The Chronicle
Dispatches from the world of the Sagas — lore fragments, historical research from the period, annotations from the margins of the record.
Enter the ChronicleThe World
The Aelf-King Sagas take place across two worlds that have always been the same world — and in the long century during which the boundary between them was contested by fire.
The Map
The territories of the Aelf-court, the mortal roads that cross them, and the places that exist in both worlds simultaneously.
View the MapThe Characters
The living, the dead, and those for whom the distinction has never been settled. A guide to the persons of the Sagas.
Meet the Characters“There were two courts in those years — the mortal one that burned things to understand them, and the other one, which had been watching for a very long time.”
The Map — Coming Soon
Recent Dispatches
On the First Winter: A Lore Fragment
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.
Read More →The North Berwick Trials and the Literature of Accusation
What the records from 1590 actually say, and what they were designed not to say. A reading of the primary sources behind the events of Book One.
Read More →What the Aelf-Court Remembers: Notes on an Invented Mythology
On the problem of inventing a mythology that feels as if it was always there — and the strange experience of discovering that some of it may, in fact, have been.
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