The Palace of Golden Sand and White Snow....

A long-form reading guide for the Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe.

Shortcuts:

✨ MCU Phase Four
✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 1
✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 2

You can always start at the beginning, and follow the author's notes on each update to find out if there's a bonus/side story to read next! But if you want a full scene-by-scene ToC, here it is.

Post-season 1 of Moon Knight, it's a new age of the world, where the cosmic power balances are shifting. Steven, Marc, and Jake start meeting Avengers, making tentative connections and allies with the wider MCU, all while working on internal team-building efforts with each other.

✨ MCU Phase Four ✨

(Roughly follows the canon MCU timeline...with some events pushed back, so our guys can meet the characters before their movies happen.)

🌕 Cover of Knight: The main fic for this arc. Full list of updates below.

A series of times when Avengers notice Moon Knight switching/dissociating/just plain talking to himself...and the growing collection of (inconsistent, mostly ad-libbed, increasingly complicated) cover stories they get for it.

🌓 moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered: Multichapter headspace companion fic, focused on the building relationships between Marc/Steven/Jake, co-starring Layla and Duchamp. Intertwines with the events of Cover of Knight; chapters will be inserted between the CoK updates as they come up.

• (Bonus: title is from MK 2021 issue 2)

• 1. Hong Kong (Doctor Strange)
• 2. San Francisco (Shang-Chi)
• 3. Mahattan (Spider-Man)
• 4. Madripoor (Captain America and the Winter Soldier)
• 5. Baltimore (Black Panther + Hawkeye)
• 6. Richmond (Guardians of the Galaxy)
• 7. Jersey City (Ms. Marvel)
• 8. Madrid (Iron Man)
• 9. Lalitpur (Shang-Chi + Doctor Strange)
  • Chapters 1-2 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 10. New Orleans (Captain America and the Winter Soldier)
• 11. Vancouver (Deadpool)
  • + Chapter 3 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 12. New Asgard (Thor)
  • + Chapter 4 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 13. Cambridge (Spider-Man)
• 14. Johannesburg (The Hulk)
  • + Chapter 5 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 15. Las Vegas (Captain America and the Winter Soldier)
• 16. Budapest (Hawkeye)
• 17. Mumbai (Eternals)
  • + Chapter 6 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 18. Delhi (Shang-Chi + Doctor Strange)

🌘 Chaos Magic In You (Liptovský Hrádok): One-shot casefic, the Moon Knights singlehandedly steer Wanda off the Multiverse of Madness path.

• 19. Miami (Captain America and the Winter Soldier)
• 20. The Moon (THE MOON?!) (OMG THE ACTUAL MOON) (Captain Marvel + ???)
  • + Chapter 7 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 21. Los Angeles (She-Hulk)
• 22. Cairo (Captain America and the Winter Soldier)
  • + Chapters 8-9 of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered
• 23. London (Eternals)
• 24. London, Continued (Eternals + ???)
• 25. London Finale (Eternals + Loki)
• 26. Rashid (Thor)

🌘 Cover of Knight Holiday Special (Brooklyn): One-shot, Marc and Layla (and ???) join Bucky and Sam for a Hanukkah dinner.

• 27. Hell's Kitchen (Ms. Marvel + Daredevil)
• 28. Hell's Kitchen, Follow-Up (Ms. Marvel)
  • + Chapters 10-12 (the end!) of moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered

🌙 Meeting the Team Episode 1: Zoom: Steven's therapist, Andrea Sterman, meets Marc. (Takes place some time during the final chapters of the headspace fic.)

• 29. Ocean City (Deadpool)

🌘 Bad With Funerals (Birnin Zana): One-shot, Marc and Layla prepare for King T'Challa's funeral.

• 30. Birnin Zana (Black Panther)
• 31. Los Angeles/??? (She-Hulk)

🌙 Meeting the Team Episode 2: Park: Andrea Sterman meets Jake. 

🌓 Heart in Pieces (Chicago): Multichapter casefic, Layla helps the team handle someone else's abusive parent, and officially meets the mysterious Failsafe Mode headmate.

• 32. Queens (Spider-Man)
• 33. Orlando (Thor)
• 34. Brush Tunnel (Hawkeye + Captain America and the Winter Soldier)
• 35. Faith (Eternals)
• 36. Actually Cleveland (Avengers)

🌓 5+1 times Marc was definitely not having a threesome: Multichapter headspace fic, focused on sexy times with the polycule.


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✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 1 ✨

(Follows the first half of the Phase Five projects, from Quantumania through Echo. Gets more divergent from the canon timeline, as the little changes add up.)

🌘 Emergency Contact (London): One-shot, Bucky hears Marc is in trouble, and enlists Dr. Strange for a rescue.

🌘 Stars That Have A Different Birth (St. Elias): Two-shot casefic, Yelena solves her suspicion about the Moon Knights by inviting "one of them" (also, Kate and Duchamp) on a mission with the Beaubiers.

🌙 Meeting the Team Episode 3: Under The Hood: Andrea Sterman meets Moon Knight...or so she thinks. (Also: bonus Khonshu.)

• (Bonus: Organizing the fic endgame for Cover of Knight)

🌕 Reveals by Knight: The main fic for the second arc. Full list of updates below.

A series of team-ups where Avengers notice weird things about the Moon Knights...and our guys have to decide whether to give them a(nother) cover story, or to add them to the (carefully curated, extremely short, but slowly growing) list of People We Trust With The Reveals.

• 1. Los Angeles (She-Hulk)
• 2. San Francisco (Ant-Man)
• 3. Macao (Shang-Chi)
• 4. Akihabara (Thor)
• 5. Manhattan (Spider-Man)
• 6. Batuu (Deadpool)
• 7. Hunt Valley (Doctor Strange)
• 8. Manhattan Again (Spider-Verse)
• 9. Manhattan, Continued (Spider-Verse + ???)
• 10. Manhattan Finale (Spider-Man)
• 11. London (Black Widow + Alpha Flight)

🌘 Come In From The Night (Chicago): Multichapter casefic, the Knights come out as plural to Sam and Bucky, but first there's a mission with zombies at Rabbi Spector's synagogue.

• (Bonus: Behind-the-scenes process post)
• (Bonus: first Which Avengers Know What About The Moon Knights graphic)

• 12. Back in London (Captain America)

🌓 You're Not Alone (London): Two-shot, the Knights lean on their support system while struggling with post-Elias nightmares.

• 13. Oslo (Thor)
• 14. Borinquen (Black Panther)
• 15. Hell's Kitchen (Daredevil)
• 16. The LES (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)

🌘 Reveals by Knight/WandaVision Crossover Holiday Spectacular (Brooklyn): Multichapter, Layla and the Knights join Bucky, Sam, and now Wanda for a Thanksgiving "everybody knows all the big secrets, we can just relax and talk without worrying about breaking anybody's cover" dinner.

• 17. Westview (WandaVision)
• 18. New Asgard (Thor)
• 19. Boston (Spider-Man)
• 20. White Plains (She-Hulk + Daredevil)
• 21. Bucharest (Captain America + Black Widow)
• 22. Hudson River Park (Spider-Man)
• 23. Lamentis-1 (Loki)
• 24. Back in London II (Loki)
• 25. Quebec City (Black Widow + Alpha Flight)
• 26. Harlem (She-Hulk + Defenders)
• 27. Discourse Hell (Ms. Marvel)

🌘 The Cold Light of Earliest Spring (Waverly): Two-shot, the Beaubiers are having a crisis from a new Headmate Reveal, Yelena gets everyone to the Barton farm and calls on the Knights to help them work it out.

• 28. Tamaha (Echo)
• 29. Zurich (Doctor Strange)
• 30. Puente Antiguo (Thor)
• 31. Hell's Kitchen (She-Hulk + Defenders)
• 32. Hell's Kitchen, Wrap-Up (She-Hulk + Daredevil)
• 33. Back in London III where the I's are cool claw marks (Deadpool)
• 34. Dark Dimension (Shang-Chi + Doctor Strange + She-Hulk)
• (Bonus: the second Which Avengers Know What About The Moon Knights graphic)
• (Bonus: Reveals by Knight organization plans)

🌕 Here's What You Missed: A full-season main course in its own right. Steven, Marc, and Jake are headmates brothers, living a happy, idyllic family life in the suburbs. Wanda is alone a loving single mother, enjoying her peaceful days of working from home and raising her sons. Everyone is happy, and everything is fine!

• 35. Regent's Park (WandaVision) (Read this after chapters 1-5 of Here's What You Missed)
• 36. Back in London IV (Doctor Strange + WandaVision)

🌙 Meeting the Team Episode 4: Red Lights: Andrea Sterman meets members of Team Moon Knight's support system, including Wanda. (Also: a mysterious child.) (Takes place during and after HWYM.)


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✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 2 ✨

(Follows the second half of the Phase Five projects, from Deadpool & Wolverine onward.)

🌓 One Plus One Is More Than Two : Multichapter, headspace + casefic. Post-Hex, the guys and Layla visit Sam and Bucky, only to have an Avengers mission interrupted by...a new headmate?

• (Bonus: Behind-the-scenes annotated first draft)

🌕 Deadpool Saves The Cover Of Knight Universe!: Multichapter, another full-season main course, best fic ever. The history of this whole universe gets royally Kanged-up. The TVA sends its hottest new agents, Deadpool and The Best Wolverine, to find the Fist(s) of Khonshu and fix it!

🌙 Meeting the Team Episode 5: Merge: Andrea meets what might be a new version of Marc.

🌙 Meeting the Team Episode 6: Telephone Wire: Andrea helps the Knights pre-game a meeting with Elias.

🌘 no one could blame you: Multichapter, Elias finally sits down for a reconnection-and-backstory lunch with Marc...and some unexpected members of Marc's extended support system.

• (Bonus: title is from MK 2021 issue 5)

🌕Travels by Knight: The main fic for the third arc. Details TBD!

(There's a lot of wedding planning in this one. I haven't decided if the wedding itself will be a separate fic, or the big finale of Travels. Also TBD.)