The Chronicles of Elaria

The Chronicles of Elaria began as a short story I wrote for a high school 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 improving my short fantasy story. It needed extensive rewrites to be suitable for an audience, so I set it in 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 wasn’t good enough yet—not by a long shot. 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 the “write what you want to read” principle. It’s fast-paced and action-packed, but it takes time to slow down and explore complex themes and characters. It’s fantastical with magic and wonder, but grounded in a setting inspired by Europe’s early modern period (roughly 1600 A.D.), when swords and plate armour shared battlefields with black powder.

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.