Ooh! I'm just now writing a YW crossover. (No, I'm writing a Feline Wizards crossover and I know nothing about the main series. Who is this Dairine of which you speak? What is a Nit or a Kita? The main character is Rhiow and you cannot tell me differently. :P) I can see that you're 1. a much bigger fan of this series than I am, and 2. thinking of coming at this from a totally different direction.
I was writing a more straightforward crossover-- character from Canon X runs into the Whisperer (IDK if the Whisperer is called something else in the main series; I mean the voice-in-your-head that gives cats their powers) and swears the Oath because he thinks it'll get him out of a bad situation, only to then have to actually see wizardry and the importance and possibility of empathy for species you didn't think anyone could empathize with. And so how he would describe it would change, from thinking he made a desperate deal with the devil and has to pay the price, to thinking of it as a vocation that's actually not that bad.
But then I ended up making it heavily about why I don't even agree with the themes in this series. (Reason number one why I'm not actually a YW fan.) And then about reconstructing a recension of the Oath that takes that into account, and is radically different from the normal version and from Ith's version, and yet is what the Oath is supposed to be. It has all the parts, if you break it down very far and then build it back up using basically none of the same words... and if you rewrite it like a lawyer, and if you consciously decouple all three things conflated in the more standard Earth version... so actually it's one of those alien versions that at first blush don't seem to be about the same thing at all.
I hadn't thought to do a crossover by finding characters who could secretly be wizards already. I had thought about astahfrith and sevarfrith and how not only should Earth's wizards know about the character's home planet already, but so should his home know about wizards because at first, I thought it should be astahfrith.
(Then I realized I had an excellent reason for it to be sevarfrith dating all the way back to the time when they made the Choice. It's outlawed, and has been for so long and with such vague terms that basically no one knows much about it at all anymore. Including the guy who outlawed it. Ofc there are secret wizards, but they don't show up.)
But finding characters who could be wizards is interesting. I think it works better for sevarfrith worlds, because if it's never come up before in canon, there should be a good reason for that. I don't really grasp all your Librarians fusion worldbuilding (...you know, I'm not sure if "fusion" is the right word for it; that might be the problem) but it sounds interesting.
Question: are you a fan of the Marvel movies or just the comics?
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I was writing a more straightforward crossover-- character from Canon X runs into the Whisperer (IDK if the Whisperer is called something else in the main series; I mean the voice-in-your-head that gives cats their powers) and swears the Oath because he thinks it'll get him out of a bad situation, only to then have to actually see wizardry and the importance and possibility of empathy for species you didn't think anyone could empathize with. And so how he would describe it would change, from thinking he made a desperate deal with the devil and has to pay the price, to thinking of it as a vocation that's actually not that bad.
But then I ended up making it heavily about why I don't even agree with the themes in this series. (Reason number one why I'm not actually a YW fan.) And then about reconstructing a recension of the Oath that takes that into account, and is radically different from the normal version and from Ith's version, and yet is what the Oath is supposed to be. It has all the parts, if you break it down very far and then build it back up using basically none of the same words... and if you rewrite it like a lawyer, and if you consciously decouple all three things conflated in the more standard Earth version... so actually it's one of those alien versions that at first blush don't seem to be about the same thing at all.
I hadn't thought to do a crossover by finding characters who could secretly be wizards already. I had thought about astahfrith and sevarfrith and how not only should Earth's wizards know about the character's home planet already, but so should his home know about wizards because at first, I thought it should be astahfrith.
(Then I realized I had an excellent reason for it to be sevarfrith dating all the way back to the time when they made the Choice. It's outlawed, and has been for so long and with such vague terms that basically no one knows much about it at all anymore. Including the guy who outlawed it. Ofc there are secret wizards, but they don't show up.)
But finding characters who could be wizards is interesting. I think it works better for sevarfrith worlds, because if it's never come up before in canon, there should be a good reason for that. I don't really grasp all your Librarians fusion worldbuilding (...you know, I'm not sure if "fusion" is the right word for it; that might be the problem) but it sounds interesting.
Question: are you a fan of the Marvel movies or just the comics?