Histories of Hanatal: As Told by the Elven Scribe Eronel

Histories of Hanatal is a fantasy chronicle presented as a genuine artifact from another world. Structured as a scholarly history and compiled from primary sources including eyewitness accounts, royal decrees, private diaries, battlefield dispatches, and margin notes, it traces seven Elven reigns spanning thousands of years across three continents and eight races of sentient beings. It follows the philosophers who became tyrants and the tyrants who were almost wise, the empires that rose on conquest and collapsed under their own weight, and the wars that reshaped the map of a world advancing from ancient kingdoms into an industrial age.Eronel is an honest narrator. He names his sources, acknowledges his biases, disputes accounts that contradict one another, and admits freely what he does not know. The history he has assembled is not clean. It is argued over, partially lost, and still unresolved.Readers who approach it as a discovery rather than an assignment will find a richly imagined world built from the ground up, complete with its own races, religions, calendar, and maps. Read more