MYTHVEIL CHRONICLES · WORLDS THAT REMEMBER

Pull up a chair. This story started a long time ago.

There was a fire. Darkness beyond it. People gathered close enough to see each other’s faces, and someone began to speak.

Maybe it was about a hunt. A journey. A storm. A creature glimpsed between the trees. Maybe it was a warning, or a way of remembering someone who was gone. We can’t know the words they used. But sooner or later, somebody must have listened to a story and thought: Tell me more.

That’s where I’d like to begin. Not with a company. Not with a list of services. With people telling stories.

I’m Sean. And if you stay a while, I’ll tell you why that matters to us.

The fire kept moving

The centuries turned. Stories travelled along roads and rivers, with families, traders, pilgrims and performers. In the ancient world, they found their way into poetry, drama, myth and writing. Across the medieval and early modern worlds, singers, bards, storytellers and actors carried them from one audience to the next. Some tales lived in manuscripts, some on the stage, some in the memory of the person who knew how to tell them best.

Then printing changed the reach of the written word. Books crossed borders and outlived their authors. Museums began presenting collections and the past to new publics. Photography caught moments that might have disappeared. Film gave stories movement, radio gave them voices across distance, and television brought imagined worlds into living rooms.

Caelwyn: “A story does not remain unchanged simply because we remember it. Each generation carries something forward — and leaves something of itself behind.”

And that’s the point. A story isn’t only the words on a page. It’s the people who tell it, the places it passes through, and the way it changes the people who hear it.

Then we stepped inside the story

For a long time, audiences had been joining in through play, performance and shared imagination. In the twentieth century, historical miniature games and conflict simulations developed in new directions. By the 1960s and 1970s, experiments with wargaming were helping give rise to tabletop roleplaying games: worlds where you didn’t just watch what happened. You could make a choice and live with what came next.

Computer roleplaying games, interactive fiction and digital worlds took that idea further. Meanwhile, comics, cinema, television, theatre, live-action roleplay, podcasts and streams kept finding new ways to tell stories — and new ways to let people participate.

Eljara: “The crucial change isn’t the screen or the rulebook. It’s what happens when a world responds to the people inside it.”

Exactly. A world starts to feel alive when what we do leaves a mark.

But don’t mistake that for the whole story. A theatre audience can carry a performance home for years. A photograph can preserve a moment from a LARP that existed for one afternoon. A museum object can bring a forgotten life close enough to touch the imagination. And an old folktale can turn up centuries later in a comic, a game or a film — different, yet recognisably itself.

Stacy: “And if we want to understand those connections, we have to ask where a story comes from, whose story it is, and what the evidence actually tells us.”

Fair point. Curiosity without care can turn someone else’s history into our convenient fantasy. We’d rather listen, ask better questions and get the details right.

Why we built Mythveil Chronicles

Look at the worlds around us. The ones people have inherited. The ones they’ve invented. The ones they visit through art, history, games, performances and books. There are extraordinary people keeping them alive — historians, curators, scientists, writers, artists, actors, photographers, designers, craftspeople, players and whole communities.

We wanted to give those worlds, and those people, a stage.

Not one limited to a genre or a medium. Not one stopped by a national border or a language. A place where a folklorist might meet a creature designer, where a museum collection could open a conversation about fantasy, where a photographer could explain what it means to capture a world that exists only because people agree to make it real.

Mara: “So the old stories aren’t finished? They can become new ones?”

That’s exactly it, Mara. And sometimes the new stories help us see the old ones differently.

Chibi: “Can I hear the dragon story?”

You can. But first we should find out who told it, and why.

That’s Mythveil Chronicles. Worlds That Remember. Stories that travel, change, connect and stay with us.

Five doors into the same world

There isn’t just one way to take part.

Play. Step into roleplaying worlds where choices matter, consequences remain and the story keeps moving.

Learn. Discover the craft behind storytelling, campaigns and worldbuilding through workshops, seminars and mentoring.

Create. Build worlds, develop narrative structures and explore creative collaborations that give ideas room to grow.

Experience. Meet stories where they happen: museums, exhibitions, theatre, LARP, festivals, historical places and immersive experiences.

Explore. Follow the questions further through independent articles, interviews, cultural research and conversations with the people behind the work.

Five doors. One ongoing conversation.

Stories deserve to travel

A story can be important to one town, one community or one country and still have something to say to someone far away. Language should open doors, not keep them shut. That’s why we work across English, German, Italian and Spanish, bringing different audiences into the conversation while taking the time to respect the context of each story.

We don’t believe every story becomes the same when translated. The differences matter. They’re often where the most interesting questions begin.

And this is where you come in

Perhaps you’re caring for a museum collection. Researching a local tradition. Creating an exhibition, a film, a game or a performance. Photographing a LARP. Illustrating creatures that have never existed. Preserving a community’s memories. Or making something new that doesn’t fit neatly into any of those categories.

We’d like to hear about it.

We aren’t arriving with a headline already written. We’d rather talk, find the place where your work and ours meet, and discover whether there’s a story worth telling together. That might become an interview, an independent feature, a behind-the-scenes conversation, an exploration of historical sources, or something neither of us expected when we first said hello.

We can speak with people internationally and work remotely. Depending on the story, useful starting points might be a conversation, background material, a look behind the scenes, or images cleared for editorial use. Any publication scope, languages and permissions are agreed case by case.

Stacy: “One thing matters here: an invitation to collaborate is not a promise of favourable coverage. Facts, sources, permissions and cultural context still count.”

She’s right. We keep history, science, belief, folklore and fiction distinct where it matters. We respect the people behind the work and credit the people whose words and images we share.

But we don’t want to lose the wonder, either.

So, if there’s something you think the world should hear about — a person, a place, an idea, a tradition, a creation — tell us. Let’s find out where the story leads.

Explore our stories

Curious where to begin? Travel through our History of Tabletop Roleplaying, discover our Games, Reviews & Recommendations, browse the Articles & Essays archive, or step into our Experience projects.

Sean, for the Mythveil Family
Mythveil Chronicles
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Worlds That Remember. Stories Worth Sharing.