The Lion Of Shinar,
The Book of the Western Veil
The Cymroth were forged on the planes of Shinar.
Expected release: 2026.
Paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
The Lion of Shinar is a historical-mythic novel set in ancient Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, during the raising of the Tower of Babel.
It tells the founding story of the Cymroth, the first and only empire of Cymru, a people born far from Wales whose account survives in song and in the leaves a Welsh monk set down and hid for a safer age. The Cymroth did not conquer in the usual way. They built, they carried, and they kept the memory of what they saw.
Their rise begins on the plains of Shinar, under Nimrod, the hunter whom the post-flood tribes name the lion of their prophecy. He gathers the scattered tribes into one people and raises a tower meant to stand above any second flood. Branded workers haul its weight brick by brick, and the road remembers every life spent upon it. What none of them can see is the hand that guides the work from beyond the northern dark, and the price it means to take.
The Lion of Shinar is the first account in The Book of the Western Veil, a mythic history that carries the Cymroth out of Babel and home to Cymru, and it opens a trilogy. The narration, imagery, and music in the trailer are drawn from the novel's opening.
