The Aelf-King Sagas

Where the witch trials built a legend

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Book One

The Blood of Winter

In the winter of 1590, a name is spoken in the darkness of a Scottish courtroom — a name that should not exist. What begins as a trial ends as a summons. Across the frozen North Sea and deep into the forest courts of the Aelf-King, one woman carries the only truth that can end what the witch trials started.

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“The Song had no name in those days. It was simply the cold that knew you.”

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World-Building

On the First Winter: A Lore Fragment from the Age Before the Sagas

In the oldest records of the Aelf-court, the world did not begin with light. It began with a particular quality of silence — the kind that precedes a name being spoken for the first time. The scribes who recorded this period called it the Age of the Unfinished Song, and they were very careful never to hum it aloud.

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The Author

S.C. Kincaid is the author of The Aelf-King Sagas, a historical fantasy trilogy reimagining the origin of Santa Claus through the witch trials of 16th and 17th century Europe. His family carried a Scottish name and a longer Scottish story from the Highlands to the Arkansas Ozarks. He writes about the stories that survive every crossing.