Welcome to the online home of my creative worldbuilding and storytelling in the world of Irándiel, the sole artifact of my mythopoetic imagination and, as far as fiction is concerned, my life’s work. In other words, I intend to create only one world until the day I die: this one. And this world is intended to be nothing but an imagined pre-history of the world in which we live, the real, primary world, seen through the lens of the primordial light in which the deepest and widest meaning of reality is seen, and the prism of beauty casts countless rays of light outward to illumine all of life and existence. This work of myth-making is thereby intended to pull back the veil of apparent mundaneness from our perception of reality and to allow a space where it may be beheld, contemplated, and cherished more deeply, and with a more vibrant childlike wonder and play, and a heightened sense of both the depth of darkness and the abundance of light that saturate our cosmos as it progresses toward its eventual end and consummation.

One story has already been completed and published, the standalone centerpiece of the mythology: Dawnbringer: Lightborn. Its sequel, Legacy, is at present in the works. And a prequel, Origin, occurring thirteen-hundred years prior, is in seed-form, with a first chapter already “planted” in the soil. On this site I also at times share smaller works such as poetry and short stories, and intend to eventually publish them (probably many years down the road) in an anthology of collected tales. If this interests you, feel free to follow along! The best place to get started, of course, is to read Lightborn. It is available for free on this site or as a downloadable PDF, but it is my recommendation that you get a hard copy, as nothing compares – particularly in fantasy and faerie stories – with reading a real, physical book, with its irreplaceable touch, and smell, and texture, and its enduring legacy.

From the earliest years of my life I spent much of my free time lost in imagination and “storytelling” play, engrossed in creating and enacting worlds, characters, and stories, or in receiving them. Up until my early or mid adolescence I wished to become an author and a storyteller, and though my life journey rightly carried me in a different direction for twenty years afterward, it also led “full circle” to this calling once again. And the continuity of beginning, middle, and end are evident for me. They are all part of a single love and a single mystery, and my storytelling is but a part of this mystery and embedded within it. It is therefore my humble joy and trepidation to be a custodian of the reality, in the “mythic language” of co-creative imagination, that has been entrusted to me. I hope that if you enter into and contemplate the stories and the world that I share, you will find yourself not only entertained, but encouraged, edified, and uplifted to the beauty and the goodness for which all of us long, and which is the wellspring of unending gladness and enduring peace.