Coming to Wurdsmith
Summer 2025
The Magic Land
a novel
In the Magical World next door, lies the Kingdom of An Siobhraich Fonn; in the Trade Tongue, more commonly called The Magic Land.
The Magic Land in Peril!
The greatest danger this Realm and the entire Magical World ever faced threatens to destroy the peace and harmony of its inhabitants.
The Realm needs warriors like Aragorn, Boromir or Gimli. Instead, it's stuck with Menel Vagor, a nut farmer, and Brother Brendan, a monk, both accidental refugees from our modern world.
Likewise, the Kingdom requires the wisdom and power of Gandalf. Unfortunately, it has only Atavar the Wizard, also an émigré from our world, to deal with Magical complications.
Fortunately, this Company of Adventurers also has Brigit; as skilled at Swordcraft as in Healing Magic. They're going to need her.
The High King calls upon these four unlikely heroes since this existential threat originates from our mundane world.
A greedy multi-national corporation, based in LA, built a device that transports men, materials, weapons, and machines between the worlds. Monolith Inc is determined to rape this new world for its natural resources. They believe no one in this primitive alternate reality can stop them.
After all, Magic isn't real, is it?
In the universe next door exists a world where Magic is Alive
and Wizards, Elves and Dragons still live.
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Not simply a “parallel world” with a divergent history, this alternate reality was intentionally created with Magic. The method was an enchantment now known as the Great Working, or more simply, the Great Spell.
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The result was the Sundering. Where once was one world, now two exist, each geographically identical to the other. Nearly all of the inherent Magic of the original reality is concentrated in the Magical World. Almost none is left in the Mundane World.
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After the Sundering, the Celts rediscovered their nautical heritage and once again built the graceful swan-prowed ships of their ancestors. With these, they sailed the seven seas of the Magical World and made peaceful contact and initiated trade with other cultures the globe over. By the 4th century Post Sundering, they had explored the length and breadth of their world while trade with the various emerging cultures grew.
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In the course of these explorations, they discovered the uninhabited west coast of North America. It is impossible to say exactly when the first settlers made landfall there, but it was around 632 PS (1167 CE). A convoy of five colony ships left Albion and sailed across the Atlantaigh (Atlantic) Ocean, below the southern tip of South America’s analog, through the Dybryd Strait (Strait of Magellan), and then northward.
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Despite the voyage’s perils, all five ships made landfall in a well-protected bay halfway up the northern continental coast. For reasons lost in the mists of time, they named the entire region An Siobhraich Fonn, which in the Trade Tongue, roughly translates to the Magic Land.
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Four hundred years later, in this world, Spanish explorers named it San Francisco Bay.
