"metastory" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2017, David Owen, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames, page 148:",
          "text": "The Assassin's Creed franchise is framed within a present day metastory involving a major corporation that may or may not be run by Templars.",
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