The Chronicles of Elaria

 The Chronicles of Elaria started as a short story I wrote in high school in 2018 for a Creative Writing class. I had no idea what I was doing. The story was a compilation of fight scenes loosely connected by an overarching plot, featuring monsters, dieselpunk technology, and magical knights that blended Star Wars’s Jedi with King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table. As bizarre as it was, the teacher liked it. When other stories incurred the same feedback from other teachers, I took their praise to heart and kept writing.

I started by developing my short fantasy story. It needed some severe reworks to be suitable for an audience, so I changed the setting to the medieval period, expanded my characters and lore, and added an undead dark lord to give the plot direction. That was when The Chronicles of Elaria officially came into being, and it was a vast improvement that elevated the story from a fun idea to a piece of literature. But it was still not enough for me. I continued reading, writing, and developing my setting. After several rewrites, I finally got what I was looking for.

As it stands today, The Chronicles of Elaria is my application of “write what you want to read”. It features villains who are not just bad guys but catalysts to make the protagonists question themselves. It explores issues of morality, society, religion, and politics. It has a defined setting inspired by Europe’s Early Modern Period when swords and plate armour shared the battlefield with guns and cannons. And most importantly, it strikes the balance of having substance while containing plenty of action and adventure.

If this sounds as interesting to you as it does to me, start your journey into the world of Loamar with my debut novel, The Dawn of Darkness.