Mythralis - The world of Drackore’s Forge
Dark epic fantasy for people who believe the light is worth fighting for.
Some stories arrive fully formed. Drackore's Forge did not. It grew over nearly three decades from a single idea into something larger than originally intended: a complete, interconnected epic fantasy saga spanning multiple books, a prequel, a crossover novel, a holiday special, and a second trilogy still to come. Every piece of it was planned. Every thread connects. And it was built on a single, uncompromising belief: the light wins not because it is stronger than darkness. It wins because it refuses to let the darkness have the children.
Here is what that looks like across the full saga.
Solarthar: Light’s Lost Souls
The prequel. Available now on Amazon for 99 cents, or free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
Audiobook coming soon!
Before Drackore, there was the priest who found him.
High Priest Solarthar Brightstorm of Morning's Vow Monastery is a man of deep faith, careful discipline, and a grief he has been managing at arm's length for too long. When a settlement of forty souls disappears without a trace and a young priest he sent in his place does not return, Solarthar is forced to confront a decision he made at a desk, at a comfortable distance from the darkness. His journey into the ruins of Ironvein Hold was supposed to be a burial mission. What he carried out of the mountain changed the rest of his life, and the rest of the saga.
Lights and Lost Souls is a story about responsibility, about the specific cost of choosing caution when courage was needed, and about what happens when a man of genuine faith is finally honest with himself about his own limits. It is also, quietly, a story about the moment a wounded priest and a wounded child found each other in the dark and decided, separately and together, that surviving was not enough.
Perfect for fans of Robin Hobb, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Guy Gavriel Kay who love character-driven epic fantasy that earns every emotional beat.
Tome 1 - Darkness to Dawn
At twelve years old, Drackore Spyritfyst hid in a forge while his home burned and his family was killed. His father's last command was simple: run. He obeyed. He survived. He spent eight years turning that survival into something useful, training under Solarthar at Morning's Vow until the grief had calcified into purpose and the purpose had a direction.
Then he rode home. Alone. On a horse named Grumpyhoof. With a hammer.
Darkness to Dawn is the founding story of the saga: a revenge story that becomes a rescue story, and underneath both of those, a story about a man deciding what to build from the wreckage of the worst night of his life. Along the road back to Ironvein, Drackore picks up a knight who still believes in something, a ranger who talks to animals, and a mage walking in the shadow of a name he does not yet understand. A found family assembles itself from mismatched survivors, and when they finally take back the mountain, what Drackore announces he intends to build inside it is not a fortress. It is a home. For every outcast, refugee, and soul the world decided did not matter.
Neither fire nor stone cares for the shape of your shadow or the lineage of your blood. If you work, if you stand your ground, you earn your place.
For fans of Brandon Sanderson, Brian Jacques, and Terry Brooks who want epic fantasy with genuine heart, earned humor, and heroes who carry real grief without being consumed by it.
Available now in paperback, hardcover, and ebook at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, and all major retailers. Audiobook coming soon.
Tome 2 - When the Hammer Falls
Estimated Launch: July, 2027
Ironvein is growing. The refugees are arriving. The hold is becoming exactly what Drackore promised it would be. And the darkness that has been watching from a distance is done watching.
When the Hammer Falls expands the world of Mythralis in every direction, deepening relationships formed in Tome 1, introducing new heroes who will carry the saga forward, and raising the stakes in ways the first book carefully, deliberately prepared for. A child is found in conditions that no child should survive. A boy rescued from a pit learns what it means to stand between someone he loves and the thing that wants to take them. A dark god decides it is time to reach directly into the mountain and take what it has been building toward.
Drackore will face something he cannot fight with a hammer. The people who love him will have to decide whether to let him carry it alone.
This is the book where the found family is tested at the sharpest possible edge. Not everyone comes out the other side.
For fans of Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, and Brent Weeks who want their found family fantasy to earn the weight it carries.
Tome 3 - Sunsets Aren’t Endings
Estimated Launch: October, 2026
The mountain is under siege.
Everything Drackore built, every child rescued, every wall repaired and forge relit and family assembled from the wreckage of broken lives, all of it is inside the mountain while an ancient evil and her army camp at the gates. Drackore's oldest enemy has come to finish what she started years before he was born. She has been widening the cracks in the wards since before he reclaimed the hold. She knows the inside of his walls better than he does.
And her master hungers.
Sunsets Aren't Endings is the culmination of the first trilogy and it earns every moment. The siege is brutal and costly. The darkness is as vast and ancient as anything Drackore has faced. And when the dust finally settles, the story does not simply end. It continues in the quieter, harder way that real things continue: through the years that follow, through the people who grew up inside those walls, through the forge fires that do not go out and the hammer that passes from one set of hands to the next.
The forge never goes cold. It just waits for the next hammer.
For fans of Steven Erikson, Tad Williams, and Robert Jordan who want an epic fantasy siege story with real emotional stakes and a final act that does not betray everything that came before it.
Tome 4 - A Parallel Story to Tome 1
Estimated Launch: January, 2027
No spoilers. ;)
Ironvein Holidays - Starfall Eve
Estimated Launch: December 2026
The holiday of giving and togetherness had been lost.
Ironvein will change all of that.
And someone gets his chance to make a difference.
The Saga in Summary
Drackore's Forge is a dark epic fantasy saga built on the belief that hope is not naive. That good people who have been genuinely tested and choose to remain good are the most interesting people in any story. That found family is not a subplot but a thesis. That the children the world throws away deserve a mountain with open gates and someone stubborn enough to keep the fires burning.
It is a story for readers who are tired of rooting for characters the author is building up to destroy. For readers who miss fantasy where the good guys are genuinely good and the fight is genuinely worth fighting. For readers who believe that love, stubbornness, humor, and the refusal to let cruelty win are not soft things but the hardest and bravest things a story can argue for.
The forge never goes cold. Start with Solarthar's prequel for 99 cents, or dive straight into Tome 1: Darkness to Dawn, available now at all major retailers.
Your people are in there. Go find them.
Tomes 5-7 in development.