Current Works in Progress
This is where the stories begin, unfinished, unpolished, but already alive. Each world below is part of a greater mythos I’m slowly revealing, across novels, shorts, and visual storytelling.
🛡️ The Veil of Kings and Gods
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Status: Final Draft (Book One)
The gods are silent. Prophecy has splintered. And in a fractured kingdom, a young noble becomes the imbalance that could rewrite fate. The Veil of Kings and Gods is a dark, sweeping fantasy about divine silence, rising powers, and the slow unraveling of an ancient world.
The Spiral turns and those who hear nothing may yet shape everything.
→ Read lore and shorts set in this world →
🧠 The Nyx Vindicator (Echoes Beyond the Gate)
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
Status: Drafting
A deep-space warship. A dead gate system. An AI that remembers too much.
The Nyx Vindicator follows Elias, a reluctant interface operator, as he navigates a ship haunted not by ghosts, but by incompatible alien code and something watching through the walls. A slow-burn psychological space opera blending horror, intimacy, and technological dread.
→ Behind-the-scenes videos on this project →
⏳ Time Strip
Genre: Grounded Sci-Fi / Alternate History
Status: Worldbuilding Phase
What if the alien invasion already happened, just in a version of Earth we’re not supposed to see?
Sent back through a collapsing time-stream, a future scientist arrives in a ruined timeline overrun by the Varnyx. What begins as a rescue mission becomes a test set by beings who oversee time itself. Time Strip blends survival horror, metaphysics, and human evolution in a future that was never meant to happen.
→ [Short concept stories coming soon]
🧙♂️ The Chronicles of Aeloria: Fractured Realms
Genre: Sci-Fantasy Adventure
Status: Standalone Novel in Final Planning
Aeloria is a scavenger from the edge of a dying world, forgotten among rusted towers and Riftlight storms. When he touches a buried crystal during a storm, ancient powers awaken, powers no one should be able to wield. Chosen by no one, trusted by none, he joins a fractured fellowship to seek the Core Crystal said to stabilise the realms.
But not all myths should be fulfilled.
And not every hero survives their story.
→ Explore the world’s crystal-powered magic and fractured realms →
🌒 Chronicles of the Spiral Ages
Genre: Mythic Fantasy Short Stories
Status: Ongoing
Across centuries and eras, from desert tribes to glacier-dwelling mystics, the Spiral echoes.
Each standalone short story reveals a piece of the ancient world that links all others. Subtle divine sightings, lost languages, early prophecies, and mysterious symbols bind these tales into the mythos that feeds The Veil of Kings and Gods and beyond.
🌀 World of Ældorra – Companion Fiction Archive
Genre: High Fantasy Worldbuilding
Status: Expanding
Short, raw, and deeply connected to the world of The Veil of Kings and Gods, this is where I explore side characters, ancient myths, cities lost to time, and lore fragments that may or may not reveal where the story is going.
→ Explore Ældorra’s companion archive →
✍️ Closing
These projects are evolving. Some near completion. Others still wait in notebooks and story fragments. Follow the journey as the worlds unfold, on the blog, through the lore, or inside the Spiral.
Simon J. Phillips 