TDSS TalesTales of Albion
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What this is

A free, growing archive of a dark-fantasy world: the realm of Albion, its dragons, and the people who walk toward them.

42tales
37characters
40places
12dragons
A dragon of Albion
The tales

Dragons that wear our faces

Forty-two short stories set in a realm of ruined citadels, cursed forests and ancient oaths. The dragons here are not beasts. One twists wills, one feeds on guilt, one breathes despair, and a set of cursed chains turns kings into monsters. The knights who hunt them learn that the greatest dragons are the ones within.

The saga follows Eadric of Blackmere from the founding of the Society to the war against Malakar, the Firstborn of Shadow, and branches into the wanderers, keepers, smiths and bards who cross his path.

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The world

A place to get lost in

Albion is mapped here: its cities and cursed lands, the orders and houses that fight over it, the relics that cost more than they give, and a chronology that runs from the Shattered Age to the fall of the last great dragon. Every character carries a Jungian archetype and a personality type — a lens on who they are, offered to be argued with, not obeyed.

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The realm of Albion
Where it came from

The fire, not the field manual

This world grew out of a self-development idea also called The Dragon Slayers Society, where "dragon" is a name for the fears and patterns that quietly run a person's life. The tales are the myth that idea turned into. They stand on their own; you need nothing else to enjoy them.

Curious about the idea behind the world? It lives here.

What's ahead

A world still being built

More images of the characters, the places and the moments that matter. New tales as they come. And an idea, still taking shape, of letting this universe grow beyond the page — in sound, in art, and wherever else it wants to go.

Made something set in Albion? Fan art, edits, music? You're welcome to. Credit Tales of The Dragon Slayers Society and link back.