The Book of the Western Veil
Three mirrors break before all is learned.
Can you serve without grasping?
Can you bend without breaking?
Can you see the end and begin again?
Fireside Tales Available Now:
The Gap Trilogy
The borderlands between Powys and Brycheiniog were no place for grand ambitions.
Three stories from that dangerous ground, spanning two centuries of Iron Age Wales, where villages learned that surviving between two powers required knowing exactly how much was enough, and what happened when someone forgot.
The Goat King of Beulah
The Shadow Trader
The Solstice
Brother Wyn, scibe of the hidden Mabinogi
Born in Buallt during the long reign of King Ffernfael, Brother Wyn of Caermynach grew from a smith’s child into the quiet chronicler whose writing preserves the hidden shape of early Wales. His life carried the marks of two influences: the discipline of the monastery that raised him and the older stories that ran beneath the hills like buried watercourses.
Wyn walked the ridge paths of Epynt with a careful ear, gathering the talk of drovers, merchants and wandering elders. He recorded their accounts with a clarity that survived long after voices faded.
Fireside Tales
Short stories taking you to the heart of the Western Veil.
Ballads of the
Western Veil
Volume One is now available to stream on Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube Music.
Second Dawn: The Musical of the Mabinogion
A 2-hour Narrated musical based on the events of the first branch of the Book of the Western Veil
The great dragon will return.
In the youth of the world, when God called for builders to shape a home for His children, Brenin Fawr answered first.
These hills rose at his command. He laboured long, believing the work would endure under his keeping. But the vineyard was always intended for others. For fragile inheritors, set to receive what the mightiest of beasts could never possess.
When the world passed from his hand, purpose turned against him, and what had been wrought became a grievance that would not rest.
For a thousand generations, Arawn, guardian of the Western Veil, kept watch where rain drove against ancient stone and mist clung to the valleys of Wales. Warmth gathered around fires in the dark months. Laws held without witness. Mercies were shown that carried no glory.
He guarded, taught, and endured, yet did not see all that moved beyond his sight.
In winter’s depth, a prince stood between two paths and chose the one that led to his grave. Then all that had been held apart was brought into the open.
The Unmaker returns.
All that was born in shadow now faces the flame.
This is The Book of the Western Veil.
A warning runs through the bones of the mountains. By the turning of the cold moon, Brenin Fawr will cross the Western Veil.
About The Author
I grew up in Mid-Wales, spending more time dreaming up stories on the ranges of Epynt than gathering sheep down. By thirty-two, I'd returned to the family farm and discovered that Mid-Wales holds more tales than anyone's writing down.
The Book of the Western Veil attempts something ambitious: reconciling Greek-Roman, Norse, and Welsh mythology with the Old Testament, all through a tenth-century monk with a soft spot for the pagan gods.
I've got twenty years of stories mapped out, which seems optimistic given I'm still learning how to finish one.
Elwyn Davies.
