removed and he died in the process.  Eliot would then wake up but his love was gone.  Eliot might not remember this moment, but at least Quentin would have gotten his last meeting before the end.  To Quentin Coldwater, Before He Went to the Seam also dealt with the characters of Eliot and Quentin, this time Eliot did not get his closure but wrote a letter he could not send.  Quentin was dead, and a magic stamp on the letter would deliver the message to the past, but then it might alter the future and that could not be permitted.  But Eliot sent the letter in the end.  Where did it turn up?  That's what so many have tried to explain.  For me, I thougt the letter, assuming its a letter explaining his love for Quentin he could never say out loud, would go to an alternative timeline where these two had built a life of love and a family.  It was never explained how that relationship, which they had danced around for a while, finally was kicked off, but I thought it might be becuase Quentin recieved this letter.  And since it was an alternative timeline and not the main one, it would not affect any future event.  So a nice bit of closure there to the plothole.

Other stories!
A bunch in the last 2 years, but still no closer to that drabble!  I'll get it one of these years! 

For Forever Knight, I added to my calander day series I have and wrote a story about the solar eclipse.  Twice it has happened near where I live but not over, so I get partial ones.  Chasing the Moon's Shadow is set obviously after Last Knight, and in this timeline Natalie did not survive.  Nick is still dealing with that loss and haunted by it.  Janette was quite concerned Nick might stay out for the eclipse and then not come back in, so went to go find him and keep him safe.  The title comes from a concept of chasing after the eclipses and trying to stay in the shadow for as long as possible with special airplane flights you can get (such people are called umbraphiles, or eclipse chasers).  'Chasing Darkness' was also the name of a project where two pilots flew in formation during a solar eclipse trying to stay in the eclipse for as long as possibe.

Another Forever Knight story was one that I acutally wrote a while ago and was just not ever really happy with it.  Parts were harvested out and incorporated into other posted stories, but I had always wanted to get back to this one.  The Dragon's Wrath was about how to get Nick's rage really kicked up so LaCroix could see what his new offspring could really do and how strong he was.  Later, LaCroix would use a similar situation to get Nick to do it again.  And Nick, of course, doesn't suspect LaCroix's extreamely manipulative hand in any of it.  

For The Magicians, two of the stories show the beginning of Eliot and his start in formally learning magic at the University.  Timelines guided and manipulated by a woman who can control time and reset it, she tries many combinations to get the perfect setup so the characters can help Quentin defeat this powerful magician called The Beast.  Its mentioned in canon that, in order to help Quentin, for the second timeloop she made sure to keep Eliot alive, but she never said how she had done that.  I feel she did this by getting Eliot enrolled in this school to help him and then he would also meet Quentin at the school.  So One Grave and Congratulations and Welcome show the beginning of this education.  There will be more, showing what this first year was like for Eliot, and the place he will be in for when he finally meets Quentin in the second year of school in the story Entrance Exam Day.

Eliot is a complicated and intersting character, and he goes through so much when we first meet him.  The Beast is so concerned about Quentin and wants to get rid of him as soon as possible that one plan is to posess a person, get Eliot romatically involved with him so he can be at the school and close to Quentin so as to have a chance to kill him.  He is caught, but Eliot wants to know if the origial person (the host) ever had feelings for him or was it The Beast manipulating the whole time.  Eliot kinda gets his answer, then the person escapes, kills one person and tries to kill another.  Eliot stops him by killing him, though The Beast exits the body so doesn't die.  So now Eliot has to deal with what he had done, how he had been so manipulated, and how he had killed an innocent possessed person.  He kills by using magic and this is not the first time he as killed someone via magic (when his ability manifested as a kid the first thing he did was kill his bully from school so Eliot's relationship with magic is complicated).  Its a lot, and Eliot falls back on not healthy coping mechanisms while the people around him don't notice how bad it's getting.  Sometimes I just need to vent like this and The Downward Spiral of Eliot is how that went.  

For the upcoming year:
Still write more!  I really need to write more - my notebooks are getting too full of ideas.  Will definately participate in the FKFicFest and there is already a new Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza starting.  At some point I will continue my series exploring Nick through his life, and he's still mortal at the moment.  Next story is slated to explore what it was like in the Crusades, being captured, and what he did after being released.  The following story would then be when he met Janette and LaCroix - so we're getting closer!

So I'm going to try following this snowflake challenge this year. snowflake_challenge
First challenge is the icebreaker: Introduce yourself

I'm Nicholas Lucien here and on AO3, as my pen name.  I picked it years ago, and it tied into an artist name I went by even longer ago.  It startred as a silly science joke: nickel-48.  I was a radiation safety officer and this particular isotope is know as being doubly-magic, and very stable (given how long one would expect such an isotope of nickel to last, anyway).  From there it was a short leap - Nickel - Nick L - Nicholas Lucien.  So it all fit, in a way.  There were other reasons, but given the years since I took it on, those other reasons just don't matter as much anymore.

I used to write excusively for just one fandom - my first fandom I ever read or wrote for - Forever Knight.  And I stil have tons of stories left to write (my pile of paper filled with notes is best measured by a ruler rather than a page count).  I used to also only read excusively one fandom - Forever Knight.  I was there when it all began, and the websites and zines you could get, but that's mostly gone now.  I was saddend to find that out, but then found the community on AO3, so that's nice its not all gone.  I learned a lot about myself through this fandom, and its helped me when nothing else did.

Now, I do read other fandoms.  For example, I will sometimes read Supernatural.  Never seen the show, and I have a feeling it wouldn't be as exciting or slash-heavy as the fanfics are, so I guess I'll just stick with the fanfics.

Not too long ago I stumbled into The Magicians and grew to love it, so its a shared obsession with Forever Knight right now.  

Not sure what one is suposed to gain by screaming into the void, but perhaps something to look forward to, just reading other's posts in this challenge.  

Seems hardly any time has passed from my last yearly update!  Oh yeah, just a few minutes!  Still sick, but pluggin away.  2023 is a much faster review.

Still collecting Forever Knight fanzines, picking up a few more from gh coyote.  As for my dogs, my little Australian Shepherd has grown (and big, he's definately not going to be average size for the breed), and I ended up getting from the dog shelter a female Great Pyrenees about the same age as him, so they play a lot together.  And dig up the yard.

In the news of Forever Knight, this year saw Catherine Disher put up on eBay a number of Forever Knight items she had, and confirmed it was her selling them, so I know a few people were able to get those items.  Sadly, we also found out that one of the Caddies (the one purchased by Scott Hedrick) had been in an accident in 2001 and was sold for scrap in 2010.  Still a bit confusing, but I think this is the 1962 Cadillac, but the owner insists its the 1961 Caddy, but also says the one sold by Brock Jolliffe is his, which I'm just not going to argue with him on this one.  The images of the car don't make it super clear and the parts that would make it clear were lost or deformed in the accident (or not included in the pic).  But from what I can see I still think its the 1962 one.  Not unknown in the field to not know the year, many owners unfortunately don't actually know the year of the car, 1961 and 1962 being so similar.  So at least as of now, the original 1961 Caddy is still out there.

On to the fanfics: just 1 this year.  :(

Prompted story!
2023 FKFicFest had a few prompts this year, but I picked "this experiment went horribly wrong."  I had been reading up on radiation and how the whole world had gone crazy about the life-giving attributes of radium.  Even when people were dying of radiation poisioning.  There is a lot going on there, many assumptions, many ideas that something pretty can't be bad for you, but eventually this was regulated better and these products got taken off the shelves.  What ended up saving many from the harmful effects of these radium-laced products was there was no radioactive material in them, as that is expensive and cuts into profit.  But there were enough products that really did have the radiactive isotope in there and that caused problems.  And with all of this going on, I figured Nick would have heard about it and wanted to try it out since he tries out everything that could be a cure. 

The story Experiment 1260 is mostly flashback and set at different times, following how radium as a treatment was being used in the world and being in actual locations during those times.  I used a real person as a support character, Luther SH Gable, who claimed many events and inventions as his own, lied about what he had done, and never himself got sick from radation poisioning.  Though more than willing to have you believe him an expert and willing to sell you his gadgets, he did firmly believe in the healing and life-gving attributes to radiation, and as a true believer, he made a great character for the story.  I had so many pages of notes for this story, so harldy anything had to be made-up, unfortuatnely, most of what was going on or said was real.  The effects of the radium boom are still being dealt with today (supposidly in parts of Paris you still cannot grow anything in the dirt as it is radiactive and they are quietly replacing and cleaning up those areas). 

Nick, of course, tries the radiation as a cure and it goes horribly wrong, as he eventually succumbs to radiation posioning becuase they use so much (no details in the story becuase once you see some of those pics of what happened to the people, you don't want to describe that).

Fun tidbit on the story, the title, experiment 1260, the number was not selected randomly.  1260 belongs to a series of numbers called vampire numbers, 1260 being the first of the series (after that would be 1395, 1435, 1530, etc).  Vampire numbers is a composite number with an even number of digits (1260 is made of 4 numbers) where you can seperate the numbers evenly (1 and 2 in a group, 6 and 0 in a group), and you can arrange the group into a number (like 21 and 60) and multiply the groups together (21 x 60) to get the original numer again (21 x 60 = 1260).  The numbers 21 and 60 are called the fangs of the number and longer numbers (which give many other ways to group them) can have many fangs.  It was just a cool thing to add and the reason it was selected as the experiment number.

For the upcomming year:
FKFicFest, of course.  And still thinking of working on my various series and getting those stories out.  We'll see, but I don't want to fall behind in writing again like what happened this year.

Just found out about a sad update to the 1962 Caddy used as the pristine close-up car. Purchased in 1996 and residing in North Carolina, USA, it was in an accident in 2001 and was totaled.

( Only if you want to see a pic )

AO3 is down today due to a DDoS attack.  In case anyone was trying to get on.

So ... saw this listing pop up on eBay.  Seller says she's Catherine Disher and Ger designed and had this jacket made for her and a few other cast members.  Bidding will go 8 days and starts at $500 CAD.  Thoughts?

www.ebay.com/itm/394490278353

Just saw that Forever Knight Season 1 and 2 are streaming free on Amazon Prime.

2021 was another year of the pandemic, and stressful.  Work has been keeping me busy day and night, everyday, so not so much time to write anything.  But every once in a while I have a few hours to put something together so got a few stories posted.

Nothing new for Forever Knight this year, but still collecting various fanzines I come across.  This year I was able to find the Forever Knight Concordance (see here and here) and Ophelia's With Flowers (I had only ever read the first story so was excited to get the rest).

No time to update anything new to the Live on the Air series, which I had hoped to get around to this year, but work ....

On to fanfic:

First up: Gifts!  None this year

Second up: Prompted Story!
I participated in the FKFicFest this year and from the available prompts I chose a combination of "a moment of truth" and "it's not what you are, its what you do with it."  This story ties the flashbacks and the current case closely together - closer than I've done a case-fic before, so it was a little challenge to write.  I wrote the flashback and the modern story at the same time, making sure an event that happened would happen in both, so there was a lot of jumping between sections!  Moments links two flashback times to the present (1993) time: 1890 right after Nick decides to not drink any human blood and the consequences from what happens, which occurs in 1912 right before Nick's time on the Titanic.  Nick really gets involved in the current murder case, seeing himself in what is going on, and attempts to retreat from humanity like he's done in the past.  Fortunately (or not), this time the result is different.  This story also involves Nat trying to make a new concoction for Nick to drink and the flashback also has that occurring.  Lately I have been thinking of all the "new" science Nick must have come across over the centuries in his quest to become mortal or find an alternative to human blood.  In the 1910s, there was a lot of work with discovering there was some sort of molecule in food that could prevent or reverse some diseases.  We would know these to be vitamins, but they were originally called vital amines, and since one of the flashbacks was around this timeframe I loved incorporating that into Nick's treatments.  Fun aside on this story: I named the original character, Ann, first, then went to a random name generator to select the character name to be used in the flashback.  The name Bryanne was the first name created and it matched perfectly to Ann so I used that!

Brightnightie has also been posting prompts for the Fanfic Workout Buddies series, so I was inspired by the prompt "must be terribly important" to write Missed Appointment.  Set in 1995 at Nick's loft, LaCroix comes over, reminding Nick of appointments he often skips - an agreement that Nick would spend time with him.  Nick tries to wiggle out, but LaCroix insists (in his own threatening way) and Nick relents.  The story ends there, so anyone is free to imagine what they do for a whole week together!

Third up: Other Stories!
I wrote an additional 7 stories this year.  Still no drabble, though I did get one story down to 607 words - so progress!

There were a set of three stories that were alternative endings to Last Knight.  I wrote the three versions off the same starting line.  I have other ideas for stories that take place at the end of Last Knight, but these three always seemed to cluster together so I just wrote them together and named them the same.  Two of them are cure stories, with Nick achieving mortality with Nat's help.  In The Final Choice - version 1, LaCroix does as Nick asks, and Nick stands at the door with the Guide.  LaCroix tries one last time to convince Nick to come back, but Nick decides not to, and as a mortal, steps through the door.  In The Final Choice - version 2, LaCroix refuses Nick's last request and breaks the wooden staff.  LaCroix instead continues with what Nat and Nick had been doing, and Nick becomes mortal.  However, as a very dark story, LaCroix doesn't permit Nick to stay mortal for long, and he brings Nick back.  I'm rather proud of this story, as I explain how and why Nick could become mortal with Nat's help, using the same method that Janette was able to use with Robert.  In The Final Choice - version 3, LaCroix brings down the wooden staff but not into Nick.  Nick shows he still cares for LaCroix and stays.

In Angels Walk Among Us, its mostly flashback to the train ride Nick and LaCroix were on in Jane Doe.  During this time Nick is off killing humans, yet he advices LaCroix to kill young Hitler.  Aside from how good that would have been, I did always find it odd he made such a recommendation.  This flashback addresses how that came about.  Also, Nick would save a woman, who's descendant would be important to Nick.  This story required a bit of research, to know Hitler's whereabouts during his time after being a soldier.  It was supposed to be set around 1918, but this did not match with where we knew he was, nor the ideas he was having at the time.  I also looked up train routes and settled on 1919, late September.

Blood Drive was a quick little story about the police blood drive.  We had seen Don donating in the first episodes and probably donates each year.  I imagine he probably tries to get Nick to donate and this story is his attempt.  However, he finds LaCroix, who explains why Nick can't donate.  And now Nick owes LaCroix for the favor. 

We often see Natalie helping Nick, but there are times when this is reversed.  I wrote Sick Day to be pre-season 1 where Natalie was sick and Nick came over to try and help.  Its a cute little story and shows what the beginning of their relationship was like, and the first movie they watched together.  I had a great deal of vexation and fun tracking down the actual address of Nat's apartment in season 1.  I had read in a few places generally where it was, but nope, the building was not there.  Fortunately we have google maps and streetview so I literally walked the area until I found the place.

Adding to my song-fic series was Indestructible (Master of War), based on Indestructible by Disturbed.  It is a LaCroix story, starting from his youth until a little after he becomes a vampire.  I had hinted in the past that I did not think Lucius came from the upperclass, but a lower one, working his way up based on his skills and drive to survive.  Real events and people are peppered though the story, from Caesars to Generals, to real battles, real murder plots, and cities.  I ended up putting Lucius into the Legio XIV Gemina stationed in Brittania because it was described as Nero's favorite legion (thus positioning Lucius closer to eventually meeting Nero) and it was in Brittania and for another story I need LaCroix to be in that area amongst the Celtic peoples at some point in his mortal life.  I also spent a lot of time with the Roman naming patterns, and Lucius' name is very accurate, even how the spelling would change.  Important for me was the name "LaCroix" was just a translation of the name he already had as a mortal, and that he was a twin (one of the consequences of that was used in my story A Twist of Fate).  Not mentioned, but I put Lucius' birth to be 32 AD.  I'll apologize that "master of war" phrase comes up a lot, but that's in the song lyrics, so I have to use it a lot in the story (most of the lyrics in the songs I pick do end up written into the story).

For the upcoming year:
Definitely still continue to participate in FkFicFest.  I'll say I'll make more entries into the Live on the Air series, but I'll be honest: it probably won't happen.  I had wanted to complete the next two stories of my Light and Dark series, which are when Nick was in the Crusades and what happened afterward, and then when he meets Janette and LaCroix.  I have the first sentence done!  But that's all I had time for this year so that is a priority for next year.  I've also been thinking of another post-Last Knight story that will be a shock and a second one I am writing now that takes place a few years after Last Knight.  Didn't get my Nick/LaCroix story done, so that will hopefully be completed for next year.  I was going to do a holiday story for this year, but there just wasn't time so it's been pushed to next year.

Oh, like an long unboxing video, but written out!  Images can be found here.

So for many reasons I initially typed out, then chickened out and deleted, I collect Forever Knight fanzines.  I would say I don't care anything particular about the stories, if its Forever Knight I'll get it (though Vachon stories I really struggle with becuase he is the one character I do not like).  Some of these stories are already posted online to read, but there is something about holding a physical copy that is just as important as the story.  In the course of looking for a story called "Pepper" I came across a fanzine website.  Fanzines are just listed by title, no pics or descriptions, and I saw something called the Concordance.  It wasn't the one I was looking for, but it was Forever Knight and didn't sound like Vachon so that was enough to get it.  When it arrived I was quite surprised that it wasn't physically put together like my other fanzines, and it was not a story, but a summary of the first season.  A work that is not supposed to be fanfic, it has a few details that are different than the canon we have now, which would include all three seasons.  I had wondered if these differences were ideas that had been purposed but changed by season 2, or was this work actually part fanfic?  If you have any info I would love to learn more about this!

The Forever Knight Concordance was written by Pam Jensen with artwork by Jayne Largent, copyrighted in 1993 and published by Fenris House.  The Concordance itself came in a 3 ring black binder; the pages have no marking to indicate if they had been bound up any other way, so I will assume this is the original method it was done in.  For a front cover, there is an image printed on blue paper slipped into the front of the binder.  Image is of a large skull with an open mouth and someone standing inside, with shadows of various individuals, winged beasts, and bats along the bottom.  It is stamped with a purple bat and had some initials.  I did not attempt to take out the paper, as over the years the ink has fused with the plastic and its kinda stuck in there.


Opening the binder up, there are some pieces of paper in the binder pocket.  There is a white piece of paper from the Editor of Fenris House, explaining the problems they are having with illegal copies of fan publications being made and sold, so for this one, each Concordance is initialed, stamped, and numbered all in purple to indicate authenticity.  The number of mine is 28 (or 78, all depends on how people draw out their 2s and 7s; I personally slash my 7s).  Next is a pink paper listing various Forever Knight fanclubs  and places where you could get T-shirts and such, and their addresses.  A yellow paper discusses the Forever Knight Companion by Anne Moore and Sue Schneider, which will include interviews and photos.  Another pink sheet of paper is for membership into the Forever Knight Fan Club of Canada.  A blue paper in black ink discusses an adult fanzine being made available -  Knight Time.  The final paper is blue with blue ink and is for the Nigel Bennett Fan Club, complete with a pic of Nigel.

Back to the Concordance, there is a blue title page, then the table of contents page.  The Concordance is about 159 pages long (numbering stops after 122 so we have to go with my counting skills after that), with most of the pages taken up with summaries of each of the first season's episodes.  There is also a map section, a Cop Log, and some more material not listed in the table of contents.  The date indicated on this page in purple ink is 1994, so would have been the year this one was originally sold. 


On the next page Pam explains that this concordance is a guide, a tool for fans to find info quickly and each episode is summarized into 4 parts (taken from the four perspectives from Kurosawa's Rashomon) - the main plot (the case), the subplot (Nick's life), historical flashbacks, and food jokes.  Through these 4 points of view, it tells the whole story of the episode.  However, this is not true, as there is a 5th perspective - a theme of the episode is summarized.  I assume this theme is from Pam, or maybe it was the theme from each writer of the episode.  Some themes include: "No one person can assume the responsibility for everyone's behavior.  You can only control your own behavior" (Dead Air), "Always pay attention to the lessons taught you and never betray a trust" (I Will Repay), and "A person had to choose to be haunted by past deed, and to chase ghosts" (Fatal Mistake).  


And in one episode there is a tidbit of info - LaCroix's mandolin was specially-created for the show and the sound is a cello being played very high, combined with a female's voice and reverb added.  Randomly (like 4 or so times) there are small images in empty portions of the page like bats, a cat, or LaCroix here:


After the last episode summary there are a few photocopied black and white maps, like a map of Toronto Island, the subway, and a map of Europe with an outline around the Roman Germanic Empire in 1200.  The Cop Log section is a list of the physical locations visited during the episodes.  Next section is a credit list, which lists the actors, creators, producers, director of photography, writers, directors, stunts, etc. 


A blue, then a white page both have the title of "Nick Knight's Lifeline", a picture of a hand with lines indicated, and intricate scrollwork surrounding.  Next page gives Nick's resume and dates, showing various occupations like Crusader, Spice merchant, Tax collector, Doctor, Captain of a warship, and Detective.  Then a pedigree showing LaCroix's vampire children like Janette, Nick, Daniel, but also showing the vampires Janette made (the Baroness), and Nick (Elizabeth and Richard).


Following this are a more detailed timeline of Nick. Some are the known places and times shown in season 1.  Others I have no idea about where they came from.  The Concordance states all events shown are either demonstrated in the episode or talked about. So I am not sure if the Concordance at this point isn't totally a guide anymore but a good portion of fanfiction, or was this all supposed to be canon as of season 1 but plan changed for the later seasons so these entries are no longer valid.  Some canon times would be Joan of Arc, Paris when Nick is brought across, and Chicago when Nick was a Professor.  Others can be stretched from canon, such as in 1966 when Nick says there are catacombs under the Bergen Church, the Concordance has Nick in Berlin in 1690 as a student at the University, watching the catacombs being built.  Some have their location incorrect like Nick being in Florence, Italy learning painting; that would be Hieronymus Bosch who painted in Brabant and never left the area, so Nick had to be in Brabant for the painting.  Other entries are, I don't know where the info came from for that, such as Nick being from Parhenay, France, or working with Houdini to get rid of spiritual mediums in 1923.  The Concordance does later say Nick has a poster of Houdini in the loft.  (If anyone knowns which episode that was in please let me know.  I searched through a few today and didn't see it.)


Following this is the last section with a blue and a white piece of paper with a dragon on it with the title "History Notes".  This section, in alphabetical order, gives a short summary on historical figures (like Hitler, Genghis Khan), events (like McCarthyism, the Plague), and other things (like nightclubs, the Wheel of Law, candles, cross). 

So an interesting guide / fanfic? created after season 1 about the episodes of season 1.

Images in this post, and more, can be found here.