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Seán
@wizardhill.bsky.social
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Irish fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer. Posting from the dungeons deep beneath Planet Dracula in the Carpathian Galaxy.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello! It's me! I'm Seán, dark fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer. Talk to me about kung fu movies, Souls games, and dungeon synth.

I write Shadows & Sorcery, a weekly dark fantasy flash fiction publication on Substack, plus a monthly serial novel, The Path of Poison. I also draw sometimes.
Logo for my dark fantasy flash fiction publication, Shadows & Sorcery on Substack. The name is written in a stylized gothic font surrounded by a white crescent. Some kinda scary wraith in armour! Gene freak barbarian found in the bowels of a lost generation ship. Mutated and adapted for brutal combat in the cramped halls. Atmospheric sketch of the Loch Ness Monster in silhouette set against clouds, mist, and hills.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 6h
#OctoberWorldbuilders
8. Let me introduce you to the culture this week is dedicated to: the Mordai (more-day), a race of thin, grey, hollow-faced necromancers who believe the body is merely a shell, and as such, after death becomes a resource, currency, labour, including being used in their games!
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1h
Busy but good I hope!
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 3h
In this week's Shadows & Sorcery, the Demiurge world gets some fresh new worldbuilding as the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman of the Khurcham nomads to help banish a bad spirit...

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#Fantasy #FantasyReads #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor
Shadows & Sorcery #184
This week, the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman to work the Winds of Sorcery, we join a cursed woman who seeks to fulfil a Demon’s Dream, and a castle wizard quests for one who has fallen to th...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 2h
So I actually had to look up antlions and uh holy shit they're weird and awesome. So they set traps but what do your guys do?
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 2h
Legitimately didn't even know substack had a search feature, wow. Cheers for checking though, I feel comfortable moving on with these nerds now.
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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 1d
|| Summer #VGenComm Fullbody #8 ||

Carloman, the Red Wizard himself, for @wizardhill.bsky.social ! 🧙‍♂️

|| #art #commission #digitalart ||
Commissioned fullbody illustration of a wizard. He is an older man, with amber eyes, a long white beard, and a bald head. He's dressed entirely in red, holding a wooden staff with various carvings (scales, eyes, leaves, moons...). The top of the staff looks like a snake with its mouth wide open, holding an orange gem.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 3h
In this week's Shadows & Sorcery, the Demiurge world gets some fresh new worldbuilding as the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman of the Khurcham nomads to help banish a bad spirit...

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#Fantasy #FantasyReads #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor
Shadows & Sorcery #184
This week, the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman to work the Winds of Sorcery, we join a cursed woman who seeks to fulfil a Demon’s Dream, and a castle wizard quests for one who has fallen to th...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 5h
Full flash fic free to read here👀

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...
Shadows & Sorcery #120
This week, we witness the rise of the Fullmoon of Winter, we wander through the Desert of the Sacrifices, and the red wizard Carloman confronts the Serpent of the Shadow...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 5h
From the story Fullmoon of Winter in the 120th edition of Shadows & Sorcery, some full on black metal madness:

"Towering black trees whose leaves are as talons claw at an eternal night sky verminous with insane constellations that leer over rime-laden winds racing madly across black ice fields."
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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 6h
It's Hump Day, folks, and our friend demands a sacrifice. Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 120

Haven't gotten to page yet? How about just 12, then?

#Wednesday #HumpDay #indieauthors #WritingCommunity #booksky #writesky #writingq 🪐📚💙
Wednesday Hump Day The judgey-est camel you have ever seen
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 6h
This week's #WizardWednesday comes to you courtesy of the mighty @aowna.bsky.social 's fantabulificent illustration of everyone's favourite red wizard, Carloman, MC of a great deal of my stories
male human wizard with a bald crown but longish back hair and great big bushy silver-gold beard. his robes are unadorned but rich red, wears a simple belt and tough boots, and carries a staff carved to have a serpent god coiled about its length, between the wide wide coils are the symbols of other gods and powers.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 6h
#OctoberWorldbuilders
8. Let me introduce you to the culture this week is dedicated to: the Mordai (more-day), a race of thin, grey, hollow-faced necromancers who believe the body is merely a shell, and as such, after death becomes a resource, currency, labour, including being used in their games!
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 19h
The Sword and the Dragon is a romantic painting come to life. Rich, vibrant, sweeping, with a refreshing sincerity to its bold, simple, idealized folk fantasy. It being an old foreign movie may be a barrier to some, but fans of folktales will fall in love. This is pure MOVIES.
Shot of a rider on horseback as seen from behind, he bears a sword in a handsome scabbard, to the left a crow sits atop an old standing stone A rider on horseback grips onto his black horse which bucks in a supernatural wind summoned by a humanoid creature sitting in the boughs of a dead tree, the sky is dark, stormy, and leaves billow through the air of this dramatic scene A Turkic nomad warlord sits in his ornate battle dress, head resting on his hands, while a woman in flowing dress dances atop a platform supported on the backs of several muscled men, in the background is the nomad war camp A fearsome three-headed Slavic dragon emerges from behind a wall of smoke and flames
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h
Saint Setting: Candorick and Rudge investigate cults for the devout Lord Jerican. C is a religious chatterbox, R is a practical grumble, somehow are friends. Their world was envisioned by "saints" and is perpetuated by expression and faith, but many visions, and as such, the world, are being lost.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h
Vampiric Sorcery Setting: Veney (vee-nee), lives in a shithole post-apoc world sundered by mountains from under the earth. Survived being attacked by a user of vampiric sorcery, was made Inquisitor of the Watch for having balls of solid steel. He's tired, angry, violent, but otherwise a Decent Chap.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h
Dragonmagick: Alzared is a fearsome user of magic channelled from dragonblood, Kastaine is a warrior agent of the human capital. They fight alongside mankind's demi-divine greyfolk allies against dragons, their spawn, and the vengeful orcs in a vibrant, perilous, big ol' high adventure world.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h
Demiurge:
-Carloman, god-level wizard, knows the dark truth, kind, paternal, chatty, driven by righteous fury
-Sepp, apothecary, inherited vile poison magic from his foster dad, reserved but not shy, zero foresight

Their world of symbols is emerging from a dark age with shadows yet in the corners.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h
I debated replying to this because, well, *waves arms at the flash fiction* Does a serial count as a WIP? We may never know. I have a bunch of recurring characters though? Maybe they count.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 19h
The Sword and the Dragon is a romantic painting come to life. Rich, vibrant, sweeping, with a refreshing sincerity to its bold, simple, idealized folk fantasy. It being an old foreign movie may be a barrier to some, but fans of folktales will fall in love. This is pure MOVIES.
Shot of a rider on horseback as seen from behind, he bears a sword in a handsome scabbard, to the left a crow sits atop an old standing stone A rider on horseback grips onto his black horse which bucks in a supernatural wind summoned by a humanoid creature sitting in the boughs of a dead tree, the sky is dark, stormy, and leaves billow through the air of this dramatic scene A Turkic nomad warlord sits in his ornate battle dress, head resting on his hands, while a woman in flowing dress dances atop a platform supported on the backs of several muscled men, in the background is the nomad war camp A fearsome three-headed Slavic dragon emerges from behind a wall of smoke and flames
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21h
The scenery, the earthy yet subtly stylized costumes and architecture, the framing, the special effects (those bending trees????), I am in LOVE
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21h
Watching The Sword and the Dragon (1956)

I'm not even 20 minutes in and have I just been missing out on Glorious Soviet Cinema this whole time or what? This and Viy are just stupid pretty
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21h
Watching The Sword and the Dragon (1956)

I'm not even 20 minutes in and have I just been missing out on Glorious Soviet Cinema this whole time or what? This and Viy are just stupid pretty
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d
It's HIM!! And he is GORGEOUS!
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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 1d
|| Summer #VGenComm Fullbody #8 ||

Carloman, the Red Wizard himself, for @wizardhill.bsky.social ! 🧙‍♂️

|| #art #commission #digitalart ||
Commissioned fullbody illustration of a wizard. He is an older man, with amber eyes, a long white beard, and a bald head. He's dressed entirely in red, holding a wooden staff with various carvings (scales, eyes, leaves, moons...). The top of the staff looks like a snake with its mouth wide open, holding an orange gem.
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d
In the new SHADOWS & SORCERY, Carloman meets with a shaman to work the Winds of Sorcery, a cursed woman seeks to fulfil a Demon’s Dream, and a castle wizard quests for one who has fallen to the Madness of Knights…

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#Fantasy #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor
Shadows & Sorcery #184
This week, the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman to work the Winds of Sorcery, we join a cursed woman who seeks to fulfil a Demon’s Dream, and a castle wizard quests for one who has fallen to th...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d
In the flesh! Just about crawling out of the screen he is
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d
Make no mistake: under that stoic demeanour, he thinking about Treats
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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d
It's HIM!! And he is GORGEOUS!
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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 1d
|| Summer #VGenComm Fullbody #8 ||

Carloman, the Red Wizard himself, for @wizardhill.bsky.social ! 🧙‍♂️

|| #art #commission #digitalart ||
Commissioned fullbody illustration of a wizard. He is an older man, with amber eyes, a long white beard, and a bald head. He's dressed entirely in red, holding a wooden staff with various carvings (scales, eyes, leaves, moons...). The top of the staff looks like a snake with its mouth wide open, holding an orange gem.
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