The Lion Of Shinar,
Branch I.
The Cymroth were forged on the plains of Shinar.
Status: Finished. Awaiting Publish Date.
Expected release: 2026.
Formats: Paperback, hardcopy, ebook, Kindle Unlimited, and audiobook (slightly later).
The story of Nimrod and Babel deserves more than a footnote in the bible.
Fourteen summers. Seven rising rings of mudbrick. One boy-king who united the scattered post-flood tribes to raise a tower that would outclimb the wrath of the gods.
This is the founding story of the Cymroth, the first and only empire of Cymru. Their account was never written in Roman ink or recorded in church canon. It survived in oral tradition, road songs, and the hidden leaves a tenth-century Welsh monk named Brother Wyn set down in secret to be read at a safer hour.
At the heart of Babel, three perspectives carry the weight of what was built:
The King: Nimrod, the visionary hunter whose hands united a broken world, only to find that kingship is a cage where others hold the latch.
The Craftsman: Tubar, an engineer from the green-eyed line of Cain, who calculated the load of every timber and raised the spire stone by stone for the brother he loved.
The Operator: Sargon, the quiet advisor who watched the dream rise, understood how systems turn men into instruments, and orchestrated its ruin.
Behind the labour on the plains and the haul lines in the mud, ancient powers look down from beyond the veil. Zeus conducts judgment from the Otherworld beyond Olympus. The red dragon Cadarn stirs in the mountain roots. And the Song of the Stars echoes across the expanse, waiting to scatter the tongues of men.
The Lion of Shinar is an ancient-world historical epic in the tradition of recovered epics like Gilgamesh and Beowulf, and opens Branch One of The Book of the Western Veil.
For readers of Bernard Cornwell, Robert Harris, and Guy Gavriel Kay.
Some books are handed to you. This one asks you to excavate.
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