The Judge of Mystics Saga
A Mythpunk punch across mythic realms, featuring the adventures of Caleb Mauthisen, Ares Olympia and Icarus & Lou Areides
The Judge of Mystics Saga is the story of mystic Judge, Executioner and single dad Caleb Mauthisen. Bathed in world mythology and magic realism, Caleb travels the realms to keep the mystic world from combusting. The Outsider Judge, he negotiates between Realms to keep the peace, without humanity becoming collateral damage. A series of magical jaunts into contemporary mythological fantasy, with the most dysfunctional family since Loki got Hodr to throw the Mistletoe dart at Baldr.
Mythpunk Novels & Audio Dramas
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Judge of Mystics Saga 1: Char & Ash
The Book of Knowledge is gone and someone is trying to kill gods.
The Mystic Realms keep a tenuous peace after centuries of war. Forged into the Realms’ only Judge, demi-god Caleb Mauthisen is both peace maker and executioner of the Mystic Truce. When Caleb is called to the charred remains of a scorched Sacred Grove outside Dover, rumours reignite tensions as Ares warns of war’s whisper. High Queen Selyka is hiding something in the roots and petals of her Fae Courts, and it smells of char and ash.
Caught between the Mystic Truce, Ares’ demands for answers and concern for his Fae-cursed lover Tuija’s safety, Caleb descends into a roiling adventure to find the perpetrators and staunch the flow before the Mystic Realms lose faith in him and in peace. Little does he know the perpetrator Stana stole something far more precious than belief in gods and heroes.
Char & Ash is an emotional and captivating mythpunk godpunk and urban supernatural fantasy.
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Judge of Mystics 2: Son of Abel
“I want out.”
The entire cosmos hiccups around Finnegan the Fae. Mystic Judge Caleb Mauthisen desperately clings to the journals of a 7th Century Catholic Cardinal, obsessed with a magical tattoo that threatens to crumble the Mystic Realms to wrath and war.
A place they know and fear too well.
Spiralling with only his scheming ex Delilah to 'help', Caleb searches for the elusive way out of the Truce, as he descends through the essence of grief into layers of hell on earth.
Finnegan breaks his exile to find Caleb's absentee father Raynar, before Caleb’s absence strips the Realms of their Judge and protector. Before Delilah weaves Caleb into plans of her own, and wrath shatters through to the last root of the World Tree.
Son of Abel is a cathartic mythpunk + godpunk supernatural fantasy and #2 in the Judge of Mystics Saga.
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Whiskey and Sinners Blood / The Lamia (Macabre and Monstrous)
A Horror Anthology of Eldritch Space, Myth Monsters & Forest Frights
Engage in eldritch horror, monster terror and a forest of fright with short stories by the trio of We Aren’t Dead Yet.
Sapha Burnell appears at her emotive spookiest with The Lamia, and Whiskey and Sinners Blood, two bone chilling stories based in the Judge of Mystics universe. Caleb Mauthisen runs magic-less and wounded through the streets of Vancouver from a terrifying Lamia, a woman cursed to become a half snake, half human monster with a lust and hunger of the damned. Descend into madness with Carolee, High Queen Selyka’s assassin in an origin story as twisted as the obsidian knives Carolee inflicts on the unworthy. How did Carolee go from mother of one to indebted murderer?
Macabre and Monstrous is a science-fiction, fantasy and mythpunk collection which will unsettle, frighten and terrify… then lead you through the darkest part of the night to early dawn.
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Wax Wing Season 1
Brawn meets Brain in a Mythpunk Audio Drama Adventure
Resurrected siblings Leander “Lou” & Icarus Areides are getting used to life n Midgard, in this prequel audio drama, which takes place prior to Char & Ash.
Meet the Areosides, the family of Ares, Aphrodite and Leonidas who live, work and fight on Midgard’s magic-less soil.
Season One begins with the explosive invasion of the Bardagi, an alien race of would-be usurpers hell-bent on getting off Bardaga and calling Midgard home.
Meet the Characters, Discover the Realms & Play the TTRPG One-Shots on World Anvil.
Upcoming Titles
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Judge of Mystics Saga 3: Book of Revels
You’re the Judge! The Oh Holy Banhammer! Why did she send you!?
When Delilah does one last con on Caleb and coerces him into picking her daughter up from a Swiss boarding school, he thinks it’s a chance to clear the air between exes and take a few hours of mundane calm.
Enter Lilith, the teal-headed teacher-punching delinquent who got expelled. Three seconds was all it took for Caleb to realize the mystic marks on Lilith’s soul and thrust them both into a journey to confront the woman who stole Lilith’s true name. Oh, and keep the Truce from crumbling. Oh, and stop his now raging uncle from taking over the human world. Oh, and figure out this emergency parenting thing.
It’s high time Stana got her due.
Book of Revels hits shelves in 2024.
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Judge of Mystics Saga 4: Ginnungagap
My Son is Home.
Recovering from the Battle of Robson Street, Caleb & co hole up in the Hallowes. Pitching in to give the Judge a break, Caleb’s father Raynar and his girlfriend Liv are attacked and go missing. Cormac of the Willow breaks out of his prison, to control the Middling Plane.
Where did Raynar & Liv go? Will Caleb find them in time?
Ginnungagap hits shelves in 2024.
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Judge of Mystics Saga 5: Psychopomp
The Dragon’s Daughter isn’t finished yet.
Dive through the Chthonic Realms with Tuija Draganova, on her way to her final destination.
Psychopomp strikes in 2025.
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Judge of Mystics Origins: Agapemache
Ares & Aphrodite. War & Love.
One of the hardest fought couples in myth, Ares & Aphrodite’s lives shifted the course of the Mystic Realms.
From their earliest days in Ancient Olympus to the battlefields of 1863’s Mystic War, Agapemache surges through the battles which formed the couple stronger than steel.
It’s a brutal winter in 1863, and the Crimean War is one of a multitude of conflicts around Midgard caused tangentially by the Mystic Folk and their long-standing war. Ares Olympia has never been more powerful, nor more in control. With his wife Aphrodite and the resurrected Spartan King Leonidas I at his side, he knows…
One last offensive and the Mystic Realms will ally or bow the knee.
When Raynar Einridsen returns with a Realms-shattering discovery, it takes Ares comes to a decision: Will he be the King of War Cries, or the Consort of Love?
Agapemache punches in 2024.