Edvane Stories

Dawn comes to Azhrath, and with it the first struggle over memory. Sûla gives the broken rite its lasting name, while Tirukh sends riders out to blame the two Blue Wizards for what has been exposed. As rumour, accusation, and witness begin their separate roads, Pallando and Alatar leave the hill behind, knowing that no song in the West will record what happened there, but one more knot in the shad...

In the wake of the broken rite, Azhrath does not fall into noble battle, but into confusion, accusation, and fear. Tirukh struggles to recover command, Varaz holds the rescued hostage-boy, Lakhan begins shaping the truth among the merchants, and Sûla leads Yadâri into the old passages beneath the hill. Pallando and Alatar know the victory is incomplete, but the oath is dead, the alliance is broken...

The third night comes to Azhrath beneath a red moon, and Tirukh’s long-prepared rite begins before chiefs, merchants, priests and witnesses. But Yadâri speaks the truth of the old blood, the fire-house tricks begin to fail, Varaz demands the return of his hostage kin, and the Star of Ash is exposed before all. What was meant to bind the gathered clans becomes the breaking of Tirukh’s power, and th...

As the final night deepens over Azhrath, Pallando and Alatar move separately through the fortress, placing quiet pressure on every hidden fault-line. Lakhan is reminded of old promises broken, Varaz of honour betrayed, Yadâri prepares the proofs of blood and custom, and even a fearful acolyte is shown the hand beneath the priests’ miracles. The oath has not yet been spoken, but the wound beneath i...

As Azhrath lies sleepless beneath torchlight and temple smoke, Pallando and Alatar descend into the older bones of the fortress. With Sûla’s help, they find Yadâri’s hidden records, uncover the wounds beneath Tirukh’s power, and learn how priestcraft, fear and false signs are being used to bind the gathered clans. The oath is now only one night away, and doubt must be set loose before all men knee...

Inside the fortress of Azhrath, Pallando and Alatar move among horse-chiefs, merchants, priests, servants, and envoys, listening for the fault-lines beneath Tirukh’s rising power. As the oath approaches and the hidden fire burns above them, they begin to see that Azhrath is not yet a thing of iron, but a place of fear, doubt, old blood, and brittle loyalties. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please fo...

Pallando and Alatar come at dusk to the fortress of Azhrath, where the clans and horse-chiefs of the East are gathering beneath one darkening purpose. Beyond the reeds of Rhûn, fires burn on the hill, drums sound in the evening, and whispers speak of an oath soon to be sworn: one banner, one road, one tribute, and one unnamed lord above all others. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the po...

Yarnulf takes a shortcut through the forest and finds Gossia, a pixie tending a garden of bones. Every skeleton was someone who laughed at her. She is not angry about it. A dark folk horror fable about courtesy, cruelty and the things that live in forests If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the sho...

In 1812, French artist Théodore Géricault painted The Severed Heads. The pair were unknown, their story unrecorded. But France was in the bloody turmoil of post-revolutionary governance, and someone must have known who they were. A dark historical fiction story set in Nimes, where two lovers tried to survive across political divides that France made fatal. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follo...

During the dissolution of the monasteries, Lady Katherine Bulkeley receives a letter that may end her abbey forever. In the chapel that night, the ghosts of Henry II and Fair Rosamund appear, and what they say about love, legacy and authority is not what she expects. A historical ghost story set at Godstow Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast...

A Cistercian monk from 1137 steps through a temporal door in his abbey and arrives in 2137, where an artificial intelligence called ARIX governs truth itself — deciding what humanity may know, believe, and remember. A philosophical dark fiction story about faith, knowledge, and the oldest question of all: who decides what is real? If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark...

In 1899, French photographer Felix Thollier captured a photograph called Horse Training. No context was ever given. Neither horse nor trainer was ever named. Until today. A dark folk horror story rooted in real history, for readers who enjoy strange and unsettling outcomes. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new lis...

In the dark city of Streindarke, emotion is not forbidden. It is processed, certified, and filed. Registrar Albrecht Baus administers the bonds of love as bureaucratic duty, until the weight of what he cannot feel for himself becomes impossible to ignore. A gothic, dystopian tale inspired by the song Dark Entries by Bauhaus. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark ficti...