Scions of the Tuatha Dé

A new serial novel

Scions of the Tuatha Dé book cover

A historical fantasy set in 15th century Ireland

The MacLaughlin Brothers are about to lose their farm and have few remaining connections with the world around them. It won’t stop otherworldly forces from dragging them into a battle to save their home and the rest of Ireland.

Donal struggles with a tormented mind–but it wasn't always so. His older brother, Finn, set aside his own ambitions to raise Donal after their parents died. When Finn is kidnapped by a creature known only through folk tales, Donal receives help from unlikely sources–an old family friend and their landlord’s daughter–to save him.

They introduce the brothers to a new truth: their mythical heroes, the Tuatha Dé, were real and the young men are among their descendants.  

The descendants of ancient villains, the Fomori, walk their world as well, threatening to unleash a supernatural blight upon the entire land. 

What do we owe our family? Our neighbors? Ourselves? Donal and his found family must answer these questions as they travel and train between battles with demons, spirits and evil sorcerers.

  • 'Wolf Hunt'

    'Wolf Hunt'

    Maeve enlists the help of two sílrad from the east to hunt down creatures that were supernaturally cursed. This short story takes place after ‘Reforging a Blacksmith.’

    Read Tale #2

  • 'Reforging a Blacksmith'

    Siobhan and her family must help an acquaintance pick up the pieces after tragedy strikes his group of Tuatha Dé descendants in this short story that takes place around the prologue of Scions.

    Read Tale #1
  • The group

    Meet the characters

    Meet Donal, Finn, Murrough. As major characters appear in the serial, they’ll appear here as well.

    Meet the group
  • The original map design from The Legend of Lugh

    My unlikely journey toward 'Scions'

    Six months ago this seemed too far-fetched for a bucket list. On the final day of September I finished an 88,000-word first draft of a story that has rolled around my head for five years, first as a video game and later a concept album.

    Read how it started
From the author
Characters
Characters

Meet Donal, Finn, Murrough and more.

Release schedule
Release schedule

The book’s already written, which means the schedule will be fairly consistent.

Mapping out a plot
Mapping out a plot

There have been few internet-based problems I couldn’t solve with Google Sheets and/or Google Earth (Pro). And in the cases where they didn’t solve the problem, they still helped find the solution.

The compromise that I hate most
The compromise that I hate most

I’m left with a compromise. It’s embarrassing to admit—but even more embarrassing left unacknowledged.

Will I owe native Irish readers an apology?
Will I owe native Irish readers an apology?

The “Oirish” or “Oireland” trope is something I had been wary of while developing ideas for the game and the music, but there were guardrails along the way. In the end, a video game is a video game. Music is music.

A novel, however, is tens of thousands of words.

My unlikely journey toward ‘Scions’
My unlikely journey toward ‘Scions’

Six months ago this seemed too far-fetched for a bucket list. On the final day of September I finished an 88,000-word first draft of a story that has rolled around my head for five years, first as a video game and later a concept album.