Gates · Corruption · The Cycle Continues
A universe of ancient gates, patient corruption, and the civilizations that rise and fall between them.
Somewhere beyond what the eye can reach, a universe sits inside a globe on a desk. Inside it, twelve planets orbit a false star. Civilizations rise. The corruption finds them. They fall. The cycle turns. It has always turned.
The Aurelon universe spans novels, campaign settings, and the spaces between — a shared cosmology where every story is connected by gates that open between worlds, a corruption that learns from everything it consumes, and a cycle that is older than anything living inside it.
The walls are thinner now. The hand that built them trembles.
The world above is dying. You fell into the dark. There are ten ways out — four of them are still unnamed. The first ten readers of each ending preread the unpublished cycle. The first names a character.
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Begin the Descent Playable NowFree short stories set in the world of Aurelon. The savage god's last battle. A party of three reaching what's been dying in the dark. Four mappers descending past the line the temple was built to hide. Pieces written separately from the novels, each its own door into the universe. More on the way.
Read the Stories Available NowA complete 5th Edition compatible campaign setting. 240 pages of world, lore, new races, a new class, a full bestiary, corruption mechanics, and a bonus campaign for levels 1-12. Set twenty years before the novel on a world connected to others by ancient gates.
In DevelopmentThe sky cracked open at midnight. The blacksmith burned. A boy walked out of the ashes carrying an axe that wasn't his and something cold behind his ribs that shouldn't be there. He's not a chosen one. He's the crack.
Coming 2026The first reader to reach each named ending names a character in the books. Their name is held here, in canon, for as long as the cycle remembers.
Before the light there was a hand,
and the hand built a house with no doors.
Inside the house the hand lit a fire
that was too much,
that broke.
39 lines. Every one true. None understood.
Novelist and tabletop storyteller. I've spent fifteen years building and running campaigns in the Aurelon setting — two long-running chronicles, dozens of shorter games, and a rotating cast of around thirty players whose questions and choices shaped the cosmology long before it became a book.
A Breaking: Of Ashes and Light is the culmination of those years: the characters I couldn't play as Dungeon Master, and the story that couldn't be finished at the table.
I live in Kentucky.
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