Launch Release

Hello everyone —

I’ve just released four new pieces into the world, each part of a larger effort to build a unified mythic–literary library here on itch.io. These works span fantasy, philosophy, and narrative poetry — a blend of myth, sorrow, wilderness, and memory that I’ve been refining for years.

This launch includes:

• The First and the Forest

A myth from a time before years had names — a quiet, bone-white world and the wanderer who listens to it.

• The Taoist in the Painted Tent

A reflective, philosophical drift between silence, insight, and the patterns we pretend not to see.

• Elias Lorn — Witness to Vigil Wretch

A darker, mythic, fever-dream narrative tied to the larger Elias Lorn cycle.

• Valor and the Returning Path (High Spine Cycle)

A grounded, wilderness-born tale from the High Spine world — mythic fantasy with weight and grit.

These releases are the foundation of my growing archive: stories, mythologies, chapbooks, and narrative experiments that interconnect beneath the surface.

I’ll be adding more pieces soon — including deeper world-building, companion works, and new fragments from the Rootlight / High Spine cosmology.

If you read any of these, I’d love to know which one landed with you.

Thank you for taking a moment to explore this new space.

More to come.

— R.K. Sauers