Recovered fantasy records, mythic fragments, lost-world accounts, and broken histories from the edges of Simon J. Phillips’s story worlds.
The Mythic Chronicle is Simon J. Phillips’s fantasy Chronicle branch: a growing archive of mythic records, forgotten legends, ruined cities, damaged scrolls, temple accounts, civic rumours, bardic fragments, buried passages, religious notes, and distorted histories from worlds where the truth is rarely preserved whole.
Each Chronicle begins as something recovered. A record found beneath a city. A priest’s note copied from a failing archive. A rumour carried through lower streets. A fragment of myth written long after the event it tries to explain.
The Chronicle is the myth.
The main story is the truth.
Fantasy Told Through Lost Records, Myths, and Broken Histories
The Mythic Chronicle is a recovered archive of fragments, rumours, civic records, damaged scrolls, temple notes, bardic retellings, and preserved memories. It exists beside the main fantasy story worlds, offering traces, echoes, and distorted accounts from the edges of larger events.
Each entry begins inside a trace of something greater. The reader may enter through a sealed passage, a lower-district report, a mark beneath plaster, a clerk’s final account, a ruined chamber, or an old story that no longer agrees with itself.
The Chronicle withholds the full truth. It circles around it.
Some Chronicles stand alone. Others form longer ten-part cycles connected to Simon’s fantasy story worlds. Together, they build atmosphere, deepen mystery, and allow the reader to approach the world through myth before reaching the direct story inside the series.
The purpose is simple: to make fantasy feel discovered, not explained.
How Each Chronicle Is Read
Each Mythic Chronicle usually opens with a free atmospheric scene, record, or recovered fragment. This gives new readers a clear sense of the world, tone, and mystery before the deeper archive begins.
The continuation may sit inside the paid WordPress archive, where the Chronicle moves further into the record through additional fragments, world notes, marginal accounts, closing reflections, or related series links.
This structure allows the page to remain open and discoverable while also building a deeper fantasy reading archive for paid readers.
The Chronicle can be read alone, though many entries also form part of wider ten-part cycles connected to Simon’s fantasy story worlds.
Current Mythic Cycle
The Whispering Foundations
The current Mythic Chronicle cycle is The Whispering Foundations, a ten-part sequence built around buried layers beneath a city, lower-district records, maintenance accounts, rumours, sealed passages, damaged plaster, strange marks, air pressure, rats, structural strain, unexplained deaths, and sounds heard inside stone.
This cycle connects indirectly to Black Feathers in a Brothel, though it does not retell the main story itself. The Chronicle gives the mythic echo. The book gives the direct story truth.
Each entry can be read as a recovered fragment from a city that has already begun to misunderstand what is happening beneath it.
Optional note for later page updates:
When this cycle changes, this section can be updated manually without rebuilding the whole page. The latest posts at the bottom will continue to update automatically through the category feed.
Latest from The Forgotten Chronicle
Read the latest entries from the historical Chronicle archive below.
The Forgotten Gods of the Drowned Kingdom: The Black Pillars After the Storm
A storm has stripped the western dunes bare. Sent to recover damaged boundary markers, labourer Hori finds black pillars, a buried wall and a doorway where no doorway should be.
He has irrigation channels to mend, yet his discovery is already travelling towards the city.
The Black Pillars After the Storm opens a new sequence…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Northern Smoke Reports
Smoke has begun rising across Vaeldring. One rider reports longships beyond the northern headlands. Another brings word of burned villages and abandoned watchtowers. Refugees are already moving south while armed companies carry food, iron and captured carts inland. Inside Bremyra Castle, the reports are still filed under a cautious heading: Northern Reports, Uncertain Strength. The…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Bells After the Return
The road to Vaeldring has already been broken. Now the king’s watch must account for what remains.
Beyond Grey Ash Rise, poisoned arrows lie among the dead, while a curve of burned grass crosses ground too wet to sustain an ordinary fire. At its centre, two living trails end in the ash, with no footprints…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Field of Burned Grass
The road to Vaeldring has already been broken. Now the king’s watch must account for what remains.
Beyond Grey Ash Rise, poisoned arrows lie among the dead, while a curve of burned grass crosses ground too wet to sustain an ordinary fire. At its centre, two living trails end in the ash, with no footprints…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Road Where the Princess Vanished
Princess Elana leaves Bremyra beneath royal guard. Beyond the last tally post, the road goes quiet.
A horn is heard through the trees. Birds rise at once. A riderless horse returns carrying torn blue cloth, while wheel tracks and blood lead towards a broken carriage deeper in the pines.
The Road Where the Princess Vanished…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Foreign Axe in the Alley
Foreign steel has reached Bremyra.
In a narrow market alley, an assassin raises a heavy axe against Prince Patrick. Moments later, the attacker lies dead upon the stones, his weapon abandoned beside him, while witnesses struggle to explain how his body rose into the air before the killing blow could fall.
The Foreign Axe in…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Shelf That Opened
A routine inventory in Bremyra Castle’s royal library reveals something no catalogue records.
One western shelf has shifted. Cold air moves through the join. Behind the books waits older stone, a concealed mechanism, and the suggestion of a passage descending beneath the castle.
In *The Shelf That Opened*, the fifth record from *The Sealed Road…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Boy Remembered in the Kitchens
The court sees a magician. The kitchens remember the boy.
When Simion returns to Bremyra Castle under the authority of the Order, the servants below stairs recognise a past that rank and official records have almost erased. Among bread boards, hearth smoke and an unexplained cold beneath the western stair, an older name begins to…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Cathedral Warning
The Order has returned to Bremyra, and the cathedral answers by locking its undercroft, clearing the nave and summoning the newly arrived magician beneath Archbishop Alaric’s authority. Yet as candles lean towards a sealed stair and something stirs beneath the choir, the Church’s warning begins to reveal a deeper fear. Read The Cathedral Warning, the…
The Mythic Chronicle: The Letter Beneath Gold Wax
Snow falls across Bremyra Castle as a rider delivers a cedar case sealed beneath flawless gold wax. The clerks recognise the authority of the Council of Five before anyone knows what the letter contains. Yet by the time Prince Patrick breaks the seal, the castle has already begun to change around it. Read The Letter…
