As the Violet Voices Cry

My final door closes.
The power men have coveted for generations is at last beyond their reach, and its final secrets will follow me to my grave.
But now there is another who is connected. Another who can speak to the world.
Does the kingdom of Cymryadd truly deserve to fall? Or can goodness be found where evil lives?

As the Violet Voices Cry is a post-classical high-fantasy story told through the eyes of Lochlan Vaughn. He is the last of the “sianel”, who are the few humans of the world of Aoddyn connected to an otherworldly entity known as the Seren Deyrnas. The Seren Deyrnas allows any sianel to hear and speak with the voices of the world to perform great and terrible deeds.

Aoddyn is heavily inspired by Celtic mythology, often drawing upon texts like the Mabinogion to help paint the colours of the world. This world, while familiar in some respects to those of our world, hides many mysteries and magics beneath its surface.

This book was written under the tutelage of the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, who believed that we humans exist as a part of the world, and should not seek to conquer it, but to understand it and coexist with it, for all its lights and darknesses.