The Judge of Mystics Saga
A mythpunk punch in the emotions across mythic Realms, featuring the adventures of Caleb Mauthisen, Ares Olympia, and Icarus & Lou Areides
The Judge of Mystics Saga is the adventures of mystic Judge, Executioner and single dad Caleb Mauthisen. Bathed in mythology and contemporary magic, Caleb travels the realms to keep the mystic world from combusting. The Outsider, he negotiates between Realms to keep the peace, without humanity becoming collateral damage. A series of magical jaunts into contemporary mythological fantasy, with the most dysfunctional family since Loki got Hodr to throw the Mistletoe dart at Baldr.
The Saga of Caleb Mauthisen & Tuija Draganova
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“Book, teach me how to kill a god.”
The Mystic Realms keep a tenuous peace after centuries of war. Forged into the Realms’ only Judge, demi-god Caleb Mauthisen is both peace maker and executioner of the Mystic Truce. When Caleb is called to the charred remains of a scorched Sacred Grove outside Dover, rumours reignite tensions as Ares warns of war’s whisper. High Queen Selyka is hiding something in the roots and petals of her Fae Courts, and it smells of rot and ash.
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"I want out."
The entire cosmos hiccups around Finnegan the Fae. Mystic Judge Caleb Mauthisen desperately clings to the journals of a 7th Century Catholic Cardinal, obsessed with a magical tattoo that threatens to crumble the Mystic Realms to wrath and war.
A place they know and fear too well.
Spiralling with only his scheming ex Delilah to 'help', Caleb searches for the elusive way out of the Truce, as he descends through the essence of grief into layers of hell on earth.
Finnegan breaks his exile to find Caleb's absentee father Raynar, to wrench Caleb loose before his absence strips the Realms of their Judge and protector. Before Delilah weaves Caleb into plans of her own, and wrath shatters through to the last root of the World Tree.
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'The Judge! The holy Ban-Hammer! You’re the one they send when you’re banished to unholy oblivion, or given one scrappy chance to turn your life around! You’re reform school on Meth! Why did Mom send you!? Why didn’t she come for me!?' Lilith started flailing, hopping up on her tip toes as her voice ascended to pitches which would have made dogs cry. Caleb stood with his mouth agape, staring at the fitful pubescent terror of a spastic teenaged girl.
'Aaaannnndd I’m out.' Caleb turned an about face and stormed off, hitting ‘call’ on his phone.
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After the Battle of Robson Street, Caleb and Co return to the Hallowes, battered but alive. While Caleb recuperates, Raynar and Livia throw themselves into Truce business with Lou and his Enomotia’s help.
But, when an old enemy resurfaces, Caleb must venture to the place his father feared most in all the worlds.
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“My God…”
Death can’t hold everyone down. Tuija Miroslava Draganova, the Dragon’s Daughter, fights back in a journey through the afterlife, aided by an army of psychopomps from across the Mystic Realms.
2024
Interviews about The Saga
The Origins of the Truce
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Ares & Aphrodite. War & Love.
One of the hardest fought couples in mythological history, the course of Ares & Aphrodite’s lives shifted the course of the Mystic Realms.
From their earliest days in Ancient Olympus to the battlefields of 1863’s Mystic War, Agapemache surges through the battles which formed the one couple stronger than steel.
It’s a brutal winter in 1863, and the Crimean War is one of a multitude of conflicts around Midgard caused tangentially by the Mystic Folk and their long-standing war. Ares Olympia has never been more powerful, nor more in control. With his wife Aphrodite and companion the resurrected Spartan King Leonidas I at his side, and his children scouring the globe with both love and fear, he knows one last push will do it.
One last offensive and the Mystic Realms will ally with him or bow the knee.
When Raynar Einridsen returns with a Realms-shattering discovery, it takes Ares through his entire history before he comes to the place of decision: Will he be the King of War Cries, or the Prince-Consort of Love?
TTRPG Games
Based on the novels, the Judge of Mystics has a series of one-shots and Table Top Role Playing content
KID FRIENDLY SYSTEM AGNOSTIC ONE SHOT BASED IN THE JUDGE OF MYSTICS REALM.
All is right in the Realms. Karisma Calebdottir’s Dad is going off on a boring ‘camping trip’ with Finnegan the Fae and Ares, leaving Karisma with the most lit mission ever! Her first sleepover. Karisma even talked Icarus, Lou & Seraya to be the responsible adults and they’re so fire.
But, there is one thing. This party suffers from serious lack of sweet teeth. And there’s even a whole pile of hot cocoa toppers & treats on the highest shelf! Solve the puzzles, avoid cluing the adults into the sweetness shenanigans and grab as many top shelf treats as you can in the 6 timed rounds of this chill, low-stakes cocoa and candy themed fantasy one-shot game.